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

This activity includes facts about mammoths to support the students in writing about mammoths. (An opportunity to research mammoths will further support them). They are given a choice of writing a story or a report. They are encouraged to edit their writing focusing on using varied sentence starters.

The writing prompt gives the student the option of writing a story about their flying shoes or creating an advert to promote their flying shoes. Some of my students actually completed both activities.

A visual prompt to support students to type quicker and more effectively using both hands and all their fingers. I have used this successfully with the individual students that I teach. In fact, my husband saw a copy of this resource and wanted a copy for himself so that he can improve his typing.

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.

An activity to support students in spelling past tense verbs (both regular and irregular). This activity enables the student to practice spelling rules such as change the y into I and add ed and when to double a consonant before adding ed.

An activity aimed to support and encourage students to vary the start of their sentences.

This activity focuses on -ng spellings and sound. It also includes a writing prompt to encourage the student to use -ng words in their writing.

I created this resource for an individual student who was asking about remembrance poppies. The student is not a confident reader so I wrote short statements and instructions are given for the students to follow so that at the end of the activity a poppy and a leaf is cut out and glued correctly onto a coat template. The students are also encouraged to add their own thoughts and facts about Remembrance Day.

This resource includes facts about the Northern Lights with a prompt for writing a kenning. Some two-word ideas are included to support students who are not confident writers.

I designed this activity to support a student who was confusing letters b and d.

This netball theme spelling activity was designed for a student (year 5) who plays netball and was thrilled by the GB team’s gold at the Commonwealth Games.

I created the splat activity resource for a student who was having difficulty in knowing when to use ou and ow in spellings. The activity itself can be easily adapted to other spellings and I first came across it as a game for teaching the multiplication tables. The second activity I created to revise magic e spellings with an older student, using the National Curriculum KS2 spelling list to identify words that use magic e. The activity can be used with any spelling list or text. It could also be sued as an independent individual or group learning activity.

I created a wh word tracking chart for a student who was having difficulty with wh words. As the student enjoyed the activity I created a second tracking chart of words that they, and many others, were finding tricky to spell accurately.

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.

I designed this activity to support a student who was confusing b and d.

This activity focuses on the tour of Dippy the Diplodocus, the famous Natural History Museum dinosaur. The students use their persuasive writing techniques to create a poster promoting the tour and to write a letter to the natural Museum persuading them to let Dippy visit their home town.

An Spring ? Easter themed spelling activity. The student writes a spelling in an egg and decorates each. the activity can be used with any spelling list.

An activity that asks the student to circle the correct spelling of words with one or two ls. They are encouraged to see if they can spot any patterns in the spellings.

I created this resource using two traditional rhymes with the purpose of supporting students in learning to spell the days of the week and the months of the year. It can also help them remember the sequence of the months. It evolved to became a writing prompt where the students create their own poems describing activities that occur on a particular day or month.