Literacy Retrieval Practice - 40 tasks including vocab learning, comprehension, SPaG, bias + more

This resource includes 40 literacy based retrieval practice tasks to be used as you see fit, either once per lesson, per week or for homework exercises.

Tasks are based loosely around key topic areas and skills focused as follows:

• Intro to literacy and reading strategy
• Autumn 1 - dystopian fiction. Reading for meaning, vocab building and comprehension
• Autumn 2- zombies. Deconstructing sentences, reading skills, annotation skills and sentences types/ effects
• Spring 1 - poetry. Reading for meaning, inference, vocab building and analysis
• Spring 2 - writing. Sentence types, punctuation, word class, planning, proof reading
• Summer 1 - non-fiction. Structuring texts, connectives, bias
• Summer 2 - Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet examples used). Vocab boost and comprehension

Topics are easily adjusted to fit your school curriculum, and activities can easily be moved out of their constructed order - they are not dependent on one other, nor do they build from one unit to the next.

All tasks are presented on a powerpoint for each half term with clear instructions for teaching staff in the notes boxes beneath the slides. Every worksheet referenced is also included as a PDF and publisher or Word file. These tasks have been built based upon extensive research into the best literacy learning approaches in recent years, and include:

• a succinct and clear approach to reading any text, reduced into 3 steps for ease with pupils
• a clear approach to vocab learning, including key graphics to jog memory and worksheet proformas to use with students
• detailed and accurate rules and conventions for grammar and punctuation, with usable and accessible worksheets for students
• challenge and stretch tasks/ opportunities and scaffolded activities to cater for most abilities
• Suitable for KS3 predominantly but could also be used with KS4 for revision purposes or simple skill boosting workshops

Please note, there is some crossover and duplication with this resource from the literacy scheme of work resource, also available from our TES shop.