Structured intervention support to improve students’ writing Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It’s ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS2 and KS3. The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 teaching sessions and resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop students’ core skills. It includes chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words. The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills. You may also be interested in Fix it reading, Teachit’s reading intervention programme for KS3 students. What’s inside the teacher handbook? Introduction (pages 4-25) Progression in writing: a framework Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses Making sense of students’ writing Setting targets and planning sessions Fix it session structure Getting the most out of Fix it Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36) Session 1: Capital letters and full stops Session 2: Ending sentences Ways to improve Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49) Session 1: Varying conjunctions Session 2: To suit purpose Ways to improve Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66) Session 1: Lists and clarity Session 2: Clarity and effect Ways to improve Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82) Session 1: Sentence starts and word order Session 2: Varying for effect Ways to improve Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97) Session 1: Adding detail Session 2: Relative clauses Ways to improve Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108) Session 1: Identifying verbs Session 2: The past Ways to improve Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144) Session 1: Topic sentences Session 2: Writing paragraphs Ways to improve Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157) Session 1: To suit purpose Session 2: Comparing and contrasting Ways to improve Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171) Session 1: Adverbs and determiners Session 2: Making comparisons Ways to improve Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180) Session 1: Choosing the right words Session 2: Choosing the right tone Ways to improve Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190) Session 1: Setting and atmosphere Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters Ways to improve

Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is a KS3 literacy intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading. The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists, literacy coordinators and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12-week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work for literacy intervention. The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need to catch up, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets. It’s been designed to support Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19 school closures. It also supports learners whose reading age doesn’t correspond to their chronological age, and younger learners who have transitioned from primary school but are not at the expected level for their reading. The lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes. Key features of this reading intervention programme: The 60-page teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying 69-page student workbook builds learners’ reading and literacy skills and includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers. It also includes worksheets and activities to develop their independent reading skills and reading fluency, and word reading and decoding strategies to develop their vocabulary skills. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels chosen to appeal to key stage 3 learners like City of Ghosts, Home Ground, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It also includes graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets to anticipate some of the text forms and genres of writing English students will encounter at GCSE. Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing, which develops students’ writing skills and provides targeted learning support for students.

Our templates packs have been designed to support your teaching in any subject at KS3, GCSE and KS5. These templates aim to support vocabulary development – encouraging students to engage in meaningful ways with words and narrowing the word gap. Many schools now recognise the importance of disciplinary literacy, and targeted vocabulary development and accelerated word learning can be an important strategy to improve literacy in every subject. These templates are designed to support the teaching of tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary and offer a variety of approaches to helping students explore new vocabulary and have fun with words. Best embedded in the lesson as part of the development of a student’s specialist language, they also work well to support revision, independent study and homework. What’s included? 13 adaptable templates including a Frayer diagram, vocab wheel, a word frame and a knowledge organiser teaching ideas, games and displays. What’s inside? Introduction for teachers (pages 4-5) Frayer diagram template (pages 6-9) Vocab wheel template (pages 10-11) Hexagon template (pages 12-13) Word bunting template (pages 14-15) Word frames template (pages 16-18) Word bookmark template (pages 19-20) Word dice template (pages 21-22) Word jigsaw template (pages 23-24) Knowledge organiser template (pages 25-26) Vocab zones template (pages 26-29) Oyster template (pages 30-31) Shape linking template (pages 32-33) Vocab spinner template (pages 34-35)

What’s included? KS3 Comprehension contains 6 self-contained text extracts with reading comprehension worksheet questions, accompanied by model answers. This pack is versatile enough to be used in class, or as a sequence of homework tasks, end-of-term/year assessments and cover lessons. KS3 Comprehension helps students complete the transition from primary to secondary level and provides an effective introduction to 19th century and early 20th century literature. The extracts are suitable for year 7 and year 8 reading comprehension lessons and can be used to supplement existing schemes of work. NB – this pack is an adapted version of Teachit Primary’s ‘Comprehension’ pack, containing newly commissioned KS3 curriculum questions, replacement texts and a selection of supporting resources. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Extract 1 – Five Children and It by E. Nesbitt (Pages 5-10) Extract 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (pages 11-17) Extract 3 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (pages 18-23) Extract 4 – Odin’s Reward by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings (pages 24-30) Extract 5 – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (pages 31-38) Extract 6 – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (pages 39-45) Additional resources to support reading comprehension (page 46)

