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
This PowerPoint presentation, suitable for more than one lesson, provides a humourous report about a type of guinea pig called a trolley pig.
It gives examples of the key types of fronted adverbial - those starting using: prepositions, with, verbs ending in -ing, because, although, if, similes starting with ‘Like…’ and ‘As…as’, adjectives and adverbs of time (when, before etc).
The text also includes relative clauses starting with who, which, whose and where, and an adverbial starting with otherwise.
Font and spacing suitable for dyslexic learners; cognitive load has been kept to a minimum.
Use for SPaG lessons or for demonstrating how to improve sentence structure using adverbials. There are some suggested extended writing follow-ups at the end of the document.
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
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
Four sheets for this lesson
Simple closed tasks guarantee success
Sheet 1 match words with root ‘mummy’ to meaning
Sheet 1 write name of animal/bird underneath picture of mummy
Sheet 2 select reasons for mummification of animals
Sheet 2 label picture of Anubis performing mummification
Sheet 3 match labels to pictures of mummification process x6
Sheet 4 find, circle & sort variants of ‘l’ (-le, -al, -el, -ll) in 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 this and all history topics in KS1/2
Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability
Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil
Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages
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 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 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
A phonic approach to teaching the Year 5/6 statutory spelling words. A unit of fourteen sets and lessons, 7 per half term.
Words are grouped by the irregular sound that they have in common e.g. the ‘ai’ sound in ancient, pronunciation, exaggerate, neighbour, accommodation. **
Lesson activities involve children using variants of the target sound to complete words, in this case, -ncient, pronunci-tion, exagger-t-, n-bour, accommod-tion.
Answers are provided.
Lessons include extensions for fast finishers.
Sets can be used for weekly spelling test lists.
**so words with more than one irregular part can occur in more than one set e.g. accommodation appears in the ‘mm’ and ‘cc’ sets.
This 2-page document offers guidance on the teaching of fronted adverbials.
Where it is specified, the requirement in the National Curriculum is that children in Years 3 and 4 should be able to use them to express time and cause.
However, children can start to use them naturally in Year 1 and should continue to use them to improve the quality of their writing throughout Key Stage 2. In order to do so, it is useful to have a sense of the progression in the use of fronted adverbials.
The list in the document is not exhaustive but it does include the most common and the most useful fronted adverbials appropriate to pupils in Key Stage 2. Crucially, it helps you to gauge where pupils are in their use of more complex sentence structures and provides a clear upward pathway towards more advanced forms.
Do have a look at my other resources on fronted adverbials.
Four sheets for this 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: identify shape and orientation of United Kingdom on a satellite image & map; add own location & colour the sea in blue
Sheet 2 copy names of kingdoms of the Heptarchy in lower case with capital letter to start
Sheet 3 circle place names that have persisted from the time of the Heptarchy to present day on map of English counties
Sheet 4 draw the helmet of the king of one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy
Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font
Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size
Low cognitive load
Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability
Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil
Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages
Four sheets for this lesson (part of bundle - see my shop)
Simple closed tasks guarantee success
Sheet 1: select sentences that describe a picture
Sheet 2 write a sentence about an artefact
Sheet 3 write sentences about a picture using label prompts
Sheet 4 write verbs about building pyramids in the past tense
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
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).
Four sheets for this 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: identify UK and Viking-origin countries on maps
Sheet 2 answer questions about a simple map showing English & Viking lands
Sheet 3 use picture and topic words provided to write about a battle
Sheet 4 use pictures of Viking artefacts to decorate a blank shield
Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font
Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size
Low cognitive load
Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability
Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil
Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages
This is a presentation that takes children through the construction of sentences that begin with fronted adverbials starting with prepositions. Each example is related to a clear picture so that children have a visualisation of the concept. The sentence construction is colour-coded to support children with building their own sentences of this type.
This presentation is one of three and may be used at the beginning, the middle or the end of the series, or on its own. The others are called ‘Fronted adverbials starting with prepositions 1. - examples’ and ‘Fronted adverbials starting with prepositions 3. - practise writing them’.
All three presentations are intended for Upper Key Stage 2.
These presentations can be bought individually or as part of a bundle of three.
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.