English Teaching Resources for Year 1
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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree – Year 1 Procedural Writing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive ‘How to Decorate a Christmas Tree’ slide deck and differentiated writing prompts for Year 1 students.
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Christmas Writing Prompts for Year 1 Writers
Celebrate Christmas time and practise those writing skills with your Year 1 writers.
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Glorious Grammar (Early Years) Volume 1 – Worksheet Book
A workbook packed with 50 grammar activities for younger years.
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Kn, Ph & Wr Digraph Sound Cards
Use our Digraph Sound Cards to introduce your students to kn, ph and wr digraph words.
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Literacy Teaching Toolkit – Sight Word Assessments
Track Dolch sight word mastery with this set of printable assessments and data sheets to add to your literacy teaching toolkit.
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Easter Diary Writing Activity
A cute diary entry writing activity.
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Word Families Sorting Activity – Short O
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarise your students with words that contain the short o vowel sound.
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Creative Writing Prompts Calendar - Early Years
Encourage your pupils to write with fun writing prompt calendars for beginning writers.
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Christmas Writing Prompt Dice Game – Roll-a-Story
Roll a Christmas Writing Prompt and write a fun Christmas story with our printable writing worksheets.
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Christmas Character Writing and Craft Templates
Choose between four adorable Christmas writing templates for your Key Stage 1 pupils.
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Halloween Word Wall Vocabulary
Sixty Halloween-related vocabulary cards for a word wall.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Strategies Poster Pack
A pack of posters which explain the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.
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Narrative Text Structure Posters
A set of 8 narrative text structure posters to add to your classroom narrative writing display.
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Alliteration Poem Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of an alliteration poem.
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One Sentence About Me - Getting to Know You Activity
A worksheet to use at the beginning of the year get to know students.
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Roll and Read – Editable Version
An editable Word version and a blank PDF version of our Roll and Read game.
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Reading at Night Certificate
Give positive feedback to your students for reading at night with this certificate.
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Diphthongs Poster Pack
A set of 3 posters including ie, oi and ue dipthongs.
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Beat the Blast Off! CVC, CVCC and CCVC Spelling Game
Use this collaborative partner game to familiarise your students with some of the most common CVC, CVCC and CCVC words.
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Stretchy Sentences Worksheet
Use this worksheet to help your students write detailed and descriptive sentences.
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Short I Word Families Flashcards
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarise your students with words that contain the short i vowel sound.
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Consonant Blends Beehive Sorting Activity
Explore common consonant blends with a bee-themed sorting activity perfect for lower primary phonics lessons.
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Punctuation Posters
Display this set of 6 punctuation posters in your classroom to remind your students of the most common punctuation marks and their uses.
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Dolch Sight Words List – Complete Set
Practise word recognition with our set of 8 Dolch Sight Word Lists.
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Dear Santa Letter Templates
Use a printable Dear Santa Letter template to write fun letters to Santa during your writing classes.
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Connect the Dots Christmas Worksheets
Practise ordering the alphabet by connecting the dots on these Christmas dot-to-dot worksheets.
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Christmas Inferencing Activity and Task Card
Skip the inferencing worksheet and have some fun with a Christmas-themed investigation activity.
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Oink, Meow, Moo Icebreaker Game
Break the ice with your pupils on Day 1 with this silly movement game.
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What's My Colour? - Matchup Activity
Use this resource in the classroom when learning and reinforcing colour identification.
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Would You Rather...? Question Cards
Use these Would You Rather...? question cards to get to know your pupils in a fun way.
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Me and My Favourites Template
Learn about your new pupils' favourites with this getting-to-know-you activity.
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Syllable Count Board Game
Segment and count up to 4 syllables with this game board and set of 33 picture cards.