Independent reading activities. Over 120 pages of guided reading activities to save you time and stress! Suitable for children aged 5-6 years old. Year 1 UK.
These updated reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel or even as homework.
I have put together over 120 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories.
There is a variety of activities starting with very simple phonics activities for lower abilities. The activities get more advanced for use throughout the school year.
Some of the activities are also linked to the year 1 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a sunflower, seasons and keeping healthy.
All aspects of the year 1 reading National Curriculum covered.Also perfect for lower ability children in year 2 and up.
Included in this product:
reading journal book cover
year 1 national curriculum statements for assessment
guided reading timetable
35 reading comprehensions
initial sounds cut and stick
b or d cut and stick
m or n cut and stick
c or k cut and stick
missing letters
draw the word x 3
2 syllable words
draw the caption x 3
mixed up sentences x 6
draw the book cover x 2
draw the characters x 2
draw your favourite part x 2
draw the ending x 2
write the tricky words x 2
find the digraph x 2
write the noun x 2
design a new front cover
find the nouns/weather words/plant words
reading questions
all about the book
book review x 2
read and colour x 3
read and draw x 3
describe the setting x 2
draw and describe the character x 2
draw the character x 4
draw the setting x 4
where is cat?
inference questions x 4
sunflower life cycle
make a foldable book
label a snail
make a wanted poster
decode words x 4
word endings x 2
missing words
syllables x 2
sequence story x 2
contractions
what happens next?
Let’s learn all about Europe. This product includes planning, teaching power point, print and go activities and work for early finishers. Everything you need to teach students all about Europe in KS2. Ideal for Year 3 and Year 4.
The 76 slide power point includes 9 lessons, each with an end of lesson quiz. Each lesson has printable activities to accompany the power point, answer sheets included.
Lesson 10 is an end of unit quiz for assessment.
Each activity is differentiated 2 ways.
Also included are some extra activities and task cards for early finishers.
This Product Includes:
Teaching Power Point and activities for the following lessons -
Lesson 1
Where Is Europe - Label continents, colour Europe on a map, label areas of water
Lesson 2
Countries of Europe - Label the countries of Europe, Countries of Europe quiz
Lesson 3
Capital Cities of Europe - Match capital city to correct country
Lesson 4
Landmarks of Europe - Match pictures with descriptions, match pictures with labels - both cut and stick, draw a well known landmark
Lesson 5
Flags of Europe - Color the flags, design your own European flag
Lesson 6
Weather and Climate of Europe - Compare climates x 2 cut and stick
Lesson 7
Physical Features of Europe - Draw features on a map, match places and descriptions cut and stick
Lesson 8
Environmental Regions Of Europe - compare environmental areas of Europe - writing activity
Lesson 9 Human Characteristics of Europe - Trade in Europe research activities
Lesson 10 - End of unit quiz for assessment
Extra Activities
European Union Comprehension x 2 differentiated
Compare a European and non European Country research worksheet
European Country Study
European Capital Cities Word Search
8 task cards for early finishers
planning sheets
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KS2 The UK
Great Fire Of London teaching power point and print and go activities. Suitable for year 2. Help your students learn all about the Great Fire of London.
Use the Power Point first to tell the children all about the Great Fire Of London.
Use the recap slides to discuss with the children what life was like in 1666 London, why the homes were fire hazards, how the fire started, why it spread so quickly, how it eventually went out and how the fire changed London.
There are then a variety of activities to choose from –
Reading comprehensions – these could be used for guided reading
5 senses activity – could be used alongside a drama activity. What would it be like to be caught up in the fire? Gather a bank of vocabulary for children to use.
London 1666 and now – students can either draw or write about London now and then. Alternatively they could research online and print out pictures they find and interesting facts.
Great Fire Facts – students fill in the six boxes with the facts they have learnt about the Great Fire.
Timelines – discuss chronology with the students before completing these 2 differentiated timelines.
Early Finishers – early finishers can complete the cut and stick activity Label The London Buildings.
Animals and their habitats for year 2. Are you teaching students about animals, their habitats and how they have adapted to these habitats? Then this is the product for you! Save valuable time with these print and go, no prep activities. Children will love these fun activities, whilst learning at the same time. A 23 slide teaching power point means that no research or planning is required. There are word cards and real life pictures for display and a colouring sheet for early finishers.
Read on for a full list of included activities.
