Preschool English resources

Have your students create text conversations. This resource comes with and without the phone background, as well as in gray/blue & gray/white layouts.

Have your students draw pictures that represent themselves as phone apps. This resource comes in 3 styles: With title Without title Blank phone You can provide specific criteria to your students or just allow them to draw whatever they like.

This ready-to-use digital Boggle game. You can pick your own letters by editing this handout with Google Slides. Your students are able to then play Boggle right on Google Slides. Additionally, you can print these Boggle templates. Have your students write in the boxes all the words they can find. Included is 4 versions of Boggle; 5x5, 4x4, 3x3, 2x2 grids. Each version comes with a pre-filled sample as well as a printable blank version.

Whether you are in a 1 to 1 classroom or have access to Chromebooks, laptops or iPads, this resource is a great way to have your students create a comic. Go paperless with this digital editable Google Slides. This resource includes 15 different blank comic book layouts. You can have the students print out their comic book once they finalize their digital version, as the resource is set to 8.5 x 11 paper size. Or you can pre-print the blank layouts with the included PDF and have the students draw on a paper copy. The choice is yours! WHY USE COMIC STRIPS? Another option for projects Allows for a lot of creativity Uses a familiar format Can incorporate both visual and written information Improve narrative writing skills It’s fun! INTEGRATING IT INTO YOUR CLASSROOM Illustrate a concept from class, such as a property of science Retell a story or a portion of a story they have read for class Re-enact a famous scene from history Students can tell about themselves with an autobiographical comic. Students can make a comic that uses vocabulary words for that week.

oi sound pictures for display, book picture and multiple choice reading activity

For every sound that I teach I put the book pictures in their phonics book to use for spellings and sentences. Then I use the reading activity to assess if they can use that sound to read. They read real and fake words to try and find the correct word.

6 weeks of 10 spelling words for MA and HA, covers spelling rules; i_e, ie, a_e, igh, u_e and ea.

This resource is great to have your students look at and review current events. This resource is a 4 page graphic organizer. The included 4 pages are as follows: Current Events Your Opinion Summary Where you stand This resource comes in a printable PDF as well as an editable Google Slide. You can print it out and provide the organizers to your students, or allow them to make a copy and fill it in digitally.

Whether you are in a 1 to 1 classroom or have access to Chromebooks, laptops or iPads, this resource is a great way to implement a book report in your classroom. Go paperless with this digital editable Google Slides. This can be used independently or as a collaborative project for novel study/book study groups. This digital book report covers visuals (the book cover), main characters, setting of the book, book summary, favourite part, a change that the student wants to see in the book and a rating of the book. Each slide comes with instructions for your students. You can have the students print out their digital book report as the resource is set to 8.5 x 11 paper size. Or have your students present their completed Book Report to the class!

Create custom bookmarks for your students with this resource. This is a great way to introduce an activity, but can also be used in other content areas such as math, social studies, and science. Use Google slides and add your own text and pictures, or print them out blank for the students to design their own. This editable Google slide is setup with a standard 8.5” x 11” paper template. Each bookmark page has either 2 or 4 to a page. This makes it easy to print and distribute to students. Just print, distribute to students, & have them design their own for the book or content you are studying. Or create your own for a novel or lesson: just add the title or a notable quote, then print. Includes 12 pages of bookmark templates, 6 outline styles in 2 sizes each. 3 different style, printable reading log.

A week’s planning based on the Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Most suitable for a year one class.

HFW lists for KS1

Three literacy lessons based on Peter Rabbit with resources. Lessons: Comprehension. Creating a fact-file. Writing a recount.

