I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
This product relates different worksheet activities and puzzles on the topic of Wales and their patron saint, St. David.
The worksheets are differentiated.
Content:
Unscramble the 4 symbols of Wales and write the words opposite the pictures.
Reading comprehension and gap-filling - (Easy)
Reading comprehension and gap-filling - (Challenging)
Reading comprehension worksheet on Wales and Welsh community in Argentina
4 Cut/paste Activity sheets - Children read the sentence, copy it, and then cut out the words and rearrange correctly to make the sentence, then colour in the pictures: daffodil, St David, Leek and flag of Wales.
Complete a jigsaw puzzle (colour and b/w)
Word Search with Solution
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This is a reading comprehension activity. The reading covers three pages with a word count (including title) of 648 words. The topic relates to Epiphany, i.e. what it means and some of the countries that celebrate this Christian festival. There are 17 questions and tasks for students to do and they include finding evidence in the text, spelling, grammar and word work.
Students read the first two pages and then as additional work they can go straight onto reading page three with additional activities.
To begin the lesson, find out what students know about Epiphany and how it relates to the Christmas story before handing out the reading comprehension.
You can use this resource for guided reading.
Students can work in pairs or individually to answer the questions and tasks.
Content:
Teacher’s Copy of the reading comprehension
Student’s copy with the first task of correcting the first paragraph which contains 16 errors.
Reading comprehension with 17 questions and activities
Specimen answer sheet
Word Search with Solution
In addition to writing full sentences, the work covers:
Spellings
Homophones
Synonyms
Punctuation
Putting list of countries into alphabetical order
Making words singular or plural
This is optional if you would like the students to watch a video on the meaning of Epiphany - I have suggested three websites which you can look at to go with the reading comprehension.
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This product relates to the topic on The Good Samaritan.
Aimed at: Keystage 1/2
Curriculum links: Religious education, literacy and PSHE.
Additional worksheets to support children’s literacy skills.
They cover:
Differentiated reading comprehension worksheets. One of the reading comprehension worksheet is in cursive font.
Sorting jumbled sentences so they make sense and adding a full stop
Cloze activity - read text and fill in the missing words using the words from the word bank
Work on homophones - 1. Children write the correct word in the box. 2. Write sentences using the highlighted words.
Includes Answer Sheets.
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This themed pack relates to harvest festival.
The pack is divided into Four sections.
The topic contains:-
Teachers’ Notes
PowerPoint Presentations
Four lesson plans - Why we celebrate, the harvesting of crops culminating in the harvest festival service and the meaning of the hymn We Plough the Fields And Scatter the good seeds on the land.
Worksheets and activities for children to do.
In lesson 3- making a harvest festival card - the children plan/draft how they want their cards to look on plain white paper and then should be a given sugar paper or cardboard to make their card for display or to take home.
Alternatively - There is an empty ‘My Harvest Basket’ activity worksheet which children can draw in or cut out/paste pictures of fruit and vegetables.
Lesson 4 - The harvest hymn is optional - linked to music and I have included a Youtube link for the music accompaniment.
Overall Objective: To understand why many Christians and some non-Christians celebrate harvest festival in autumn.
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<strong>This resource is about the lost son parable relating to forgiveness. It is for whole school assembly.</strong>
It contains:
PowerPoint Presentation
Teacher’s Guide on how to conduct the assembly
Playscript of the Parable
Posters for display
Cross-curricular to Religious Studies and Citizenship.
The theme is ‘forgiveness’ based on The Parable of the Lost Son.
Learning Objective: To understand what forgiveness means.
Children are asked why we should say ‘sorry’ and understand the meaning of forgiveness and understanding.
The children are asked about their own experience of getting hurt and wanting that person to say sorry and what it feels like if they don’t apologize.
They are taken through the story and asked questions along the way.
I’ve written a playscript based on the story. You may wish to have a group of children act out the story instead of reading it on the slides. There are questions on the slides for children to think about.
A set of detailed lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations with supporting worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2.
This product is useful if your class is visiting a church. So that the children know what to expect, this resource highlights features inside and outside a church.
UPDATED on 13th May 2019 with 3 new additional activities for early finishers. Worksheets now have answer keys.
Pictures are also in black and white for the children to colour in.
Complete resource with presentations and flexible detailed lesson plans.
The lesson starts off with getting children to discuss where their special place is - a gentle starter to lead into a special place for some Christians.
