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Low-prep literacy and numeracy resources for primary school teachers. Australian Curriculum aligned, thoughtfully designed, and made by a classroom teacher who knows exactly what your Monday morning looks like.
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Need a clear, structured way to teach sentence structure? This bundle combines two targeted picture prompt resources to support students in writing simple and compound sentences using correct punctuation.
Each set is designed for explicit instruction and focused practice, using visuals to spark ideas and allow students to concentrate on sentence structure, punctuation and grammar at the point of writing.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 Daily sentence writing practice
🌿 Explicit grammar and writing lessons
🌿 Morning work or fast finisher tasks
🌿 Homework and skill consolidation
🌿 Literacy rotations or independent practice
🌿 Print or digital sentence writing activities
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 80x Picture Prompt Cards
40x Simple sentence cards
40x Compound sentence cards
𓅦 2x Levels Of Differentiation
Cards without and with sentence starter
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 Editable Version
MS Powerpoint template
Canva template
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 No-prep sentence writing practice - print or assign digitally
🌿 Visual prompts reduce cognitive load and spark ideas for writing
🌿 Supports explicit teaching of sentence structure, punctuation and grammar
🌿 Built-in differentiation makes it easy to support a wide range of learners
🌿 Flexible for whole-class instruction, small groups or independent tasks
🌿 Can be used across multiple year levels and curricula
🌿 Helps students confidently write simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and conjunction use
Looking for a purposeful way to help students tackle multi-digit subtraction with confidence and understanding?
This resource is designed to explicitly teach students the Constant Difference subtraction strategy, helping them regroup efficiently by shifting both numbers to make subtraction easier, all through meaningful word problems.
Rather than relying on traditional borrowing, students learn to find friendly numbers and apply the constant difference strategy with sensible reasoning and real-world contexts. Each problem encourages flexible thinking, strategic number sense and a deeper understanding of subtraction.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Teach and reinforce the constant difference strategy
🌿 Support students who struggle with standard regrouping
🌿 Small group or guided maths instruction
🌿 Whole class rotations or maths stations
🌿 Relief-teacher friendly lesson with minimal prep
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 40x Word Problem Task Cards
𓅦 3x Levels of Number Complexity Differentiation
15x two-digit minus two-digit problems
10x three-digit minus two-digit problems
15x three-digit minus three-digit problems
𓅦 2x Levels of Strategy Support Differentiation
Empty strategy model cards
Partially filled strategy model cards
𓅦 PDF Version
2x Colour options - minimal colour and black & white
Empty strategy model worksheet
2x recording sheets
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 2x Self-checking options - no teacher marking!
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers
Print the self-checking cards double sided
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Explicit strategy support — builds confidence and number sense
🌿 Word problems that encourage thinking & reasoning
🌿 Minimal prep — just print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Works for whole class, small groups or interventions
🌿 Helps students see subtraction as strategic thinking
Looking for a low-prep, engaging way to improve story writing and help students write a creative text by sparking story ideas?
This generating ideas for writing bundle offers a low-prep, highly structured approach to imaginative writing. Visual prompts and the brainstorming strategies support students to generate an idea for creative writing while reducing cognitive load and supporting independence.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Daily narrative and creative writing practice
🌿 Use as a stimulus for NAPLAN writing practice
🌿 Writing warm-ups, fast finishers or literacy rotations
🌿 Homework or consolidation tasks
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 120x Picture Prompt Cards
40x Notice and wonder prompt cards
40x Connections prompt cards
40x SWBST prompt cards
𓅦 Levels Of Differentiation
3x levels in the notice and wonder pack
2x levels in the SWBST pack
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 2x Editable Versions
MS Powerpoint template
Canva template
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Low-prep and ready to use for story and imaginative writing practice
🌿 Aligned to the Australian Curriculum version 9 – AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LY06, AC9E5LY06, AC9E6LY06
🌿 Differentiated and flexible, making it easy to adapt for different year levels and curriculum contexts
🌿 Multiple use options – print and go, customise templates or use digitally
🌿 Ideal for daily story, narrative and creative writing practice, NAPLAN writing practice, morning work, fast finishers, homework and consolidation
🌿 Supports students in generating ideas for story writing using different strategies
the teacher behind the resources
Hello!I'm Kelly, a primary school teacher with over 20 years in the classroom.
I've taught every year level, spent two years teaching in London, and have been creating TPT resources since 2024, starting with the things I wished someone had already made for me.
With a 4.9 rating and 200+ resources, I'm proud of what's been built here. But the part I'm most proud of is knowing that somewhere, a teacher is having a better Monday because of it.
have you tried escape rooms?
Looking for a purposeful way to build strong collaboration skills early each term? This bundle combines four escape room resources designed to explicitly teach students how to collaborate by requiring them to communicate, negotiate ideas and persevere together.