A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing. The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling ‘problem’ areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts. Practical support to inspire your students. What’s included? KS4 curriculum assessment objective map lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Introduction (page 1) Summary of pack Getting students started (page 2) Generating an idea for a story (page 3) Tenses (page 4) Narrative point of view (pages 4-5) Varying sentences (page 6) Improving vocabulary and descriptions (pages 7-8) Conflict (page 9) Beginnings (page 10) Plans and planning (page 10) Resources (pages 11-83) Law and order in Britannica Packing your bag Encounter with Gromitz’ spy Getting across to Tongwe Island Extract from Beast Quest – Krabb, Master of the Sea, by Adam Blade How to have TipTop paragraphing skills Diary Openings Dead Trial by Matthew Green An Active Imagination by Virginia E. Zimmer

Ensure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives. Based on the themes of the sea, travel, money and the environment, AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack will give your students all the exam practice they need. What’s inside Targeted activities help students understand how to improve their responses to the questions eight non-fiction and literary non-fiction text extracts reading and writing sections for each theme exam tips on assessment objectives for each question exam-style questions and suggested answers. It includes analysis of assessment objectives to help students understand exactly what they need to do to gain marks, and targeted activities to improve their responses to each exam question. What’s included Teacher introduction (pages 4-5) Reading: Student introduction (pages 6-34) Source 1A: ‘How to stay safe at the beach’ by Karl West (2017) with activities Source 1B: ‘The Pleasures of Life’ by John Lubbock (1890) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 35-49) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 50-72) Source 2A: ‘The Guardian view on over-tourism: an unhealthy appetite for travel’ (2018) with activities Source 2B: Francis Kilvert’s diary from the 1870s with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 74-88) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 89-110) Source 3A: A Girl Called Jack by Jack Monroe (2014) with activities Source 3B: Letter from George Dunlop (1813) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 111-123) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 124-143) Source 4A: ‘Squids and octopuses thrive as “weeds of the sea” warm to hotter oceans’ by Alan Yuhas (2016) with activities Source 4B: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 144-157) Activities Practice exam question

Murder and madness; perfect for engaging your KS4 students! Designed for the GCSE English Literature specifications for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will develop your students’ critical reading skills ready for the exam. ‘In writing this pack, I aimed to make the resources as varied and interactive as possible, drawing on my own teaching methods and my deep knowledge of the text. I firmly believe Shakespeare texts are accessible to all students and should not be taught solely in a desk-bound manner. This pack offers a menu which teachers can select from and there is something for every learning style.’ Angela Topping, writer Comprising 25 creative lessons, exam-style questions and resources, the work has been done for you. What’s included? 25 lessons exam-style questions for the relevant exam boards activities to develop students’ critical reading skills in preparation for the GCSE exam. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Specification summaries (pages 4-7) Act 1 (pages 8-47) Lessons 1-5 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 2 (pages 48-82) Lessons 6-10 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 3 (pages 83-125) Lessons 11-15 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 4 (pages 126-158) Lessons 16-20 and accompanying resources Exam style questions Act 5 (pages 159-183) Lessons 21-25 and accompanying resources Exam style questions

Reading SATs practice for KS2 will ensure your class is well-prepared for the English reading papers in their key stage 2 reading SATs at the end of primary school. This pack of SATs papers aims to practice reading comprehension skills through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and poems and 10 practice papers differentiated at three levels. Based on past papers and perfect for SATs revision, the reading assessments can be used as practice tests in class or for home learning. This pack of SATs practice papers is the perfect revision tool for the KS2 reading tests. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) 10 text extracts and 10 English SATs practice question papers (page 5) Each practice paper contains: English National Curriculum aligned content domain coverage Text extract SATs questions (differentiated as sets A, B and C) Marking scheme and answers (sets A, B and C) Featured texts: The Explorer – Katherine Rundell Wonder – R J Palacio Matilda – Roald Dahl Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo Who Was Marie Curie? – Megan Stine Who Was Anne Frank? – Ann Abramson The Short and Bloody History of Highway Men – John Farman Throwing a Tree – Thomas Hardy The Sailor’s Consolation – William Pitt

A set of 39 photocopiable home learning tasks mapped to NC objectives and differentiated where appropriate. Includes tasks for reading, writing composition and GPS. Answers included where relevant. All of your English year 6 homework all in one place!

Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners. This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play. What’s included? 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant supporting PowerPoint presentations opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-7) Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21) Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel Session 2 - Using precise language Resource printouts Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36) Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel Session 2 - Story map Resource printouts Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51) Session 1 - Birds of Prey Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie Resource printouts Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66) Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84) Session 1 - Reading detectives Session 2 - Character traits Resource printouts Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101) Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions Resource printouts Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120) Session 1 - What happens next? Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer Resource printouts Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138) Session 1 - A trip to the zoo Session 2 - Zoo complaint Resource printouts Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160) Session 1 - Cause and effect Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories Resource printouts Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171) Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess Resource printouts

If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12) T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15) T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18) T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25) T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36) T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41) T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74) T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78) T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81) T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88) T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96) T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100) T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104) T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107) T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112) T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119) T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123) T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126) T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144) Spelling games (pages 145-147) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148) Word of the week template (page 149) You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.

If you’re teaching year 3, Spellings for year 3 could be just what you need. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The pack also includes ideas for spelling games and useful templates. What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words ending with -el/-il/-al (pages 5-8) T1, week 2 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 1) (pages 9-13) T1, wk 3 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 2) (pages 14-17) T1, wk 4 – words that contain y as a vowel (pages 18-20) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 21-24) T1, wk 6 – common exception words from year 2 (pages 25-27) T2, wk 1 — words containing -dg/-dge (revision from year 2) (pages 28-31) T2, wk 2 — words containing -ou (pages 32-35) T2, wk 3 — words beginning with dis- (pages 36-39) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ation (pages 40-43) T2, wk 5 — word families (pages 44-46) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (pages 47-49) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with gn-/kn- (revision from year 2) (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with in- (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ly (part 1) (pages 57-60) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -sion (pages 61-63) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 64-66) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 67-70) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -ness/-ment (revision from year 2) (pages 71-74) T4, wk 2 — words beginning with il- and ir- (pages 75-79) T4, wk 3 — words ending with -sure/-ture (pages 80-82) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 83-87) T4, wk 5 — word families (pages 88-91) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 92-96) T5, wk 1 — compound words (revision from year 2)(pages 97-101) T5, wk 2 — words ending in -ly (part 2) (pages 102-106) T5, wk 3 — words beginning with im- (pages 107-109) T5, wk 4 — words containing ch that sound like hard c (pages 110-112) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 113-116) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 117-120) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -less/-ful (revision from year 2) (pages 121-124) T6, wk 2 — words beginning with re- (pages 125-127) T6, wk 3 — words containing sc that sound like s (pages 128-132) T6, wk 4 — words containing eigh that rhyme with ay (pages 133-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 138-140) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 141-143) Spelling games (pages 144-146) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 147) Word of the week template (page 148) You might also like Spellings for year 4 and Spellings for year 5.

Help children to develop their understanding and enjoyment of stories and non-fiction with our Comprehension pack for lower KS2. Featuring six texts alongside engaging comprehension tasks, questions and answers, this pack will encourage your children to retrieve information, draw inferences, make predictions, identify and summarise ideas and analyse language and structure. All you need to address these key skills! What’s included? six original texts and 17 supporting resources, including comprehensions and answer sheets includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-6) Unit 1 – The Little Prince (pages 7-16) Resource - unlocking words Unit 2 – The Velveteen Rabbit (pages 17=25) Resource - old-fashioned to modern day Resource - what’s in the bag? Unit 3 – The Little Mermaid (pages 26-36) Resource - underwater similes Resource - through the eyes of a mermaid Unit 4 – Robin Hood (pages 37-48) Resource - retelling Robin Hood Resource - Robin Hood’s arrows Unit 5 – Four square (pages 49-56) Resource - instruction text detectives Unit 6 – A letter (pages 57-64) Resource - a letter in reply Resource - letter-writing ideas

