Preschool English language arts resources

Tom Thumb Handout - 28 pages Includes the story Word Search KWL activities Colouring sheets

Through the use of a flashcard game, students explore some of the reasons why saving energy is important for our environment. They begin to think about what actions they can take to save energy.

End-of-year inspirational fun for your class. Contents: a dragon’s menu to complete (with alliteration), a sheet of dragon rhymes to chant, clap, enact, sing and add to, and 6 bright, lively dragon pictures to stimulate ideas for art, writing, drama and more.

Ideal end-of-term fun for classes of all ages, with scope for physical movement and multi-arts development. Once there was a dragon dressed in red. He liked to stay all day in… - but you can guess the last word, and so can the children, although some may prefer to offer alternatives with other rhyming words. Red is just one example of the numerous colours featuring in these crazy dragon verses, which lend themselves to being enacted, and even sung to a made-up tune, as well as chanted and clapped. Follow on with dragon sketches or try my dragon’s menu for easy, crazy writing fun.

Download this whole week of comprehension lessons for year 2, reading The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me. Five complete lessons which develops the children’s understanding of the book and their ability to answer comprehension questions. Every lesson includes: Starter Teaching points Pages to read Independent activities Challenge Plenary This week focuses on the comprehension questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text. The teaching points emphasise the importance of looking back over what you have read and using what you know. Colonel Code Breaker appears everyday to give the children handy tips and help them become confident at decoding tricky words. All activities are differentiated into 3 ability groups, with printable sheets provided separately to support every child. Enjoy teaching reading with this accessible and engaging famous book by Roald Dahl, excite your pupils with the charming characters whilst they expand their vocabulary. You can find lots more useful resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop Or you might be interested in these handy resources: Year 2 Reading Corner Display Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions

Rumpelstiltskin Activity Pack Rumpelstiltskin Handout Rumpelstiltskin Word Search Rumpelstiltskin Picture Pack PP Rumpelstiltskin Maze Puzzle

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The Day of the Dead video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The Alchemist’s Letter video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of the Roads End video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of the Owl Babies video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

Teachers on Toast or Catastrophe Curry? What delicious, disgusting, dangerous, dreadful dishes will your class place on this alliteration-focused menu? Don’t worry, though, it’s for dragons only: humans aren’t allowed in dragon cafes - except on plates, possibly. A great end-of-term slot-filler, combining fun with literacy development, creativity, humour and the promotion of class-harmony.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The A Cloudy Lesson video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The Windmill Farmer video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The Rocketeer video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of The Present video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

A crammed vocabulary pack to support the teaching of Ruckus video as seen on The Literacy Shed. Lists of words linked to the main characters and environments. Plus a full page of associated verbs, nouns and adjectives. All designed to improve pupil independence when writing. Other resources include synonym sections where pupils explore up-leveled vocabulary. Perfect to support your teaching of this video unit.

Help the Queen find Rumpelstiltskin maze puzzle

Three weeks of detailed plans for a year 1/2 mixed class. Included is the story map, activities for the immerse section of T4W including suffixes (er/est) and using adjectives. All worksheets and a powerpoint is included. The plans then move onto showing a fact file on Mr Grinling and builds up to children creating a fact file on someone who is special to them. All worksheets and templates for planning are included. The plans then show how to help the children innovate the story and then create their own problem story based on the same plot. Again, all worksheets are included. I also have the book on a PPT which I can email to someone after purchase. Lots of files are publisher files so please make sure you can open them. Some worksheets have the red and blue handwritng lines we use in our school but all sheets are editable. Any problems with the plans then please let me know :)

Rumpelstiltskin Handout - 18 pages

FIVE quality wordsearches with 30 words each and complementary images to keep the children engaged and encouraging them to exercise their curiosity by making the connections. This History pack includes wordsearches for: 1800s London, Castles, Knights, Vikings and Leonardo Da Vinci. Use these wordsearches in history lessons, STEM lessons, tutor time, as part of brain-gym / break activity, as a starter, as a plenary, reading / spelling / vocab practice, for emphasising pattern recognition and practice for drawing lines!

I created this document to hand out to my parents at the beginning of the school year. It’s a short snippet of activities that parents could engage with with their children. There are 7 pages, including: *Some sample questions to ask children while reading. *Rate out of 10. To allow children to form opinions on what they’ve read. *Re-tell the story. To allow children to order parts of the story. *Change the ending. This allows children to take their understanding to another level. *Strategies for parents when reading with their children. See my preview for a clearer idea of this resource.

