A collection of 15 activities & guided reading questions, designed to accompany a book study on Sandra Dieckmann’s Leaf. This unit is perfect if you are looking to study books which have more acceptance, tolerance and inclusion as their theme. Will the animals learn not to ‘judge a book by its cover’? Featuring a variety of reading and whole story activities, word-level activities, and text writing activities, as detailed below: Section 1: Prediction Adult Instructions Prediction Sheet Section 2: Sequence Differentiated Sequencing Sheets (8, 6 and 4 parts) Section 3: Reading Comprehension Differentiated Reading Comprehension (written and tick the box) Section 4: True or False True or False Activity Section 5: Leaf Character Description Character Description Sheet Section 6: Character Traits Antonyms with Prefixes and Suffixes Section 7: Spelling Dictation Frequently misspelled words dictation (differentiated) Section 8: Alphabetic Order Differentiated alphabetical ordering Section 9: Syllables Syllable Clap and Count Syllable Cube Count Section 10: Vocabulary Draw and write the meaning activity Section 11: Research Note taking sheet for researching polar bears Section 12: Retell Lined, bordered paper for retelling Section 13: Wordsearch Wordsearch and answers Section 14: Crossword Crossword puzzle and answers Section 15: Cryptogram Cryptogram message and answers Separate bonus document containing guided reading questions, for the teacher to discuss with the class during a read aloud or whole class guided reading. Please note - this unit does not include planning, only resource sheets to support a range of activities which can be supported by the book. You will need your own copy of the book to run this unit.

A collection of 15 activities designed to accompany a book study on Nathan Bryon’s Rocket Says Clean Up. This unit is perfect if you are looking to study books which have more representative and culturally diverse main characters. I will be following this unit up soon with another couple of linked units of work on two inspirational women who would be perfect to study for Black History Month: Imani Wilmot (Jamaican female surfer) and a unit of work on MaVynee Betsch (aka The Beach Lady) whose grandfather founded American Beach, and who campaigned tirelessly for conservation efforts. Featuring a variety of reading and whole story activities, word-level activities, and text writing activities, as detailed below: Section 1: Prediction Adult Instructions Prediction Sheet Section 2: Sequence Differentiated Sequencing Sheets (8, 6 and 4 parts) Section 3: Reading Comprehension Differentiated Reading Comprehension (written and tick the box) Section 4: True or False True or False Activity Section 5: Rocket Character Profile Character Profile Sheet Section 6: Character Traits Antonyms with Prefixes and Suffixes Section 7: Spelling Dictation Frequently misspelled words dictation (differentiated) Section 8: Alphabetic Order Differentiated alphabetical ordering Section 9: Syllables Syllable Clap and Count Syllable Cube Count Section 10: Vocabulary Draw and write the meaning activity Section 11: Cause and Effect Picture clue and write a sentence about the effect Section 12: Retell Lined, bordered paper for retelling Section 13: Postcard Home Postcard template Section 14: Keep It Clean Poster Poster template Section 15: Newspaper Report Newspaper template Please note, this unit is not inclusive of planning, nor does it include the book. It is a set of resources designed for you to teach to / pitch to as you see fit.

This pair of fonts (Soundbuttondots & Soundbuttondashes) allow you to add dots or dashes to your writing to represent sound buttons underneath single sounds, digraphs and trigraphs. There are even special characters included to replicate the sound buttons needed to show the connection between split digraphs. Full disclosure - this is not a perfect ‘does the job for you without you having to think’ kind of font. I don’t have the technology to make the fonts do ligatures and automatically underline digraphs and trigraphs, but I have tried to make it as seamless and easy as I can. By switching between the two fonts, you can choose which letters have dots underneath and which have dashes (the spacing on the dashed letters is already condensed so the dashes form a continuous line), and you can insert special characters (or use the corresponding symbols) to add arrows for split digraphs. WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE HOW, plus full written instructions included in the pack. To my mind, this font certainly beats printing out a regular copy of work and manually adding all the sound buttons in a black pen, or trying to add dot and dash clipart underneath! We’ve all been there!

