Fiona, the founder of Teachers Telling Tales, has taught in the UK and international schools, trained teachers and worked as environmental educator. She is currently studying graphic design.
Teachers Telling Tales is a means to share this experience through creating high quality and affordable resources. While most are targeted at the primary age range, the aim is to provide versatile and adaptable resources to suit a range of ages and abilities. Many are inspired by stories to engage learners.
Fiona, the founder of Teachers Telling Tales, has taught in the UK and international schools, trained teachers and worked as environmental educator. She is currently studying graphic design.
Teachers Telling Tales is a means to share this experience through creating high quality and affordable resources. While most are targeted at the primary age range, the aim is to provide versatile and adaptable resources to suit a range of ages and abilities. Many are inspired by stories to engage learners.
Monsters is such a rich and engaging topic! Included in this monster bundle are lots of games and activities to develop and consolidate skills in literacy and numeracy.
Monster Match, Guess Who Games is great for vocabulary, describing, comparing and sorting according to color and characteristics.
My Amazing Monster includes Spot the Difference, phonics name creation and speaking / creative writing frames.
Monster Balloon Party packs cover a wide range of number facts and skills with different ability levels.
Contains presentations, printables, card games and worksheets.
If you teach a wide range of ages and abilities then this pack is for you!
Covering number facts and skills across the primary age range these fun games are great lesson starters or time-fillers. Editable presentations allow for endless variation.
Also suitable for remote teaching, includes presentations and printables.
Packed with lots of editable games, the balloon party numeracy pack is perfect for consolidating number facts and skills. Dip into games as starters or time- fillers throughout the year.
The literacy pack can be used as a lesson or extended over time as a project. It includes differentiated phonics, vocabulary and creative writing activities. Using dice games to generate word part and detail for sentences, it is great for keeping students engaged.
PowerPoint / PDF with 16 pages. Guidance, answers and ideas in notes.
5 engaging games featuring cute monsters and balloons and a range of number facts and skills. Alternative versions of games and editable presentation, so the possibilities are endless!
Perfect for lesson starters, plenaries and fill in activities. Initially created as a remote teaching activity, suitable for distance learning.
Includes printable pages for follow-up consolidation.
Skills: 2 digit numbers, place value, one more / less, addition and subtraction, 2, 5 and 10 x tables, odd and even, doubles, number bonds.
Games: Who has the winning balloon? Pop the Balloons, Colour the Balloons, Multiplication Monsters, Make 10 Monsters.
UK spelling (colour) and US (color) versions.
You may also like the Teachers Telling Tales My Amazing Monster Literacy Lesson https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/my-amazing-monster-literacy-lesson-12564858 and Monster Balloon Party https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/monster-balloon-party-maths-games-12564895 for older / more able students. Buy two packs together as a bundle with a discount.
Robot, Monster and Ogre get confused with tens and ones, can you help them?
Great starter activities for online and classroom sessions.
Count and create 2 digit numbers. Say which is most / least, double numbers, add one more and correct common mistakes.
A presentation with six problems to solve using tens and ones blocks and candles on cakes… Use the templates to create many more based on your students’ needs.
For more early counting activities check out
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/count-the-coins-treasure-chest-challenges-12563480
An animated presentation, perfect for starter activities. Students pick which treasure chest they think will have the most money, then, as each is revealed they count the coins to see if they were correct.
As it’s a game of luck, everyone has an equal chance of winning. All get to practise the calculation, which could be addition or counting in multiples of 2, 5 or 10. The more challenging quests have mixed coins. This is a good way to demonstrate how different values of coins can make the same amount, e.g. 10 ones and 1 ten.
There are 5 sections, each with 3 games; however, variations can easily be created by duplicating slides and rearranging the coins.
Sections:
Count in 5s
Count in 10s
10s and 1s
1s and 2s
10, 5, 2 and 1
The coins are inspired by UK money, however, as they are a simple design with a large number, no familiarity with UK money is required for the games so they are suitable for use in any location.
Answers and extension ideas are included in the notes.
The pack includes 2 versions: use ppsx to avoid changes in layout/formatting or pptx if you want to change or adapt the presentations. My students loved this and I ended up creating many variations by simply changing the coins.
