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Literacy for early years
Ice cream shop role play pack- Summer, seaside, ice cream parlour
Ice cream shop role play pack
Great for ourdoor or indoor play in the Early years and also for KS1 and KS2
The pack includes:
Large (A4 sized) coloured pictures of different ice creams and lollies -great for a background display
A5 sized labels of the different things in the shop eg cones, chocolate sprinkles, strawberry sauce, dishes etc
A5 sized cards showing the different ice creams and lollies and space to add a price label to use in your shop-the price labels are from 1p to 50p allowing you to make your own prices for the items and to alter them according to the ability of your children
Double sided cones and lollies to make, with different flavours and sizes of ice cream to put in them
4 different ice cream seller hats to make to use in the role play
A large title ‘Ice cream shop’
Order forms
Note paper and telephone message paper
Ice cream themed bunting to cut out and decorate the shop -this can be made as long as you wish by printing out more times
An ice cream number line up to 30
Hospital role play pack- People who help us, Keeping healthy, Ourselves
A bumper pack with lots of forms, signs and pictures to set up a role play area of a hospital
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and 2 enabling you to print out the resources again and again.
The pack includes:
Words relating to hospitals with pictures to match such as bandage, ambulance, stethoscope etc
Large pictures (A4 sized) of these hospital objects
Signs to display in your role play hospital such as waiting room, reception, consultation room etc
Posters to display in the area sych as ‘wash your hands’ , fire exit, toilets, visiting times etc
Lots of different forms to encourage writing in the role play area such as appointment times,
patients appointment cards, registration cards, prescription/ medicine forms etc
Hats and badges to make which the nurses and doctors can wear in their role play
Large x-ray pictures -great for discussion and use in the role play area
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area either inside your classroom or in your outside area which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes
Spookley the Square Pumpkin activity pack
This book companion accompanies the lovely story of ‘The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin’ by Joe Troiano.
The activities include:
A craftivity to make your own Spookley
Colored Sequencing cards to retell the story
Character traits of Spookley writing sheet
My favorite part of the story drawing and writing
Graphic organisers
All about Spookley worksheet
Beginning, middle and end drawing or writing sheet
Cause and effect worksheet plus a blank worksheet for the teacher to part fill or for more able children to fully complete by themselves
Feelings worksheets
I am special worksheet - compare how Spookley was special to how they are special
If I were a pumpkin drawing and writing sheet
Make the sentences cut and paste
Making comparisons- a venn diagram to compare Spokley to the other pumpkins
Retell the story writing worksheet
Retell the story cut and paste picture worksheet
Text-to-self connections - How Spookley helped and how they have helped someone
Write three sentences about Spookley worksheet
PLUS a bonus matching pairs game!
Ladybird Maths and Literacy games
Ladybird Maths and Literacy games
A collection of 8 fun games
Literacy games:
1-Letter Bingo- Turn over the ladybird letter cards and cover the picture on your card with the initial sound.
2-Spotty Ladybirds- Read the letters on your spotty ladybird and then listen for the sound.
3-Lower and Upper case letters- Find the matching paid ladybirds with lower and upper case letters- use all the cards or just a few.
4-CVC words- Collect the correct three ladybird letter cards to spell the CVC word on your leaf.
Maths games:
1-Dotty ladybirds- Roll the special die and add or take away 1 spot on your ladybird. If the die lands on the spotty side you can take a spot from someone else!
2-Double spots- A game of doubles- match the halves of the ladybird with the same amount of spots and say the total.
3-Matching pairs- Collect two ladybird cards and see if they match. Match numbers, spots or numbers and spots together.
4-Counting ladybirds- Roll the die and turn over a leaf card with the corresponding number. Count how many ladybirds you have found- the winner is the player who has found the most ladybirds!
Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials.
Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.
Outdoor Literacy -EYFS Outdoor Play
This is a bumper pack on disk with loads of resources for Literacy and phonics games outdoors. The pack would be great for nursery settings, school settings and childminders to use for exciting Literacy activities in the outdoor area.
Also great for Literacy games in the classroom.