I created this resource after searching for (and failing to find) something similar to suit my own UK learners. The original bundle of just 6 texts has now grown for a second time to 12 texts. I think it’s now finalised, but it still could grown again if I get struck by inspiration. All progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. Great to stretch and challenge children in Reception who have a solid application of their phonics and / or for children in Year 1 and 2 who still need to practise accessing fully decodable texts. Suits Ofsted’s renewed focus on children reading full decodable texts, matched to phonics knowledge. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

I created this resource after searching for (and failing to find) something similar to suit my own learners. All progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. Great to stretch and challenge children in Reception who have a solid application of their phonics and / or for children in Year 1 and 2 who still need to practise accessing fully decodable texts. Suits Ofsted’s renewed focus on children reading full decodable texts, matched to phonics knowledge. Check out Phase 2 here, and my Phase 2 & 3 Bundle here.

A useful mat for Year 2 children featuring many of the writing expectations needed to meet “Expected” (and some features beyond). Comes in a variety of colours of the rainbow to match your room design or table/group colours. Includes: Letter formation Writing checklist (capitals, finger spaces, phonics for spelling…etc.) Year 1 Common Exception Words Year 2 Common Exception Words Days of the week Months of the year Time word openers Story openers Prefixes Suffixes Conjunctions Contractions Punctuation Phonics families for vowels

I created this resource after searching for (and failing to find) something similar to suit my own UK learners. The current bundle is for 29 texts, but this is not the complete set yet. If you buy now at this price, all future updates can be re-downloaded for free within your license price. The texts have coverage for: ‘ay’ saying /ai/ ‘oy’ saying /oi/ ‘ie’ saying /igh/ ‘ea’ saying /ee/ ‘a_e’ saying /ai/ ‘e_e’ saying /ee/ ‘i_e’ saying /igh/ ‘o_e’ saying /oa/ ‘u_e’ saying /oo/ or /yoo/ ‘ou’ saying /ow/ long vowels a, e, i o u ‘ue’ saying /oo/ or /yoo/ ‘ew’ saying /oo/ or /yoo/ ‘aw’ saying /or/ ‘au’ saying /or/ ‘ow’ saying /oa/ ‘oe’ saying /oa/ ‘wh’ saying /w/ ‘ph’ saying /f/ ‘c’ saying /s/ & ‘g’ saying /j/ ‘ea’ saying /e/ ‘ie’ saying /ee/ ‘ch’ saying /sh/ & /c/ ‘y’ saying /ee/ ‘tch’ saying /ch/ ‘ear’ and ‘are’ saying /air/ unspoken ‘e’ ‘ore’ saying /or/ All progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets, and also ventures into some of the National Curriculum Spelling Patterns. The order of sounds within this document is designed to be progressive, such that one text builds on the next. Although these materials are independent and unendorsed, they could easily be used to support learners on many validated schemes which use Letters and Sounds as their basis, such as Little Wandle or similar. Great to stretch and challenge children in Year 1 who have a solid application of their phonics and / or for children in Year 2 and 3 who still need to practise accessing fully decodable texts. Suits Ofsted’s renewed focus on children reading full decodable texts, matched to phonics knowledge. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

I created this resource after searching for (and failing to find) something similar to suit my own learners. All progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. Great to stretch and challenge children in Reception who have a solid application of their phonics and / or for children in Year 1 and 2 who still need to practise accessing fully decodable texts. Suits Ofsted’s renewed focus on children reading full decodable texts, matched to phonics knowledge. Check out Phase 3 here, and my Phase 2 & 3 Bundle here.

UK Phonics Based Reading Comprehension following Letters and Sounds Phase 4. Help your kids gain confidence and fluency with Phase 4 Blends and Clusters with this fun, interactive clothes peg clip card set. This is perfect as a small group or independent activity in your Reception or Year 1 Settings (Kindergarden and Grade 1), or for use with children with Special Educational Needs. I created this resource after searching for something similar to suit my own UK learners: all progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. This is part of a wider range of resources which includes: · Initial Blends with L – bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl · Initial Blends with R – br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr · Other Initial Blends – sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw · Final Blends 1 – ft, lb, lf, lk, lp, lt, nt · Final Blends 2 - mp, nk · Final Blends 3 – nd, pt, sk, st, xt · Three Letter Blends – Initial scr, shr, spr, str, thr & final nch · Compound Words · Polysyllabic Words It is also available as part of a full bundle of the above. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

These cute little cupcakes are perfect for practising formal methods of subtraction. They contain column subtraction layout both with and without crossing ten (borrowing/ exchanging / regrouping), and a blank set for rolling your own numbers. There are two sets: one with T O for Tens and Ones, and one with T U for Tens and Units. The cards would work perfectly cut and laminated to make an early finishing activity, grab and go box activity or maths rotation/station. You could also use them for early morning/bell ringer activities. I’d love it if you could take time to review this product after purchasing - remember, reviews earn you credits against future purchases.

