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Literacy for early years
Mrs Honey's Hat 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- words on decorated cards relating to the story
Large coloured pictures- large character and hat pictures to print out and use on a display
Picture flashcards- cards with the different hat pictures and words
Question cards- questions on decorated cards about the story to use as prompts or to add to a display
Day flash cards- colourful days of the week cards
LITERACY
A4 word card- an A4 word card with words and pictures for the children to use when writing about the story
Alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on different coloured hats
Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area
Label the hat- write the labels for the different things on Mrs Honey’s hat
Speech bubble worksheets- fill in the speech bubbles to show what Mrs Honey is saying
Favourite part if the story- draw and write about your favourite part of the story
Describe the hat- write some sentences to describe Mrs Honey’s hat
Worksheets- worksheets to match words to pictures and write the initial sounds
NUMERACY
Number line- a number line to 50 on colourful hat pieces
Counting worksheets- count the number of objects
Order the days of the week- cut and stick the day cards in order
Size ordering- cut and order the hats by size
Counting cards- count the hats from1-10
Estimation cards- estimate and then count the number of objects on each card
GAMES
Matching pairs- match the pictures to play matching pairs or snap
Picture bingo- cover the different pictures from the story
ACTIVITIES
Face mask- colour and decorate the face masks of Mrs Honey
Make a hat- make a before and after hat by cutting and sticking the different hat pieces
Design a hat-design your own special hat for yourself
Hat outline- a large outline of a blank hat- great for collage work
STORY TELLING
Face mask- a coloured face mask of Mrs Honey to use when retelling the story or making up new stories
Story sack tag- a tag to add to your story telling sack
Story props- large coloured props to use when retelling the story
Matching cards- cards with the day of the week, the people/animal who took something, the things they took and the things they left on the hat
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or products.
Santa's Workshop Christmas role play pack
A great resource pack on CD for you to print out and use to create a bright stimulating role play area for Christmas of Santa's toy workshop.
The pack includes:
Large lettering- Large letters to spell out 'Santa's Workshop', each letter decorated with small pictures of holly
Sign- A 'Santa's workshop' sign decorated with festive pictures
Post box- A large festive Post box printed on 6 A4 sheets- great to stick on the front of a large box so the children can open the door and collect the letters from children each day
Open/ Closed- Signs for your role play area
Number line- A Santa number line to 20- this could be used in the role play area or in any area of the classroom at Christmas time
Alphabet line- An alphabet line on colourful Christmas elves
Display pictures- Pictures of Santa and the reindeers (each with their names) in pretend picture frames
Post area posters- Posters to display in the post area and the packing areas of the role play area
Wrapping area posters- Colourful posters for the wrapping area of your role play area
Sleigh room poster- A large poster saying ‘Sleigh room’ for the children to put their parcels
Shape parcels- Posters of different shaped parcels and a poster asking the children what shape their parcel is
Wrapping paper- Black and white wrapping paper which can be printed out, coloured in and used to wrap the gifts
Face masks- Black and white face masks of Santa and an elf- these could be used in this role play area or for other role play activities at Christmas
Stockings- Colourful stockings to decorate Santa's workshop
Stocking- A black and white stocking outline for the children to decorate and colour
Design sheets- Toy design sheets in black and white for the children to write and draw their toy they will make
Poster- A poster for the children to write or draw the toys that need to be made that day
Window display- A large (4x A4) size snowy window scene to print out and display in the role play area
North Pole poster- A poster saying 'Welcome to the North Pole’ with a cute penguin
Letters to Santa- Various different letter templates to write a letter to Santa
Gift tags- To colour and write
Lists- Decorated list pages to encourage writing in the role play area
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area in your classroom which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes and also use their Art and DT skills.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story sack resources
A great set of resources for the Fairy Tale of ‘Snow White and Seven Dwarfs’ on a handy disk for you to print out and use again and again.
