Independent reading activities. Over 120 pages of guided reading activities to save you time and stress! Suitable for children aged 5-6 years old. Year 1 UK.
These updated reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel or even as homework.
I have put together over 120 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories.
There is a variety of activities starting with very simple phonics activities for lower abilities. The activities get more advanced for use throughout the school year.
Some of the activities are also linked to the year 1 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a sunflower, seasons and keeping healthy.
All aspects of the year 1 reading National Curriculum covered.Also perfect for lower ability children in year 2 and up.
Included in this product:
reading journal book cover
year 1 national curriculum statements for assessment
guided reading timetable
35 reading comprehensions
initial sounds cut and stick
b or d cut and stick
m or n cut and stick
c or k cut and stick
missing letters
draw the word x 3
2 syllable words
draw the caption x 3
mixed up sentences x 6
draw the book cover x 2
draw the characters x 2
draw your favourite part x 2
draw the ending x 2
write the tricky words x 2
find the digraph x 2
write the noun x 2
design a new front cover
find the nouns/weather words/plant words
reading questions
all about the book
book review x 2
read and colour x 3
read and draw x 3
describe the setting x 2
draw and describe the character x 2
draw the character x 4
draw the setting x 4
where is cat?
inference questions x 4
sunflower life cycle
make a foldable book
label a snail
make a wanted poster
decode words x 4
word endings x 2
missing words
syllables x 2
sequence story x 2
contractions
what happens next?
Help your students collate facts and plan paragraphs when writing a biography.
Can be used when researching or when planning writing (or both!)
Suitable for KS2
Amazon Rainforest themed informational text writing activities. Are you teaching your students how to write an informational text, non fiction text or non chronological report? Then this fun and engaging activity could be just what you are looking for. Suitable for lower KS2
How to use this product:
This product is designed to help children learn how to write an informational text, non fiction text or non chronological text.
It includes a set of activities for them to complete before writing their own text.
Activity 1:
Identify title, subtitles, diagram and caption.
Students read the text.
Students can write a suitable title to match the text.
They can then write suitable subtitles, draw a suitable diagram and write a caption to go with the diagram.
Activity 2:
Identify title, subtitles, diagram, caption, conclusion and key facts/words.
Students read the text and highlight the above features.
Activity 3:
Identify title, subtitles, diagrams, captions, concluding section.
Students cut out the parts of an information text and stick them back together in the correct order.
Also included:
Cut out and laminate the key features of an information text bookmark. Students can keep these and refer to them when needed.
Key features checklist. Give each student a checklist for them to refer to and ensure they have included the key features. They can tick them off as they include them.
FREE Halloween cut and stick activity.
Download this free Halloween themed cut and stick activity for some Halloween fun in class or at home.
Cut out the pictures and stick in the correct order of how to make a Halloween lantern.
Roald Dahl reading comprehensions. 2 Roald Dahl reading comprehensions perfect for use on Roald Dahl day, guided reading sessions, literacy areas, whole class reading or as part of your Roald Dahl topic.
Includes 2 different level reading comprehensions plus answers.
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This bundle includes:
Over 120 activities for children to complete independently whilst adults are reading with different groups.
These activities are linked to the the standards required by the National Curriculum.
A simple timetable for weekly guided reading sessions with 2 adults.
Spelling activities for children to complete independently using your own class spelling scheme.
Assessment sheets to use during adult led guided reading sessions and sheets to record individual children’s progress.
Phonics Lotto Game
ee/ea/ey/y
Help your children learn the different ways of making the ee sound in words.
Game consists of 4 picture boards and 36 word cards.
Each child has a board and children take it in turns to pick a card.
Read the word on the card. If they have the corresponding picture on their board they place the card on top.
The first player to cover all of their pictures is the winner.
Print, laminate and cut out.
A great bundle of Christmas activities to keep your children busy and engaged in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
This Christmas Bundle includes reading, maths, role play and RE activities.
Suitable for KS1
February themed reading comprehensions.
No prep, print and go reading activities with a February theme. Ideal for use in guided reading sessions.
These reading comprehensions are suitable for children aged 5-7 years. They could be used for more able readers aged 5 - and for less able readers aged 7.
10 comprehensions with different formats - non-fiction, timeline, recipe, bullet points, biography, instructions. This gives children an opportunity to retrieve information from different types of texts.
10 texts with answers included and US/UK spelling versions.