All you need to develop children’s reading comprehension skills and prepare them for their KS2 reading assessments. Inspire a positive attitude to reading and consolidate those all-important comprehension skills ready for KS2 English SATs. Featuring six fiction and non-fiction texts alongside engaging lesson plans, reading comprehension activities and worksheets, this pack will encourage your children to build the comprehension strategies of information retrieval, drawing inferences, making predictions, identifying and summarising ideas and analysing language and structure. What’s more, this pack is editable, meaning you can tweak questions to suit your UKS2 learners. What’s included? six original texts and 21 supporting teaching resources, including comprehension questions and answer sheets includes lesson plans, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for English. What’s inside? Introduction (pages3-6) Unit 1 – Five Children and It (pages 7-20) Resource - picturing the Psammead Resource - that’s Greek to me Unit 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pages 21-33) Resource - pass the parcel words Resource - he said, she said Resource - Seen the movie? Now read the book! Unit 3 – Alice in Wonderland (pages 34-47) Resource - illustration by Sir John Tenniel Resource - Alice grows Resource - comprehension chatterbox Unit 4 – Odin’s Reward (pages 48-59) Resource - pairs game Resource - comic strip format Unit 5 – Samuel Johnson biography (pages 60-70) Resource - Dr Johnson’s wonderful words! Resource - my biography notes Unit 6 – Newspaper report (pages 71-78) Resource - fact or opinion? Resource - complete the headline

Spellings for year 5 offers year 5 teachers all they need for weekly spelling tasks. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 – words beginning with -in/-il/-im/-ir (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 – words ending in -cious/-tious (pages 8-10) T1, wk 3 – words ending in -cial/-tial (pages 11-13) T1, wk 4 – words ending in -ant/-ent (pages 14-18) T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 – year 5/6 word list 1 (paages 23-26) T2, wk 1 — words ending in -ation (pages 27-31) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -able (pages 32-34) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -ible (pages 35-37) T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ance/-ancy/-ence/-ency (pages 38-42) T2, wk 5 — homophones ending in -ce/-se (pages 43-45) T2, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 2 (pages 46-49) T3, wk 1 — words ending in -ly (pages 50-52) T3, wk 2 — adding suffixes to words ending in -fer (pages 53-56) T3, wk 3 — hyphenated words: prefixes and root words (pages 57-59) T3, wk 4 — hyphenated words: compound words (pages 60-62) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 63-65) T3, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 3 (pages 66-69) T4, wk 1 — words ending in -sion/-tion/-ssion/-cian (pages 70-72) T4, wk 2 — words containing ough (pages 73-75) T4, wk 3 — words containing ei (pages 76-80) T4, wk 4 — words with silent letters: t, u, w (pages 81-83) T4, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 84-87) T4, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 4 (pages 88-91) T5, wk 1 — words ending in -ous (pages 92-97) T5, wk 2 — words with silent letters: b, c, g, h (pages 98-100) T5, wk 3 — adding prefixes (1) (pages 101-105) T5, wk 4 — adding prefixes (2) (pages 106-109) T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 110-114) T5, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 5 (pages 114-117) T6, wk 1 — words ending in -ture/-sure (pages 118-120) T6, wk 2 — words with silent letters: k, l, n, p, s (pages 121-123) T6, wk 3 — mix and match reminders (1) (pages 124-127) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (2) (pages 128-130) T6, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 131-133) T6, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 6 (pages 134-138) Spelling games (pages 139-141) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 14) Word of the week template (page 143) You might also like Spellings for year 3 and Spellings for year 4.

Enchant, amuse and inspire your children with our first whole-school teaching pack – Poetry for all. The pack features 14 poems and a range of engaging teaching ideas and resources for Reception through to year 6, saving you precious time searching for age-appropriate poems and activities. Including activities for comprehension, drama, creative writing and art and design, this pack is perfect for encouraging your children to respond imaginatively to both modern and classic poems. What’s included? 53 quality teaching resources, alongside 14 carefully selected poems seven PowerPoints complete with illustrated versions of each poem SAT-style comprehensions, when appropriate, including answers links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Statutory requirements (pages 4-10) Reception (pages 11-23) Ye Spotted Snakes by William Shakespeare Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth Year 1 (pages 24-41) Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson Please Do Not Feed the Animals by Robert Hull Year 2 (pages 42-67) The Months by Sara Coleridge Granny Is by Valerie Bloom Year 3 (pages 68-87) Silver by Walter de la Mare Vegan Delight by Benjamin Zephaniah Year 4 (pages 88-112) The Jumblies by Edward Lear Extinct by Mandy Coe Year 5 (pages 113-139) From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson The Door by Miroslav Holub Year 6 (pages 140-164) Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll His Nine Sympathies by Carol Ann Duffy

