<p>Here is a great reading game to support the reading of the incredible book, The Day the Crayons Quit.</p> <p>Slides are included to accompany the game and will also include a writing activity to finish.</p> <p>Ideal as a lesson filler, transition activity, off-timetable task. Great for pupils Y2-Y3.</p> <p>pdf and ppt format</p> <p>Storybook NOT included</p>

<p>Here are four lessons based around Michael Morpurgo’s Christmas story, Coming Home.</p> <p>You should have the book to accompany these four lessons.</p> <p>There are lots of opportunities for children to dicuss reading and demonstrate the content domains in reading - written responses are not essential!</p> <p>Ideal for Christmastime, filler lessons, supply.</p> <p>Planned with Y3 and Y4 in mind.</p> <p>ppt, word and pdf format included</p>

<p>Here are some lesson slides that accompany Michael Foreman’s book War Game.</p> <p>With two follow on written activities, these lessons are ideal as filler lessons or Christmas timetable lessons where you still need structure and to develop reading skills.</p> <p>These were planned with Y3 and Y4 in mind.</p> <p>You will need the book to accompany these lessons.</p> <p>NB these were made on google slides. Embedded are some youtube videos for ambience (WWI sounds). These work on the google slide version but I am not sure if they work on the PPT? Feel free to remove or play alongside after searching on youtube.</p>

<p>Here is part one of a package based on Trauma Informed Practice.</p> <p>Trauma-informed practice in education focuses on understanding trauma’s impact, supporting affected students, and creating inclusive, safe environments.</p> <p>Trauma-informed approaches to managing behaviour start by asking ‘What has happened to you?’ rather than ‘What have you done?’. Trauma Informed behaviour policies are now a requirement in schools.</p> <p>Slides in the form of Powerpoint, as well as a pdf version. This was delivered to staff on a training day and took around about an hour. Subsequent parts are available in my shop. This is aimed mostly at Primary Schools, but it could be used, if not slightly amended to be used, in Secondary Schools.</p>

<p>Trauma-informed practice in education focuses on understanding trauma’s impact, supporting affected students, and creating inclusive, safe environments.</p> <p>Trauma-informed approaches to managing behaviour start by asking ‘What has happened to you?’ rather than ‘What have you done?’.</p> <p>These slides act as part three where staff address building relationships through effective communication skills - with a key focus on listening.</p> <p>There is also an self-assessment tool that can be used during this session and again at a later date.</p>

<p>Trauma-informed practice in education focuses on understanding trauma’s impact, supporting affected students, and creating inclusive, safe environments.</p> <p>Trauma-informed approaches to managing behaviour start by asking ‘What has happened to you?’ rather than ‘What have you done?’. These slides form part two of a training sequence to be delivered across the year.</p> <p>This is a shorter session which could be used as a top up / reminder / refresher. It covers some sensitive topics and focuses on what causes trauma and what is the impact for children and young people.</p> <p>Downloadable in Powerpoint format and pdf. there is also a checklist in Word Doc format that is required to be printed and used for this session.</p> <p>Please make amendments where required - especially for slide 6/7 where you will need to look at your school’s values / vision / mission statement.</p>

<p>These posters describe the four word types: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.</p> <p>Each word type adheres to a school-wide agreed colour system:<br /> verbs = red<br /> nouns = green<br /> adjectives = yellow<br /> adverbs = blue<br /> These are also stated in poster form on this pdf.</p> <p>Colour association helps visual learners. It has been profound for children when constructing sentences and overwriting - knowing which word type is where, what its role is within the sentence and what it could be replaced with. Such visual strategy helps deepen the children’s understanding of word types and grammar - especially when used across the whole school.</p>

<p>This poster displays key homophones for pupils in KS1 and on entry to KS2. Each word is represented visually. this can be included as an insert in planners, stuck in books or displayed on writing / spelling walls.</p>

<p>A fully formatted whole school curriculum assessment Google sheet complete with setup instructions AND staff training slides on how to use.<br /> All staff are required to do is input children’s initials and add the total number of pupils in each column. The spreadsheet will then calculate percentages and you will have:<br /> -Year group % of pupils working: well below, below and at.<br /> -Subject overviews (how pupils are performing in each subject with specific subject areas (sculpture, drawing etc.)<br /> -ALL foundation subjects (including Science) are included</p> <p>Setup instructions are included (this is where you will download your sheet from) as well as slides presentation for staff roll out.</p> <p>Excel format coming soon!</p>

