A presentation with examples of images and sentences from various picture books. All sentences are from real texts, to use as a starting point for teaching fronted adverbials starting with prepositions.

Four sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1: reading of simple paragraph and labelled topic words Sheet 2 writing of scaffolded sentences using topic words Sheet 3 vocabulary exercise involving recognising vowel sound variants Sheet 4 open-ended question with scope for an independent written answer Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to this and all history topics in KS1/2 Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting topic words into syllables & writing a sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables & sentence completion Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting topic words into syllables & writing a sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables & writing of sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 directs writing of a sentence about Roman invasion Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 allows the pupil to write own sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 allows the pupil to write own sentence in a speech bubble Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 allows the pupil to write own sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 directs writing of a sentence about Roman villas Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages Equips pupil(s) for independent writing

Four sheets per lesson Part of bundle - see my shop: 10 sets of SEN worksheets on The End of the Roman Era, Chiefs & Kings, Kingdoms, Farming, Gods & Goddesses, Lindisfarne, The Heptarchy, Sutton Hoo, Danelaw & Old English. £5.50 for the bundle - huge saving on buying sheets individually. Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1: reading of simple paragraph and labelled topic words Sheet 2 writing of scaffolded sentences using topic words Sheet 3 vocabulary exercise involving recognising vowel sound variants Sheet 4 use of picture to generate list and independent sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to this and all history topics in KS1/2 Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Suitable for half a term to a term’s work, depending on starting point & understanding of pupils - you may need to track back and repeat at different points. Lessons are in PowerPoint format, with a colour version for teaching and a black & white one for printing. Exercises are picked directly from the PowerPoint and condensed into a separate printable document. Teaches full stops in four stages: 1) Writing lists. 2) Commas & and (coloured red) to separate items in a list. 3) and (coloured green) to add ideas. 4) ‘Green and’ & full stop to join and finish ideas. Children will learn to: to use ‘and’ to join items in a list and to join ideas (sentences) avoid using ‘and’ to list ideas one after the other in their writing understand that finger spaces can be used only to separate words, not ideas to show completion of an idea with a full stop to show next idea with the first letter of the first word capitalised Children are supported by concentrating the resources on the G in SPaG, avoiding any mention of Spelling. Sassoon font and colour coding are used throughout. Information is presented in a low-cognitive load context with familiar scenarios (sweets, toy shop, park, beach, school) and stories (Red Riding Hood etc).

A presentation with text and images from various picture books to use as a starting point for teaching fronted adverbials starting with 'with'.

This is an editable Word document that provides resources for a debate. It includes sentences stems using different tenses that can be taught and practised before running a debate. It also suggests practical ways of organising a debate with supporting resources.

This is an editable story mountain for The Village That Vanished.

This PowerPoint presentation examines the themes, vocabulary and key images of The Lost Happy Endings. The text is analysed in terms of its effect on the reader by varying the sentence structure, with emphasis on the use of adverbials. Pupils have the opportunity to answer overarching questions about the author’s approach and intentions, as well as analysing sentence structure in detail. It can be edited to suit your purposes or used as is.