The pack includes:
A large display title- this is decorated with pictures of the Seven Dwarfs
Large characters in colour and black and white- great for creating displays or also great to laminate, add velcro to the back and the children to use to retell the story on a flannel board
Story word cards on apple shapes
A large game to make and play- find the most diamonds in the mine to win
A colourful Snow White themed bingo game
Black and white face masks for the children to decorate and make
Snow White themed dominoes game
Finger puppets to colour and make of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the other characters in the story
Question cards with questions relating to the story- these are great to add to a display
A word mat to help when writing about the story
Photo frames of the seven dwarfs- these look great on a display and would also be great to use as part of a role play area of the Seven Dwarfs house
Fruit and Vegetable shop role play- Greengrocers
This pack can be used to set up a role play area of a Greengrocers or can be used as part of a topic on Fruit and Vegetables or Healthy Eating
The pack includes:
Large (A4 sized) coloured and black and white fruit and veg pictures,
A large (4 times A4) poster to put together of different fruit with their names and another poster showing different vegetables and their names,
A5 sized cards showing the fruit and veg 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,
Topic cards with the name and pictures of the different fruit and vegetables
4 different Greengrocer hats to make to use in the role play
A large title 'Greengrocers' to cut out with each letter decorated with fruit and veg pictures (also included in the pack is a similar large title of 'Fruit and Vegetables' which is great for use on a large display board)
Plus lots more!
Rumble in the Jungle story sack resources
The pack includes:
A colourful display title
Lovely colour face masks of each of the jungle animals in the book
Black and white face masks of the animals for children to colour/ decorate/ collage etc
An A4 information sheet about each animal with interesting facts
Animal jigsaws to cut out and reassemble of an elephant, giraffe, zebra and crocodile
Word labels of different animal parts-great for discussion and writing
A display border of leaves-these can be printed as many times as you like to border a display of any size
A5 cards showing some of the patterns from the animals
An A4 word card with pictures of each of the animals on-this can be used for writing or maybe when reading the book to spot the animals
A display page with the title, author and illustrator on
A colourful bingo game for up to 5 players with a special jungle die to cut out and make
An A4 sized work border- great for displaying the childrens work quickly
Worksheets to cut out and label the parts of some animals-elephant, giraffe and zebra
Matching pairs game with pictures of the animals-this could also be used to make a snap game or many other different uses
Word related to the story-great for display and writing ideas
Worksheets to match animal pictures to their names and a worksheet to design their own jungle animal
The Shopping Basket - story resource pack
A bumper resource pack for the popular story ‘The Shopping Basket’ by John Burningham
The pack includes:
DISPLAY
Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display
Display border- a colourful display border to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Word cards- words on shopping baskets relating to the story
Word and picture flashcards- coloured pictures of each of the animals and foods in the story and the words
Shopping and animal posters- A4 posters with each animal and food on with the name
LITERACY
A4 word card- an A4 word card with words and pictures for the children to use when writing about the story
Shopping alphabet- a lovely alphabet line on the different foods in the shopping basket
Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area
Speech bubble worksheets- fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying
Writing worksheet- write about the different animals in the story
Shopping list worksheet- label the different items in the shopping basket
Favourite part of the story- draw and write about your favourite part of the story
MATHS
Basket number line- a number line to 50 on shopping baskets
Counting cards- count the objects from 1-10
Size ordering worksheets- order the character props by size- in colour and also black and white
Counting worksheets- count the number of items in each shopping basket
Number worksheet- draw the correct number of foods
GAMES
Picture bingo- collect the characters and foods for your bingo board
Matching pairs- find the picture matching pairs
Number dominoes- a colourful domino game to make and play
Shopping game- collect the different foods needed for your shopping basket by spinning the spinner
ART & CRAFT
Picture jigsaws- cut out and reassemble the jigsaws of the different characters
Tracing sheets
Stick puppets
Face masks
Play dough mats- make the correct number of items in each shopping basket
Matching worksheet- match each character to the correct food
Colouring
Make a 3D basket- cut out and make a shopping basket
Drawing worksheet
STORY TELLING
