Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.
Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.
This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with:
• Curly shapes
• Straight line shapes
• Down, up and over shapes
• Zigzag shapes
Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of spelling words for year 3 and 4 as well as short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.
This set of planning has been written to go with the handwriting workbooks. It includes warm up activities, strength building exercises and games that will support the development of handwriting as well as make sessions engaging and fun. It is designed to be supportive for a teaching assistant or appropriate adult who has been asked to deliver a handwriting intervention. There is planning for 10 sessions which could be delivered once a week over the course of a term – or twice a week to complete the programme within a half term.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading Year 2 common exception words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading Year 1 common exception words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This plan supports the delivery of precision teaching as an intervention with small sets of words over 5 days each. It can be used with the booklets which have been created for the Key Stage 1 common exception words and the spelling words for Key Stage 2 as students will need to be able to read words that they learn to spell. The booklets have been labelled A to F so that they can be sensitively used with students of any age as appropriate.
The sessions should be engaging, and progress is measured so that it can be celebrated as well as tracked. This is a one-to-one intervention and should be able to be delivered in 10 minutes per day. Options and advice is given to adapt the programme for individual student needs.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling the other half of the Year 3 and 4 National Curriculum spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling half of the Year 3 and 4 National Curriculum spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling half of the Year 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation covers the initial sounds students learn – satpin. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 20 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned and begin to engage with blending sounds together into cvc words. They are presented with visual cue and then two written options that they can select from using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The written words have sound buttons underneath to use as a teaching aid. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation has 5 sections – one for each vowel as a medial sound and there are 6 items in each section giving 30 cvc words to work on overall. Students could work on just one section or complete the whole activity. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the visual cue and then either the student reads the written choices – or if an adult is voicing them to do so as separate sounds that the student then blends to say or know the word.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats. It would also make a game that can be used in group or class sessions.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation covers the fourth and final set of initial sounds students might learn – jlqvwyxz. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 26 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation covers the second set of initial sounds students might learn – eurbhf. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 20 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses.
This presentation covers the third set of initial sounds students might learn – Mdgock. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 20 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student.
Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
Non-fiction 1
This booklet includes a series of comprehension tasks based on the VIPERS approach that many schools use to teach the component’s needed to be able to demonstrate reading and text comprehension. It is designed to be used with the text from the 2023 Year Two reading test (Paper1 – non-fiction) as all schools will be able to access that and English schools may have physical copies of it that they can use. There are two ways in which this booklet may be useful:
As a guided reading group intervention for students in Year 3 and 4 who are early readers and can decode at this level but would benefit from reading and working on text together to develop their confidence. It would be recommended that reading the text together more than once will help build fluency for these early readers.
As an individual provision for an older student who is an early reader and not able to fully access text at an age-appropriate level but needs to build some independent comprehension skills.
The booklet has been deliberately designed to look age appropriate for key stage two students. If using the test material booklets alongside this – please replace the cover sheet to help students see this activity positively. There are printable covers to use for this purpose in my TES shop. These covers can be put on any tasks or adapted classroom work to make them look generic.
Fiction 1
This booklet includes a series of comprehension tasks based on the VIPERS approach that many schools use to teach the component’s needed to be able to demonstrate reading and text comprehension. It is designed to be used with the text from the 2023 Year Two reading test (Paper1 – fiction) as all schools will be able to access that and English schools may have physical copies of it that they can use. There are two ways in which this booklet may be useful:
As a guided reading group intervention for students in Year 3 and 4 who are early readers and can decode at this level but would benefit from reading and working on text together to develop their confidence. It would be recommended that reading the text together more than once will help build fluency for these early readers.
As an individual provision for an older student who is an early reader and not able to fully access text at an age-appropriate level but needs to build some independent comprehension skills.
The booklet has been deliberately designed to look age appropriate for key stage two students. If using the test material booklets alongside this – please replace the cover sheet to help students see this activity positively. There are printable covers to use for this purpose in my TES shop. These covers can be put on any tasks or adapted classroom work to make them look generic.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading the other half of the Year 3 and 4 spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading half of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading the other half of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading half of the Year 3 and 4 spelling words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention.
Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.
Fiction 2
This booklet includes a series of comprehension tasks based on the VIPERS approach that many schools use to teach the component’s needed to be able to demonstrate reading and text comprehension. It is designed to be used with the text from the 2023 Year Two reading test (Paper2 – fiction) as all schools will be able to access thatand English schools may have physical copies of it that they can use. There are two ways in which this booklet may be useful:
As a guided reading group intervention for students in Year 3 and 4 who are early readers and can decode at this level but would benefit from reading and working on text together to develop their confidence. It would be recommended that reading the text together more than once will help build fluency for these early readers.
As an individual provision for an older student who is an early reader and not able to fully access text at an age-appropriate level but needs to build some independent comprehension skills.
The booklet has been deliberately designed to look age appropriate for key stage two students. If using the test material booklets alongside this – please replace the cover sheet to help students see this activity positively. There are printable covers to use for this purpose in my TES shop. These covers can be put on any tasks or adapted classroom work to make them look generic.