A PowerPoint all about pigs. Info on where they live, pets, piglets, food and eating, their bodies and senses etc. Designed as extra supporting material when studying the Farm, Animals or The Three Little Pigs.

On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Designed as a printable book or e-book on the IWB. Nice bright illustrations to accompany the poem (some courtesy of linda29 - thank you). Designed to be used with my PowerPoint plan on Nonsense Rhymes and Poems. Please rate the resource.

Differentiated sheets based on initial recounts.

Double sided wordmat to go with John Burningham's Oi! Get off our train. First side has images of the main characters and some objects in the story, along with words. Second side has some VCOP ideas to go with story writing.

PowerPoint lesson plan for teaching the Ph5 phoneme /ew/. 1. say the phoneme and practice writing it in air. 2. blend to read words containing /ew/ phoneme incl 'alien' pseudo words. 3. where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. teacher modelled - segment for spelling 5. children to segment and spell words from images 6. read sentences.

Poem focusing on leaves and colours.

To be used alongside guided reading as an independent task/homework with guided reading book. Reading comprehension sheets for Project X orange bookband/stage 6/RR level 16 and turquoise bookband/stage 7/RR levels 17-18. When animals invade, Body invaders, Dragon hunter & The silver box.

A PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with Fairy-tales introduction and Fairy-tale characters. Describes what settings are, and ideas of different settings. Links to the story mountain concept. Comparison of two differing settings in Jack and the Beanstalk

Thanks to Ilovemarmite and butterbeer for their fantastic superhero characters. I have made a simple PowerPoint presentation to introduce the VCOP superheroes to Year 1 pupils.

A classroom based shared poem based on Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. I was planning to use as a starter for writing our own poem, focussing on the rhyming words. We will be photographing areas of the classroom, and writing verses about them. Then laying a cut-out style window on top, and making the whole thing into a book.

Topic word cards created to be used in group discussion or a story sack activity, so children can read the words and learn how to write/spell them. Designed to go alongside a topic on Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. Features pumpkin and squash images and well as the animal characters and cooking utensils used. Good for topics on autumn or Halloween

A PowerPoint based around characters within fairy-tales. Looking into how characters fit into the story mountain, and adjective use to add interest into the story.

Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences prefilled for less able. Goldilocks dictionary sheets, to encourage alphabetical order, and for children to use when writing the story or sentences.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

Reading age chart for the Young Reading Test, and equivalent scores for the Burt, Schonell and Vernon graded word reading tests.

Phonics powerpoint differentiated for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo (alien) words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

A labelled picture of a germinated bean plant, as well as an unlabelled picture with labels to match.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

A non-fiction PowerPoint all about Pumpkins. Learn about the fruit, how it can be cooked and Jack-O-Lanterns.