A simple and child friendly assessment to allow you to quickly see where your children are within the Year 2 English curriculum and highlight any individual or class gaps in learning. Can be used each term to show progress.

Differentiated activities to teach children to recognise and use adverbs in their writing, enough for two sessions.

A sheet that encourages children to imagine what thet could see, smell, hear and feel in a setting.

Activities based on the Alfie and Annie Rose stories by Shirley Hughes. The first activity is for the children to describe both characters, and the second is for the children to retell the story of Mr McNally's hat in a story-map style.

I made this Powerpoint to encourage children to focus on punctuation and capital letters.

I made a 'character drawer&', full of brightly coloured laminated well known characters (from children&';s literature, Disney, Pixar, etc), and a 'settings drawer&', full of laminated A4 sheets showing all sorts of different settings, including photographs, animated and multicultural scenes. The idea is that children choose a character/characters and a setting, and write an imaginative story or some sentences. I also included tiny flashcards saying each of the characters names, so the children can match up the pictures with the words.

I made this powerpoint for those few minutes that appear every now and again during the school day, just before dinner or breaktime or if the children just really need a quick break. I have used it countless times since I started teaching and it has always been popular with the kids, I used to leave them with a riddle 'cliffhanger&' - Sending them out to break without revealing the answer, they&';d spend all breaktime discussing what the answer could possibly be!

I made this resource to help my Year 1's become familiar with matching up lower case letters to their equivalent capital letters, by matching the ice-cream to the correct cone.

I wanted to enrage my Year 3 children in order to encourage them to do some brilliant persuasive writing, so I mocked up a letter from 'Bruce Boggington&', the chief director of a pickled onion factory, who wrote to the children explaining that he would be building his new factory all over their school field. The children were suitably outraged by the letter and produced some great writing, with lots of good points!

My class 'received&' a letter from Captain Pete Pigeon, during our literacy unit on writing letters. We wrote back to him on the &';scrolls' and it made a really nice display, along with the old fashioned map, compass and title.

The story of King Arthur displayed on a PowerPoint. I used this for a year 3 class for our Myths and Legends literacy unit. We went on to plan and write our own adventure stories based on Arthur.

Four traditional fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper The Hunter, the Horse and the Stag The Hare and the Tortoise The Goose that laid Golden Eggs The children used the planning sheet to plan their own writing based on one of these four traditional fables, and then I displayed their writing underneath the 'Fables' display sign.

Powerpoint containing two poems that can be used for the Silly Stuff poetry unit in Year 2. I also made a story map (or poem map!) to go with the poem, differentiated for lower and higher pupils. Hope it can be helpful for somebody.