We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
A set of 10 PowerPoints to help your class practise all phonemes on a daily basis.
Each of the 10 PowerPoints contain every phoneme from phases 2 to 5, with one phoneme per slide.
The phonemes are shown in a random order on each PowerPoint. Get the whole class to call out or choose certain children for targeted sounds.
Perfect for using instead of flashcards, as it ensures the whole class can definitely see the graphemes.
This set of PowerPoints uses an alien theme. Look out for other themes coming soon to Blossoming Minds’ shop.
This is Blossoming Minds’ second set of 10 PowerPoints to help prepare your class for the Phonics Screening Check.
Each PowerPoint includes 40 words, one on each slide. 20 words are pretend or ‘alien’ words and 20 are real words. They are organised in the same way as the screening check, starting with four simple phase 2 words, before moving on to phase 3, 4 and 5 and concluding with more complex words.
Get your class to call out together or choose targeted children to decode the words.
Use throughout the year - fit in during 5 minute gaps or use during a phonics lesson to make sure your entire class are prepared for the screening check!
An interactive PowerPoint to help your class revise the first half of phase 3 phonics.
The PowerPoint consists of 20 activities that focus on the skill of reading. They could be used as fillers for a whole month, or as part of a phonics lesson.
Example activities include:
speed reading
finding the odd one out,
finding as many ‘ch’ words as possible before the timer finishes…
…and many more!
I have created the PowerPoint to use with my year 1 class throughout the month of September as a revision activity, so some of the activities have an autumn/back to school theme. However, you can easily use them at any point in the year.
14 phase 3 sounds are covered, up to the ‘ee’ sound.
This is the first in Blossoming Minds’ new series of phonics filler activities! Follow us to see when we add more.
A collection of three enjoyable poetry comprehension activities for year 2, all with the theme of the seaside.
Each booklet comes in 3 differentiated levels. They are based on the reading SATs paper, containing a similar style of questions.
The following poems are included:
S…S…S…seaside
The Beach
A trip to the sea
The perfect way to bring the seaside into your classroom this term!
PDF file format.
Please note: These comprehensions are also available in a larger summer bundle.
A collection of six enjoyable poetry comprehension activities for year 2, all with the theme of summer.
Each booklet comes in 3 differentiated levels. They are based on the reading SATs paper, containing a similar style of questions.
The following poems are included:
Holiday Postcards
S…S…S…seaside
Barbecue Day
The Beach
A trip to the sea
Water
The perfect way to bring summer into your classroom this term!
PDF file format.
Please note: Poetry units are also available through the Blossoming Minds shop, using these poems as the focus.
This resource is a seaside poetry comprehension activity for year 2. The children read a descriptive, repetitive poem describing the sights and sounds of the seaside, before answering comprehension question.
The resource includes 3 differentiated levels of booklet, making them suitable for a whole range of abilities in your class.
The middle ability booklet is laid out in a similar way to the KS1 SATs booklets, with four pages of pictures and short verses to read and 3-4 questions per page. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where’ and ‘why’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers.
Answers are included.
A great way to bring the seaside into your classroom this summer!
PDF file format.
This resource is a poetry comprehension activity for year 2. The poem tells the story about a disastrous trip to the beach, before a funny event turns the day around.
The resource includes 3 differentiated levels of booklet, making them suitable for a whole range of abilities in your class.
The middle ability booklet is laid out in a similar way to the KS1 SATs booklets, with four pages of pictures and short verses to read and 3-4 questions per page. There are a range of ‘what,’ ‘where’ and ‘which’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers.
Answers are included.
A great way to bring the seaside into your classroom this summer!
PDF file format.
This resource is a poetry comprehension activity for year 2, based around a poem called ‘Summer Postcards.’ The poem tells the story of one boy’s wild adventures on the run with an elephant over the summer holidays, so would make a perfect activity before or after a long break.
The resource includes 3 differentiated levels of booklet, which use different layouts and slightly altered content and questions to make them suitable for a whole range of abilities.
The middle ability booklet is laid out in a similar way to the KS1 SATs booklets, with four pages of pictures and short verses to read and 3-4 questions per page. There are a range of ‘who,’ ‘what,’ ‘how,’ ‘where’ and ‘why’ questions, some multiple choice tick questions and some that require more detailed answers.
Answers are included.
A Blossoming Minds original poem.
PDF file format.
A pack containing a summer poetry unit and two accompanying comprehensions to use with year 2 during the summer term.
Included are:
A five day summer poetry unit with a detailed plan for each day and accompanying resources.
A comprehension on the ‘beach’ poem from the 5 day unit, differentiated 3 ways.
A comprehension on the ‘water’ poem from the 5 day unit, differentiated 3 ways.
A perfect way to bring summer into your classroom this term!
PDF file format and Microsoft PowerPoint format.
An enjoyable five day poetry unit to use with KS1 during the summer term.
During the unit, children have the opportunity to read, study and learn two poems; one about water and one about the beach. They take a seasonal walk on day 3, in which they gather vocabulary, before spending two days writing their own poetry. All activities are engaging and interactive and allow children to work as a whole class, in groups, pairs and individually. As well as gaining experience of poetry, they also spend time learning about verbs.
Everything you need to teach the unit is included in the price. You will find:
A detailed plan for each day, including a starter, an introduction, a main activity and a plenary,
Curriculum objectives covered for year 1 and 2,
A list of resources needed,
A simple PowerPoint containing 2 poems and pictures for the activities,
Poems to learn by heart,
Writing templates.
All resources are in PDF file format or Microsoft PowerPoint format.
This resource is a bundle of activities perfect for using with your year 1 class during the 2018 football World Cup.
