Blank Venn diagram perfect for illustrating similarities and differences between two things.
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Hereâs a free Year 2 Narrative Writing WALT and success criteria poster to use with your students!
If youâre after more, check out this editable resource with differentiated success criteria and multiple formats for students to stick into their books.
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Hereâs a blank 12x12 times tables worksheet for your students to fill in to create their very own cheat sheet or should I say reference chart ;)
If your students have already started learning their times tables up to 12, check out this set of ready-to-go times table test grids:
Times Tables Blank Grids
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Take a seat Hamburger PlannersâŠsay hello to a new range of graphic organizers! These printable planning templates are perfect for both teacher modelling and student recording in the pre-writing stage of the writing process!
Not to mention, each design is different because no writing genre is the same, right? So why wouldnât we reflect that in our planning?
This 64-page resource contains a range of single page planning sheets with prompts and recording space. The planning sheets are designed to be used for students in Year 3-6 but knowing my past students, these would still be great fits for both my Year 2 and Year 7 students and I would just alter my expectation around detail, vocabulary, number of paragraphs etc to suit varying abilities.
This resource comes in both colour and grayscale versions for the following Writing genres:
Narrative (1)
Recount (1)
Information Report (1)
Explanation (3)
Biography (1)
Letter (1)
Persuasive (2)
Descriptive (3 - Character, Setting, Object)
Instructions (1)
It is part of a new line of teaching resources Iâm working on called PLAN IT WRITE IT IMPROVE IT and for a limited time, ALSO includes the writing frames which correspond with each of the planning sheets!
Planning a piece of writing is one of my favourite things to do - generating ideas and vocabularyâŠseeing the seeds of a great piece of writing sprouting in front of my eyesâŠooh it gets me excited! But I know that it is the stage of the writing process that a lot of students struggle with so I want to do the best I can to make it as easy and inspiring as I can.
64 pages, printable PDF
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Say goodbye to constant reminders about full stops and capital letters and say hello to student-led improvements with these proofreading and editing cards!
These differentiated cards are carefully crafted to suit various writing genres, ensuring that while success criteria may change, the core elements of effective writing remain consistent.
With this resource, students can take charge of their own writing by engaging in the essential steps of proofreading and editing (aka âre-craftingâ). Encouraging independent checking and enhancing their written work not only cultivates valuable skills but also saves us precious time and preserves our teacher sanity during lessons!
Check out the different versions available within this resource to discover the perfect fit for each of your learners. Youâll find:
6x versions of proofreading cards
6x versions of editing/re-crafting cards (choose your preferred option)
These versatile cards transcend specific genres, making them ideal for narratives, descriptions, recounts, and beyond! All thatâs left to do now is print, cut and laminate.
Bring on those literary masterpieces!
18 pages, pdf
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Get set for the new school year with these ready-to-go printable activities! NOW ALSO INCLUDING: Back to School booklet!
Hereâs a little bit about each of the worksheets included:
Goal setting template
Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals.
20 Takes for 2025 - Getting to Know You Worksheet - 8/01/25: Now updated for 2025
Sick of the same old âAll About Meâ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, hereâs a fresh one! This worksheet has 20 questions for students to answer about themselves which will give you a great insight into what makes them tick (and what gets on their nerves)!
Recipe for Me - Getting to Know You Activity
Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too.
Summer Highlights Template - Surfboard
Surfâs up! Time may be up for the holidays but donât let that stop you riding the wave of summer into your start of term activities! Students can write about or draw the highlight of their holiday. PDF comes with a blank version for colouring in.
Summer Recount Writing Frame - Ice Creams
Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! What screams summer more than ice cream? PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions.
Summer Recount Writing Frame - Jandals
Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! That footwear you see lining the borders is 100% âjandalsâ. âSandalsâ, âflip-flopsâ and âthongsâ? Ahhh yeah nah mate. PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions.
Summer-Themed Senses Recording Chart
Get students generating vocab beyond âyellow sunâ for their summer recounts. Give students this recording chart to brainstorm what they saw, heard, smelt, felt and tasted. Challenge them to add a range of interesting adjectives and verbs.
What Fills My Bucket
Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities. Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to âfill their bucketâ.
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Get set for a year of Writing units with these KS1 writing success criteria! In this resource, youâll find child-speak success criteria for 9 genres of writing in a range of formats with two differentiated versions.
