I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
Reading comprehension - Short story text that focuses on particular aspects of the English language, word work and grammar.
This literacy resource product contains:
30 Slides - PowerPoint Presentation - includes story text with pictures.
Smaller Presentations for whole class activity
5 Lesson Plans - includes Learning objectives
Differentiated activities and worksheets for each lesson
Can also be used in small group settings and one-to-one teaching.
There is a Future tense verb table for reference on PowerPoint.
There is a table of compound words.
Literacy lessons for a week focusing on the text.
Reading comprehension questions - listening/speaking and reading/writing
Sentence activities - differentiated to include capital letter/full stop.
Work on conjunctions and finishing off sentences.
Word work focus on compound words.
Gap filling exercises
Cut/paste activities
Grammar work on the future - Changing present tense to future tense and vice versa
Composition - Writing to complete thinking bubble.
Revision Worksheet on sentences which includes using conjunctions.
Two Compound Word Word Searches.
Resources printable and editable.
There are a couple of pdf. worksheets - show examples of complete worksheets.
Comprehensive resource pack on adding 3 single-digit numbers, including missing numbers equations.
They include lesson starters, main lessons, plenaries (the bit at the end) and consolidation tasks.
Contents:
2 Presentations (41 & 21 Slides respectively)
Whole and group tasks
Flexible detailed Lesson Plans
Total Task Cards - 110
16 Sets of Worksheets
Also includes extension work: adding 4 single-digit sums.
Just print the task cards onto card or good quality paper and laminate ready for use for early finishers.
You can also use the task cards as flash cards for your students to solve.
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This product relates to addition of 3 single digits and finding missing numbers – column method sums/equations.
This product contains:
5 Worksheets - Each sheet has 9 sums
5 Worksheets with missing numbers - Each sheet has 9 sums
All worksheets contain a number line, but students can use any method to work out their answers.
Worksheet 1 – addition within 10
Worksheet 2 – addition within 12
Worksheet 3 – addition within 15
Worksheet 4 – addition within 20
Worksheet 5 – addition within 30
There are five worksheets with missing numbers for students to work out and fill in.
Worksheet 1 – addition within 10
Worksheet 2 – addition within 12
Worksheet 3 – addition within 15
Worksheet 4 – addition within 20
Worksheet 5 – addition within 30
Answers Included.
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This resource relates to ANZAC Day on 25 April.
Clear and straightforward - Ideal for assemblies or as a standalone lesson.
Each slides takes you through what ANZAC day is and what it means, symbols are explained (rosemary, laurel and the poppy), why do we need ceremonies and what a typical ANZAC day ceremony involves, the dawn service and why people march.
During the presentation students are asked questions that relate to their personal experiences of celebrations and why the Anzac spirit legacy is still important today.
Content:
• Teacher’s Notes/Guide - Slides are referred to in the notes.
• PowerPoint Presentation Lesson/Assembly (42 Slides) - You can edit the presentation to suit the time limit of your assembly/lesson.
• 4 Worksheets
Optional Worksheets
The four worksheets consolidate the meaning of the day.
Worksheet 1 – Read the text and answer the questions.
Worksheet 2 – Write sentences about what each symbol means and then draw a symbol that means something to them.
Worksheet 3 – Students write a sentence or two for each of the ANZAC Day activities that take place – wreath-laying the red poppy, the Last Post, one minute’s silence and the Reveille.
Worksheet 4 – Students complete 5 tasks on the poem For the Fallen: gap filling and four short questions.
Please see preview of worksheets.
File Type: PowerPoint Presentation, MS Word and PDF formats
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This comprehensive phonics resource focuses on initial consonant blends fl and fr - CCVC words. Lovely colourful resource to complement the others.
Introduction to Phase 4: Letters and Sounds on CCVC initial consonant blends.
Aimed at: Foundation Stage/Keystage1 and SEN pupils;
A good starting point for pupils who find blends challenging
Ideal resource for ESL pupils and one-to-one and small group teaching.
You can edit the presentations to suit your class.
Different worksheets in this pack.
