Hi! I'm Tanya; an experienced Year 1 and KS1 teacher. I specialise in Writing, Maths and Reading, in particular Phonics.
The resources I make are designed to have minimal prep as possible.
You can find more information about my resources on TikTok! @no.prep.resources
Requests are welcomed for themes and new resources! Please email rainbowlearningshop@gmail.com
Hi! I'm Tanya; an experienced Year 1 and KS1 teacher. I specialise in Writing, Maths and Reading, in particular Phonics.
The resources I make are designed to have minimal prep as possible.
You can find more information about my resources on TikTok! @no.prep.resources
Requests are welcomed for themes and new resources! Please email rainbowlearningshop@gmail.com
Pastel themed alphabet and numbers (to 20) posters.
Included: 2 pdfs
These could easily be made smaller by printing mutliple to a page to create small flashcards.
16 different maths activities designed to meet the criteria of the Ready to Progress curriculum designed by the DfE in 2020.
Perfect for:
Key skills catch up or practice
Early finishers
Math rotations/centres
Targeted interventions
Assessment
Cute and colourful images to keep the children engaged.
Instruction cards included with notes for resources that could be useful.
Designed to fit into photo boxes for easy storage.
Some resources may be necessary as some activities are concrete based.
Year 1 Maths Addition and Subtraction Maths Planning.
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 6 Additive Structures.
In this unit, children will explore:
Aggregation and partitioning problems (combining and splitting)
Augmentation and reduction problems (adding more and taking away)
Addition and subtraction word problems
Inverse operations (addition and subtraction)
There are opportunities for both worksheet and practical activities.
Included:
Overview of the unit
Information about the different additive structures (great for early career teachers and non-specialists)
FULL usable powerpoint (ZERO prep)
Tasks (PDF and powerpoint) - sectioned for easy finding of resources
Working on adding more units!
Year 1 Unit of Work
4 lessons on Position and Direction.
This unit covers:
Left and right
Whole, quarter, half and three-quarter turns
Practical elements throughout the unit.
Year 1 Maths Numbers to 20 Planning
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 8 - Numbers to 20
In this unit, children will explore:
Ten and a bit structure of numbers 11-19
Placement of numbers 11-19 on a number line
Addition and Subtraction with a ten and a bit context
Odd and Even Numbers past 10
Doubling numbers 6 - 9
Adding ones to a two digit number
Subtracting ones from a two digit number
There are opportunities for both worksheet and practical activities.
Included:
Overview of the unit
FULL usable powerpoint (ZERO prep)
Tasks (PDF and powerpoint) - sectioned for easy finding of resources
Working on adding more units!
FULL UNIT OF WORK 11 days YEAR ONE THE WRITE STUFF
Full unit of work includes:
Overview of planning
Lesson Breakdown
Powerpoint
Shapes for building the shape of a poem
Tasks and worksheets
Independent writing opportunities
Picture sentences
Grammar covered:
Adjectives
Verbs using ing
Sentence structure related to a poem
Cross Curricular Opportunities
Animal groups and classification - recommended to use alongside this science topic or after it has been taught (I did this alongside animal topic and worked beautifully)
Year 1 Maths Counting and Unitising
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 9 - Unitising and Coin Recognition.
Included in this pack:
Overview which details the representations used, learning objectives and success criteria for each lesson
Tasks for each lesson
Slide show equipped with animations and detailed notes when needed
16 days worth of maths lessons!
In this unit, children will explore:
Skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
The different coins and their value (up to 10p)
Counting out an amount
Comparing a set of coins
Reading prices
Making 10p using 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps
Making 20p using 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps
Making different amounts using coins of the same value
Using real life contexts with money
Identifying the ideal coin to make a certain amount
This unit prepares children for multiplication and division in Year 2.
Based on Year 1 curriculum prioritisation document from NCETM. This is based on Unit 5: Numbers 0-10.
Children will explore the numbers to 10, including their cardinality and their composition. They will explore odd and even number as well as how they are composed. Composition of number is explored thoroughly though this unit.
Suggested activities are placed in the powerpoints and tasked I have used previously with a year 1 class have been included in publisher format.
Do not hesitate to leave a review requested an alternative format.
Included:
Powerpoint
Worksheets
Want a grab and go lesson to teach your Year 1 or 2 students how to build and use expanded noun phrases?
Here you go!
