Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to engage your pupils in practicing the common exception words? If the answer is yes then look no further than this phonics snakes and ladders download. This free download comes with 2 different game boards for children to practice words which are phonologically difficult or impossible to decode. All you need is a dice and counters. This is a lovely way to encourage children to support each other with their phonics knowledge and application to verbalise a variety of words to increase their language acquisition. Perfect as a quick warm up game, plenary or pre-prepared activity for fast finishers. Top Tip #1- Laminate the game boards so that they can be reused year after year! Top Tip #2- If you want to challenge your pupils and get them embedding the words within their speech after each roll of the dice challenge them to come up with a sentence that includes the word they landed on… After all a child will never write the word if they haven’t read and spoken the word first. Please do rate and review below. AM x

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to engage your pupils in practicing the common exception words? If the answer is yes then look no further than this phonics snakes and ladders download. This free download comes with 6 different game boards for children to practice words which are phonologically difficult or impossible to decode. All you need is a dice and counters. This is a lovely way to encourage children to support each other with their phonics knowledge and application to verbalise a variety of words to increase their language acquisition. Perfect as a quick warm up game, plenary or pre-prepared activity for fast finishers. Top Tip #1- Laminate the game boards so that they can be reused year after year! Top Tip #2- If you want to challenge your pupils and get them embedding the words within their speech after each roll of the dice challenge them to come up with a sentence that includes the word they landed on… After all a child will never write the word if they haven’t read and spoken the word first. Please do rate and review below. AM x

Do you want to improve the language your pupils use and encourage an exploration into the variety of language pupils can use in their writing? If so this free download will be the perfect piece of scaffolded support for your pupils. Boring and bland words are placed in ‘word jail’ and replaced with a list of synonyms below for pupils to select to improve the quality of their writing. Words with synonyms in the download includes- Said Big Nice Small Very And Happy Seen Run Soft Hard Old Young Like Sad Print these cards off, laminate and put them on a key ring for a helpful resource which children can grab any time to improve their writing without trawling through a thesaurus. Please do rate and review below. AM x

This free download provides children with an additional piece of scaffolding when it comes to writing longer pieces of writing or unassisted pieces of writing. The cute pencil design comes in a variety of colours and will help to guide children through the writing process, step by step with helpful reminders to check the success criteria and their SPAG. The download even comes with an A4 pencil poster to pop up on your Literacy or English working wall. Please do rate and review below. AM x

This free download provides children with an additional piece of scaffolding when it comes to checking the writing they have produced. The cute pencil design comes in a variety of colours and will provide children with the tools they need to independently check their work. Please do rate and review below. AM x

This FREE download contains two fantastic resources to use with your class! 1-The first document contains a ‘Book Talk Map’. This is the perfect document to guide your discussion after story time with questions to encourage children to think critically and imaginatively to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Christopher Pumpkin. High quality book talk is imperative in supporting a reading for pleasure attitude in our pupils. These questions provide a prompt for rich discussion questioning children’s perspectives on the book and what they like or dislike about it. 2-The second document provides an ‘Activity Map’ with a variety of activities and tasks you could set your pupils based around the Christopher Pumpkin book. Reading for pleasure and children’s literature is a passion of mine so I hope that you enjoy this resources as much as I have enjoyed making it! Please do rate and review below. AM x

This FREE download contains two fantastic resources to use with your class! 1-The first document contains a ‘Book Talk Map’. This is the perfect document to guide your discussion after story time with questions to encourage children to think critically and imaginatively to gain a deeper understanding for the book! High quality book talk is imperative in supporting a reading for pleasure attitude in our pupils. These questions provide a prompt for rich discussion questioning children’s perspectives on the book and what they like or dislike about it. 2-The second document provides an ‘Activity Map’ with a variety of activities and tasks you could set your pupils based around Kitchen Disco. Reading for pleasure and children’s literature is a passion of mine so I hope that you enjoy this resources as much as I have enjoyed making it! Please do rate and review below. AM x