Lesson 1: My Special Place
Lesson 2: Places of Worship and Special Symbols
Lesson 3: Mains features inside/outside a church
Lesson 4: My Church Visit and activity sheets - ready-made list for children to tick off what they see and draw other features of the church
Lesson 5: Follow- up to Visit - Shared writing and individual writing
Worksheets/Activities for each lesson
Word Search with Solution
List of words relating to the church - select some of the words and ask children if they know the meaning of the word(s). Ask children about some of the tricky words to spell, e.g. aisle. Some words start with 'c' as in cat but has an 's' sound, e.g. candle and ciborium.
Additional worksheets
- Word Church Mat - Children unscramble the 8 words below the pictures and write it out correctly.
- Read and match pictures to sentences worksheet - Children read the six sentences which describe church objects and then trace over the words for each picture, cut out and glue the pictures opposite the sentences.
- Differentiated Alphabetical order worksheets - children write the 10 words in ABC order and then sort out the two jumbled sentences.
Please see preview pane for words on flash cards.
File Type: PowerPoint, Word and PDF
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Reading comprehension passage with questions and exercises.
Text is also on PowerPoint Presentation - Option for whole class reading.
Suitable for KS1/Lower Grade KS2.
Reading comprehensions - There are 14 questions and 11 questions respectively.
Use the cover sheet to make a lovely reading comprehension booklet.
**Covers: **
Looking for answers in the text
Tick box statements
Punctuation
Correct spellings
Rewrite in a difference tense
Inference
Explain their answers
Specimen answers provided.
Learning Objectives: Develop pleasure in reading
Answering and asking questions
Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
Images royalty free from Microsoft Clipart.
This resource relates to St. Patrick’s Day (17 March).
It is versatile in that you can save as a different name and then adapt to suit the timing of your assembly.
It can also be used as a lesson resource where you can focus on a particular topic such as St Patrick’s life from when he was born, taken as a slave and the becoming the patron saint of Ireland.
Content:
A Presentation (69 Slides) on facts about St. Patrick and how the day is celebrated.
The presentation starts with a welcome to the whole school.
It then shows a stain glass window of St Patrick holding a shamrock.
There are questions and answers throughout the presentation to involve the children.
It is divided into sections:-
Background to St. Patrick’s life
Around the World
Myths and legends
Celebrations
Reflection
-A prayer (optional)
(3 pages)- Teacher’s notes on assembly referring to each slide.
Optional Follow-up worksheets:
Write and draw 4 things you can remember about St Patrick
Flags of Ireland : Children colour in the flag of Ireland and the cross of St Patrick (Answer key provided)
2 Differentiated cut and paste picture sequencing activities (Answers provided)
Symbols of Ireland: Sort out the three jumbled words and write them opposite the pictures.
Worksheet on three well-known myths: Sort out the jumbled headings and then draw lines to the correct picture for each heading (Answers provided)
Word Search - Find 10 words
Please see preview pane of some of the slides in the presentation.
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Maths Activities
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-maths-block-graph-patterns-sequencing-puzzles-numbers-1-20-match-up-worksheets-12080124
This product relates to the Legend of St. David and myths.
Content:
18 Slide PowerPoint Presentation
Lesson Plan
3 Sets of Worksheets
The presentation describes myths and legends and that sometimes myths and legends overlaps. Children learn about some of the mythical stories that are passed down from one generation to the next, e.g. why the leek and the dragon are symbols of Wales and the miracles St David carried out, e.g. making the blind see, why David is standing on a hill with a dove on his shoulder, the legend of the boy who tried to steal pigeons, the legend of the corpse candle.
Listening and speaking during the presentation.
The flexible lesson plan guides you through the presentation or you can just play the presentation which children interact with.
Differentiated gap-filling worksheets:
Worksheet 1 - Children use the words in the box to fill in the gaps.
Worksheets A and B: - Children work in twos and collaborate to complete their worksheet as each child has information the other children needs.
There is a teacher’s copy for the worksheets A and B.
Early finishers - During the presentation the children are given the opportunity to retell one or two of the legends they like best which they oral retell to the class.
When they come to do the worksheets, they recount one of the stories either using a worksheet with story boxes or write a short narrative and draw a picture
This resource is about Advent and is presented in PowerPoint together with a lesson plan and supporting worksheet tasks.