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 143-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 9-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
Check out whatâs in the bundle here:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
Success Criteria for Report Writing
Each resource in this bundle contains:
Child-speak success criteria
Differentiated sets of success criteria with 2 levels of challenge for Year 1-2 students (aged 5-7)
Display posters with WALT and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Google Doc with full editable success criteria
Child-speak success criteria are a must-have in any classroom. Particularly when teaching Writing, Iâve seen a HUGE improvement in both my teaching and my studentsâ learning when utilising them. The best thing has been seeing my struggling writers become empowered and motivated through using success criteria. When students know what is expected of them, the mystery of what makes a great piece of writing is uncovered. They really do take ownership of their learning as they play an active role in self-monitoring and assessing their own writng.
So letâs make learning as clear as possible for all of our students and set them up for success every Writing lesson. Are you on board?
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Happy Valentineâs Day!
Hereâs what youâll find inside this free resource pack:
Make Your Own Gift Vouchers template
Valentineâs Day Maths word problems
Heart bordered writing frames
Heart templates
Now, get out there and spread the love!
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Oh the warm fuzzies of receiving a thoughtful note! Oh the struggle of carefully wording a formal complaint! Letter writing is an important skill for our students to learn so letâs give them the tools to do it well!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for formal, informal and persuasive letter writing +BONUS: How to compose an email!
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 51-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 4-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of letter writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for letter writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
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What makes a great story? We all have our favourite stories that we could read over and over. Equip your students with the tools to create their own stellar narrative stories too! Whether your students are retelling a fairytale or writing an action-packed adventure story, these success criteria will support them with following a narrative structure and developing their plot and characters.
This resource includes:
Child-speak success criteria for narrative writing, including sets of success criteria for character development, beginning, middle, and endings of narrative stories
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
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A must-have for teaching Recount Writing! Make learning easy with child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recount writing. Save time on your planning with these ready-to-go success criteria. Watch your students take ownership of their learning as they use success criteria checklists to self-monitor and assess their own writing.
This resource contains:
Child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recounts
Differentiated sets of success criteria with 3 levels of challenge
Display posters with WALT and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the challenge level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
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Templates, graphic organisers and resources to use in your next Writing lesson!
This pack contains:
Biography Template
So tell me about yourself. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic youâre studying!
Blank Writing Frame
Here you have itâŠa blank writing frame! Use it for publishing, assessment work or fast-finishers! Includes picture box version and wide and narrow lines.
Comic Strip Template
WHOOSH! WHIZ! BANG! Whatâs more fun than creating your own superheroes to fight evil and save the world?! Includes 3 different templates - choose your preferred weapon!
Diary Entry Template
Dear Diary, What a day it has been! Students can write about their own experiences or put themselves in the shoes of a character from a book or person from the past!
Fact File Template
After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words. Extend out the activity by adding pictures and getting students to present their learnings.
Improving Sentences Task
Take a drab sentence and add some sparkle! Challenge students to rewrite the given sentences to make them more interesting!
Persuasive Writing For/Against Chart
Pick a moot and challenge your students to come up with reasons for and against the statement. Donât let them get away with a one-sided argument!
Persuasive Writing Planner
Give me 3 good reasons! A graphic organizer to help your students plan their persuasive writing arguments.
Proofreading Practice Task
You can never do enough proofreading practice; no matter how many times you remind your students to use a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, they ALWAYS seem to forget! Practise practise practise!
Storyboard Template
Once upon a time they lived happily ever after. Use this for retelling stories, sequencing events and creating original narrative stories! Comes in 2 versions.
Story Mountain
Been learning about narrative stories? Use this template to sequence events from a known story or let your students get creative and plan their own stories!
Using the Senses Recording Chart
Get your students generating ideas before a piece of writing! Comes in present tense (I can seeâŠ) and past tense (I sawâŠ) versions so you can use it for both those descriptive moment-in-time and recount pieces of writing!
Writing Instructions Template - Recipe
Scaffold your students with this recipe writing frame! Already followed a recipe to make something in class - super! If not, let your students pick something to create and hope it sounds at least somewhat appetizingâŠ
Writing Instructions Template - Game
Canât get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? Get your students to create their own game!
Templates and graphic organizers to use in your next Reading lesson!
This pack includes:
Book Review Template
Forgot to get some new reading books for todayâs lesson? Use what youâve already got at hand and smash out some book reviews!
Fact File Template
After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words. Extend out the activity by adding pictures and getting students to present their learnings.
