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A teacher and senior leader with over 18 years of classroom experience. Here is the English Box including my favourite resources for everything English, from phonics to handwriting, to comprehension and grammar.
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A teacher and senior leader with over 18 years of classroom experience.
Here is the English Box including my favourite resources for everything English, from phonics to handwriting, to comprehension and grammar.
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KS1 Reading Comprehension Practise Questions Pack
Are you looking for comprehension practise papers based on high quality texts?
Here are KS1 comprehension papers based on the following high quality texts that KS1 children love!
Dear Zoo
Whatever Next!
Peace at Last
Where the Wild Things Are!
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
These are aimed at KS1 but would benefit struggling readers on KS2 and advanced Foundation Stage readers.
Questions are in the style of the national tests so are perfect practise for any upcoming tests.
Questions are a mixture of multiple choice and written response answers.
Includes visuals to support children with additional needs such as EAL.
A great saving when you purchase the bundle - you receive 50% off: £1 per copy and £5 in total.
(Normally each individual copy is £2, total £10)
Grammar Sentence Type Activity KS1
Here is a presentation featuring different sentences so children become familiar of the four different sentence types essential for KS1 grammar.
Supported with visuals and an activity for the children to think of their own sentences.
Reading Competition Whole School
Based on ‘Read Around the World’ competition I have adapted this to the UAE.
Fantastic resources for whole school competitions during Book Month.
Pupils receive their reading passport and collect stamps every time they read for 10 mintues.
Great for reading for pleasure and encouraging more reading.
Phonics Lesson ai Sound
Use this phonics lesson to teach the ‘ai’ sound.
Perfect for learning the diagraphs - FS2 upwards.
Follow the slides to guide you through the whole lesson. I have used this previously which received outstanding grade.
Includes:
-Book themed focus - ‘Snail and the Whale’.
Blending and segmenting tasks,
reading tasks
writing tasks
challenge questions.
Visuals follow the Read Write Inc program.
Handwriting Classroom Banner
Use these handwriting visuals to remind pupils of the four letter families to improve handwriting in the classroom.
Spelling Book
A spelling book that can be used in class or set for homework.
The spelling lists follow the British National Curriculum from phonemes (EY) to spelling rules (Year 2).
I have used it is class and parents love the guidance of what spelling words to follow at home.
Differentiated Activities for Teaching Commas
This resource is colour coded/; yellow for easier task, blue for middle and green for challenge.
Use this as an idea for activities during an English lesson to teach commas.
Writing Sentences PowerPoint for Lesson
Adapt this to teach a ‘writing sentences’ lesson aimed for key stage one pupils.
Spelling Activities -dge
Perfect for supporting pupils learn the different spelling rules!
These resources are in line with the National Curriculum to help support KS1 or KS2 SEND and EAL pupils learn the spelling rule -dge.
All resources include a visual for your EAL learners.
The pack includes a spelling list, word cards, missing letter and word activities which are ideal for an independent spelling task during guided reading session in the classroom. They could also be used as homework activities.
Handwriting Progression FS-Year6
Very useful for English leaders to ensure handwriting progression through the primary years without using an expensive scheme.
Genre Writing Checklist for KS1
Use these in class for children to guide their instructional, descriptive and report writing.
Children can use these as a self assessment tool/success criteria.
Very useful to guide teacher’s planning and teaching episodes too.
Grammar Lesson -KS1 Sentence Types
Use this for a grammar boost in your KS1 classroom.
Great for teaching the different sentence types.
Easy to adapt to your own lesson.
KS1 Punctuation Lesson - Commas
Use this for a punctuation boost in your KS1 classroom.
Great for teaching commas.
Easy to adapt to your own lesson.
Writing Instructions KS1
Use these slides or adapt them to your own lessons for helping children learn about instructions.
Includes:
-How to set a ‘cold task’ for writing,
-Following instuctions for making palydough,
-I used the task slide for ‘distance learning’ just pdf and add it to seesaw.
Lesson PowerPoint for Revising Grammar
Use this resource to teach a mixture of grammar skills to a Key Stage One class.
Guided Reading Record Foundation Stage
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 2
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Spelling G/J
As part of the Year 2 curriculum, use this list and activity for pupils to meet the spelling objective.
Pen License Certificate
Use this certificate to encourage pupils to improve their handwriting and to achieve their pen license.
Success Criteria for Report Writing KS2
Use this genre tick list for children’s success criteria in writing. Also very useful to help guide your teaching/planning.