For the younger children, you can just play the PowerPoint so that they know something about Advent.
Content:
30 Slide Presentation which includes whole class activities - it describes what people do in the lead up to Christmas, the meaning of Advent and children are asked what they do in preparation for an event, e.g. if it their birthday, what do they do to prepare for the big day. Children are encouraged to interact with the presentation. There is a review at the end.
Flexible lesson plan with introduction to set the scene, main lesson and recap session. The slides are referred to in the lesson plan.
4 Worksheets
Word Search with solution plus associated tasks
Worksheets 1 and 2: Children list an activity in each of the baubles. Children who need support can draw pictures to go with their list. The more able children describe their list in more detail using complete sentences and then draw a picture.
Worksheet 3: For able writers – You may wish to give this work to more able writers to write about what people do during Advent and/or write how they prepare for Christmas.
Early Finishers:
Worksheet 4 with Answer Key: For this activity children only tick the pictures that relate to Advent. The second part of the worksheet is for children to complete each of the four sentences in their own words but using the verbs in the box.
Word Search: Children can work in twos to find the words in the grid. When the word search is completed there is a ready-made worksheet for the children to put the words in the word search grid into alphabetical order.
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This Advent bundle contains:
Flexible lesson plan with starter activities, main lesson and recap session/plenary. The presentation slides are referred to in the plan.
30 Slide PowerPoint Presentation on activities surrounding Advent and the Advent candles
Differentiated worksheets that include gap-filling, reading comprehension, grammar and word work
Cut and paste activities
Word search with solution
Please see individual description of each resource.
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Christmas activities and worksheets to help younger children learn about the birth of Jesus: Read, write, colour, sequence story, match up and word searches.
Content:
• Read, Trace, Colour Worksheets (x10) – Children read and trace over the sentence and then colour in.
Optional: You can make a booklet for each child by stapling the edges.
• Follow the Path Activity (x2) – Children use a crayon at the start of the pathway. They can use different colours to make a rainbow path.
• Christmas Story Reading on PowerPoint – You can read the story aloud on PowerPoint and then get children to summarise the story. The children can then carry out the various differentiated activities.
• Match animals to animal words puzzle
• Worksheet – Children draw on the gift boxes three presents they would give to Jesus
After reading the Christmas story, children can complete the following sequencing activities. Either you or the children can cut out the sequencing wheel and cover template.
• Story Wheel Sequencing – Children cut out the pictures and glue them in order in each of the segments to tell the Christmas story. When completed and coloured in, they can recount the story to someone else.
• Alternatively, children can cut out the pictures and place each picture over the numbered boxes in order to sequence the pictures using the worksheet provided.
• Words Searches (x2) with Solution
US Version
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-story-activities-worksheets-and-word-searches-us-version-12224631
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You may be interested in the Christmas story presentation.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-story-nativity-birth-of-jesus-presentation-worksheets-12224259
This bundle contains St Valentine themed resources - worksheets, activities, presentations.
The resources can be used as revision, homework or as standalone lessons.
Content:
- Teacher Notes (x3)
- Assembly Presentation
Literacy
-St. Valentine Day's Lesson Presentation
- Worksheet - Writing activity on St. Valentine's Day
- Worksheets on jumbled sentences and words
- 2 Word Searches in upper and lower case letters
- Reading Comprehension
- Guided reading activities
- Phonics CVC Words Worksheets
- Cracking codes to spell colour/color words
Maths
Work on tally charts, pictograms and block graphs and interpreting data
Counting and matching up
Addition and Subtraction problem-solving Number and Picture Pattern Sequences
- Completing addition equation
- Missing number of hearts and roses activity
- Number match jigsaw puzzle pieces
- Simple colour by number activity
Other Topics
- Mixing colours activity
- Valentine's Day Emotions/Feelings Worksheets
Activities include worksheets and cut and stick activities.
Please see Preview Panes for more information.
For more detailed description, please see individual resources.
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This is resource is on the topic of Sikhism. It is an introductory booklet that aims to cover the key features of the Sikh religion including the the K’s.
Ideal resource for revision/assessment.
It contains a contents page, glossary of terms and texts with sub-headings and questions.
The booklet can be ‘dipped’ into as a non-fiction resource depending on what you are teaching.
