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

A mindmap of ideas for cross curricular teaching of Jack and the Beanstalk and Spring for the Early Years.

Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences prefilled for less able. Goldilocks dictionary sheets, to encourage alphabetical order, and for children to use when writing the story or sentences.

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)

F2 Reception medium term plan on Special Books. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

A wordmat split into the 4 sections of VCOP. The vocabulary section is split into Settings, Pebble adjectives and Villain adjectives.

A shared writing or independent work idea, linking up both Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and learning the sequence of the days of the week.

F2 Reception medium term plan on Beginnings, PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW. Content covers New Year, religious birth customs, Chinese New Year and the Judeo-Christian creation story.

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.

Information on the life of Margarete Steiff and how the first teddy bears came about. Why Steiff bears have a button in their ear.

What is a mermaid? Information on Hans Christian Andersen and The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, as well as the Disney animation.

Game board (to be enlarged to A3) and animal picture and word cards. To be cut and laminated. Children can match the picture/word card to the board in alphabet order. Note that 'X&' is fox (the x is underlined to help) Hope this resource is useful; please rate it if so xx

Designed for use at circle time/carpet time. A set of 5 questions describing 5 different zoo animals. Each question is made up of 3 hints, each getting easier. Could differentiate for younger children by displaying images/toys of the animals while they are listening to the questions/hints. This resource was inspired by Sorting Sprinkles blog - zoo week for pre-schoolers 2.

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

A PowerPoint lesson plan designed to be used to introduce children to The story of my name activity/homework. Includes information on how and why names are given. Please see my other resources 'The story of my name' - homework activity and parent letter.

A new version of my 2013 safety rules in PowerPoint and pdf format

A word mat to write instructions on how to make a straw rocket launcher. Set out into V, C, O & P sections. Also contains butterbeer & Ilovemarmite's VCOP superheroes.

Chinese New Year themed proverb to be used as an inspirational quotation.

On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Designed as a printable book or e-book on the IWB. Nice bright illustrations to accompany the poem (some courtesy of linda29 - thank you). Designed to be used with my PowerPoint plan on Nonsense Rhymes and Poems. Please rate the resource.

A display heading for an Autumn themed display