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The Ponder Box is a small self-publishing company with a passion for creating inspirational products fit for all kinds of purposes. In 2021, TPB began publishing low content books on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing, and now offers hundreds of books, journals, workbooks and more on Amazon's around the world. We also have our own Etsy shop where we also post a range of downloadable and digital products for people in all professions. Visit our website for more info!
First Book of 100 Sight Words: An Engaging Learning Tool for Young Children
Unlock the world of reading for your students with the “First Book of 100 Sight Words.” Designed specifically for young learners, this book is an essential resource for teachers looking to enhance their students’ literacy skills through fun and interactive exercises.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Sight Word List: Covers the first 100 essential sight words, carefully chosen to build a strong foundation for early reading skills.
Engaging Activities: Each sight word is accompanied by a variety of activities including reading exercises, word tracing, and writing practice to reinforce learning.
Interactive Learning: Fun and interactive “Circle the Sight Words” and “Make a Silly Sentence” activities keep children engaged and excited about learning.
Drawing Time: Each section includes space for drawing, encouraging creativity while reinforcing word recognition and usage.
Practical Application: Real-life sentence examples help students understand the context and usage of each sight word.
Why Choose This Book?
Teacher-Friendly: Easy-to-follow layout and clear instructions make it perfect for classroom use.
Student-Centric: Designed to cater to young children, making learning sight words enjoyable and effective.
Skill Development: Helps children improve their reading, writing, and comprehension skills, setting them up for future academic success.
Empower your students with the “First Book of 100 Sight Words” and watch them develop confidence and proficiency in their reading abilities. Available now on Tes.com, this book is a must-have for any teacher dedicated to nurturing a love for reading in their classroom.
In this lesson, students will start to form an understanding of what context is and how it can shape what the author writes. This lesson is a gentle introduction to the book and complete with fun starter and exit tasks to check for understanding. Students will learn interesting facts about Louis Sachar which will help them to form a personal and informed response about the text as they move throughout the unit.
Come back to my author’s dashboard to find the rest of the lessons within this scheme of work.
This resource is complete with:
PPTX file
PDF version
Lesson 1: Understanding the context of the novel
To understand the importance of context in a story.
To be able to identify the context in a story.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to develop an initial personal response to the author and the novel.
In this lesson, learners will be introduced to the novel and start to form an understanding of the context as well as begin making predictions about the book. This is the first lesson as part of a guided reading unit. Great for KS3 students or students with a lower lexile level.
Black & white flashcards help stimulate the development of the optic nerves the eyes of babies. As baby’s attempt to focus on the contrasting black & white images, their eye muscles and brain will be working hard to get in sync, improving their vision and focus. Babies love these contrasting images!
These are the perfect images for little ones.
The History of the English Language
Allow your students to gain an understanding of the origins of the English language and develop an understanding how the language has changed over time. In this lesson, students will complete a student led information scavenger hunt through the use of learning stages in order to find key facts relating to the development of the English language from the Anglos to modern day English.
Student led activity excellent for kineasthetic learners
This resource includes
A Google slide (full lesson)
A blank timeline document for students to fill in (PDF and Doc)
The History of the English Language Document (5 pages) to place in your learning stations
Let me know how you get on with this resource in the feedback section!
Thank you for purchasing this resource!
Stone Cold iGCSE / GCSE English Lesson 2
In this lesson students will explore the context of homelessness and form their own understanding of what it means to be homeless in order to understanding ideas presented throughout the text.
This is a whole lesson ready to go!
Literary Terms for iGCSE / GCSE / A-Level English Literature
This PDF contains the most basic to advanced literary terms for students to use when responded to literary texts. Encourage students to use several new words / phrases from the list each time they write about / discuss a literary text. The PDF includes key literary terms, definitions and examples of their usage.
Animal Alphabet Flashcards
These animal alphabet flashcards are a super versatile resource! Use them to support young learners in:
Letter recognition
Phonics
Animal > Letter > Sound association
Use them for as a part of a physical / online learning classroom display, a memory game and more!
Please let me know how you get along with this resource in the feedback below :-)
Online Learning Information for Parents
This Powerpoint Presentation allows schools to share clear instructions and information regarding the move to online learning for both parents and students. If you are a school wondering how you can move to online learning, the presentation outlines what platforms you can use and how your school can move to online learning successfully.