**Topics covered: **
-Guru Nanak - Founder of Sikhism (First Guru)
-Guru Gobind Singh - Founder of the Khalsa and the Five Ks (Tenth and last human Guru)
-The Meaning of the Five Ks
-What happens in a Gurdwara?
-Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book)
-The Khalsa baptism (Amrit ceremony)
-The Langar
-Seva
-Ik Onkar symbol
-The Khanda symbol
-The Nisham Sahib (Sikh flag)
There are a mixture of direct questions, questions which require inference, multiple choice questions with tick box, labelling and ICT work (finding out more information). (In total 45 questions). Pupils are referred to the pages they need to look at to obtain the answers.
Includes Specimen Answer booklet.
Learning Objectives: To explore the Sikh religion and to understand it beliefs and practices and the meaning of its symbols. To understand why some Sikhs look similar in their appearance.
Desired Outcome: That pupils get a good overview of the Sikh religion.
This bundle contains 3 comprehensive resources relating to St. George.
It includes:-
- Assembly Presentation and follow-up activities
- The Legend of St. George - Lesson Plans/worksheets and Presentation
- Set of worksheet activities
UPDATED with quick Answer Sheet for Partner A/Partner B cloze activity.
There is a variety of reading comprehension worksheets and cloze activity to choose from relating to Saint George’s Day.
A useful addition to topic work.
Aimed at: KS1/Lower KS2
<strong>Differentiated Worksheet activities include:</strong>
- Close reading of text and answering questions
- Scan for specific answers
- Inference
There is a worksheet on George Cross and George Medal. Many people think there is a link but the worksheet gives children the opportunity to explain why people would think there is a link as they are medals of bravery. Both medals depict St George slaying a dragon.
- Tick box - multiple choice questions
- Cloze activities
- Drawing/colouring
- Dictionary work
- Short writing tasks
- Sorting jumbled sentences and then add capitals and punctuation with Answer Sheet.
- Sorting jumbled words
- Cooperative partner work - Partner A and Partner B work together to read and complete the missing words on their worksheets.
File Type: Choice of Word format or PDF
This reading comprehension bundle includes 4 lovely fiction stories.
The vocabulary is age-appropriate and children are encouraged to work out the meaning of words in the context of the story.
The subject matters are familiar to the children and so there are cross-curricular themes.
The booklets cater for all level of readers - The Chase being the easiest.
Booklets 2 are divided into sections. So each paragraph is followed by questions.
Some of the questions require the reader to 'read between the lines'.
Not only is a child's comprehension assessed but other English key skills are incorporated.
The resource can be given to more able pupils to work on independently.
The booklets can also be used in guided reading sessions. The questions are extensive so the children can answer a set of questions in one session and do another set of questions in another session.
This super bundle combines different topics relating to St Patrick’s Day. Other resources will be included as I create more resources relating to St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Please preview individual resources within the bundles for full description.
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St Patrick’s Literacy Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12067949
St Patrick’s Maths/Numeracy Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-maths-numeracy-bundle-12650186
This bundle relates to St Patrick’s Day celebrations. It includes myths and legends, phonics, reading comprehension presentations.
Content:
PowerPoint Presentation Assembly/Lesson
PowerPoint Presentation on myths/ legends
Worsheets - 2x reading passages and accompanying tasks - vocabulary work, finding information, giving reasons for answers.
Lesson Plans on myths and legends
Reading Comprehension passage for early readers with questions and literacy tasks.
Beginning consonant blends worksheets
Ideal resource to use in the lead up to St Patrick’s Day and after St Patrick’s Day on myths and legends.
Please detailed description for individual products.
You may be interested in some St Patrick’s Day maths activities:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-maths-block-graph-patterns-sequencing-puzzles-numbers-1-20-match-up-worksheets-12080124
This bundle relates to the topic on The Good Samaritan in religious studies. I have bundled all three products.
Content:
Ready-made Assembly Presentation (27 Slides)
Lesson Presentation (23 Slides) together with
Flexible 1 hour Lesson Plan with learning objectives and success criteria - Starter activities, main lesson and plenary.
A total of 10 worksheet activities including cut and paste to consolidate children’s learning.
Option of two short animation videos on the topic from BBC Teach and Miracle of Mercy links.
Lots of opportunities for listening and speaking, writing and literacy skills. Children also learn how to be a good citizen by learning what it is to be a good neighbour.
File Type: PowerPoint, Word and PDF.
Please look at the preview panes for worksheets.