I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
Look Say Cover Write Check labels for exercise books with visual cues.
Useful for pasting into exercise books as a reminder, or a label for the cover of students’ spelling books.
Co-ordinates with free Look Say Cover Write Check poster and sticky labels template.
Look Say Cover Write Check adhesive labels printable with visual cues. 14 labels per page designed to print on Avery J8163 self adhesive labels or similar. Download includes versions both with and without gridlines. The lined version is useful to print on paper for cutting and sticking, whereas the non-lined version is great for printing directly onto adhesive label paper.
Useful for reminders in exercise books and as a time saving marking aid.
Co-ordinates with free poster and book labels both available from my shop.
I have developed a range of time-saving labels for marking and setting correction tasks. I regularly use these myself in my marking, and find them invaluable. They are clear, and provide a cohesive look across my marking, which is always commented on favourably in book looks or work scrutinies by SLT or external agencies.
They are designed to fit Avery labels J8160 21 per page, or similar.
**I can make a SPaG Marking Label to your specific request and make it available for the same low price of the rest of my label range. Please contact me with your request via my Instagram or Facebook page. Links are on my TES Shop page.
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The current list of SPaG labels available in the range are:
Remember to use capital letters for proper nouns.
Please add capital letters to proper nouns using a polishing pen.
Please remember to use punctuation at the end of a sentence.
Please add punctuation to the end of every sentence using a polishing pen.
Please correct the underlined spellings.
Spelling Correction Colouring In Activity*
Remember to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences.
Please add capital letters to the beginning of each sentence using a polishing pen.
Please add a capital letter to the beginning of each sentence.
Please add punctuation to the end of every sentence.
[BLANK] for you to handwrite your own comment.
Spelling correction activity includes all resources and teacher guidance.
Save money by buying my SPaG Marking Labels Bundle.
I also have a range of Presentation Marking Labels available, which co-ordinate with the SPaG range. These will give a cohesive look across all your marking.
There are various other marking labels also available; please take a look in my shop.
I have developed a range of time-saving labels for marking presentation elements in student books. I regularly use these myself in my marking, and find them invaluable. They are clear, and provide a cohesive look across my marking, which is always commented on favourably in book looks or work scrutinies by SLT or external agencies.
I can make a Presentation Marking Label to your specific request and make it available for the same low price of the rest of my label range. Please contact me with your request via my Instagram or Facebook page. Links are on my TES Shop page.
They are designed to fit Avery labels J8160 21 per page, or similar.
The current list of Presentation labels available in the range are:
Please use a single line to cross out errors.
Please always write in black ink.
Please do not doodle in this book.
Please leave lines between your date, title and your main writing.
Please use a ruler to underline your date and title.
Remember to write the title and the date.
Please take care with your presentation.
Remember to write the date.
Remember to write the title.
Please write clearly and on the lines.
[BLANK] for you to handwrite your own comment.
I also have a range of SPaG Marking Labels available, which co-ordinate with the Presentation range. These will give a cohesive look across all your marking.
I have various other marking labels also available; please take a look in my shop.
Useful one page that can me used as a poster or a writing mat.
Comma, Full Stop, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark and Speech Marks.
Definition and examples given.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
A thought provoking short looking at the themes of disability, differences and acceptance.
A young boy is given a surprising gift by his mum.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
An engaging and entertaining short which my students thoroughly enjoyed. They particularly liked the “twist” ending.
The 3D animated short called “Sweet Cocoon” is about two insects that decide to help a struggling caterpillar in her metamorphosis.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
All of the Year 2 Common Exception Words split into eight spelling lists using the look, say, cover, write check format.
These lists co-ordinate with the free poster, book labels and adhesive labels template available from my shop.
Also available with the Year 1 Common Exception Words and the Statutory spelling lists for Years 3 &4 and 5&6.
Useful resource. A bundle of three storyboards in three sizes: 4, 6 and 8.
I use these for a variety of different lessons.
I hope you find them useful.
All of the Year 1 Common Exception Words split into five spelling lists using the look, say, cover, write check format.
These lists co-ordinate with the free poster, book labels and adhesive labels template available from my shop.
Also available with the Year 2 Common Exception Words and the Statutory spelling lists for Years 3 &4 and 5&6.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
Cupid is having a bad day and needs to find a way to fix his mistakes.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
When a young man’s ideal marriage proposal is put in jeopardy he is forced to dive into unknown waters to salvage his plans.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
Spelling Mnemonic Poster for People.
People eat omelettes, people like eggs.
Available as two versions; one with sound buttons under people, and one without.
A memory aid poster for students who invert their b’s and d’s.
Clear and cute visual display.
I have made versions both with and without a colour background, both of which are included here.
I have also made this poster into an adhesive sticker printable, which is available from my shop. This is ideal for marking and acting as a useful memory aid in students’ books.
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People Spelling Mnemonic Adhesive Labels Printable.
Useful memory aid for students struggling with the spelling of people using the mnemonic phrase:
People eat omelettes, people like eggs.
Designed to be printed on Avery J8160 Labels or similar 21 labels per page labels.
This is a useful visual label I regularly use when marking my students’ books.
I have made a poster that matches these labels, which is also available from my shop.
I created this resource for students at my SEMH secondary school who have a varying range of abilities.
This is a perfect resource for an end of half term, or a cover lesson. It is highly engaging and my students always enjoy these tasks.
Whilst made with SEN students in mind, it would be suitable for mainstream primary and secondary age students.
I have made three levels of challenge from low primary school levels with cloze passages, and sentence starters, up to a more challenging “treasure hunt” aimed at KS3 students working at age appropriate levels. There should be something there for everyone!
I have also included teacher answer sheets for easy marking.
I hope your students enjoy this as much as my students do.
Spelling Correction Colouring In Activity
I use this as a spelling correction activity in my SEMH school.
When marking a piece of work as per our school’s marking policy I correct spelling mistakes.
I choose one spelling and highlight it.
I create the spelling colouring in. I quite often find when marking a set of books the same spelling error is repeated over the same piece of work. Once I have spellings for five or six books, I print out the colouring in sheet, cut out the spelling and paste in. I accompany with a marking sticker asking the student to colour in the word.
I choose to print out on paper and cut out, but I have also created a template for adhesive labels that will fit Avery J8163 or similar 14 labels per page, for those that would prefer to work that way.
Some of my colleagues freehand “bubble write” the spelling directly into the student’s book instead of typing up and printing out, so that is another option that may save you time. My bubble writing is not that tidy, so I prefer to type out and print the spelling, but if you have beautiful bubble writing that option may work for you!
My students really enjoy this activity, and it is a nice task I can get them to complete as they arrive for the lesson, and a little bit different to that standard spelling correction task.
When you and the student look back through their exercise book, these spelling corrections show the spellings they are working on in a clear and colourful way. The students are also able to find the correct spelling quickly and easily if they have corrected it before.
