This handbook contains plans and printable resources which may be useful for 2nd/3rd class or low ability 4th class groups. Project covers areas of Literacy, Visual Art, SPHE and ICT for Primary School Curriculum. All worksheets and display materials are included in the PDF. Depending on ability of class - this may span 2-4 weeks.

Powerpoint presentation and Word Doc highlighting exercise to introduce metaphors. All based around Titanium by David Guetta.

Interactive social media logo game, followed by a short film on how people show their lives on instagram versus the reality - with 2 worksheets to follow. One basic, simple inference comprehension on the film and a worksheet asking students to write more realistic captions than the ones shown in the film

SEN-friendly recipe with visual aids for making dog biscuits. After the recipe, there are three worksheets - two literacy and one numeracy based. Designed for the L2LP curriculum. Please leave feedback if you like them!

Webquest Worksheet for students to practice their googling skills and find information about Liverpool FC.

This is a FULLY RESOURCED handbook for an L2LP Project that could span 2 weeks of lessons (depending on your group). This is a handbook/workbook that could be used year-after-year in your school. It integrates Literacy, Living in the Community and Preparing for Work in one class project which leads to the group running a class gallery day. It includes detailed instructions for each activity, learning outcomes for each lesson and all display and worksheet materials. A free sample of the project is available here if you’d like to take a look before purchasing: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/free-taster-lesson-l2lp-cross-curricular-project-12730309

Worksheet to accompany Tupac Poetry Lesson - When Ure Heart Turns Cold. Focus on Poetic Devices: Simile, Metaphor and Personification. Students highlight examples in text and in worksheet explain the effect of these devices.

These two activities are from a larger resource that spans two weeks of activities. It is an L2LP project book including: teacher handbook, lesson plans and resources. It ties learning outcomes from Literacy, Living in a Community and Preparing for Work together. Each student resource has the relevant codes for ease of organising folder evidence. The full resource is available to purchase here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/l2lp-cross-curricular-project-handbook-and-workbook-12735591

Diary Writing or Comic Strip Writing lesson, includes worksheet and stills from the film for students to sequence if they require the support or choose to make the comic strip option. For some very low ability SEN students, they have simply selected a still from the film and written a sentence about it/told an adult about that part of the film. Very diverse uses for this resource over the years! Video is easy to find on youtube.

Two picture recipes for SEN learners for flapjacks and rice krispie buns for use over two lessons. There are 3 worksheets to go with the recipes. Pre-teaching taste/texture vocab is on the first worksheet, then students go to cook their recipe, review the vocabulary sheet after cooking and students use this and the other worksheet to give opinions. Can be used for measurement, temperature in Numeracy and Giving Opinions and reading instructions in Literacy). Learning Outcome codes marked on worksheets.

Teacher notes: We had a week where we practised making phonecalls to different kinds of businesses. I printed out these cards out and students wrote on them in whiteboard markers. This meant they could be swapped around day-to-day so students did different ones each day of that week.

Designed for L2LP Literacy Learning outcome 1.2: ASking Questions to obtain information. There are five games based on Where’s Wally. Simply print and laminate two copies of each for students to play in pairs or with an adult. I have used these for a week of oral language - one game for each day. Learning Outcome code is noted on the sheets.

A workbook for a project on stop-motion animation. I have also included a file which detials how the project can be integrated for Junior Cycle Level 3, L2LP and JCSP outcomes (Irish Curriculum). You will need the free Ipad/iphone app: Stop Motion Studio to make the films. Very easy to use and free! This could also be used by upper KS2/SEN KS3 in the UK Curriculum. It’s differentiated by outcome and more challenging aspects can be edited/omitted entirely from the workbook.

Designed for Speaking and Listening as part of L2LP literacy outcome 1.2: Asking to obtain information. These can be used as laminated scripts/prompts to revisit over the year or evidence worksheets. For one month, I had ‘phonecall time’ as part of our timetable every week. These were used to support students practicing phoning local businesses to get information.

Worksheets and presentation around giving opinions - can be done orally or in writing. Designed for Irish L2LP curriculum but could be used for UK ASDAN curriculum.

Plans (including objective and Success Criteria) and resources for War Theme Informal Letter Writing unit. Originally created for Low Ability Junior Cycle English group (SEN GCSE). Could be used for upper KS2.