What’s included in this product:
23 slide teaching power point
A colourful matching/bingo/lotto habitats game
Hot or cold habitats cut and stick sorting activity
Wet or dry habitats cut and stick sorting activity
Forest or savanna cut and stick sorting activity
Rainforest or desert cut and stick sorting activity
Who lives here? draw the animals in the habitats x 3
Who lives here? draw the animals in the micro habitats
How lives here? cut and stick activity
Polar bear adaptation writing activity
Choose an animal to draw and research
Choose an animal to draw in natural habitat
Habitats activity sheet
Make a leaflet - 2 x differentiated - Choice of 3 animals - lion, sloth, polar bear
6 colorful habitat information posters
56 word cards for display
16 real life A5 posters for display
Colouring activity for early finishers
The River Nile power point and printable activities for children aged 7 - 11 years. Are you learning about Ancient Egypt? Then this could be what you are looking for. Children will learn how important the River Nile was to the survival of Ancient Egyptians. Students can then use what they have learnt by making an information leaflet all about the importance of the River Nile. Finish off by making a salt dough model of the River Nile in a pizza box. Children LOVE this activity whilst learning at the same time.
Great to use as part of your topic on Ancient Egypt.
Included in this product:
13 slide power point on the importance of the River Nile to Ancient Egypt
Make an information leaflet
Information sheets on The River Nile for children to read and questions for them to answer.
Instructions on how to make a salt dough 3D map of The River Nile in a pizza box.
Information sheet for the inside of the map box.
Make learning about the River Nile a fun and engaging time with these activities.
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[https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mummification-12211726]
Harvest Festival
This product teaches children how and why harvest is celebrated in England and the UK. It includes a teaching power point, craft and print and go activities. It is suitable for children aged 5-7 years old. These no prep activities are perfect for a day of harvest fun! Includes pictures for display and 24 cards that can be printed out twice and laminated for games such as pairs, snap, for use in centres, matching activities or even find a partner.
Full list of what’s Included:
Make a harvest wreath craft - colour or colour your own versions
Writing frame x 3
Above and below ground
I am thankful for…
Fruit or Vegetable cut and stick sorting activity - color and b&w
Fruit and vegetable colour and label activity - x 2 differentiated
Acrostic poem
Colour and cut fruit and vegetable basket
Make a harvest bookmark
16 real life A5 pictures for display
24 cards for games such as pairs and snap
Colouring sheets for early finishers
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Queen Victoria information teaching Power Point and print and go activities. Help students learn about the life of Queen Victoria. This product includes a 9 slide power point teaching children about the life of Queen Victoria, no need for you to research. There are also fun, interactive activities for students to complete, keeping them engaged and learning at the same time.
It includes making a leaflet and a cut and paste timeline. Both activities are differentiated. Plus colouring pages and a word search for early finishers.
This product includes:
9 slide teaching power point
cut and paste timeline - x 2 differentiated
make a leaflet - x 2 differentiated
2 x colouring pages
Word search for early finishers
Make a bookmark - colour and black & white versions
Food chain activities and teaching power point for year 2.
Are you teaching students about food chains? Then this is the product for you! Save valuable time with these print and go, no prep activities. Children will love these fun activities, whilst learning at the same time. A 28 slide teaching power point means that no research or planning is required. There are colourful posters, real life pictures matching game, differentiated activities and a colouring sheet for early finishers.
Read on for a full list of included activities.
Included in this product:
28 slide teaching power point
4 colourful A4 posters - carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, food chains
Real pictures matching game - food chains from the arctic, rainforest, pond and forest
Research and draw food chains x 3 differentiated
Cut and stick pictures to complete food chain
Cut and stick pictures to create your own food chains
Food chain quiz x 2 differentiated.
Colouring sheet for early finishers
Colourful visual timetable with 94 activity cards in 2 sizes, plus header, days of the week and clocks with 15 minute intervals. Children like to know what is happening when they arrive in school. Often the first thing they do is check the schedule. They like the security of knowing what their day will look like. These visual cards allow children to see what is coming next throughout their day. Must have back to school purchase.
Also included - First and Then Board and First, Next and Then Board - ideal for use with activity cards.
Simply print, cut out and laminate. They will last for years.