In each volume, students will work together in groups to solve a series of logic puzzles as they navigate their way out of a timed escape room challenge. Only by completing all the puzzles can they successfully ‘escape’ before time runs out! Each puzzle requires discussion, shared decision-making and teamwork.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 Back-to-school or start-of-term team building
🌿 Reward activity that still feels purposeful
🌿 SEL and health lessons focused on cooperation
🌿 A low-stress way to observe collaboration skills
🌿 Fast-finisher or relief-teacher friendly task
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 20x Logic Puzzles
5x puzzles in the Ocean Exploration Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Camping Catastrophe Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Turbulence Trouble Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Stadium Blackout Escape Room
𓅦 PDF Version
Set up instructions
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 Self-checking option
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers - no teacher marking!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 Minimal prep — print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Zero marking — freeing you to observe and support
🌿 Flexible delivery — whole class or small groups
🌿 Strong engagement without behaviour management headaches
🌿 Curriculum-aligned while still being genuinely fun
Looking for a purposeful way to build strong collaboration skills early each term? This bundle combines four escape room resources designed to explicitly teach students how to collaborate by requiring them to communicate, negotiate ideas and persevere together.
In each volume, students will work together in groups to solve a series of logic puzzles as they navigate their way out of a timed escape room challenge. Only by completing all the puzzles can they successfully ‘escape’ before time runs out! Each puzzle requires discussion, shared decision-making and teamwork.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 Back-to-school or start-of-term team building
🌿 Reward activity that still feels purposeful
🌿 SEL and health lessons focused on cooperation
🌿 A low-stress way to observe collaboration skills
🌿 Fast-finisher or relief-teacher friendly task
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 20x Logic Puzzles
5x puzzles in the Jungle Expedition Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Mysterious Island Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Runaway Train Escape Room
5x puzzles in the Arctic Adventure Escape Room
𓅦 PDF Version
Set up instructions
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 Self-checking option
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers - no teacher marking!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS BUNDLE:
🌿 Minimal prep — print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Zero marking — freeing you to observe and support
🌿 Flexible delivery — whole class or small groups
🌿 Strong engagement without behaviour management headaches
🌿 Curriculum-aligned while still being genuinely fun
Looking for an engaging way to consolidate sentence structure and sentence types?
This escape room is designed to support Year 3 and 4 students as they strengthen their understanding of simple, compound, and complex sentences, as well as sentence types (statements, questions, exclamations and commands). Through a series of interactive puzzles, students apply their knowledge of clauses and conjunctions, while reasoning, discussing and justifying their choices in a highly engaging format.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Consolidate sentence structure and sentence types
🌿 Grammar revision lesson or literacy rotation
🌿 Apply understanding of clauses and conjunctions
🌿 Engaging fast-finisher or early-finisher task
🌿 Relief-teacher friendly, low-prep grammar activity
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
𓅦 5× Sentence structure & sentence types puzzles
Focusing on simple, compound, and complex sentences, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, identifying sentence purpose (statement, question, command, exclamation) and analysing and classifying sentences within a short passage
𓅦 PDF Version
Set up instructions
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 Self-checking option
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers - no teacher marking!
WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Encourages reasoning, discussion and grammatical thinking
🌿 Minimal prep — print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Zero marking — freeing you to observe and support
🌿 Flexible delivery — whole class, small groups or rotations
🌿 Keeps students engaged with meaningful grammar tasks
🌿 Curriculum-aligned while still being genuinely fun
Looking for an engaging way to consolidate persuasive text structures and features?
This escape room is designed to support Year 3 and 4 students as they deepen their understanding of persuasive writing. Through a series of interactive puzzles, students identify and analyse opinions and facts, consider audience and purpose and explore key persuasive language features and text structure in a highly engaging, problem-solving format.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Consolidate understanding of persuasive text structure and features
🌿 Literacy revision lesson or persuasive writing unit support
🌿 Analyse opinions, facts, audience, and persuasive devices
🌿 Engaging fast-finisher or early-finisher activity
🌿 Relief-teacher friendly, low-prep literacy task
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
𓅦 5× Persuasive text puzzles
Focusing on identifying opinions and facts, understanding audience and purpose, recognising persuasive language features and analysing persuasive text structure
𓅦 PDF Version
Set up instructions
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 Self-checking option
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers - no teacher marking!
WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Encourages reasoning, discussion and critical thinking
🌿 Minimal prep — print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Zero marking — freeing you to observe and support
🌿 Flexible delivery — whole class, small groups or rotations
🌿 Keeps students engaged with meaningful literacy tasks
🌿 Curriculum-aligned while still being genuinely fun
4.9 stars on tpt
This resource has been so helpful for reinforcing multiplication and division through real-world word problems…I’ve used it during math centers, small groups, and even as an assessment tool. Easy to prep, thoughtfully designed, and aligned with what we’re teaching—highly recommend!
Times Tables Multiplication & Division Word Problems Bar Model Task Cards
— Olivia L.
A gorgeous resource These look great on my learning walls and they are not overpowering. I know that the students will love using them. I bought every set and they look amazing all together. Love the subtle variations across the sets.
Figurative Language Poster Neutrals Idiom Simile Hyperbole Metaphor
— Caitllyn W.
My student loved this activity they were enaged and excited to do it. This got them thinking and asking question about their learning. They had a lot of fun would use this again!
3-Digit Addition & Subtraction Valentine’s Day Escape Room
— Samantha M.
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