The pack includes:
40 A5 sized task/ activity cards - each with the area of Literacy covered in that activity such as alphabetical order, reading cvc words, letter recognition ect, the resources needed for that activity and the activity in detail. The cards also have space for you to write further notes such as the stepping stones/ specific learning objectives, focus children for the activity etc.
Also in the pack are all the resources you will need to print out and use with activity cards such as:
Large CVC dice to make
Letter spinners for playing the games
Large rainbow lower case letters of the alphabet
A large colourful alphabetical order snake to make
Upper and lower case letter socks
CVC cards and pictures
Various letter and phoneme cards
A CVC bingo game
Large colourful human and monster alphabet footprints
Games to play
Plus lots lots more!
THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A BELL - Christmas story resource pack
There was an old lady who swallowed a bell is a perfect story for Christmas!
This pack is full of retelling activities, craftivities, writing activities plus a set of colored sequence cards.
The activities included are:
A set of 14 coloured pictures for sequencing the story- these can all be used or for younger children just a few of the main picture cards can be used
Comprehension worksheet
A set of comprehension question cards to choose the correct answer from a choice of two
Worksheet- colour the things the old lady swallowed and put a cross through the things she didn’t swallow
Craftivity- assemble the parts and fill in a choice of two sentences
Cut and paste worksheet of what the old lady ate
Craftivity- cut out the old lady and feed her the picture cards in order- the face can be pasted onto a box and the mouth cut out
Writing sheets- 8 different worksheet to list five things the old lady ate such as five things that are green, five things that begin with ‘b’. Plus a blank version of the worksheet
Missing word worksheet to complete the sentences with the words listed at the bottom of the page
A Question worksheet
A story retelling worksheet to write four main parts of the story
Sentence scramble pack which can be used for activities or a literacy center with words to sequence and three worksheets to cut and stick the words to make the sentences
A cut and paste story sequence worksheet
Simple picture cards to sequence for the story
Initial sound snowmen activity- phonics, alphabet, winter, snow
A set of snowmen to create to practice initial sounds.
Each snowman has the head with the sound on the hat and 5 picture snowballs to build your snowman.
Great for independent and group phonics activities during winter and in the run up to Christmas.
THE JACKET I WEAR IN THE SNOW activity pack
The Jacket I wear in the Snow is a perfect story for Christmas and wintery weather.
This pack is full of retelling activities, writing activities and book activities.
The activities included are:
A cut and paste story sequencing worksheet
A set of comprehension question cards to choose the correct answer from a choice of two
Worksheet- colour the clothes you would wear in snowy weather and in sunny weather
A snowy day writing activity
Cut and paste worksheet of what you wear in snowy weather-children can talk about the order the clothes are put on and paste the clothes onto the boy and girl. This activity is included in colour and also in black and white for the students to color themselves
Graphic organizers
Writing sheets- 8 different worksheet to list five things the old lady ate such as five things that are green, five things that begin with ‘b’. Plus a blank version of the worksheet
Label the snowy weather clothes
A Question worksheet
Writing activity to make a list of snowy day clothes
Two text-to-self connections worksheets
A word search with vocabulary from the story
Writing activity to write three sentences and draw a picture
Handa's Hen story sack resources
Colour posters showing the different animals in the story
· Display banner- a long colourful display banner
· A colourful display border
Number line- A colourful number line to 50 on the animals in the story
· A4 display pages- 4 different page borders to quickly display work
· Writing pages- black and white page borders to use when writing about the story or to add to the writing area
· A colourful bingo game
· Matching pairs game
· Story words- each card is decorated with an African design border
· A4 word card- with words and pictures
· Information fact cards about the different animals in the story
· Colour posters of the characters- Handa, Akeyo and Grandma
· Face masks to make of the characters
· Counting cards up to 10 with the number and the correct number of animals to count
· Coloured story sequencing pictures
· A small world background- great to use with small world characters or in the sand tray for retelling the story
· Various worksheets- Match the animal to the name, write about the story and your favourite part of the story
· Colouring posters of the characters and animals
· Large black and white pictures to colour and sequence
Optician role play pack- Ourselves
The pack includes:
Large letters, each with small pictures of glasses, spelling the word ‘Opticians’- great to give your opticians a bold shop name,
A large sign saying ‘Opticians’ decorated with pictures of glasses,
Posters for the Opticians with the opening times (also an opening times posters without the times written on for you to do choose your own opening hours), and open and closed signs,
Label cards with pictures of different things in the opticians- glasses, sunglasses, optician etc,
Lots of different forms to encourage writing in the role play area- customer details, details of check-ups, reminder forms, appointments etc,
A4 and A3 posters for the children to give eye tests- with capital letters and lower case letters,
Posters to display in your opticians- waiting room, which frame colour and shape would you like, try your glasses on here etc,
A poster to fill in the name of the optician for that day,
Hats to make for the optician and optician staff to wear and also a blank hat for you to design yourself
Plus lots more!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar book study PLUS sequencing pictures
The story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar is loved by all children!
