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

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!

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!

A PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with Fairy-tales introduction and Fairy-tale characters. Describes what settings are, and ideas of different settings. Links to the story mountain concept. Comparison of two differing settings in Jack and the Beanstalk

Countdown game with 16 CVCC words listed

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.

Homework / classwork sheet designed to help children find out information about the countries of the Commonwealth. To find out the continent, capital city, population, languages spoken, interesting facts etc. Children can use internet, atlas or other non-fiction book to find out the information.

A series of well-known poems and rhymes blown up to a large font to be used in Shared Reading sessions. Twinkle Twinkle chocolate bar, This is the key to the castle, Lost & Found, Snow Joke, The house that Jack built

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

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.

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

A PowerPoint book all about the original Justice League of America: Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, The Flash & Batman. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

A word mat designed to support writing about The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and clock times for the different animals the bad tempered ladybird encountered in the story.

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

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

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.

Could be used as a class or homework sheet. To note down contractions found in a text, write it in its full form, and then keep a tally. You can then interpret the most and least popular contractions in the text.

A word mat split into sections to mirror the VCOP display board. Using VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite This wordmat goes alongside the story Elmer and the Lost Teddy, to help children write their own version of the story.

A worksheet with four simple sentences (mainly CVC words) to read and then illustrate as appropriate.

List of Phase 4 CCVC words to be read in 1 min or 3 mins against a timer.