This is a really fun and engaging escape room activity with a literacy focus (with some numeracy links too). It is fully editable and straightforward to differentiate if needs be. All resources are ready to print at the end of the PowerPoint. It is highly visual and has gone down a treat with some of my more reluctant learners. I developed this for a whole school (secondary SEND setting) deep learning day, but would suit UKS2 and KS3 students too. Clues include: Synonyms, Homophones, Adjectives more. Answer sheets and teacher answers are included. We used cash boxes with code locks, but you can easily just pretend too!

This is a PowerPoint quiz to go with a set of Jenga blocks (it can also function with three dice and a spinner too- or even just as a quiz). There are three sections: spelling, punctuation and grammar. All slides are visual and multiple choice. The homepage is fully animated so tiles you click on will disappear- no confusion! It’s a lot of fun for end of term or revision activities. As it is on PowerPoint, slides are easily editable for differentiation or colour scheme changes. I use it for a range of KS3+4 SEND classes but it could easily work for upper primary phases, as well as EAL/ESL learning. There are 18 questions for each section as official Jenga has 54 blocks. I just marked a set with equal numbers of blue, green and red dots. My students really love it and I hope yours will too!

Here’s a set of three KS3 assessments for SEND students. They each come with a respective mark scheme that is thorough and can be used confidently by non-English specialists. You could use them to baseline or as an end-of-year test. They are very visual and autism-friendly. I wrote them to take into account the very broad range of levels in our school and to minimise stress, whilst going some way to prepare them for the papers they will eventually experience. They assess reading and writing. In terms of ability, I refer to the old NC levels below as our school’s won’t make sense to anyone outside of it! Paper 1: P7-L1 or thereabouts. (similar in format to an EL1 Functional Skills paper) Paper 2: L2-L6 (similar to an Entry Level Certificate) Paper 3: L7+ (a much-simplified GCSE structure) They are easily tweaked and changed so you can edit them how you like. I hope they will save you an awful lot of time!

This is a complete mini-scheme of work (10 lessons in total), with 32 files included in the pack! It starts with general horror stories with a twist, in which sterotypical genre conventions and characters are studied, moving on to a recap of the gothic and Edgar Allan Poe. The final lesson is planning a gothic story with a gothic generator. This can be taken forward as a written assessment. Each lesson is fully differentiated and resourced, with a broad range of engaging activities, use of ICT and opportunities for creative and collaborative work. Week 1: A Vendetta, Guy de Maupassant, (3 lessons) Week 2 Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, (3 lessons) Week 3: The Tell Tale Heart, (3 lessons) Bonus lesson: Frankenstein Characterisation - this lesson was an observation lesson and can stand alone in between any week. It was graded ‘Outstanding’ and is fully resourced and differentiated. Please leave a review if you can. It is massively helpful to the creation of future resources and it would be massively appreciated. If you need anything else or have a query, please contact me directly on slgraham0@gmail.com!

This is a four week SoW that should introduce students to some key GCSE skills and terms. It is fully differentiated and suitable for KS3 (however, it would also be fine to use with UKS2 or lower ability KS4 students). This is a unit created to fit my SEMH school’s Covid response (primary model- all lessons taught by the same teacher), so it is fully explanatory and designed to be taught by teachers of all specialisms! As well as offering a robust introduction to debate skills and structure, the course has lots of opportunities for fun S&L activities and games. (the preview can make the files seem wonky- I promise they’re all fully formatted and are ready to go) In This Pack 90 files including: 1x short term plan 20x bright, fun and highly visual PowerPoints 45 x worksheets (15x HA, MA and LA) 4x weekly marking sheets 1x assessment paper 1x peer-assessment form 1x pupil reflection sheet 1x poster sheets 1x topic divider for books lots of other activities and writing frames! Please leave a review, if you can! It is beyond helpful for development of future resources and I’d really appreciate it.

This is a 21-lesson scheme of work designed for KS4 SEND children on Romeo and Juliet. There is some Shakespearean language but for the vast majority, it is all translated. All lessons are differentiated/have challenge opportunities. My students are predominantly ASD so there is an increased focus on understanding feelings and some reference to the Zones of Regulation. It will work for your lower level students who need more age-appropriate material too. For most lessons, there is a more straightforward PowerPoint in supplement to the other for those classes who need simpler language/themes. These are labelled C10. Most worksheets are at the end of the PowerPoints, ready to print. All lessons are very visual, highly engaging have a range of writing activities, including my personal favourite resource I’ve ever made…Tudor dating app profiles for matching couples of the corresponding classes! There is a bonus stage combat lesson too, which was very fun but might not be suitable for all learners/settings. For Lesson 2, I used this fantastic resource from TES for the insults: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/shakespearean-insult-generator-11555694