This pack supports the book and is Common Core aligned but also suitable for the National Curriculum.
The pack includes:
A set of sequencing pictures in color and black line
Initial sounds worksheets and cut and paste activities
Comprehension picture cards with a choice of two or three answers to choose
Graphic organizers
Writing activities including drawing and write their favorite part of the story, drawing and writing what happens next and writing what they would eat if they were the caterpillar
Sequence worksheets
Text-to-self connections worksheets
A set of colored vocabulary cards
Plus a bonus Math book to trace and count the pictures to 10.
The Billy Goats Gruff story sack resources
The pack includes:
Large characters and story props pictures- these would be great on a display or are good when laminated and velcro added to the back for the children to use on a flannel board
Small characters and story props pictures with A4 sized playboard- these are great for table top play and also great when laminated and stored with the story book or included in a story sack
Story word cards- these are good for displays and also to use in the writing area when writing about the story
Sentence cards to sequence of the story of The Billy Goats Gruff
Black and white pictures of the characters and story props for the children to colour or collage
Black and white and colour face masks of the Billy Goats and Troll
A colourful bingo game with pictures from the story
A matching pairs game with pictures from the story
A large colourful board game to make including die and characters to make
Finger puppets to colour and make- great for retelling the story and including in your story sack
Photos of real goats
A rhyming word wheel to generate rhyming words
Plus many other resources.
Initial sound snowmen- phonics, winter, snow
A set of snowmen to create to practice initial sounds.
Each snowman has the head with the sound on the hat and 5 picture snowballs to build your snowman.
Great for independent and group phonics activities during winter and in the run up to Christmas.
Writing bumper resource pack- mark making, phonics, literacy
Writing Area Resources
A bumper set of resources to use in your classroom or setting to create a stimulating and exciting writing and mark making area.
The pack includes:
Display materials:
Phoneme bunting flags- 2 flags for each phoneme one with the phoneme on and the other with a word and picture containing that phoneme
Alphabet line- Large colourful pencils each with the lower and upper case letters
Alphabet desk card- an A4 card with lower and upper case letters and an initial sound picture for each letter
Alphabet picture frieze- A5 cards with lower and upper case letters and a picture for each letter
Alphabet strip- a table top alphabet strip on coloured pencils
Alphabet books- a colourful set of books each with the lower case letter on
Flashcards- coloured cards with days of the week, months of the year and the seasons
Display border- a colourful pencil themed border to print out as many times as you need it
Posters for your writing area- including ‘Our Writing’, ‘We like to write’, two posters for ‘What will you write today?’
