I am a fully qualified primary teacher who has experience of teaching in both the private and state sectors in Scotland, London and Tokyo.
All of my resources have been tried and tested in classrooms, and I am passionate about making learning as enjoyable and engaging as possible for children.
I am a fully qualified primary teacher who has experience of teaching in both the private and state sectors in Scotland, London and Tokyo.
All of my resources have been tried and tested in classrooms, and I am passionate about making learning as enjoyable and engaging as possible for children.
The 7x table can be a real ‘tricky’ for children, so these rhyming flashcards were made to try and help the number facts to stick!
These cards can be used as a visual aid or they could be cut into flashcards to create an ordering activity.
The perfect introduction into speech marks, this Powerpoint presentation includes:
a definition of speech marks
rules that apply when using speech marks
opportunities for children to practice writing using speech marks
challenge slides encouraging children to look for common mistakes that are made when speech marks are being used.
A great pre-writing game to help your pupils to explore synonyms for the word ‘said’. Also useful for EAL learners!
This resource includes:
4 bingo boards
1 set of synonym cards
Ideal for group work.
For classrooms who are familiar with the Pie Corbett ‘story mountain’, this resource focuses on the ‘problem’ section of a creative story.
This Powerpoint teaches children about three specific types of problem that they can use in their story:
1 versus 2: In at number 1 is the “1 versus 2” problem type. A “1 versus 2” problem is when one character creates a problem for another character. Perhaps one character hurts another character’s feelings or does something deliberately to upset the other.
Arguing with your shadow: This type of problem is when the main character creates a problem for themselves. They may make a wrong or bad decision, or do something that affects their chances of success.
Can’t be helped!: Last but not least, this type of problem occurs when an uncontrollable factor causes a problem for the characters in the story. A thunder storm ruining a picnic, a broken car resulting in a family party being missed or a nasty bug putting a dampener on a holiday – no one is to blame for this type of problem.
The Powerpoint also includes:
illustrations from popular children’s films, where children need to identify the type of problem that takes place
an activity ideal for independent or group work, where children need to use pictures to discuss or write what is happening, followed by a problem based on one of the strategies they have learned.
This handy resources (pun intended) is a great way to teach reading strategies to your pupils. Useful to have at hand (I can’t stop) during reading time, where you can choose one strategy to focus on,
Strategies included:
1.”Robot talk” the tricky word – encourages speedy readers to slow down and chunk up tricky words.( It’s also quite amusing to have a classroom full of Daleks).
2.”Look at the picture for clues” – don’t rely on others to tell you the answer! This is a good strategy for encouraging independent reading.
3.”Slowly stretch out the tricky word” – again, encourages speedy readers to really slow down. Can also help teachers see if there are any phonics issues.
4.”Skip the word and try again at the end of the sentence” – it’s ok not to get it first time! Sometimes by reading to the end of the sentence, children will be able to have a solid guess at the meaning of the word based on the context of the story.
“Does the word make sense?” – stop for breath. Take a minute. Does that word fit into the sentence/story?
A fantastic resource for children who need to brush up on their knowledge of the first 100 common words.
Rules of the game:
Cut the words into strips and place them in a box.
One at a time children need to select a strip, take a HUGE deep breath and see how quickly they can read all of the words on the strip
Why not link this game to Maths and ask children to work in pairs, one child reading while another another child times their partner using a stop watch.
Easily adaptable for spelling words of the week and a simple and easy assessment tool.
A super resource encouraging children to use characters’ personality and appearance.
This presentation includes:
personality word bank
appearance word bank
popular children’s tv and film characters as examples
practical activities for children to complete either as a class, in groups or independently
sets an independent activity to help children apply their knowledge
This greater than less than poster and game is ideal for KS1 SATS revision!
A handy rhyming poster to help children get to grips with the < > symbols
How to play the game:
Cut the numbers and symbols into flashcards and ask the children to make their own number sentences.
Children can then read aloud their sentence to see if it makes sense.
If correct, ‘feed’ them to the crocodile (normally the teacher!) and try a new number sentence
This game has been differentiated three ways, making it ideal for all children in your class!
Level 1 - halves and quarters
Level 2 - halves, thirds, quarters, sixths
Level 3 - halves, thirds, quarters, sixths and eighths
Rules of the game:
Take it in turns to roll the fraction dice (also included in the pack, but feel free to save the trees and use your own dice!) then use the tasting toppings to cover the correct fraction of pizza.
The winner is the person who manages to ‘top’ all of their pizzas first.
A Maths assessment focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Encourages children to highlight key information and show their working
Involves numbers to 100 as well as addition with carrying and subtraction with decomposition
Mr Men themed!
A ‘one stop shop’ resource to help your children add more detail to their writing.
This resource includes:
A poster outlining the 5 W’s that can be used to add detail - who, what, when, where, why
Flashcards showing the 5 W’s
A set of simple sentences that children need to stretch out using the 5 W’s. Can be cut into flashcards and made into a simple game ideal for group work
A writing frame to encourage children to use all 5 W’s to stretch a sentence.
A series of 7 English lessons ideal for children in KS1/2. These lessons can be used as a Powerpoint for online learning, or they can be printed and used for home schooling. Each lesson lasts for approximately 1 hour and this pack covers the following areas:
Reading comprehension
Story writing
Character description
Adjectives and adverbs
Connectives
Similes
‘wow’ words
How to stretch a sentence
Grammar - how to use commas
The pack includes a number of games:
Adjective ‘guess my monster’ game
Said synonym matching game
weather simile game
The pack also includes some printable visual aids to help with independent learning:
Story mountain
Emotions vocabulary poster
Stretch a sentence poster
These reading challenges can be printed and cut into flashcards. They focus on:
Comprehension
Writing
Grammar
Ideal for use after each chapter of a book!
A series of 5 Maths lesson, each focusing on a different skill:
Place value HTO
Doubles
Odd and even numbers
HTO column addition
Addition with carrying/word problems
These lesson can be taught online using Powerpoint, completed at home on the computer or can be printed off.
Each lesson has a teacher input section, interactive games and independent work.
An ideal resource for an introduction into making inferences, this resources includes:
A definition of what inferential questions are
A selection of scenes from classic Disney films, with comprehension questions that require children to make inferences about what they can see or what they already know about the characters, plot etc.
A super introduction into reading comprehension
Can be used as a whole class, group or individual activity
A series of 5 writing and comprehension lessons that can either be printed or used online.
The lessons include:
“Say it, don’t show it” emotions
Cartoon strip story writing
Guess the story setting
Shades of meaning vocabulary
Adverb game
“Beat the teacher” story writing challenge
Character personality and appearance
Ideal for use in KS1, this interactive Powerpoint helps children to count in 3s from 0 - 30.
Slides include:
Counting forwards and backwards from a given number
Finding the missing number in a sequence
Ordering numbers correctly