Colourful Semantics cards to use with the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’.

Colourful Semantics cards for ‘Anansi and the Tree with a Face’, a traditional West African tale. You can search for the story on Youtube to go with this resource.

Free Sample CVC Word Writing Sheet A scaffolded sheet for children to write the word ‘dog’. This is a sample of the main resource pack which has 7 activity sheets here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12579500 These are suitable for children who can write some letters but need support to segment and write a whole word.

A pack of 7 scaffolded sheets for writing CVC words. These are suitable for children who can write some letters but need support to segment and write a whole word.

A pack of 7 scaffolded sheets for identifying and writing initial sounds of CVC words. These are suitable for emergent writers who have begun to link letters to sounds, to encourage them to start writing initial sounds to represent words. For children who can identify begining, middle and end sounds in words, there is a version where they need to find all three letters: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12579500

A unit of 3 intervention lessons for emergent writers in Key Stage 1, based on the story of Handa’s Surprise. These lessons introduce the basic concepts from ‘colourful semantics’ to support the construction of simple sentences. They also contain exercises for practising the physical, phonological and spoken language skills to support writing. Lesson activities and objectives are based on guidance from the EYFS and Year 1 National Curriculum.

Resource pack for ‘Christopher Pumpkin’ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnett. Includes: colourful semantics word cards simplified version of the story pumpkin themed story mountain

A fun lesson teaching children to analyse how authors (in this case, screenwriters) create suspense to engage their audience. You will need to be able to access a clip of the opening sequence of E.T. - available from many video streaming websites. Everything else is included: Powerpoint presentation Storyboard sheet for note-taking while watching clip Script of the opening scene for pupils to annotate Worksheet with space for pupils to write their analysis of each scene underneath For higher prior attaining pupils, they can just write their own analysis paragraphs straight into books or on lined paper. The worksheets have a date at the top - please change this to whichever date you wish.