Welcome students into the classroom and straight into your topic with these engaging and hands on learning opportunities!
These 10 Math and Literacy resources are perfect for the classroom, home school, morning work, independent play, scaffolded learning, early finishers and more.
Resouces include:
Read, Draw & Make a Sentence
Crack the Code
Initial Sound Match
Initial Sound Strips
Look and Write
Phonetic Picture Cards
CVC Frame
100 Square
Open Ended Hedgehogs
Twenty Frames
This bundle is perfect for Early years. Fine motor skills help to build strength in their fingers. This will then help then with their writing whilst completing a range of Little Red Riding Hood activities. The doubling game is a fun way to practice their Maths skills.
A activity designed to support those working within an early years setting. This activity will cement the importance words and meanings surrounding literacy and phonics.
This will help learners to understand the different terms used within literacy and phonics and within early years.
A nice simple activity to refresh learning or help learners understand the terms in literacy.
Activities to support all areas of the curriculum from early years to year 6. The activities can be used stand alone or as part of an introduction or plenary session. Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.
These activities have been made to support all areas of the curriculum from Early Years to Year 6.
The activities can stand alone or used as part of an introduction or plenary session.
Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.
Includes word searches, gap fill activities and sort activities.
Lesson 1 : These slides include the Ruby’s Worry story , a full lesson to sequence the events in the story plus all the worksheets and resources needed.
A variety of different task board activities for Literacy and English. Included are specific tasks for the North Lanarkshire Council Active Literacy programme.
This Rhyming words flashcard included, -at, -an, -og, -ig, -ot, -op, -ock, -ox, -ap, -ag, ip, -in, and -un
How to use:
Can be used for silly soup games, intervention, free flow games.
Planning for a Reception class for three lessons of literacy each week for Autumn 2 (6 weeks). This planning uses the approach of drawing and writing words/captions/sentences depending on the children. We also link our lessons to the lenses used in The Write Stuff.
Each lesson provides 3 different levels of challenge - the levels/targets/expectations identified on page 1.
6 weeks of lessons in total - 3 lessons per week covering 4 books/texts:
Firework Poetry (Using ‘On Firework Night’) - 1 week
How to Catch a Star - 1 week
Zog and the Flying Doctors - 2 weeks
Stick Man - 2 weeks
Font used; Twinkl Light but this document is fully editable should you not have access to this or wish to change it. I have also saved the planning as a PDF.
Year R / Early Years / Reception class planning
Entire year planning
Progression of skills document - using development matters and birth to 5.
Baseline assessment booklet
Medium term plans for Autumn, Spring and Summer
Topics include: All about me, Community, People who help us, Festivals and holidays, Space, Fairytales, growing and life cycles, Under the sea, mermaids, pirates, holidays, seaside, Animals around the world
-topic maps
planning templates
Map out your core texts with clarity and intention.
This editable Literacy Long Term Plan template helps you map your core books across the academic year.
Designed for Nursery and EYFS, it lets you sequence your focus texts term by term, link them to your themes (if you use them), and build a language-rich curriculum that values depth, repetition and ambitious vocabulary.
What’s included:
An editable long term literacy map template
Clear term-by-term layout (Autumn, Spring, Summer)
Space to organise core texts and themes
My completed plans from the last two academic years (2024–2025 and 2025–2026) for real-life examples and inspiration.
These are the actual documents I use to organise our core story approach - mapped carefully, reviewed regularly and adapted when the children need something different.
Perfect for:
EYFS teachers refining their literacy spine
Settings developing a strong core book approach
Subject leaders reviewing curriculum intent
Anyone who wants clarity without rewriting everything from scratch
Use it as it is, tweak it, or completely reshape it to match your curriculum. It’s fully editable.
Ideal for teacher training or NQT a literacy bundle that has a range of worksheets for SEN, Early Years, Reception, Primary and Preschoolers.
Includes differentiated worksheets for students who are at the pre-writing stage, up to writing independently. Has worksheets for alphabet A-Z for matching, phonics and practicing writing and spelling.
Includes differentiated comprehension from 12 nursery rhymes to 12 differentiated photos commenting on items in photos (3 sets of each for lower, middle and higher abilities).
With the speaking, listening and writing we ask carers to email or let us know a couple of things that their child did at the weekend, so that we are able to prompt children or get other children to ask appropriate questions. We also check children's listening by asking 'Who went shopping, who visited family, who was ill, who walked the dog, where did they go, what did they buy' etc. before the students write what they did with help, by copying from a white board or working independently.
Also includes a colouring activity to check children's listening skills. Adult asks them to colour a particular part of the picture a certain colour and records if they did it correctly.
No prep needed - just cutting and gluing with the children. You may need whiteboards and pens to help the children with spelling.
The objective of this lesson is: Students will show initial understanding of rhyming by using thumbs up/down to identify if spoken word pairs (e.g., cat/hat) have matching ending sounds during a “Rhyming Yes or No” game.
This lesson is around Ruby’s Worry story book.
Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work!
Each mat covers…
Common errors
Apostrophes
Connectives and conjunctions
Paragraphs
Sentence types
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This pack contains nine resources including a guided and adapted sensory story of The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, colourful semantics activities and suggestions for their use to support the comprehension and linguistic skills of pupils.
All resources can be adapted by teachers in multiple ways based on the needs of specific pupils. It is my aim to support other teachers and SEN teachers in empowering their learners to thrive through accessing bespoke learning materials that cater for their individual needs, without having to reinvent the wheel!
Images created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, from the story ‘The Snail and the Whale’.
Widgits created via paid subscription to Boardmaker.
This comes from the BLEW (Bilingual Learners Early years Work box) document. I typed out useful extracts to keep somewhere prominent for teachers and observers to refer to. I thought it was an excellent basis for judging where bilingual learners are in their acquisition of English.