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Idea 275: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching Suffixes -ness, -ment, -ful, -less, -ly ‘Recipe for a Teacher’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE I saw a great idea for writing a recipe-type poem for friendship the other day as a way to evidence the ITAF 2017 statement that the pupil is “adding suffixes to spell some words correctly in … Continue reading
Posted in English, Poetry, Resources Included
Tagged elementary, english, key stage one, ks1, poetry, primary, suffixes, year two
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Idea 263: FREE Differentiated Number Bonds to 20 Challenge Sheets
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a resource I used as part of a review lesson to make sure number bonds to 20 was properly embedded; this is a Working Towards criterion at Year 2, but something I believe is … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Resources Included
Tagged elementary, free resources, ks1, mathematics, maths, number bonds, primary, year 2
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Idea 260: FREE Poem Resource for ‘Wr’ Spelling Pattern and Teaching Re-Drafting
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a poem I put together that can be used for two purposes. Firstly, it shows the re-drafting process and how you can improve your writing by going back and checking things again. Secondly, it … Continue reading
Posted in English, Poetry, Resources Included
Tagged elementary, key stage one, ks1, poetry, primary, redrafting, spelling, wr wpelling rule, year 2
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Idea 253: Place Value ‘Elimination Problem-Solving’ Differentiated FREE Resource
This makes a good problem-solving lesson when you have been covering place value. Each sheet contains a grid of numbers. Your ‘secret agent’ pupils must use the clues provided to help them to eliminate numbers until only one number is … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, key stage one, ks1, maths, place value, primary, problem solving, year 2, year 3
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Idea 252: Mental Maths ‘Find the Fibs’ FREE Differentiated Resources
I try and keep revisiting small number mental maths as much as I can throughout the year to make sure my pupils don’t get rusty. To this end, I’ve made a resource which I’m happy to share here based on … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Resources Included
Tagged addition, elementary, find the fib, key stage one, ks1, mental maths, number bonds, primary, subtraction, year 2, year 3
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Idea 251: Quiz-Quiz-Trade Clocks 4-Way Differentiated FREE Resource
I put a fair bit of time into making a whole-class set of quiz-quiz-trade cards for telling the time, so I thought I’d share it here. Print off the resource and give one page to each pupil. Then ask them … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, ks1, maths, primary, quiz quiz trade, telling time, year 2
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Idea 249: Writing a Narrative with ‘The Pixar Formula’ including FREE RESOURCES!
Have you heard of the Pixar formula? Apparently, any story that is to be developed by the massively successful movie studio Pixar must follow a simple but incredibly effective formula. The formula is just six sentence starters: 1. Once upon … Continue reading
Posted in English, Resources Included
Tagged elementary, english, key stage 2, key stage one, ks1, ks2, literacy, primary, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Idea 248: SPaG Lesson on Capital Letters, FREE 4-way Differentiated Worksheets
These resources are great for a standalone ‘review’ lesson to reinforce the need to ABC: ‘Always Be Checking’! It seems that right the way through primary school, even the most capable of writers will continue to forget to put in … Continue reading
Posted in English, Resources Included
Tagged capital letters, elementary, handwriting, key stage one, ks1, ks2, primary, SPaG, worksheets, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Idea 245: Self-Checking Differentiated Conjunctions Challenge Sheets
Whenever I teach a Maths or Grammar lesson I like the children to receive any corrective feedback there and then, rather than perhaps going and making a mistake repeatedly and not finding out about it until the next lesson. To … Continue reading
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Tagged conjunctions, elementary, first grade, grammar, key stage one, ks1, primary, year 2
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Idea 242: BRILLIANT Free Online Handwriting Tool
This is one of those things that some people seem to have been using for ages but that I’ve only just discovered! This is an interactive online resource which records the handwriting that you input and then plays it back … Continue reading
Posted in English
Tagged cursive, elementary, handwriting, key stage one, key stage two, ks1, primary
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