A whole week's worth of resources for KS1 riddles. A powerpoint introducing what riddles are and features, as well as how to plan writing a riddle.

All resources based on Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy 1. 6 pictures in sequential order. 4 differentiated versions for writing a word/caption/sentence. To extend by including a causal connective. 2. To write a list of adjectives to describe a night sky/space setting. 3. Plenary success criteria checklist. 4&5. Differentiated writing frames. 6. VCOP wordmat split up into vocab. connectives, openers and punctuation. Includes picture cues and VCOP superheroes images courtesy of ButterBeer and ilovemarmite.

Pictorial instructions to make a jam sandwich - ideal for Foundation Stage/KS1.

A writing frame/book for researching and writing about a country. Includes space for illustrations/sticking in pictures and space to write basic information on the country (currency, continent, capital city, language spoken)

An updated version of the vowel digraphs/trigraphs learnt in Phonics sessions. I have now made these into books to be used at home by parents and pupils. Each set of same sounding phonemes are grouped together in the same colour, to aid verbalisation. I hope these are of use!

Poem by Christina Rossetti. I used as part of a Minibeasts display, drawing out the human values of different minibeasts, and how we should look after them

A PowerPoint designed to teach/recap the /igh/ phoneme. Differentiated to fit in with Phase 3 and 4 teaching. 1. Blending for reading 2. Oral segmentation 3. Segmentation for spelling 4. Reading sentences incl tricky words

Introduction to writing sentences. Pictures at top as prompts - children to locate the missing word/picture and insert into sentence correctly.

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.

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 set of 10 different blank board game templates for children to design their own board game. Great to be used in Maths or as part of a topic on Toys.

An acrostic snow poem and a rain shape poem. To be used for teaching poetry or as a display. I designed these and the supporting images as a homework. The Powerpoint document has 6 pages of each poem, so can easily be printed on a handout to be cut up for each child's homework book. I have used in conjunction with Hamilton&'s Y1 unit 3b - Poems on a theme - weather

Pictures of foods beginning with ch or not. Designed as a sorting activity for oral segmentation when learning the phoneme /ch/.

Large display cards for class marking display, a 1 side of A4 size for tables and individual bookmark styles for sticking into exercise books. The symbols are my school's marking policy symbols. Hope this is of use to someone else!

Look Say Cover Write Check spellings book. Cover and page as separate documents. Designed for daily use in school to practice each word twice.

General Literacy word work, although made to accompany group guided reading of RWInc book Stop!

List of CVCC words for reading

Phonics assessment for Phase 5 digraphs and split digraphs.

Flashcards (could be blown up to make posters) of vowel digraphs and examples of words that use the phoneme in them, including pictures. Designed to be placed in sound families, to assist emergent writers with their spellings.

Assessment to test Next 200 words. Words listed in order of frequency.