Sequence pictures
Face masks
Stick puppets- coloured stick puppets to use when retelling the story
Large character and food pictures to match
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or product
Cafe role play pack- restaurant, coffee shop
A bumper pack with lots of posters, banners and pictures to set up a role play area of a Cafe
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2
The pack includes:
A large banner with ‘Cafe’, decorated with food pictures
A large banner with ‘Restaurant’, decorated with food pictures
Large coloured pictures of different food to buy and the crockery to use
A colourful drinks poster
A large colourful food poster
Hats to make for the staff to wear
Name badges to make for the staff to wear
A colourful poster with space for you to add the price of the food- this enables you to price it according to the ability of the children
Sandwich filling labels, drinks labels and food labels
A large colourful sandwich filling poster
An open and closed sign for you cafe with pictures of food on
Opening times posters for you cafe
A sandwich filling order form with pictures of the different sandwich types and fillings available
A colour and black and white menu for your cafe
Order forms in colour and black and white for the cafe
Decorated notes and messages paper to encourage writing in the role play area
Funnybones story sack resources
A great resource pack for you to print out for the story 'Funnybones' - great for use with the Funnybones story and also when teaching the topic 'Ourselves' or 'Halloween'.
The resources include:
Display banner- Large display title 'Funnybones' with a bone patterned border
Display border- A display border of bones- this can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Character pictures- posters of the different characters in the story
Make a moving Funnybones skeleton- A moving skeleton of the big skeleton in the Funnybones story to make- the pieces need to be fixed together using split pins
Make a moving skeleton- A moving skeleton to make with the bones in our bodies- this is more suited to older children and is best printed and made in A3 size
Body part label flash cards- Labels of the different bones in the body
Large display skeleton- A large (nearly 4x A4 size) picture of the skeleton- ones with labels of the bones and one without
Word cards- Story words related to the story of 'Funnybones' - each card has drawings of characters from the story
Story telling face masks- Face masks to make of the characters- these are great for retelling the story and also making up different stories
Bone number line- A number line to 50 with the numbers on bones
Song and rhyme posters- Songs and rhymes related to bones and skeletons
Writing paper- An A4 sized page border- great for quickly displaying the childrens work or pictures or using for writing activities
Story question cards- Question cards with questions related to the story of 'Funnybones'
A game to make and play- A game to build your own Funnybones skeleton the first
Writing mat- An A4 word mat- great for writing about the story or for display in the writing area
Bakery role play pack + Five Currant Buns number rhyme pack
A bumper pack full of posters, signs, flashcards, pictures and writing opportunites to set up a role play area of a Bakery.
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2 enabling you to print out the resources again and again.
The pack includes:
· A long colourful banner for the Bakery
· Posters for the bakery to add names to which show who the bakers are that day
· A number line to 20 on various bakery products
· A decorated open and closed sign for your bakery
· Opening times posters- one with times already added and one to add your own opening times
· Posters including ‘queue here’ and ‘Beware hot oven’
· Flashcards of different products for sale in the bakery with words and pictures
· Small word and picture signs to add to the products for sale
· Large colour pictures of different products for sale
· Large black and white images- great for art work
· Large lettering ‘Bakery’ decorated with images of bakery goods
· A colourful Gingerbread man alphabet line
· A number line to 100 on colourful cupcakes
· Bread posters showing different breads for sale etc
· Birthday cake posters showing different choices
· Equipment and ingredients posters
· Price cards with space to add the price or write your own price according to the ability and age of the children
· Special offer posters
· Wedding cake posters
· Colour photo posters with images of bakery displays and goods in a bakery
· Hats to make- 3 different colourful designs and a black hat to design your own
· A ‘Remember to wash your hands’ poster
· Name badges- colourful badges to write the staff names on
Opportunities for writing and mark making:
· A birthday cake order form
· Ingredients order form
· A colour and black and white customer order form with all of the bakery goods
· Decorated shopping lists
· Wedding cake order forms
· Decorated phone messages and note paper
· Blank special offer posters for you to write the offers for that day
· Decorated receipts to write
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area in your setting which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes.
