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This resource contains a spelling practice worksheet for words containing the ‘wr’ digraph.
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wr Digraph Spelling Practice Worksheets
These spelling practice worksheets include all the major words containing the ‘wr’ digraph.
wr Digraph - Set of 14 Differentiated Worksheets
This resource contains 16 differentiated worksheets and tasks designed to help pupils learn how to read and spell words containing the digraph ‘wr’.
Tasks include:
matching the correct ‘wr’ word to image
identifying and correcting misspelled ‘wr’ words in sentences
composing own sentences containing ‘wr’ words
solving ‘wr’ anagram puzzles (3 differentiated worksheets)
finding ‘wr’ words word search (3 differentiated worksheets)
finding the ‘wr’ words from the clues puzzle
wr Digraph - 60 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains an editable 48-slide PowerPoint lesson on the ‘wr’ digraph. The PowerPoint contains:
the common words containing the ‘wr’ digrap - write, wreath, wren, wriggle, wrong, wrestle, wrinkle, wrapper, wrinkly, wrap and more
the less common words- wry, awry, wreak, writhe, wrench - and their meaning
a spelling challenge where pupils are given clues to guess the ‘wr’ words and then spell them.
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This is a Christmas themed coordinates in the first quadrant. Pupils have to find what Christmas items are located at points in the first quadrant.
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Set of 5 Christmas Themed Co-Ordinates in the First Quadrant Worksheets
This resource contains a set of 5 Christmas themed worksheets containing a variety of tasks and exercises on
locating coordinates
plotting coordinates
Answers are included. This resource is appropriate for primary aged children and older, SEN students.
Christmas Maths Battleships Game
This resource is a Christmas themed battleships game to introduce and reinforce the teaching of coordinates in the first quadrant. There are 10 grids which can be used to play with a partner. These could be laminated and used time and time again. There is also a coordinates record sheet and a score sheet.
Christmas Battleships PowerPoint Game
This resource contains a Christmas themed battleships team game on an interactive PowerPoint. It is a fun way of reinforcing coordinates in the first quadrant. There are three different grids to provide hours of fun! It can be administered to a whole class. It includes team score sheet. It is a great resource for reinforcing coordinates in the first quadrant.
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This resource contains two posters on Hanukkah.
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Hanukkah Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable and informative 36-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah (also known as the Festival of Lights) which is celebrated for eight days, usually between the end of November and the end of December. Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the miracle of the menorah lights.
The PowerPoint explains what Hanukkah is and why and how it is celebrated. It focuses on:
Why Hanukkah is commemorated - the story of King Antiochus IV, Mattathias, Judah and the Maccabees.
The restoration and re-dedication of the Second Temple.
The miracle of the menorah and its significance.
Hanukkah food - fried food cooked in oil eg latkes and doughnuts
Hanukkah Games - the dreidel, gelt (chocolate coins)
The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to a short and lively 5-minute video about Hanukkah.
This resource will help to contribute to the pupils’ ‘Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural’ learning (SMSC) and will help to actively promote the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
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This is a sample worksheet, for silent ‘k’ and ‘g’ in ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ words, taken from a set of 18 differentiated worksheets that are available to purchase.
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‘kn’ and ‘gn’ Digraphs Set of 18 Worksheets
This resource contains 18 differentiated worksheets and exercises to help pupils learn how to read and spell words containing the digraphs ‘kn’ and ‘gn’. Tasks include:
Identifying words containing the ;kn’ and ‘gn’ digraphs by matching words to pictures
Inserting the correct word into sentence
Composing sentences using words that contain the kn’ and ‘gn’ digraphs
Finding ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ words in word searches
Unscrambling anagrams containing ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ digraphs
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‘kn’ and ‘gn’ Digraphs Set of 18 PowerPoint Lesson
This is an accompanying 50- slide PowerPoint lesson on the silent ‘k’ and ‘g’ . The PowerPoint introduces most of the common words containing these two silent letters. Pupils are asked to read and spell some of the words
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A valuable resource for TES authors in how to use HTML codes to create bold, italics and underlining in resource and product descriptions. A guide on how to become a successful TES author is also available:
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This resource contains a detailed 26-page, step-by-step guide for authors. I first began to produce educational resources for TES in August 2015. When I look back at my early resources I cringe! I made so many mistakes…. Since then I have come a long way and learned so much. One of my resources made over 700 sales in the space of a few weeks and earned £2000 in royalties. In this 26 page, step-by-step guide I share my mistakes and my successes to help you avoid making the same mistakes and to become a successful author sooner than you would have done without this guide.