Groundhogs
Valentine’s Day
How to make pancakes
Polar Bear Day
George Washington
Thomas Edison
Chinese New Year
Charles Dickens Day
Chinese New Year
Mardi Gras
Back to school reading, includes a PPT story and daily reading activities for year 1.
Use on the first week back at school to get your students back in the swing of reading sessions. Read the summer holiday themed story with your students each day and complete one of the 5 follow up activities. A simple, no prep reading session for your first week back!
This product includes:
A simple 8 slide, summer themed PPT story
Day 1 activity - Draw and label the characters
Day 2 activity - highlight the sight words on printable story versions and then write the sight words into the bucket
Day 3 activity - Draw and label the creatures found in the rockpool
Day 4 activity - Mixed up sentence build/write/draw
Day 5 activity - Describe and draw the best day of your summer break
Plus word search for early finishers
100 independent reading activities suitable for 6-7 year olds. Save yourself time and stress with this with these no prep reading printables - enough to last you the whole year.
These reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel, as an independent activity whilst the class teacher is reading with a group or even as homework.
This product includes 100 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories.
There is a variety of activities including word work, spellings, grammar, cut and paste, word searches, as well as 42 reading comprehensions. Plenty of variety to keep children engaged, as well as covering plenty of different skills. Simply print and go, no prep required. Print the whole product at the beginning of the year and you will always have reading activities to hand.
Some of the activities are also linked to the year 2 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a frog, materials, plants, recycling, historical figures. Perfest to use them alongside your topic work.
Many aspects of the year 2 reading National Curriculum covered. Also perfect for lower ability children in year 3 and up.
Also includes a reading journal cover and a tick list of National Curriculum reading standards for assessment. This will help you keep on track with assessing children’s reading skills.
Product Includes:
42 Reading Comprehensions
plus
My Reading Journal front cover
National Curriculum Reading Standards Tick List for Year 2
Find the plant words
Find the materials words
Prefix Re
Suffix -less and -est
Build compound words
Alphabetical order x 2
Describe dog and cupcake
Add Adjectives
le at the end of a word - cut and paste activity
el at the end of a word - cut and paste
dge making the j sound - cut and paste
dge making the j sound - drawing activity
r spelt wr - drawing
j/g - cut and paste
c making the s sound - cut and paste
al at the end of a word - word search
ge at the end of a word - word search
n sound spelt with gn/kn - dice game
n spelt with gn/kn - cut and paste
I can read ing words - cut and paste
contractions x 2
recycle materials - cut and paste
materials 2-4 syllables sort - cut and paste
word sort 2-4 syllables - cut and paste
Ordering how to make a pizza - cut and paste
Ordering how to make breakfast - cut and paste
Little Red Riding Hood ordering sentences - cut and paste
Draw fairy tale characters
Goldilocks ordering pictures - cut and paste
Jack And The Beanstalk ordering pictures - cut and paste
3 Little Pigs ordering pictures - cut and paste
Draw a front cover
Design a front cover
Draw the best part of a story
Draw and label characters
Review your favourite book
All about the book
Book review
Read and draw x 2
I can make inferences x 3
Make a healthy me poster
Make a camping poster
Word of the day
Write a book quiz
Draw the characters
Contents page
Grab this bundle of 3 KS1 spring products and save a whopping 30%!!
All activities are print and go to make life easier for you! A perfect addition to your spring topic.
This bundle includes the following 3 products:
Spring Activities
Spring Numbers 0-20
Spring Reading Comprehensions
Spring Activities
Power point discussing changes that happen in spring.
printable activities -
Spring checklist (for use on a spring walk)
What happens in spring x2
Adults/baby animals picture matching
Tree in spring collage
Spring/autumn sorting activity
Spring/winter sorting activity
Life cycle colouring
Life cycle of a chicken x2
Words/Pictures matching activity
Draw a spring scene
Label the spring clothes x 2
Draw spring clothes
Write about the spring scene
Make a book about Spring
14 Display pictures with labels
Word cards for display
Spring colouring sheet for early finishers
Spring Numbers 0-20
Help children learn to count, recognise and order numbers 0-20 with these Spring themed 0-20 print and go worksheets. Could be used as part of a lesson, in math areas, as catch up, homework or SEN activities.
15 print and go activities.
