Graphemes and pictures related to items seen at Thornton Reservoir in Leicestershire. Grapheme prompts to assist children in the use of digraphs and trigraphs when writing. Also an editable Word version, easily adaptable for your own local country parks and reservoirs.

A writing frame to create an information poster on the growth cycle of a bean.

A pdf set (so can easily be resized as necessary) containing: 1. A display title 2. Differentiated cloud-shaped writing frames 3. Cloud-shaped captions

A set of statements to be cut up for children to read and sort into fact and fiction. A second set has been provided with the tricky words written in red for ease of newer readers. Also, a simple Fact or Fiction table to be enlarged to A3 for the statements to be put/stuck onto.

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)

Loosely based on the Brown Bear story by Eric Carle, I’ve made a simple book for Shared Reading/Phonics sessions focussing on the digraphs oa, ee and ea.

3 differentiated writing frames for a simple non-fiction book. 1. front cover, 2 pages (half text, half picture) and back cover for blurb; 2. front cover, contents page, 2 pages (half text, half picture), index and back cover; 3. front cover, contents page, 3 pages (half text, half picture/diagram), glossary, index and back cover. All in Word format, so editable as necessary.

A short phoneme spotter for Phase 5 teaching/consolidation of the /er/ /ir/ /ur/ GPCs.

Small pictures designed to be used to support recount writing of the story.

A simple minibeast riddle powerpoint. Print out 2 or 4 to a page as reading and matching cards. Spider, frog, butterfly, slug, snail, bee, millipede, ladybird.

Phase 5 phonics chatterboxes. Real and pseudo (nonsense/alien) words. Alien images to assist with pseudo words. Brilliant for Year 1 phonics screening check revision. ay ea ie ow ue ow ir ew au oy aw ou ph wh ure a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e Choose a colour and orally segment the word as you move the chatterbox. Choose a number and count as you move the chatterbox. Read your word!

Phase 2 (consonant digraphs) and Phase 3 phonics chatterboxes. Real and pseudo (nonsense/alien) words. Alien images to assist with pseudo words. Brilliant for Year 1 phonics screening check revision. ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur er oo (book) qu ck Choose a colour and orally segment the word as you move the chatterbox. Choose a number and count as you move the chatterbox. Read your word!

Powerpoint presentation based on Phases 1-3 of Letters and Sounds for parents.

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!

We designed our own characters, looking at recounts, character descriptions and then moved onto a simple story and made it into a comic strip. Our superheroes focused on the good qualities they could have, and what human values (love, peace, truth, non-violence and right conduct) they display.

Pictorial recipe, pictorial sequencing instructions and sequencing pictures. Planning included.

A simple timeline frame and pictures for children to order. 2 sets of pictures - with or without captions for differentiation. Made to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday celebrations. Works well with my other product, The Queen at 90 PowerPoint.

A powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /ai/ /ay/ /a-e/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.

A selection of real and 'alien' pseudo words containing either the /ee/ /ea/ or /e-e/ grapheme. Alien words have an image of alien to assist preparation for the Phonics Screening. Children can write on their sound buttons to help read the word. Also a powerpoint containing all the words to read as a whole class

A comprehensive PowerPoint of the life of Queen Elizabeth II from birth to her 90th birthday celebrations.