A set of 7 of the Thinker's Keys for year 1 and 2 linked to the book 'Lost and Found' which we used as a topic. The thinker's keys are used to promote a higher level of thinking. The children in my class worked in pairs to complete the different keys and absolutely loved doing it!

A lesson looking at main clauses with year 1. Children were to look at the words on the board, do they make a main clause? What does a main clause need? For the activity two adult led groups are to make main clauses using the word cards and write them in their books. Challenge- can you add an adjective or two to make your writing more interesting?

A week’s worth of whole class reading for the Smartest Giant in Town for year 2. Focusing only on the retrieval domain. All activities are differentiated.

Activinspire and publisher needed to access. Four lessons around the book aimed at year 2. Covers domains- inference, predicting, retrieval and sequencing.

A resource created to teach year 1 to use dictionaries. Children recapped alphabetical order and then carried out the starter activity sorting words into alphabetical order. The treasure hunt words were places around the room for the children to find meanings of and write them in their books. Also comes with a powerpoint presentation.

Reading focus display posters for the classroom with child friendly statements and other details at the bottom if needed such as what to look out for when looking at an organisation or structure related question.

A weeks worth of powerpoint resources for phase 5 phonics. The powerpoint covers the alternative pronunciations: a, y, ch and ou and the tricky words many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once and please. The powerpoint follows the introduce, revisit, teach, practise and apply lesson structure and there are opportunities for children to read and write different words as well as sorting different sounds and revisiting the phase 5 sounds we have already learnt.

A whole week's worth of phonics lessons. This resource covers the alternative pronunciations; ow, ie, ea and er as well as the tricky words; water, where, who, again, thought, through, work and mouse. The Powerpoint follows the letters and sounds book and has an introduction, revisit, teach, practise and apply section to each lesson. The revisit is different each day and covers not only practising phase 5 sounds but also looking back at reading previously taught tricky words and spellings.

A resource used when teaching a year 1 class about adjectives. Contains a powerpoint with two pictures of an icy setting to describe, a sound clip to be played when the children are thinking about what they may hear in this setting, a thermometer picture to use as a prompt when thinking about how cold it may be there. I used the resource alongside fake snow and fans in boxes. There are senses spinners for lower ability children as a prompt to get them thinking about using the 5 senses to describe the setting. There are also a range of snowflakes. Blank snowflakes for children to write their own adjectives on to share with the class and others with a range of different adjectives on for LA children to decide which ones would be well chosen and which wouldn't. They are then to match the well chosen adjectives to the picture.

A SP&G lesson on coordinating conjunctions. This was used when teaching my year 1 children what a coordinating conjunction was for the first time. Begins with a revisit of what we know about main clauses and simple sentences and then moves on to looking at coordinating conjunctions. There is an activity at the end of the powerpoint where the children are to choose the best coordinating conjunction to complete the compound sentence.

Whole class guided reading flipchart and activities based on the story ‘Traction Man’. Comes with exerts and differentiated activities. Covers a range of reading skills- inference, prediction and retrieval.

A presentation and resources to last over 9 sessions for the story ‘The Lion Inside’. Each lesson is linked to one of the reading domains. The activities are differentiated and aimed at year 1. You do need activinspire to access these resources.

A lesson on letter writing which based upon our Peter Pan topic. This pack contains a powerpoint presentation and activities. I first read the letter from Tinkerbell to Peter to the children to see what they noticed about the way that the letter was set out, we then looked at a range of other letters and the children used sugar paper to mind map their thoughts. The powerpoint then highlights the different features of a letter and where they can be found. Afterwards the children were given another letter from Wendy to her parents and the children were to identify the features we had been looking at. I have included labels for the LA children to place in the correct place on the letter.

A lesson where children were improving sentences to make a powerful sentence by changing the verb and adjective in the sentence depending on the mood of the story. The pack contains a lesson plan, an activity for the children to complete in their books and the powerpoint presentation to accompany it.

A range of different resources to use when teaching instructions- examples of unclear instructions, an instructions checklist and key features hunt.

A presentation and visual resource when teaching year 1 children about the subordinating conjunctions; when, if, that and because. Before introducing the lesson we recapped what we knew already about conjunctions and their purpose. The main activity was for the children to rewrite the sentences on the last slide and underline the subordinating conjunctions. I stuck the complex sentences stickers in the children's books as a reminder of complex sentences and what we had learnt about subordinating conjunctions.

A range of different 20 minute GP&S activities for year 1. Each activity has a title slide, a whole class activity or teach section and an independent task which may involve a group discussion or independent writing. This powerpoint covers when to use capital letters, using commas between adjectives and in lists and nouns and pronouns. Some of these activities have been created to recap areas which have already been taught and others are to teach new things.

The whole weeks lessons for the phase 5 phonics sounds a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e and u_e. The powerpoint contains activities and chances to introduce the new sound, revisit sounds the children have already learnt, an opportunity to practise reading words containing the new sound and the chance to apply what they have learnt through reading sentences, finding real and nonsense words or writing a word on their whiteboard.

This power point pack contains day by day slides and activities for the first week of the phase 5 phonics for year 1. It contains activities for- ay, ie and ou as well as tricky words looked, called, asked, mr and mrs. Also comes with words to sort into real and nonsense words.

Two week’s worth of whole class reading based around Fantastic Mr Fox aimed at year 2. Each activity is differentiated (usually three ways) and a range of domains are covered. You will need to have activinspire and publisher to use this resource.