A fully interactive Boggle game, suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3, which is a fun way for pupils to develop their vocabulary and spelling skills. The game has a database of over 300, nine letter words, which are automatically selected randomly by the game. The word’s letters are displayed in a random order in a 3 x 3 grid with the first letter of the 9-letter word displayed as a capital. Pupils have 3 minutes to come up with as many words as possible using the letters, they do not have to use all the letters in their words. A bonus can be given if they find the 9-letter word. Click on the Select new word button to automatically create a new 3x3 grid of letters from a new 9-letter word. Click on the Go button to start the 3-minute timer. A horn will sound at the end of the 3 minutes. To display the 9-letter word click on the reveal the 9-letter word box. The game requires macros to be enabled within Power-point to allow the automated features to work. For this reason it will only run on Power-point for Windows and Power-point for Mac’s, it will not run on other ppt viewers. Further games and educational resources can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/john_leather

A spreadsheet to track English Reading and Writing skills. 9 Reading and 9 Writing skills are tracked for each pupil. Teachers grade pupils upon a 1-4 point scale, each skill can be assessed up to 10 times in an academic year. The reading skills are: Read aloud with fluency, Comprehension, Language Terms, Structure Terms, Analysing Language, Analysing Structure, Relevant Quotations, Comparison, Response to Task The Writing skills are: Vocabulary Choices, Spelling -Common words, Spelling -Complex words, Clarity, Structural devices, Punctuation between sentences, Punctuation within sentences, Varied Sentences, Handwriting The spreadsheet will then generate a graded comment upon each skill for each pupil to go into a mail merge document which can be sent out to parents. Data from SIMS can be entered upon teaching group, forename, surname, Target Level, OPT Level at end of Key Stage, Gender, PP (Pupil premium status), MA (More able status), SEN status, reading and writing scores and reading age upon entry. The spreadsheet uses macros (Will only work with Microsoft Excel for Windows) that automatically sort with the click of one button pupil data to be sorted by cohort or by teaching group alphabetically, by target Levels, OPT Levels, Reading criteria, Writing criteria, reading age upon entry. This is useful if you or your staff are not very familiar with spreadsheet commands. The Word document included allows a mail merge to be carried out from the spreadsheet data to produce cohort and group reports which pupils can self evaluate to identify their strongest and weakest skill areas, what is interfering with their progress and how they can make improvement in the future. These documents can be used to show progression over time, aid closing the gap meetings, show intervention strategies in performance management meetings. Includes: a fully detailed instruction/help power point, the tracking spreadsheet, the mail merge word document A copy of the helpfile showing what the resource will do can be found at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-reading-and-writing-skills-tracker-and-reporting-to-parents-document-instruction-help-ppt-12075079

A tracker to record up to 20 separate test results and provide an analysis of the results. Caters for grades A-E, so is suitable for any A Level subject. Entering grade boundaries for each test the tracker will calculate %'s and show the grades for each student, their ranked position and a summary of all their test results and position overall in their teaching group. Allows up to 40 students to be tracked at a time. Individual student summary page can be produced that can be used when mentoring students or for parent evenings, showing their progress over the year.

An interactive Hangman game preloaded with a 104-word, word bank of Year 5 + 6 English National Curriculum recommended common spellings. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered, then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank contains 104 words and hints A free evaluation version of the game (for GCSE Biology terms) can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

An interactive Hangman game preloaded with a 109 Year 3 + 4 English National Curriculum recommended common spellings word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered, then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank contains 109 words and hints A free evaluation version of the game (for GCSE Biology terms) can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

A helpfile for the paid for spreadsheet to track English Reading and Writing skills and word document available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-reading-and-writing-skills-tracker-and-reporting-to-parents-document-12075019 9 Reading and 9 Writing skills are tracked for each pupil. Teachers grade pupils upon a 1-4 point scale, each skill can be assessed up to 10 times in an academic year. The reading skills are: Read aloud with fluency, Comprehension, Language Terms, Structure Terms, Analysing Language, Analysing Structure, Relevant Quotations, Comparison, Response to Task The Writing skills are: Vocabulary Choices, Spelling -Common words, Spelling -Complex words, Clarity, Structural devices, Punctuation between sentences, Punctuation within sentences, Varied Sentences, Handwriting The spreadsheet will then generate a graded comment upon each skill for each pupil to go into a mail merge document which can be sent out to parents. Data from SIMS can be entered upon teaching group, forename, surname, Target Level, OPT Level at end of Key Stage, Gender, PP (Pupil premium status), MA (More able status), SEN status, reading and writing scores and reading age upon entry. The spreadsheet uses macros (Will only work with Microsoft Excel for Windows) that automatically sort with the click of one button pupil data to be sorted by cohort or by teaching group alphabetically, by target Levels, OPT Levels, Reading criteria, Writing criteria, reading age upon entry. This is useful if you or your staff are not very familiar with spreadsheet commands. The Word document included allows a mail merge to be carried out from the spreadsheet data to produce cohort and group reports which pupils can self evaluate to identify their strongest and weakest skill areas, what is interfering with their progress and how they can make improvement in the future. These documents can be used to show progression over time, aid closing the gap meetings, show intervention strategies in performance management meetings. Includes: a fully detailed instruction/help power point, the tracking spreadsheet, the mail merge word document