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This pack contains presentation of a children's favorite narrative called 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'. It is a delightful story to share with your students and offers many possibilities for follow on literacy work as well as art and design and technology. After enjoying the story with your students, there is a further presentation which provides several literacy tasks/activities for further study and literacy development. These include sentence/paragraph work as well as labelling the charact

This pack of resources includes: a colorful presentation which introduces 'Forces and Movement' facts that are deliberately kept simple to encourage children to recall and remember simple engaging tasks that include drawing, sorting , reading, speaking and listening with some practical tasks The main aim is to foster an understanding at an early level of simple forces and movement. I have also included a duplicate presentation in printer friendly format to save printing costs. The booklet pr

This ‘Marvellous Minibeast’ bundle contains: 7 colorful, well-structured presentations which introduce and lead learners through the wonderful world of minibeasts. There are four specific minibeast presentations featured: Bees Dragonflies Ladybirds Snails Each unit of work includes: opportunities to build up important ‘minibeast’ vocabulary before writing (mini whiteboard task) simple factual information to read and discuss labelling tasks and life cycle sequencing task factual writi

This file contains an introductory PowerPoint to outline 'the learning journey' to be undertaken before writing explanations. It details the 'signposts' or 'features' required for successful explanatory writing. It emphasises the need for familiarisation with a text type as well as the importance of 'internalising the pattern' of an explanation text. It contains a rubric for self evaluation which is helpful to pinpoint the next developmental steps for each student. The remaining file contains:

I created these presentations/resources for my class as a series of cross curricular lessons on minibeasts. The resource bundle has simple and appealing presentations to introduce minibeasts and food chains. I have included tasks and active learning throughout the presentations. I feel that young learners benefit from clear and concise minibeast facts as many of the relevant non fiction texts are too difficult for early readers to access. The Butterfly Presentation includes: simple factual in

This pack contains 3 colorful , clear and concise PowerPoint presentations that deal with: introduction to similes silly similes writing a simile poem more challenging similes and adjectives with visual prompts There are several follow up tasks: completing similes colour matching similes choosing the best simile ending choosing the best simile adjective silly similes This pack of resources are a valuable addition to basic core materials. I would be delighted to receive feedback

This pack concentrates on 3 well known Greek Myths - The Trojan Horse, Icarus and King Midas. There are 3 detailed PowerPoints which include the narratives plus online links to each myth for further exploration. The additional follow on activities are clear, simple and varied. They include ordering the myths, punctuating sentences, storyboard writing, word walls with key vocabulary and comprehension tasks. This approach is particularly suitable for younger children as an introduction to this gen

Two Packs included that are intended to develop inferential skills in both reading and writing. Pack A - 'Read between the Lines' incorporates :  15 differentiated passages  Literal and inferential questions  True/False and ‘Don’t Know’ statements to encourage close reading, skimming and scanning for details and reading for meaning. Pack B - 'Over to You!' incorporates:  18 differentiated story starts - opening passages  ‘Openers’ word wall  Prompts to encourage ‘quality ‘writing  Wri

Several PowerPoints to introduce poetry techniques. Ranging from simple but effective list poems based on a magical theme to list poems about the rainforest. The list poems lend themselves to active grammar work and are also ideal for cross curricular work. A tutorial based on using sensational similes and marvellous metaphors for children who are 'moving on' with poetic composition. Finally, a tutorial on writing cinquain poetry which will enthuse even the most reluctant writer. Exemplars and p

A variety of resources to support news report writing. The bundle includes: several model reports for analysis and discussion, several Powerpoint presentations that help a teacher explain and illustrate the major features of a news report, a narrative to explore which is then presented as a news report to compare and contrast both genres, opportunities to explore planning through mind mapping, editing sheet ( differentiated), large labels detailing the aspects required for a successful news rep

A comprehensive maths pack which provides practice, consolidation and reinforcement of number bonds within 100.The emphasis on addition and subtraction provides many opportunities to calculate within 100 as well.These word problems ensure that the children can use and apply addition and subtraction rules within real life situations. I have differentiated many of the resources to 3 levels to accommodate a range of learners within a class. The pack consists of: Addition within 100 calculation (dif

I created both lessons as part of a social studies syllabus - ' People and Place'. Both lessons can act as 'stand alone' units or can be used in conjunction to compare the country and city. Both lessons focus on the composition of list poems - 'In the Country' and 'In the City' with an added emphasis on grammar and word classes in particular - nouns, adjectives and 'ing' verbs. The lessons provide a meaningful context for grammar teaching as well as discussion about each place. The word choices

These resources provide a step by step guide to informative report writing themed on 'Christmas around the World', The resources include 2 main presentations. 'Christmas around the World' presentation deals with 4 countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Poland) It includes: flashcards for the 'signposts' of a report mind map pro forma points for discussion Children should complete the mind map of at least 2 countries first. Then they compose a 'lively' title and write two para

This pack contains a comprehensive presentation of the narrative/legend 'The Pied Piper'. It details the complete story with illustrations and teaching notes provided for each slide. It has sound effects as an additional feature. Within the presentation there are a variety of literacy 'follow on' tasks that students could complete after familiarisation with the story and related vocabulary. The tasks are varied with some written outcomes as well as speaking and listening outcomes. This story i

These presentations provide a detailed pack to support assessment of writing across a range of writing genres and include comments about: technical skills punctuation handwriting /presentation characterisation setting choice of language PRINTING THE LABELS (L 7162 & L7163) It is easy to download Avery Wizard (free). It w

The imaginative poem 'The Magic Box' by Kit Weight provides a wonderful opportunity to appreciate perform and compose a fantasy poem. These resources are presented beautifully to also evoke an individual written response from the learners. THE LEARNING INTENTIONS INCLUDE: to read, appreciate and perform a fantasy poem to compose verses based on the model poem to include descriptive and imaginative vocabulary within their verses Within the pack: Presentation A which provides an initial starti

This pack of themed resources (Toys & Christmas) is ideal for early writers. It concentrates on reading , ordering and writing sentences correctly with colourful pictures to encourage engagement. The 1st pair of presentations allow the teacher to take the learner through: • responding to a picture orally • reading key words that are not in the correct sentence order • orally sorting words into order to make sense • teacher modelling writing a complete sentence on whiteboard screen ( slides) • t

The focus of this pack is to provide the learners with authentic and relevant purposes for using language. Based on Autumn/Halloween, these resources/activities and suggested learning experiences have been planned to help the learners develop language through writing forms, grammar and structure. This topic provides opportunities to explore various writing forms within a supportive climate. There are 8 PowerPoint presentations that deal with the topic and provide an introduction to the topic ,

These resources form the basis of an assembly on earthquakes. My class performed the assembly at the end of a topic/project unit on earthquakes. It gave the children an opportunity to show the learning and teaching that had taken place throughout the topic. It was performed to the rest of the school and also parents. I have included links for the songs as well as copies of the lyrics. The PowerPoint was shown on a large screen as the assembly was performed. I have included resources that were

A comprehensive pack of resources - explanatory and information writing (Common Core) non-chronological report writing ( UK) These resources include a: 1st presentation that introduces the general features of report writing in a colorful, child friendly format that leads the learners through the signposts of the genre. 2nd presentation that continues with assessment of reports including an online link and differentiated checklists - peer and self editing. Additional resources provide: 1) A co