Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Schooldays Supplies Worksheets - included is an engaging doodle sheet designed for EYFS and KS1 learners, featuring a variety of school-related items like a pencil case, school bag, desk, and paints.
Each of the 10 black-and-white worksheets provided, highlights four objects, leaving space for children to label them - helping to develop early literacy and vocabulary skills. Children can colour the pictures.
Perfect for classroom activities or home learning, these worksheets encourage young learners to recognize and name everyday school supplies.
Suitable for English Language Learning with a School topic base.
This activity for KS1 teachers is designed to develop children’s vocabulary, speaking and listening, phonics, writing, and teamwork skills while linking to the theme of school life.
On Page 1, children engage with a doodle-style colouring sheet featuring over 50 school-related items, such as pencils, backpack, books, ruler and scissors.
They are tasked with finding, naming, and discussing each item before colouring them in, enhancing observation.
Page 2 encourages phonics and alphabetical awareness as children complete a template by finding a school-related word for each letter of the alphabet, such as A for “abacus” and B for “blackboard.”
Finally, Page 3 introduces a competitive element, where children work alone, in pairs, or in groups to generate as many school-related words as possible within a set time limit. Roles like “seekers” and “scribe” promote collaboration, while discussing and categorizing the words afterward strengthens their understanding.
These activities link with English Language Learning: School topics.
This resource provides a hands-on way for children to connect written colour words with their matching colours.
It includes a wall display featuring the written words for a variety of colours, allowing children to match the colours to each word accordingly.
A fully coloured example is included to guide the children, and a blank “wall” template is provided so that children can write their own chosen colour words and then colour them in.
This activity helps reinforce colour word recognition and vocabulary, spelling of colour words and recognition of colours.
It is useful too, for those learning English.
“Colour My Home” is a fun colouring resource designed to help children (and English Language learners) learn about familiar objects found in a typical home and associated vocabulary.
This resource is structured into 10 pages, each showcasing 6 different colour objects typically found around the house.
Each page features a colour image of the objects alongside a corresponding black-and-white outline for colouring and matching.
Cards can be cut out and sorted in different ways e.g. by rooms, colour, inside or outside the house, furniture, electrical items and many more.
This resource is designed for KS1 teachers and educators of English language learners to support comprehension and literacy development. It links to Me, Ourselves, Homes and Families.
The resource features colour illustration cards of three distinct families — The Brown Family, The Smith Family, and The Jones Family — each accompanied by a short poem that highlights the unique characteristics and activities of the family members.
The resource includes a set of simple comprehension questions tailored for young learners, which encourage them to recall and understand key details from the poems about each family.
Additionally, an answer sheet is provided to facilitate easy assessment and feedback.
The resource aims to foster reading enjoyment and enhance language skills. It makes a complete lesson, or can be used over several lessons.
This resource set is designed for KS1 and focuses on sports activities, perfect for integrating into sports day, lessons on keeping healthy, physical education, English Language learning and Literacy development.
Contents:
Poster: A black-and-white poster featuring 10 children engaged in various sports activities. Children can colour in the poster and discuss the different sports they see / like.
Worksheets:
10 Sports Worksheets: Each worksheet features one sport, providing space for children to write about it.
Question Sheet: An additional sheet with questions that children can refer to while writing about each sport.
2 Identification Worksheets: Two worksheets with pictures of children participating in different sports. Children will write the name of each sport next to the corresponding picture.
Educational Links:
• Sports Day
• Keeping Healthy
• Physical Education
• Reading, Spelling, Writing, Speaking and Listening
This resource based on Occupations, spans 6 colourful pages, each featuring 8 cards showing a range of occupations. The cards prompt children to use the initial sounds under the pictures to identify and write the name of each occupation. The cards support speaking and listening and vocabulary development.
Key Features:
• Visual and Phonics Integration: Each occupation card includes an image accompanied by its initial sound, aiding children in connecting phonetic clues to the correct occupation name.
• Word Banks: Two additional pages provide word banks to support spelling, allowing children to cross-reference and ensure accuracy in their writing.
• Educational Connections: The cards integrate with curriculum topics on the World of Work, enhancing both phonics and literacy skills in a real-world context.
• Versatile Usage: Cards can be duplicated, cut, and laminated for various interactive activities, such as matching games and sorting into types of professions. Children may also consider jobs they might like to do and any others that are not shown.
6 worksheets for children at KS1.
There are pictures on each worksheet. Children decide what word joins the pictures and draw a line e.g. drinking glasses and sight glasses and car bonnet and Easter bonnet.
There is a vocabulary sheet showing all of the words used in the worksheets. Children can use this as a reference; mark off the words they find and / or underwrite the words.
Children could also write the linking words on the sheets themselves.
“Exploring with Words: Welsh Vocabulary for Young Explorers” is a resource designed to introduce children to the Welsh language through a focus on vocabulary related to various locations and settings.
Through colourful visuals and interactive activities, children will learn essential Welsh words for places such as the garden, bus, house, and bed.
