I have led English in several primary schools and had a positive impact on improving both reading results and attitudes to reading. Strategies for this have included whole school initiatives, providing training for staff and organising exciting book weeks. This document contains 100 ideas for improving reading standards and encouraging a love of reading in primary schools. Tips are organised into the following categories: whole school initiatives, in-class activities, home reading, strategies for phonics and staff training.

Can your class complete the eight challenges to win stars for their team and reach the alien’s planet? This resource pack consists of a thirteen page PowerPoint presentation and a twelve page supporting resource pack for a fun day’s worth of pseudo word activities in preparation for the phonic screening check. Children will need to work as a team to complete eight challenges which include: word orbit game, syllable switch, split digraph countdown and many more. This resource has been tried and tested and the children loved it! The words and phonemes in this resource have been carefully created to match those in the check and include multi-syllable words and split digraphs. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you! Tags: Phonic Screening Check Revision Preparation for the Phonic Screening Check Pseudo Words Alien Words Alien Day Phonics Activity / Game

This resource consists of a PowerPoint presentation with ten punctuation and grammar activities reflecting the spelling, punctuation and grammar requirements from the year 2 curriculum for English: capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, time conjunctions, compound sentences, subordination, apostrophes for possession, noun phrases and commas in lists. These activities are based on an animal theme and each one lasts for 5- 15 minutes. This resource could be used for standalone grammar sessions or as an English starter. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!

Presentation about fidget spinners which could be used in an assembly or lesson. Content includes: • What are fidget spinners? • Where did fidget spinners come from? • What do fidget spinners do? • Types of fidget spinner • What do teachers think of them? • What do children think of them? • How do they compare with other crazes? Also included are a range of issues to discuss and ten true or false questions. This presentation is aimed at primary aged children but could be adapted for older pupils.

This resource consists of spelling lists for reception to year 6. The lists are also presented in a precision teaching grid format. To make this resource, I referred to the common exception word lists in the National Curriculum which consist of combined word lists for years 3 and 4 and for years 5 and 6. I separated these by difficulty to create lists for each year group. The words for reception to year 2 are from the National Literacy Strategy. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful.

This activity pack includes: - ‘Tour de France’ reading comprehension, - ‘Tour de France Jerseys’ reading comprehension, - ‘The History of the Tour de France’ reading comprehension, - Tour de France word search and definition activity and - Tour de France crossword activity. Questions in the reading comprehensions reflect 2015 content domain and include literal questions, inference questions, language-based questions and summarising. Question types include find and copy, multiple choice and ordering. This resource is fully editable and answers are included. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you! Top resources: Bastille Day Pack, Independence Day Pack , St Swithin’s Day Pack, Tour de France Presentation , Tour de France Activity Pack, End of Year Memory Booklet Tags: Tour de France Assembly, Tour de France lesson, Tour de France activity, Tour de France presentation, Tour de France quiz, Tour de France 2019 Assembly, Tour de France 2019 lesson, Tour de France 2019 activity, Tour de France 2019 presentation, Tour de France 2019 quiz

A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities. The pack includes all resources needed for an hour-long, interactive staff meeting or INSET session. Includes: - Requirement sorting activity - Question marks: subject knowledge and activities - Exclamation marks: subject knowledge and activities - Sentence types subject knowledge - Interactive advert activity for staff - Apostrophes subject knowledge - ‘Greengrocer Apostrophe Game’ for staff - Commas and inverted commas subject knowledge - Parenthesis subject knowledge - Hyphens subject knowledge - Colons and semi-colons subject knowledge - Interactive colon activity for staff This staff meeting has been tried and tested with a large staff team and well received. This resource is fully editable and all images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you! You may also be interested in the following English Staff Meetings: WRITING Staff Meeting: SPAG Activities (Grammar, Spelling, English, INSET, Training) A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar. **WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training) **A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills. PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics. **[ READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading]( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-staff-meeting-pedagogy-strategies-for-reading-english-inset-training-11540049)** A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.

This resource includes all you need for a five lesson letter writing unit. Pupils will write a formal letter to the education secretary regarding whether SATs should be banned or kept. Includes: - News articles discussion - Discussion opinions of professionals based on extracts - Annotating features of formal letters - Adverb activity - Debate activity - Modal verb activity - Formal / informal language activity - Letter drafting - Letter writing This presentation is fully editable and copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you.

5x reading comprehension papers, each with 20 questions, which reflect all KS1 content domains and question types used in SATs reading papers. Includes: Crab’s Birthday Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included) How the Turtle got his Shell Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included) The Frog Princess Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included) Shops in Westbury Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included) and The Pirate Ship Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included) The papers are divided into two sets of ten questions so that the first set can be modelled /supported if necessary. Question types included: find and copy, true or false, draw lines to match, tick a table, multiple choice and ordering. Content domains covered: 1a -Draw on knowledge of vocabulary to understand texts. 1b - Identify and explain key aspects of fiction and non-fiction texts, such as characters, events, titles and information. 1c - Identify and explain the sequence of events in texts. 1d - Make inferences from the text. 1e -Predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.

Visual 30+ page presentation for an assembly or lesson on Star Wars Day with accompanying quiz worksheet. Star Wars day is on May the 4th. Includes: • important vocabulary • key information about Star Wars day • what is Star Wars? Star Wars films • characters, plot, setting, the Force • the success of Star Wars • the first Star Wars Day • Star Wars Day celebrations • the fantasy genre • interactive ‘Speak like Yoda’ activity • ‘Complete the Star Wars Quote’ activity • interactive anagram activity • quiz • useful information and images, Star Wars galaxy map • video and website links and more! Please note that the quiz questions on the worksheet are the same as those on the presentation and that the answers to the quiz are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you! TAGS: Star Wars Day Lesson, Star Wars Day Quiz, Star Wars Day Assembly, May the Fourth Lesson, May the Fourth Quiz, May the Force Assembly

This pack includes resources to encourage pupils to read at home and includes: tips for parents on home reading, letters for parents who are/ are not reading regularly with their children, certificate, chart, reading strategy poster and a home reading challenge.

Halloween is on the October 31st. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and a visual, 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes: • important vocabulary • key information about Halloween • the history of Halloween • Halloween celebrations • Halloween traditions • Halloween superstitions • Halloween foods • haunted places • interactive scary film activity • interactive Halloween food activity • fun Halloween picture spotting activity • quiz • useful images • links to videos and more! You may also be interested in these resources: Pop Quiz Black History Month Pack Please note that the quiz questions are the same as those on the presentation, and that the answers are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!