Mentor Text Mania Vol 1 This product is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned lesson plans, activities, anchor chart ideas, and writing prompts for 26 of your favorite picture book mentor texts! (See the complete list below) This resource includes: ☞ 4-5 day units for 26 books. ✔ ☛ Teacher scripts and anchor chart ideas ✔ ☞ Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading ✔ ☛ Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development ✔ ☞ Great for bilingual classrooms ✔ ☛ Printable pages for written responses in English (and Spanish if book available in Spanish) ✔ WHAT’S INCLUDED? Activities cover skills such as: Using evidence to describe, infer, and draw conclusions Summarizing Identifying and supporting author’s message / lesson Identifying and supporting character traits Explaining figurative language Identifying emotions, feelings, and vivid language Supporting opinions Comparing characters Comparing texts to other texts Defining words using context clues …and more! There are also multiple writing prompts for every book that are text-dependent and require using text evidence to explain. Activities are for the following books: -Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet -Emmanuel’s Dream by Laurie Ann Thompson -Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty -Ada Twist Scientist by Andrea Beaty -Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming -The Curious Garden by Peter Brown -The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry -The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein -The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins -The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas -They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel -A Bike Like Sergio’s by Maribeth Boelts -Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts -A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers -In Mary’s Garden by Carson Kugler and Tina Kugler -Jack’s Worry by Sam Zuppardi -Let Me Finish by Minh Le -The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce -My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits -Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett -Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson -The Wednesday Surprise by Patricia Polacco -Weekend With Wendell by Kevin Henkes -What Do You Do With An Idea? by Kobi Yamada -What Do You Do With A Problem? by Kobi Yamada If you don’t own all these books, I encourage you to take advantage of your library! They are all wonderful texts to share with your students! ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ Connect with me: Josh Rageth Facebook Josh Rageth Email

A full set of resources for the effective delivery of Reading Recovery (Reading Rescue) once appropriately trained.

This is a booklet that I am sending home for my phonics group. They cover all the sounds that we have worked on so far. It will be a holiday challenge to review the sounds before the phonics screening.

A full set of resources aimed at delivering the BRP initiative effectively once appropriately trained. Some training material omitted due to file size.

Creative writing is exciting when you’re zooming in on the wonders of nature and writing your chosen words right inside the lively pictures! These 8 inspiring writing-frames feature squirrels, pond life, creepy-crawlies, sunshine and cloud (2 graded sheets for clouds), all with guidance sheets for teachers. Ideal for emergent and newly independent writers. Great bundle price - 50% saving!

A story which uses the first 200 high frequency words. There are 5 gapfill exercises to consolidate learning.

Squirrels are fun to watch and write about, so your class will enjoy this writing sheet. The illustrations will spur ideas, and the Guide sheet will supply you with a handy list of further ideas to bring in. Follow the warm-up introduction suggestions to get everyone focused and enthused first, and set colouring pencils ready for shading in the illustrations when they’ve all had a go and read out their chosen words and phrases. The resource supports creative writing, vocabulary development and other aspects of English, while also nurturing an appreciation of the natural world and local environment.

A fun PowerPoint version of flashcards of all the Year 2 Common Exception words. Each word is on its own slide, which has the ‘grow and turn’ entrance animation. There is a ‘shape’ transition between each word. The words are in alphabetical order, but this can be edited easily. The presentation can be used for a variety of activities, e.g. As conventional flashcards – display and say the words as a class, or make it more competitive by using a quiz format and give points for the first team to say or write each word correctly. Who can be the first to say or write the word before it fully appears? Four or five lines of children. Only the front child can answer. The first one to answer goes to the back of the line. First line to get back to the beginning wins. Who can be the first to say or write the full version of the word before it fully appears? Memory test: select a small number of slides and display them for a few seconds each. Who can remember all the words (verbally, in writing, correctly spelt etc.) Who can be the first to write a sentence with the displayed word in it – specify rules (e.g. more than 8 words; fewer than 8 words; at least one adjective; at least one conjunction etc. etc.)

This resource is suitable for Key Stage One, in particular focusing on Year 2 writing objectives.

Sheets to help children to read and spell words that have split digraphs. They look at how adding an ‘e’ to short vowel words changes the sound of the vowel from a short to a long one, as in ‘tap’ and ‘tape’. Designed to accompany the Froggy Match-it phonics app, but can be used by any children learning phonics. Froggy Match-it is a graded, interactive phonics game for use on a tablet or phone. It is meant for beginner readers who know most of the single letter sounds and is designed to fit in with the phonics schemes used in schools. Froggy Match-it is ideal for use in school and at home. Try the free version now! App Store Google Play www.froggy-match-it.co.uk

3 Activities: Alphabetical order Conjunctions Diminutives

2 Activities: Apostrophes Contractions

2 activities: Complete the sentence Commas

2 adjectives activities.

