I used this frame to discuss the themes of Romeo and Juliet with an individual student I tutor. It helped her organise her thoughts, ideas and quotations.

I created this resource for one of my individual students who was studying The Titanic as a class project and wanted to know more. He used two copies of the titanic template to create a ‘lift the flap’ information board based on his independent research. He used the writing prompt ‘Survivor’ to write a personal account of the sinking of the Titanic. The writing prompt also includes a useful strategy to encourage students to independently edit and develop their writing.

This resource is based on the poem ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’ by Christina Rossetti. I created it for a student who can discuss a text but as a reluctant writer needs encouraging and practice at writing about poetry or a given text in detail. The resource includes the poem, a exam type question, a success criteria and a prompt for organising a written detailed answer. Although the resource was created for an individual student it can be used as a classroom resource or as an independent learning activity.

I created this resource to support a student in recognising common language features in texts. It has helped the student gain confidence in writing about texts.

I have memories of completing this activity at school - we would use a template or draw our own axis to draw straight lines to matching the numbers. (In the example, I used 1 to 1 but the blank template can be adapted to use any times table eg; 1 to 4, 2 to 8). The third activity is based around a circle template and initially the students draw a line to every fifth number before being encouraged to experiment with other numbers to make a variety of impressive shapes. As a child we used to do this activity using card and embroidery thread and create pictures using 'curved stitching'. The activity is also useful for developing fine motor skills.

Based on the traditional Snakes and Ladders game, this resource uses a variety of strategies to help a student to learn any spelling list. As a tutor I have used it with students of all abilities. Give the children cards with the words you wish them to focus on.

The activity focuses on the change the y into i and add es rule for plurals and when to use it. The student is then asked to create a poster to explain the rule.

This resources encourages independent writers to research a monster and to chose one of two activities to complete (or both).

I designed this activity for a student who was not a confident spelling however, it could be used with confident students as a group or independent activity. It is focused on the Pied Piper of Hamelin as the student was learning about evacuees in World War 2 and we came upon the fact that the code name for the Evacuation was Pied Piper.

An activity that I created for a reluctant writer as part of their World War Two Evacuees learning. It can be used with confident writers too. The task is to choose 12 items to pack in their suitcase and to explain their choices.

An activity that supports students in understanding the change y into i rules and when to use it. I have used this activity with students who are not confident spellers. It has also been a useful tool for revising the vowels.

Match the words of Shakespeare to their modern meanings or play the memory game. Complete the challenge of writing sentences using the words of Shakespeare.

This is a resource I designed for a year 8 student who is not a confident writer. The activities focused on the skills of recognising the criteria for different genre and using descriptive writing. This resource can be used with all students studying the play.

This resource was created to support a student in recognising language features e.g similes, alliteration. the resource includes a writing frame to help the student organise their writing and to gain confidence to write about texts purposefully.

This resource was created as a prompt to support students in organising their thoughts when writing a comparision between two texts.

I created this resource to support a student in writing about texts. It has proven to be a useful tool for the student to not recognise different features but also to write about their thoughts in a more structured way. The student now has a copy of this resource to refer to at home.

This activity asks the student to imagine they are a Roman soldier in Britain writing a letter home to their family in Rome. They have two scenarios with writing frames to choose from.

This activity uses high frequency words and encourages the individual student to read the words and then write their own sentence. As they use the word the student shades the box the word is in. As a challenge the student can try to use words that are touching the last word they used so that the words link. I have used this activity successfully with a student who is a reluctant writer.

I created this resource after an assessment type question on the use of maybe and may be confused several of my students. It gives an explanation and an example for both maybe and may be before asking the students to underline the correct use of the word in a sentence.

Based on the theme of mini-beasts, the student improves a simple sentence by asking questions - Who? What? When? Where? Why? They are also encouraged to add adjectives and adverbs.