Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Here is an example of an Easter Acrostic poem together with 8 different templates for children to choose from in order to write their own.
Links with Spring, Poetry and Celebrations.
Here are two writing frames for children to record, write or draw what makes them happy and what makes them sad.
There are two worked examples to share and talk about with the children showing what makes this pretend child feel happy and sad.
Children can write single words depending on their ability level and / or paste in pictures to illustrate their feelings.
This is a great way to get to know your new class too.
A fun activity for young children to link in with topics on Ourselves, Me , Sorting and Speaking and Listening.
There are 15 pictures of children doing a range of activities such as singing, playing football or climbing.
Children can talk about what they like and do not like and cut out the cards to sort.
There are 2 different sheets for writing, drawing or pasting onto.
Children can write 3 things they like and 3 things they do not like.
Or / and they can draw or paste pictures of things they like and do not like,
A power point presentation to share with young children encouraging them to talk about keeping safe and road safety as well as observing sings all around.
Slides 1 to 4 show colour images and words that children can name and discuss their meaning.
Slide 5 can be printed off as a worksheet and asks the children to write about how to cross the road safely.
Slide 6 is a table of some of the vocabulary the children could use in their writing or learn as part of their topic work.
Slide 7 is a colouring sheet - children can colour this in or use it as a stimulus for making their own Road Safety doodle sheet or poster.
Link this work to any topic on safety, ourselves or transport.
4 worksheets where children use the words and pictures to write rhyming words. The first 2 pages are all CVC words. Pages 3 and 4 have a few words such as frog and boat that may be a bit more challenging depending what level the children are at.
Good for your Letters and Sounds work, Phonics, Reading and writing and a good homework resource too.
Introducing List Poetry which need not rhyme or have the same metre.
The picture borders will help children when deciding what to include in their list poems.
Encourage the children to come up with a starter sentence to improve their lists such as - I love sports, any sport will do…
Celebrate World Poetry Day and have fun with these List Poetry ideas.
There are 5 templates each with a different theme:
Transport
Shoes
Hats
Fruit
Sports
Children can make notes either in the borders or on the lined grid.
Similarly, they could make their list poem in the border or on the lined grid.
A Science activity idea linked to States of Matter with a cross curricular literacy element.
Children will enjoy matching the pictures to the words and then sorting them into solid, liquid or gas.
There are 36 colour pictures and words to match.
There are 2 sorting tables - 1 with lines for writing lists and 1 without for pasting pictures.
This is a fun way to learn about, or consolidate knowledge about the World Wars.
Share on the Smart board, on Zoom, for Home schooling or / and print out for classroom /home quiz fun.
An answer template is included to write on and an answer sheet provided.
For differentiation, you could give the answers mixed up and the children could match these to the pictures.
As an extension activity, children could make up their own visual word quiz.
A visual way of introducing the suffix - er - and how to apply it to different word types:
Examples:
add er to basic words such as warm = warmer
drop the final e and add er - wide = wider
double final consonant and add er - run=runner
take off y and add ier - funny=funnier
There are larger cards to go with each word type and smaller ones with words added.
There are exceptions to the rules to remember.
Links to Letters and Sounds Phase 6
Money from 5p to £3
A fun shopping activity where children work out how much each item costs from its position on the grid and the position of the bags with money tags.
There is a sheet for children to record the cost of each item and a sheet for them to record the grid reference of the items.
There is also a black and white grid with the shopping items on for children to colour in.
Extend by asking differentiated questions such as:
How much would it cost for a duck and an apple?
Susan purchased 1a and 4d - what did she buy and how much did it cost her?
2 sets of cards to teach left and right: footprints and dinosaur footprints.
Footprint cards
6 right feet cards
6 left feet cards
6 pairs of footprints cards
3 pairs of outline prints
Dinosaur cards
6 right feet cards
6 left feet cards
6 pairs of footprints cards
3 pairs of outline prints
4 work sheets where children locate the missing words to complete the sentences.
The words are provided and children can use their phonics / reading skills to work out which one belongs to which picture / sentence.
A lesson linked with Feelings, Emotions, Mindfulness, Mental Health and Well Being and Self-Esteem.
This is a great lesson on its own, or accompanied by a jar(empty sweet jar will do) filled with positive sayings, pictures or quotations.
Great lesson to start the New Year or Term in a positive way.
Children can use the* Postits* on page 3 to write some notes and plan what they will put into their own jar. They can work in pairs or groups for this or on their own.
This resource compliments the 72 Thinking Positively Cards available on my shop also.
A bumper 28 page pack of resources on a Superhero theme.
Everything you will need to excite your children and stimulate their writing, drawing and imagination.
Included are:
12 colour A4 posters of superheroes characters
Mask templates
Graffiti words
Superhero symbols
A template for comic strips
Black / white and colour pictures for writing in speech and thought bubbles
Wanted photo frames and blank frames
Superhero certificates for boys and girls
Superhero drawing frames
6 baddy cards
12 small Superhero picture cards
Have fun!
Set two in this Dingbat Visual Word Game series.
Let’s cheer up Fridays (or any days), with this Dingbats Visual Word Puzzle for Kids or the whole family.
28 Picture clues for children to solve, complete with a blank answer template and an answer sheet.
Works well on Zoom too!
4 writing frames for KS1 with a health theme.
Each shows a picture and room for children to write a word or sentence about the picture.
Children will recognise some of the symbols related to health and wellbeing and including Covid symbols such as masks and social distancing.
A 2D shape activity using hexagons.
There are colour and black and white versions included here.
The 4 types of sheets show one hexagon, two hexagons joined, three hexagons and a completed pattern on the final sheet.
Children can cut out the 2D hexagons and copy or make their own tessellating patterns.
Here are a collection of cartoon faces and features for children to use to practice drawing cartoon characters.
There are 2 pages of eyes, a page of mouths, noses, ears and face outlines.
This resource is designed to inspire a love of books in Key Stage 1 pupils while developing their understanding of literary classifications.
Young learners distinguish between fiction and non-fiction and then delve deeper into genres and topics.
Included is a planning sheet that outlines three lesson plans, complete with objectives, a list of necessary materials, activities, and follow-up suggestions to reinforce learning.
There are two ready-made labels for fiction and non-fiction to facilitate a hands-on card sorting activity.
Accompanying these are 10 pages, each featuring six diverse book covers in black and white, which can be cut out for an interactive classification game and a range of activities. Examples of book covers are ‘Learn to Play the Piano’, ‘I have a New Daddy’ and ‘My Book of Fairy Tales for 7 year olds’.
Tailored for Key Stage 1 children, the book covers lend themselves to lots of speaking and listening and predicting.
Follow up with sorting of real books and / or children can design their own book covers using the cards for inspiration.
The resource is a useful addition to library skills and any celebrations around Books.