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

Designed to develop year 8-9 students’ reading comprehension skills and their confidence approaching an unseen fiction text, Mastering comprehension will help upper KS3 students to make the transition to GCSE English Language study. This teaching pack includes eight literary fiction or prose texts from the 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century. The activities are designed for upper KS3 (years 8-9) or higher attaining KS3 students and should provide a helpful transition to the GCSE/IGCSE assessment focus on unseen literary fiction. You’ll find extracts from celebrated novels and short stories to appeal to younger students, as well as a range of genres, literary and narrative styles, including first- and third-person narration. What’s included? The teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is designed to provide a series of comprehension practice activities for eight one-hour lessons: Each lesson includes: a choice of two pre-reading starter activities (focusing on context, prediction, vocabulary development, inference skills, oracy skills etc.) a set of three lesson activities to build students’ reading comprehension skills and strategies, and comprehension and inference questions and tasks: skimming, scanning, selecting, summarising and synthesising information analysing language, literary devices and structure evaluating the text critically writing analytically an extension writing task to anticipate some of the fiction and non-fiction writing tasks students will complete in their GCSE English Language exams a plenary or formative assessment activity. Each activity includes answers, where appropriate and there is also a summative assessment task, which includes exam-style questions, with suggested answers for self or peer marking, or to support teachers. The resource pack also includes a focus on vocabulary development by building students’ confidence approaching unfamiliar or challenging new words. The lessons can be used in sequence or as one-off English lessons, for cover activities or for independent homework tasks. The pack includes extracts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Happy-Go-Lucky-Morgans by Edward Thomas, ‘The Story-Teller’ by Saki, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Invisible Mass of the Back Row’ by Claudette Williams.

This six-week teaching pack addresses the 19th century text elements of the English Literature GCSE and provides students with a practical, accessible route-through the text – and plenty of exam practice to boot. Crammed, as always, with engaging activities and resources – including comprehension, language analysis and creative tasks – plus advice for differentiation and sample exam questions, the pack contains all you need to bring Stevenson’s novel to life. What’s included? assessment objective mapping lesson plans and ideas along with 52 tailor-made resources exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-9) Route through week 1: Pre-reading and introducing Chapter 1 (pages 10-36) Reactions to Victorian London Book cover predictions Gothic mini saga Ethical issues Introducing Mr Utterson Gothic literature – style and language Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – research topics Story of the door Victorian times Stretch and challenge Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Chapter summary table Route through week 2: Finishing Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (pages 37-60) Nightmares Design your own villain Introducing Mr Hyde Speak to the hand Questions on chapters one and two Mr Utterson’s reaction (Chapter 2) Villain cards Reputation, reputation, reputation Practice exam 1 Route through week 3: Chapters 3, 4 and 5 (pages 61-89) Carew colour coding An odd relationship Discussion questions Analysis of ‘Incident of the letter’ (Chapter 5) Bingo! (Chapters 1-3) The detective role? Silence, secrecy and style – developing themes in the novel Structuring analytical paragraphs Evaluating a PEE paragraph PEE Mobile Route through week 4: Chapters 6, 7 and 8 (pages 90-104) Door symbolism Chapter 7 – focused reading Dr Lanyon’s change Questions on chapters 6 and 7 Chapter 8 – true or false The self and society Route through week 5: Chapters 9, 10 and summarising (pages 105-123) Narrative diamond 9 Chapter 9 questions The duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 match up Questions that focus on the popularity of the story Evil Practice exam 2 Route through week 6: Revision activities (pages 124-129) The structure of the novel Who said what? Exploring structure The role of Mr Utterson The significance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde RAG rating

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners