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A fun and flexible KS1 resource full of engaging sentence starters! Perfect for inspiring creative writing, storytelling, and speaking & listening activities, this pack includes over 50 imaginative one-line prompts designed to get young learners thinking, talking and writing in exciting new ways. Children can finish each sentence with their own ideas - whether silly, magical, or adventurous - and build their confidence in both oral and written communication. Included: 3 pages of original sentence starters Easy-to-follow teacher instructions with extension ideas

This easy-to-use activity pack helps young learners explore ocean animals while building early literacy and vocabulary skills. Designed for EYFS, KS1, and SEND children, the pack includes both colour and black-and-white versions for flexible use in class or at home and symbols. Children are introduced to six ocean animals: seahorse, seal, octopus, turtle, fish, and shark. The first activity is a simple rhyming poem with the animals hidden in the text -children read and then match and label the animal pictures. The second sheet is an ocean-themed word search with a clear picture key to help children find and read the animal names. An answer sheet is included for quick checking. This resource supports reading, writing, and topic learning about sea life, habitats, and the natural world. With clear layouts, visual support, and engaging content, it’s ideal for inclusive and cross-curricular learning. Boardmaker licenced.

This resource introduces children to the world of nocturnal animals—creatures that come out at night. Designed for EYFS, KS1 and SEND learners, the resource is available in both colour and black-and-white formats, making it ideal for a range of classroom and home learning settings. Children will explore six night-time animals: owl, bat, fox, raccoon, hedgehog, and snail. Activities include a simple rhyming poem where the animals are hidden in the text, encouraging reading and animal recognition, followed by a matching task where children label each picture. A themed word search reinforces animal names, supported by a visual key for early readers or SEND pupils, with a final answer sheet for easy marking or independent checking. This cross-curricular pack supports literacy, science, and topic work by helping children build reading confidence while learning about animal behaviour and night-time habitats. Boardmaker licenced.

The Australian Animals Activity Pack is a fun resource designed for EYFS, KS1, and SEND learners, available in both colour and black-and-white versions. It introduces children to six Australian animals through a simple rhyming poem and literacy-based activities. On the first page, children read the poem, identify the hidden animal names, and label matching symbol-supported pictures. The second page features a child-friendly word search using the same animals, with a visual key for added support, and the third page is a full answer sheet. This pack supports reading, writing, and word recognition, while also encouraging children to learn about animals and their habitats, making it perfect for cross-curricular lessons on nature, geography, and literacy. Boardmaker licenced.

This engaging resource introduces children to six animals found in Desert, through literacy and word recognition activities. Designed to support reading, writing, and topic work around animals, and the wider world, the pack includes: Page 1 – A simple rhyming poem with six Desert animals hidden in the text. Children read the poem, find the animals, and label matching symbol-supported pictures. Page 2 – A child-friendly word search using the same six animals, with a picture and word key for support. Page 3 – An answer sheet for easy checking or self-marking. Ideal for cross-curricular learning, this resource supports early reading, vocabulary building, writing and global awareness. It’s also adaptable for SEND learners with symbol support, clear layouts, and both colour and black-and-white options. Boardmaker licenced.

This engaging resource introduces children to six animals found in Africa, through literacy and word recognition activities. Designed to support reading, writing, and topic work around animals, and the wider world, the pack includes: Page 1 – A simple rhyming poem with six African animals hidden in the text. Children read the poem, find the animals, and label matching symbol-supported pictures. Page 2 – A child-friendly word search using the same six animals, with a picture and word key for support. Page 3 – An answer sheet for easy checking or self-marking. Ideal for cross-curricular learning, this resource supports early reading, vocabulary building, writing and global awareness. It’s also adaptable for SEND learners with symbol support, clear layouts, and both colour and black-and-white options. Boardmaker licenced.

This engaging resource introduces children to six animals found in the Caribbean, through literacy and word recognition activities. Designed to support reading, writing, and topic work around holidays, animals, and the wider world, the pack includes: Page 1 – A simple rhyming poem with six Caribbean animals hidden in the text. Children read the poem, find the animals, and label matching symbol-supported pictures. Page 2 – A child-friendly word search using the same six animals, with a picture and word key for support. Page 3 – An answer sheet for easy checking or self-marking. Ideal for cross-curricular learning, this resource supports early reading, vocabulary building, and global awareness. It’s also adaptable for SEND learners with symbol support, clear layouts, and both colour and black-and-white options. Boardmaker licenced.

This resource, A Day at the Park, features four worksheets designed for EYFS and KS1 learners. Each page includes four Park-themed dot-to-dot pictures such as a duck, bike, bird and kite, for children to join up and then label. The activity encourages fine motor development, pencil control, and handwriting practice. As children complete the images and write the labels, they build confidence in mark-making while also exploring familiar topics, such as Nature, Parks and Gardens, Ourselves, Animals, Where we Live and Journeys out.

This resource, A Day at the Beach, features four worksheets designed for EYFS and KS1 learners. Each page includes four beach-themed dot-to-dot pictures such as a boat, footprints, sandals, and a crab, for children to join up and then label. The activity encourages fine motor development, pencil control, and handwriting practice. As children complete the images and write the labels, they build confidence in mark-making while also exploring familiar topics, such as Holidays, Seasons, Weather, Journeys, the Beach and days out.

