2 weeks lesson planning based around Traditional Tales designed for Key Stage 1. The emphasis is on speaking, listening, retelling and innovating with numerous activities that will enhance children's verbal and written storytelling skills.

Very bold, bright and quirky literacy and numeracy lettering, plus quirky editable labels. Easy to edit the signage to suit your needs.

Very funky, quirky and bold days of the weeks labels that can be edited to suit any purpose.

Over 20 independent challenge tasks for children to complete. Ideal to have displayed in continuous provision/independent writing areas to provoke and stimulate discussion and writing.

Two WAGOLLs for use when teaching Non-chronological reports to KS1. Both are plain text examples that can be used to model the key features of reports. The texts can be used in a variety of ways: - to introduce and explain the key features of a Non-chronological report - as a starting point for children to plan their own reports - as a reading activity to challenge children to retrieve information and vocabulary The subject matter - witches and dragons - will engage and interest lots of children.

A simple, effecive plain text WAGOLL for use when teaching Non-chronological reports to KS1. This particular one is based on witches, a topic which will attract the attention of many young children whilst demonstrating the key features of reports. I shall be uploading many more WAGOLLs over the next few weeks, so please look out for more.

A simple but useful plain text WAGOLL for use when teaching non-chronological reports to KS1. This is one example of many Wonderful WAGOLL resources I shall be uploading over the forthcoming weeks.

This game has been designed as a starting point to generate discussion about the characteristics abd similarities of/differences between traditional tales characters. It's been designed with three levels of challenge, with one pictorial version and two text versions. Ideal for an interactive and engaging starter activity in literacy lessons, or as part of continous provision.

An alternative version of The Gingerbread Man, written by me. A very useful way to encourage children to consider how the basic patten of traditional tales has, or has not, changed over time.

Weeky plan for simple descriptive writing based around Chicken Licken. This would probably be better suited to earlier on in the year as the model text and outcomes are very simple. In my plan I have tried to put a a big emphasis on orally composing and practising basic sentences in line with the new curriculum. By the way, apologies for the fact that it is written in a black box! I can't seem to fix that.

This is a good activity to have out all the time in Key stage 1, whether on a spare bit of wall, on the back of a door etc. Laminate the pictures. Make multiple copies of the yellow circle as these will be asteroids. On the asteroids, write real and nonsense words which the children have to blu-tac to the alien or astronaut accordingly. It's a good idea to have a couple of these games out as a useful extension activity for guided reading/literacy if a group finishes early.

Spellings of 16 common exception words in alphabetical order. Easy to edit and add more.

Laminate, cut out and then stick together to create a simple but effective alphabet chart. Lower case + upper case letters are included.

Laminate these then velcro them up to form a useful phoneme chart of the following GPCS: sh ch th ng igh ee oa ur ir or aw a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e

5 examples of super funky VCOP lettering I designed. You can easily adapt the size of the lettering, or even right click and select 'edit text&' if you want to change it to say something else. Hope you all like it.

Simple home-made book I made for Year 1 during their first full week back at school to get them used to sounding out + blending words. The pictures are all the same to stop the children from guessing or using picture clues and get them to rely on phonemic strategies. The children will draw their own pictures as an extension activity. I intend to make some more of these books over the forthcoming weeks.

Children investigate the features of a range of traditional stories and record their findings on this grid. Works well when children work in small group. Grid can then be photocopied and stuck in their writing books.

Very simple pictorial bingo game based around characters from traditional tales. The teacher can make the clues as challenging or simple as necessary. Also useful for plenaries, mental starters or as a self-chosen activity when teaching traditional tales.

This grid is a quick and easy way for children to jot down comparisons between different traditional tales. It can be used as a starting point/plan for longer pieces of writing. It has been designed for KS1 pupils.