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At Glowing Pedagogy, we believe in selling emotions, not just resources. Every product is crafted to connect deeply with teachers and students, adding excitement and purpose to the learning journey. Our essential resources in English for EY to Year 4, alongside our Spanish resources for all levels and ages, are perfect for both classrooms and homeschoolers.
Hi! I'm Cynthia, and welcome to Glowing Pedagogy: Sparking Joy, Inspiring Minds!
At Glowing Pedagogy, we believe in selling emotions, not just resources. Every product is crafted to connect deeply with teachers and students, adding excitement and purpose to the learning journey. Our essential resources in English for EY to Year 4, alongside our Spanish resources for all levels and ages, are perfect for both classrooms and homeschoolers.
Informative Writing Worksheets: Template and Sentence Starters for Successful Writing resource includes two essential worksheets designed to support young writers in crafting clear and organized informative texts:
Sentence Starters for Informative Writing: This worksheet provides a variety of engaging sentence starters to help students to begin their writing with confidence. It encourages them to structure their information logically and express their ideas effectively.
Informative Writing Template: The template guides students through the writing process, offering a structured format to organize their thoughts and present information coherently. It’s ideal for helping students understand the key components of informative writing.
Features:
Grade-Level Appropriate: Tailored for Years 1, 2, and 3, making it easy to implement in your classroom.
Versatile Format: Available in both black and white and color versions to suit your printing preferences and classroom needs.
Easy-to-Follow: Clear instructions and structured formats to support young writers.
Engaging and Educational: Designed to foster creativity and improve writing skills in an enjoyable way.
Informative Writing Worksheets: Template and Sentence Starters
This 36-page Year 4 Nouns Lesson Plan Package: Proper, Common, Singular & Plural Nouns is designed to help students master proper, common, singular, and plural nouns while making meaningful connections to identity and cultural heritage through the book “The Name Jar.” This comprehensive resource is perfect for teachers looking to integrate language arts with social-emotional learning.
3 Comprehensive Daily Lesson Plans: Each plan is carefully structured with clear learning objectives, engaging activities, and formative assessments following a constructivist approach. This ensures students gain a deep understanding of nouns and their usage through active exploration and connection to their own experiences.
23-Slide PowerPoint Presentation: A visually engaging, step-by-step guide that complements the lesson plans, helping students navigate through the lessons with ease and clarity.
5 Nouns Worksheets: These worksheets provide targeted practice on proper, common, singular, and plural nouns, featuring varied exercises to cater to different learning styles.
2 Tutti Fruti Games - Nouns Worksheets Game: A fun classroom activity with a scoring system that encourages children to think creatively and expand their vocabulary. This game is perfect for all ages and adds an interactive element to learning about nouns.
Nouns Lesson Plan Package for Year 4: Proper, Common, Singular and Plural Nouns
Looking for engaging Present Simple Worksheets and Nouns Worksheets for your Year 4 students? This comprehensive worksheet provides the perfect activity to help students master grammar concepts. With fun exercises like Find the Mistakes and detailed Grammar Exercises, this worksheet is designed to support learning and improve accuracy. Ideal for Year 4 classrooms, this worksheet with answers ensures easy correction. Perfect for teachers seeking high-quality Present Simple Worksheets and Nouns Worksheets that engage young learners!
A plus—these sentences are focused on different types of religious and traditional cultures, making the content both educational and culturally enriching.
Number of pages: 3
Present Simple and Nouns Worksheets with Answers for Year 4
Enhance your students’ vocabulary skills with this engaging set of 9 posters featuring vocabulary words from Sidney, Stella and the Moon for Year 1. These posters include vibrant images of the Moon, Sun, Earth, and a cheesy moon, all with labels to help young learners identify and work with nouns and adjectives. Use them to build word walls, create sorting activities, or as a visual aid for writing sentences. The cut-out vocabulary words can be displayed or glued on sticks for hands-on learning. Perfect for teaching key concepts of adjectives and nouns in a fun and interactive way!
Key Features:
9 colorful vocabulary posters
Large images of the Moon, Sun, and Earth
Labels for working with nouns and adjectives
Ideal for sorting activities and sentence building
Sidney, Stella and the Moon Vocabulary Posters - Adjectives and Nouns for Year 1
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach facts about the moon to young learners? This interactive moon word order activity is perfect for reinforcing reading comprehension and sentence structure skills while exploring moon facts.
This resource includes:
5 pages of cut-and-paste activities where students cut out words and stick them in the right order to form factual sentences about the moon.
5 pages for writing where students will number the words and write the correct sentences, enhancing both their writing skills and their understanding of moon facts.
