Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners. This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play. What’s included? 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant supporting PowerPoint presentations opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-7) Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21) Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel Session 2 - Using precise language Resource printouts Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36) Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel Session 2 - Story map Resource printouts Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51) Session 1 - Birds of Prey Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie Resource printouts Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66) Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84) Session 1 - Reading detectives Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101) Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions Resource printouts Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120) Session 1 - What happens next? Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer Resource printouts Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138) Session 1 - A trip to the zoo Session 2 - Zoo complaint Resource printouts Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160) Session 1 - Cause and effect Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories Resource printouts Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171) Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess Resource printouts

If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12) T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15) T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18) T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25) T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36) T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41) T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74) T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78) T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81) T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88) T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96) T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100) T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104) T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107) T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112) T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119) T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123) T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126) T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144) Spelling games (pages 145-147) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148) Word of the week template (page 149) You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.

If you’re teaching year 3, Spellings for year 3 could be just what you need. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The pack also includes ideas for spelling games and useful templates. What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words ending with -el/-il/-al (pages 5-8) T1, week 2 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 1) (pages 9-13) T1, wk 3 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 2) (pages 14-17) T1, wk 4 – words that contain y as a vowel (pages 18-20) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 21-24) T1, wk 6 – common exception words from year 2 (pages 25-27) T2, wk 1 — words containing -dg/-dge (revision from year 2) (pages 28-31) T2, wk 2 — words containing -ou (pages 32-35) T2, wk 3 — words beginning with dis- (pages 36-39) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ation (pages 40-43) T2, wk 5 — word families (pages 44-46) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (pages 47-49) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with gn-/kn- (revision from year 2) (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with in- (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ly (part 1) (pages 57-60) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -sion (pages 61-63) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 64-66) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 67-70) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -ness/-ment (revision from year 2) (pages 71-74) T4, wk 2 — words beginning with il- and ir- (pages 75-79) T4, wk 3 — words ending with -sure/-ture (pages 80-82) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 83-87) T4, wk 5 — word families (pages 88-91) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 92-96) T5, wk 1 — compound words (revision from year 2)(pages 97-101) T5, wk 2 — words ending in -ly (part 2) (pages 102-106) T5, wk 3 — words beginning with im- (pages 107-109) T5, wk 4 — words containing ch that sound like hard c (pages 110-112) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 113-116) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 117-120) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -less/-ful (revision from year 2) (pages 121-124) T6, wk 2 — words beginning with re- (pages 125-127) T6, wk 3 — words containing sc that sound like s (pages 128-132) T6, wk 4 — words containing eigh that rhyme with ay (pages 133-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 138-140) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 141-143) Spelling games (pages 144-146) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 147) Word of the week template (page 148) You might also like Spellings for year 4 and Spellings for year 5.

Help children to develop their understanding and enjoyment of stories and non-fiction with our Comprehension pack for lower KS2. Featuring six texts alongside engaging comprehension tasks, questions and answers, this pack will encourage your children to retrieve information, draw inferences, make predictions, identify and summarise ideas and analyse language and structure. All you need to address these key skills! What’s included? six original texts and 17 supporting resources, including comprehensions and answer sheets includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-6) Unit 1 – The Little Prince (pages 7-16) Resource - unlocking words Unit 2 – The Velveteen Rabbit (pages 17=25) Resource - old-fashioned to modern day Resource - what’s in the bag? Unit 3 – The Little Mermaid (pages 26-36) Resource - underwater similes Resource - through the eyes of a mermaid Unit 4 – Robin Hood (pages 37-48) Resource - retelling Robin Hood Resource - Robin Hood’s arrows Unit 5 – Four square (pages 49-56) Resource - instruction text detectives Unit 6 – A letter (pages 57-64) Resource - a letter in reply Resource - letter-writing ideas

Practice makes perfect! Including eight GPS practice papers and accompanying spelling assessments, PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples and a set of engaging quick-fire challenge cards, GPS SATs practice for KS2 has all you need to prepare your children for their KS2 GPS tests. What’s included? eight SATs-style practice papers, spelling assessments and answers PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples challenge cards marking guidance. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) GPS question papers (pages 4-214) GPS spelling tasks and answers (pages 214-246) Challenge cards (pages 247-273) G1 Grammatical terms and word classes G2 Function of sentences G3 Combining words, phrases and clauses G4 Verb forms, tense and consistency G5 Punctuation G6 Vocabulary G7 Standard English and formality PowerPoint screenshots (page 274)

