Literacy retrieval/ skills building tasks - 39 tasks for lesson starts, homework or consolidation

This bundle includes 39 separate literacy skills-based tasks, originally written for year 7 but suitable for Ks3 or Ks4 as consolidation/intervention work. Tasks vary between 5 to 15 minutes in length.

The tasks are divided into 1 powerpoint per half term and are designed to be used once per week, though could be strung together as a mini unit or for intervention purposes, or re-organised as you see fit to meet the needs of your students.

All text extracts/ handouts etc are also included to make the teacher’s job easy, and any answers required for tasks have also been included - tasks can be self or teacher marked easily. Texts include a mixture of fiction and non-fiction on various themes, including: dystopia, Victorian times, Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), social media, the Gothic, various poetry, zombies/ apocalypse.

Tasks include:

• comprehension/ reading strategy put into action
• vocab building activities and strategies
• quick fire testing
• timeline / organising tasks
• shades or gradients of meaning tasks
• sentence types/ their effects and word classes
• annotation skills
• inference and analysis
• comparison
• punctuation
• planning for writing
• proof reading
• text structure / paragraphing
• bias
• connectives