You may also like the pirate-themed resources in the Teachers Telling Tales shop, including positional language, sudoku and phonics, for example, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pirates-pack-12183976.
More maths packs will be added shortly.
Socks Rock! They are perfect for exploring creative ideas and mathematical concepts, plus, they feature in lots of spirit and awareness days. With this super bundle there are design challenges, templates, matching games, pattern activities and worksheets and colouring pages.
Activities suitable for a range of abilities in class or assigning for home learning.
Skills: These activities are good for counting with 1-1 correspondence, beginning to count in twos, beginning to notice patterns (doubles and halves). Pointing to each foot or sock will help with accuracy and children can also circle or cross off objects when they count to help keep track.
Contents:
Worksheets
worksheets ‘Animals Love Socks’ and ‘If Minibeasts Wore Socks’ (colour and ink saving versions included)
Colouring pages, sock-topus and incey wincey spider for designing socks.
Teacher’s Guide
These resources are great for awareness days:
#oddsocksday November 16th (part of Anti-bullying Week)
#LotsOfSocksDay 21st March (World Down Syndrome Day)
Related resources are available from Teachers Telling Tales, including an Odd Socks pack, sock-themed repeat patterns and Fantastic Footwear which includes templates for socks and a variety of shoes and themed design challenge task cards.
You can purchase a bundle at a discounted price.
Socks are a great topic for exploring patterns. This pack contains resources to explore repeat patterns.
Contents:
Complete the stripes.
There are striped socks to complete, two with a 2 colour AB pattern and two with a 3 colour ABC patterns to complete. The socks are included in PDF and PNG form so the size is flexible. A blank sock is included for pattern creation.
Complete the sock sequence.
Pairs of socks repeated with a range of colour patterns. Includes a blank line for pattern creation.
A teacher’s guide
Read more ideas for sock topics here https://teacherstellingtales.com/socks-rock/
Related resources are available from Teachers Telling Tales, including an Odd Socks pack, sock-topus counting activities and Fantastic Footwear which includes templates for socks and a variety of shoes and themed design challenge task cards.
These resources are great for awareness days:
#oddsocksday November 16th (part of Anti-bullying Week)
#LotsOfSocksDay 21st March (World Down Syndrome Day)
A bundle of fishy fun!
Perfect for ocean and sea topics or exploring language, shape, pattern and colour.
Includes mazes, dot-to-dots, tracing and colouring pages, Bingo and card games. Activity sheets at different levels of challenge with matching, cutting and sticking and beginning reading and writing skills.
Introduce Pirates vocabulary and consolidate positional language through Spot-the-Difference activity and draw and colour activity (with text or pictorial instructions). Great for differing abilities, students with EAL. Consolidate vocabulary with anagrams worksheet. Deepen thinking skills with pirate themed sudoku, cut and paste the pictures with three levels of challenge. Fun mazes to keep early finishers engaged.
Puzzles inspired by Little Fish’s quest to find his mum in the story Hooray For Fish! by Lucy Cousins.
A colourful maze in the shape of a heart can be used to demonstrate how to solve a maze by projecting the image on an interactive whiteboard. It can also be printed and laminated for completing with dry wipe pens.
The slightly more challenging circle maze encourages problem solving and pencil control skills. There’s lots of detail in the fish and background for colouring.
A dot-to-dot picture for children to discover who Little Fish found also reinforces pencil control with the additional skill of following the numbers from 1-10. This resource is also good for colouring when complete.
This resource can also be bought as part of a Hooray For Fish bundle.
Fun pirate-themed activities to consolidate positional language / introduce pirate topic vocabulary. Great for English language learners.
Starter - Spot the difference posters to get students talking and using positional language.
The same poster but in outline so students can add the objects in the correct place and colour their completed picture.
Instructions are provided in picture and text form. making the activity accessible to a range of ages and abilities.
A guide to using the resource with vocabulary lists is included.
Updated March 2021 to correct a typo on the written instruction sheet and add resources for remote teaching: PNG images to click and drag to complete the picture instead of drawing with updated instructions.
Related Resources A free pirate vocabulary anagrams sheet can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pirate-anagrams-12322262 There are pirate-themed mazes, sudoku and phonics games in the Teachers telling Tales shop with options to bundle and save. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/talk-like-a-pirate-phonics-bundle-12403177