2 adverbs activities.

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✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✏ This is a lesson plan for a 4-5 day Comprehensive Literacy Language Workshop lesson for the book Let Me Finish! by Minh Le. The plans include a teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students. It also includes prompts for student responses through discussion or in writing or thoughtful logs. This lesson is focused on a theme of community, retelling, character feelings, text evidence and author’s message/lesson but can easily be modified for other uses. This resource includes: ☞ 4-5 day plan. ✔ ☛ Teacher script ✔ ☞ Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading ✔ ☛ Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development ✔ ☞ Great for bilingual classrooms ✔ ☛ Printable pages for written responses ✔ If you enjoy this resource, please review it! This will help me make more resources. If you have any questions, I will reply within 24 hours. ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ Connect with me: Josh Rageth Facebook Josh Rageth Email ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ Copyright © Josh Rageth. All rights reserved by author. This file is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be displayed or distributed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use only. ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭ ✰ ✭

If your school has a pond, this picture-poem sheet will provide an excellent way of motivating your class to take an interest in it, while stretching their language and creative skills as well. Children will love writing describing words on the pond itself, and expressing their thoughts about it around the picture. The accompanying guide sheet offers ideas for each section to support discussion and prompting, as needed. This resource supports English, biology, animal and nature studies, outdoor learning opportunities, and celebrations of the school. Best for Years 2-4, able Yr 1 pupils and under-achieving older ones; also as a warm-up sheet for independent writing of poetry, stories or description at all junior levels.

The use of social media is a great way to engage and gain the interest of your students. Best of all, this resource is available in both printable pdf format as well as a Google Slides editable format. This Instagram template allows students to add text and pictures to an “Instagram Template”. The template is locked, so your students can’t mistakenly move or delete the background. Use this to: Have your students discuss a character or setting in a novel Focus on a historical person Focus on a Geographic area Use it in science and have your students record their information

One week’s English planning based on the book Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. Most suited to a year one class.

Animals and their homes-Use this editable presentation to teach animal homes.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘UNSEEN POETRY’ LESSONS, INCLUDING ANALYSING LANGUAGE, ANALYSING STRUCTURE AND COMPARING POEMS, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER/ REVISION MAT. These engaging and varied, resources have been designed to aid students in gaining the skills and knowledge required to succeed in the ‘Unseen Poems’ element of English Literature examinations. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons and revision resources, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poems from making key inferences, understanding poets’ ideas through their use of language and structure, and structuring comparative writing effectively to offer clear, considered, qualified responses. 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. Engaging, comprehensive, presentations, activity resources, worksheets, copies of practice poems and lesson plans are all provided.

A fun PowerPoint version of flashcards. There are 14 contractions, which fade in gradually. There is a ‘clock’ transition between each word. They can be used for a variety of activities, e.g. Who can be the first to say or write the word before it fully appears? Four or five lines of children. Only the front child can answer. The first one to answer goes to the back of their line. First line to get back to the beginning wins. Who can be the first to say or write the full version of the contracted word before it fully appears (e.g. wouldn’t = would not)? It is a particularly good resource when used in Keynote on a mini iPad.

Two week plan on the Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey most suitable for year one.

Adventure and Islands Year 2 and 3

Mr Men teaching resources and activities.

This is a fun and cute activity in which the children have to read the sentence and decide if they have to use his or her to finish the sentence. All the students have to do is turn the arrow to show which word is the answer. This activity includes 26 different sentences. Just print, laminate and use butterfly clips to make the arrow move.

A fun, competitive & engaging game where points are won by convincing the judge that your gift is the best choice for the person/people’s birthday Target Language: -Birthdays -Agree/disagree -Arguing -Debates SEE PREVIEW FILE FOR FULL INSTRUCTIONS (Alternative versions are available for Christmas Gifts Game & 2nd Conditional Gifts Game)

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives an account of all the tragic events that took place during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, a definitions match exercise, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise, a fun crossword and engage in an in class discussion over nuclear energy, radiation and it’s effects on human health. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Ideally, this handout could be used along a #GoogleExpeditions NASA virtual reality trip! A full answer key is included.