An author and SEN teacher sharing resources that worked well in his classroom, in an attempt to make the life of other teachers easier and share some teaching concepts on the way too.
An author and SEN teacher sharing resources that worked well in his classroom, in an attempt to make the life of other teachers easier and share some teaching concepts on the way too.
A board game that you can play in the classroom or at home. Children learn how to take turns and learn what seeds need to grow to become plants.
You will need:
• 1 x Game board
• 4 x Players cards
• 1 x dice (not provided)
• 16 x Plant cards
• 4 x Counters (not provided)
Rules:
Place all the plant cards in the middle of the board. Each player gets a player’s card (Seed, Sun, Water) and place their counter on the Start. Each time they cross the Start, players can tick one of their seed boxes. Players try to collect water and sun in order to grow their seeds into plants. Once they have all three (seed, water and sun), they can have a plant card.
The aim of the game is to complete your card by growing 4 plants. Be careful, if you land on a caterpillar or the boots, then your plant is taken away from you and you need to grow another one. Also the bird will eat one of you seeds if you land on it. Good luck!
Mr Savva is an author and SEN teacher that has written and illustrated numerous picture books for children in KS1.
The following picture books are included in this bundle:
The Lonely Pirate
The Shy Coconut
Benny the Blend-In-Bunny
The Leaf That Didn’t Like Change
The Brave Big Fat Chick
Use this book in your home or classroom to introduce key emotions such as anger and calmness to your children. Also ideal for assemblies to stimulate discussions about the feeling of anger.
This is a bundle of activities based on the picture book, The Lonely Pirate. The activities encourage children to practise reading skills such as inference, prediction and sequencing. Additional activities include worksheets on changing the ending of the story, possessive apostrophes, labelling and describing characters. A visual word bank, a colourful semantics board and posters of objects and characters in the story are also available.
The Lonely Pirate picture book is available as part of the following bundle, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12608885
Download a free copy of the new picture book focusing on numbers by Mr Savva.
Also find attached all the numbers used in the book as separate clip arts.
Also available on iTunes for free.
These resources were part of a training session for secondary school students visiting primary schools in Ghana to teach English for a period of two weeks. The students were taught how to introduce a story by using Talk for Writing, a teaching style developed by Pie Corbett. The story of ‘The Wind and the Sun’ was used as an example during the training session with the intention that each group of students will choose a different story to adapt and teach in Ghana.
The expectation was that the Ghanaian students could speak some English so a Talk for Writing approach could benefit them due to its visual and kinesthetic emphasis on storytelling. The method of Talk for Writing enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally before reading and analysing it.
Resources available
The Wind and the Sun story adapted for EAL primary school children
Training Booklet with instructions and examples of weekly and daily planning
A story map using pictograms
A visual bank with the key vocabulary
Masks of the main characters
The Angry Volcano (available on iTunes and TES for free) introduces key emotions such as anger and calmness to your children. It's also ideal for assemblies to stimulate discussions about the feeling of anger.
Dealing with Anger, is an activity that creates a platform for teachers and parents to help children explore strategies to defeat the Angry Volcano and calm themselves down.
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This is a bundle of activities based on the picture book The Leaf That Didn’t Like Change! The activities encourage children to practise reading skills such as inference, prediction and sequencing. Posters of objects and characters in the story area also available.
The Leaf That Didn’t Like Change! picture book is available as part of the following bundle, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12608885
This is a bundle of activities based on the picture book The Shy Coconut. The activities encourage children to practise reading skills such as inference, prediction and sequencing. Additional activities include worksheets on changing the ending of the story, possessive apostrophes, labelling and describing characters. A visual word bank and posters of objects and characters in the story are also available.
The Shy Coconut picture book is available as part of the following bundle, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12608885
This is a bundle of activities based on the picture book Benny the Blend-In Bunny, The activities encourage children to practise reading skills such as prediction and sequencing. Additional activities include designing a book cover, a counting bunnies activity and a writing activity.
The Benny the Blend-In-Bunny picture book is available as part of the following bundle, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12608885