I do not claim to have all the answers and ‘my way’ might not be other people’s way. However, whether you are a potential author, an author starting out or already an author; I am sure that this guide can help you in some way and will prove a worthwhile investment.
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This resource contains two ready made, interactive templates for an advent calendar. All you need to do (or get your pupils to do) is populate the slides with ideas / activities appropriate to the needs of your students.
Suggestions:
Thought for the day
Christmas images
Christmas quotes
Literacy starter activities
Maths starter activities
Photographs of your pupils with a job to do, or a challenge, or a reward or treat
Christmas photograph
News for discussion
Random Acts of Kindness
To return to calendar 1 click on the Santa image. To return to calendar 2 click on the Christmas tree image.
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This is a Christmas- themed PowerPoint lesson on making plurals with regular words. The presentation is delivered by the expert deliverer - Santa!
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The PowerPoint includes how to make the following nouns plural:
- common nouns - adding ‘s’
- nouns ending in ‘ch’ , ‘sh’, ‘x’ ‘ss’ and ‘s’
- nouns ending in ‘f’ and ‘fe’
- nouns ending in ‘y’ preceded by a consonant
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Christmas-Themed Making Plurals - Set of 5 Worksheets
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Christmas-Themed Making Plurals - PowerPoint Lesson and Worksheets
These resources are appropriate for primary aged pupils and older SEN pupils.
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This is a seasonal worksheet that involves pupils making as many words as possible from the longer word ‘reindeer’ to help improve their spelling, writing and reading skills . The resource is appropriate for Years 1-6 as pupils and older SEN students. Different degrees of challenge can be set. For example more able pupils could be limited to 5, 6 letter words, a greater number of words to be found, a timed challenge etc . It could be a team activity too.
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This resource is an awesome Advent Calendar – jam packed full with fun and educational activities. Appropriate for Year 1-6 and older SEN students. All activities can easily be adapted to suit the needs of learners as the PowerPoint is fully editable. There are 14 days to open – all the school days in December before Christmas. The activities can be used as starters, main lessons or plenaries. Also great Christmas armoury for supply teachers, large groups etc. The resource contains a fully editable, colourful and interactive PowerPoint with many literacy based activities including:
- Word making activities
- Anagrams
- Elfabetical – oops sorry – alphabetical order!
- Word searches / Crosswords
- Santa Stop The Sleigh
- Memory Game - word game
- Adjectives
- Parts of Speech – verbs, adverbs, nouns, conjunctions,
- Christmas jokes / riddles
- Compound Words
- Antonyms
- Capital Letters and full stops
- Carols and lyrics quiz
Most activities contain accompanying worksheets, many with extension activities.
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This is a high frequency word spelling worksheet.
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Set of 30 High Frequency Words Spelling Practice Worksheets
This resource contains a set of 100 high-frequency words differentiated worksheets. They are ideal for spelling practice and homework. The first set is the most challenging and require pupils have to use the words in a sentence. The second set contains just the words for spelling (no sentences). The third set is for those pupils who experience difficulty in writing. The words can be written
over.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 26 slide PowerPoint presentation on the origins of the awe-inspiring Christmas carol Silent Night (Stille Nacht). Silent Night is one of the most bought, downloaded and recorded songs in all musical genres.
The presentation focuses on:
The first performance of Silent Night at Oberndorf, Austria
Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber who together composed the carol
The Silent-Night-Chapel
The significance and impact of the carol
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Bing Crosby’s rendition of the carol, the Christmas Eve performance in Oberndorf, a trailer to the movie Silent Night, the World War I truce and the story of Silent Night.