Our Year 6 maths assessments pack is designed to prepare children for their end-of-year maths tests and to help year 6 teachers assess children’s understanding of national curriculum objectives. All the questions are presented in the style of KS2 maths SATs papers and a mark scheme is included. The pack includes 10 test papers in total, eight of which are based upon a specific mathematical strand and two of which are KS2 SATs practice tests. Test papers included in the assessment pack: Paper 1: Number and place value Paper 2: Number and calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) Paper 3: Fractions, decimals and percentages Paper 4: Ratio and proportion Paper 5: Algebra Paper 6: Measurement Paper 7: Geometry (properties of shapes and position and direction) Paper 8: Statistics (charts and data) Paper 9: KS2 SATs practice test (arithmetic) Paper 10: KS2 SATS practice test (reasoning) These printable diagnostic maths tests can be used in the classroom or for home learning. Tracking sheets are included to enable teachers to quickly identify gaps in children’s understanding of the maths curriculum. Perfect for ensuring children are well-prepared for their final maths assessments at primary school.

Based on the big ideas principle of the AQA Science syllabus, AQA big ideas – KS3 science homework pack has been designed to ensure you have all your KS3 homework activities in one place. The pack is divided into the 10 big ideas and features two tasks for each of the four subunits, comprising 80 activities in total. Each task includes ideas for self or peer assessment and answers are included, so marking and assessment is easy. And, while the activities are based on the AQA syllabus, they are easily incorporated into any KS3 scheme of work. Just photocopy and go. What’s included? 80 homework tasks covering the 10 big ideas A mix of long and short tasks Self and peer assessment ideas Answers included What’s inside? Pack 1 - Forces Pack 2 - Electromagnets Pack 3 - Energy Pack 4 - Waves Pack 5 - Matter Pack 6 - Reactions Pack 7 - Earth Pack 8 - Organisms Pack 9 - Ecosystems Pack 10 - Genes

All you need to develop children’s reading comprehension skills and prepare them for their KS2 reading assessments. Inspire a positive attitude to reading and consolidate those all-important comprehension skills ready for KS2 English SATs. Featuring six fiction and non-fiction texts alongside engaging lesson plans, reading comprehension activities and worksheets, this pack will encourage your children to build the comprehension strategies of information retrieval, drawing inferences, making predictions, identifying and summarising ideas and analysing language and structure. What’s more, this pack is editable, meaning you can tweak questions to suit your UKS2 learners. What’s included? six original texts and 21 supporting teaching resources, including comprehension questions and answer sheets includes lesson plans, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for English. What’s inside? Introduction (pages3-6) Unit 1 – Five Children and It (pages 7-20) Resource - picturing the Psammead Resource - that’s Greek to me Unit 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pages 21-33) Resource - pass the parcel words Resource - he said, she said Resource - Seen the movie? Now read the book! Unit 3 – Alice in Wonderland (pages 34-47) Resource - illustration by Sir John Tenniel Resource - Alice grows Resource - comprehension chatterbox Unit 4 – Odin’s Reward (pages 48-59) Resource - pairs game Resource - comic strip format Unit 5 – Samuel Johnson biography (pages 60-70) Resource - Dr Johnson’s wonderful words! Resource - my biography notes Unit 6 – Newspaper report (pages 71-78) Resource - fact or opinion? Resource - complete the headline

Spellings for year 5 offers year 5 teachers all they need for weekly spelling tasks. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words beginning with -in/-il/-im/-ir (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 – words ending in -cious/-tious (pages 8-10) T1, wk 3 – words ending in -cial/-tial (pages 11-13) T1, wk 4 – words ending in -ant/-ent (pages 14-18) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 – year 5/6 word list 1 (paages 23-26) T2, wk 1 — words ending in -ation (pages 27-31) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -able (pages 32-34) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -ible (pages 35-37) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ance/-ancy/-ence/-ency (pages 38-42) T2, wk 5 — homophones ending in -ce/-se (pages 43-45) T2, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 2 (pages 46-49) T3, wk 1 — words ending in -ly (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — adding suffixes to words ending in -fer (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — hyphenated words: prefixes and root words (pages 57-59) T3, wk 4 — hyphenated words: compound words (pages 60-62) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 63-65) T3, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 3 (pages 66-69) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -sion/-tion/-ssion/-cian (pages 70-72) T4, wk 2 — words containing ough (pages 73-75) T4, wk 3 — words containing ei (pages 76-80) T4, wk 4 — words with silent letters: t, u, w (pages 81-83) T4, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 84-87) T4, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 4 (pages 88-91) T5, wk 1 — words ending in -ous (pages 92-97) T5, wk 2 — words with silent letters: b, c, g, h (pages 98-100) T5, wk 3 — adding prefixes (1) (pages 101-105) T5, wk 4 — adding prefixes (2) (pages 106-109) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 110-114) T5, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 5 (pages 114-117) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -ture/-sure (pages 118-120) T6, wk 2 — words with silent letters: k, l, n, p, s (pages 121-123) T6, wk 3 — mix and match reminders (1) (pages 124-127) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (2) (pages 128-130) T6, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 131-133) T6, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 6 (pages 134-138) Spelling games (pages 139-141) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 14) Word of the week template (page 143) You might also like Spellings for year 3 and Spellings for year 4.

