An activity to support children learn words from a given spelling list

A reading and poetry writing activity created for a student who is not a confident writer. A frame to help students create a poem is included. This resource could also be used as a guided reading text and activity.

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.

I created this resource to support a reluctant writer to write with detailed. The student has wonderful ideas when we discuss writing stories and descriptions but frequently does not include these ideas when writing. The prompt encourages the students to quickly build a bank of words, identify the theme for each paragraphs. After writing there is also a prompt to edit and develop their work. I have also used this prompt with a student preparing for GCSE.

This prompt was to support students in writing in detail about the effect of words or phrase can have on the reader. It includes a short writing task.

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.

A writing frame that aims to support students in developing the skill of writing from the point of view of another.

This activity was created to support a student with the spellings using both the hard and soft g.

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.

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.

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.

A writing prompt that includes a useful editing strategy for students to develop their writing skills.

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.

For this activity the student is required to complete the sentences using words in the text box. i created for an individual student but he activity could be used as a guided reading activity.

I created this resource for students who frequently start their sentences in the same way.

I created this resource to support a student in using colons and semi-colons. The Christmas theme looks at some of the origins and traditions of Christmas both in the UK and elsewhere.

This resource encourages students to use both similes and metaphors.

The challenge is to write a text using the Fibonacci sequence. For example: I try to write … fun student resources. The activity also challenges the students to write text using square numbers or prime numbers. This resource could be used as an independent and group learning activity.

A useful prompt to support students in introducing quotes when writing about texts.