This activity was created for a student who was not a confident speller. It aims to encourage students to develop their own strategies to support them in learning and remembering their spellings e.g. colour coding

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

A writing prompt with success criteria to support students who are not confident writers.

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

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 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.

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.

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

This resource was created to support students in organising their thoughts when writing and expressing their opinion about a specific non fiction text.

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.

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.

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 resource encourages students to use both similes and metaphors.

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.

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 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.

One of my students asked me this question. In response I created an information text and asked the student to create their own comprehension-style questions and include the answers.

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

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