PowerPoint presentations include whole class activities: -
-writing CCVC words starting with fl and fr
-Whole class word sort - pupils click and drag letters into the correct order to spell CCVC words.
listening activity - Pupils listen to 8 sentences with a mix of fl and fr words. They write the words they hear on their whiteboards or in literacy books.
sorting out jumbled words activity
Pictures and words match up
It also contains:-
Teachers’ Notes
Presentation showing picture of hand to count phonemes for CCVC activities
Lesson Plans (learning objectives, main activities, plenaries) -
All the slides are referred to in the lesson plans.
Phoneme Frame for whole class and group activities - laminate for repeated use
2 sets of Flash cards listing all the CCVC words for fl and fr initial blends-
(1 set shows sound buttons and lines)- laminate for repeated use
Pictures cards and related words - laminate and cut out
Activity worksheets to include cut/paste, drawing lines to match picture to words and a match up activity.
For the higher ability - print off the slides for their activity (use of dictionary optional).
Learning Objectives:
To develop children’s knowledge of initial consonant blends.
To segment and blend CCVC words for reading and writing.
To distinguish between fl and fr blends in listening activity
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File Types: Word, pdf and PowerPoint
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This product contains fun counting and matching Easter egg worksheets and cut and paste/sticking activities. The Easter eggs display teeth from 0 to 20 which students count to complete various tasks. The worksheets are in colour/black and white duplicates.
Content:
Count the number of teeth each Easter egg shows and then write the total in the blank box underneath.
Cut and paste Easter eggs with number words - Read the number and then cut out the correct Easter egg showing the same number of teeth.
Count and Match - Students count the teeth of the Easter egg on the left and then find the matching egg and write the word ‘match’.
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A4 and US Size Worksheets.
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This bundle contains Easter maths activities, worksheets, lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations.
It is a growing bundle and so more resources will be added to it relating to Easter. As I add more resources the price will increase.
Take Advantage of buying a growing bundle early:
Any additional new resources can be downloaded at no extra cost, even when the price has been increased.
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This bundle contains 3 comprehensive resources relating to St. George.
It includes:-
- Assembly Presentation and follow-up activities
- The Legend of St. George - Lesson Plans/worksheets and Presentation
- Set of worksheet activities
UPDATED with quick Answer Sheet for Partner A/Partner B cloze activity.
There is a variety of reading comprehension worksheets and cloze activity to choose from relating to Saint George’s Day.
A useful addition to topic work.
Aimed at: KS1/Lower KS2
<strong>Differentiated Worksheet activities include:</strong>
- Close reading of text and answering questions
- Scan for specific answers
- Inference
There is a worksheet on George Cross and George Medal. Many people think there is a link but the worksheet gives children the opportunity to explain why people would think there is a link as they are medals of bravery. Both medals depict St George slaying a dragon.
- Tick box - multiple choice questions
- Cloze activities
- Drawing/colouring
- Dictionary work
- Short writing tasks
- Sorting jumbled sentences and then add capitals and punctuation with Answer Sheet.
- Sorting jumbled words
- Cooperative partner work - Partner A and Partner B work together to read and complete the missing words on their worksheets.
File Type: Choice of Word format or PDF
A comprehensive bundle on place value and partitioning. Students learn what place value means and how to partition numbers into tens and ones and then hundreds tens and ones.
There are lots of worksheets and activities to practise place value and partitioning concepts.
The bundle contains 6 sets of resources that include:
PowerPoint Presentations (Lesson starter, whole class activities and plenary);
Lesson Plans (Slides are referred to in the lesson plan);
Lots Worksheet activities (inc. cut and paste, matching partitioned numbers to their numbers, creating 2-digit and 3 digit numbers with digit cards;
Resources to laminate and display and to use as flashcards;
-Whole class practical activities to reinforce learning of place value.
Hundred Square/Chart with associated worksheet activities and word problems.
Presentation and worksheet resources for special day topics - re Anzac Day. It includes:
-Presentation lesson/Assembly on what happens on Anzac Day plus a weblink .