Ideal for early readers, these interactive worksheets focus on moon science while also building sentence formation skills. Use them in your literacy centers, as independent practice, or as part of your space science lessons.
Why this resource?
Moon Facts for Kids: Teach interesting and fun facts about the moon in a kid-friendly way.
Sentence Structure Practice: Helps students improve their word order and sentence construction.
Hands-on Learning: Engaging cut-and-paste activity makes learning fun and interactive.
Educational and Fun: Combines moon science with literacy skills, perfect for young learners.
Great for use in classrooms or for homeschooling, these moon worksheets make learning about the moon exciting and educational!
Facts About the Moon for Kids: Word Order Activity
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Engage your students with this 8-page Yes/No Moon Facts Activity and Worksheets set. Available in both colourful and black-and-white versions, these versatile resources are perfect for KS1 and KS2. Use them as standalone activities or worksheets to assess students’ knowledge of moon facts. This resource encourages critical thinking and is ideal for classroom or homeschool settings.
How to Use:
These activities and worksheets can be used in various ways—whether as in-class activities or take-home assignments. Students will read statements about the moon and decide whether they are true or false, promoting engagement and reinforcing their understanding of space and science topics.
Is it a Fact About the Moon?: Yes/No Activity and Worksheets
This interactive Fold-and-Learn Contractions Card is designed to help Year 1 students master the use of contractions and apostrophes in a fun and engaging way. Perfect for introducing or reinforcing contractions, this resource provides an effective tool for interactive learning.
Key Features:
Three Printing Options: Choose from printing each page individually, double-sided, or for students to create their own foldable card. Find the detailed instructions for printing in the worksheet.
Practical Application: This resource supports students in using contractions in writing activities. For example, I used this approach to have my students write a heartfelt Sorry Letter to Mum, inspired by Julia Donaldson’s Cave Baby.
Focused Learning: Emphasizes the use of apostrophes in contractions and helps students apply these skills in their own writing.
Ideal for Year 1: Suitable for both initial teaching and review for Year 2 students.
Enhance your English lessons with this engaging, hands-on resource that makes learning about contractions both effective and enjoyable.
Contractions in English: Fold-and-Learn Card for Year 1
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Description: Discover the ultimate Cave Baby Animal Adjective Cards designed to boost your students’ descriptive language skills! This differentiated activity features fill-in-the-blank cards for describing animals from Cave Baby. The resource includes 7 unique types of cards tailored to various learning needs, with options in both colourful and black-and-white sets. Additionally, you will find an extra file with animals and adjectives for a complementary activity to describe the animals and enhance vocabulary. Perfect for early years and KS1 classrooms, this 56-page pack supports vocabulary development, phonics practice, sentence formation, and enhancement of adjectives.
Cave Baby Animal Adjective Cards: What is the (animal) like - Differentiated Activity
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Enhance Year 4 students’ understanding of nouns and the present simple tense with our focused resource, “Nouns and the Present Simple Error Correction: Religions and Festival Descriptions”. This 10-page printable workbook is designed to provide engaging practice for students to identify and correct errors related to proper and common nouns, singular and plural nouns, and the present simple tense within the context of various religious texts and major festivals.
This resource features:
5 pages of error correction exercises where students identify and correct mistakes in sentences about celebrations such as Diwali, Ramadan, Christmas, Lunar New Year, and Hanukkah. These exercises focus on using proper and common nouns, singular and plural forms, and applying the present simple tense accurately.
5 pages providing the correct grammar for each text, complete with clear explanations and examples to support students in mastering these key grammar concepts.
Perfect for reinforcing Year 4 grammar skills while introducing students to cultural and religious diversity. This workbook is an excellent tool for enhancing grammatical accuracy in a meaningful and educational context.
Nouns and the Present Simple Error Correction: Religions and Festival Descriptions
Boost reading fluency and word recognition with this comprehensive set of Tricky Words Flashcards and Sentence Cards! Designed for sight words and high-frequency words practice, these printables are perfect for early readers, Year 1 classrooms, and EAL students. Use the flashcards for individual or group activities, while the sentence cards help pupils practise tricky words in context.
Ideal for daily literacy centres, guided reading sessions, or independent practice, these printables support phonics instruction and build confidence in young readers. Whether you’re reinforcing tricky words or helping pupils master sight words, these versatile resources are an essential tool for any teacher!
Tricky Words Flashcards & Sentence Cards Printables | Sight Words & High-Frequency Words Activities
These resources are divided into 6 phases that can be used 1 whole academic year!