Order numbers cut and paste activities 1-10 x 2
Order numbers cut and paste activities 11-20 x 2
Write missing numbers
Cut and paste missing numbers on a number line 1-10
Cut and paste missing numbers on a number line 11-20
Count objects
Colour and count
Missing middle numbers 1-10
1 more/1 less missing numbers 0-10
1 more/1 less missing numbers 10-20
Missing end number 0-10
Count and colour objects UK/US Spelling
Number lines 1-10 / 1-20
Spring Reading Comprehensions
Spring comprehensions for northern hemisphere
Suitable for KS1 , Kindergarten, 1st Grade, Homeschoolers
Each comprehension is differentiated a minimum of 3 ways.
Each comprehension is linked to the topic of spring and begins with easy multiple choice questions.
Subjects included in this product -
Signs of spring - x 4 differentiated texts
Birds in spring - 4 differentiated texts
Animals in Spring -4 differentiated texts
Lambs -4 differentiated texts
Life cycle of a frog -3 differentiated texts
Life cycle of a sunflower -3 differentiated texts
How to plant a seed -3 differentiated texts
plus
instructions to read and follow
PLUS FREE SPRING BINGO GAME
Grab this bundle of Passover and Easter Story activities and save a whopping 30%
All activities are print and go to make life easier for you! Teaching Power Points included. Both products contain word cards for display, make a book mark, make a story wreath and coloring sheet for early finishers.
This bundle includes the following products:
Passover and The Easter Story.
Passover
Passover activities and teaching power point. Are you teaching kindergarten, first grade, KS1 students about Passover? Then this is the product for you! Save valuable time with these print and go, no prep activities. Children will love these fun activities, whilst learning about Passover at the same time. A simple 18 slide teaching power point means that no research or planning is required. There are word cards for display and a fun Passover craft. Color and black and white versions of activities included.
Read on for a full list of included activities.
Included in this product:
An 18 slide teaching power point that explains, in simple terms, how and why Passover is celebrated.
Sequence the Passover story - cut and paste - differentiated x 2
Retell the Passover story - differentiated x 2
Label to Passover items - cut and paste
Label Seder plate - differentiated x 2
Draw Seder food
How Passover is celebrated blank fact sheet for students to complete
Passover coloring sheet for early finishers
Make a bookmark
Make a Passover wreath
The Easter Story
The Easter Story for kindergarten and first grade. Are you teaching your students about the Christian celebration of Easter? Then this is the product for you. It includes a colorful, 10 page Power Point of the Easter story, told in simple terms for young children to understand. No prep, print and go activities, crafts and word cards for your display are also included. No planning or preparation required. Plus FREE bonus product - Easter lotto games!
Product Includes: A small version of the story slides for children to order.
Pictures from the story to color, cut out and order. These can also be used as story writing prompts.
A cut and stick sorting activity - religious/non religious pictures.
Decorate a cross activity.
Make an Easter wreath craft.
Make an Easter bookmark - color and b/w
Word cards for display
Coloring sheet for early finishers
PLUS a bonus product - Easter lotto games - simply print out, laminate and cut out.
Blank writing frames suitable for Early Writers. Large selection of writing templates and writing frames suitable for children aged 4-6 years old.
Just print out and you’re ready to write!
Product includes:
Story writing -
My story plan - 2 versions
5 sentence story
Story map
My story setting
My character
Writing frames
Book Reviews 2 x fiction 1 x non fiction
Lined and unlined frames -
I Phone
Notepads x 2
Clipboard
Santa Face
Postcards
Butterfly
Apple
Snail
Easter Egg
Pirate
Scroll x 2
My Potion x 2
Activities
My diary entry
My healthy lunchbox
Science Investigation
Animal fact sheet
Country fact sheet
Blank fact sheet
Recount
Instructions x 2
My Summer Holidays
My Christmas Holidays
Letter to Santa
Letter
My Weekend News x 2
Recipe Sheet
All About Me
My Birthday
My New School Year
My Year Review
Fun, early morning alphabet activities, ideal for teaching children the letters of the alphabet.
These alphabet activities can be set up for children to complete as they come into the classroom in the morning.
Alternatively they could be used during a phonics session, in a writing area or as an adult led session. They could even be used as homework/home learning activities or catch up.
Each letter of the alphabet has a quick activity for children to complete, for example, draw a leaf for the ladybird’s lunch. Each sheet is black and white for children to colour. 52 sheets.
Each letter of the alphabet has an initial sounds sort.
Colour or circle the objects that have a certain initial sound.
Also included is a colourful alphabet mat.