Standalone lesson powerpoint included with multiple resources to use within the lesson and afterwards too!
Print and go!
Full Unit of Work Writing Year One Non-fiction Writing
This unit is designed to aid Year 1 children in the writing of a biographical text about Antonio Pasin - the inventor of the Radio Flyer.
This unit is linked to the Emmy-Award winning short film Taking Flight based on Antonio Pasin.
This unit covers:
Introduction to Questions and Question words
Adding er to the end of a verb to make a noun
Writing sentences
Exploring different vocabulary
Inspired by Jane Considine’s approach ‘The Write Stuff’.
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 7 Addition and Subtraction: Strategies within 10
Different strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 including
adding and subtracting 1,
adding and subtracting zero,
number bonds to 10,
doubles and halves,
near doubles and near halves,
adding and subtracting 2,
subtracting number from itself.
Included:
Overview of the unit
Information about the different additive structures (great for early career teachers and non-specialists)
FULL usable powerpoint (ZERO prep)
Tasks (PDF and powerpoint) - sectioned for easy finding of resources
Taking Flight is an Emmy Award winning short film based on Antonio Pasin, the inventor of the famous red wagon, the Radio Flyer.
This narrative unit is based on the short film. It follows a chunked approach, and is inspired by Jane Considine’s The Write Stuff.
A detailed plan for each day is included within the slides and tasks are provided for each lesson.
Some lessons focus on sentence work and some work on grammar or vocabulary.
Skills and Knowledge focused on:
Adding ed to verbs and introduce to irregular verbs
Introducing ‘er’ as a suffix
Using ‘and’ to connect two clauses
Indepedent Writing opportunity is provided as well.
Year 1 Writing Unit based on Steve Antony’s ‘Queen’s Hat’.
Perfect for when learning about the United Kingdom and London.
Builds knowledge of the London landmarks.
Capital letters of places and people
Skills and knowledge focus:
Capital letters of places (and people)
Sequencing story
Similes (using like a - you can adapt this if you wish)
Adjectives
Dictated sentence writing (picture sentences included) - adaptable and children can be taught to change specific words in the sentence
Included in the pack
FULL powerpoint with day by day planner
12 lessons focused on either a skill or a writing lesson
Story powerpoint
Task sheets
Plot Point Pictures
Year 1 Writing Unit FULL UNIT 2 weeks worth of planning and activities
Clearly laid out Medium Term Plan spans over 2 weeks.
Includes:
Powerpoint
Tasks
WAGOLL
Shapes for a non-chronological report (fact file)
Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography - Map work and locating places on a map
Position and Direction - use of prepositional work using maps
Reading - Researching and reading comprehension
This unit has been used personally in my classroom as part of a United Kingdom unit.
See The Queen’s Hat Unit on my page as a great addition to complete your UK unit and have enough planning for a half term!
Based on Year 1 curriculum prioritisation document from NCETM. This is based on Unit 3: Numbers 0-5.
Children will explore numbers to 5 and have a chance to master them and how they can be represented and partitioned. They will also look at finding one more and one less. Children will master the use of the part whole model and look at the bar model.
Included:
Powerpoint
Worksheets
This unit of work is based on NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation document.
This unit will look at 2D and 3D shape. They will look at using block shapes to fill out and create images, use tangram images and use real 2D and 3D shapes to explore their properties.
The only thing for sale is the powerpoint and worksheets, not the web links and credit is not mine for those.
Included in this pack:
Short vowel e workbook
Short vowel o workbook
Short vowel a workbook
Short vowel i workbook
Short vowel u workbook
Each workbook includes work on
Segmenting words
Blending sounds and matching
Cut and stick sheets
Sentence application
Recognising alien and real words
Making own words
Workbooks designed to help children work on a specific blend to encourage precision.
Suitable for:
Emergent Readers
SEND
EYFS and Year 1
Daily Maths Powerpoint to promote number sense!
Pack includes individual powerpoints for numbers 1 to 10.
Coverage includes:
Number recognition
Word recognition
Formation
Identification of number on a tens frame, number line (including a blank number line)
One more and one less
Counting using our body parts (claps, stomps, blinks - more can be added on request)
Identifying by counting and subitising
Combining and splitting using a part whole model
Could be used as a:
Maths starter
Intervention - use this as a plan base
Supplement to your Daily Maths Meeting