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Full time primary teacher and self-taught digital creator, creating resources for my classroom since 2016.
Don't forget to rate / review anything you download or purchase.
2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Dark by Lemony Snicket. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks
1 document containing written tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Stone Age Word Mat to accompany teaching on Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. Words separated into senses and atmosphere. Created to support teaching in a Year 3 (2nd Grade) class.
Printable MAGIC EDITING PENCIL checklist for children to independently check their work. Created for KS1 classes but can be used throughout the primary age range.
31 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and slides using the VIPERS skills - a WHOLE ACADEMIC YEAR of Guided Reading planning and resources!
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Lessons taught to LKS2 classes in a 2 form entry school. Children had not been taught guided reading in this format before.
Each week focusses on a different skill and skills are taught as follows:
Monday - prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - other VIPERS skills, one per week
Friday - Summarising
(Units ‘Goth Girl’ and ‘The Butterfly Lion’ have 4 lesson per week with Friday’s lesson being a 60-sec read from Twinkl - NOT INCLUDED)
Key ‘I can…’ statements for the English National Curriculum in Reading for Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Typed onto books for use on reading area displays.
For best results, print out and laminate or print directly onto good quality cardstock.
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PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - wordsearch
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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8 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 8 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
Linked texts
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Retrieval (linked text ‘Why is a Tomato a Fruit?’)
Week 2: Vocabulary
Week 3: Mixed skills (linked text The Spider and the Fly poem from Twinkl)
Week 4: Vocabulary (linked text A Seed is Sleepy)
Week 5: Inference and Summarising
Week 6: Mixed skills
Week 7: Mixed skills
Week 8: Summarising
Tasks include:
Making a foldable book summarising the story
Using a dictionary to find meanings of words in the text
Designing your own weather machine
and MORE
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Griffin Gate by Vashti Hardy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes who had never done whole class guided reading before.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks
1 document containing tasks for each of the lessons.
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Retrieval (linked text)
Week 4: Explaining (linked text)
Tasks include:
Using dictionaries to find definitions of words in the text
Ordering vocabulary by its ‘shade of meaning’
Writing questions to characters
Thinking of new names for the chapters
Creating story maps
and MORE