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.

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.

A PowerPoint book all about The Avengers (original line-up). Captain America, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp, and Iron Man. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

I have written three extended stories to some Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1 stories. I could not find the original extended stories to these, although they may exist. The stories are for: Who is it?, Six in a bed, and Fun at the beach. I have also attached some other original extended stories, written by Roderick Hunt, that I have typed out, ready for a Shared Reading session.

Practise writing the alphabet by shape. Focus on the size of letters - ascenders and descenders.

Word mats for children to take home to practise reading and spelling tricky words. Disney Frozen-themed!

Based on the picture book by Sarah Hayes. The rhyming book text, rhyming wordbank and differentiated cloze worksheets. Would work well alongside a teddy bear/bear theme, as well as a stand-alone poetry unit.

PowerPoint of What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson (apologies about some of the pictures) along with the shared reading prompts from the Scottish Book Trust.\nI created this as the ladybird was just too hard for a whole class of kids to spot from the picture 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

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.

Worksheet for story sequencing; Independent/ Guided writing frames, including key word cards for ordering and scribing; Labelling characters - using phonic knowledge to write simple words (I used as a homework activity)

Pictures to be used for paired discussion. Children to study the picture carefully, and talk about it: What is the picture about? Who are the characters? What do you like about the picture? Imagine you are in the picture, who would you be? Where would you be? What are you doing? Designed to be used with R-time lesson Year 1 lesson 1.15. Also useful for SEAL lessons and other times where images of multicultural families and people are needed.

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.

A PowerPoint with all of the first 100 HFWs listed in Phase order. Also set up under Custom Slide Show so you can just display one Phase as needed.

Phonics assessment for Phase 5 digraphs and split digraphs.

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

Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.

5 sentences containing pictures to sequence to create a recount about the Moon landing.

A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe. Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!

PowerPoint lesson plan based on National Schools Partnership lesson 1 Fantastic You! for KS1. Links with the SEAL Good to be me. Unit plan based around Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. Video links used.