A story planning sheet designed for creating a twist on the Three Little Pigs. Encouraging the children to concentrate on characters, setting, story content etc.

A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

Pictures of words containing an /sh/ phoneme either at the beginning or the end of the word. Designed to be used to sort into two groups - those words that start with an sh, and those that end with an sh. Children to segment orally, and then scribe the word into phoneme frames.

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

Topic planner mindmap covering children's experiences of new babies. Activity ideas across the 6 areas of learning, including role-play baby clinic and learning to look after a new baby.

Covers Funnybones (skeleton), Elmer (similarities and differences) and Owl Babies (needs).

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

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

A big book to be used in a variety of ways: a) At the beginning of the year, when talking about Ourselves - similarities & differences b) PSHE c) Thinking skills d) Speaking é Listening discussions

Countdown game with 16 CVCC words listed

RWInc style flashcards for grapheme /e-e/ including a caption/ditty: Freeze these peas! Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

Early Years topic planner covering the 6 areas of learning, and suggested activities to be covered.

Topic planner mindmap covering Hallowe'en, focussing on book Pumpkin Soup. Non-fiction instructional text - reading, sequencing, writing and doing, as well as other activities.

Designed to be printed 2 to a page. Children can write on to spell, laminate and write with dry-wipe or use grapheme cards/written on bottle tops/stones etc to segment the words: boat, coat, goat, road, foal, goal, soap, coach. Works well as a follow-up to my /oa/ powerpoint or Green goat phonics book powerpoint.

Learning to read and write the ar phoneme - differentiated for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading - words 2. Oral segmentation 3. Segmentation for spelling words 4. Reading sentences

A PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed Phase 3 & 4 lesson focusing on the /oo/ phoneme. 1. Blend to read: Examples of words to read for both pronunciations, as well as a couple of nonsense 'alien&' words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences

Differentiated PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed Phase 3-4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

PowerPoint version of my previous SMART notebook file. A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside. Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate. Also some words on pumpkins as display title Suitable for topics on autumn and Halloween

Large display cards for class marking display, a 1 side of A4 size for tables and individual bookmark styles for sticking into exercise books. The symbols are my school's marking policy symbols. Hope this is of use to someone else!

Video of the fire safety story for young kids along with some discussion points. Additional colouring page and story