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 an assessment sheet I have designed which has the whole of the primary curriculum for reading. It is broken down into different domains:
• Word reading
• Inference
• Language for effect
• Comprehension – Monitor & Summarise
• Comprehension – Clarify
• Comprehension – Reason & Explain
• Comprehension – Select & Retrieve
• Themes and conventions
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.
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 something I get the pupils to complete before they write to focus their minds on why, what and for who they are writing. It also includes a larger version for display on a working wall.
Purpose
• What does the writing aim to do?
• Persuade, advise, inform, explain, describe analyses, review, and comment or instruct?
Audience
• Who is the text written for?
• Your teacher, friends, parents, head teacher or younger pupils.
Viewpoint
• What is the point you are trying to make?
• Have you written a theme that runs through the story?
Form
• Consider the formality of the piece.
• Is it a formal or informal? What tense is it written in; 1st person (I), 2nd person (you) or 3rd person (he/she/they).
• What types of words or phrases are being used?
• Technical, scientific, descriptive, informative, factual, emotive, serious or humorous.
• What linguistic devices are being used?
• Fact, opinion, rhetorical questions, hyperbole (exaggeration), irony, anecdote or puns.
• How is the text presented?
• Headlines, sub-headings, slogans, bullet points, diagrams, captions or in columns.
This is a great template that has boxes to write questions for the different domains:
• Word reading
• Inference
• Language for effect
• Comprehension – Monitor & Summarise
• Comprehension – Clarify
• Comprehension – Reason & Explain
• Comprehension – Select & Retrieve
• Themes and conventions
It also includes a table to record your pupil’s performance in each of these domains. This is a great way to collect evidence of pupils reading ability. I have included a pdf for printing easily and a word version so you can alter it however you want.
This is a set of word mats for the year 3 and 4 word lists. It has two versions; one with colour and the other just in black and white to save on printing costs.
This is a set of word mats for the year 5 and 6 word lists. 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 a word mat of the year 2 common excepetion words. This is targeted at year 2 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.
Simple mnemonics really help pupils to remember key information they need to write great advertisements. This one is: SEAQAB
S logan
E xaggeration
A lliteration
Q uestions
A djectives
B enefits
This display has an explanation for each part and it has 13 pages which include large letters to display the SEAQAB mnemonic clearly on your wall.
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 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 an adjectives word mat I have made to support the writing in my class. I have these on every table during lessons to encourage pupils to use new words and to check the spelling of words they want to use. They are in alphabetical order so pupils can find the word they want to write fast. The different sections include:
• Positive feelings
• Negative feelings
• Size
• People
• Objects
• Time
This is a PowerPoint with a Story Mountain which is invaluable for pupils planning good stories. I have also included it in a pdf version for ease of printing.
This is a word mat I made for my class to help them choose the correct conjunctions for their writing. The list includes:
• Causal
• Comparative
• Coordinating
• Explaining
• Listing
• Opposing
• Subordinating
• Time
There is also an explanation which I stick on the back of the list as a reminder to the pupils what a conjunction is.
This is a resource I have made to support pupils with their writing and spelling. Exposing pupils to better words choices increases their vocabulary and ultimately the quality of their work.
This is a bundle of success criteria, that I use for the end of units. There is a column for both pupils and teachers as the expectation is pupils use the assessment tool to self assess their own work.
The success criteria include:
Biographies
Descriptive Writing
Diary Extracts
Explanation Texts
Instructions - Recipes
Information Texts
Newspaper Reports
Non-Chronological Reports
Persuasive Writing
Play Scripts
Poetry
Poster - Advertisement
Settings
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 colourful display that is great to have displayed all year round. It explains what a simple, compound and complex sentence is. Each type of sentence has a description and an example with each part colour coded.
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.
This is a short poetry unit based on the great poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. The end piece of writing is a retelling of the story but from another character's perspective. This unit includes lots of drama and role play to stimulate the pupil's ideas. I have included all the resources you will need and have listed the learning objectives below:
Stage 1: Stimulate and generate learning outcomes
• To deduce information about a character from a picture.
• To recite poetry.
• To explore the themes of a text.
• To use drama to explore characters’ feelings.
• To tell a story from a character’s perspective.
Stage 2: Capture, sift and sort learning outcomes
• To identify the language used for effect.
• To write metaphors.
• To tell a story from a character’s perspective.
• To recount a story as a news report.
Stage 3: Create, refine and evaluate learning outcomes
• To write a story from a character’s perspective.
• To revise, edit evaluate and improve my writing.
• Perform own writing by reading it to a group.