Phase 1 Tricky Words | Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 1
Phase 2 Tricky Words | Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 2
Phase 3 Tricky Words | Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 3
Phase 4 Tricky Words |Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 4
Phase 5 Tricky Words | Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 5
Phase 6 Tricky Words | Tricky Words Sentence Cards List 6
Looking for engaging ESL Present Simple posters to enhance your students’ understanding of Present Simple tense? These colorful, easy-to-understand posters are perfect for ESL teachers looking to introduce or reinforce the Present Simple tense in their classrooms. Ideal for ESL/EFL/ELD learners and English language classrooms, these posters help students grasp how to form affirmative sentences, questions, and negative statements.
This ESL teaching resource includes clear visual aids for each form of the Present Simple. Perfect for use as classroom décor, interactive lessons, or even remote learning. Whether you’re teaching Present Simple tense rules, conducting grammar exercises, or focusing on sentence structure, these posters make it easier for students to visualize and apply the grammar concepts.
ESL Present Simple Posters – Effective Way to Teach Affirmative, Negative, and Question Forms
Engage your pupils with I Want My Hat Back using this 11-page Character Splat resource focused on Bear and Rabbit! These colourful and black-and-white worksheets are designed to develop character analysis skills, encourage pupils to make inferences, and promote critical thinking while exploring the relationship between Bear and Rabbit. Perfect for enhancing reading comprehension in the classroom!
I Want My Hat Back: Bear and Rabbit Character Splat
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Teach young learners about plant parts with this engaging Growing Plants Lesson Pack for Years 1-2! This comprehensive resource includes a 28-slide PowerPoint presentation with informative lesson slides, interactive activities, and visual learning tools. The pack also comes with 4 PDF worksheets to help pupils match and identify the different parts of a plant (roots, stems, leaves, flowers) and understand their functions.
This plant anatomy lesson is perfect for use in the classroom or at home, helping pupils explore the basic structure of plants in a fun, interactive way. It’s ideal for teaching about roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and their roles in plant growth. The printable plant worksheets make it easy to reinforce learning, while the slides engage pupils through visual and hands-on activities. A perfect addition to any primary science curriculum, supporting hands-on learning approaches.
Growing Plants: Plant Parts - Lesson Slides and Worksheets for Years 1 and 2
Fall-themed CVC word worksheets and writing mats that your students will love, designed to practice short vowel sounds using fun Halloween visuals like hats, bats, and cats! Perfect for preschool to Grade 1 centers, these resources are ideal for phonics practice, literacy centers, or independent learning. Laminate them for durability and reuse them year after year!
What’s Included:
6 Printable CVC Word Activities for Differentiated Learning:
Printable 1: CVC Words & Matching Images
Printable 2: Halloween-Themed Images Only
Printable 3: Word List (cat, bat, hat, log, cap, bag)
Printable 4: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Build It, Write It)
Printable 5: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Build It, Draw It, Write It)
Printable 6: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Draw It, Write It, Create a Sentence)
Printables 7 & 8: CVC Word Worksheets to Make Words
These worksheets are perfect for reinforcing phonics skills, building vocabulary, and providing engaging practice for early readers, all while enjoying a fun seasonal twist!
Autumn CVC Words Worksheets & Writing Mats - Short Vowel Sounds with Halloween-Themed Visuals
Engage your students with the fun and interactive “I Want My Hat Back: Crossword Puzzle with Answers”! This SIX-page resource is designed to enhance vocabulary and reading comprehension through an enjoyable activity centred around the beloved book by Jon Klassen.
What’s Included:
Page 1: A crossword puzzle featuring vocabulary words based on character names from I Want My Hat Back. This activity helps students connect with the story while expanding their language skills.
Page 2: Answers
Page 3: A clue-based crossword where students read clues related to the story and write the corresponding answers. This page reinforces comprehension and critical thinking as they recall details from the book.
Page 4: Answers
Page 5: A search word puzzle featuring vocabulary words based on character names from I Want My Hat Back.
Page 6: Answers
Key Features:
Target Age Group: Perfect for early learners and primary students (ages 3-8).
Educational Value: Supports literacy development and encourages students to think critically about the characters and storyline.
Easy to Implement: Ideal for classroom activities, homework assignments, or literacy centres.
Why This Resource?
Engaging Learning: Combines fun with education, making reading enjoyable for young learners.
Promotes Vocabulary Growth: Helps students become familiar with character names and the context within the story.
Versatile Use: Can be used in individual, pair, or group settings, adapting to your classroom needs.
Bring the adventure of I Want My Hat Back into your classroom with this delightful crossword puzzle! Perfect for reinforcing key literacy skills in a creative way.
I Want My Hat Back Worksheets: Crossword Puzzle and Word Search with Answers
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Halloween-inspired CVC word worksheets and writing mats that your students will enjoy this autumn, designed to reinforce short vowel sounds with engaging Halloween visuals such as hats, bats, and cats! Perfect for preschool to Grade 1, these activities are ideal for phonics centers, literacy stations, or independent practice. Laminate them for long-lasting use and enjoy them year after year!
