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 resource has 20 vocabulary related activities that can be used in English lessons or across the curriculum to develop good approaches to working with new and challenging vocabulary. It includes single word study and word collection activities. They can be put into presentations for sharing with the whole class or printed as activities for students to work on. They will help develop good reading strategies for approaching vocabulary as well as model ways of working with word choice when writing.

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students’ comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. This pack contains: • Comprehension task • Retrieval comprehension task • Response comprehension task • Vocabulary task • Letter writing activity

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. This pack contains: • Comprehension task • Retrieval comprehension task • Response comprehension task • Retell as cartoon strip • Vocabulary task • Retell as narrative activity

This worksheet asks students to think of the impact different books or stories have had on them. They are asked to think of stories that have made them smile, laugh, sad and learn amongst others. There are 9 responses to consider in total. They could draw or write in response. The final reflection question asks if there is one story or book that has been able to do all 9.

This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling 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 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 the other 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.

Rather than buy an activity guide for each novel that you study – how about trying one booklet of activities that you can apply to any novel? Whole class novel study is now one of the main ways in which reading is taught through guided reading and comprehension work. This booklet is designed to give teachers a range of activities that they can use alongside these lessons. They can be applied to which ever novel is being studied and used to give students a scaffolded way of recording the thinking and learning that they have done in lessons. There are: • 12 Character study activity pages • 12 Setting study activity pages • 12 Vocabulary study pages • 8 Plot and Chapter study activity pages • 10 Whole Book study activity pages The activities very in the amount of formal written recording needed to allow for adapted provision addressing the same learning. There are also structure strip based pages to provide scaffolding support for more developed written work for those students that need this.

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students’ comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. This pack contains: • Comprehension task • Retrieval comprehension task • Response comprehension task • Vocabulary task • Instruction writing activity

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students’ comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. This pack contains: • Comprehension task • Retrieval comprehension task • Response comprehension task • Vocabulary task • Story map and narrative writing activity

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.

Everything you need to set up daily reading as a formal intervention for students in your class or school who are early readers. This pack includes: • A training presentation that you can share with adults supporting early readers to ensure that they are well prepared. • A detailed guide that you can give to adults hearing children read daily to help them support the development of decoding, fluency and comprehension skills. • A simple record keeping sheet that adults supporting early readers daily can complete – with an example of how this might be filled in. • A choice of assessments that you can use to measure impact, particularly on decoding ability. Check these pre and post a period of structured daily reading to see how much progress has been made. • An evaluation form that can be used at the end of the programme to summarise information and make recommendations about whether ongoing support is needed. I have used this approach across the school as SENDCO to help ensure that early readers are getting regular and well-structured support that they need to make progress. It also allowed me to see where daily reading support was not providing enough support and further assessment and intervention might be needed.

Schools often carry out practice tests with Year 6 students and the children needing adapted provision as a result of special educational needs often cannot access the same booklets as their peers. These covers can be put on the front of booklets of work these students are using at the same time as their peers to help them feel included. Each cover also includes a self-assessment box for students to share how they felt doing the activity. They can also be put on a range of work across the school year to help those students who feel anxious about tests to normalise the presentation and help them to feel more confident tackling tasks presented with this kind of cover. There are covers for a range of English and Maths activities. Science and Humanities covers have also been included in case these might be helpful for end of unit assessments. I like things to look consistent!