Jacqui Sharp Resources

At the beginning of each month, fill in the calendar month with the dates, days and months. Add the appropriate weather symbols for each day as they happen. At the end of the month, tally up the results and analyse what the weather was for the month. This activity will encourage students to sort the days of the month in order, check they have the right season, month and year, and finally observe the weather patterns for the month.

Encourage your students to observe and record weather patterns by identifying where on the Beaufort Scale what the weather today is. Record it on the monthly chart and on the Tally Chart. At the end of each month write an analysis of the weather.

This package contains 70 Graphic Organisers that have been created in both Google Docs, Google Slides and 4 in Google Draw. There is 140 graphic organisers in total. You and your students will have to have Google Accounts to use these Graphic Organisers. Click on the bit.ly links on the cards. This will take you to the Google Doc, Slide or Draw file. Make a copy. You are free to make any adjustments to the files at this point, to make them more suitable for your students. Share the file with you

Use the graphics, character labels and the 7 steps to narrative writing to motivate students to write Fairytales. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use this for modelling narrative writing, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Fairytale storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their fairytales. This Storybox contains • 18 Picture labels of ch

Students still need to know how to Touch Type even in this world of ‘swiping’ technology. This pack has activities and posters for Windows, Mac and Chrome Keyboards. Project to your whiteboard for the ‘Practice Letter’ of the day. You do not need access to a computer, just print out out a white keyboard for students to colour in the letter they are practising or print out a color keyboard and laminate so that students can practise with the color coded keyboard fingering. Print, laminate and bag

Making Connections is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can make connections to themselves, their lives and what they see and hear around them, then that enables them to better understand what written text is all about. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of and write down what connections they have made. The Making Connections Activity pack can be printed out, posters and bookmarks can be laminated, and worksheets printed and shared with stu

Independent Spelling Activities are designed to be used digitally either online as a Google Slide, a PowerPoint download or you could print them so that students can write on them. There are 60 slides with 49 different activities. Students can use these for homework, or for practice in the classroom. They could do one a day, or it could be a homework task. This activity is designed so that students independently make choices about what activity they want to do and are a fun way to practise their

Summarizing is one of the key Reading Comprehension and Writing Strategies. If students can use the summarizing strategies of identifying keywords, recognizing the big idea and then writing a summary of what they have read, then that enables you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well, so at the same time you will be teaching your students valuable research skills. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of th

Use the graphics, character labels and the 7 steps to narrative writing to motivate students to write Spring Animal stories. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use these for modelling narrative writing, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Spring Animal storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Spring Animals stories This Storybox contains

Use these fun graphics to create your own Fall or Autumn activities, banners and Posters. Students can use them for their projects or for publishing. Print out the blackline and colour masters for students to publish their writing. This Package contains 25 graphics with • 25 colour with transparent backgrounds (large resolution) • 25 colour transparent backgrounds (small file size) • 25 Black and White (large resolution) • 25 Black and White (small file size) Publishing Paper • 18 Colour la

Use the graphics, picture labels and the 4 steps to writing a haiku to motivate students to write Easter haikus. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use the labels as motivation for writing haikus, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Easter storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Easter Haikus. Use the teaching PowerPoint ‘Writing a Haik

This pack consists of posters, a bookmark, worksheets, an inference card game and Graphic Organizers that can be printed out focusing on the reading strategy ‘Inferring’. Inferring is one of the key Reading Comprehension Strategies. If students can use the inferring strategies of using Prior Knowledge, making conclusions supported with evidence from the text then that will enable you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well, so at

Print out, cut up and laminate the pages from this PowerPoint. Put in a bag with some pointers and whiteboard marker pens. Students choose a card, pointer and a pen and walk around the room finding the blend that is on their card. Students write down all the blends they can find that match with that card.

This resource takes students through designing a Dust Jacket cover for a book. Teachers can take students through the different slides teaching to the criteria listed on the student writing slides. Students will learn how to identify all the parts of a dust jacket.write a summary about a book with details about the characters, setting and plot.create illustrations that give a sense of what the book is about.find out information about the author and write a short biography.search for Social Medi

Here is a set of graphs made in PowerPoint that teachers can use to model with when they are teaching graphing to Juniors. This set includes Tally ChartsPictographsBar ChartsThese can be edited to add less or more columns for information. More able students could use them on Chromebooks. There are some helpful hints and movies to help teachers when they customise these graphs for their teaching and learning in classroom. Each graph has a section where students have to analyse the data they have

Students need to learn how to comment on blog posts. This poster is a reminder of the do's and the don'ts of posting netiquette (internet etiquette).

This pack consists of an online version and a printable version of a maths game that can be played using a variety of strategies of numbers between 1- 100 or 10-1000. This maths game can be used with strategies such as, knowing groupings within 100 or 1000; know multiplication and division facts; know Basic Facts; place value Students work in pairs with a game board each playing ‘Hider’ and ‘Seeker’. There is an online version created in Google Slides where both students hide their sea animals

This is an interactive PowerPoint where students can manipulate the Tangram pieces using the keyboard, mouse (trackpad) and tools available in PowerPoint. They will practise geometry skills by 'rotating', flipping and translating. They can color their assembled tangrams using the Fill color button. This PowerPoint can also be opened in Keynote on the iPad and students can use the available tools and their fingers to manipulate the shapes. After this PowerPoint is downloaded, please save a copy a

This pack contains 8 reading activities that have been created in Word. Students can complete them on computers or alternatively they can be printed out and students can write on them. They are suitable for readings ages of 7 and above. Activities include 'The Alphabet Key', 'The 5 Ws', 'Character Relationships', 'Write a letter or an email to a character', 'Wanted Poster', 'Story Cube', 'Character Collage', and 'Trading Cards'.

This pack contains 11 reading activities that have been created in Word. Students can complete them on computers or alternatively they can be printed out and students can write on them. They can also be opened in Pages on iPads. They are suitable for readings ages of 8 and above. Activities include Analyse the storyline Describe this Character Chapter Title Assignment Development of Plot Story Development Development of a Story Excitement Chart Timeline Similarities and Differences What does it