Jungle Explorers role play pack
Jungle Explorers role play pack
This role play works particularly well in the outside are but can be used indoors too to create a colourful and stimulating role play area.
Resources include:
Coloured pictures of jungle animals for the children to find
Black and white pictures of the animals so the children can colour or collage them
Badge for the jungle explorers to wear
Identity badges for the explorers
Word and picture cards showing some of the kit the explorers will need
Check lists and forms to fill in to check the kit
Check lists, forms, sketch books etc for the explorers to fill in when they have found some jungle animals
Animal footprints- print out and leave trails for the children to find and follow
A large A-Z alphabet with each letter decorated with animal patterns
Number up to 50 on leaves- great to use if you are creating the role play area indoors
Colour photographs of some jungle animals
Pet shop role play pack
A bumper pack with lots of forms, signs and pictures to set up a role play area of a Pet Shop
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 resources would also be great for parents or child-minders to create their own role play area at home and for nurseries and playgroups.
The pack includes:
Large letters to spell ‘Pet Shop’ -each letter is decorated with small pictures of items for sale in the pet shop,
A ‘Pet Shop’ banner with small pictures of animal accessories and food etc,
Large colour pictures of the pets and pet accessories for sale such as dog collars, food bowls, animal tanks etc,
Large black and white pictures of the pets and pet accessories for sale in the shop -great for art work or collage work,
Posters decorated with small pictures of animal related items- open/ closed, opening times plus a blank opening times poster for you to fill in your own opening times,
Posters advertising the pet accessories suggesting what you will need to buy for each pet and with special offers,
Smaller posters for each pet with a list of accessories needed for that pet,
Animal signs,
Leaflets to print in colour or black and white with information about keeping that pet,
Lots of forms to encourage writing such as order forms, telephone messages, animal cleaning tick list, animal feeding tick lists, jobs to do,
A number line to 30 on paw prints,
Posters advertising dog training sessions, dog groomers etc,
Food packets to cut out and assemble and labels to stick onto tins and packets to make them into ‘dog food’ or ‘cat food’ etc
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
Sneezy the Snowman activity pack
Sneezy the Snowman is a class favourite book for the Winter.
The activities in this unit include:
Sequencing cards in colour to help teach the children sequencing and story retelling. These can be used in a pocket chart or can be put in a center.
Graphic organizers for character traits, summarizing the story and writing about the story parts.
Writing activities including writing about favourite parts of the story, writing three sentences about Sneezy, Write a list of things to keep Sneezy away from etc
A story sequence sheet to cut and paste pictures.
Cause and effect- fill in the missing boxes on one sheet and draw the effects on the other sheet.
A comprehension worksheet.
If I were a snowman sheet- a fun worksheet for children to design a snowman, name him and think of some things the snowman might like to do and eat.
Instructional writing- write four steps to building a snowman plus a worksheet where children could draw four stages of building a snowman.
Label Sneezy- two worksheets one with the words provided and one without.
Sneezy adjectives worksheet.
What made Sneezy melt? Draw the different things that made Sneezy melt in the story.
Craftivity with writing activity.
CVC resource pack- games, worksheets etc- Letters and Sounds, phonics, spelling
A great pack with lots of files for literacy for you to print off and use
This pack would be great to use with the Letters and Sounds phonics scheme or with other phonics schemes to use in your teaching and for the children to use independently and in groups.
