I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
Sets of two syllable words for use in planning week’s 6 to 10 of Phase 3, for reading and writing two syllable words.
This has been uploaded due to the paucity of plans and resources that address the need to teach two syllable words as part of Phase 3.
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound ear
Review of /h/ sound
Teach Reading alternative grapheme wh for /h/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words said, have, like and so.
Apply reading sentence
A differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity with an extension activity for use in Continuous Provision and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity. It also includes a distance learning video and resources.
Learning Objective: To count on and back numbers up to 20 (HA up to 30)
This lesson consists of:
A differentiated starter - Count on. A counting game for groups of children to take in turns counting up to a target number of 10 (LA), 20 (MA) 30 (HA) starting from a number generated by rolling a dice.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, and supported with a PowerPoint presentation, to recap on the children’s abilities to count on and back with numbers up to 20.
A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter and main part of the lesson.
A 2-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to find missing numbers in a series of counting sequences.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, where the class works collaboratively to order number to 30.
A complete set of PowerPoints designed to provide an interactive Revisit / Review for each week’s Phonics lessons. Each PowerPoint typically provides 5 days of starters, including a mixture of Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic activities.
These activities are designed to run in conjunction with a complete programme of work click here including daily distance learning youtube videos click here for these plans. They also form part of weekly premium plans and 6 weekly premium bundles. Each week’s complete teaching resources cost £1 (click here for week 1), with six-week bundles costing £2.50 (click here for week 1 to 6).
Please note some of the phoneme spotters have been sourced from other TES authors and so are not included as anything other than PowerPoint slides. Others are part of the original Letters and Sounds government publication.
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/ow/ ou, ough
Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /oi/ oy, oi
Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words looked, called, asked, shouted…
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142
Apply writing sentences p149
Today’s lesson revises writing alternative graphemes ai, ay and split digraph a-e words and teaches alternative /ai/ - eigh
A youtube video to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds. The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review revising reading words based on alternative /w/ and /h/
Teach reading words based on alternative /ai/ - eigh
Practice reading Phase 4 Tricky words.
Apply reading an alien sentence including words using alternative /ai/ - eigh
Today’s lesson revises reading alternative graphemes ai, ay and split digraph a-e words and teaches alternative /ai/ - ey
A youtube video to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review revising reading words based on alternative /w/ and /h/
Teach writing and spelling words based on alternative /ai/ - ey
Practice writing Phase 4 Tricky words.