Enchant, amuse and inspire your children with our first whole-school teaching pack – Poetry for all. The pack features 14 poems and a range of engaging teaching ideas and resources for Reception through to year 6, saving you precious time searching for age-appropriate poems and activities. Including activities for comprehension, drama, creative writing and art and design, this pack is perfect for encouraging your children to respond imaginatively to both modern and classic poems. What’s included? 53 quality teaching resources, alongside 14 carefully selected poems seven PowerPoints complete with illustrated versions of each poem SAT-style comprehensions, when appropriate, including answers links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Statutory requirements (pages 4-10) Reception (pages 11-23) Ye Spotted Snakes by William Shakespeare Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth Year 1 (pages 24-41) Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson Please Do Not Feed the Animals by Robert Hull Year 2 (pages 42-67) The Months by Sara Coleridge Granny Is by Valerie Bloom Year 3 (pages 68-87) Silver by Walter de la Mare Vegan Delight by Benjamin Zephaniah Year 4 (pages 88-112) The Jumblies by Edward Lear Extinct by Mandy Coe Year 5 (pages 113-139) From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson The Door by Miroslav Holub Year 6 (pages 140-164) Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll His Nine Sympathies by Carol Ann Duffy

A practical toolkit for supporting students with handwriting difficulties at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Dysgraphia toolkit is intended to help young people develop the fine motor skills they may be lacking and offers a full dysgraphia intervention programme targeting specific areas of need. What’s included? This 71-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dysgraphia and the difficulties in obtaining a dysgraphia diagnosis a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings handwriting assessment tools for you to monitor and record students’ specific difficulties display resources on writing posture and pen grip general classroom strategies, including whole-class warm-ups activity ideas and games for practising visual motor skills and fine motor skills letter tracing worksheets and cursive writing patterns worksheets How does it support dysgraphic students? Dysgraphia toolkit offers time-effective and straightforward ways of diagnosing and supporting dysgraphia in teens. It suggests warm-ups and motor skill activities that are helpful not just for teaching students with dysgraphia but for teaching all young people, and it presents simple ways of supporting dysgraphia in the classroom, without the need for special equipment – although examples of assistive technology are suggested where appropriate. The intervention programme that it proposes does not need to be followed systematically and can be dipped into by subject teachers and teaching assistants in the mainstream classroom. The toolkit presents arguments for and against print and joined/cursive writing and recommends that at secondary school students should not be required to adopt one or the other as long as their handwriting is legible and pain-free. It outlines the additional challenges faced by left-handed students and suggests specific support strategies. Finally, it includes editable handwriting worksheets that can be adapted for any age group and printable handwriting practice sheets for older students. About the writer Dysgraphia toolkit was written by Abigail Hawkins, who runs SENDCO Solutions, an SEN consultancy, and SENsible SENCO CIC, a not-for-profit networking support group. She has been a SENDCo for over 25 years and has taught a multitude of subjects across all phases, from two-year-olds to adults. Abigail works with software companies developing supportive software for SEN and safeguarding purposes, has developed and delivers a teaching assistant apprenticeship programme. She has authored several books on SEN and exclusions, and runs a support network for over 10,000 SENDCos. Abigail has a no-nonsense, practical approach to SEN issues faced by schools, believing that many high-incidence needs can be met in the classroom with basic teaching tweaks.

