Hi! I'm Marie. From experience as a primary teacher, I enjoy creating sets of teaching resources (often with my own illustrations!) for introducing and teaching school topics, and with practical activities. Hope you find something useful. Happy teaching! :)
Hi! I'm Marie. From experience as a primary teacher, I enjoy creating sets of teaching resources (often with my own illustrations!) for introducing and teaching school topics, and with practical activities. Hope you find something useful. Happy teaching! :)
Use a unique PowerPoint (47 slides) as a fun way to introduce facts & vocabulary associated to the farm, farm animals and their young, shelters and environments, jobs on the farm, farming tools and vehicles and foods from the farm.
Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading ICT activities. The PowerPoint also shows some of the worksheets based on the same theme. It is designed as a means to introduce and talk about follow up activities while providing some suggested answers.
Activities and suggested answers include:
• Matching farm animals and their young
• Farm animals and their shelters
• Names & use of farm vehicles
• Foods from the farm
• Jobs on the farm and tools
The PowerPoint has been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save the PPP , sounds and fonts in the same file.
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Suitable for Year 2 - 5 parts PowerPoint that can be used over 5 lessons. Includes worksheets for follow up activities.
Part 1 – Storytelling
To know the beginning, middle and end of the story
To retell the story orally
Includes diagram of elements of a traditional tale; the story of The Three Little Pigs; prompt for oral storytelling
Part 2 – Sequence
To sequence the main events of the story
To match text with pictures
Activities prompting children to order story pictures and to match text with pictures; think of a good sentence opener for each picture
Part 3 – Sentence Starters
To know how to start sentences differently
To retell the story orally using sentence openers
Includes looking at different sentence openers for each part of the story; think of a good sentence opener for each picture
Part 4 – Characters
To talk about the characters in the story and say what you think about each one
To describe each characters using adjectives
Includes adjectives for each character, asking children to explain why; complete sentences with best adjectives
Part 5 – Story Plot
To know the different parts that makes a story
To give some reasons why things happen
Includes story plot diagrams; a question for each part of the story with a prompt to answer
Hope that you like and find them useful. If you have any comments or recommendations to make, please do not hesitate to do so.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Useful Word Mats for writing and spellings – one with time connectives, verbs and adjectives, other with key vocabulary
Hope that you like and find them useful. If you have any comments or recommendations to make, please do not hesitate to do so.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Suitable for Year 2
• Story of The Three Little Pigs – text
• Tell The Tale – story pictures for sequencing and oral retelling
• What Happens Next? –cut and paste pictures and text
• Story Map - complete a map with words and/or pictures
• What’s The Problem? – What happened when the wolf blew on the houses? use adjectives to describe each house and give a reason
• Story Structure – list characters, settings, events and resolution
• Character Portrait – illustrate and describe one character
• Describing Characters – use adjectives word bank
• Wolf’s Challenge - tick which statements are true
• True or False - identify which sentences are true or not and rewrite the false sentences so that they are true
• Story Sequence – blank sheet
• Story Plan – blank sheet
• writing sheet – blank x 2
• Wanted Poster x 2
• Word Mat - including verbs, adjectives, sentence starters
• Missing Words - use word bank to complete sentences
• Capital Letters – add the missing capital letters
• Speech Marks – add the missing speech marks
• Where is the punctuation? – add missing capital letters, full stop, commas, speech marks, exclamation marks
• Comprehension - 3 pages
Useful Tip! Use the PDF doc with your IWB to work through the pages with your children :)
Hope that you like and find them useful. If you have any comments or recommendations to make, please do not hesitate to do so.
For additional resources based on the story of The Three Little Pigs including Science & DT, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Animals from Africa - Worksheets
Set of worksheets to learn about Africa, the African savannah and different groups of most popular African animals.
African Savannah Animals - Animal Classification
This is a great activity for children to learn how animals are grouped into different categories. Includes teaching suggestions, activity set (pictures and labels), instructions, worksheets, posters and answer sheets.
Animals from Africa - Word Mats
Useful word mats with names of African animals from the Savannah, classification groups and features, verbs and adjectives
For additional resources based on African Savannah Animals, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
Printable story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with comprehension worksheets for assessing understanding, and origin of the story.
Activities include reading and answering questions, creative writing, and comparing different versions to write a book review.
Set includes:
• Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – text
• Comprehension - text, questions, write a different ending
• Story Sequence – blank sheet for writing
• Origins of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – text
• Book Review – compare 2 versions of the same story and record preferences
For additional resources based on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Printable story of Jack and The Beanstalk and comprehension worksheets for assessing understanding.
Activities include reading and answering questions and comparing different versions to write a book review.
Set includes:
• Story of Jack and The Beanstalk – text
• Comprehension - text, questions, write a different ending
• True or False - identify which sentences are true or not and rewrite the false sentences so that they are true
• Book Review – compare 2 versions of the same story and record preferences
For additional resources based on the story of Jack and The Beanstalk please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
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A handy word mat for independent writing with sentence starters for each part of the story, verbs and adjectives.