Stationery labels- coloured picture and word labels for your stationery pots in the writing area
Tray labels- 20 labels for your resources trays
Word wall bricks- 100 bricks with Reception words
Writing flash cards- 28 writing themed words such as sentence, full stop, character etc –a great addition to the writing area for older children
Display banners- a long colourful banner ‘Writing area’ and ‘Writing’
Large post box- a large colourful post box which prints over 6 pages- print out and stick to a box to create a post box for the children to post their letters
Writing materials:
Birthday invitations- 3 different designs
Book sheets- a book review and 2 different sheets about the children’s favourite books
Letters to Santa- 5 different designs
Postcards- 3 different holiday postcard designs
Magic spell- 3 sheets for writing a magic spell
Menus- 3 designs
Newspapers- Lots of different designs for different abilities
Recipes- 2 different designed sheets
Shopping lists- 4 designs
Thank you cards- 4 designs plus two blank cards to design
Wanted posters- 5 different posters for different abilities
Wedding invitations- 2 designs
Activity sheets- trace over the numbers 1-10, trace over the alphabet letters, find and colour the letters of the alphabet
Writing border sheets- a large collection of A4 photocopiable sheets with patterned borders
The Royal Nappy story sack resources
The pack includes:
DISPLAY
Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display
Display border- a themed display border to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Word cards
Large coloured pictures- large pictures to print out and use on a display
When we were babies- A display banner for creating a class display about when the children were babies
Baby photos- colour photos of babies and Royal babies
LITERACY
Alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on crowns
Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area
Favourite part of the story- draw and write about your favourite part of the story
‘b’ for baby-a worksheet all about the letter b
Guards alphabet line- a lovely alphabet line on Royal guards
The nappy bag- draw and label the things in the nappy bag
When I was a baby- a worksheet for children to fill in details about when they were babies
Baby toys worksheets- various worksheets todesign a new baby toy, match the label to the picture and cut and stick the toys suitable for a baby
NUMERACY
Number line- a number line to 50 on baby bottles
Guards number line- a colourful number line to 100 on Royal guards
Counting worksheets- count the baby toys and bottles
Missing number worksheets- differentiated worksheets to fill in the missing numbers and also a blank worksheet for you to write your own numbers
Order the numbered nappies- cut and order the baby nappies
GAMES
Bingo- cover the different baby items
Matching pairs- match the different nappies
Number dominoes- a baby themed dominoes game to make and play
ACTIVITIES
Stick puppet- colour and make your own stick puppet of the Royal baby
Colouring- a collection of colouring worksheets
The Royal Nappy Cabinet-cut and stick the nappies into the nappy cabinet
Tracing pictures- simple pictures to practice pencil control
Design a nappy- design a new nappy for the Royal baby to wear
Design a babygrow- design a babygrow fit for a Royal baby!
Playdough mats- a collection of themed playdough mats
Make a mobile- colour and make a Royal themed baby mobile
Nappies for all occasions!- design nappies suitable for different occasions
STORY TELLING
Nappy pictures- pictures of some of the nappies in the story
Character cards- coloured flash cards of the different characters in the story
Stick puppets- a coloured stick puppet to use when retelling the story
Story sack tag- a tag to add to your story telling sack
Literacy resource pack
This pack contains lots of resources which can be used for literacy and phonics at Key stage 1 and in the Early Years.
Create colourful fun displays, make flashcards, make games and use in your lessons.
The pack includes:
An alphabet line on cute gingerbread men
An alphabet line on cars with multicultural drivers
Play dough mats from A-Z
Alphabet picture posters- each poster has the letter in upper and lower case, an initial sound picture and then lines below for you to add words beginning with that sound- great to use as posters or to make into your own class dictionary
An A4 table top alphabet mat
Phoneme tracing cards
Initial sounds bingo game
Ch, sh, th bingo game
‘My tricky words’ table top mat
A-Z bunting
Phoneme fans
Phoneme picture bunting
Phonemes on washing line clothes
Punctuation posters
CVC flip cards
CVC bingo game
CCVC/ CVCC bingo game
ABC train
Upper case and lower case letters- match the upper case dogs to the lower case bones
A collection of writing border sheets- great to add to your writing area
Sorting pictures- all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme with 2-3 picture cards for each sound- great for displays/ sorting etc
An alphabet line on footballs
Alphabet pencils with lower and upper case letters
Phoneme writing frames
High frequency word bricks for the first 100 words and the next 200 words
A Humpty Dumpty to sit on your word wall
Rhyming word jigsaws
High frequency words on bees
Days of the week poster
Months of the year poster
Phoneme poster
Various alphabet posters
Five CVC posters –one for each vowel
Initial sound cards- write the initial sound next to each picture
Phoneme cards- fill in the missing phoneme on each card
Tricky word stars- all of the tricky words from the Letters and Sounds scheme
Caterpillar Maths and Literacy Games
Caterpillar Maths and Literacy games
A collection of 8 fun games with a cute caterpillar theme for you to print out and play
Literacy games:
1-Cover your caterpillar- Roll the special picture or letter die and cover the letter on your caterpillar. This game can be played to identify initial sounds of pictures or to recognise letters. There are four different version of the game for different letters.
