This resource contains graded activities which help reinforce phonic blends and sounds in reading and writing. It is suitable for Upper Foundation Phase and, mainly, Key Stage 2. The resource can be used on stand alone computers which have Microsoft Office PowerPoint, though for whole class activities, it is best used with an Interactive Whiteboard. The Teachers' Guidance Notes explain in more detail how this resource can be most effectively used. The Guidance also includes a glossary of terms used to describe different blends. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

A unit taking pupils through the advertising process of a product launch. The pack includes activities that cover: Anchoring images, Logos, Slogans, Analysing TV adverts, Costings. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfl site, linked below.

A unit taking pupils through the advertising process of a product launch. The pack includes activities that cover: Anchoring images, Logos, Slogans, Analysing TV adverts, Costings. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfl site, linked below.

Activities to support all areas of the curriculum from early years to year 6. The activities can be used stand alone or as part of an introduction or plenary session. Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.

This lesson uses the story of Branwen, daughter of Llyr, one of the four branches of the Mabinogi, as a basis for teaching comprehension, speech marks and adjectives. It begins with a simplified presentation of the story. The main activity presents drawings of Branwen and Bendigeidfran. Pupils assign adjectives to each character by gender. The plenary requires the correct positioning of speech marks into an extract of the story. There are five supporting worksheets at text and sentence level.

This has been designed to allow children to begin to write independently, with images as sources of inspiration.

This resource contains a web guide to basic literary skill it provides PowerPoint presentation starters and worksheets which are intended to be used briefly at the start of a lesson to consolidate previous learning. Topics covered include: Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, homophones, parts of speech, sentence types, sentence openings etc

This resource provides a guide for several aspects of English teaching, utilising ACTIVStudio software and a web browser. It looks at * Poetry : The Eve of St. Agnes * Literary Fiction : Novel openings * Creative writing * Literary Fiction: Shakespeare's Macbeth * Literary Non fiction: Persuasive writing using Senator Robert Byrd&'s speech to the US Senate in the run up to war with Iraq.

These activities have been made to support all areas of the curriculum from Early Years to Year 6. The activities can stand alone or used as part of an introduction or plenary session. Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.

These are a series of PPT slides charting a journey across the slave route from Liverpool, via Benin and the Caribbean and ultimately to the United States of America. A lot of the activities use first person accounts and images from the period to stimulate written responses.

An interactive whiteboard resource exploring the story of Rhiannon from the Mabinogion. This lesson is based on the tale of Rhiannon's misfortune from the Welsh folk tale collection, The Mabinogion. The pack includes a version of the story suitable for KS2, a playscript, a wordsearch for revising key words, and a series of backdrops that can be used for performances of the play, or as a stimulus for improvisational drama.

This pack contains: * Writing resources; * Display resources; * ‘Developing Descriptive Writing’ PowerPoint Authors: Tom Maloney Suzanne House Dawn Robertson

Literacy units which use Fuse Creator software, creating interactive activities, including animations and sound. The units within the course are designed for entry level learners (1-3) within 14-19. Within the tasks there are questions, an opportunity for corrections and help sheets. Once completed, each unit is scored which may be printed and used within a portfolio. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

Literacy units which use Fuse Creator software, creating interactive activities, including animations and sound. The units within the course are designed for entry level learners (1-3) within 14-19. Within the tasks there are questions, an opportunity for corrections and help sheets. Once completed, each unit is scored which may be printed and used within a portfolio. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

A resource that helps students to look at images and how they can portray moods, information etc. By the end of this lesson students should have: * explored how we read images * explored how text affects the way we read images * manipulated images to test impact * written an analysis of a real world image

Long a and long e vowel sounds. Pupils see three different graphemic representations (spellings) of these vowel sounds and are asked to make words using the Wordmaker machine. If the answer is correct the word is spoken and a picture appears. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.

This resource pack is designed to encourage pupils to find interesting alternatives to the verb said. Hopefully this will encourage them to use a variety of interesting verbs, bringing their creative writing to life. The lesson contains: an introductory drag-and-drop activity where pupils consider better alternatives, a main game activity where pupils consider a more exciting alternative to a short piece of dialogue and a short poem/song that might encourage pupils to remember possible said alternatives.

Introduce the phonics S,A,T,I,P,N with the aim of learning the letter sounds, letter formations and identifying the sounds in words.

Develop CVC words through the topic of pets. Includes Smartboard resources

A series of flipcharts and worksheets focussing on spelling patterns covered in Year 5/6. Includes Latin prefixes words from other languages suffixes