Making Inferences - worksheet. 1 page - fully editable. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability).

A great game to develop inference skills. 10 slides. Ideal age range: 8+ Fully editable. Instructions: One student will be chosen as ‘the guesser’. They will sit under the interactive whiteboard. The teacher will flash one word on the screen. Students in the audience will try to describe a time when they felt this way. They may NOT use the word on the screen! The guesser will try to guess the word on screen.

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.

Attached is a 3-page INFERENCE activity booklet. Activity: Students must read through a variety of situations (15 in total) and choose the most appropriate outcome for each. 3 pages. Ideal for 7+. Fully editable.

A simple INFERENCING activity. Students must identify words or phrases in a text, guess the meaning of the word/phrase then find and draw the meaning. PDF and Word document attached (so fully editable).

2 activities for students to complete BEFORE and AFTER reading Fiction. Activities can be used as ‘link’ activities in Guided Reading or just a ‘stand alone’ activities. Appropriate for 5 - 11 years. 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.

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

Subject: Reading Focus: Visualisation. Visualisation is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. 3 great worksheets - The 5 senses, Hiding activity and Visualisation worksheet. 5 pages in total. 7 - 11 years. Fully editable.

3 resources attached. A 2-page booklet focusing on activating prior knowledge by make connections with the front cover of a book. A 1-page prior knowledge chart to complete - questions to complete before and after reading a text. 10 objectives to focus on when focusing on prior knowledge. Fully editable resources.

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

4 pages of editable VCOP writing pyramid faces to edit/print out/refer to when completing writing tasks. Also attached is a VCOP pyramid to construct. Both resources are fully editable.

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.

Guided Reading Weekly Planning Template (over 4 days). Younger students (YR 1 - YR 3): 8 sets of guided reading books are required (2 sets of books per group). Older students (YR 4 - YR 6): 4 sets of guided reading books are required (1 set of books per group). Please note: Allow for 4 timetabled guided reading sessions each week. 2 adults are needed to complete each guided reading session - normally the class teacher and TLA (Teaching and Learning Assistant) - but you just need 2 responsible adults. Each guided reading session lasts approximately 50 minutes and each group of children should be listened to for 20 minutes (2 groups at a time). 10 minutes (per session) is allocated to changing groups and to explain independent activities - at the beginning and halfway through the session. 1 day per week (normally Friday), the guided reading session WILL NOT take place. You can choose the day! Groups and Independent Activities: Divide your class into 4 groups (these can be colour groups, different animals, shapes - whatever you decide). When a group is NOT being listened to, they will complete an independent activity set by you - it can link to the book they are reading or completely unrelated (e.g. a handwriting, spelling or times tables task). These are called pre-reading activities (an activity to complete BEFORE they read with an adult) or post-reading activity (an activity to complete AFTER they read with an adult). Learning outcomes: Choose books from the same genre - fiction, non-fiction or poetry. A maximum of 3 learning outcomes should be focused on each week. Monday’s timetable: FIRST, the TLA will listen to the red group WHILST the teacher listens to the orange group. AFTER reading to the adult, the red and orange group will complete their independent activity (set by you). NEXT, the TLA will listen to the green group WHILST the teacher listens to the black group. BEFORE reading to an adult, the green and black group will have completed an independent activity (set by you). The 5th day: On this day, you DO NOT do guided reading. Instead, you could ask your student’s to read independently (or with a partner). Alternatively, you could visit the library, read a book to your class OR read a ‘shared’ class text.

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.

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.

Writing Task Title: MY FAMILY 2 attachments: A slide about families … why is your family special? A good starting point for discussion about day-to-day family life.Discuss things that families do together, disagreements they may have, memorable moments, highlights, sad times, excursions etc. A 2-page creative writing activity. Let your student’s choose a title (from the list provided) for their ‘Family’ story/drama. Fully editable.