Presentation for training teaching assistants or support staff in teaching phonics. Includes phonics terminology, phoneme check, how to structure a phonics session, activities and resources.

This is a one hour long staff meeting regarding the teaching of writing in primary which recaps the strategies of modelled, shared and guided writing. The meeting is interactive and includes a dictation activity starter, sorting table activity and several videos.

These are resources for an hour-long staff meeting on strategies and activities to use in class in order to improve reading. The meeting is interactive, includes six activities and has received glowing feedback from staff. Activities include methods for teaching reading and activities which children can take part in, in order to improve their understanding of a text. Timings, video and all hand outs are included.

This resource bundle is a presentation regarding reciprocal reading / teaching strategies with related resources. Would be suitable for a short staff meeting/ workshop. Includes several varieties of reciprocal reading cards for pupils, posters, and activities for staff. Reciprocal reading is a wonderful activity which can allow pupils to deepen understanding when reading a text.

This is a full hour inference staff meeting for primary teachers. It includes reference to SATs papers and curriculum requirements. The meeting is interactive and covers many ideas for teaching inference in primary. It demonstrates and describes several inference strategies and activities for all year groups. I have led this staff meeting and received positive feedback. These resources include a 21 page presentation, activities and teaching resources.

These resources are for teaching the unit: Animals Including Humans and are suitable for key stage one. Included is a 25 page PowerPoint presentation with fun activities including matching games, songs and links to videos. The bundle includes all worksheets and resources for up to five lessons. The following requirements are covered: * identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, * identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores * describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets) *identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body * say which part of the body is associated with each sense.

The theme of this book week is ‘Heroes and Villains’. This bundle includes all you need for book week in primary, including: banned book activity, book quiz, newsletter, timetables, power point for assembly, competitions, certificates, villain hunt, Mr Men hunt and much more! Fifteen files included.

I recently created a primary school library from scratch which has been very successful! Here are all the resources I created and used including: a classification key, labels for all categories, pictures of authors, displays, invitations, basket labels, invitations, bookmarks, posters promoting reading, library monitor badges and more. Fifteen files are included.

These resources are designed for delivering a workshop for parents of year one children regarding the phonics screening check. The presentation covers the following: What is phonics? , Terminology, How we teach phonics, The Phonics Screening Check and Resources. Included in the bundle is a presentation, a document containing over 80 alien word flashcards, further guidance on phonic phonemes and a letter inviting parents to the workshop.

Checklists for different genres of writing.