It pretty much goes with saying that Reading is an essential life-skill. As teachers it is always a focus and something that we endeavour to ensure that all children have access to good quality tex…
Creating fairy tale story maps are a fun and engaging way to integrate literacy and social studies in kindergarten, first, or second grade.
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Show, Don't Tell: A Writing Minilesson! This blog post focuses on teaching students to write showing sentences instead of telling sentences. It includes an anchor chart and a FREE Bingo game!
Use this features of a mystery story KS2 resource from Pie Corbett to inspire children to write their own close encounter tale...
Tracing Lines - Worksheets For Little People As your little one learns how to write, tracing lines is a great activity! And there are benefits to it too! Line tracing is one of those activities that develop your child's control of the small muscles in his/ her hands (fine motor skills). Tracing will teach your child to make the precise movements that are necessary for forming letters. Tracing improves hand/eye coordination. Line Tracing By Age Line tracing is predominantly for little ones as they learn how to write. It's therefore perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners. Your child's age and
Formative assessment in literacy
Something that has always dumbfounded me is our ability and persistence to fabricate connections where there are none, or better put, our human tendency to impose logic upon things that are illogical. I often witness people attempt to make sense of…
This portal stories KS2 resource features Pie Corbett's original portal story, Elf Road, as the basis for writing and grammar activities...
This large scale string art wall project for kids is easy and fun! It was intended to be a fall leaf string art project, but any theme will work!
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.
In KC, we have been working on animal reports. Here are some of our Thinking Maps this week. Circle Map Can You Guess What I ...
Each classroom brings students of multiple learning styles and backgrounds. It is our job to provide opportunities that reach all of the many different learning styles that come to us. For this reason, it is
Fire up KS2 pupils' imagination with this collection of 16 fictional stories with activities, all written by literacy expert Pie Corbett
When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult
Punctuation comprises certain marks that show the relationship of words, or used to place emphasis on words.
Using pictures to inspire poems
These pirates were created by 4th graders using oil pastels!
Take your children on an adventure with this adventure stories KS2 resource from Pie Corbett, then use the activities to explore the story...
Children will be scribbling non-fiction at super speeds with these superhero activities KS2 ideas from literacy expert Pie Corbett...
Use these Christmas poems KS2 resources from Pie Corbett to reflect on the contrast between festive excess and crises in other countries
Read The Enormous Turnip and add this resource, or use it to compliment studies of cooperation, teamwork, plants, sequencing, folk tales, and more. As you read The Enormous Turnip and other texts about giant food, these printable pages should make your work and planning easier. Please take a look at the preview. I've included: Lesson Suggestions Story booklet for reading practice Measuring Fruits & Vegetables (math) page "World’s Largest" Fruit & Vegetable Fact Cards Story Sequencing Image Cards Sequencing Craft-ivity “What’s Wrong” Problem & Solution paper Writing Plan “My ENORMOUS Plan” CLOZE Writing Page for student to write their own version “The Enormous Turnip” Reading Booklet “Other Words for Big” page “Other Words for Small” page Helpfulness writing prompt “Who is Next” (Ordinal Words) Drawing to Define Describing a Turnip (adjectives) “Totally Turnips” (addition equations to solve) Comparing Numbers I appreciate your interest in this resource. If you'd like email notifications regarding product launches, sales, and general store news, click the star at the top of any page within my store to "follow" me. Please leave a rating a feedback after your purchase. This will not only help me to continue to provide effective and useful resources, but it will provide you with credits that can be used towards future purchases on TPT.
Use this writing instructions KS2 resource from Pie Corbett to teach your class how to write instructions for getting rid of dragons...
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