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?

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.

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.

A follow on lesson used with year one after teaching adjectives and what they mean. This pack contains a power point with recaps what makes a sentence and then moves on to using adjectives to improve my sentence. This then leads to three differentiated activities with the necessary resources included in the pack. LA are to copy the sentence and add an adjective, MA are to add adjectives and check for the correct punctuation and HA are to extend sentences using and.

A lesson plan and power point used to teach year one about adjectives and settings. We had begun to look at the wizard of oz and started looking at adjectives. I explained what they were and the children looked at examples. We then discussed what the setting in a story is and shared ideas about adjectives we could use to describe munchkin land. The children wrote their ideas down on post it notes and then stuck them to the board around the picture.

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.

A lesson created to teach year 1 and 2 about homophones and near homophones. Can be used as a 20 minute grammar session or whole lesson depending on the depth you want to go into. Pack includes a lesson plan, a powerpoint presentation and the homophones hunt activity.

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 resource made to recap writing compound sentences with year 1. We have previously learnt about coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences but revisited them before learning about complex sentences. The powerpoint and activity is linked to the Julia Donaldson stories as we are currently writing stories based on books by other authors. I have also included an activity where children are to match the two main clauses and turn them into a compound sentence.

A resource used in my year 1 phonics lesson when teaching the children about the different pronunciations for the /ch/ grapheme. Children were to use the pictures to work out what each word said, afterwards we identified the different pronunciations that they found.

A generation game type powerpoint create to encourage children to think about the alternative /ai/ spellings. This lesson followed our investigation of the different /ai/ spellings. Children were to write the different words on the whiteboard and afterwards we looked at the spellings together. We then worked out the best bet for the /ai/ graphemes.

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 resource used when learning how to write invitations in my year 1 class. All resources are linked to our Peter Pan theme. For the first lesson we looked at what needs to be included in an invitation and the children investigated existing party invitations and then wrote notes on what they were going to include in their own. The following day the children used the reminder sheet to help them to turn their notes into a proper invitation. This pack contains a lesson plan and powerpoints for the two days as well as writing frames and help sheets.

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 presentation and resource created to help year 1 children to edit their work, include conjunctions in their writing and use a range of interesting sentence starts. At the end of the activity I asked children to look at the success criteria they had included in their work and rate whether they deserved 1, 2 or 3 stars, I then asked the children to stand in groups depending on how many they had included, the children were then given another opportunity to fix their work.

A table or wall prompt to remind children about the uses of connecting adverbs. Comes with examples for each type and the connecting adverbs used within a sentence. I laminated this resource and had it on the table for the children to use when writing.

A resource created to be an aid on tables when year 3 children were using persuasive writing. Includes sign to go on the lid of the toolbox and pictures of tools to stick the persuasive techniques on. I bought cheap plastic boxes to create the toolboxes with,

A range of different resources used to teach the children how to use 'but, however and on the other hand' within a sentence. Contains starter and main teaching activity as well as a lesson plan.

A resource designed to get children excited about grammar. The idea of the game is for children to investigate what happens when we add a suffix to words. One person is to read the word out to their two team mates who must use a fly swatter to choose the options relating to what they must do before adding the suffix to their words e.g. double the letter before it or remove a letter. The first to guess right gets to keep the word card. If children are struggling they can choose one of the magic clue keys to help them.

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.