Full time primary teacher and self-taught digital creator, creating resources for my classroom since 2016.
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Full time primary teacher and self-taught digital creator, creating resources for my classroom since 2016.
Don't forget to rate / review anything you download or purchase.
Word mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
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Contents of the bundle include:
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Sentence Starter Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Word Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
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Resources accompany teaching on Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Word mats require printing for use.
PDF downloads.
11 lessons of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Wild by Emily Hughes. Lessons were planned and delivered to KS1 (Year 2) classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Sequencing.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 11 lessons
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
1- Retrieval
2- Inference
3- Vocabulary
4- Inference
5- Summarising
6- Sequencing
7- Summarising
8- Explaining
9- Explaining
10- Summarising
11- Summarising
Tasks include:
Creating an emotion graph
Drawing a picture of the character from a description
Writing a letter to the character
and MORE
PRINTABLE Number posters. Could be used as a number line or display materials in the classroom. Each poster shows the number as digits, in words, as a tens frame, tally and on fingers.
Children read the sentence and choose the correct punctuation mark to complete it by adding a peg to the correct answer. This PDF needs printing and laminating for best quality results.
PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Sentence Starter mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
Download this PDF, then print and laminate this word mat for your own use.
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4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks
20 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Thursday – Summarising
Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED)
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Explaining
Week 4: Retrieval
8 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 8 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
Linked texts
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Retrieval (linked text ‘Why is a Tomato a Fruit?’)
Week 2: Vocabulary
Week 3: Mixed skills (linked text The Spider and the Fly poem from Twinkl)
Week 4: Vocabulary (linked text A Seed is Sleepy)
Week 5: Inference and Summarising
Week 6: Mixed skills
Week 7: Mixed skills
Week 8: Summarising
Tasks include:
Making a foldable book summarising the story
Using a dictionary to find meanings of words in the text
Designing your own weather machine
and MORE
Display this times table ladder in your classroom to track children’s progress learning their times tables. This product is catered towards UK Year 4 (3rd Grade) children working towards the Times Tables Test at the end of Year 4.
Resource can also be used in Upper KS2 to keep times table knowledge ticking over.
Times table order:
10s
2s
5s
3s
4s
8s
11s
6s
9s
12s
7s
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Griffin Gate by Vashti Hardy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes who had never done whole class guided reading before.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks
1 document containing tasks for each of the lessons.
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Retrieval (linked text)
Week 4: Explaining (linked text)
Tasks include:
Using dictionaries to find definitions of words in the text
Ordering vocabulary by its ‘shade of meaning’
Writing questions to characters
Thinking of new names for the chapters
Creating story maps
and MORE
Printable Tolsby sized signs to go inside Ikea 6x4 frames. These can be used as table signs/group names etc.
(In my classroom, I use these and write weekly challenges on the clear plastic part of the frame in whiteboard pen.)
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Printable Tolsby sized signs to go inside Ikea 6x4 frames. These can be used as table signs/group names etc.
Don’t forget to review/rate anything you download or purchase, thank you! :)