Included in the pack are:
Flash cards in colour and black and white with the picture and word and just with words or just pictures,
Flash cards with space to write the word underneath (when laminated these can be used with dry-wipe pens),
Flash cards with the letters than can be hidden so children can say what the initial, medial or end sound is,
Bingo games with the different medial sounds and a mixture of medial sounds,
Large vowel and alphabet cards for the children to hold to make CVC words,
Loop game card sets,
Word wheels,
Matching pairs game,
dominoes,
Board games to make and play,
Spelling worksheets,
Reading worksheets
Plus lots more!
Early Years Literacy pack- phonics, alphabet, Letters and Sounds
Bumper Literacy resource on CD for the Early Years
A great pack on a handy disk to print out and use in any Early Years setting
The pack includes:
A colourful alphabet tracing card with letters to trace and the initial sound pictures around the edge
An initial sound alphabet bingo game to make and play
The first 100 High Frequency words from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful bricks
The next 200 High Frequency words from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful bricks
CVC cards with pictures and spaces for the letters so children can choose the correct letter cards to spell the words
Flash cards with missing letters for children to identify the missing sound- CVC, CCVC and CVCC cards
Alphabet fans with a letter of the alphabet on each piece- choose letters the children are learning to make up your own fans to use in your teaching
All of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on bees, a set on colourful butterflies and a set on transport pictures
Phoneme flash cards each with the phoneme and a picture
A4 desk cards with the letters of the alphabet and corresponding initial sound pictures
A4 desk card with all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme and the corresponding pictures
Alphabet lines on colourful parrots, a set on boats, a set on flowers and a set on frogs
Alphabet tracing cards- each card has the upper and lower case letters and an intial sound picture in colour
The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas story sack resources
This pack is designed to be used with the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Christmas’
Display resources
· Display banner
· Story word cards- great to add to a display or use in the writing area
· Display border
· Title poster
· Picture flashcards- Flashcards with words and pictures of the characters and props in the story
· Story questions- colourful cards for a display with questions about the story
· Large lighthouse- a large Christmas decorated lighthouse to print out- prints over several pages
· Animal photos- colour photos of some of the sea animals seen in the book
· Story sea photos- a collection of photos of stormy seas, lighthouses and snow storms- great for displays and for inspiration for art work
Role play/ story props
· Colour face masks- of thecharacters in the story- great to use for retelling the story or for making up new stories
· Colour puppets- make your ownstick puppets of the characters in the story to retell the story or make up your own stories
· Lighthouse role play ideas- ideas for setting up a role play area of alighthouse in your classroom
Literacy
· An A4 word card with pictures- great to use when writing about the story
· Speech bubbles worksheets- worksheets for children to fill in the speech bubbles and then colour the picture
· Letter to Father Christmas- write a letter to tell Father Christmas where theywill be for Christmas
· Alphabet line- a colourful alphabet line on Christmas bunting
· Christmas list worksheet- write your own or George’s Christmas list
· Menu- write a menu for Christmas dinner
· Lighthouse jobs worksheet- write the different jobs which the Lighthouse Keeper needs to do
· Book review- a worksheet to write a book review about the story
· Acrostic poem worksheet- write a Christmas acrostic poem
· Character worksheets- various worksheets to write and draw about the different characters in the story
· Word searches- 2 different word searches
· Writing pages- various themed black and white pages to use for writing about the story or in the writing area
· Match words to pictures- various worksheets to match words to pictures and fill in the initial letters
Numeracy
· A number line- A number line to 50 on colourful Christmas presents
· Dot to dots- worksheets to join the dots on the lighthouses and seagulls
· Colour by numbers- colour the scenes using the number key
· Missing number worksheets- various worksheets to fill in the missing numbers on the lighthouses
· Order size worksheet- cut out and order the Christmas trees in size order
· Count the decorations worksheet- count the different decorations on the Christmas tree
· Countingcards- count the number of decorations on each Christmas tree
CVC snowmen activity- phonics, spelling, winter, snow
A set of 30 snowmen to make to spell CVC words.
There are 6 snowmen for each middle sound.
