Do you teach Cambridge Stage 6? If so, this resource will save you bags of time as it includes all the lessons and activities you need to teach the concepts of unit 1 (My World) in an impactful and engaging way. Lesson 1 - To describe feelings and emotions Lesson 2 - To use the present perfect tense Lesson 3 - How to use ‘yet’ Lesson 4 - How to use ‘ever’ and ‘never’ Lesson 5 - To locate countries on a map, using the correct vocabulary Each lesson is complete with a PowerPoint presentation containing: √ Learning objective √ Success criteria √ Starter activity √ Review of prior learning √ Grammar activities √ Speaking games and discussion tasks √ Information slides/ teaching input √ Reading tasks √ Writing tasks √ Mini plenaries and recaps √ Extension and application tasks √ Independent, paired and group activities √ Vocab focus √ Plenary task √ All answer slides PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoints for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations. These lessons are also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. They combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.

Homophones Group A, Part 1: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry Homophones Group A, Part 2: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury It is advisable to teach homophones separate from each other to avoid confusion (e.g. teach ‘main’ on a different day to ‘mane’). This bundle contains two full lesson teaching the spellings of the homophones in group A; each lesson focuses on one half of all the pairs of homophones in group A. Lesson 1 covers: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry. Lesson 2 covers: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury The lessons include an explanation of what ‘homophones’ are, explain the meanings of all the words and include a multitude of activities for learning both the spelling and meaning of these words (anagrams, word searches, crosswords, fill in the blanks, spelling pyramids, acrostic poems and many more). They also include spelling strategies mats for extra ideas and methods for learning spellings. A homophone is a word with the same pronunciation as another word but which has a different meaning and usually, a different spelling. It is advisable to teach homophones independently from each other so as to avoid confusion between the word spellings and meanings. The spelling lessons include the following: √ Spelling assessment √ Learning objectives √ Success criteria √ Starter activities √ Review of prior learning √ Teaching inputs and information slides √ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word spellings √ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word meanings √ All answer slides √ Spelling strategies mats √ Extension task - writing application activities √ Plenary activities This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of these homophones in a fun, engaging and impactful way.

Never plan another phonics lesson! Here are all the resources you need to teach children to recognise these common digraphs, created by an EYFS specialist and UK trained teacher. Whether you’re an experienced teacher whose realised that your free time is too valuable to spend hours planning everything from scratch, or your a parent with no idea on how to even start teaching your child to read and write, our phase 2 phonics lessons have everything you need. These lessons can be incorporated into the order you teach the phase 2 individual letters and sounds or can be taught at the end. These are the first digraphs children usually learn, due to their high frequency in English. You can then follow these with the phase 3 phonics lessons which teach children about many more digraphs and trigraphs. Phase 2 of Phonics is when the letters and sounds they represent are introduced, and children learn how to form the letters. It is also where the skills of blending and segmenting are taught. We blend sounds in order to read words and we segment words into their sounds in order to write them down. All of this is covered in these resources and you will find you have everything you need to execute effective, engaging and inspiring lessons. For those of you who have never taught phonics before, many slides contains directions, hints and tips in the notes section. These explain what each slide is for and often include additional ideas for their execution. As a teacher, tutor, early-years specialist and head of English at an international school, I have personally used these lessons teach classes of children how to read and write, tweaking and perfecting them annually. They contain: Reviews of prior learning Learning objectives and success criteria Phase 2 phonics sound mats Video and game links Activities introducing the letters and the sounds they make Letter identification activities and texts (poems) Activities for identifying the initial, middle and final sound in CVC (consonant- vowel- consonant) words Letter formation activities and video links Activities for blending sounds to read CVC words Activities for segmenting words into their sounds to write CVC words down These resources teach children the sounds and letters based on the order of their frequency of use in English: Lesson 1 - S Lesson 2 - A Lesson 3 - T Lesson 4 - P Lesson 5 - I Lesson 6 - N Lesson 7 - M Lesson 8 - D Lesson 9 - G Lesson 10 - O Lesson 11 - C Lesson 12 - K Lesson 13 - CK Lesson 14 - E Lesson 15 - U Lesson 16 - R Lesson 17 - H Lesson 18 - B Lesson 19 - F Lesson 20 - FF Lesson 21 - L Lesson 22 - LL Lesson 23 - SS Segmenting and blending activities begin from lesson 3 onwards. Lessons should be taught in the above order as they follow on from each other, building on prior learning and they also include a recap of previous learning at the start of each lesson. These lessons will get children reading and writing words. You can then follow these lessons with the Phase 3 lessons (also available in bundles) which will get children reading and writing sentences. Please check the notes sections on each slide for extra details, directions, hints, tips and ideas. Environmentally friendly! No printing is required for any activity in any lesson. Children can work on white-boards or in notebooks. The lessons can also be easily used to teach children online, especially with interactive apps such as Pear Deck, Seesaw, Nearpod etc.

Never plan another phonics lesson! Here are all the resources you need to teach children how to read and write, created by an EYFS specialist and UK trained qualified teacher. Whether you’re an experienced teacher whose realised that your free time is too valuable to spend hours planning everything from scratch, or you’re a parent with no idea on how to even start teaching your child how to read and write, this bundle contains everything you need. Phase 2 of Phonics is when the letters and sounds they represent are introduced, and children learn how to form the letters. It is also where the skills of blending and segmenting are taught. We blend sounds in order to read words and we segment words into their sounds in order to write them down. All of this is covered in these resources and you will find you have everything you need to execute effective, engaging and inspiring lessons. For those of you who have never taught phonics before, many slides contains directions, hints and tips in the notes section. These explain what each slide is for and often include additional ideas for their execution. As a teacher, tutor, early-years specialist and head of English at an international school, I have personally used these lessons teach classes of children how to read and write, tweaking and perfecting them annually. They contain: Reviews of prior learning Learning objectives and success criteria Phase 2 phonics sound mats Video and game links Activities introducing the letters and the sounds they make Letter identification activities and texts (poems) Activities for identifying the initial, middle and final sound in CVC (consonant- vowel- consonant) words Letter formation activities and video links Activities for blending sounds to read CVC words Activities for segmenting words into their sounds to write CVC words down These resources teach children the sounds and letters based on the order of their frequency of use in English: Lesson 1 - S Lesson 2 - A Lesson 3 - T Lesson 4 - P Lesson 5 - I Lesson 6 - N Lesson 7 - M Lesson 8 - D Lesson 9 - G Lesson 10 - O Lesson 11 - C Lesson 12 - K Lesson 13 - E Lesson 14 - U Lesson 15 - R Lesson 16 - H Lesson 17 - B Lesson 18 - F Lesson 19 - L Segmenting and blending activities begin from lesson 3 onwards. Lessons should be taught in the above order as they follow on from each other, building on prior learning and they also include a recap of previous learning at the start of each lesson. These lessons will get children reading and writing words. You can then follow these lessons with the Phase 3 lessons (also available in bundles) which will get children reading and writing sentences. Please check the notes sections on each slide for extra details, directions, hints, tips and ideas. Environmentally friendly! No printing is required for any activity in any lesson. Children can work on white-boards or in notebooks. The lessons can also be easily used to teach children online, especially with interactive apps such as Pear Deck, Seesaw, Nearpod etc.