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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.
Story Sequencing - Little Red Riding Hood
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Story Sequencing - Little Red Riding Hood

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Challenge your children to put these images from the story of Little Red Riding Hood into the correct order. When the images have been ordered, your children could also use the images as the starting point for a storytelling or a writing activity. Find more resources like this in our Early Years Essentials Pack at https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/the-early-years-essentials-pack/
How to be a Good Listener Posters
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How to be a Good Listener Posters

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Encourage your children to listen carefully with our eye-catching posters. Two versions are included: * Cartoon bunnies - for use with younger children, * Photos of young people - for use with older students. Each poster reminds children to look, be still, wait, think and ask / answer questions. Find more resources like this in our popular Listening Skills Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Report Writing Guide
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Report Writing Guide

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Support your children's work on report writing with our handy guide. It's a wonderful teaching resource and can also be used as part of your classroom display boards. The guide includes information about: * What are non-chronological reports? * Types of reports, * Organisation of reports, * Thinking about your audience, * Researching the topic, * Planning your report, * Writing your report, * Facts and opinions, * Present and past tense, * Formal writing, * Vocabulary, * Top tips for writing a report. Find more resources like this in our Report Writing Pack at www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Angle Birds - Angle Estimation / Measuring Game
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Angle Birds - Angle Estimation / Measuring Game

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Will your children be able to get the birds to fly into the targets by estimating and measuring the correct angles? This printable activity resource includes instructions, scorecards, answers, four differentiated game boards and two blank boards (so that your students can add their own targets). Download our full Angles resource pack from www.teachingpacks.co.uk
Plotting Points - Coordinates Challenges
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Plotting Points - Coordinates Challenges

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Can your children identify the locations of the points in each coordinate grid? Each page includes four sets of coordinates grids and twelve pages are included, at a variety of difficulty levels (with one and four quadrants). Answers are included for busy teachers and for self-checking. Find more resources like this in our Coordinates Pack at http://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
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
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
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
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
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
TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template
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TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template

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Ask your children to write a 'review' of a place they have visited during school holidays / weekends with our 'TripReviewers' templates. You could also use it to review the destination of a recent school visit / trip. Six different templates are included so that you can use them with children of different ages and abilities. A fantastic way of encouraging children to demonstrate their recount writing skills. Find more resources like this in our Holiday Activity Mini Pack at https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/the-holiday-activity-mini-pack/
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/
Types of Poems - Classroom Display Posters
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Types of Poems - Classroom Display Posters

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A set of ten posters that give information about (and examples of) different types of poems that your children may encounter. These include: * Acrostic * Cinquain * Haiku * Limerick * List Poem * Narrative Poem * Nursery Rhyme * Shape Poem * Sonnet * Tanka Use the resources on a classroom display board or use them as the starting point for discussions about types of poetry. Find more resources like this in our Poetry Pack at https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/the-poetry-pack/
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
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
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
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