Hi! I'm Marie. From experience as a primary teacher, I enjoy creating sets of teaching resources (often with my own illustrations!) for introducing and teaching school topics, and with practical activities. Hope you find something useful. Happy teaching! :)
Hi! I'm Marie. From experience as a primary teacher, I enjoy creating sets of teaching resources (often with my own illustrations!) for introducing and teaching school topics, and with practical activities. Hope you find something useful. Happy teaching! :)
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary associated to the rainforest. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes 3 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning.
PPP LA: Suitable for early KS1 - 21 slides - key words to introduce the rainforest environment, names and features of animals
PPP MA: Suitable for KS1 - 36 slides with key sentences and adjectives to learn about the environment, animal groups, names and habits of animals
PPP HA: Suitable for KS1 (early KS2) top readers - 64 slides which includes more extended reading material and information, key facts and useful vocabulary
The PowerPoints have been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.
2 PowerPoints to introduce minibeasts & key facts – suitable for KS1 & lower KS2.
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes now 2 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning.
• Minibeasts Easy - 25 slides
• Minibeasts – 31 slides – with more extended reading information
Explains what minibeasts are & where they live; how to recognise insects; sorting minibeasts into ‘insects’ & ‘not insects’ categories; matching names to pictures; the role insects have with plants; life cycle of the butterfly; key facts for each minibeasts; recognising features; key words (meaning)
Includes:
• ladybird
• beetle
• caterpillar
• butterfly
• moth
• woodlouse
• ant
• centipede
• millipede
• worm
• bumble bee
• wasp
• fly
• dragonfly
• slug
• snail
• grasshopper
• spider
The PowerPoints have been created with animation & sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.
I have created 3 worksheets that can be used during or after – simple questionnaire, record answers in a table, illustrate & label body parts of an insect & write information.
Please check more of my resources on Minibeasts on TES
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary associated to African animals and the environments they live in. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes now 3 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning:
PPP LA: Suitable for early KS1 - 22 slides - key words to introduce the African environment, names and features of animals
PPP MA: Suitable for KS1 - 33 slides - to learn about the African environment, names and features of animals (sentences) , facts about mammals, birds and reptiles, recognising herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, endangered species and animal features
PPP HA: Suitable for KS1 (early KS2) top readers - 50 slides – which includes more extended reading material and information about the African environment, facts about African animals, facts about mammals, birds and reptiles, recognising herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, endangered species, animal features and useful vocabulary
The PowerPoints have been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.
Includes 3 activity worksheets – writing facts about the lion, the elephant, the zebra and the rhinoceros
Please check more of my resources on African animals on TES
Use a unique PowerPoint as a fun way to introduce and teach simple facts about plants and vocabulary. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
In The garden - 24 slides
Includes: what is a garden/ what is there in a garden; what is a plant; parts of a plant; parts of a tree; what plants need (soil, water, sun); how insects help (pollen); why minibeasts are a threat and where to find them; what a gardener does; garden tools for different purposes; how to plant (simple instructions); what is compost for and made of; how to make compost; useful words (dictionary)
The PowerPoint has been created with animation & sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file. If any problem with sounds and fonts, please email me.
I have created 4 worksheets that can be used during or after – labelling gardening tools; labelling parts of a plant; what plants need/ do not need to grow healthy (writing activity); facts about compost. how to make compost (writing activity).
Please check more of my resources on Plants on TES – thanks for looking :)
Set of cubes for extended writing activities
Categories: characters, settings, objects, verbs, adjectives, time connectives, conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
Includes a blank template and a recording sheet (which could be laminated) + instructions
Hope that you like and find them useful. If you have any comments or recommendations to make, please do not hesitate to do so.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Bundle of helpful word mats base on 5 traditional stories for independent writing - with sentence starters for each part of the story, verbs and adjectives.
Hope that you like and find them useful. If you have any comments or recommendations to make, please do not hesitate to do so.
For additional resources based on Traditional Stories, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Printable story of Hansel & Gretel and comprehension worksheets for assessing understanding.
Activities include reading and answering questions and comparing different versions to write a book review.
Set includes:
• Story of Hansel & Gretel – text
• Comprehension - text, questions, write a different ending
• True or False - identify which sentences are true or not and rewrite the false sentences so that they are true
• Book Review – compare 2 versions of the same story and record preferences
For additional resources based on the story of Hansel & Gretel please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Set of worksheets to learn about characters and story structure based on the story of Hansel & Gretel.
Activities include oral retelling, sequencing events, identifying different parts of the story, describing characters & settings, and creative writing.
Set includes:
• Tell The Tale – story pictures for sequencing and oral retelling
• What Happens Next? –cut and paste pictures and text in the correct sequence
• Story Map - complete a map with captions
• Story Sequence – blank sheet for writing
• Story Structure – list characters, settings, events and resolution
• Story Plot – name each part of the story (beginning, build-up, problem, resolution, end); add captions on diagram
• Character Portrait – illustrate and describe one character
• Describing Characters – use adjectives word bank
• Describing Food – List adjectives that mean the same as Delicious; use the adjectives to complete speech bubbles
• Describing Setting x 2 – list adjectives to describe the forest – write how it feels to walk through the forest alone; list adjectives to describe the witch’s house – describe how you feel eating that food.
• Blank sheets for rewriting the story
For additional resources based on the story of Jack and The Beanstalk, please check my PowerPoint and Bingo Game.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
A handy word mat for independent writing with sentence starters for each part of the story, verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Includes blank sheets for story writing.
For additional resources based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources :)
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Learn about the characteristic features of the Blitz in Britain during the Second World War, where bombing raids took place, how the bombing could be stopped and the different ways civilians protected themselves.
The set includes facts sheets/posters, real pictures (use as flashcards or posters), worksheets and planning.
Facts sheets/posters and real pictures:
• What was the Blitz?
• London Landmarks
• What could be done to stop the bombers?
• How did people protect themselves?
• The Blackout
• Gas Masks
Worksheets:
• What was the blitz? - Use word bank to write brief description
• What could be done to stop the bombers? - Describe 4 methods used
• How did people protect themselves? - Describe 4 methods used
• Ways families could protect themselves (table) - advantages and disadvantages
• The effects of air raids (blank) - Write an account from what you have read. What happened when the bomb landed? How were people who lived there affected?
I have also created additional sets (sold separately)
BRITAIN IN WW2 – Work Volunteers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/britain-in-ww2-work-volunteers-11995179
BRITAIN IN WW2 – Children Evacuees
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/britain-in-ww2-children-evacuees-11995160
BRITAIN IN WW2 – Food Rationing
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/britain-in-ww2-food-rationing-11995169
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Pirate themed worksheets - to look at the differences between fiction and non-fiction text.
Activities includes:
• Looking at fiction and non-fiction book covers; explaining the differences
• Asking questions before reading non-fiction text to find answers
• Writing 4 facts from reading and identifying features of non-fiction text
• Using a glossary and record meaning of words
• Writing a book review (fiction or/and non-fiction)
• Writing a non-fiction text which has a heading, sub-heading, caption and picture
• Explaining what the story of ‘How I became a Pirate’ is about (answer questions)
I have also created Pirate themed worksheets for planning and writing own pirate story.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-pirate-story-writing-worksheets-13049005
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)