Preschool English resources

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE OF MICE AND MEN LESSONS, THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided. There is also a fun 'Pointless' Game included, to test your students' knowledge of the text!

This bundle contains a collection of comprehension booklets aimed at year 2. The theme for the booklets is Christmas recipes. The three topics covered are: - The History of Halloween (non-fiction) - A Spooky Poem (poetry) - How to Carve a Pumpkin (instructions) Each booklet is differentiated and based on the KS1 SATs reading paper. PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: - 'Context: The Great Depression' - to aid students with 'Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;' - 'Steinbeck's Description' - to aid students with 'Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;' - 'Curley's Wife' - to aid students with 'Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;' - 'Editing the Play' - to aid students with 'Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.' Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).

These words are taken from the 2012, 2013 + 2016 Phonics Screening Check. Use these words in games to play to support children sorting real and fake words. harrietandviolet.com

This resource contains ideas for creative literacy planning for the madcap story of 'The Wolves in the Walls' by Neil Gaiman. Suitable for Key Stage 1 & Lower Key Stage 2. It contains tried and tested ideas for: - engaging your class in vibrant discussion - applying their ideas to a piece of imaginative and creative writing - illuminating their work with innovative artwork This 'Have you Tried?' resource can form the basis for an outstanding, cross-curricular unit of literacy work. Story synopsis: When the wolves come out of the walls, all manner of mayhem is let loose in Lucy's house. With the help of her stuffed toy pig, Lucy leads the family to reclaim their home from the mischievous wolves in this funny, strange story. For more ideas like this, visit articulateeducation.co.uk

This resource is a comprehension activity for year 2, perfect for using in the run up to Christmas. There are three differentiated sets of instructions on how to make trifle, with differentiated questions. It is based on the KS1 SATs reading paper. There are a range of 'what, ' 'whose' and 'where' questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers. The activity is also laid out in a similar way to the SATs booklets, with four pages of pictures and short written extracts to read and 2-3 questions per page. PDF file format and editable Microsoft Word format included in the price.

A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the 'ng' consonant digraph. Great for one-to-one and intervention use. Includes: ♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket 'n' Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game) ♦ Loop Cards (32 'I have... / Who has...' cards)

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the 'ur' grapheme. It contains... ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable 'real word' slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable 'alien word' slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable 'root word' slides. ♦ Animated, decodable 'syllable' slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the 'ur' grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three 'silly sentences' containing lots of 'ur' words. ♦ A 'How many words can you make...?' silde. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you're not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

Pack of commonly used work and their synonyms for display.

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These posters are an ideal way to scaffold any of my games that target phonemic development. The posters have words and pictures for reference and can be used while playing one of the games. SHORT VOWELS A-E-I-O-U (5 posters) LONG VOWELS ai-ea-ee-ie-oa-ue-ui (7 posters) SHORT and LONG VOWEL Discrimination Poster (a Freebie in my shop) You could also put the posters up in a Literacy Centre to scaffold writing and spelling.

I needed to upgrade this resource so thought I would put it up for whoever else may be able to use it. I use it to scaffold games like Switcheroo and Sort It Donkey. It will be useful whenever you are working on phonemic development.