Suitable for half a term to a term’s work, depending on starting point & understanding of pupils - you may need to track back and repeat at different points.
Lessons are in PowerPoint format, with a colour version for teaching and a black & white one for printing. Exercises are picked directly from the PowerPoint and condensed into a separate printable document.
Teaches full stops in four stages: 1) Writing lists. 2) Commas & and (coloured red) to separate items in a list. 3) and (coloured green) to add ideas. 4) ‘Green and’ & full stop to join and finish ideas.
Children will learn to:
to use ‘and’ to join items in a list and to join ideas (sentences)
avoid using ‘and’ to list ideas one after the other in their writing
understand that finger spaces can be used only to separate words, not ideas
to show completion of an idea with a full stop
to show next idea with the first letter of the first word capitalised
Children are supported by concentrating the resources on the G in SPaG, avoiding any mention of Spelling. Sassoon font and colour coding are used throughout. Information is presented in a low-cognitive load context with familiar scenarios (sweets, toy shop, park, beach, school) and stories (Red Riding Hood etc).
These presentations take children through the construction of sentences that begin with fronted adverbials starting with prepositions. Examples and exercises are related to a clear picture so that children have a visualisation of the concept. The sentence construction is colour-coded to support children with building their own sentences of this type.
The first presentation, ‘Fronted adverbials starting with prepositions 1. - examples’ can be used at any point in the teaching progression. The order of ‘Fronted adverbials starting with prepositions 2. - how to write them’ and ‘Fronted adverbials starting with prepositions 3. - practise writing them’ speaks for itself.
All three are intended for Upper Key Stage 2.
Ten sets of SEN worksheets on The End of the Roman Era, Chiefs & Kings, Kingdoms, Farming, Gods & Goddesses, Lindisfarne, The Heptarchy, Sutton Hoo, Danelaw & Old English (Huge saving on buying sheets individually.)
Four sheets per lesson(40 sheets total)
Simple closed tasks guarantee success
Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font
Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size
Low cognitive load
Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words
Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics
Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability
Some repetition in format from lesson to lesson builds independence
Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil
Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages
Equips pupil(s) for independent writing
Twelve sets of SEN worksheets on Roman Artefacts, Buildings, Christianity, Food, Gods & Goddesses, Julius Caesar, Pompeii, Roads & Bridges, Soldiers, Statues, The Army and Villas. (More than 50% saving on buying sheets individually.)
Three sheets per lesson
Simple closed tasks guarantee success
First sheet: rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture
Second sheet:whole word recognition of topic words
Third sheet: segmenting into syllables of topic words plus writing of independent sentence(s)
Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font
Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size
Low cognitive load
Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words
Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics
Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability
Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence
Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil
Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages
Equips pupil(s) for independent writing