Introduce the book Holes by Louis Sachar to your pupils through an in depth cover analysis lesson. Students will explore what they think the book is about before even opening the first page. This resource includes a full, interactive Powerpoint for a full 60 minute lesson, plus 2 handouts that go with the lesson. This resource is all you need to get your students making inferences before you start reading. Enjoy!
Skill development: inference / predictions
Stretch and challenge: Making metaphors, writing to explain and compare and contrasting skills
This resource is ideal for Key Stage 3
Getting to Know You - BUNDLE - 5 Awesome Activities in One
The start of a new year is fast approaching and many teacher’s will soon find themselves with a whole new class of students that they will nurture and support for the next full academic year. This BUNDLE pack aims to help you get to know your students, their personal interests and learning styles with five unique activities to get them thinking about the year ahead.
Including in this pack:
All About Me Worksheet - students answer basic questions about themselves in order for their new teacher to get to know a little bit about them
Silent ID - a fun activity to get students learning about each other!
Multiple Intelligences Quiz - Find out which intelligences your pupils most associate themselves with by providing them with this fun quiz. Getting students to acknowledge their own learning styles allows them to develop critical thinking skills relating to their own personal growth and learning style!
What I Like - You can personalize your lessons ahead by first getting to know what your pupils like. Is there a common interest in music across the board? Incorporate the music in later lessons to show pupils you don’t just care about filling their heads but also about their own enjoyment in the classroom. Help develop a strong student-teacher rapport by personalizing learning as much as you can!
What I will learn - this worksheet is useful after giving students the low down on what to expect over the next term. Let students know what topics they’ll be learning more about and what skills they should aim to acquire. You can use this worksheet as an exit task to see how much students remember about what you’ve told them to expect!
With over 200 million women and young girls affected by FGM worldwide, learning about FGM is now more important than ever. This lesson has been especially designed for year 7+ students to learn all about what FGM is, reasons as to why it’s practiced and the effects left on girls after experiencing the traumatic event.
dyslexic friendly resource with dyslexic friendly font and background
whole PSHE lesson
If you’re a teacher, it’s likely that you will have heard your students talking about the MoMo Challenge with their peers or even asking you questions about the challenge. As parents and teachers we want to ensure that our students know how to stay safe online, and a huge part of staying safe is understanding how to identify fake news (like the MoMo challenge) from real news and how to act responsibly when we encounter content that can encourage harmful behaviour.
This Powerpoint aims to highlight where the MoMo challenge came from, how it spread throughout the internet and reasons behind the attention it has received. The lesson aims to highlight how negative news attracts more attention than positive news, how images such as the Japanese sculpture are used as “click bait” to attract more clicks on websites to earn more money, and so on.
This lesson has been designed to be completed in an IT lab where students have access to the internet in order to complete research tasks and the poster task at the end.
Celebrate Women’s Rights Day (8th March) by teaching your students about Women’s Rights. Contained in this powerpoint are key facts surrounding the current climate of Women’s Rights and why they’re important. Enjoy!
Teacher your students about what the term “growth-mindset” means and why developing one is so important. This resource is a full 55 minute lesson, including assigned learning tasks and optional home learning tasks to further learning outside of the classroom.
Teach your students about growth-mindset, what it is and why it’s important to work on developing a growth mind-set. By the end of this lesson, you’re students will know:
What growth mind-set is
The habits of people with a growth / fixed mindset
Ideas on how to transform from a fixed mind-set to a growth mind-set
Enjoy this 55 minute fully prepared PSHE lesson including group, individual and home learning activities!
Teach your students about LGBT, homophobia and homophobic bullying in this detailed PSHE lesson. Students will learn the content and make a poster at the end of the lesson to demonstrate learning. This is a no prep resource. Simply download and enjoy :-)
Celebrate the world’s diverse beauty with this resource designed for teaching your students about International Week. Take your students on a trip through a different continent each day, ending on one special country on the last. This resource includes a detailed Powerpoint containing two lessons per day, combining taught content on social studies, the arts and global mindedness. Accompanied with the Powerpoint are a whole host of reosurces to use along side them. This is a minimal prep resource, all you have to do is print off the handouts to go with the lessons and you’re ready to go!