Activity Cards:
art
assembly
bathroom
bible studies
big write
breakfast
break time
calendar
craft
cookery
carpet time
centers
circle time
cleaning
computing
choosing time
church
dance
drama
DT
English
field trip
fine motor
fitness
forest school
free choice
French
geography
gardening
guided reading
grammar
golden time
gym
history
hand sanitize
home time
health and hygiene
handwriting
ICT
languages
library
literacy
lunch
LoTC
learning outside
literacy
local walk
maths/math
music
mental maths/mental math
morning maths/morning math
morning activities
mfl
Monday - Friday
news
numeracy
outside play
PE
personal development
phonics
playtime
PSED
quiet reading
reading
recess
RE
RRI
science
snack
social studies
sports
swimming
school trip
sports day
spellings
speaking and listening
story time
singing
show and tell
tidy up time
topic activities
writing
wash hands
worship
wellbeing
Geography activities for year 1 and year 2. Teaching Power Point and print and go activities to teach The UK unit in KS1.
**This product includes: ** Planning and resources for 2 weeks worth of lessons.
A power point for each lesson, plus an end of lesson quiz.
Printable activities for each lesson.
Lesson 1
Name and locate the 7 continents and 5 oceans
Choice of 4 worksheets
Lesson 2
Name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 UK countries and capital cities
Activities - Colour UK Countries, label capital cities, label seas and oceans, UK landmarks cut and stick
Lesson 3
Use basic geographical language
Match words and pictures
Label the locations
Geographical questions
Lesson 4 and 5
Identify physical and human features
Local walk worksheet, Where I live, Draw a map, draw/label/sort physical and human features.
Lesson 6
Use simple compass directions
Label a map, directions, my school
Lesson 7
Understand geographical differences and similarities
Compare locations, compare countries,
Lesson 8
Identify daily and seasonal weather patterns in the UK
Daily weather charts
Seasonal sorting
Lesson 9
Identify hot and cold areas of the world
Hot and cold climates of the world sorting
Lesson 10
Assessment Quiz
George Stephenson information teaching Power Point and print and go activities. Help students learn about the life of George Stephenson and his influence on the development of the railways. This product includes an 11 slide power point teaching children about the life of George Stephenson, no need for you to research. There are also fun, interactive activities for students to complete, keeping them engaged and learning at the same time. Suitable for children aged 5-7 years old, KS1
It includes making a leaflet and a cut and paste timeline. Both activities are differentiated. Plus a cut and paste sorting activity, colouring page and a word search for early finishers. All prep free for you!
This product includes:
11 slide teaching power point
cut and paste timeline - x 2 differentiated
make a leaflet - x 2 differentiated
cut and paste sorting activity - railways past and present
colouring page
Word search for early finishers
Make a bookmark - colour and black & white versions
The Easter Story for KS1 . Are you teaching your students about the Christian celebration of Easter? Then this is the product for you. It includes a colourful, 10 page Power Point of the Easter story, told in simple terms for young children to understand. No prep, print and go activities, crafts and word cards for your display are also included. No planning or preparation required. Plus FREE bonus product - Easter lotto games!
Product Includes: A small version of the story slides for children to order.
Pictures from the story to colour, cut out and order. These can also be used as story writing prompts.
A cut and stick sorting activity - religious/non religious pictures.
Decorate a cross activity.
Make an Easter wreath craft.
Make an Easter bookmark - colour and b/w
Word cards for display
Colouring sheet for early finishers
PLUS a bonus product - Easter lotto games - simply print out, laminate and cut out.
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Water Transportation In Plants. Teaching Power Point and Activities.
Year 3
Help children learn about how water is transported around a plant and the role that water has in the health of a plant.
This product includes a 15 slide teaching power point, fun water transportation activity sheet and an experiment recording sheet for using cut flowers or celery to show how water travels through a plant.
It also includes a bonus word search for early finishers.
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Florence Nightingale teaching Power Point plus print and go activities, ideal for KS1, Year 2. Students will love these fun and engaging activities whilst learning all about the life of Florence Nightingale at the same time.
If you are learning about Florence Nightingale, significant individuals in history, influential women, women in history or medicine, then this could be just the product for you. Everything you will need is included in this product.
Ideal for use in Women’s History Month.
Each activity is differentiated 2 ways.
This product includes:
18 slide teaching PPT, describing the life of Florence Nightingale and hospital reform.
Compare a Victorian hospital with a modern day hospital x 2 (one drawing activity, one cut and sort statements)
Timeline - cut and stick x 2
What I have learnt x 2
Word mat
blank fact sheet/graphic organiser x 2
writing frame x 2
reading comprehension x 2
make a leaflet/foldable x 2
blank biography sheet
colouring sheet
make a bookmark
Robert Burns and Burns Night Teaching Power Point plus no prep, print and go activities for KS1.
This product includes a 14 slide power point that teaches children, in simple terms, about the life of Robert Burns and how Burns Night is traditionally celebrated. No need for you to spend time researching.
