Year 1 Position and Direction | Maths Lessons, Slides and Worksheets

5 ready-to-teach Year 1 maths lessons on position and direction, each with a teaching slide deck and worksheets at three levels. The lessons follow the White Rose Maths small-steps order for Year 1 (Summer Block 3), so they slot straight into White Rose or another mastery scheme.

WHAT’S INSIDE (5 slide decks + 24 printable pages)
• 5 teaching slide decks (PowerPoint, opens in Google Slides) – learning goal, key words, a warm-up, modelled examples, show-me questions with answer slides, reasoning, a spot-the-mistake slide, an exit ticket, a game and a review
• Teacher notes on every slide
• Worksheets for every lesson at three levels (★ support, ★★ core, ★★★ challenge), with answers
• An end-of-block check (12 questions) with answers and a class tracker

THE 5 LESSONS

1. Describe turns (whole, half, quarter, three-quarter; clockwise and anticlockwise)
2. Describe position: left and right
3. Describe position: forwards and backwards
4. Describe position: above and below
5. Ordinal numbers

HOW IT’S TAUGHT
Concrete, pictorial and abstract, with children turning, moving and lining up, then turn dials, shapes in a row, shelves and tracks, in a mastery approach.

FORMATS
PowerPoint slides, and PDF worksheets in A4 and US Letter, one folder per lesson (in one ZIP).

GREAT FOR
Whole-class teaching, small groups and intervention, supply and cover lessons, and home learning.

ALSO AVAILABLE
• Year 1 Place Value within 100 – the next block (Summer Block 4), in the same format
• Year 1 Maths Worksheets Full Year Bundle – a double-sided worksheet for every Year 1 small step
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This resource follows the small steps of the White Rose Maths Year 1 scheme of learning. Allen Learning Press is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, White Rose Education. All questions and pictures are original.

Licence: for use by one teacher in one classroom. Please buy additional licences to share with colleagues.