A word mat designed to support children's thank you writing after Christmas. Set out to mirror the VCOP board, including question words to prompt.

This bundle includes my Queen Elizabeth II timeline of major life events KS1 and the PowerPoint and pdf versions of The Queen at 90.

A PowerPoint and worksheet for children to read words in the /oi/ /oy/ sound family. Preparation for the Phonics screening test

A simple proforma for Year 4 for children when analysing TV, radio and newspaper/magazine adverts.

Pictures and character names of characters in differing versions of the story.

3 differentiated instructional writing templates. All templates in Word and pdf version.

A VCOP word mat to be used when writing the African folktale 'How zebra got stripes'. Links with Greedy Zebra by Mwenye Hadithi and the Tinga Tinga Tales version. Picture courtesy of a child from http://thislittleclassofmine.blogspot.co.uk - thanks xx

A set of reading comprehension sheets to go alongside the Lime level books. New vocabulary - write the definition (promoting dictionary skills), answering what, where, why, how questions, writing facts in a list, reviewing the book

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

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.

Bingo board game for 1-4 players learning set 1 of Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonics. Uses words containing the satpin graphemes. Can be printed either at A4 or A5 size. Designed to be used with counters. Could complete as a line/row or whole board for the winner.

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.

PowerPoint with both pronunciations of this grapheme. Differentiated to be used with a mixed group of Phase 3/4 children. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

2 different word mats: 1. Religious: The Easter story 2. Non-religious: Easter signs and symbols

A set of rhyming number bonds with a fairy-tale theme. Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk, Little Red Hen, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White

A pictorial recipe for making egg-free gingerbread men. Focus on the structure of the text as non-fiction, with sections for the ingredients, equipment and method. Including pictorial instruction sorting cards. Great to use alongside the Gingerbread Man traditional tale.

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

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.

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.

Key word cards and differentiated word mats for the science investigation of rolling a car down a ramp. Also a template for completing/writing the experiment. Designed primarily for Y1.