A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
This pack has the first 100 High Frequency and Tricky words in flashcard format. There are two options. Colour coded: blue for phonetically sounded words and yellow for tricky words, or plain white backgrounds. The colour coded flashcards match with the Tricky /HF word display clouds that are also available.
These will be super alongside any phonics and spelling programme and make an eye catching and useful display for pupils. These are also a fantastic tool for older pupils in active spelling activities.
This tricky word game is great for independent work stations and early finishers in class. Giving practice and reading and pronouncing tricky words and having fun while learning!
Simply print onto A3 and laminate. The game requires a dice and up to four counters or similar.
This board game is a fun way for children to practice their phonic blending skills.
Excellent for an early finisher activity or as a station in carousel learning environment.
Print both pages onto A3 and laminate. The spinner needs a split pin, and the game will require a dice and up to four counters (or similar game pieces).
This pack has the second set of the next 200 High Frequency and Tricky words in flashcard format. These are a fantastic tool for not only early level literacy but for older pupils in active spelling activities. These could also be helpful in working with EAL pupils.
This pack has the second set of the next 200 High Frequency and Tricky words in flashcard format. These are a fantastic tool for not only early level literacy but for older pupils in active spelling activities. These could also be helpful in working with EAL pupils.
This pack has the first 100 High Frequency and Tricky words for display in your classroom. These are displayed in attractive clouds and colour coded: blue for phonetically sounded words and yellow for tricky words.
These will be super alongside any phonics and spelling programme and make an eye catching and useful display for pupils.
There is also a set of colour coded and white flash cards available to purchase.
This board game is a fun way for children to practice their phonic blending skills.
Excellent for an early finisher activity or as a station in carousel learning environment.
Print both pages onto A3 and laminate. The spinner needs a split pin, and the game will require a dice and up to four counters (or similar game pieces).
These booklets are designed for using for homework tasks related to reading and spelling. One booklet is for personal reading or school directed reading records and reviews. The other is for using the Look, Cover, Say, Write and Check method for setting spelling homework.
These are both editable on word documents so that you can add your class stage to the cover or make any additions etc that you wish.
This is a comprehensive forward plan for first level literacy which includes resources, CFE experiences and outcomes and group differentiation. This has been written for Primary Four but is easily adapted and edited to suit any stage working at first level.
These literacy worksheets are great for consolidation and revision work. These can be used with both KS1/2 and Scottish first and second levels as they are of varying levels of difficulty. All sheets editable on word to allow for easy differentiation. With a focus on grammar, the worksheets cover the following elements:
Plurals
Irregular Verbs
Punctuation
Homophones
Connectives
Adjectives
Types of sentences
Informative power point for teaching about Homophones and Homonyms. Use in conjunction with the four accompanying worksheets. These are all on Word documents for easy editing.
This booklet is designed to give pupils an easily stored reminder of a range of grammatical terms, literary tools and punctuation information.
This can be used alongside independent writing tasks, grammar tasks or simply as a revision booklet to go through from time to time.
My pupils have found this incredibly helpful as they often have struggled to remember all the different concepts they have been learning about and now can just refer to this. Repeated exposure is increasing their recall of the information learned.
This is more suitable for upper stages of Primary/Early Secondary level.
This activity book has been designed for KS1/First level pupils to go alongside reading the abridged or child friendly version of the story. With my own class this was also used in conjunction with putting on a short play of the story.
For younger/less able pupils, the booklet can be worked through together as a class, with support given for follow up work or done independently with more able or older pupils, following each teaching and discussion or reading session.
Contents include:
Scrooge Character Description
Comparison of Present and Past
Design a Christmas Card from Scrooge
Write a new Christmas Carol/Song
and more
This booklet is designed to be used during the busy December month, when often it is difficult to keep the pupils engaged and still learning!
Within this booklet are seven different challenges that will get the pupils thinking, designing, problem solving, working together and having some fun.
The booklet has the following worksheets and tasks:
Design a new toy
Design a new suit for Santa
Help the Elves task
Design a Sleigh
Christmas Alphabetical Ordering
Christmas Wordsearch and Cloze Passage
Christmas Party Budget: Money and Problem Solving activity
This is designed for KS2/Scottish Second Level pupils, although it could be adapted/differentiated for lower stages and levels.
This early level literacy activity bundle contains 18 different worksheet activities to cover phonics, blending/decoding and writing, including a set of story prompts using pictures to inspire some emergent imaginative writing. The bundle also includes 4 sets of bingo cards to cover the main phonic sets.
The activities cover other skills such as cutting and colouring to enhance fine motor skill development and are designed to be both enjoyable and challenging for the pupils. This will be a super time saver for busy teachers!
This resource would be ideal to extend and consolidate learning in these literacy areas and/or use for early finishers in class.
Contents:
Phonics cut and stick set 1
Phonics cut and stick set 1 and 2
Phonics cut and stick digraphs
Phonics missing sounds; single sounds
Phonics missing sounds; digraphs
Phonics bingo cards: Set 1 and 2
Phonics bingo cards: Set 3, 4 and 5
Phonics bingo cards: Set 6, 7 and 8
Write the word CVC
Write the word digraphs
Blending word/picture match 1
Blending word/picture match 2
Blending word/picture match 3
Sentence cut and stick
Blending; read, write and colour
Blending; read, write and colour
Picture the story 1
Picture the story 2
Picture the story 3
Picture the story 4
Picture the story 5
If you would like a copy of this on an editable Word document, please contact me via my shop.
Please note that this work is copyrighted to P.Marshall and Sounds Dramatic Ltd and may not be reproduced or altered without prior consent. Once purchased, uses are unlimited and files can be kept and reused with no limitation.
These three activities and worksheets are a great way to start back with your class in the new term. Suitable for KS2/Second Level, with some elements being suitable for younger pupils with support.
Activities:
New Year Story starter/assessment - this story starter covers elements of VCOP and imaginative writing, giving pupils a chance to write in a genre of their choice, based on New Year's Eve.
Highlights of 2016 - a worksheet set out like a poster of polaroid photos, pupils can draw four of their favourite moments of the past year and caption them. This has been created for A3 size.
New Year Learning and Personal Resolutions - pupils can set both learning and personal targets and resolutions for the coming year, with space for them to detail why they have chosen this resolution and how they intend to achieve it.
All worksheets are on PDF.
16 Language/Literacy and 6 Maths activity cards for either lesson starters or early finishers. The sheets can be printed and laminated so that pupil's can help themselves for independent continuation of work in class. These are also editable for making extra/different cards.
This resource is a super time saver for a busy teacher.
A way to instantly have a meaningful and challenging classroom activity set up for your class to do.
16 Literacy activity slides
12 Maths and Numeracy activity slides
12 Health and Wellbeing activity slides
8 topic based activity slides.
Many of these also have a range of activity ideas within each slide, meaning that you are getting upwards of 60 different lesson and activity ideas, covering a range of learning and teaching areas and skill sets.
The front page of the powerpoint is a contents page that has links to each individual activity page – and each activity page will take you back to the contents page.
Many of these activity ideas can be used more than once and with a variety of different topics.
This version is aimed at Second Level/KS2 pupils.
I am currently working on developing one for younger pupils as well.
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