A good worksheet to use when you want students to focus on specific vocabulary related a fiction book they are reading. A versatile and fun challenge. 1 worksheet. Fully editable. Age: 6+ (depending on ability).

Focus: Report Writing. Text: Iron Man by Ted Hughes. PowerPoint, unit of work and 3 newspaper report writing templates included. Everything you need to teach a great unit of work. Fully editable.

9 pages in total. Resource 1: Features of a newspaper report - 1 page. Resource 2: Newspaper report examples - 7 pages. Resource 3: A fully editable newspaper report template - 1 page.

2 worksheets to help practise recall skills. Fully editable. Age suitability: 6+ (depending on ability).

3 fully editable colour poetry resources: Resource 1: Student’s draw or write something that is a specific colour. Resource 2: Words associated with a specific colour (reference sheet). Resource 3: Colour poem writing template. Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability).

2 template sheets for writing poetry. Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.

A great poetry task … and no marking involved 1 page. Fully editable. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability).

**A MASSIVE PowerPoint full of activities you can just print off: ** -What is poetry? -Animal Poems -Performance poetry (with a special focus on Michael Rosen) -Onomatopoeia -Similes and metaphors -Teeth and Eating poems A basic plan is also attached for you to start with and adapt.

Main focus: Inference A simple worksheet activity to do with a reading partner. 1 worksheet. Fully editable. Ideal for 7+

My Kids LOVE this activity and I use it whenever I’m teaching inference. A lovely starter or plenary activity. Just ask your student’s to write a clue in the box and see if their partner can guess what it is. Please make sure whoever is writing the clue draws the correct number of letter spaces (using little squares). Hours and hours of fun… you can also use this as a speaking and listening task! Please enjoy!

Attached is an inference worksheet to use/adapt with your class. Also attached is a list of inference questions and objectives to refer to. Age: 6+ (depending on ability). All resources are fully editable.

Trigger ‘connections’ between your student’s knowledge of books and their own ‘life’ experiences. A prior knowledge activity booklet and activity chart - to complete before reading a book. Great for making connections. A list of objectives to refer to when making ‘connections’ between your student’s knowledge of books and their own ‘life’ experiences. All 3 products are fully editable.

WHY USE A KNOWLEDGE RATING SCALE (KRS)? It’s a great way to introduce new VOCABULARY at the start of a lesson or unit of work. It’s a great way to assess your student’s knowledge of vocabulary. It’s a great way to identify your learning groups for a lesson or unit of work. . INSTRUCTIONS: . Just type in (or get the children to write) the vocabulary you want them to learn. The example shown is for a ‘Moving and Growing’ topic in science. Ask the children to complete the table indicating the following: I have seen or heard of this word. I can say this word. I can tell you what this word means. I can use this word in a sentence. I don’t know this word. Children who tick the last box indicating, ‘I don’t know this word’ can become your focus group. Fully editable.

22 EAL activities, strategies and games to help promote English proficiency within your classroom. Tried and tested.

Great for displaying in your classroom - just print off and use. A great variety of openers, connectives, punctuation & sentence starters. 15 pages in total.

Guided Reading Homework Activity … and NO MARKING involved! Fully editable. Appropriate for 5 - 11 years (depending on ability).

These activities are a great way to build up a student’s vocabulary skills. They can be called Semantic Gradients, Vocabulary Scales or Word Sorters (the latter being my favourite). I have attached 3 fully editable activities for you to try with your students. They are: Sorting words - BIG to SMALL. Sorting words - FREEZING to BOILING. Sorting words - SILENT to NOISY.

WORD OF THE WEEK A great activity to develop vocabulary and sentence-building! Just choose a word you want to focus on (e.g. tractor). Divide the children into pairs and ask them to find specific vocabulary related to the word (the words have to begin with the letters in the word). For an additional challenge, each word can be put into a sentence. E.g. the word tractor has 7 letters so the children have to find 7 words associated with tractor… T = Tyres Sentence: Tractors have large tyres with thick treads. R = Robustness A = Agriculture C = Cultivate T = Trailer O = Outdoors R = Ruggedness You can help each group by giving them a dictionary, thesaurus and iPad to use. Volunteers can share their words and sentences at the end of the activity. Words and sentences could be displayed on a ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’ wall. 9 templates attached (3-letter word, 4-letter word, 5-letter word, 6-letter word, 7-letter word, 8-letter word, 9-letter word and 10-letter word). Fully editable.

Students can use their visualisation skills and 5 senses to describe parts of their reading book. 5 resources in total: 2 PowerPoint presentations (16 slides in total). 3 worksheets (5 pages in total). Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.