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.

A pack to support the use of this picture book with primary age children – the main pack is aimed at students in Year 2/3 but it includes 4 additional activities to use with older students in Key Stage 2. Please note this pack does not contain a copy of the text but has a link to buy it from the publisher or Amazon. It is a beautifully illustrated book that warrants sharing with students. Includes comprehension, vocabulary, and retelling activities as well as craft tasks. Contents: • Cover study activity. • Recall and retrieval comprehension – in two versions for sentence answers or with multiple choice options. • Inference and prediction questions. • Vocabulary activities – at two levels for the same words from the text, one including visuals to support students. • Retelling as a story board activity – at two levels, one including sentences to scaffold. • Christmas activities – design a stained-glass window and make a Christmas star . • PSHE and design activity to think about the difference between needs and wants, noting the key things that the family in the story might need. • For older students, you will find an activity relating to the work of War Child (the charity that is supported by sales of the book), an activity relating to right respecting PSHE knowledge, a retelling in a journalistic style activity and a detailed vocabulary study based on the title of the book.

A pack to support the use of this picture book to study Remembrance Day with primary age children from Year 2/3. Please note this pack does not contain a copy of the text but has a link to buy it from Amazon. It is a beautifully illustrated book that warrants sharing with students. Includes comprehension, vocabulary, and retelling activities as well as craft tasks. Contents: • Cover study activity. • Recall and retrieval comprehension – in two versions for sentence answers or with multiple choice options. • Inference and prediction questions. • Vocabulary activities – at two levels for the same words from the text, one including visuals to support students. • Retelling as a story board activity – at two levels, one including sentences to scaffold. • Two poppy craft activities – make a wreath and make your own poppy. • PSHE and design activity to create medals for people it is important to remember and thank in your own life.

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.

These comic strips are designed to provide a scaffold for developing the speech and language skills needed for some of the conversations that students often need to take part in at school. There are lots of resources out there for general conversation skills about general topics but not often it can be those everyday conversations with friends and staff at school that it would help to work on. Situations covered include: • Morning greeting. • Difficult playtimes. • Planning a task with a peer. • Sharing news with an adult. • Asking to join a game or activity. • Asking for help with learning. • When I am not happy with a friend. • When I have done something wrong. There are also 2 blanks so that students can develop their own scenarios relevant to their experience. In each strip, it was planned that the student in the striped shirt would be the focus student – there are some strips with a peer and others with an adult to work on developing skills for talking with both. Students benefit from role playing the scenarios using the comic strip as a scaffold or basis for a script. At the end of the pack there is also a poster to remind students of the features of good conversation skills.

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. Christmas adverts provide an accessible way for students to review and demonstrate literacy skills as most students can access the text. They are also motivating as students often recognise them – which is why one of this year’s Christmas adverts has been included in the pack. This pack contains materials to support using 5 different adverts to review student’s 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. For each of the adverts you will have: • Comprehension questions appropriate for students at 3 different levels – with answers at the end of the pack • A vocabulary development activity • A follow up writing activity. Text types covered include narrative, letter, diary, instructions, and review. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. The selected adverts included are: John Lewis – Bear and Hare 2013 Sainsburys – Christmas Truce 2014 Sainsburys – Mog’s Christmas Calamity 2015 John Lewis – Edgar the Excitable Dragon 2019 Lidl – Find the way back home 2023

This is an Excel spreadsheet that has been set up so that the first two pages will allow you to create your own precision teaching pages for sets of 5 or 10 words by just inputting each word once in the top row. The following pages have all the word lists from the English National Curriculum. The common exception words for Year 1 and 2 are listed. The Year 3 and 4 words have been split into two lists – so they can be used across the year groups – as have the Year 5 and 6 words. This will allow you to create personalised precision teaching pages for students who might need a mixture of words from different lists – or just to work on a small number that they have not already learned. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to read key words or 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.