<p>These visual aids support the cognitive domain required in answering questions relating to the KS2 content domains.</p> <p>Each content domain has a colour and a visual which supports a range of learners to associate the skills required in answering a question to a question type. It breaks down the ‘wordy’ content domain into something more simple and use friendly. these should be displayed, feature next to questions on sheets and on slides next to question types.<br /> They will need teaching explicitly before full roll out.</p> <p>Dyslexia Sparks (a dyslexia specialist school) stated how fantastic these were in aiding dyslexic learners who already have barriers to overcome when it comes to reading.</p> <p>The colours are also progressive from KS1 - please see my other resource.</p>

<p>These ‘Recommended Reads’ Bookmarks come with a QR code for children to scan. This will then take them to a quality retelling of that story.<br /> Suitable for children in Y1 and Y2, there are enough for each school week of the year.</p> <p>These can be edited by uploading the doc to Canva, or please search ‘how can i edit a pdf file for free?’ on google and Adobe will enable you to do this too.</p> <p>These can be sent home / shared weekly with families or used in reading corners / areas. What’s more these could also be uploaded to school websites.</p> <p>Great for Ofsted’s vision of encouraging a love of reading and reading for pleasure.</p> <p>N.B. QR codes were all working at time of upload (March 2023)<br /> This is Set 1 - Set 2 is also available - please see my other items.</p>

<p>These visual aids support the cognitive domain required in answering questions relating to the KS1 content domains.</p> <p>Each content domain has a colour and a visual which supports a range of learners to associate the skills required in answering a question to a question type. It breaks down the ‘wordy’ content domain into something more simple and use friendly. these should be displayed, feature next to questions on sheets and on slides next to question types.<br /> They will need teaching explicitly before full roll out.</p> <p>Dyslexia Sparks (a dyslexia specialist school) stated how fantastic these were in aiding dyslexic learners who already have barriers to overcome when it comes to reading.</p> <p>The colours are also progressive for KS2 - please see my other resource.</p>

<p>These ‘Recommended Reads’ Bookmarks come with a QR code for children to scan. This will then take them to a quality retelling of that story.<br /> Suitable for children in Y1 and Y2, there are enough for each school week of the year.</p> <p>These can be edited by uploading the doc to Canva, or please search ‘how can i edit a pdf file for free?’ on google and Adobe will enable you to do this too.</p> <p>These can be sent home / shared weekly with families or used in reading corners / areas. What’s more these could also be uploaded to school websites.</p> <p>Great for Ofsted’s vision of encouraging a love of reading and reading for pleasure.</p> <p>N.B. QR codes were all working at time of upload (March 2023)<br /> This is Set 2 - Set 1 is also available - please see my other items.</p>

<p>This fluency assessment can be used to assess a child’s reading fluency.</p> <p>N.B. Reading Fluency is NOT the speed in which a child reads. It covers:<br /> Phrasing, Rate, Punctuation, Intonation, Integration etc…</p> <p>This is the Teacher / Adult version</p> <p>Please see child friendly version in my shop.</p>

<p>This visual can be used for CPD, for teaching teachers how to teach whole class reading. It highlights what to do, at what stage and in what sequence.</p>

<p>These learning keys are designed to unlock learning potential in line with the EEF’s findings regarding Metacognition and Self-regulation.<br /> In order to become consciously competent, children need to reflect and improve, be curious, concentrate, be resillient and cooperate.</p> <p>These keys are learning behaviours that must be taught. This set includes visuals for EYFS, KS1 and KS2.</p>

<p>This fluency assessment can be used by a child to assess a their reading fluency. this is usually done in collaboration with a learning partner/peer or an adult.</p> <p>N.B. Reading Fluency is NOT the speed in which a child reads. It covers:<br /> Phrasing, Rate, Punctuation, Intonation, Integration etc…</p> <p>This is the Child friendly</p> <p>Please see the detailed Adult friendly version in my shop.</p>

<p>You will be downloading a ‘Connect with the Author’ By writing a tweet (written template with character count included). this can be displayed in reading corners or reading areas within school and actively encourages pupils to connect with authors in a safe way.</p> <p>Tweets should then be checked and can be uploaded via the schools official twitter account.</p> <p>See my other connect with the author poster for Amazon.</p>

<p>You will be downloading a ‘Connect with the Author Poster’ (Writing a Review on Amazon).</p> <p>This poster can be displayed in reading corners or in reading areas across the school. the children then take a slip and write a review. This can then be added to Amazon by an adult in the hope that an author will respond!</p> <p>It is a great reading response and follow on activity for children when they have finished reading.</p> <p>For other author response ideas - please see my other items :)</p>