The bundle contains:
Phonics Booklet
Maths Booklet
Footballers Comprehensions x 5
PDF file format
A 20 page Football World Cup themed phonics booklet, containing a wide range of activities to help children revise phases 3 - 5.
Perfect for children to work on independently during phonics lessons, as a start of day activity, or as a filler for the busy end-of-term period. Alternatively, send home for parents to work on with children as a homework task.
Activities range from filling in initial sounds, to sorting real and fake words, to filling in missing words.
Each page indicates which phase is included so you will know what your children are covering. Answers are included at the end where applicable.
Just print and staple!
PDF file format.
This resource contains 6 comprehension activities all about the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. They are suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.
They each contain a short piece of text with words that can be predominantly sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions. Each comprehension can be used individually or you can print out the front cover to create a booklet.
There are six different comprehensions:
The Royal Wedding
Prince Harry
Meghan Markle
The Queen
How to Throw a Royal Wedding Party
The Royal Wedding Day
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format.
(Please note: due to copyright reasons, no pictures of any of the royal family are included. Please also note that this resource was created prior to the Royal Wedding day.)
This resource contains 3 comprehension activities suitable for using with year 1.
They each contain a short piece of text (about 5 sentences) with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 questions, containing ‘what,’ ‘which,’ ‘who’ and ‘where’ questions and some multiple choice questions.
The theme in this pack is St George.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.
PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.
This resource is an** interactive lesson** and accompanying** activities** focused on the phase 5 phoneme** ‘aw.’**
The lesson is aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a PowerPoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound. It takes 15-20 minutes.
This PowerPoint is split into different sections:
Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
Introduction to ‘aw’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘aw’ sound)
Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘aw’ words
Phoneme counting
Phoneme spotting in sentences
Writing words with ‘aw’ sound
Writing a sentence with ‘aw’ sound
Revision of HFW
The activities booklet includes 10 pages of independent work for children to complete either as a starter, homework activity, filler or as an additional section for a longer phonics lesson. The activities can be printed out as individual sheets or in booklet form. They include sound spotter stories, anagrams and sorting words among others.
Perfect to ensure your class know this sound inside out!
(Also available as an individual lesson or activity booklet.)
This resource contains 5 comprehension activities all about dinosaurs. They are suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.
They each contain a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.
The text is followed by 5 simple questions.
There are three differentiated levels. There is a colour and black & white version of each level.
There are five different topics:
What were dinosaurs?
Diplodocus
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Rex
What happened to all the dinosaurs?
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. Answers are also included.
PDF file format.
You might also be interested in our Year 2 comprehensions on dinosaurs:
Year 2 Reading Comprehension - Dinosaurs
A pack of 20 year 2 SATs style non-fiction comprehensions.
This is the second pack we have uploaded and contains a wide range of topics, including:
Asian countries (x3)
Habitats (x3)
Historical figures from the history curriculum (x4)
Space (x2)
How tos (x5)
Living things (x3)
Each booklet comes in 3 differentiated levels. They are all based on the reading SATs paper, containing a similar style of questions and a similar layout. Perfect to use in the run-up to SATs as either a start of day activity, a main part of a lesson or to send home to parents for children to practise at home.
PDF file format and editable Microsoft word format included in the price.
This resource is a bundle of activities perfect for using with your year 1 class in the days and weeks leading up to Easter.
The bundle contains:
Easter story comprehensions (4 pages)
Spring comprehensions (3 pages)
Maths activity booklet (20 pages)
Phonics activity booklet (20 pages)
You can choose to use the colour or black & white versions of each activity.
The Easter Story Comprehensions
The story is split into 4 sections:
Palm Sunday
The Last Supper
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
Each comprehension contains a short piece of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say. The text is followed by 5 questions, containing ‘what’ ‘who’ and ‘when’ questions and some multiple choice questions. Answers are also included.
There are three differentiated levels.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. The PowerPoint is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.
Spring Comprehensions
There are three topics covered:
What can I do in the spring?
What happens in the spring?
Spring animals
There are 3 differentiated levels.
The higher ability booklet contains a title page with three helpful words followed by three pages of pictures with short written extracts to read and 5 questions per page.
The middle and lower ability booklets each contain three short pieces of text with words that can be sounded out. Each page has trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say. Each passage is followed by 5 simple questions.
There is also a PowerPoint presentation included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability booklet so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. This is not editable.
Answers are also included.
Easter Maths Activity Booklet
The booklet contains 20 pages of Easter themed Maths activities that the children can complete on their own as a start of day activity, a filler or a whole lesson. The tasks cover all areas of the year 1 curriculum, including addition, subtraction, counting, time, mass, height, capacity, shape, fractions and money. You can use the booklet to check how much progress your class have made in Maths while they are enjoying the Easter themed questions.
I have also included answers.
Easter Phonics Booklet
A 20 page Easter themed phonics booklet, containing a wide range of activities to help children revise phases 3 - 5.
Perfect for children to work on independently during phonics lessons, as a start of day activity, or as a filler for the busy end-of-term period. Alternatively, send home for parents to work on with children as a homework task.
Activities range from filling in initial sounds, to sorting real and fake words, to filling in missing words.
All of the activities are in a PDF format. Just print and staple!
Save over 40% compared to buying each activity separately.
A 20 page Easter themed phonics booklet, containing a wide range of activities to help children revise phases 3 - 5.
Perfect for children to work on independently during phonics lessons, as a start of day activity, or as a filler for the busy end-of-term period. Alternatively, send home for parents to work on with children as a homework task.
Activities range from filling in initial sounds, to sorting real and fake words, to filling in missing words.
There is a colour and black & white PDF version of the booklet (both are in a zip file).
Just print and staple!
