A 3-week unit of work (that can easily be extended to 5 or 6 weeks). A 78-slide PowerPoint (with texts and activities) A selection of worksheets. . Main text: Olaf’s Saga (chapters 1 - 8) Other texts include: The Fox and the Crow Fable Viking Tales (The Baby & The Tooth Thrall) Alfred of Wessex The Vikings are Coming . Contents of PowerPoint: What are explanations? Nouns, verbs and adjectives Question cards Prediction cards Openers Dialogue Comprehension work Character profiles and character sketches Old sounding words and phrases

Genre: Stories Set in Imaginary Worlds. Suitable for 7+ (depending on ability). Attached is a 3 - 4 week plan, a PowerPoint presentation with integrated tasks, homework activities, video links (all tried and tested) and writing templates. Everything you need to teach a great unit of work.

A dyslexia-friendly reading and writing manual. Recommended age: 2 - 6 years. This 48-page manual is designed to help ANY child to read and write. Children with dyslexia or dyslexic tendencies make remarkable progress with this manual. The ‘6 Times’ manual must be taught on a 1-to-1 basis (1 adult, 1 child) and takes 36 days to complete. Many of the activities are designed to be repetitious and are graded according to difficulty.

This 53-slide PowerPoint covers the following: What are instructions? Verbal instructions. Time connectives. Written Instructions. Imperative (Bossy) Verbs. Instructional Writing Examples. Instructional Writing Task. Writing Frames. Editing Instructions. Ideal for 6+ and fully editable.

This 53-slide PowerPoint covers the following: What are instructions? Verbal instructions. Time connectives. Written Instructions. Imperative (Bossy) Verbs. Instructional Writing Examples. Instructional Writing Task. Writing Frames. Editing Instructions. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.

This bundle of 6 resources includes: A PowerPoint showing examples of what it means to explain. An explanation rubric. A ‘What is it?’ activity. A writing to explain 4-page activity booklet. A Cause and Effect PowerPoint. A 36-slide PowerPoint containing the following information: What are explanation texts? Identifying the subject in an explanation text. 6 Explanation texts: 1. Water pollution 2. The production of paper 3. Health and Beauty 4. How do volcanoes erupt? 5. What would happen if humans didn’t have bones? 6. What do muscles do? Layout of an explanation text. Cause and effect – connectives, examples and activities. More explanation activities.

This activity book can be used to teach any child to read and write. 48 pages. Must be taught on a 1-to-1 basis. Ideal for dyslexic students. Age range: 3+

My university dissertation. Topic: The National Literacy Strategy. A Literacy Task Force in January 1997 (chaired by Michael Barber and set up by the Labour Party shadow education minister David Blunkett) published its interim report - A reading revolution: How we can teach every child to read well. In the report, one of the recommendations was that the National Literacy Project (NLP) should be evaluated. The conservative government had previously established the NLP as a pilot scheme in thirteen Local Education Authorities. The aim of the evaluation was to determine whether the NLP should form the basis for a wider national literacy programme for all schools should Labour win the election. The major features of the NLP were: the introduction of a carefully structured literacy hour; a three strand programme of work at text, sentence and word level; a framework of teaching objectives indicating what should be taught during each term. Grade awarded: 82% - 1st Degree. 9 pages. 3707 words. Fully editable.