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This resource contains a 70-slide, simple text presentation on the month of December. It is ideal for when you have a last minute assembly to do or unexpected tutor group time. The resource also contains suggestions for use and a set of worksheets for follow up activities. The follow up activities include:
reflective and evaluative tasks
a research task
the creation of a quiz based on the PowerPoint
The presentation focuses on:
How December got its name, things associated with December – flowers, Zodiac signs, quotes.
Special Days – Advent, Human Rights Day, St Nicholas’ Day, Bodhi Day, Christmas day, Saint Stephen’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay
Notable Birthdays - Walt Disney, Johann Christian Bach, Mary, Queen of Scots, John Milton, Frank Sinatra, Edvard Munch, Taylor Swift, Nostradamus, Gustave Eiffel, Paul Getty, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Stalin, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice and Robin Gibb, Alexander I, Sir Isaac Newton, Mao Tse-tung, Louis Pasteur, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, Tiger Woods, Henri Matisse, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley
Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - Dr Pepper served for first time, The Ford Motor Company introduced first moving assembly line, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 launched in Europe, first Sunday newspaper the Observer published, first episode of Coronation Street broadcast, first Nobel Prizes awarded, Titanic movie premiered, premier of Gone with the Wind, first colour television went on sale, Dickens Christmas Carol published, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales, first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published
Notable Events and Happenings - Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France, new Saint Paul’s Cathedral opened, the world’s first heart transplant completed, UK’s first motorway opened, first traffic lights installed, Muhammad Ali fought last boxing match, Francis Drake set sail around the world in Golden Hind, Wilbur and Orville Wright made first powered aeroplane flight, first performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, BBC World Service began broadcasting, nuclear power was first used, Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Charles de Gaulle elected President of France, Lech Walesa became Poland’s first elected president, Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Thomas Becket assassinated.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide PowerPoint presentation on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in bonfire night.
The content includes references to:
Guy Fawkes’ religious background
The intolerance of James I towards Roman Catholics
The Plot
The anonymous letter
Guy Fawkes arrest, trial and execution
The conspiracy theory
The Act of Thanksgiving
The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion.
In 2002 in a poll conducted by the BBC, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton. What do you think about Guy Fawkes and his planned role in the gunpowder plot? Was he a hero or a terrorist?
Do you think Guy Fawkes and the conspirators should have been sentenced to death and hung, drawn and quartered?
What do you think about James I and his treatment towards, and intolerance of, Catholics?
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This resource contains four winter posters.
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This resource contains a short presentation on Winter Days.
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Winter Days Presentation
This is a fully editable, 45 slide PowerPoint presentation on the theme of Winter Days containing stunning pictures of Winter flora, fauna, weather and landscapes. It is an ideal assembly during the winter months. The slide images could also be used for display purposes, creative writing and discussion.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
seasonal changes in weather
the effects of the weather
how animals adapt to the weather
hibernation
food for animals
what children do in winter
Winter Days - Set of 50 Posters
Winter Days - Set of 24 Posters With Captions
Winter Days Presentation
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This resource contains a fully editable, simple text, 45-slide PowerPoint on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in Bonfire Night.
The presentation focuses on:
Guy Fawkes’ religious background
The intolerance of James I towards Roman Catholics
The Plot
The anonymous letter
Guy Fawkes arrest, trial and execution
The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion and contains hyperlinks to two videos about Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot.
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Bonfire Night Quiz
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This resource contains two worksheets on the ‘soft c’ sound - Year 2 National Curriculum - the /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y.
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The Soft C - 15 Page Workbook
This is a 15 page workbook with answers on the soft’c’ sound.
The Soft C PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a 35-slide PowerPoint lesson explaining when to use the soft ‘c’ sound. The PowerPoint provides many opportunities for the pupils to decide whether words contain a soft c sound or a hard c sound with various tasks involved.
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This resource contains a short presentation on using the comma in lists in sentences.
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Commas in Lists in Sentences - 35 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a 20-page workbook (18 worksheets and 2 information sheets) with answers on using commas to demarcate items / phrases within sentences and to separate adjectives when there are two or more describing a noun. It is an ideal independent learning pack for home learning, distance learning and remote learning.
