Learn how to create a positive learning environment using positive psychology. Understand students social and emotional needs and understand how these are linked to learning. Also: To learn how the classroom environment affects learning To learn what makes students happy To learn how to establish ground rules To see how we can praise and encourage To discuss our ideal selves To provide feedback

A collection of three colourful story spinners to make story writing fun! Students spin the sheels and choose characters, settins and descriptive adjectives to complement their story. Suitable for Primary students and ESL & SEN students. Have fun creating exciting stories by randomly picking story settings, characters and character traits.

Use these to encourage students to ask and answer plenary questions at the end of the lesson.

Look, Cover, Write, Check Sheet and Vocabulary Organizer. Students practice spelling words and then look up the meaning of new words using a dictionary. Good for pre-teaching vocabulary. Suitable for Primary, SEN and ESL students.

The purpose of a procedural text is to provide sequenced information, instructions or directions so that people can successfully perform activities in safe, effective and appropriate ways. Many things are written as a list of steps to follow like rules, recipes, directions, science experiments, instructions, for example, how to make your bed or fix a car. This activity book includes checklists for students, differentiated activities for LA/HA students and think pair share activities. Includes 25 pages, a complete term of activities.

Plenary Ideas (Full Presentation)

Narrative writing is telling a story about a real or imagined event. Narratives include short stories, novels, biographies and personal stories. They can be written about many different topics. A good writer uses expression and thinks about the language used so that the story is enjoyable for both the writer and the reader. The events are usually written about in the order that they happened with a clear beginning, middle and end. This activity book includes checklists for students, differentiated activities for LA/HA students and think pair share activities. Includes 38 pages, a complete term of activities.

A graphic organizer to help students recount stories.

Use this set of 16 exciting library activity cards to find information from fiction and non fiction books. Printed in colour, these cards can be carried out over 16 weeks to enable students to make the most of their library resources.

Younger students will have fun playing Phonics Snakes & Ladders. Whenever they land on a sound they must try and say it. Be careful not to step on a snake! Have fun playing this game with Lower Primary, SEN and ESL students. A great way to learn our letter sounds!

Super Hero Masks for role playing and drama.

Younger students love using this Magic Smartphone to improve their phonics knowledge. Comes with a worksheet with CVC words. Students use the Smart Phone to spell out new words by typing directly onto the keypad. Great for Phonics starters and role play too! Bonus phone for developing language skills.

Use this table mat resource to help students ask and answer questions about a story of topic during Guided Reading.

English Guided Reading Bookmark with a variety of simple to more complex questions to help students improve their understanding of the text. Based on dialogic teaching methods. Suitable for school based Guided Reading and Home Reading.

A useful resource for Guided Reading and Independant Reading. Students use the mat to ask and answer questions about the story, based on HOT strategies. Encurages students to delve deeper into the text.

Use this phone for speaking and listening activities with young learners, SEN and ESL learners to encourage speaking. Includes a question bank with answers.

Questions cards for Guided Reading, Based on HOTs Higher Order Thinking strategies to encourage students to have a deeper understanding of the text. These colourful cards can be cut out and placed on a split pin for easy access.

Use this table mat resource to encourage students to self or peer assess work and up level and improve their writing according to standards based on the English National Curriculum.

Use this colourful resource to help structure writing. Students complete the Story Mountain graphic organizer to help them plan their story, think of problems and resolutions in their story and to build in a beginning, climax and ending.

Timelines help you plan your writing, when you are writing about the past. In timeline writing, what happened is reported in chronological order which means that you start at the beginning and tell each thing that happened in order until you get to the end. Timeline writing can describe a lifetime, a year, a month, a week, a day, a morning or even a single event. This activity book includes checklists for students, differentiated activities for LA/HA students and think pair share activities. Includes 38 pages, a complete term of activities.