Activities to support all areas of the curriculum from early years to year 6. The activities can be used stand alone or as part of an introduction or plenary session. Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.

An interactive resource where pupils drag onsets and rimes into the Wordmaker machine to make words.

This lesson explores the use of syllables in poetry by investigating haiku and cinquain. The activities allow pupils to learn to count syllables, sort poems into the correct order and identify words with different numbers of syllables. The whiteboard activities will encourage whole class/group discussion, collaboration and participation. The lesson could be used during a unit of work on writing poetry. Use of the whiteboard tools (eg pen, highlighter) would also enable the teacher to address other word-level work associated with nouns/adjectives.

The flipcharts may be used in ACTIVstudio2 or ACTIVprimary2. There are 12 flipcharts altogether which follow a similar pattern and highlight the following, ai, ar, au, aw, ay, bb, ce, ch, ck, dd, ea and ee.

A unit taking pupils through the advertising process of a product launch. The pack includes activities that cover: Anchoring images, Logos, Slogans, Analysing TV adverts, Costings. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfl site, linked below.

PowerPoint to help pupils identify final phonemes.

Ideas and activities that help promote discussion about the poem ‘Ailgylchu’ which is a part of the AS Welsh Second Language specification. The resource contains animations, audio, video and is suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard or with a digital projector.

A set of matching activities in the form of an interactive game of Snap. Pupils are required to match: lower case letters, upper case letters, lower and upper case letters, high frequency words. This resource can also be accessed by switch users via a switch interface which emulates the enter key. Suitable for older pupils with SEN

This resource pack is designed to encourage pupils to find interesting alternatives to the verb said. Hopefully this will encourage them to use a variety of interesting verbs, bringing their creative writing to life. The lesson contains: an introductory drag-and-drop activity where pupils consider better alternatives, a main game activity where pupils consider a more exciting alternative to a short piece of dialogue and a short poem/song that might encourage pupils to remember possible said alternatives.

Dafydd Drops a Goal is a poem about rugby. It tells of a young boy dropped to the substitutes' bench during an important cup match. He comes on to play during the dying minutes of the game and saves it with a drop goal. The unit was specifically written to provide pupils, particularly boys, with some challenging material that would perhaps change their attitude towards poetry. Ideal for years 5 and 6.

This resource helps develop an overview of the play and analyses Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic techniques. By the end of this lesson students should have: * read and understood sections of Henry V by William Shakespeare * developed an overview of the play and some of its intentions * analysed Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic technique through writing and discussion * written an essay in response to the play

An interactive resource where pupils drag letters into the Wordmaker machine to make CVC words.

An animation shows the spelling of words with long i, o and u vowel sounds. Pupils see 3 different graphemic representations (spellings) of these vowel sounds. Pupils are asked to make words using the Wordmaker machine. If the answer is correct the word is spoken and a picture appears. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.

Long a and long e vowel sounds. Pupils see three different graphemic representations (spellings) of these vowel sounds and are asked to make words using the Wordmaker machine. If the answer is correct the word is spoken and a picture appears. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.

Essay writing template.

The profile is made up of series of checklists. Together, the responses inform the learner’s oracy profile. The profile is intended to give a better understanding of a learner’s difficulties. It includes a range of strategies and resources to help contact staff to adjust or change their style of teaching accordingly. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

See - Hear - Write the alphabet with associated images.

An interactive whiteboard resource exploring oral expression. Pupils describe images to a partner, constuct an oral story from key words and describe a diary entry, based on events in a day. These activities should teach pupils to be confident in describing pictures and events and improve their creative storytelling. They should also help pupils to understand the differences between speaking to an audience and speaking to a friend, in descriptive language and reporting.

This activity uses the fairytale genre to describe characters

A resource providing a web guide to teaching a unit based on religious issues conflicting with school policy. These contain activities which are developed primarily as a speaking and listening resource but there are many opportunities for reading and writing also.