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

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.

We wrote our own class book based on Pants and More Pants by Giles Andreae (Purple Ronnie). Each child was challenged to create their own pants rhymes, design pants to illustrate the rhyme, type the text on the computer. We then made into a book, and made a Pants display, including why we were learning about pants, as many parents thought it was weird! I've also made some info on the author and illustrator.

Poem focusing on leaves and colours.

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

Pictures of simple words containing the igh phoneme with a phoneme frame next to each one. To practice spelling by segmenting. Phase 3 Letters and Sounds Phonics

Words to learn in order of Letters & Sounds phases. I stick on card and laminate for children to practise at home with their reading books.

I have created a display banner to use alongside the Oxford Reading Tree display cards produced by Bev Evans.

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.

Independent/adult-assisted research activity (I used as a week's homework) to use a non-fiction text or internet to research a dinosaur. Using a non-fiction text to locate and use contents page, page numbers and information

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

Termly assessment of phonemes and graphemes known. Using a different colour each assessment, I draw a semi-circle above for phoneme known and underneath for grapheme known. Listed in order of teaching from Phases 2 and 3 of Letters and Sounds phonic teaching materials.

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.