Warm-ups are a fantastic way to engage students, revise previous content and introduce new concepts. This bundle includes concepts aligned to the Australian Year Two Curriculum. Each concept features editable components so you can adjust them to suit your students' needs. This pack has slides that follow a rote learning style, e.g. sight words, and also slides that the whole class can complete on mini-whiteboards. In addition, there are 'creative warm-ups' that you can use before your normal lessons or as the basis for an entire lesson. There are over 500 slides which include:
 
Phonics and Spelling
- Digraphs, trigraphs and blends.
- Sight words (Oxford 200-300 / Editable for any word list).
- Nonsense words.
 
Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
- Punctuation flash card slides.
- 'Pick your punctuation': Using full stops, question marks and adjectives.
- Introduction to punctuation: Full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses and commas in a list.
- Understanding and sorting nouns.
- Conjunctions.
- Commonly misspelled words.
- 'Make a Word': Make a word using the provided letters.
- 'Word of the day/week': Including extensive word list.
- What's it worth? Spelling activity.
- Grammar detectives: Identifying parts of speech.
- Sentence surgery: 'Up-levelling' sentences.
 
Vocabulary Building
- Nouns.
- Verbs.
- Adjectives.
- Adverbs.
- Synonyms and antonyms.
- Vocabulary building around a specific topic.
 
Text Structure (Featuring examples, graphic organisers and creative warm-ups).
- Writing narratives.
- Information text structure.
- Persuasive text structure.
- Poetry creative warm-ups.
- Recount slides (from Year 1 pack by request)
 
Reading comprehension strategies.
- Inference training: 'Reading between the lines' and identifying setting, time and character traits.
- Predicting: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links, sentence starters & crystal ball graphic organiser.
- Connecting: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links & sentence starters.
- Inferring: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links & sentence starters.
- Comparing: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links, sentence starters & Venn Diagram graphic organiser.
- Visualising: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links, sentence starters, 'visualising' practise with photographs.
- Questioning: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links and sentence starters.
- Summarising: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links, sentence starters & 'Somebody Wanted But So Then' graphic organiser.
- Synthesising: Discussion sentence starters.
- Determining importance: Mentor text suggestions with YouTube links and sentence starters.
- Elements of a narrative.
 
Notes: There may be duplicate slides that feature in other year level PowerPoints. Slides such as phonics, sight words and nonsense words will follow a similar format as other year level warm-ups.