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We supply engaging and practical educational resources across a variety of settings. On our experienced team we have Primary teachers, Secondary teachers, TEFL teachers, Senior Management and Specialist Leaders of Education. Together, we aim to spread our knowledge and enthusiasm to other professionals and pupils around the world.
This kinaesthetic literacy team game is a great activity for reinforcing pupil’s literacy skills while they have fun. It is an excellent starter, plenary and sensory break activity. Pupils have to give examples of different types of speech and higher level skills like similes and metaphors in a fast paced and engaging activity.
This resource contains the full instructions to the game.
This series of resources is to be taught while studying ‘Of Mice and Men’. It is designed predominantly for classes in Special Needs schools in the UK. The resources help the pupils prepare for various qualifications. This includes Entry Level English, Functional Skills English and GCSE English Language. In total, there are 11 lessons in the series. Each lesson is differentiated. This means that the lessons are set at EL1, EL2, EL3 and at wither Level 1 Functional Skills or GCSE. There are reading, writing and speaking and listening lessons. Both the writing and speaking and listening lessons can be taught using various marking schemes.
These lessons can also be used in main stream education for pupils working either below GCSE level or at a low GCSE level.
This bundle includes the Entry Level English and GCSE resources.
This is a kinaesthetic literacy white board literacy activity that can be used as a lesson starter, plenary or as a sensory activity. It enforces the pupils’ skills in using different aspects of the English language, asking them to give examples of a range of literacy challenges like adjectives, similes and varied sentence openings. Pupils throw a sponge ball to select their literacy topic and they must then give an example of that topic, possibly linked to the lesson being taught. If the pupil gets it correct, the board then becomes a football goal. Another pupil goes in goals and the pupil throws a penatly shot. It can also be used as an alternative team game.
This can be a whole school activity, promoting literacy across the curriculum. Pupil love to learn with Literacy Penalties, it enagages their interest and it reinforces the skills taught in lessons.
This resource includes full instruction for the game and differentiated slides with different selections of literacy challenges.
This bundle contains a series of writing units to be used in a variety of subjects. These units have easy to create and follow writing frames which pupils can use to produce quality writing across the curriculum. The units follow a similar format so pupils will learn to use these skills in a variety of settings. Some units also include other activities and example texts/plans to study and discuss. This bundle includes units for:
Religious Education
History
Design Technology
Art
Science
This bundle contains a series of resources designed to be used when preparing pupils for the OCR Entry Level English qualification. The units can be taught with the classic texts ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’. However, they are also great stand alone activities on a variety of topics and themes. They are an excellent source of revision activities that can be used in the classroom, or given to the pupils as homework.
This bundle includes all 4 Units of work for the popular All About Me topic. They include differentiated reading, writing and speaking + listening lessons. The four units each comprise of a series of lessons and together they can be used for a whole term’s work.
The units in this bundle are:
All About Me
The People In My Life
Settings In My Life
My Spare Time
This resource consists of a spelling booklet of words in 9 phases of difficulty and a spelling test template. The growing difficulty of the words presented is linked to the pupils’ developing knowledge of phonics. These documents can be used in lessons and as homework. For both resources in this unit, we have included both a PDF and a Word version. The Word version is editable and the PDF version ensures that the format of the documents is fixed.
This bargain bundle contains various kinaesthetic literacy games and activities that will reinforce the pupils’ literacy learning while also engaging their interest.
They can be used as starters, plenaries or as sensory breaks. Many of these resources can also be used across the whole curriculum.
This pack includes:
Literacy Penalties
Literacy Poker
Literacy Lines (Fast paced team game)
Literacy Elimination Challenge
A set of rules and instructions for all the games.
This series of literacy resources can be used to teach in the autumn term with a new class. It is suitable for Years 3-6 and for early special needs secondary pupils. This is because the work is heavily differentiated.
It includes:
Diagnostic resources for assessing pupils’ reading and writing.
4 complete units for the theme of ‘All About Me’.
An imaginative writing unit including the short story ‘The New Pupil’.
Generic reading questions for both fiction and non-fiction texts that can be used with any text in either a verbal assessment/activity or a written assessment/activity.
A selection of engaging short stories with pupil activities that can be used in literacy hours or as extension activities.
The Ultimate Writing Championship is a scheme of work designed to both improve pupils’ writing skills and to raise their writing engagement. There are 4 stages in this series, beginning with the very basics like writing on the line and leading up to higher level skills such as using metaphors and punctuating speech.
In each stage, there are a series of challenges. Each challenge is represented by a character who the pupil is write fighting against. These challenge fighters have names like Nikolai Onaline and Comma McGregor. It is the pupil’s goal to complete the challenge and win the contest. These challenges focus on 1 or 2 writing skills and the pupils are graded on these skills alone. For example, if the skill assessed is using varied sentence openings, they will lose the match if they use no varied sentence openings, draw if they use only 1, win on points if they use 2-3 and win by knockout if they use 4 or more. The pupils will then add their result to their challenger series record. In each stage, once the pupil has successfully completed all the challenges (or the teacher feels that they have mastered the level), they can attempt to win the Stage Title by write fighting against the stage champion. This is a writing task in which all the skills at that level are assessed and the pupil has to score a certain total of points to win the belt.
