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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.

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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.
Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource
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Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource

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This popular resource includes 20 high quality images for your children to explore. Each picture has a set of related questions to help your students review their inference and deduction skills. Use them as an independent / group classroom activity, during your guided reading sessions or as part of your English display boards. Find more resources like this in our Comprehension Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
3D Shapes Challenge Cards
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3D Shapes Challenge Cards

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A collection of forty 3D shapes challenges that your children can try! They're great as class activities, extension tasks or homework challenges! Find more resources like this in our 3D Shapes Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Christmas Present Maths - Area and Perimeter Problems
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Christmas Present Maths - Area and Perimeter Problems

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A festive resource that your children can use to review their area and perimeter skills! Two versions are included with rectangles and compound shapes. Differentiated versions of each are also included with gridlines or measurements. Find more resources like this in our Christmas Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Differentiated Sudoku Maths Challenges
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Differentiated Sudoku Maths Challenges

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This resource includes FORTY different Sudoku maths challenges for your children to try (with 4x4 and 6x6 grids). These could be used as activities in your Maths lessons, as early morning work, for early finishers or as resources to challenge students during rainy breaktimes. Answers are also included for busy teachers and for self-checking. Find more resources like this in our Wet Play Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Recount Writing Posters
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Recount Writing Posters

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Teach your children about all aspects of writing a recount with our eye catching posters. They're perfect for showing on an interactive whiteboard as part of whole class teaching or on your classroom display boards. Includes information on: * What is recount writing? * Who do we write recounts for? * Types of recount writing, * Organisation, * Chronological Order, * First or Third Person? * Using the Past Tense, * Connectives and Conjunctions, * Personal or Impersonal? * How to improve your recounts. Find more resources like this in our Recount Writing Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat
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Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat

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A handy reference mat that your children can use when they are learning about similes and metaphors. This mat helps children to remember the meaning of each term and includes lots of examples that can be used in their writing. Use it as a whole class teaching tool and challenge students to use one of the examples in a sentence / paragraph... or let children use these as reference mats on their tables during independent writing. Find more resources like this in our Similes and Metaphors Mini Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Ancient Greece Word Mat
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Ancient Greece Word Mat

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A handy printable mat that includes a selection of words linked to Ancient Greece. Use it as a classroom display resource or a reference mat on your children's tables. Includes the following words and images: * Parthenon / temple / Acropolis, * Minoan / Mycenaean, * Olympia / Olympic Games, * god / goddess / Zeus / Hera / Hades / Underworld, * pottery / amphora, * theatre / play / comedy / tragedy / mask * Athens / Troy / Sparta / city-state ... and more! Download our enormous Ancient Greece Pack from www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Time Matching Cards
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Time Matching Cards

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This resource is a HUGE set of cards showing different times in analogue, digital and word formats. Challenge your children to sort or order them... or use them for a 'matching pairs' game. Includes 43 pages of printable cards with: * 'o'clock' times, * 'half past' times, * 'quarter past' and 'quarter to' times, * plenty of other random times! A blank set of cards is also included so that you can make up your own versions! Find other related resources in our 'Telling the Time' pack at https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/the-telling-the-time-pack/
Fire Safety - Poster and Activity Template
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Fire Safety - Poster and Activity Template

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This resource can be used to teach your children about fire safety. Share the poster on a classroom display board or use it as a whole class teaching tool on your interactive whiteboard. Two versions are available (using 999 / 911 emergency numbers) and a blank template is also included so that your children can add their own fire safety information. Find more resources like this at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
'About Me' Profiles for Transition Activities
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'About Me' Profiles for Transition Activities

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This resource includes a range of templates that your children can use to create profiles about themselves. They're perfect for use as part of transition / orientation activities when students are preparing to move to a new class or school. They're also a great resource to help teachers find out more about their children and for children to find out more about their classmates. This PDF includes: * A bunting template, * Bookmarks, * An 'About Me' scroll, * An emoji themed template, * A social media profile. Find more resources like this in our Transition Mini Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Shape Rotation Challenges
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Shape Rotation Challenges

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Can your children rotate the shapes around the point shown on each coordinate grid? Two pages are included (with a total of twelve questions) and answers are also included for teachers and self-checking. Find more resources like this in our Coordinates Pack at http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/
Persuasive Writing Guide
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Persuasive Writing Guide

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Teach your children about the features of persuasive writing with our printable guide. Includes information about: * Different types of persuasive writing, * Organisation and layout, * Points and Elaboration, * Present Tense, * Conjunctions, * Emotive Language, * Fact and Opinion, * Challenging the Reader, * Rhetorical Questions, * Advertising. Share this PDF with your children on an interactive whiteboard or print it for use as part of shared reading activities... or add it to your classroom display boards! Download thousands of other resources like this from www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Kung Fu Phonics (Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5)
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Kung Fu Phonics (Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5)

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This HUGE resource can be used as a simple reading resource or for games of 'Noughts and Crosses / OXO / Tic-Tac-Toe' (where children mark the words with an X or an O but have to read them first!). Eighty-two pages are included with a variety of words from Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5 phonics. Find more resources like this in our Phonics Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Animal / Plant Adaptations - Matching Resource
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Animal / Plant Adaptations - Matching Resource

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Help your children to learn how animals and plants are adapted to their habitat with this matching activity! This resource includes eight pages. Each page includes an image of a particular animal / plant, its name and four ways that it is adapted to its environment. Cut out the cards on each page and jumble them up. Then ask your children to match them together again! Find more resources link this on our Teaching Packs site - https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/
Diwali Fact File
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Diwali Fact File

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Teach your children about Diwali with this handy fact file. This PDF page could be used on a large display as a whole class teaching tool, on a classroom display board or as a reference mat on tables. Children could also use it for independent research. Find more resources like this in our Diwali Mini Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
36 Story Endings
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36 Story Endings

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Use this collection of story endings as prompts for your children's story planning and writing activities! Download a huge collection of narrative writing resources from our site at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
The Vikings Book
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The Vikings Book

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A 50 page child-friendy eBook that your children can use to learn about the Vikings. This resource includes: * Who were the Vikings? * Viking Society * Viking Families * Viking Houses * Viking Food and Drink * Vikings Clothes * Viking Boats * Viking Warriors * Viking Settlements * Viking Exploration * Viking Religion A comprehensive glossary is also included at the end of the eBook. A number of related resources are available in our HUGE Vikings pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
The History of Computers - Posters
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The History of Computers - Posters

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A selection of posters that show some of the key events in the history of computers. Includes references to Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, Alan Turing, the first portable computer, the first computer virus, the invention of the World Wide Web and more! Download lots of other FREE related resources on our site at www.teachingideas.co.uk
Mega Maths Mat
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Mega Maths Mat

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A handy reference resource that your children can use during their Maths activities. It includes: * A 100 square, * A 12x12 multiplication square, * Place value chart, * Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division vocabulary, * Names of regular 2D shapes (including different types of triangles and quadrilaterals), * Fractions information, * Angles information. Alternative versions of this resource are available to download FREE on our site at www.teachingideas.co.uk
The Aztecs - Fact Cards
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The Aztecs - Fact Cards

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A set of 20 fact cards to teach your children about the Aztecs. These could be printed and used on a classroom display board, used as a shared reading resource or shown on an interactive whiteboard for use as a teaching tool. A blank set of 'cards' is also available so that your children can write their own facts as part of their own research into the topic. Find more Aztecs resources (and other FREE fact cards) on our site at www.teachingideas.co.uk