UK Phonics Based Reading Comprehension following Letters and Sounds Phase 4. Help your kids gain confidence and fluency with Phase 4 Blends and Clusters with this fun, interactive clothes peg clip card set. This is perfect as a small group or independent activity in your Reception or Year 1 Settings (Kindergarden and Grade 1), or for use with children with Special Educational Needs. I created this resource after searching for something similar to suit my own UK learners: all progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. This is part of a wider range of resources which includes: · Initial Blends with L – bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl · Initial Blends with R – br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr · Other Initial Blends – sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw · Final Blends 1 – ft, lb, lf, lk, lp, lt, nt · Final Blends 2 - mp, nk · Final Blends 3 – nd, pt, sk, st, xt · Three Letter Blends – Initial scr, shr, spr, str, thr & final nch · Compound Words · Polysyllabic Words It is also available as part of a full bundle of the above. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

UK Phonics Based Reading Comprehension following Letters and Sounds Phase 4. Help your kids gain confidence and fluency with Phase 4 Blends and Clusters with this fun, interactive clothes peg clip card set. This is perfect as a small group or independent activity in your Reception or Year 1 Settings (Kindergarden and Grade 1), or for use with children with Special Educational Needs. I created this resource after searching for something similar to suit my own UK learners: all progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. This is part of a wider range of resources which includes: · Initial Blends with L – bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl · Initial Blends with R – br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr · Other Initial Blends – sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw · Final Blends 1 – ft, lb, lf, lk, lp, lt, nt · Final Blends 2 - mp, nk · Final Blends 3 – nd, pt, sk, st, xt · Three Letter Blends – Initial scr, shr, spr, str, thr & final nch · Compound Words · Polysyllabic Words It is also available as part of a full bundle of the above. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

Use your Phase 4 Phonics knowledge to read these festive sentences. The are two different (yet similar) versions of this worksheet pack. Version 1: Full Colour Pictures Read the pairs of sentences and select the one which matches the picture. Version 1: Black and white pictures Part A) Read the sentence and colour the picture accordingly (or add extra details to it) Part B) Read the pairs of sentences and select the one which matches the picture.

Simple to play board game for 2+ players to revise many of the KS1 spelling strands which appear in the KS1 SATs. Great for “Secret Agent Training”, intervention groups, early morning work/morning challenges, filler activities, Easter revision and home learning. Spelling strands taken from the National Curriculum and testing frameworks. Most of the common spelling strands using in the Spelling Test element of the option Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar testing, including: tch tion ph and wh long e spelt ey long e spelt y long i spelt y le, el, al, il ge and dge soft c, soft g al for or u spelt o homophones o spelt a after w and qu er spelt o after w or spelt ar after w zh spelt s silent gn and kn silent wr adding s and es doubling consonants to add endings CEW words ending in “-ve” ff, ll, ss, zz, ck words compound words

A quick, simple survey which you can conduct with your class in order to understand who has access to certain devices. A useful tool for any E-Safety or Computing Leaders to understand what kinds of exposure to devices children have. Also great in the current climate of uncertainty (coronavirus / COVID-19 isolation, school closures) for deciding whether to press ahead with online-only learning, or home based tasks which can be set via different technology mediums.

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

This is just a bit of light-hearted fun during what is a pretty anxious time for kids (and adults)! Coronavirus / COVID-19 can seem really scary to little ones but it’s good to know that even basic handwashing can really help. This song reminds children about some of the things they should and shouldn’t do when washing their hands. The last verse in particular…well, we all know those little ones who are sent to wash their hands and are then immediately putting those clean hands somewhere they shouldn’t be! Bless!

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical