A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over 24 years of teaching which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a school-based tutor for ITT.
PowerPoint lesson starter - can you describe the alien using an exclamatory sentence starting with a What or a How and containing a verb (and an adjective or suffix word!) e.g. What a lot of eyes you have! or How brilliantly green you are! or How friendly you look! Photo borders included for children to then draw their own aliens and describe using exclamatory sentences. A really fab and effective lesson!
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PowerPoint containing postcard from Zap the alien with missing punctuation and activity sheet for children to find and correct the missing capital letters. Postcard template also included for children to then write their own messages.
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Can you make a verb alaphabet? Editable activity sheet which could be used for any word groups.
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Reinforce dictionary skills with this word definition challenge.
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A collection of PowerPoints and activities to introduce, reinforce and review Phase 2 trigraphs.
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A collection of more than 20 PowerPoints that can be used to introduce or review Phase 3 digraphs. Ideal for use with individual whiteboards to play 'Quickwrite' game. This pack also includes editable 'Moshi Monsters' and 'Star Words' challenges. Fun activities linked to The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Ugly Bug Ball.
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A collection of PowerPoints to introduce, reinforce or review Phase 5 sounds including split digraphs - ideal for use with individual whiteboards to play 'Quickwrite.' Roll a word game and 'Magic Spoons' activity sheets also included.
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Who lives in a fantasy world like this? A series of PowerPoints introducing and exploring Fantasy Lands including the story 'Knock, Knock' exploring fantasy characters and activity sheets. Suitable for KS1 or KS2.
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A range of activities for children to complete linked to reading or library skills including book detectives, find a fact and 'Short and Tweet!' adaptable for EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
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A collection of five PowerPoints and four activity sheets that can be used to reinforce phonics during the festive period. Visit Santa's workshop and help the elves by making a list of all the toys (editable) or have a go at scribing the gifts from 'my true love' during the 12 days of Christmas. Could be used as an informal assessment tool to review sounds taught.
Suitable for EYFS or KS1 an adaptable PowerPoint with Fairytale houses on and a selection of property details which could be used as a reading task, writing stimulus or to set up your own Fairytale Estate Agents role play area.
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This resource can be used to support writing fairytale news. This pack includes 2 PowerPoints which explore headlines and fairytale crimes to discuss and use as a stimulus for children’s own writing along with blank newspaper templates and crime scene images. There are five sample copies of news reports which can be used as WAGOLLs (linked to Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs) & used to identify the features of news reports (I used post-it notes with my class for them to label the parts) and a planning template for children’s own reports. A useful wanted poster template is also included which could be used as an extension activity to help capture the fairytale villains whilst promoting the use of expanded noun phrases. N.b. Publisher & PDF copies included.
A collection of activities to reinforce reading skills including using film clips for inference, mystery neighbours, what's in the teacher's bag and fairytale gifts as well as a range of book corner (or book club) tasks. This pack also includes reading material for a Fairytale Estate Agents and a fun book trail!