2-Match the CVC word- Choose a caterpillar and a leaf card- if the CVC word matches the picture you keep the pair. How many matching pairs can you find?
3-I spy- A version of Bingo to find the initial letter sound pictures.
4-Find the letter- Spin the Caterpillar spinner and find the letter on your sheet. Will you be the first to trace all of your letters? There are four version of this game for different sets of letters.
Maths games:
1-Make a caterpillar- Roll the special die and add or take away a circle of your caterpillar. Be the first to make your caterpillar but watch out because someone may take a piece of your caterpillar!
2-How many caterpillars- Roll the die and find the number card. Count how many caterpillars you have found on the leaf. The winner is the person who has found the most caterpillars!
3-Add two numbers- Roll two dice and add the numbers together- can you cover all the numbered leaves on your board first?
4-Missing numbers- Be the first to find all the missing numbers on your long caterpillar.
Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials.
Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.
Easter and Spring bumper resource pack- Powerpoint, games, worksheets, activities
A bumper pack of resource for Easter and Spring including:
Photo packs for Easter and spring
Lots of things to make including masks, Easter baskets, puppets and bookmarks
Colouring pages
Easter rhymes and songs with props for singing
Maths resources including activities, worksheets, number lines, matching activities
Literacy resources including worksheets, alphabet lines, phoneme eggs and writing mats
Display materials
Religious resources including a Powerpoint of the Easter story, worksheets and pictures for sequencing and posters
Lots of games and activities
All About Me
ALL ABOUT ME
This collection of worksheets would be great for an end of term activity to make into a book to send up to the new teacher or would be great in September for getting to know your new children.
Would also be great to make quick and easy displays for the new term.
Also great for NQT’s to get to know the children in their class.
These are all activities which have been trialled in schools and used for project books and display work.
The pack contains 20 pages which can be made into a workbook (some sheets have similar ideas on so you could choose the most suitable for your class).
In the pack:
Long colourful banner ‘All About Me’
Workbook cover
All about Me page
My self portrait
My birthday
Design your own t-shirt
My favourite book
I am good at…
I feel happy/ sad when…
I hope to learn…
I like watching…
In my house…
My favourite activities
My favourite animals etc
My friends
My new class
Name cards to make
Shield and guide for filling in the parts
Things I am good at
Trophy page
Great resources for a new term or ‘Ourselves’ topic.
Autumn / Fall Maths and Literacy activity centers
This Maths and Literacy center pack is perfect for Autumn / Fall with themes of leaves, pumpkins etc.
There are 9 centers included- 4 for Maths, and 5 for Literacy.
Repeating patterns- make repeating patterns using the colored Fall themed picture cards and then use the recording sheets to draw your patterns or use on of the three cut and paste sheets to continue the patterns.
Count and clip- count and the Fall pictures up to ten and clip with a paperclip or peg. There is a recording sheet to write the number and fill in a ten frame.
Math match- complete the jigsaws with a number pumpkin, ten frame and tally complete with a recording sheet.
Number ordering- Order the numbered Fall leaves and then complete the recording sheet to cut and stick numbers 1-10 in order or 1-5.
Lower and upper case matching- match the leaves with upper case letters and lower case letters plus a recording sheet to record some of the matches.
Rhyming pumpkins- 24 sets of rhyming pairs with pictures on pumpkins. There are two recording sheets for students to draw their rhyming pairs and four sheets to cut and paste with two difficulties.
Word family sorting- sort the apples onto the trees with word families _at, _en, _ip, _og, _ug, _an. There are three recording sheets each with 2 word families on each to write the words and six recording sheets which each cover a word family for the students to cut and paste the apples.
Initial sounds- Three sets of Fall themed picture cards for students to choose a card and trace the initial sound letter on the apple tree.
Sentence scramble- Six sets of sentence cards to rearrange to make the sentence and a recording sheet for each sentence to cut and paste the words and then copy the sentence.