A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

A word mat designed to support writing about The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and clock times for the different animals the bad tempered ladybird encountered in the story.

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

Designed to be used with drywipe pens, as a worksheet or printed 2 to a page and laminated for use with magnetic letters, graphemes on bottle tops... Words are: letter, ladder, longer, dinner, farmer, hammer, summer, fern

Countdown game using CVC words for blending. Now updated with the pdf version, as font not be recognised on some computers.

Introducing/recapping /oa/ phoneme and includes work on tricky words 'was&' and &';my'.

Modelling how to jump backwards on a simple numberline.

An assessment tool to be used on all new arrivals to the school, to all initial concerns/low achievers and also across all SEN pupils. The SLCN screen helps to focus on the needs of the individual (if any). To be used in conjunction with the Leicester City Meeting Individual Needs SLCN manual.

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

A step-by-step instructional PowerPoint inspired by Eric Carle's tissue paper collage artwork and http://artolazzi.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/grouchy-lady-bug.html . You will need white card, coloured tissue paper (or white tissue paper and paint), scissors, PVA glue and paintbrushes/ spreaders, black tissue paper and black card to mount.

A set of reading comprehension sheets to go alongside the Lime level books. New vocabulary - write the definition (promoting dictionary skills), answering what, where, why, how questions, writing facts in a list, reviewing the book

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

PowerPoint with both pronunciations of this grapheme. Differentiated to be used with a mixed group of Phase 3/4 children. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

2 different word mats: 1. Religious: The Easter story 2. Non-religious: Easter signs and symbols

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

PowerPoint to learn the or phoneme - differentiated to cater for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

A sheet to be used in group guided reading or Literacy to find and list all words beginning with different consonant blends scr, spl, spr, str, pl, cr, cl, pr, tw, thr Songbirds book The Scrap Rocket - Stage 3, reading recovery level 6

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach: 1. GPC recognition 2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words) 3. Where in the word does the phoneme come? 4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites 5. Sentence reading

Number bonds to 10 ppt using the visual method of a rainbow (without indigo) to show the pairs of number that make 10. Also shows how 10 can be split into its' component numbers to help introduce subtraction from 10.