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Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.

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Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.
Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Non-fiction
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Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Non-fiction

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These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write each non-fiction text type. The give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. The text types included are: Recount/Diary News report Instructions Biography Persuasive argument Balanced argument Explanation Report If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues as images have been included to give some limited dual coding to help student understand what is required. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.
Remembrance Day - Where the poppies now grow booklet.
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Remembrance Day - Where the poppies now grow booklet.

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A pack to support the use of this picture book to study Remembrance Day with primary age children from Year 2/3. Please note this pack does not contain a copy of the text but has a link to buy it from Amazon. It is a beautifully illustrated book that warrants sharing with students. Includes comprehension, vocabulary, and retelling activities as well as craft tasks. Contents: • Cover study activity. • Recall and retrieval comprehension – in two versions for sentence answers or with multiple choice options. • Inference and prediction questions. • Vocabulary activities – at two levels for the same words from the text, one including visuals to support students. • Retelling as a story board activity – at two levels, one including sentences to scaffold. • Two poppy craft activities – make a wreath and make your own poppy. • PSHE and design activity to create medals for people it is important to remember and thank in your own life.
Handwriting Intervention Y5/6 words booklet
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Handwriting Intervention Y5/6 words booklet

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This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of spelling words for year 5 and 6 as well as short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle -primary
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle -primary

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to spell key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and knowledge of how to spell these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets (labelled A to F so they can be used with students of any age) cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW C - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 1 D - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 2 E - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 1 F - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 2
Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet A-Year 1 CEW
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet A-Year 1 CEW

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling Year 1 common exception words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Structure Strips: Scaffold for Story / Narrative Writing.
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Structure Strips: Scaffold for Story / Narrative Writing.

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Ever wished that students were looking at a plan as they wrote their story to help keep them on track. This structure strip will give them a ‘story mountain’ style structure to follow. These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write. They give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.
Handwriting Intervention with KS1 CEW booklet
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Handwriting Intervention with KS1 CEW booklet

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This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of common exception words (CEW) for key stage one and short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.
Handwriting Intervention Y3/4 words booklet
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Handwriting Intervention Y3/4 words booklet

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This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of spelling words for year 3 and 4 as well as short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Intervention Plan
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Intervention Plan

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Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words. This plan supports the delivery of precision teaching as an intervention with small sets of words over 5 days each. It can be used with the booklets which have been created for the Key Stage 1 common exception words and the National Curriculum spelling words for Key Stage 2. The booklets have been labelled A to F so that they can be sensitively used with students of any age as appropriate. The sessions should be engaging, and progress is measured so that it can be celebrated as well as tracked. This is a one-to-one intervention and should be able to be delivered in 10 minutes per day. Options and advice is given to adapt the programme for individual student needs.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet B -Year 2 CEW
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet B -Year 2 CEW

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling Year 2 common exception words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Handwriting Intervention Planning
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Handwriting Intervention Planning

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This set of planning has been written to go with the handwriting workbooks. It includes warm up activities, strength building exercises and games that will support the development of handwriting as well as make sessions engaging and fun. It is designed to be supportive for a teaching assistant or appropriate adult who has been asked to deliver a handwriting intervention. There is planning for 10 sessions which could be delivered once a week over the course of a term – or twice a week to complete the programme within a half term.
Handwriting Intervention Bundle
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Handwriting Intervention Bundle

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This bundle includes planning for 10 sessions of handwriting intervention that can be delivered by a teaching assistant or appropriate adult. It also includes 3 workbooks - which apply handwriting skills to KS1 common exception words in Book 1; year 3 and 4 spelling words in Book 2 and year 5 and 6 spelling words in Book 3. The booklets do not indicate which words are included so that they can be sensitively used with any student according to their needs. Buy the bundle to get the full set of resources at half price.
Precision Teaching Page Maker - read and spell key words
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Precision Teaching Page Maker - read and spell key words

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This is an Excel spreadsheet that has been set up so that the first two pages will allow you to create your own precision teaching pages for sets of 5 or 10 words by just inputting each word once in the top row. The following pages have all the word lists from the English National Curriculum. The common exception words for Year 1 and 2 are listed. The Year 3 and 4 words have been split into two lists – so they can be used across the year groups – as have the Year 5 and 6 words. This will allow you to create personalised precision teaching pages for students who might need a mixture of words from different lists – or just to work on a small number that they have not already learned. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to read key words or recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -infant
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Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -infant

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to read key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and reading of these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW
Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Cross Curricular Texts
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Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Cross Curricular Texts

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These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write. They give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. The text types included are: Science Investigation Report Famous Scientist Report Geography Country Report Geography Process Explanation History Event Report History Significant Person Report Art Famous Artist Report Music Famous Composition Report If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues as images have been included to give some limited dual coding to help student understand what is required. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.
Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -primary
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Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -primary

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to read key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and reading of these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets (labelled A to F so they can be used with students of any age) cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW C - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 1 D - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 2 E - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 1 F - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 2
Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet C -Year 3/4 words part 1
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet C -Year 3/4 words part 1

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling half of the Year 3 and 4 National Curriculum spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle - infant
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle - infant

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to spell key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and knowledge of how to spell these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW
Book Day 2024 - 4 Story Superpowers
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Book Day 2024 - 4 Story Superpowers

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This worksheet asks students to think of the impact different books or stories have had on them. They are asked to think of stories that have made them happy, sad, laugh and curious They could draw or write in response. It is designed to be a quicker activity for perhaps registration time on World Book Day - or for younger students. There is a more complex version with 9 responses in my shop if you are working with older students or want a longer task.
Book Day 2024 - Superpowers of Stories
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Book Day 2024 - Superpowers of Stories

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This worksheet asks students to think of the impact different books or stories have had on them. They are asked to think of stories that have made them smile, laugh, sad and learn amongst others. There are 9 responses to consider in total. They could draw or write in response. The final reflection question asks if there is one story or book that has been able to do all 9.