It also includes fun and engaging no prep, print and go activities that children will love completing whilst also learning about Robert Burns, Burns Night and Scottish traditions.
Activities for early finishers, words for display, US and UK spelling versions, how to use instructions and answer keys all included.
This Product Includes:
14 slide teaching power point
2 reading comprehensions - each one differentiated 2 ways
Make a foldable book
Cut and paste timeline activity
Writing activity - 2 x differentiated
Burns Night colouring sheet/wordsearch for early finishers
Blank fact sheet for children to complete
Burns Night cut and stick labelling activity
Write an acrostic poem
Design your own tartan
16 word cards for display
Make a book mark - 4 designs
Activities for early finishers - word search, colour flag and map
Instructions for use
Seed Dispersal KS2
Are you learning about plants, in particular seed dispersal? These print and go activities plus power point has everything you need to teach your class all about how and why seeds are dispersed away from the parent plant. After using this product your class will have learnt:
•To understand that seeds need to be dispersed away from the parent plant in order to survive.
•To understand that seeds are dispersed in a variety of ways.
•To understand that plants have adapted the structure of their fruits and seeds in order to be dispersed.
Included:
This product includes a 20 slide power point for you to use to teach your class.
Printable activities:
seed dispersal writing activity
seed dispersal questions
black and white information sheets about different ways of seed disposal
seed hunt activity
seed dispersal - match statements to method
seed dispersal - match pictures to method
How to make a seed bomb - writing activity
draw methods of seed dispersal
Make a leaflet all about seed dispersal
coloured labels
activity ideas
colourful A4 poster
make a book mark
real life photos for display
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100 independent reading activities suitable for 6-7 year olds. Save yourself time and stress with this with these no prep reading printables - enough to last you the whole year.
These reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel, as an independent activity whilst the class teacher is reading with a group or even as homework.
This product includes 100 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories.
There is a variety of activities including word work, spellings, grammar, cut and paste, word searches, as well as 42 reading comprehensions. Plenty of variety to keep children engaged, as well as covering plenty of different skills. Simply print and go, no prep required. Print the whole product at the beginning of the year and you will always have reading activities to hand.
Some of the activities are also linked to the year 2 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a frog, materials, plants, recycling, historical figures. Perfest to use them alongside your topic work.
Many aspects of the year 2 reading National Curriculum covered. Also perfect for lower ability children in year 3 and up.
Also includes a reading journal cover and a tick list of National Curriculum reading standards for assessment. This will help you keep on track with assessing children’s reading skills.
Product Includes:
42 Reading Comprehensions
plus
My Reading Journal front cover
National Curriculum Reading Standards Tick List for Year 2
Find the plant words
Find the materials words
Prefix Re
Suffix -less and -est
Build compound words
Alphabetical order x 2
Describe dog and cupcake
Add Adjectives
le at the end of a word - cut and paste activity
el at the end of a word - cut and paste
dge making the j sound - cut and paste
dge making the j sound - drawing activity
r spelt wr - drawing
j/g - cut and paste
c making the s sound - cut and paste
al at the end of a word - word search
ge at the end of a word - word search
n sound spelt with gn/kn - dice game
n spelt with gn/kn - cut and paste
I can read ing words - cut and paste
contractions x 2
recycle materials - cut and paste
materials 2-4 syllables sort - cut and paste
word sort 2-4 syllables - cut and paste
Ordering how to make a pizza - cut and paste
Ordering how to make breakfast - cut and paste
Little Red Riding Hood ordering sentences - cut and paste
Draw fairy tale characters
Goldilocks ordering pictures - cut and paste
Jack And The Beanstalk ordering pictures - cut and paste
3 Little Pigs ordering pictures - cut and paste
Draw a front cover
Design a front cover
Draw the best part of a story
Draw and label characters
Review your favourite book
All about the book
Book review
Read and draw x 2
I can make inferences x 3
Make a healthy me poster
Make a camping poster
Word of the day
Write a book quiz
Draw the characters
Contents page
Harvest Festival Freebie. Use this free cut and stick labelling activity as a starter, main activity, for centres or for early finishers.
Simply download and print.
Students will love to colour the harvest pictures then cut out the labels and match to the correct picture.
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Harvest Festival
Are you teaching your children about the Christian celebration of Easter?
Use this sequencing activity to help children learn the story.
Children can colour the pictures, cut them out and stick them in the correct order.
This activity is part of our Easter Story Product below
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-easter-story-12468051