-Presentation on the Legend of Simpson and his Donkey in Gallipoli and follow-up factsheets and reading comprehension worksheets.
Presentation on the history of Anzac biscuits and follow-up reading comprehension worksheets.
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UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES - May 2019
There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations . Worksheets and practical activities for whole class teaching.
This resource is about:-
-Sound and how sound travels to include sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume;
-The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens;
-How we hear;
-How some animals hear;
-How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and
-The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc.
19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3)
Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds.
Activity - children are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other children decide on vocal sound effects to add.
Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity.
Lesson 3 - This is more practical and children plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc.
Lesson 4: This is about how we ear.
Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid).
There are worksheet activities and listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations.
Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Children - to make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning about how sound travels to the ear via a medium.
Children also investigate sound via different types of cups (sizes, material) and the length of the string).
Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities- children work with a partner to complete their worksheets which contain missing words.
Lesson 7: Loud sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source -
All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves.
Files: PowerPoint, MS Word and PDF.
US Version
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I have now grouped all the mixed bag maths resources containing a variety of maths lessons ranging from YR to KS1.
The individual products have been updated within the bundle.
Content:
PowerPoint Presentations - includes demontrations and whole class activities
Flexible Lesson Plans - Oral/Mental starters, main lessons and plenaries (recap sessions)
Differentiated worksheets for each of the lessons
Cut/paste Activities
Flash cards and templates
You can teach the lessons in any order, use as review for topics or if you are using a cover/substitute teacher, you can just hand s/he the lesson and start teaching.
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This resource is for Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten.
Also suitable for ESL/EFL students and students still finding it challenging to discriminate sounds.
A lovely addition to your phonics lessons and literacy resource center.
Just print onto card paper and laminate - use drywipe pens for activities.
The cards are editable so you can change to black and white print out and stick into students’ book as a record of their phonic work.
Rimes are:-
-at -an -am -ut -un -ug -ox -ot -op -og -it -ip -in -ig -et -en -eg -ed- -ay -ap -ag -um
-ud -ub -od -ix -on -ob -ix and -am.
1. cat
rat
pan
fan
nut
cut
bun
sun
jug
bug
fox
box
hot
pot
hop
pop
dog
log
sit
fit
zip and pip
lip
pin
bin
pig
dig
net
vet
hen
pen
peg
leg
bed
red
hay
say
map
cap
bag
tag
sad
dad
gum
sum
mud
bud
tub
cub
won
ron
pod
rod
cob
sob
six
mix
ham
ram
There are 58 CVC cards and they have a double use.
How to use:-
1. The student looks at the picture and say what it is.
2. When s/he knows what the picture is they attempt to sort out the scrambled word by sounding out initial medial and final letters.
3. S/he then writes the word correctly on the line.
Other uses:-
There are 58 CVC cards which are made up of 29 pairs of onset and rime words and pictures.
- Lay out pairs of cards for the student to match the rhyming pictures and then unscramble the words and write them out correctly.
As an extension they could write funny rhyming lines into their ELA books.
E.g. A bug is in a jug. Dad is mad.
File Type: Word and PDF
This reading comprehension bundle includes 4 lovely fiction stories.
The vocabulary is age-appropriate and children are encouraged to work out the meaning of words in the context of the story.
The subject matters are familiar to the children and so there are cross-curricular themes.
The booklets cater for all level of readers - The Chase being the easiest.
Booklets 2 are divided into sections. So each paragraph is followed by questions.
Some of the questions require the reader to 'read between the lines'.
Not only is a child's comprehension assessed but other English key skills are incorporated.
The resource can be given to more able pupils to work on independently.
The booklets can also be used in guided reading sessions. The questions are extensive so the children can answer a set of questions in one session and do another set of questions in another session.
This reading comprehension resource contains two booklets. Story title - A Rainbow.
Ideal for end of term assessment.
Useful as a task for children to be getting on with as an independent activity.
Booklet 1 - 18 questions - The questions are at the end of the text.
Booklet 2 - 14 questions - The questions are in sections.
Reading comprehension tasks cover:
Questions on the text to be answered.
Tick box - multiple choice statements
Punctuation (capital letters/full stops)
Jumbled words from the text
List the compound words in the story (there are 6)
Questions on who are the characters/how do we know they are speaking.
Inference/Reading between the lines to answer a question.
Give an explanation to a question
Specimen answers provided.
Learning Objectives: Develop pleasure in reading
Answering and asking questions
Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
File types: Microsoft Word format and pdf. formats.
This is a reading comprehension resource. The story is also presented on PowerPoint as an option to display the text.
Ideal for end of term assessment.
Useful as a task for children to be getting on with as an independent activity.
Suitable for Reception (easy vocabulary) and KS1/Lower Grade KS2.
The reading comprehension contains:
Booklet 1 - 17 questions
Booklet 2 - 14 questions
Content:
- Questions on the text.
- Tick box statements - Multiple choice.
- Inserting capital letters/full stops activity.
- Dictionary work - the meaning of ‘stray’ used in the story
- Rewrite in a different tense (verbs are highlighted) - six verbs are used in the short story.
- Making Inferences based on the text.
- Answering questions that require an explanation.
Specimen answers provided.
Learning Objectives: Develop pleasure in reading
Answering and asking questions
Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
File: pdf (Sassoon font) and Windows word format if you need to edit.
This literacy/maths link pack on Australian currency introduces students to the six coins in circulation and 1 cent and 2 cent coins and the function of the Australian Mint.
Literacy
Learning Objectives: To be able to retrieve information, take part in class discussion and listen to others, label pictures correctly, work out meaning of words in a text, write simple sentences with correct punctuation.
Maths
Learning Objectives: Recognise and describe Australian coins, to know each coin has a different value and is not related to size of coins.
If you are planning a visit to the Royal Australian Mint or just want to watch a video about the Royal Australian Mint, starting to teach your students about Australian currency, then this is an ideal resource to get started.
Divided into Lesson starter, Main lesson and Plenary.
A 16 Slide PowerPoint Presentation lesson with whole group listening and speaking comprehension activity.
Learning support materials:-
Students can design their own display cards with facts – Art link
Two differentiated reading comprehension texts with questions. One set with 11 questions and the other set with 15 questions.
Cut/Paste Coin Match - students cut out and match the coins to the values shown the worksheet and then label each coin with the name of image on the reverse of each coin.
Extension: Write four facts worksheet
There are display posters
laminate the whole page general fact sheet onto card paper
laminate and cut out the half page coin facts onto card paper.
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File Type: PowerPoint, Word and PDF
Calendar for back to school you can display in early years/KS1 classrooms.
This resource pack contains a blank weather, date and year display poster to be completed each day using the changeable days, date, month, weather card displays.
The words in shadow show where the laminated day, date, month and year should go.
There is space for the weather conditions on the same blank display.
The preview window shows how the display will appear when you complete the blank display poster.
You can also change the weather button background if you don’t want plain white - click on, e.g. the ‘hot’ weather button, go to Drawing Tools then Shape Fill to choose your colour.
Print off displays onto card paper - enlarge to A3 if wish for a larger display.
I printed off onto coloured card paper.
This pack includes:
Teacher Notes
Title Displays
Days of the week
Months of the year
Ordinal dates from 1st to 31st.
Cardinal dates from 1 to 31
Years 2024 to 2028
Weather words and pictures
Seasons dial - laminate and cut round. Cut out the dial and insert with split pin in the centre - see preview window front page.
Laminate all the resources. Use Blu tac , double-sided sticky tape or velcro for the changeable words to be displayed on blank display board.
I have uploaded resources both in Word format (editable) and pdf. versions.
Updated January 2024 to include editable text sections in PowerPoint
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This product contains 17 counting Canadian money worksheets.
**The following worksheets are: **
Counting nickels only
Counting dimes only
Counting quarters only
Counting loonies - $1 coins only
Counting toonies - $2 coins only
Counting nickels and dimes
Counting nickels, dimes and quarters
Counting loonies and toonies together
Counting all five coins in money bags
There is a blank worksheet for your use.
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File Type: Word and Pdf.
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