Experienced Primary School teacher of 30 years. Worked across KS1/2.
- child friendly worksheets and resources to cover all areas of the curriculum
- specialise in language and writing
- established child author
- Gold TES Author
- Shortlisted for the Bev Evans Award 2017
Experienced Primary School teacher of 30 years. Worked across KS1/2.
- child friendly worksheets and resources to cover all areas of the curriculum
- specialise in language and writing
- established child author
- Gold TES Author
- Shortlisted for the Bev Evans Award 2017
A 20 page resource and a powerpoint display based on SPaG statutory requirements introducing question marks, full stops and commas.
Theme Autumn
Display sheets for classroom SPag Noticeboard definitions and useful words to use.
11 question sheets for children to answer, these could be used individually or as a homework workbook.
A great resource for guided reading for KS1/2 and lower KS3. Can be printed out as individual worksheets and as display sheets. Also included is powerpoint presentation.
Fact sheets on J.K.Rowlings life can be printed out and put up on reading board.
Timeline regarding publication of books.
Suggested follow on activities.
A great resource for guided reading and anyone studying Harry Potter.
Edited and corrected.
A complete unit of 30 pages with a variety of Book Review worksheets for Key stage 1. May also be useful for low ability Key stage 2 and SEN. Incorporating writing and drawing on Fact and Fiction books.
Also a powerpoint presentation for classroom use. feel free to adapt slides to suit pupil's abilities. This resource will be useful for a composite class or a mixed ability class as it is differentiated.
Many teachers in both KS1 and KS2 have children who are reluctant to write. These children often require prompts. This 20 page printable resource is in black and white. It has the prompt and 5/6 lines for the children to write on. It includes imaginative, descriptive, diary entries, news reports, book reviews, and creative writing prompts.
I would suggest Ks1 and low ability groups in KS2.
I have also included a powerpoint presentation for use in the classroom for modelled writing.
24 Literacy tasks cards for KS1 or SEN children.
These can be printed, cut and laminated.
Introducing children to question words:- how, what, where, when, who
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A set of workbooks to celebrate 100 years of Roald Dahl's fabulous literature.
Workbook 1 Roald Dahl fantastic facts
Workbook 2 BFG workbook writing and drawing tasks
Workbook 3 A set of book reviews
Workbook 4 a fun quiz on all Dahl books
A 24 page resource themed on Hallowe'en.
Literacy based. Children are expected to generate writing words to match the pictures. They must find nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. They then need to use these words in sentences which they will create themselves. Each worksheet can be printed out individually or as a whole workbook.
This resource is suitable for Key Stage 1 and less able Key Stage 2
This bundle consists of 5 workbooks to use with the children. There is a growth mindset story pack, a British Values workbook, Citizenship looking at the lives of Martin Luther King and Florence Nightingale.There is also a booklet for the children to complete about themselves which would be good for the start of the new term.
This is for KS1 or low ability KS2
Winter Theme of 25 black and white slides
6 SPAG displays for working wall
15 pupil worksheets
3 vocabulary sheets
A SPAG Tick Checklist
Looking closely at Newspapers. A fun way to introduce children to newspaper terminology, headlines, advertisements, fonts, pictures. The PDF file consists of 20 tasks skimming and searching through the various pages of a newspaper to complete a task by cutting and sticking and writing and drawing. Each child requires a newspaper or perhaps this could also be done in pairs. Suitable for KS1 or slow learners in KS2. An editable powerpoint presentation is also included.
A grest resource for Spring Term. A bundle of 5 different workbooks for KS1 consisting of PDF files and powerpoint presentations.
Mental arithmetic tasks, Story Prompts, Science Life cycles of the frog and butterfly. Writing Spring sentences, questions and answers.
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A bundle of 7 summer workbooks including poetry, reading, story starts, comprehension and numeracy. These are suitable for KS1 and 2 children , they can be printed out as complete workbooks or used as individual pages for differentiation. Save 69% when you buy these all together.
Another original short story written by me in a child friendly vocabulary set in 1895, Jayne, the young lady of the house is attending a ball in the manor and waiting patiently for a young suiter to appear. There are various characters in the story and this could be used as an introduction to a long novel, Shakespearian or Dickensian literature in preparation for Grammar/ Secondary school. There are pages to read and discuss so I have included a powerpoint presentation followed by comprehension questions, writing activities and drawing conclusions. There is dictionary work and internet research.
Doing a Project on the Seaside? This is a great bundle for you?Original story prompts and poetry prompts written by myself, shortlisted for a 2017 award and a published writer and poet. The other two workbooks are about children visiting the seaside for the day. Includes grammar, descriptive writing, poetry and numeracy. 25% off when you buy this bundle.
This is the third in the series of My Colour Books for Early years and KS1 children. It is themed for Summer with colourful graphics. The tasks are to complete sentences using the correct colours, visual awareness is important and recognition of colours essential. There are also two wordmaps which could be laminated one on Seaside words and one on colours. These could be used as aids for writing ecxercises. The children will also be asked to complete some reading activities putting in a missing colour word, this will test understanding of what has been read. This can also be bought as part of a bundle.
Five workbooks for transition days looking at School Rules, All about me, My Family, and Setting Targets. Can be used for display in the classroom, for discussion and getting to know you activities.
An original story of Noah and the Ark written by me in child friendly vocabulary. There are 8 parts to the story which the children can read, highlighting new wordsfor dictionary work. These are followed by worksheets for descriptive writing, poetry writing, PHSE I Promise to..., converstional writing, drawing activities, searching for adjectives, animal gender and noises. It can be printed out as a complete workbook or as individual sheets, can be linked to RE or an animal topic or a topic like God's Promises. good for differentation and SEN children.
Are you ever stuck for ideas to help promote the learning of spellings? This 20 page PDF file consists of a variety of activities children will enjoy doing to help them learn their spellings. They are suitable activities for the entire primary school. The file can be printed out and each page laminated to use in class. Once laminated they will last forever. The activities provide fun things to do for the children.
Activities include alphabetical order, vowels and consonants, writing silly sentences with spelling words, creating pictures with hidden words, creating word searches, computer activities, sentence construction, story and poetry writing, games, opposites and rhyming words. I have used many of these in my own teaching and the children loved them.