Dear Teachers, We are delighted to provide you with the FREE resource, ‘3,2,1, Action’, a KS1/2 resource designed to help teach children valuable creative skills within English and Art and Design. This Teen Titans GO! movie inspired resource is perfect for teachers looking for fun materials in the run up to the summer holidays. Written and produced by senior educators, your FREE resource includes: • 3 x (Ofsted compliant) lessons linked to English, Art and Design: includes PPT with multi-media film, teacher notes and curriculum-linked pupil activity sheets. You can download your free materials here: We hope you find the time to use these simple and fun resources before the summer holidays and that your pupils enjoy taking part in our fun national drawing competition (closing dates for entries are Friday 24th July 2018). The team at SUPER.

A selection of activities to go with the comic poem The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned.

This is for KS1 children to help them distinguish the different sounds of the ‘ed’ suffix when added to verbs. It contains a power point presentation where children have to guess the past tense verb, write it correctly using ‘ed’ and then check it when the teacher brings in the sounds one by one. For their consolidation activity, there are three ‘ed’ cards showing the different sounds and a selection of ‘ed’ verbs. Children have to sort the verbs onto the correct cards. These can be printed onto cards and laminated so they can be reused. Please note, the list of words displayed in the preview do print out correctly on one line, they should not be split :) Any problems please contact me and I can email any files.

A single and double phase (to be chopped in half to save paper) 1 phoneme mat. Perfect for child to have at their desks when writing or for sending home for revision with parents. Any questions, please ask.

A visual resource for year 3/4 spellings to help them write sentences.

In this lesson students are asked to start expressing their views about nature and place. Students will head outside to an area of their school yard. Working in groups, students respond to questions about nature, recording their ideas on separate pieces of paper that the class will then compile to make a flip chart. They then express their personal views through a drawing or a story.

Year 2 and able Year 1 children will enjoy filling out this report form after your next class trip, and providing an illustration in the picture gap. There are two versions, to accommodate emergent and independent writers. Each offers simple prompts for individual input: We went to _ , We went by _ (e.g. coach), I liked ', and in the harder version - We saw _ . The resource provides writing practice while also consolidating experiences and learning from the outing and marking the event.

During this lesson students gain a greater appreciation of the value of trees by exploring and creating rhyming poetry. After writing a class poem, students form groups and create a series of photos that reflect and enhance the meaning of the poem. The class poem and photos are used to create a display in the school to raise awareness of the importance of trees. This lesson is designed to be taught outside. By spending time outdoors and connecting to nature, students are more likely to care for and conserve nature as adults.

Designed to be printed double-sided. One side contains: Year 1 Exception words grouped into those with similar spelling patterns where possible. Lower case and upper case letters on handwriting lines. ‘bed’ pictures to support children who reverse b’s and d’s. Examples of common -s and -es plurals. Examples of common -ed and -ing verbs. Examples of common -er nouns. Examples of common -er and -est adjectives. Examples of common un- words. Examples of some common compound words. The other side contains graphemes grouped according to their phoneme. We may produce a Year 2 version depending on popularity.

Apples with subordination and coordination vocabulary for KS1. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

This pack is to support teachers in exploring the production ‘Not Now, Bernard’, an adaptation of David McKee’s classic children’s picturebook, for working with children in Early Years - Year 1. It contains practical drama activities that explore themes and ideas in the play.

This pack is to support teachers in exploring the production ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, an adaptation of the iconic children’s book, for working with children in Years 1 - 4. It contains interviews with the director, one of the actors, images of the set design by James Button, and practical drama activities that explore themes and ideas in the play.

This pack is to support teachers in exploring the production ‘Seesaw’, for working with children in Early Years - Year 4. It contains interviews with the writer, director, and practical drama activities that explore themes and ideas in the play.

A colourful poster giving examples of different conjunctions for and, but, when and why’.

A set of 8 posters that give simple definitions of grammar terminology for KS1.

A poster offering a simple definition of an antonym. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

A set of posters for classroom display showing punctuation relevant to KS1. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 1 sentence objective requiring pupils to understand joining words and joining clauses using and. The PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion.

A poster offering a simple definition of a verb. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

A poster offering a simple definition of a synonym. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.

A poster offering a simple definition of a preposition. Visit www.knightowl.education for more EYFS and KS1 resources.