**Talk for Writing story map and adapted text for the traditional tale, ‘Jack and Beanstalk’. ** The resource includes Imitation resources Hook ideas List of story genres + examples Introduction into fairytales with activities Imitation PPT including story maps Likes, dislikes, puzzles and pattens reading response PPT to support exploring and building narrative characters Unit focus: characterisation + activities Lesson ideas for the book ‘Inside the villians’ + ‘I am…’ poem Wanted poster description -Story structure - ‘S’ Planner template Vocabulary cards ready to print (includes key story language) Innovation resources Innovating the characters/settings through substitution Templates Story map with ‘post-it’ notes

Talk for writing model text for a ‘wombat’ information report Includes a hook using ‘Diary of a Wombat’ text, a text map, teacher notes, warm up games, sequencing texts and innovation ideas

Talk for Writing - The Teacher Pleaser Machine by Pie Corbett (adapted for a Grade 1/2 class) This resources includes PPTs of lesson ideas and story map It goes through the different stages of Talk for Writing: Imitation (including story map), Innovation and Independent application. Language focus: causal conjunctions (lots of tuning in games which can be played as lesson starters) There are also some slides explaining how to use rhetorical questions and the importance of chronological order (using sentence signposts).

Unit of work based on Marc Martin’s book, ‘A River’ Text adapted for a 1-2 class Includes model text and a story map Focus: Setting descriptions (Australian themed) Lesson PPTs on similes and prepositions 5 Sentence Story PPT

Talk for Writing NF Unit - Stone Soup Created for a Grade 1-2 class Non Fiction: Instructional writing Includes Text map + adapted text Prediction/story craft activity PPT What are the features of an instructional text? spot the difference / fill the gap activities / toolkit PPTS on imperative (bossy verbs), ideas for innovation

Story map for the dreamtime story, ‘Tiddalik the Frog’ along with some PPTs to support writing a character description and sequencing a text (beginning, middle and end).

Slides to accompany an art project on Hundertwasser Window right activity 6 features of Hundertwasser Created for a 1-2 class

A lesson linked to Tony Ross’s story, ‘The Centipede’s Shoes’ Learning intentions: To build number fluency by using the number naming system to read, write and represent numbers. To use our knowledge of place value to partition to 100.

A selection of inquiry questions suitable for Year 1-2s to explore as a whole class/in groups. These are open ended to provoke discussion and further investigation. Topics covered: shape, chance, counting patterns, data, length, money, operations and time Australian themed

Year 1 and 2 - Science Big idea: Living Things have similar basic needs. Students learn to identify how living things meet their needs in the places they live. Related Aus Content descriptors - AC9S1U01/AC9S1102 We are learning to: Identify the places where plants and animals live and the features of the place that enable it to meet bees needs. Identify comparing the needs of a variety of different types of living things. Follow safe procedures to make and record observations. We can: Describe the features of the place where bees live. Explain how the place where the bees live, provides air, water, food or shelter to meet the needs of the bees. Safely conduct the honey making experiment. Key vocabulary: pollination, food, nectat, pollen, flowers, fruit, veegtables Lessons linked to World Bee Day: Inquiry - What is a bee? What is the function of a bee’s different body parts? Let’s make honey experiment! Bee hotel designs

A mini unit for 1-2s all about why and how we use punctuation marks in our writing Includes Kung Fu punctuation, sentence snakes and proper noun activities

1-2 Unit on Weather Poetry Includes lots of short burst poetry lessons ready to go Acrostic and shape poems Cloud, rain and thunderstorm poetry a lesson on rainbows

Collection of PPTs used after reading the story, ‘The Lighthouse Keeeper’s Lunch’ Includes: Activating prior knowledge and prediction making activities Adapted story Lesson unpicking vocabularly from the text (e.g. industrious, concocting, scavenging) Summary lesson Character description resources Inquiry session into what is a synonym - understanding and application Pocket poem (In Mrs Grinling’s apron…) Created for a 1-2 class

PPT to support the book, ‘Hey Little Ant’

Quick maths game

Created for 1-2s

Real life pictures used for daily maths talk Some example responses from Y1-2 students

How can we work mathematically? A PPT to support new teachers to understand the proficiencies. Examples of what this ‘looks like’ for Year 1 and 2 for understanding, fluency, reasoning and problem solving.

Created for a Y1-2 number assessment