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Roamer, Literacy, Numeracy, Science and History
Roamer, Literacy, Numeracy, Science and History
To make an A5 book: Print both (landscape) pages. Photocopy them back to back and fold down the middle.
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Story Year 1 / Year 2
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Peter Rabbit Story Board
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark (cloze) Sheet 1
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark — Sheet 2
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark — Sheet 3
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark — Sheet 4
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark — Sheet 5
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Facts About Owls (cloze sheet with missing words bank) Sheet 6
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I found out that… Sheet 7 (Owls)
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Facts about owls (Year 2)
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In a Dark, Dark, House (sequencing—cut and stick activity)
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The Snow Lambs (match captions to pictures) (write the story an A5 book)
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The Story Of Cinderella ( write the story—A5 book and word bank)
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Cinderella’s Story—a much simplified story (related to the above)
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F
The Seven Dwarfs—Character Profiles
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The Seven Dwarfs and The Very Busy Week
( A 5 book based on Mr Wolf’s Week by Colin Hawkins) days of the week.
( A 5 book based on Mr Wolf’s Week by Colin Hawkins) days of the week.
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Labelling: To recognise that labelled diagrams carry information
To label diagrams to give information
To label diagrams to show parts of an object using numbers (or colours) and a key
To label diagrams to show parts of an object using numbers (or colours) and a key
Label — bike, car, helicopter
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Label — Outside and Rooms Inside the house
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Key — Rooms inside the house
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Writing Lists: To recognise that labelled diagrams carry information
Writing instructions: To write simple instructions
Writing instructions: To write simple instructions
To use appropriate register in writing instructions
Writing a shopping list and going shopping (fruit and veg) - R/Year 1
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Making Pancakes (list ingredients and write instructions)
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Feeding Birds In Winter (coloured copy of—foods that birds like)
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Feeding Birds in Winter (introduction—identify birds)
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Making a bird cake — (children’s planning sheet and word bank) Y2
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Making a bird cake (another simpler recording sheet )
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Writing more interesting sentences! (includes word banks)
Based on Hamish the lighthouse Keepers Cat (choose words from the boxes)
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Make more interesting sentences (using description)
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Coloured Word banks to laminate (story writing—extended vocabulary) Year 2 and lower KS2
Words to use instead of ‘said’
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Word Bank 1 When Does it Happen?
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Word Bank 2 Where Does Your Character Live?
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Word Bank 3 Who Is In Your Story?
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Word Bank 4 What do they look or smell like?
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Word Bank 5 What Does Your Character Look Like?
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Word Bank 6 Up In The Air
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Word Bank 7 Where? Which Direction?
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Word banks to help extend descriptive vocabulary (poems or stories)
Words for Bonfire Night and Fireworks
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Pirates—word bank, poem, song, story ideas and pirate writing paper
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More free Literacy resources
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Story Starters — prompts/ideas for writing stories
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The Woodcutter and His Wife — Comprehension
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The Woodcutter and His Wife — sentence connectives or ‘joining words’
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Making Wanted and Missing Posters—Y2
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Lost and Found Posters — Y1
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (1)
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (2)
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (3)
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (4)
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (5)
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Sequencing Nursery Rhymes (6)
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Ideas for captions (fruit & veg posters)
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2 poems about Shoes
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Working with a dictionary—Y1 and Y2
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Alliterative sentences—food - fruit & veg theme (word bank grids)
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Family groups (words/phonics) 59 pages of flash cards to laminate for sorting by children (Year 2)
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With Thanks To Margaret Molloy for sending in the following activities used with special needs children
Ideas for games using Margaret’s cards
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Margaret’s rhyming picture cards for snap, pairs, odd one out
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C-V-C four in a row
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Word Building Cards (cvc)
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C-V-C Picture and word cards for matching games
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C-V-C word Families
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Alphabet Card Pictures
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Alphabet cards (letters for back of cards)
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Literacy Alphabet Pictures for Lotto Boards
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Literacy Alphabet letters for Lotto Boards
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Four in a row base boards (letters)
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Miscellaneous
Making Interesting Sentences - Spooky Sentences
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Teacher’s discussion sheet—changing present to past tense
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Opposites (Y2) Words are in the context of a sentence.
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Fairy Tales—Can you guess who these fairy tale characters are?
Write a who am I riddle. Unscramble these words.
Write a who am I riddle. Unscramble these words.
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For anyone who still uses Letterland
Elephant Endings booklet
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Exploding Letters
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The Hat Man Stories
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The Hat Man Gets Angry
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More Hat Man Stories
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The Three Sounds Of –ed
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Eddie Elephant’s Estate Agency
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Miscellaneous Literacy Sheets from the archives! (could be made into a book for spare time activity)
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Missing words: over under on up down after (The book is __ ___ _____)
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2
What noises do they make? (Pigs ___ )
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Where do they live? (Cows live in a __ )
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Choose a word that rhymes
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What are they doing (split sentences to match)
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Write the correct word under the picture
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Which words rhyme?
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Use the grid to sort the animals
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What can they do? (Paul can ___ the ball)
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How many/ (There are eight _________s)
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What is the baby animal called?
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What does ___ like to do. __ likes to ______.
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People at work. (The _____ looks after our teeth.)
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In the kitchen. Match the words to the picture.
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Compound words
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Label the picture (words beginning with b)
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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (simple missing word sheet)
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RE Sheets (record/write the story)
Noah and the flood
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Zacchaeus (How are they feeling?)
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The Storm On The Lake
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