This resource, A Day at the Zoo, features four worksheets designed for EYFS and KS1 learners. Each page includes four zoo-themed dot-to-dot pictures such as a tiger, monkey and an elephant for children to join up and then label. The activity encourages fine motor development, pencil control, and handwriting practice. As children complete the images and write the labels, they build confidence in mark-making while also exploring familiar topics, such as animals, the Zoo and days out.

This resource, A Day at the Farm, features four worksheets designed for EYFS and KS1 learners. Each page includes four farm-themed dot-to-dot pictures such as a farmer, tractor, truck, barn, duck, and horse, for children to join up and then label. The activity encourages fine motor development, pencil control, and handwriting practice. As children complete the images and write the labels, they build confidence in mark-making while also exploring familiar topics, such as animals, the Farm and buildings.

This set of 5 black-and-white worksheets is for young learners in EYFS and KS1, combining creativity with fine motor development. Each worksheet features 4 different flowers, or small groups of flowers, for children to trace over dotted lines and colour in. Designed to support early pencil control and pre-writing skills, this resource encourages careful line following while exploring the natural world. From simple single blooms to more detailed bunches, children will enjoy tracing petals, stems, and leaves as they build hand strength and coordination. Links to: Fine motor skill development Early writing preparation Nature and seasonal topics Plants and flowers Shape Pattern Colour Ideal for classroom use, home learning, homework, or as part of a spring or garden-themed topic.

Freebie tracing resource for children to help support fine motor control. There are two pages showing dotted lines of various fruit including plum, grapes, strawberry, orange, banana and watermelon. Children can read the words, trace the outlines and then colour the pictures.

Support early writing skills and fine motor development with this set of tracing worksheets. Each of the 5 pages includes 12 simple pictures with matching words to trace, making a total of 60 traceable images and words. Children trace over both the image and the word, helping to build pencil grip and control, correct letter formation skills, phonics awareness and word – picture association. This resource is ideal for morning work, fine motor stations, intervention groups,homework, or as part of your writing area. Laminate the worksheets for durability and reuse.

This resource is perfect for class quizzes, end-of-week/term fun, or as a literacy warm-up activity to get children thinking outside the box and using language creatively! Say What You See! is a fun KS1 quiz designed to build literacy and teamwork skills. Across 8 pages, children look at a picture and read a simple clue to guess a well-known saying or story, such as “Pigs Might Fly” or “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Page 10 reveals all the pictures and answers and Slide 11 has space for children to draw their own interpretations of the clues in the boxes. This activity supports speaking, listening, and comprehension, encourages creative thinking, and helps children understand figurative language. Working in pairs or small groups, children build vocabulary, make connections to familiar sayings and stories, and enjoy solving clues together.

This 5-lesson resource is designed for Key Stage 1 and supports children’s developing literacy skills through the exploration of well-known children’s books. Based around a visual picture quiz format, the lessons encourage children to interpret images, make story connections, and explore authors and illustrators. Each lesson is planned with clear objectives, step-by-step activities, resources, and extension tasks (planning included). The activities promote discussion, reading comprehension and creativity, while helping children become familiar with key elements of storybooks such as titles, authors, illustrators and genre. The picture quiz approach invites children to recognise popular stories through visual clues and written clues, gradually building their confidence to summarise stories, match authors and titles, and create their own book reviews. Books featured include classics and favourites such as Matilda, Peter Pan, Room on the Broom, Black Beauty, Elmer the Elephant, and more — all carefully selected to reflect a range of genres and writing styles suited to KS1. This unit of work promotes a love of books and supports key curriculum objectives in reading, speaking and listening, comprehension, and writing.

The KS1 Thinking Quiz Challenge Cards resource is designed to support key areas of the KS1 curriculum through engaging, interactive thinking tasks. Comprising 9 pages of colourful ‘post-it’ style cards (6 per page), this pack features challenge types such as True or Silly, Think Like A…, What’s Missing?, Riddles, Can You Fix It?, Trick Questions, and Would You Rather? The cards encourage children to reason, imagine, problem-solve, and make decisions — developing their speaking, listening, and early writing skills. The challenges link closely to English (comprehension, vocabulary, and creative thinking), PSHE (decision-making and empathy), and Maths (logic and pattern spotting). The resource can be used flexibly: children can write or draw their responses using the included template, or the cards can be cut out and laminated for group discussion, warm-ups, or brain breaks. It’s also ideal for parents to use at home, for homework tasks, or as a fun and meaningful activity during wet playtimes or classroom time-fillers, helping to keep children engaged and thinking in a playful way.

12 pages of challenge cards for EYFS and KS1 children. This fun, flexible resource features 12 pages, each with 6 colourful ‘post-it’ style cards showing creative and thinking challenges. Example prompts include: True or False – “Cats and dogs have no teeth” Find the Pattern – “What shape comes next” Things I Like – “Draw your favourite outdoor sport” What’s Missing? – “Complete the face” Use as full pages, or cut and laminate the cards to create a reusable quiz pack. Includes a drawing page for children’s written or drawn responses. Supports: • Critical and creative thinking • Early writing, drawing, and reasoning • Links with PSHE, literacy and maths. Perfect for class quizzes, small group work, homework or 1:1 activities!