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We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 45 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the alternative ‘ch’ sound. It covers the ‘ch’ sound pronounced ‘sh’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
This non-editable PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘ch’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture with a different ‘ch’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ch’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘ch’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘ch’ sound
Revision of tricky words
(Click ‘Read Only’ to open the PowerPoint.)
I updated this on the 6th May 2019, following the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s baby boy!
This year 1 comprehension booklet teaches the children about lots of British royal baby facts, including bizarre traditions, royal baby names, royal baby christenings and royal baby clothes.
This resource contains 3 differentiated booklets.
Higher Ability
The higher ability booklet contains a title page with helpful words, followed by five pages of pictures and short written extracts to read and 4-5 questions per page. Answers are included.
Middle Ability
The middle ability booklet contains a title page, followed by five pages of comprehension activities with answers. Each page contains a short piece of text (about 3-7 sentences). There are 3-4 trickier words on each page which have pictures to help children work out what they say. Each text is followed by 4-5 simple questions.
Lower Ability
The lower ability booklet contains a title page, followed by five pages of comprehension activities with answers. Each page contains a short simple piece of text (3-5 sentences). There are 4-5 trickier words on each page with pictures to help children work out what they say. Each text is followed by 4-5 simple questions.
PowerPoint Presentation
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability booklet so that you can go through these comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
I have included colour and black & white versions of each of the 3 booklets. The preview pages show the title page and one of the comprehension pages, from the middle ability booklets. They also show one slide from the PowerPoint.
PDF file format.
I hope your class enjoy learning some interesting facts about royal babies!
You might also like our Year 2 Royal Babies comprehension:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-reading-comprehension-royal-family-royal-baby-3-levels-colour-and-black-and-white-11886762
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 42 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the alternative ‘ow’ sound. It covers the alternative ‘ow’ sound as in ‘grow’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
This non-editable PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘ow’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture with a different ‘ow’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ow’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘ow’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘ow’ sound
(Click ‘Read Only’ to open the PowerPoint.)
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 43 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the alternative ‘g’ sound. It covers the alternative ‘g’ sound as in ‘giant’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
This non-editable PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘g’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘g’ words
Phoneme counting
Grapheme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘g’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘g’ sound
(Click ‘Read Only’ to open the PowerPoint.)
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 44 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit one of the alternative ‘a’ sounds. It covers the ‘a’ sound as in ‘path’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
This non-editable PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘a’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture with a different ‘a’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘a’ words
Phoneme counting
Grapheme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘a’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘a’ sound
Revision of tricky words
(Click ‘Read Only’ to open the PowerPoint.)
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 39 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the alternative ‘i’ sound. It covers the alternative ‘i’ sound as in ‘find’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
The PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘i’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture with a different ‘i’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘i’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘i’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘i’ sound
(The PowerPoint is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it.)
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This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a 39 slide Powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the alternative ‘s’ sound. It covers the alternative 's’ sound as in ‘sugar’ and takes 15-20 minutes.
The PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 5 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to the ‘s’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture with a different ‘s’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘s’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with the ‘s’ sound
Writing a sentence with the ‘s’ sound
(The PowerPoint is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it.)
I’ve used this PowerPoint with classes for phonics lessons. I’ve included a page of instructions to accompany it.
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘qu.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘qu’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘qu’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘qu’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘qu’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘qu’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘th.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘th’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘th’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘th’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘th’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘th’ sound
- Revision of common exception words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘ea.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘ea’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘ea’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ea’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘ea’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘ea’ sound
- Revision of HFW
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘wh.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘wh’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘wh’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘wh’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘wh’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘wh’ sound
- Revision of HFW
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘a_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘a_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘a_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘a_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘a_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘a_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘i_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘i_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘i_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘i_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘i_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘i_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘e_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘e_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘e_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘e_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘e_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘e_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘o_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘o_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘o_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘o_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘o_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘o_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource contains 5 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
The theme in this pack is ‘summer instructions.’ There are five different texts for the children to read and answer questions about:
How to grow a sunflower
How to build a sandcastle
How to make lemonade
How to prepare a picnic
How to go pond dipping
Each comprehension contains a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are pictures to help with the trickier words.
The text is followed by 5 questions, containing ‘what’ ‘how’ and ‘where’ questions and some multiple choice questions.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them.
PDF file format
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘u_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘u_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘u_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘u_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘u_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘u_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is a collection of interactive lessons aimed at whole class or group phonics. They are PowerPoint presentations that allow children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit target split digraph sounds. Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes.
The PowerPoints are split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to target sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the target sound)
- Segmenting and blending words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with target sound
- Writing a sentence with target sound
- Revision of trick words
Perfect for revising split digraphs in the lead up to the Phonics Screening test.
A collection of 12 comprehension activities for year 1 on the theme of minibeasts, rainforests and reptiles.
All the comprehensions contain a short piece of text with picture clues for tricky words and five simple questions. There are also accompanying PowerPoints for you to read the texts through with your class if you wish.
This resource contains 3 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
They each contain a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions.
The theme in this pack is ‘Cars.’ There are three different comprehensions:
The first cars
Modern cars
Fascinating car facts
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.