The resource provides planning suggestions for 6 activities, including matching games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and role - playing to reinforce vocabulary retention.
Whether used in the classroom or at home, “Exploring with Words” offers an enjoyable way for children to begin their Welsh language adventure.
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This ‘School’ themed resource offers three colourful worksheets along with their black and white counterparts for versatility.
Sheet 1 presents 12 common school-related items with English words, allowing children to practice reading, writing, translating and matching words to corresponding pictures.
Sheet 2 mirrors this with Welsh words, giving children the option to write the Welsh words or English translations beneath.
Sheet 3 provides colour images of the school items for cutting out, enabling writing or matching activities, replicated in black and white for additional flexibility.
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This resource is linked to Buildings and related vocabulary. It offers three colourful worksheets along with their black and white counterparts for versatility.
Sheet 1 presents 12 popular buildings with Welsh words, allowing children to practice writing and matching the words to the corresponding pictures.
Sheet 2 mirrors this with English words, giving children the option to write Welsh translations beneath.
Sheet 3 provides images of the buildings for cutting out, enabling writing or matching activities, replicated in colour for additional flexibility.
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This Sports Vocabulary based resource offers three colourful worksheets along with their black and white counterparts.
Sheet 1 presents 12 popular sports with Welsh words, allowing children to practice writing and matching words to corresponding pictures.
Sheet 2 mirrors this with English words, giving children the option to write Welsh translations beneath.
Sheet 3 provides colour images of the sports for cutting out, enabling writing or matching activities- replicated in black and white for additional flexibility.
Boardmaker licenced.
This Jobs / Occupations resource is designed to support vocabulary acquisition in Welsh and English while exploring jobs.
Page 1 shows colour images of 20 different jobs accompanied by words in both Welsh and English. Children can match the pictures to the words.
Pages 2 and 3 offer colour and black-and-white flashcards of the 20 jobs, allowing for flexibility in teaching methods. Teachers can cut, duplicate, and laminate these flashcards for hands-on activities such as matching games, memory exercises, and vocabulary drills.
Page 4 provides a worksheet where children can practice writing the names of the jobs in either, or both, Welsh and English.
On page 5 and 6, children engage in reading, writing, and matching exercises with the words associated with each job in both languages.
Boardmaker licenced.
A set of flashcards for learning vocabulary in Welsh / English related to travel / transport.
Page 1 shows 20 colour pictures /symbols. These can be enlarged, duplicated, cut out and laminated and used for games, displays or flashcards.
Page 2 shows the pictures in black and white with Welsh words and Page 3 shows the pictures in black and white with English words.
Finally there is a sheet with 4 simple ideas for using the flashcards for e.g. matching and memory games, language practice and sentence creations.
Boardmaker Licenced.
“Welsh Basics - Body Words and Pictures” is a resource designed to aid in the learning of body parts vocabulary in Welsh and English.
The resource includes colour flashcards, as well as black and white versions labelled in both English and Welsh.
Included also, is a planning grid with 4 suggested ideas for using the resources and reinforcing body parts vocabulary.
Boardmaker Licenced.
A set of flashcards with a Homes theme for supporting vocabulary development in Welsh / English.
Page 1 shows colour pictures of things found in the home, these can be cut, duplicated and laminated.
Page 2 shows the household items in black and white with English words.
Page 3 shows the household items in black and white with Welsh words.
Included is a list of simple ideas for using the flashcards.
Boardmaker Licenced.
A set of flashcards with a Food theme for supporting children’s vocabulary development in Welsh / English.
Page 1 shows colour pictures of the foods in the resource, these can be cut, duplicated and laminated.
Page 2 shows the foods in black and white with English words.
Page 3 shows the foods in black and white with Welsh words.
Included is a list of simple ideas for using the flashcards.
Boardmaker Licenced.
This clothing vocabulary resource includes 12 items of clothing represented in both Welsh and English, accompanied by a variety of activities.
Cut and Match Flashcards: Children can cut out and match colour clothing pictures showing both Welsh and English words, creating flashcards for vocabulary reinforcement.
Colouring and Matching Cards: Use the second sheet of small cards for children to colour in, cut out and match to the colour ones. They can then paste these into their books and write the corresponding words in both languages.
Clothing Wedges Activity: Cut out clothing “wedges” and have children glue them onto the Welsh or English word wedge sheet/s, reinforcing vocabulary.
Clothing Wheel: Children can create a colour clothing wheel using either English or Welsh. This activity comes in both colour and black-and-white versions and includes 8 clothing items.
These activities aim to foster an understanding of basic clothes vocabulary in both languages while catering to different learning styles.
Boardmaker licenced.
A fun way of learning animal vocabulary in English and in Welsh.
There are flashcards of 10 different animals.
There are 2 flashcards for each animal, showing the English and the Welsh words.
This resource comes with 6 ideas for using the animal flashcards including a memory game, scavenger hunt, charades and bingo.
The resource uses symbols - Boardmaker Licenced.