Identifying Features of Non-Fiction Texts Worksheet
After youâve looked at non-fiction text features, see if your students can identify examples of the text features independently. Grab an appropriate level non-fiction text and get started!
KWL Chart (landscape, portrait)
Before reading a non-fiction text or starting a new topic, find out what students already know (K) and want to know (W). The bang for your buck doesnât stop there though as your students later need to add what they learnt (L). 3 activities in 1!
Making Connections (Text-to-Self) Worksheet
Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Each page includes 2 copies so you can save on your printing budget!
Synthesising Chart
Teaching synthesising always sounds like a bit of a challenge but it doesnât have to be. Hereâs a synthesising chart which keeps it reeeeaaal simple.
Venn Diagram
A blank Venn diagram worksheet. Simple but always handy. Use to compare characters or texts.
Word Bank Chart
Build your studentsâ vocabulary by creating their own word bank. Make sure that you have a dictionary - oh sorry ipad - at hand for them to find the actual definition.
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A blank biography writing template for students to record their research information. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to texts or the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic youâre studying!
Categories include: Background, key life events, achievements, interesting facts and key quote.
NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8!
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Letâs admit it, we probably need to use this as much as the kids. Get your students thinking about what theyâre actually eating each week! Are they eating a balanced diet? Could they choose a new food or recipe to try next week? (ask mum or dad first!). Are vegetables mysteriously missing off their meals in the weekends?
This printable worksheet can be used to support learning about diet in Health lessons and also give students an awareness and ownership of their own eating habits. Makes for an easy homework task or quiet activity to settle students at the beginning of the school day.
Now, tuck in!
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After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words.
Includes lesson aim (WALT select and record facts), Success Criteria and Key Words as well as a Fast Finisher task.
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Get ready for the start of term with this reading resources pack! This is designed to get you all set for planning and teaching beginning readers from Magenta to Gold (Levels 1-21) on the Reading Colour Wheel.
This resource includes:
> A Colour Wheel Reading Groups Template
> For each of the Reading Levels (Magenta - Gold):
Learning intentions with checkboxes written as âI canâŠâ statements
Lists of high frequency words for students to learn at each of the colour levels. I would send these lists home with my students so they could practise reading and spelling them for homework. I would also have a booklet for each of my students at school which they would use for independent spelling practice and I would use for assessment to tick off what words theyâd shown me they could read/spell. My students loved taking ownership of their learning this way and Iâd often see them taking the initiative to get their high frequency word booklet during Writing lessons to check their spelling!
Ready-to-go unit planning documents with sections for targeted skills
An action plan template to support learners through deliberate acts of teaching
> A generic list of Guided Reading prompts to use before, during and after reading
These are all resources that I found invaluable when teaching my Year 2s. I had readers all the way through from Level 1 to Level 20 so I really just needed to create an easy solution for myself to keep up with differentiated planning at each of the reading levels. I hope you also find them helpful!
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A collection of printable Year 2 Maths worksheets, some including learning intentions and success criteria.
This pack includes:
Basic facts tests
Addition to 10 (scored out of 50)
Addition to 20
Subtraction up to 20
Multiplication 2s, 5s & 10s
Multiplication up to 12x (scored out of 100)
Skip counting multiplication
So youâve laid the groundwork by introducing multiplication with materials, your students have done lots of practice and get the concept - now, you just need a worksheet to consolidate what that mysterious âxâ symbol meansâŠta da!
Finding quarters with equal sharing
Donât you just hate it when you do all this work with materials and then donât have a follow-up worksheet which matches what you did? Students can reinforce materials learning by sharing out counters and then show their understanding with a couple of word problems.
Finding one quarter by finding half and half again
Have your students mastered finding quarters using materials? Test their mental maths skills with the handy trick of finding half and half again!
Survey recording sheet
Get your students conducting their own statistical investigations with this ready-to-go worksheet.
Blank bar graph
Sick of wonky lines and missing axis labels on your studentsâ graphs? Get them on track with this blank bar graph template!
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A printable kids book review template ideal for evaluating fiction texts. With space students to add a picture and fancy title, this makes for a great display on your classroom walls!
Prompts include: Setting, characters, favourite part and recommendations.
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Pick a moot and challenge your students to come up with reasons for and against the statement. Donât let them get away with a one-sided argument!
After your students have come up with reasons for each side, they need to use these to make an informed decision on whether they support the statement or not.
This resource has now been updated. Check out Writing Graphic Organisers for a range of planning templates for writing.
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