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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.
English
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 1
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.
Retelling the text 'Tuesday'
Do you use ‘Talk for Writing’ to teach writing?
If so, here are a set of lessons to use for the text ‘Tuesday’ by David Wienser.
Use the text example which is suitable for KS1 children. My class loved using the text maps to retell the story and were able to internalise the story very quickly.
This was great to develop their story language and worked very well for both higher attainers and SEND children.
The outcomes of the children’s writing was fantastic. I will definitely use this unit in my teaching again.
Bundle
English Lessons based on the text 'Tuesday'
These resources have been used with a Year 2 class and were great for KS1 English lessons.
Children loved re-telling the text Tuesday and the inference lesson created great discussions.
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.
Guided Reading Record Year 4
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 3
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 5
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 6
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.
Bundle
Guided Reading Records FS - Year 6
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.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum for all year groups.
Inference Lesson Night Monkey Day Monkey KS1
Here is a complete lesson to teach inference skills based on the book ‘Night Monkey Day Monkey’ by Julia Donaldson.
Use the slide to teach your English lesson or it’s also great for guided reading sessions.
Use the inference questions and tasks for independent work.
Please note the questions are differentiated by colour:
yellow - low level questions
orange - expected age level questions
green - higher level questions
.
Also useful to set for distant learning work.
Comprehension Paper Where the Wild Things Are!
Are you looking for comprehension based on high quality texts?
Here is a comprehension based on the popular book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.
Aimed at Key Stage One.
Mixture of what, when, how, why questions.
These questions are also in the style of the Key Stage One SAT’s questions making it perfect practise for the National tests.
*Buy as part of the bundle package for 50% off *
Bundle includes:
Dear Zoo
Whatever Next!
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!
Peace at Last
Spelling Lists KS1
Do you want to save time each week creating your own spelling lists linked to the curriculum?
Here are 25 weekly spelling lists to savce you time.
Use them for your weekly spelling at school and for homework. All rules are stated and linked the the curriculum…see below link:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239784/English_Appendix_1_-_Spelling.pdf
You can adapt the words but they are all linked to the spelling rule and examples from the English National Curriculum included.
Using Conjunctions Lesson KS1
Here is a lovely lesson all about conjunctions with a Gruffalo theme.
Get your children using ‘and’ and ‘but’ in different sentences.
Included: pdf format and an MP4 video for the animations.
KS1 Reading Practise Paper - Peace At Last
Are you looking for comprehension based on high quality texts?
Here is a comprehension based on the popular book ‘Peace At Last’.
Aimed at Key Stage One.
Mixture of what, when, how, why questions.
These questions are also in the style of the Key Stage One SAT’s questions making it perfect practise for the National tests.
*Buy as part of the bundle package for 50% off *
Bundle includes:
Dear Zoo
Whatever Next!
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!
Where the Wild Things Are
Ks1 Practise Reading Questions - Dear Zoo
Are you looking for comprehension based on high quality texts?
Here is a comprehension based on the popular book ‘Dear Zoo’.
Aimed at Key Stage One.
Mixture of what, which, why questions.
These questions are also in the style of the Key Stage One SAT’s questions making it perfect practise for the National tests.
*Buy as part of the bundle package for 50% off *
Bundle includes:
Peace at Last
Whatever Next!
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!
Where the Wild Things Are
Phonics Blending Word Cards
These word cards are perfect for phonics games and visual aids in the classroom.
Includes each sound from the set 2 and 3 list (diagraphs and trigraphs).
Each card has a phonetically plausible word with matching picture and progress through the systematic phonics programme. Meaning as the child progresses through the cards, they will not come across a sound not previously learnt.
Phonics Writing Mat
This resource is helpful for children learning their phonics and are beginning to write using their sounds.
Each writing mat includes phonemes, words that match the phoneme and space for writing.
I have used these in the classroom by laminating them and children practised their writing with whiteboard pens. Also useful to have on children’s desks to help them refer to the sounds.
Includes 41 pages progressing through each sound (once children know initial sounds).