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Don't forget to rate / review anything you download or purchase.
PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - wordsearch
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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Sentence Starter mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
Download this PDF, then print and laminate this word mat for your own use.
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Word mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
Download this PDF, then print and laminate this word mat for your own use.
Don’t forget to leave a review!
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference (including 1 x linked image lesson)
Week 3: Retrieval
Week 4: Explaining
Tasks include:
Finding definitions of words in the text
Inferring characters feelings
Creating comic strips to summarise the text so far
and MORE
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks
20 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Thursday – Summarising
Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED)
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Explaining
Week 4: Retrieval
5 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 5 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
Linked texts
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference (including linked text ‘How Far I’ll Go’ from Disney’s Moana)
Week 3: Explaining (including linked text ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ by Dr Seuss)
Week 4: Retrieval (including linked text on Grace Darling from Twinkl)
Week 5: Mixture of VIPERS skills (including linked text ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ by Michelle Robinson)
Tasks include:
Drawing story maps
Writing diary entries in role
Sort vocabulary from the text by its intensity
and MORE
8 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 8 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
Linked texts
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Retrieval (linked text ‘Why is a Tomato a Fruit?’)
Week 2: Vocabulary
Week 3: Mixed skills (linked text The Spider and the Fly poem from Twinkl)
Week 4: Vocabulary (linked text A Seed is Sleepy)
Week 5: Inference and Summarising
Week 6: Mixed skills
Week 7: Mixed skills
Week 8: Summarising
Tasks include:
Making a foldable book summarising the story
Using a dictionary to find meanings of words in the text
Designing your own weather machine
and MORE
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks
16 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Thursday – Summarising
Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED)
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Explaining
Week 2: Retrieval
Week 3: Inference
Week 4: Vocabulary
Tasks include:
Giving advice to the characters
Writing letters in role
Creating Instagram posts for characters using summarising skills
and MORE
Contents of the bundle include:
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Sentence Starter Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Word Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
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Resources accompany teaching on Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Word mats require printing for use.
PDF downloads.
11 lessons of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Wild by Emily Hughes. Lessons were planned and delivered to KS1 (Year 2) classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Sequencing.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 11 lessons
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
1- Retrieval
2- Inference
3- Vocabulary
4- Inference
5- Summarising
6- Sequencing
7- Summarising
8- Explaining
9- Explaining
10- Summarising
11- Summarising
Tasks include:
Creating an emotion graph
Drawing a picture of the character from a description
Writing a letter to the character
and MORE