Great for phonics activities during winter and the snowy weather.
Garage role play pack- car wash, petrol station
The pack includes:
Banners and A4 sized posters (with pictures) for a garage, a car wash and a petrol station
Signs and pictures for each of the role play areas of different things which could be found in them such as petrol pump, spanner and sponge and bucket
Large A4 size pictures of the different items as above
General signs for each of the areas such as price signs, signs for where to take your car for an MOT, a no-smoking sign, signs to tell the customers where to pay etc
Lots of different forms and notes to encourage writing in the role play areas
Opening times with pictures for each of the areas and an OPEN/CLOSED sign for each 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
The Jolly Postman story resource pack
A resource pack for the story ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. This engaging Literacy pack includes worksheets, display materials, games and crafts.
Also available is the resource pack for ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’
The pack includes:
Two Large display banners: ‘The Jolly Postman’ and also ‘The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters’ with a picture of the postman and lots of letters
A display border with pictures of letters and the Jolly Postman-this can be printed as many times as you need to border a display of any size
Drawings of the characters in the book such as the Jolly Postman and his bike, the Three Bears, the Wicked Witch, Cinderella etc (these are not printed from the book but have been drawn by myself)- these are in black and white and colour and are great for story telling and displays
Templates for writing different letters to the characters with black and white pictures and without pictures, templates for postcards, airmail letters and birthday cards
Masks of the characters in the story- these are provided in colour and black and white- great for retelling the story or for making up their own story
Worksheets for Numeracy, Literacy and general work- some of these are differentiated or can be used as templates for you to put your own sums on
Story word cards each with a picture of the Jolly Postman- these look good on displays or can be used in the writing area of your classroom to help when writing about the story
An A4 word card with words and pictures relating to the story
A4 poster with some nursery rhymes and pictures on
Question cards with questions relating to the story and a picture of the Jolly Postman and his bike-these are great to add to a display to encourage the children to think more about the story
A game relating to the story- deliver the letters from your sack the quickest to win the game
A colourful bingo game with pictures of the different characters and letters and parcels
A colourful matching pairs game
Counting cards up to 20
Large number line pictures with the numbers up to 20
Individual number lines up to 10 and 20 with the numbers written on letters
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the author or publisher of the story or any related stories or products.
Little Red Riding Hood story sack resources
The pack includes:
Large characters and story props pictures- great for displays or for laminating and adding velcro to the back so they can be used on flannel boards for retelling
Story word cards- great for displays or encouraging writing
Black and white pictures of the characters and story props for the children to colour
Black and white and colour face masks of Little Red Riding Hood, the Woodcutter, the Wolf, Grandma and the wolf in Grandma’s hat- great for retelling the story and for use in the outdoor area,
Woodland nature spotting cards
A basket to cut out and make (in black and white to colour and assemble)
Coloured pictures of gifts for Grandma
Word and picture cards of the gifts for Grandma
Finger puppets to make and use for retelling the story-a great addition to your story sack
A food collecting game- collect the items to fill your basket first
Plus many other resources.
We're Going on a Bear Hunt- book companion plus sequencing and prepositions
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen is a lovely classic book which children love!
This pack has a variety of activities for your children to use:
Large color and black line sequence pictures- these can be printed smaller for different uses or kept large for bulletin boards
Bear prepositon cards showing the bear in different places
Graphic organizers- two versions
An emergent reader book- this is an interactive book for the children to place a toy figure in the correct prepositional spot on each page or to draw themselves on each page
Label the bear- two versions for the children to copy the words in the correct boxes or to write the label in the way of the author
Rhyming word literacy center- match the rhyming word cards or the word and picture cards. Recording sheet also included
Story retelling sheets- two versions for children to draw the missing parts of the map or to cut and paste the sequence pictures in order
True or False- color the statements about the story
What do you find in the cave- a drawing and writing activity
What happens next- draw and write
Write three sentences about the bear