Bright Future

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 ‘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

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

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

There are 3 comprehensive presentations which deal with adjectives in phrases, sentences and text. They provide grammar differentiation, revision and reinforcement in a colorful and engaging manner. Lots of opportunities to involve the learners with additional answer slides that give immediate feedback plus easily edited to provide further practice. I have also included several grammar tasks on Word documents as follow up written work. These can be used individually or as booklet.

This bundle contains 7 PowerPoints which deal with Number, Data Handling, Area and Practical Measure. Measure The Measure presentations clearly and concisely provide opportunities for practical application of the concepts of measure. The areas covered are: Measure- length/width Measure- capacity Measure- time Measure- weight Measure - Measuring Mats ( pupil tasks - should be laminated) The initial presentations allow for group /whole class teaching and the 'Measuring Mats' provide tas

A series of Mental Maths PowerPoint Presentations which can ideally be used as starter activities or plenaries.They focus mainly on numerical calculation and provide a 'quick fire' activity to promote mental recall. Children use mini whiteboards to record answers and the presentations provide answers which children can mark immediately as they proceed through the tasks.Tasks include: adding, subtracting and fact families. There is an emphasis on presenting maths language such as: add, count on,

Writing Complex Sentences and Extending Simple Sentences - suitable for Year 1/2/3 onwards as well as a support for children experiencing barriers to their learning. Learning Intentions include: To write complex sentences To order complex sentences To extend simple sentences with connectives This resource pack consists of: a colorful , comprehensive and concise PPT presentation which provides a scaffolded approach to sentence construction plus word documents that provide follow on activit