Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
This is a fantastic resource I made for improving spelling during morning activities. The words are taken from the year 3 and 4 word list. There are 20 different 7 letter words which are placed in a wheel. One of the letters is put in the middle, which has to be used in every word. Pupils then try to make 3 letter or more words.
I score it by allowing the pupils 5 minutes to find words. They get 7 points for the 7 letter word and 6 points for 6 letter words etc. Pupils read their word out and if no one else has got it they get the points. Everyone who gets the 7 letter word gets 7 points, even if someone else gets it too. Each slide has a clue what the 7 letter word is. The next slide always reveals what the 9 letter word is.
This is a guided reading plan which has questions using the different domains below.
• Word reading
• Inference
• Language for effect
• Comprehension – Monitor & Summarise
• Comprehension – Clarify
• Comprehension – Reason & Explain
• Comprehension – Select & Retrieve
• Themes and conventions
Every question has the page number next to for which it is relevant. This book is targeted at year 3 and 4.
This is a word mat of words with the prefix dis. This is targeted at years 3 and 4 as it is part of the spelling curriculum. This is a useful resource for pupils to use to improve their spellings as well as a useful tool to improve their word choices and quality of their writing. It has two versions; one with colour and the other just in black and white to save on printing costs.
This is a guided reading plan which has questions using the different domains below.
• Word reading
• Inference
• Language for effect
• Comprehension – Monitor & Summarise
• Comprehension – Clarify
• Comprehension – Reason & Explain
• Comprehension – Select & Retrieve
• Themes and conventions
Every question has the page number next to for which it is relevant. This book is targeted at year 3 and 4.
This is an assessment sheet I have designed which has the whole of the primary curriculum for writing. It is broken down into different domains:
• Transcription
• Handwriting
• Composition & Effect
• Text Structure & Organisation
• Sentence Structure
• Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
I use this to assess the progress of pupils working below age related expectations to prove accelerated progress. At the beginning of each year you mark or highlight where they start in each domain and regularly update it throughout the year as the pupil makes progress. The next year a new teacher uses a different colour. The assessment sheet prints out best on a double sided A3 piece of paper.
Having waited for the Government to produce their own Y1, Y3, Y4 and Y5 age related expectation writing exemplifications I decided to make our own for my school. These are used to assess pieces of work by highlighting areas they have demonstrated to show they are at age related expectations. I have also included the Y2 and Y6 exemplification materials so it can be rolled out to the whole of the school.
This is a great resource for improving the quality of pupil's writing. I use it for all non-fiction pieces that require dialogue. This allows pupils to add inferences into their writing which gives their characters more depth subtly. The usual word of said is no longer used as pupils upscale their word choices making their writing even more engaging.
This is a 6 week resource for morning maths when pupils come into school. It includes adding / subtracting decimals mentally, finding missing numbers and word problems.
This is an early morning IWB activity for your class to undertake to help them settle into school. It has 4 weeks worth of activities about shape for an upper KS2 class.
This is a set of grammar revision cards with 36 terms explained for pupils and parents. It has a seem in the middle so the cards can be folded back and stuck down. This allows the parent / member of staff to show the pupil the term and have the explanation facing them while the pupil explains what each term means. The terms include:
Adjective
Adverb
Adverbial clause
Antonym
Apostrophe
Article
Auxiliary verb
Clause
Complex sentence
Conjunction
Digraph
Fronted adverbial
Grapheme
Homophone
Main clause
Noun
Paragraph
Personal pronoun
Phoneme
Phrase
Plural
Prefix
Preposition
Present tense
Pronoun
Punctuation
Relative clause
Sentence
Sentence types
Simple sentence
Split digraph
Subordinate clause
Suffix
Synonym
Tense
Trigraph
Verb
Word clause
This is a Powerpoint with 34 different English terms including explanations of what each term means. The terms include
Abbrieviation
Acronym
Adverb
Blurb
Clause
Connective
Colon
Draft
Edit
Ellipsis
Exclamation marks
Homograph
Homophone
Jargon
Jingle
Metaphor
Mnemonic
Palindrome
Paragraph
Question mark
Scan
Semi-colon
Sentence (compound)
Sentence (simple)
Sentence (complex)
Simile
Skim
Stanza
Storyboard
Verb
Verb (active)
Verb (passive)
This is a tracking document I have made for pupils working below age expectations. It allows you to track back to the correct year's objective in each of the domains so you can target interventions at the point of need. This is a great tool for making interventions really work.
This is an assessment table which for all year Primary year groups that includes the following groups;
Whole class
Boys
Girls
SEN
Pupil Premium
EAL
Traveller
Prior Attainment Group Below
Prior Attainment Group ARE
Prior Attainment Group GDS
There is another table which also allows you to track the progress of pupils in the groups; Prior Attainment Group Below, Prior Attainment Group ARE and Prior Attainment Group GDS. This is very important if you want to prove your school is making better than expected progress.
This is a paragraph display that has an eye catching upturned pyramid and a full explanation on how to write a paragraph using a topic sentence. It also has a few versions of a paragraph that is colour coded to help pupils understand how to write their paragraphs. This display is best utilised by printing it out as A3 sized.
This bundle includes 3 units of work with all the resources and display elements you will need for your Working Walls.
The 3 units are:
Diary Extract in Role based on Street Child by Berlie Doherty
Explanatory Texts based on Cracking Contraptions by Wallace and Gromit & Until I Met Dudley by Roger McGough
Persuasive Letter based on Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
These units of work use the 3 stage planning process of:
• Stimulate and generate
• Capture, sift and sort
• Create, refine and evaluate
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Acticitives can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
These are pupil tracking sheets for Reading, Writing and Maths. There is a commentary section at the bottom where you can record pupils who need targeting and what interventions you plan to provide them. This allows you to target interventions across the school and monitor what has impact which allows you to make better than expected progress for the pupils in your school.
This is a display which is eye catching as well as useful to have displayed all year round. It reminds pupils the importance of considering the best possible conjunction to use each time they want to write and. It has an explanation why pupils should try to only use and in lists furthermore a list of possible alternative words for pupils to use.
Simple mnemonics really help pupils to remember key information they need to improve their writing. This one is: PAMPAS
P owerful verbs
A dverbs
M etaphors
P owerful nouns
A djectives
S imiles
This display has an explanation for each part and it has 13 pages which include large letters to display the PAMPAS mnemonic clearly on your wall.
This is a class treasure hunt I use during transition days with my new class to make it more fun to learn about where everything is in their new class. It may need a little adaption for your own class.
This is a great whole book planned guided reading unit based on the book Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham. The story tells of an old man finding an abandoned baby in the desert who he adopts as his own grand-daughter. he teaches her how to track her way through the desert and she travels with him while he guides traders through the deserts of northern Africa. When he loses his vision she becomes his eyes and they work in tandem on their adventures. I have planned a unit of work that is split into 9 different reading comprehensions as each set of questions has between 6 and 8 questions and covers 5 pages of the book.
I have also included printer friendly pages where there are 3 copies of the questions on each page so it is easy to prepare for lessons. I have included all the answers too as this is a great time saver. The questions are designed to easily fit English books as I have adjusted the margins so they fit. I hope your class enjoys this book as much as mine have always done.
