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?
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
Grammar activities for year 1.
No prep required - the perfect teacher time saver.
All you need to teach year 1 grammar.
Simply print out and ready to go - 23 activities, each differentiated 2 ways.
Based on the National Curriculum requirements for year 1 grammar.
Activities include:
noun hunt
noun sort - people, place or thing x 2
noun sort - common/proper
verbs
noun or verb sort
question mark or exclamation mark
capital letters
capital letters and full stops
plurals add -s/-es x 3
count the syllables x 2
alphabetical order
join words using and
adding -un
adding -ed
adding -ing
adding -er/-est
months of the year
days of the week
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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
St David’s Day Print and Go Activities. Comprehensions, colouring, activities and craft. Suitable for KS2.
Use this product to learn all about Saint David’s Day with your students.
Students can read the comprehensions to find out about the legend of St David and how St David’s Day is celebrated in Wales.
Students can then complete the different activities and craft.
The time saving, print and go activities are no prep and will keep students engaged.
US and UK spelling versions included.
This product contains: One comprehension passage about the life of Saint David and 10 questions.
One easier comprehension passage about how people celebrate St David’s Day and 8 questions.
Colouring the Welsh flag and flag of Saint David.
Craft activity - make a Saint David’s Day wreath. There is a coloured version and a black and white version for children to colour.
Make a mini book.
Word search
Make your own book marks
Blank fact sheet for students to complete
Dictionary activity - students to use a dictionary to look up the meaning of words.
All you need to celebrate Saint David’s Day!
William Shakespeare. Learn all about the life of William Shakespeare. This product includes a power point, scavenger hunt, timeline activity, make a leaflet, blank biography planning sheet plus word search and bookmarks for early finishers. Are you learning about William Shakespeare? Then this could be the perfect accompaniment to your studies. Find out about the man behind some of the world’s most famous plays.
There is a power point for you to share with your students - no research needed from you. They can then enjoy a fun scavenger hunt, helping them to learn about the life of William Shakespeare.
Students must then use their answer sheets to complete the timeline activity and make their own leaflet.
There is also a blank biography planning sheet for students to complete for their biography writing.
Early finishers can make a bookmark and complete a word search.
PLEASE NOTE THIS PRODUCT IS ABOUT THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE RATHER THAN HIS WORKS.
Suitable for KS2
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Included in this product:
15 slide teaching power point
Scavenger hunt with differentiated questions sheets
Make a leaflet
Timeline activity - differentiated 3 ways
Blank biography planning sheet
Word search
Make a bookmark
How to use instructions
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.
Women’s History Month reading passages and comprehension questions. Are you celebrating Women’s History Month with your students? Then these reading comprehensions could be just what you are looking for. Cover history and reading at the same time with these differentiated, print and go reading activities.
This product includes 20 reading passages about significant women throughout history. Each passage is differentiated 2 ways, has a colour and black and white version and answers included.
In addition to the reading passages, why not make a book mark to help children remember these significant women. There is a colour and black and white bookmark for each woman.
Also included is a blank biography sheet and timeline that you can use if you want to research any of these women in more detail.
Keep all you work together in a folder, using the Women In History folder cover.
Included In This Product:
Reading Passages For -
Queen Victoria
Cleopatra
Eva Peron
Benazir Bhutto
Carli Lloyd
Gracie Gold
Nadia Comaneci
Serena Williams
Princess Diana
Helen Keller
Queen Elizabeth I
Anne Frank
Marie M Daly
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rosalind Franklin
Kathryn D Sullivan
Jane Austen
Diana Ross
Coco Chanel
Anna Pavlova
Blank biography sheet
Blank timeline
Folder cover
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
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.
January themed reading comprehensions.
No prep, print and go reading activities with a January/winter theme. Suitable for 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 themes - fiction, non-fiction, life cycle, instructions, invitation, poster, weather forecast. This gives children an opportunity to retrieve information from different types of texts.
10 texts with answers included.
3 Phonics Initial Sounds Lotto Games.
Perfect for use in conjunction with early years phonics programmes.
These games are based on Letters and Sounds but could be used with any programme. Ideal for use in daily phonics lessons or as part of continuous provision, small group work, interventions etc.
Game 1 - s a t p i n
Game 2 - m d g o c k
Game 3 - e u r h b f l
Christmas Comprehensions and Reading Activities.
Christmas themed reading activities for KS1.
Suitable for comprehensions, adult led reading activities and for children to use independently in a guided reading session.
10 activites, each one differentiated 2 ways.
Activities include:
Letter to Santa - Comprehension
How to make Christmas cookies - ordering instructions
Reindeer Facts - comprehension
Decorate a gingerbread man - Read and follow instructions
Christmas Eve - read and draw
Order Christmas words alphabetically
Inference questions
Find the Christmas noun
Label a reindeer
Nativity - order sentences
17 slide power point teaching children about who the real St George was plus how and why we celebrate St George’s Day
Differentiated reading comprehensions and questions.
2 x differentiated on the real Saint George
2 x differentiated on the Legend of George and the Dragon.
A fact sheet explaining how St George’s Day is celebrated.
Make a mini book about St George
Design your own St George’s shield
Blank fact sheet / research sheet for students to complete
Make a shield book.
Wordsearch
Make a bookmark for early finishers
These activities would be ideal for a morning or afternoon learning about St George.
Guided reading assessment sheets for year 1 guided reading sessions.
Use these sheets to keep track of your pupils reading achievements and next step targets. Never be stuck again when somebody asks you how little Johnny is doing with his reading and what his reading targets are!
Use the sheets during a guided reading session with class teacher or other adult.
Each reading statement for year 1 has its own individual recording sheet.
Mark off as children meet the statements and record onto the individual or group assessment sheets. These can be used to create individual targets or next steps, inform class teachers, create data and progress reports for SLT and to aid report writing.
Winter KS1 Bundle UK
Weather and seasons simple powerpoint and activities
Year 1 science and geography
Over 30 pages of activities
Weather recording sheets for Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
Months/weather/clothes/celebration for each season
I know it’s Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter because… writing template
Draw/List what you observe in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter
Weather word cards
Order months of the year - cut and stick activity
sort clothes/trees - cut and stick activity
what do people do in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter
Find a tree activity
Sun safety activity
Draw the weather
Blank fact sheets for each season for children to complete
Seasons and weather display pictures
Months of the year poster
Seasonal pictures for sorting
Hibernation Powerpoint and Activities
Suitable for EYFS and KS1
Includes differentiated activities for children to complete after watching Powerpoint.
Activities include colouring, labelling, drawing, cutting and sticking, sorting and questions.
Arctic and Antarctic Animals Reading Comprehensions
Suitable for year 1, maybe year 2 .
4 differentiated sheets for each animal.
4 different animals - polar bears, penguins, arctic fox, seals
Each sheet had assessment statements from National Curriculum.
All about Winter 20 page powerpoint.
Winter activities, worksheets, comprehension.
Suitable for KS1 and possibly EYFS winter, seasons, weather topic.
Powerpoint covers what and when is winter, winter solstice, why it is cold and dark in winter, what happens to animals, plants and trees in winter, signs of winter.
Activities - how to keep warm in winter, signs of winter, winter walk hunt, 2 x differentiated comprehension and questions, migrate or hibernate cut and stick activity and blank winter fact sheet for children to complete.
Arctic and Antarctic Animals Reading Comprehensions
Suitable for year 1, maybe year 2 .
4 differentiated sheets for each animal.
4 different animals - polar bears, penguins, arctic fox, seals
Each sheet had assessment statements from National Curriculum.
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.