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Unlock tried and tested classroom activities, teaching strategies from our expert teacher team, and classroom management tips to cater to your students' needs. Fill your teacher toolkit with fresh trends, the latest education research and more ways to unleash your teaching superpowers!
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New Unit and Lesson Plans! Teaching Time to Year 3 and 4
Did you know we have complete unit plans for teaching time for every level from Year 1 to Year 6? Check out our latest time unit plan...
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Teaching Emotions to Kids in the Classroom
Teaching young children about emotions and feelings is imperative in the early years. Check out these picture books and teaching resources all about emotions...
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New Transport Themed Phonics Resources for Older Students
These new phonics resources have been designed in a way that is sensitive to the needs of older students who may feel that the resources that they usually get to work with are too "babyish".
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25 Tips and Resources for Teaching Phonics in the Classroom
Are you looking for fun and engaging ways of teaching phonics? This blog post provides the tips, phonics activity ideas and printable resources you need!
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More Inference Activities... What's Going on Here!?
Just when you thought our new inference activities couldn't get any better, one of our amazing members gives us a new idea that just HAD to be made!
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Guided Writing in the Classroom : A Teachers Guide with Printable Templates
This guided writing folder and printable templates are going to change the way you plan and manage your writing time in your classroom, for the better!
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Seasons Activities for the Classroom
These beautiful activities will make your lessons about the seasons fun and engaging for your students!
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Creating Classroom Calm with Printable Mindfulness Colouring Sheets
Mindfulness colouring is such a simple way to inject a little bit of calm into your students' day.
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Fun Ways to Celebrate 100 Days of School
You and your students can celebrate 100 days of school in style with these super fun activities and craft templates!
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Hot Off the Press Homophones Posters!
Take inspiration from these amazing posters for some new homophones activities!
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Printable Guess Who? Game Templates for the Classroom
These printable templates will turn your Guess Who? game into a super fun, educational classroom activity. You can download an editable template too!
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Exploring Book Characters in the Classroom
Exploring book characters with your students is a crucial element of understanding the narrative text type! Here are some of our favourite stories, activities and teaching resources about book characters.
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An Exploding Gift Box: The Ultimate Mother's Day Craft Idea
THIS is the Mother's Day craft activity you've been looking for... Using simple materials, follow this step-by-step process to create an exploding gift box!
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5 Fun Ways to Use Number Facts Board Games
Find out how to use these 9 printable number fact games in your classroom. This post will show you how to take this hands-on numeracy fun to the next level!
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10 Excellent Earth Day Classroom Activities and Resources
It's Earth Day on April 22! These fantastic sustainability activities will engage your students as they learn about all plastic pollution - what it is and how to stop it!
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It's a Classroom Games Bonanza!
See the Teach Starter team in action, creating awesome new classroom games just for you!
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5 Ways to Use Letter Tiles in the Classroom
Are you looking for a fun engaging vocabulary activity to use with your class? You will want to download our letter tiles printable after reading this blog!
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What Kind of Car is That!? Another Awesome Comprehension Activity
This creative activity helps students to practise the comprehension strategy of inferring. Challenging, yet easily differentiated, you need to check this new resource out!
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16 Egg-cellent Easter Activities and Craft Ideas
We have put together some of our favourite Easter activities and craft ideas to keep your students busy and engaged in the lead up to Easter!
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5 Easy and Engaging Activities for World Poetry Day 2018
Looking for a quick and easy activities for World Poetry Day 2018? Check out slam poetry for kids, publish a poetry mini-book or create a poetry-inspired performance!
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Printable Easter Basket Template
The cutest Easter basket template going around! Download the printable template here.
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32 Awesome Hundreds Board Mystery Picture Task Cards!
This downloadable hundreds chart mystery picture resource contains 32 different pictures in task card format so you can use them with any hundreds board!
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Empowering Classroom Activities for National Day of Action Against Bullying and Beyond
This post will help you to empower your students through effective anti-bullying activities that build understanding, awareness and resilience.
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Guided Reading Folder Templates | The Must Have Teaching Tool
This guided reading folder is going to refresh the way you organise and run your guided reading sessions.
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Cool New Resource Alert! Inference Comics
New resources plus fresh ideas equal classrooms that buzz! Check out this awesome comprehension skill activity...
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Inspiring International Women's Day Resources and Activities
Don't just post a selfie on social media with words of solidarity, use these free teaching resources in your classroom and make your #pressforprogress a significant one!
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8 Amazing Children's Books and Activities for International Women's Day
Here are 8 amazing children's books, with matching activity ideas, that you can share with your students on International Women's Day and all throughout the year!
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36 Purposeful Art Activities for the Classroom
In the interests of helping busy teachers, we have put together some visual arts teaching posters and resources to help with your art lesson planning.
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Funky Easter Egg Craft Idea
Meet the Teach Starter Funky Easter Bunny's newest friend, the Funky Easter Egg! This is an awesome, easy Easter craft activity that students really love!
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10 Awesome Buddy Program Activity Ideas
Stuck for ideas for your buddy program? Check out these awesome activity ideas!
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5 Minutes of Mindfulness: Activity Task Cards
Take a look at our beautiful new Mindfulness Activity Task Cards and Mindfulness Practice Trackers...
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Fantastic Lunar New Year Activities for the Classroom
It's Lunar New Year! Learn about and make a Year of the Dog string puppet, read a Story of the Zodiac animals and learn about all of the cultures that celebrate this awesome event!