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We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
This autumn-themed phonics booklet is aimed at EYFS or year 1 (4-6 yrs). It covers phase 3 sounds and would be perfect for revising the phase during the autumn term.
The booklet is 18 pages. Children could work on it independently during phonics lessons, as a start of day activity or as a filler. Alternatively, send home for parents to work on with children as a homework task.
Activities include filling in missing sounds, sound spotter stories and recognising real and fake words among many others.
Just print and staple!
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This resource contains 4 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2. The theme in this pack is 'Autumn.
There are four different comprehensions:
What happens in the autumn
What to do in the autumn - go for a woodland walk
What to do in the autumn - make a leaf hedgehog
How to go blackberry picking
Each comprehension contains a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions. Answers are also included.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
This resource is a comprehension activity for year 2, perfect for using in the autumn. There are three differentiated sets of instructions on how to make toffee apples, with differentiated questions.
It is based on the KS1 SATs reading paper.
There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where’ and ‘how’ 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.
*GET READY FOR A WHOLE YEAR’S PHONICS*
This resource contains 3 giant interactive PowerPoints with interactive lessons for ALL phase 3 - 5 phonemes. That’s 81 sounds!
Simply click on the sound and you will be taken to the appropriate lesson. Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes and is split into the following sections:
- Revision phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to new sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out
- Reading words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with sound/filling in missing words
- Writing a sentence
- Revision of tricky words
Simply open the PowerPoint each day and you are ready to teach!
This bundle contains a collection of non-fiction comprehension booklets aimed at year 2. The theme for the booklets is harvest.
The three topics covered are:
Harvest Festival
Harvest around the world
Thanksgiving
Each comprehension includes 3 differentiated levels. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions, true or false questions and some that require more detailed answers. There is a colour and black & white version of each booklet and answers are also included.
Harvest Festival
This comprehension is all about the harvest festival and covers what it is, its history, traditions and how people celebrate now.
The higher ability booklet has 13 questions in total. The middle ability has 12 questions and the lower ability has 11 questions.
Harvest Around the World
This comprehension is all about harvest around the world and covers Thanksgiving in America, rice festivals in Asia, the fruit festival in Thailand and the harvest moon festival.
Each level has 13 questions in total.
Thanksgiving
This comprehension is all about Thanksgiving celebrations in America and covers the history of the holiday and current traditions.
There are 13 questions in the higher ability booklet, 12 questions in the middle ability and 10 questions in the lower ability.
PDF file format.
This resource contains 4 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.
The theme in this pack is ‘Harvest.’ There are four different comprehensions:
What is harvest?
Thanksgiving
Harvest around the world
Harvest in Britain
Each comprehension contains a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help the children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. The PowerPoint is not editable.
There is a colour and black & white booklet. Answers are also included.
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This resource is a booklet that can be used by children to revisit or revise the phonics phase 5 ‘wh’ sound. There are 10 pages of activities for children to complete. It could be used as a start-of-day activity, filler, phonics lesson or homework activity.
Simply print and staple or use pages as individual worksheets.
A fun, visually appealing way to reinforce a phoneme.
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This resource contains 4 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.
They each contain a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions.
The theme in this pack is ‘Christmas in Spain.’ There are four different comprehensions:
Nativity Scenes
Christmas Eve
Epiphany
Christmas in Catalonia
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.
An interactive PowerPoint advent calendar to use throughout the month of December. Just click on the date and you will be taken to a phase 5 phonics activity! Activities range from finding rhyming words to singing phase 5 phonemes. All phase 5 sounds and tricky words are revised in a wide variety of scenarios, perfect for your whole class to enjoy.
A great start to the Christmas season.
This pack contains six comprehension activities based around the theme of transport. Perfect for a mixed year 1-2 class.
3 of the comprehensions are aimed at year 1. Each comprehension has a short piece of text and five simple questions. There is also an accompanying PowerPoint for each to help you introduce the texts to your year 1s.
3 of the comprehensions are aimed at year 2. Each comprehension is based on the year 2 SATs reading paper and is differentiated 3 ways.
The following topics are included:
Aeroplanes
Trains
Cars
PDF file format and editable Microsoft Word format included in the price.
This resource is an** interactive lesson** and accompanying** activities** focused on the phase 5 phoneme** ‘aw.’**
The lesson is aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a PowerPoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound. It takes 15-20 minutes.
This PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to ‘aw’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘aw’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘aw’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with ‘aw’ sound
Writing a sentence with ‘aw’ sound
Revision of HFW
The activities booklet includes 10 pages of independent work for children to complete either as a starter, homework activity, filler or as an additional section for a longer phonics lesson. The activities can be printed out as individual sheets or in booklet form. They include sound spotter stories, anagrams and sorting words among others.
Perfect to ensure your class know this sound inside out!
(Also available as an individual lesson or activity booklet.)
This resource contains 3 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
They each contain a short piece of text (about 5 sentences) with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 questions, containing ‘what,’ ‘which,’ ‘who’ and ‘where’ questions and some multiple choice questions.
The theme in this pack is St George.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.
This resource contains 6 comprehension activities all about the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. They are suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.
They each contain a short piece of text with words that can be predominantly sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions. Each comprehension can be used individually or you can print out the front cover to create a booklet.
There are six different comprehensions:
The Royal Wedding
Prince Harry
Meghan Markle
The Queen
How to Throw a Royal Wedding Party
The Royal Wedding Day
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format.
(Please note: due to copyright reasons, no pictures of any of the royal family are included. Please also note that this resource was created prior to the Royal Wedding day.)
This pack contains six comprehension activities based around the theme of European countries. Perfect for a mixed year 1/2 class.
3 of the comprehensions are aimed at year 1. Each comprehension has a short piece of text and five simple questions. There is also an accompanying PowerPoint for each to help you introduce the texts to your year 1s.
3 of the comprehensions are aimed at year 2. Each comprehension is based on the year 2 SATs reading paper and is differentiated 3 ways.
The following topics are included:
France
Germany
Spain
PDF file format and editable Microsoft Word format included in the price.
This resource contains comprehension activities on Germany suitable for using with year 1. There are four different comprehensions:
What to do in Germany
What to eat in Germany
German traditions - Christmas
German traditions - Easter
There are three differentiated levels. There is a colour and black & white version of each level.
Each level contains four short pieces of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say. Each passage is followed by 5 simple questions.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. This is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it.
Answers are also included.
All of the documents are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
PDF file format.
A collection of 9 comprehension activities for year 1 on the theme of European countries.
All the comprehensions contain a short piece of text with picture clues for tricky words and five simple questions. There are also accompanying PowerPoints for you to read the texts through with your class if you wish.
This pack contains:
3 comprehensions on Germany
3 comprehensions on Spain
3 comprehensions on France
