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.
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.
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.
There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. Christmas adverts provide an accessible way for students to review and demonstrate literacy skills as most students can access the text. They are also motivating as students often recognise them – which is why one of this year’s Christmas adverts has been included in the pack.
This pack contains materials to support using 5 different adverts to review student’s comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year.
For each of the adverts you will have:
• Comprehension questions appropriate for students at 3 different levels – with answers at the end of the pack
• A vocabulary development activity
• A follow up writing activity. Text types covered include narrative, letter, diary, instructions, and review.
Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students.
The selected adverts included are:
John Lewis – Bear and Hare 2013
Sainsburys – Christmas Truce 2014
Sainsburys – Mog’s Christmas Calamity 2015
John Lewis – Edgar the Excitable Dragon 2019
Lidl – Find the way back home 2023
These comic strips are designed to provide a scaffold for developing the speech and language skills needed for some of the conversations that students often need to take part in at school. There are lots of resources out there for general conversation skills about general topics but not often it can be those everyday conversations with friends and staff at school that it would help to work on.
Situations covered include:
• Morning greeting.
• Difficult playtimes.
• Planning a task with a peer.
• Sharing news with an adult.
• Asking to join a game or activity.
• Asking for help with learning.
• When I am not happy with a friend.
• When I have done something wrong.
There are also 2 blanks so that students can develop their own scenarios relevant to their experience.
In each strip, it was planned that the student in the striped shirt would be the focus student – there are some strips with a peer and others with an adult to work on developing skills for talking with both.
Students benefit from role playing the scenarios using the comic strip as a scaffold or basis for a script.
At the end of the pack there is also a poster to remind students of the features of good conversation skills.
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.
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Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use 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 spelling words for Key Stage 2 as students will need to be able to read words that they learn to spell. 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.
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.
These social story comic strips are designed to provide a way to help explain regular aspects of school life.
Situations covered include:
Going to school
When it is time for assembly
When I need a break
When there is a fire drill
Kind hands
Going on a school trip
Self-care at school
When it is time to go home
Playtimes
Way to help myself feel calm again.
Personal space
Home learning
There are also blanks so that students and staff can develop their own scenarios relevant to their experience and a good conversation skills aide memoire.
These have been specifically designed to be one page of A4. They can be printed for students to have in school – or for them to take home and share with parents. Each one could be printed as it is needed – or they can be printed and stapled together in a booklet to give students a reference they can use independently.
These are also designed with students in KS2 and KS3 in mind and so include imagery and language that would be more age appropriate than many of the social stories that use an early years style pictures.
A simple activity for students to record 3 aims they have for 2024. The prompt suggests they try and set aims in different areas of their lives and gives examples for learning, personal development and social aims.
A simple worksheet for students to think about friendship and love linked to Valentines Day. Gives them space to draw a friend and a person they love e.g family member. They are asked to write about their friend and select words beginning with the letters to create an acrostic style piece of writing about the person they drew in the heart shape.
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
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.
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
This resource has 20 vocabulary related activities that can be used in English lessons or across the curriculum to develop good approaches to working with new and challenging vocabulary.
It includes single word study and word collection activities. They can be put into presentations for sharing with the whole class or printed as activities for students to work on. They will help develop good reading strategies for approaching vocabulary as well as model ways of working with word choice when writing.
There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work.
This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students’ comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year.
Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students.
This pack contains:
• Comprehension task
• Retrieval comprehension task
• Response comprehension task
• Vocabulary task
• Letter writing activity
There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work.
This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year.
Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students.
This pack contains:
• Comprehension task
• Retrieval comprehension task
• Response comprehension task
• Retell as cartoon strip
• Vocabulary task
• Retell as narrative activity
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.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation covers the initial sounds students learn – satpin. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 20 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling the other half of the Year 5 and 6 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.
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.
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