Tasks include:
inserting commas in the correct places in sentences
rewriting incorrectly punctuated sentences
composing own sentences containing a list of items
composing own sentences using two or more adjectives
punctuating The Twelve Days of Christmas with commas
composing own lyrics for the Twelve Days of Christmas and punctuating with commas
Commas in Lists in Sentences - PowerPoint Lesson
This is a fully editable, 35-slide PowerPoint lesson on using the punctuation device, the comma, in lists in sentences. The PowerPoint explains how to use the comma in lists in sentences and to separate adjectives when there are two or more describing a noun. There are opportunities for pupils to insert the comma in the correct place and to identify where the comma has been misplaced in sentences.
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This resource contains an editable, 60-slide PowerPoint lesson on linking verbs (copular verbs). The PowerPoint explains what linking verbs are, and the difference between them, helping verbs and action verbs. It also explains how to determine whether verbs that can act as both linking verbs and action verbs are functioning in a sentence (seems, look, tastes, appears etc). The PowerPoint clearly and visually demonstrates how to identify linking verbs.
The PowerPoint also contains a link to a short video on linking verbs.
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Linking Verbs - 13 Page Workbook
The workbook contains three explanation/information sheets and ten worksheets on linking verbs. Tasks include identifying linking verbs within sentences, insertion of the correct linking verb and writing own sentences containing linking verbs.
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These are sample slides /posters taken from a resource on collective nouns.
Collective Nouns - Amazing Photographs
Although the subject of the PowerPoint is collective nouns, this resource could be used for displays, as a starter activity to promote discussion, as part of a tutor group activity and / or to introduce pupils to the richness of vocabulary in describing groups of things. It also contains examples of collections of images of inanimate objects such as arrows, onions and more.
This resource contains two worksheets with answers on common nouns and collective nouns.
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Nouns - 24-Page Workbook
This resource includes two information sheets and twenty two worksheets on nouns. Tasks include identifying and using all the types of noun at word, sentence and text level. These resources would be particularly useful for SATS revision and are suitable for primary aged pupils and for older SEN students who will benefit from the visual nature of the PowerPoint.
Nouns - 100 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This is an editable, 100-slide PowerPoint lesson on nouns. All the different types of nouns are explained and examples are givengiven.
The PowerPoint contains three activities to reinforce and consolidate the pupils’ understanding of nouns.
A sorting activity that requires sorting different types of nouns into the appropriate category.
A timed noun challenge where pupils have to think of nouns in all categories beginning with a certain letter. A worksheet is provided for this on the PowerPoint.
Pupils have to identify all the nouns in the poem ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth. A worksheet is also provided for this.
The PowerPoint also contains a link to a short video on nouns.
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This resource contains three engaging and eye-catching A3 size posters to remind pupils of the formula for calculating the circumference and area of a circle.
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Pi and Pi Day Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 68-slide PowerPoint presentation on pi and Pi Day which falls on 14th March. It is also a useful resource for Pi Approximation Day on July 22nd.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The history of pi - Babylon and Egypt - Rhind Papyrus
Archimedes calculations - Pythagorean Theorem
Origin of pi symbol – William Jones and Leonhard Euler
Pi formulas for the circumference and area of a circle
The infinite nature of pi
World record-holders for memorisation of pi digits
Piems and mnemonics for pi digits and formulas
Pi Day
Different ways Pi Day is celebrated
How hat size is determined by pi
Albert Einstein sharing his birthday with Pi Day
Pi dingbats
Suggestions and ideas for Pi Day activities
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to:
Display of the first million digits of pi
Pi rap ‘Lose Yourself In The Digits’
Math Antics - circles, area and circumference of circle, pi
Pi-search page - search the first 200 million digits of pi
Pi domino spiral
Pi Dingbats
This resource contains a pi-themed dingbat game/puzzle in PowerPoint format.
Pi Day Party Pack
Pi Day Puzzle Pack
Pi Themed Coordinates Partner Game]
Pi Coordinates PowerPoint Game]
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Pi Day Bundle]