What’s Included:
6 Differentiated CVC Word Activities:
Printable 1: CVC Words with Matching Halloween-Themed Pictures
Printable 2: Halloween-Themed Images for Matching or Labeling
Printable 3: Word List (bat, web, bug, pot, bag and hat)
Printable 4: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Build It, Write It)
Printable 5: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Build It, Draw It, Write It)
Printable 6: CVC Word Mat (Say It, Tap It, Draw It, Write It, Create a Sentence)
Printables 7 & 8: CVC Word Worksheets for Building Words
These engaging worksheets and activities are perfect for enhancing phonics skills, expanding vocabulary, and providing fun, seasonal practice for emerging readers!
Halloween CVC Words Worksheets & Writing Mats for Kids - Autumn-Themed Short Vowel Sounds
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Introduce your students to the wonders of geography with our “Label and Colour the 7 Continents” worksheets! This engaging resource is designed for young learners to explore and understand the seven continents through a variety of interactive activities.
What’s Included:
1 Colourful Worksheet: A vibrant, visually appealing worksheet that encourages children to label and colour each continent, making learning enjoyable and memorable.
4 Black-and-White Worksheets: Perfect for printing, these worksheets allow students to colour the continents while reinforcing their knowledge through labeling and matching exercises.
Activities Include:
Identifying and labelling the seven continents
Matching continents with their respective names
Creative colouring tasks that enhance engagement and retention
Educational Benefits:
Enhances Geography Skills: Helps children learn about the world’s continents, fostering an early interest in geography.
Develops Fine Motor Skills: Colouring and labelling activities promote hand-eye coordination and fine motor development.
Supports Differentiated Learning: The variety of worksheets caters to different learning styles and levels, ensuring that every child can participate and succeed.
Ideal For:
Primary classrooms
Homeschool environments
-Geography lessons or thematic units about the world
Usage Suggestions:
Use these worksheets as part of a geography lesson or unit focused on continents.
Ideal for individual or group work, making them perfect for learning centres or homework assignments.
Inspire your students’ curiosity about the world with these fun and educational worksheets! Add them to your teaching resources today!
Label and Colour the 7 Continents: Engaging Worksheets for Kids for Fun Geography Learning!
Engage your students with this comprehensive lesson on plant geography! This resource includes 18 slides in a PowerPoint presentation and 6 worksheets in PDF format, designed to help students discover which continent each plant is native to.
Slide Overview:
Slide 1: Learning Objective: “Can I find out which continent each plant is native to?”
Slide 2: Introduction to Plant Geography: Explore the significance of plants in different regions.
Slides 3-5: Thinking Routines: Encourage critical thinking with “I see,” “I think,” and “I wonder” activities to foster student curiosity.
Slide 6: Interactive Online Game: Students will find out which continents various plants belong to.
Slide 7: Answers to the online game for self-assessment.
Slide 8: Learning Centers Activities: Suggested hands-on activities for independent or group work.
Slides 9 & 10: Continents Worksheets: Available in both colorful and black-and-white versions to cater to different learning styles.
Slide 11: Activity: Students will identify which continent each plant is native to.
Slides 12, 13 & 14: Worksheets with Answers: Students will find out the continent where each plant is located, complete with answer keys.
Slides 15 & 16: Creative Drawing Activity: Students will draw native plants and match them to their respective continents.
Slide 17: Reflection: “What have you learned?” prompts students to consolidate their learning.
Slide 18: Art Activity: How to Paint a Sunflower
This resource is perfect for reinforcing knowledge about plant geography while promoting engagement through various activities. Ideal for teachers looking to enhance their geography lessons, this package provides a complete, interactive learning experience for students!
Ideal for KS1 and KS2.
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Teach young learners about plant parts with this engaging Growing Plants Lesson Pack for Grades 1-3! This comprehensive resource includes a 28-slide PowerPoint presentation with informative lesson slides, interactive activities, and visual learning tools. The pack also comes with 4 PDF worksheets to help students match and identify the different parts of a plant (roots, stems, leaves, flowers) and understand their functions.
This plant anatomy lesson is perfect for use in the classroom or at home, helping students explore the basic structure of plants in a fun, interactive way. It’s ideal for teaching about roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and their roles in plant growth. The printable plant worksheets make it easy to reinforce learning, while the slides engage students through visual and hands-on activities. A perfect addition to any elementary science curriculum, supporting NGSS Life Science standards and hands-on learning approaches.
Growing Plants: Plant Parts We Eat - Lesson Slides & Worksheets for KS1