A quick and easy activity to help your students understand how to retrieve key bits of imformation from at text.

A free general knowledge quiz (with answers) about the human body and its functions. I have used in tutor time and lesson starter.

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an excellent Christmas Activity that gets your students to practice their English Language knowledge Then look no further! This colourful ‘Implied Meanings’ activity is for you!! **What is on the activity sheet? It contains the full extract based on Santa advertising Carphone Shed 5 targeted questions that use retrieve and record and identify key details . This can be used as a stand alone ‘Tutor Time’ or in a lesson before the Christmas break in pairs, small groups or individually. AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Need help getting your students to understand difficult terms such as Semantics, Allusion, Idioms and Oxymoron? Look not further !! This Dyslexia Friendly Colourful fact sheet with easy to understand examples. AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Need help getting your students to understand how words can sound similar but mean something completely different? Look not further !! You can use this colourful interactive as starter at the beginning of a lesson or to see where holes in the students learning All activities can be stand alone or in pairs or small groups What is included: 3 Dyslexia Friendly activities to STRENGTHEN and CHECK if they understand the meaning of each word and how they fit into a sentence.

Need help getting your students to use connectives correctly Look not further !! This Dyslexia Friendly colourful activity sheet that allows students to practice using connectives and the teacher to find holes in learning

Need help getting your students to understand Idioms? Look not further !! You can use this as starter at the beginning of a lesson or to see where holes in the students learning All activities can be stand alone What is included: 4 Dyslexia Friendly activities to STRENGTHEN and CHECK if they understand the conventions of IDIOMS, these worksheets will perform a quick check of students knowledge. These can either be used individually as an extension activities o

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an interesting choice of 11 Dyslexia Friendly Christmas Activities Then look no further! **What is included? Comprehension Maths Letter to Santa Wordsearch Creative Story Riddles Sudoku Idioms

This is a complete interactive lesson with a ‘clip’ on the differences between a** formal** and informal letter. The Power Point goes through the standard key structure of a letter and looks and what language to use. It has 4 Activities that can be individual or in pairs, with the last activity asking the children to write a letter.

Need help in assessing your students on their knowledge of understanding Non-Fiction Texts? Look no further !! You can use this Dyslexia Friendly resource as and assessment, part of a lesson, homework or stretch and challenge. It does not require the students to send any longer than 30 mins on this task AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an excellent Christmas Activity that gets your Middle School students to practice their Literary Language knowledge Then look no further! This complete lesson based on the theme of Jack Frost with answers included is for you!! **What is in this complete lesson? It contains an extract on Jack Frost with 10 targeted questions that use retrieve and record, identify key details from the extract, make inferences, explain inferences. 5 detailed Stretch and Challenge questions on semantics and structure, creative writing and how to improve it by using the 5 senses.

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an excellent Christmas Activity that gets your students to practice their English Literary Language knowledge Then look no further! This complete lesson based on the theme of Jack Frost with answers included is for you!! **What is in this complete lesson? It contains an extract on Jack Frost with 10 targeted questions that use retrieve and record, identify key details from the extract, make inferences, explain inferences. 5 detailed Stretch and Challenge questions on semantics and structure, creative writing and how to improve it by using the 5 senses.

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an excellent Christmas Activity that gets your students to practice their English Language knowledge Then look no further! This colourful double sided paper on landscape activity is for you!! **What is on the activity sheet? It contains the full poem, 9 targeted questions that use retrieve and record, identify key details from the poem, make inferences, explain inferences. Students are then asked to created their own Christmas poem with some descriptive words to help. This can be used as a stand alone ‘Tutor Time’ or in a lesson before the Christmas break in pairs, small groups or individually. AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Are you short of time coming up to Christmas and need an interesting choice of 10 minute Dyslexia Friendly Christmas Activities Then look no further! **What is included? Fill in the blanks Wordsearch Crossword Quiz Colour by number Spot the difference Make a book mark AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Are your students lacking in confidence in answering questions on Paper 1 Then look no further – Dyslexia Friendly **What will this Powerpoint do for you? **1 Based on 2018 paper that walk students through answering Section A **2 Help on how to understand the questions **3 Powepoint has easy to follow instructions and guidance on how to answer each question **4 Sentence starters for each question to help you build up your students skills confidently This is a resource I created to help my borderline grade 3/4 students, it is a ‘walkthrough’. I have based the Power Point on Paper 1, November 2018. I generally use this Power Point over 2 or 3 separate lessons. I have found that borderline students often struggle with putting together a good answer, they often do not know key words to use or how to structure it. I use PEEZE and PEE which I think is standard. I also find that these students need short chunking activities to keep them interested. I have created a separate worksheet that breaks each question down to help the students create an answer. **A Sound of Thunder–Ray Bradbury is copyright for AQA Resource available on AQA website In this pack I have included: Power -Point Worksheet with the full exam questions Dinosaur Worksheet

**Need help getting your students to learn challenging spellings ? Look no further !! You can use this Dyslexia Friendly resource as part of a lesson or a starter activity What do I get A Dysleixa friendly colourful interactive and fun 20 slide power point with a link BBCbitesize link Two Stretch and Challenge activities to give children a fun way to learn difficult spellings. Students can work in pairs and groups to create the most interesting sentence and picture.

Do you need to encourage your students to expand their sentences? Then look no further!! Here are 4 activities to help students develop sentences It takes them through a step by step process of how a basic sentence can be improved with more detail, better word choice, or clearer structure. Each activity is designed to help students gain confidence by practicing expanding and improving their writing. These activities make sentence writing interactive and encourage more creativity!

Need help with a Christmas Quiz Look not further !! What is included: This is an interactive 42 slide Power Point that is based on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire TV show. It contains 10 Christmas facts questions and answer slide It has the music from the show to create tension My students love it. It is suitible for students from Y4 to Y11 AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Need help with a Christmas Quiz Look not further !! What is included: This is an interactive 42 slide Power Point that is based on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire TV show. It contains 10 Christmas facts questions and answer slide It has the music from the show to create tension My students love it. It is suitible for students from Y5 to Y11 AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BUNDLE

Need help with Tutor Time /Lesson starter or stretch and challenge ? **Look no further !! ** You can use this differentiated and dyslexia friendly resource as part of tutor time or a starter at the beginning of a lesson or to see where holes in the students learning. What is included: 10 - Ten minute activities. Use activities to STRENGTHEN and CHECK the standard conventions of English grammar in your class, as these will perform a quick check of students knowledge. These can either be used as group work, individually as an extension activities or as a homework. Activities include: Verbal Reasoning Retrieval Practice Alphabet Challenge Creative Pizza