This scheme contains approximately 20 lessons which cover writing skills and reading skills. Good for intervention as well as for form times and catch up. Lesson 1-2: Baseline Assessment Lesson 3-4: Spelling Rules Lesson 5: Homophones Lesson 6-7: Using commas, full stops and capital letters Lesson 8: Reviewing language features and word types Lesson 9-10: Inference and literal meaning Lesson 11: Paragraphing Lesson 12-13: Using past tense – is/am and was/were Lesson 14: Sentence types Lesson 15: Using punctuation for effect Lesson 16-17: Writing assessment Lesson 18-19: Re-complete baseline You must also allow for additional time in lessons to complete spelling tests. This unit also contains a reading baseline assessment using Roald Dahl’s Boy as well as a writing baseline focused on GCSE AQA skills and writing from an image. This resource also includes 6 sets of spelling tests to use weekly as homework. This unit is ready to use and has been delivered with success before. Follow me on: www.facebook.com/teachcoach

In this resource, there are 20 individual literacy activities. These are perfect for use as starters or for use during form time literacy sessions. Each activity is self contained and should take approx. 10 minutes. The tasks focus on: homophones proofreading ‘unch’ words syllables connectives vocabulary capital letters ‘ice’ words the spelling police writing tasks question marks tenses commas pronouns plurals spelling (boggle style) Please leave a review if you find this useful. Please also follow me on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/teachcoach/

A complete 40 page booklet which includes a focus on ALL basic literacy skills. This is perfect for form time activities, for intervention sessions as well as for catch up and booster sessions. It could be used for homework as well as summer work. If you like this resource please leave a review and follow me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/teachcoach