This practical and accessible toolkit is designed to help teachers and teaching assistants to support key stage 3 and key stage 4 students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the mainstream classroom. ADHD toolkit presents an overview of what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed and how it can be treated. It provides a variety of strategies and printable resources to help learners with ADHD thrive in your classroom. What’s included? This 43-page toolkit includes: an overview of the three types of ADHD: combined, hyperactive-impulsive and predominantly inattentive a checklist of ADHD symptoms a summary of the ADHD treatment available, including types of medication and therapeutic support an explanation of how ADHD affects the brain, including impacts on executive functioning an overview of how ADHD affects girls and women comorbid conditions that can occur with ADHD, such as autism and Tourette syndrome classroom strategies for managing ADHD tips and templates for rewarding students’ success a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings. How does it support students with ADHD? ADHD toolkit helps teachers to recognise behaviours that may be indicative of the three main symptoms of ADHD: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. It offers advice on seating arrangements, turn-taking skills and conflict resolution, with reminders to praise students and showcase their strengths. It also provides classroom strategies to support executive functioning weakness, and teaching strategies for supporting students with memory skills, organisation skills and writing tasks. For students, the toolkit offers self-regulation techniques, tips on how to avoid getting distracted, and planning tools such as timetables and activity planners. The toolkit also suggests sensory supports such as fidget toys that can be beneficial for learners with ADHD and highlights the importance of regular healthy snacks, and of staying hydrated to combat the side effects of ADHD medication. About the writer ADHD toolkit was written by Elizabeth Swan. Lizzy draws upon lived experience and upon professional expertise from over 20 years as a qualified teacher, SENDCo and headteacher in secondary schools and special schools. She exploits her postgraduate study of psychology to present the ‘best bets’ from research-informed approaches to supporting children and young people with ADHD.

Dyslexia toolkit aims to help subject teachers, form tutors and teaching assistants to support dyslexic students in the mainstream classroom at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Whatever your role in supporting students with dyslexia, this toolkit will give you understanding, tangible ideas and practical strategies to enable young people to realise their full potential. What’s included? This 56-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dyslexia and how to identify it in the classroom a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings advice on avoiding sensory overload games to develop learners’ short-term and working memory templates for sentence starters, task maps and writing planners to reduce the load on learners’ working memory guidance on chunking tasks into manageable steps to help students to process information dyslexia strategies for reading writing strategies for students with dyslexia information about the link between a weak working memory and spelling difficulties, plus dyslexia spelling strategies strategies for supporting students with dyslexia in the maths classroom top tips on harnessing dyslexic strengths such as empathy and problem solving How does it support dyslexic students? Dyslexia toolkit offers dyslexia-friendly strategies that can be used with the whole class so that neurodivergent learners are not put on the spot. There are also approaches that can be carried out in small groups, and suggestions for how dyslexic students can support their classmates, fostering a supportive learning environment and helping young people to feel empowered. Information and activities are provided to raise awareness of what it feels like to have dyslexia, and ways are suggested of playing to dyslexic learners’ strengths. The toolkit includes tick lists for learners to articulate their own areas of challenge and learning preferences, and it provides printable resources to help students to plan written tasks. There is also a step-by-step guide for students to reading for comprehension and an overview of pros and cons of assistive technology such as electronic readers. About the writer Dyslexia toolkit was written by Dr Helen Ross, a leading voice on dyslexia within UK education. She is an experienced public speaker, international consultant and researcher, and contributor to a wide range of publications; Helen is also dyslexic. She supports families, teachers and organisations to better understand the implications of dyslexia, neurodiversity and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this toolkit, Helen draws on her experiences as a classroom teacher, SENDCo and dyslexia expert to help you to understand what dyslexia is, which aspects of learning can be affected by dyslexia and what you can do to support dyslexic learners.