Once the pupil has won the title, you can reward them with a certificate and/or title belt and add their name to the Hall Of Fame. They can defend the title by completing the stage title match challenge again. They can now count the number of successful title defences they have had. Once they have successfully defended the Stage title many times, they have completed that stage and can move onto the next stage.
Pupils can also compete for Stage Tag Team Titles in a tag team, writing together with other pupils and/or members of staff.
This pack contains all the resources for the U.W.C: Stage 3 - Women’s Division.
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This bargain bundle contains all the Stages of the Men’s Division.
This bundle consists of Functional Skills English resources linked to the theme of Christmas. In this bundle, there are reading, writing and speaking + listening resources for Entry Level 1, Entry Level 2, Entry Level 3 and Level 1 Functional Skills.
It includes:
9 reading texts with comprehension questions
10 speaking + listening activities
13 writing activities
The Christmas themes and activities are engaging, making the functional fun.
The resources can be used as stand-alone activities, exam revision, homework or for pupil assessment.
This bundle contains a collection of resources to help pupils prepare for Entry Level 1 English Functional Skills examinations. It includes reading, writing and speaking and listening activities and practice exam papers.
This bundle consists of Functional Skills English resources linked to the theme of Halloween. In this bundle, there are reading, writing and speaking + listening units for Entry Level 1, Entry Level 2, Entry Level 3 and Level 1 Functional Skills.
The Halloween themes and activities are engaging, making the functional fun.
The resources can be used as stand-alone activities, exam revision or for pupil assessment.
This bundle contains a wide range of Functional Skills English Entry Level 2 resources. There are reading, writing and speaking and listening resources.
It is an excellent resource to help prepare your pupils for exams. You can use the resources as classroom activities, revision exercises or as homework.
This is a selection of resources that can be used in any English/Literacy lesson. Carry a selection of these resources with you and you have a better chance of surviving the most difficult of lessons that you are thrust into. There are differentiated reading and writing activities, some that will engage most pupils. There are also many full units of work so that if you are with the same class for a longer period of time, you have the resources ready to go.
This bargain bundle includes:
4 All About Me Units, including differentiated reading texts and comprehension exercises and writing plans and activities.
Both full sets of Stage 3 challenges of the Ultimate Writing Championship! All the writing challenges focus on particular literacy skills and the pupils can use them to write about any topic. A very valuable resource.
Reading questions that can fit any fiction or non-fiction book. You can therefore use any reading resources, in any classroom and you will have differentiated reading questions ready to give to the pupils.
A full imaginative writing unit of work including the short story ‘The New Pupil’ with numerous activities for the pupils to do about it.
A booklet containing many engaging short stories with comprehension exercises and other activities to go with each story. You can give these to pupils to work independently or in groups. Or you can read them to the class, engaging them this way before they complete the tasks.
Functional Skills reading tips and practice papers. A good resource for teaching basic reading skills.
GCSE editing and proof-reading activities.
A whole unit of work for the increasingly popular wrestling novel ‘Night Of Warriors’. This is used in a growing number of schools as a reading catch-up resource for use of with small groups. However if you carry a copy of this book with you, reading it to a class is sure to engage many more challenging pupils and you can then use their interest as springboard to their engagement in this unit’s resources.
This series of resources is to be taught while studying ‘Of Mice and Men’. It is designed predominantly for classes in Special Needs schools in the UK. The resources help the pupils prepare for various qualifications. This includes Entry Level English, Functional Skills English and GCSE English Language. In total, there are 11 lessons in the series. Each lesson is differentiated. This means that the lessons are set at EL1, EL2, EL3 and at wither Level 1 Functional Skills or GCSE. There are reading, writing and speaking and listening lessons. Both the writing and speaking and listening lessons can be taught using various marking schemes.
These lessons can also be used in main stream education for pupils working either below GCSE level or at a low GCSE level.
This bundle includes the resources to be used with Functional Skills English in mind.
This bundle includes Functional Skills English activities and revision exercises for Entry Level 1, Entry Level 2, Entry Level 3 and Level 1. There are reading, writing and speaking and listening activities for each of these levels in this bundle.
All of the resources deal with the theme of Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night. They can be used as class activities, revision exercises and/or homework. Many of the resources can lead to research activities or class discussion. Pupils who have worked at different levels of reading can present what they have learned from their texts to each other.
The aim of these resources is to engage pupils when they are studying Functional Skills English.
This is a series of resources that help pupils develop their initial writing skills. It begins with pupils writing simple sentences which include capital letters and full stops and leads to them writing full independent paragraphs using higher level language and punctuation. These resources can be used as class activities, as extension work or as homework.
The resources include activities dealing with:
Writing 1 simple sentence
Writing 2 simple sentences
Writing multiple sentences
Writing a paragraph
Capital letters
Full stops
Question marks
Exclamation marks
Commas in a list
Punctuating speech
Using ‘and’
Using ‘but’
‘and’ v ‘but’
Using ‘when’
Using ‘because’
Using ‘so’
Using adjectives
Using adverbs
Nouns
Using varied sentence openings
Many of the resources in this bundle have more than one download included.
This is a selection of twenty Functional Skills resources that can be used when teaching Romeo and Juliet. They include a selection of reading and writing activities designed for pupils to use to both improve their functional skills in literacy and to revise for exams.
These resources are designed to use with the play. Being able to still teach literature while doing functional skills is fantastic. It is more engaging for both the students and the teacher.
These resources can also be used as stand alone activities, as homework or as extension work.