Includes blank sheets for story writing.
For additional resources based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources :)
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
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A set of posters (text) to introduce different groups of animals - mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, insects and animals which belong to ‘other’ classification groups!
This set also comes with worksheets, for this please look for Animal Classification Posters & Worksheets in my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
This bundle includes information about most popular sea creatures and includes Science and Literacy related resources and activities
Under The Sea Worksheets
Set of worksheets to learn about living underwater, sea zones and different groups of sea animals - Can be used as shared reading activities (Literacy)
Under the Sea - Animal Classification
This is a great activity for children to learn how animals are grouped into different categories - vertebrate, invertebrate, fish, mammal, reptile, crustacean, mollusc, echinoderm, coelenterate, worm and sponge.
Includes teaching suggestions, activity set (pictures and labels), instructions, worksheets, information posters and answer sheets.
Under the Sea - Fact Sheets
A lot of useful information about different groups of most common aquatic animals – includes fish, mammal, reptile, crustacean, mollusc, echinoderm, coelenterate, worm and sponge.
For more useful activities, please check my other Under the Sea resources in my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Useful word mats with names of aquatic animals, classification groups and features, diet and food, verbs and adjectives – could be put back to back and laminated together to create one lasting document.
For more useful activities, please check my Under the Sea Animal Classification set and Bingo in my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources.
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Useful word mats with names of minibeasts, classification groups and features, verbs and adjectives – could be put back to back and laminated together to create one lasting document.
For more useful activities, please check other Minibeasts resources in my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Fact sheets - for reading activities and independent research
A4 fact sheets (A5 folded in half) with clear information about each animal - for a Reading Corner, Topic Board or Writing Corner. Includes:
Animals from Africa
Animals from the Rainforest
Under the sea Animals
Minibeasts
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
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Fact sheets - for reading activities and independent research with clear information about most popular dinosaurs – use them as visual display resources in a Reading Corner, Writing Corner or on Topic Board.
If you would like follow-up activities, please check my set of Dinosaurs Worksheets (sold separately).
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dinosaurs-worksheets-11534907
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
A set of posters to learn about dinosaurs, dinosaur groups, time line, size, their diets (predator or prey) and types of food they ate.
A lot of useful information that can be used for independent research and for display.
If you would like follow-up activities, please check my set of Dinosaurs Worksheets and Word Mat (vocabulary) for independent writing (sold separately).
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dinosaurs-worksheets-11534907
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dinosaurs-word-mat-11652200
For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources
Thanks for looking :)
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary associated to the topic Under The Sea. Lots of key information about different groups of sea creatures - fish, mammals, reptiles, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, worms, coelenterates and sponges - as well as for different species. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes now 3 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning.
PPP LA: Suitable for early KS1 - 41 slides - key words to introduce the ocean environment, names & features of animals
PPP MA: Suitable for KS1 - 47 slides with key sentences & adjectives - to learn about the environment, animal groups, names & habits of animals
PPP HA: Suitable for KS1 (early KS2) top readers - 77 slides which includes more extended reading material & information, key facts & useful vocabulary
The PowerPoints have been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary associated to the rainforest. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes 3 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning.
PPP LA: Suitable for early KS1 - 21 slides - key words to introduce the rainforest environment, names and features of animals
PPP MA: Suitable for KS1 - 36 slides with key sentences and adjectives to learn about the environment, animal groups, names and habits of animals
PPP HA: Suitable for KS1 (early KS2) top readers - 64 slides which includes more extended reading material and information, key facts and useful vocabulary
The PowerPoints have been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.
10 slides – sheep, cows, goats, horses, pigs, chickens, geese, ducks, dogs, cats - which highlight:
• name of adult & young animal
• early stages in life
• eating habits / food
• behaviour
• name of the sound they make
• shelter
• name of animal group
plus 3 slides to guess the names of all the young animals to reinforce learning.
Suitable for KS1
Use unique PowerPoints as a fun way to introduce and teach facts and vocabulary associated to dinosaurs. Ideal for whole class teaching or set up as independent reading / researching ICT activities.
The set includes now 3 differentiated PowerPoints to suit each and everyone’s diverse levels of learning.
PPP LA: Suitable for early KS1 - 18 slides – key words to introduce names & features of popular dinosaurs
PPP MA: Suitable for KS1 - 21 slides with key sentences & adjectives to learn about dinosaurs, names & features & different groups
PPP HA: Suitable for KS1 (early KS2) top readers - 34 slides which includes more extended reading material & information - to learn about the different groups of dinosaurs, key facts & useful vocabulary
The PowerPoints have been created with sounds – create a file and ensure that you save ALL PPPs and sounds in the same file.