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

Our EAL toolkit is designed for teachers and teaching assistants who don’t have a background in teaching English as an additional language to support EAL students in mainstream classrooms at key stage 3 and key stage 4. What’s included? The 74-page toolkit includes: general classroom strategies to support EAL learners an outline of the challenges faced by international new arrivals fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners printable EAL support resources and EAL displays for classrooms a CPD PowerPoint for staff training and meetings a glossary of English language teaching terminology a list of EAL websites for teachers with links to EAL assessment materials. This EAL toolkit will be invaluable for subject teachers, form tutors, heads of year and SENCos who wish to develop their understanding of the learning approaches you can use to support EAL pupils. How does it support EAL learners? The toolkit recommends general classroom strategies to support EAL learners, such as setting up a buddy system with a student who speaks the same home language. It also includes fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas, such as games, songs and role-plays, helping EAL students to feel less anxious about taking part in whole-class activities. It suggests EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners, such as labelling images and diagrams, and for those who have a more advanced level, such as adding complexity to sentences. It includes printable EAL classroom resources, such as an alphabet letters mat, phonics mats, word mats, flashcards, sentence builders and writing frames that can also be used as templates for you to make your own, along with printable EAL support resources that could also be used as EAL displays for classrooms, such as an irregular verbs list, a tenses table, a list of easily confused words or homophones, a list of prefixes and suffixes and a list of common verbs used in academic writing. It demonstrates how to adapt worksheets for EAL learners in order to support them with both language development and subject knowledge. It offers advice on how to pre-teach vocabulary before a reading or listening activity and how to help students who are learning English as an additional language identify key words and learn new vocabulary from a reading or listening text. About the writer Our EAL toolkit was written by Anna Czebiolko, currently a secondary head of EAL. Since starting to work with EAL learners in 2009, she has worked with children in every year group from nursery to sixth form. She also has experience of coordinating EAL provision in a large secondary academy.

This GCSE teaching pack consists of 10 PowerPoint files with accompanying photocopiable resources and is designed to improve students’ skills at translating from Spanish to English. Based on careful analysis of examiner reports and on teacher feedback, the pack focuses on 10 key skills, each linked to a different topic. The pack includes tasks for Foundation and Higher tiers and exam-style assessments. Weave the activities into your teaching throughout the GCSE course or use as a revision tool in the run-up to the exam. Mastering GCSE translation – Spanish to English will prepare students for the last question in the Spanish reading exam with AQA, Edexcel or Eduqas. What’s included? 10 differentiated PowerPoint lessons on GCSE translation skills (into English) Engaging learning activities across 10 topics Exam-style assessments for Foundation and Higher, with answers. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Teaching Notes (pages 5-6) Lesson 1: Precision (Topic: family and friends) (pages 7-11) Learning activity: quiz, quiz, trade Precision assessment and answers Lesson 2: Time frames (Topic: technology) (pages 12-15) Learning activity: collaborative translation Time frames assessment and answers Lesson 3: Negatives (Topic: free time) (pages 16-20) Learning activity: verbal dominoes Negatives assessment and answers Lesson 4: Articles and adverbs (Topic: customs and festivals) (pages 21-27) Learning activity: one pen, one dice Articles and adverbs assessment and answers Lesson 5: Pronouns and possessive adjectives (Topic: house and town) (pages 28-32) Learning activity: four in a row game Pronouns and possessive adjectives assessment and answers Lesson 6: False friends (Topic: social issues) (pages 33-36) Learning activity: card sort False friends assessment and answers Lesson 7: Connectives (Topic: global issues) (pages 37-41) Learning activity: running translation Connectives assessment and answers Lesson 8: Unknown words (Topic: holidays) (pages 42-46) Learning activity: card game Unknown words assessment and answers Lesson 9: Checking the basics (Topic: school) (pages 47-53) Learning activity: find it and fix it Checking the basics assessment and answers Lesson 10: Common sense (Topic: work and future plans) (pages 54-58) Learning activity: back to back Common sense assessments and answers

Designed to develop year 8-9 students’ reading comprehension skills and their confidence approaching an unseen fiction text, Mastering comprehension will help upper KS3 students to make the transition to GCSE English Language study. This teaching pack includes eight literary fiction or prose texts from the 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century. The activities are designed for upper KS3 (years 8-9) or higher attaining KS3 students and should provide a helpful transition to the GCSE/IGCSE assessment focus on unseen literary fiction. You’ll find extracts from celebrated novels and short stories to appeal to younger students, as well as a range of genres, literary and narrative styles, including first- and third-person narration. What’s included? The teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is designed to provide a series of comprehension practice activities for eight one-hour lessons: Each lesson includes: a choice of two pre-reading starter activities (focusing on context, prediction, vocabulary development, inference skills, oracy skills etc.) a set of three lesson activities to build students’ reading comprehension skills and strategies, and comprehension and inference questions and tasks: skimming, scanning, selecting, summarising and synthesising information analysing language, literary devices and structure evaluating the text critically writing analytically an extension writing task to anticipate some of the fiction and non-fiction writing tasks students will complete in their GCSE English Language exams a plenary or formative assessment activity. Each activity includes answers, where appropriate and there is also a summative assessment task, which includes exam-style questions, with suggested answers for self or peer marking, or to support teachers. The resource pack also includes a focus on vocabulary development by building students’ confidence approaching unfamiliar or challenging new words. The lessons can be used in sequence or as one-off English lessons, for cover activities or for independent homework tasks. The pack includes extracts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Happy-Go-Lucky-Morgans by Edward Thomas, ‘The Story-Teller’ by Saki, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Invisible Mass of the Back Row’ by Claudette Williams.

This six-week teaching pack addresses the 19th century text elements of the English Literature GCSE and provides students with a practical, accessible route-through the text – and plenty of exam practice to boot. Crammed, as always, with engaging activities and resources – including comprehension, language analysis and creative tasks – plus advice for differentiation and sample exam questions, the pack contains all you need to bring Stevenson’s novel to life. What’s included? assessment objective mapping lesson plans and ideas along with 52 tailor-made resources exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-9) Route through week 1: Pre-reading and introducing Chapter 1 (pages 10-36) Reactions to Victorian London Book cover predictions Gothic mini saga Ethical issues Introducing Mr Utterson Gothic literature – style and language Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – research topics Story of the door Victorian times Stretch and challenge Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Chapter summary table Route through week 2: Finishing Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (pages 37-60) Nightmares Design your own villain Introducing Mr Hyde Speak to the hand Questions on chapters one and two Mr Utterson’s reaction (Chapter 2) Villain cards Reputation, reputation, reputation Practice exam 1 Route through week 3: Chapters 3, 4 and 5 (pages 61-89) Carew colour coding An odd relationship Discussion questions Analysis of ‘Incident of the letter’ (Chapter 5) Bingo! (Chapters 1-3) The detective role? Silence, secrecy and style – developing themes in the novel Structuring analytical paragraphs Evaluating a PEE paragraph PEE Mobile Route through week 4: Chapters 6, 7 and 8 (pages 90-104) Door symbolism Chapter 7 – focused reading Dr Lanyon’s change Questions on chapters 6 and 7 Chapter 8 – true or false The self and society Route through week 5: Chapters 9, 10 and summarising (pages 105-123) Narrative diamond 9 Chapter 9 questions The duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 match up Questions that focus on the popularity of the story Evil Practice exam 2 Route through week 6: Revision activities (pages 124-129) The structure of the novel Who said what? Exploring structure The role of Mr Utterson The significance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde RAG rating

This GCSE teaching pack consists of 10 PowerPoint files with accompanying photocopiable resources and is designed to improve students’ skills at translating from French to English. Based on careful analysis of examiner reports and on teacher feedback, the pack focuses on 10 key skills, each linked to a different topic. The pack includes tasks for Foundation and Higher tiers and exam-style assessments. Weave the activities into your teaching throughout the GCSE course or use as a revision tool in the run-up to the exam. Mastering GCSE translation – French to English will prepare students for the last question in the French reading exam with AQA, Edexcel or Eduqas. What’s included? 10 differentiated PowerPoint lessons on GCSE translation skills (into English). Engaging learning activities across 10 topics. Exam-style assessments for Foundation and Higher, with answers. What’s inside? Introduction (page 5) Teaching notes (page 6) Lesson 1: Precision (Topic: family and friends) (pages 6-11) Learning activity: quiz, quiz, trade Precision assessment and answers Lesson 2: Time frames (Topic: technology) (pages 12-15) Learning activity: collaborative translation Time frames assessment and answers Lesson 3: Negatives (Topic: free time) (pages 16-20) Learning activity: verbal dominoes Negatives assessment and answers Lesson 4: Articles and adverbs (Topic: customs and festivals) (pages 21-27) Learning activity: one pen, one dice Articles and adverbs assessment and answers Lesson 5: Pronouns and possessive adjectives (Topic: house and town) (pages 28-32) Learning activity: four in a row game Pronouns and possessive adjectives assessment and answers Lesson 6: False friends (Topic: social issues) (pages 33-36) Learning activity: card sort False friends assessment and answers Lesson 7: Connectives (Topic: global issues) (pages 37-41) Learning activity: running translation Connectives assessment and answers Lesson 8: Unknown words (Topic: holidays) (pages 42-46) Learning activity: card game Unknown words assessment and answers Lesson 9: Checking the basics (Topic: school) (pages 47-53) Learning activity: find it and fix it Checking the basics assessment and answers Lesson 10: Common sense (Topic: work and future plans) (pages 54-58) Learning activity: back to back Common sense assessment and answers

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners