Hello fellow educator! I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. Please note that I left this resource in Word so that you can edit it to how you see fit. Please leave a message here if there's any problem with the format. Please also note that AFs links are still OLD AFs. A little about me and this resource: I was the English Coordinator at a small school and I developed many guided reading resources and class novel resources for Key Stage Two. This particular resource for How to Train Your Dragon has a focus on vocabulary. It was a class novel for Year Four at the school and we had a student with very limited vocabulary therefore I wanted to have a vocabulary support sheet for her. it took FOREVER to go through the entire book, pick out challenging vocabulary and then create this resource to list synonyms to have appropriate language ready. I do hope it helps you. TIP: copy pages 14-20 doubled-sided on cardstock or laminate and give to students to support learning. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Billy the Bird, Butterfly Lion, The Iron Man, James and the Giant Peach Upper KS2 Guided Reading: Reading Assessment Focus tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy, Indian in the Cupboard, Wreck of the Zanzibar, Carrie’s War, Artemis Fowl Kind Regards, Kelli

Hello! I created these for my Year Four Booster pupils. I wanted my students to practise reading questions carefully and circling/underlining KEY WORDS in the questions. I copied these sheets on bright coloured paper, laminated them, cut them and put them in an envelope. This is why the concepts are mixed on some of the pages. I didn’t want the pupils to recognise that the ‘apostrophe’ questions were one colour, and the ‘comma’ questions were another colour. Therefore the students have to identify the key words in the questions. These cards need to be laminated so that the children can circle/underline the key words in the question, answer the questions and then the cards can be used over and over again. Also please note that the boxes for the commas and apostrophes are sometimes above and sometimes below the sentence. The assessments at my school are arranged this way, so I wanted my students to become familiar with it. Included: noun adjective verb adverb pronoun determiner preposition singular and plural nouns past/present/future tense verbs comma apostrophe subordinating connective root word prefix suffix speech marks Hope this can help your students! Kelli

This is a follow-up resource to my most popular resource Eleven Plus Vocabulary Lists. I teach many Year Five and Six students that are prepping for the 11 Plus and last year I noticed that they needed more exposure to high level vocabulary for these exams. As many of these students are strong spellers, I decided to alternate weekly spelling lists with these vocabulary lists. They practise the words with activities from my spelling menu as many of the activities do not solely focus on spelling. This is NOT for learning the spelling, but for learning meanings of words. You will need to think of another way to test students instead of the typical ‘spelling test’. I suggest giving them another printout of their lists for them to write definitions/synonyms for their words. Includes 16 lists (2 lists per page, organised into groups of 8, except list 25 which is a whole page). UK/AU/CAN spellings Slightly different from my last resource, there are 9 high-level vocabulary lists and 7 lists with a focus on roots. From what I understand, roots are included in a huge section of round one in the Surrey 11 Plus for Sutton/Wilson/Nonsuch exam. Roots covered are: -aqua/aque -fort -dict -geo -grad/gres -ject -hydr -port -log/logue -astr -rupt -therm -scrib/script -chron Hope this resource helps! Kelli x

I hope I can save you a bit of time with this phonics screener. I created this for my intervention students based on a former phonics screener I used. I didn’t like using the same words each time, so I created Forms A, B and C along with teacher recording sheets (13 page document). I’ve got basic letters & sounds right up to multi-syllabic words! Phonics screeners are vital for pinpointing phonics gaps for our students. I’ve left this format in Word so that you can make any changes you need for your students. I also added a writing screener because I wanted more information about my students’ writing. If you aren’t familiar with phonics screeners, they are “diagnostic assessments that quickly and accurately identifies individual students’ strengths and instructional needs in phonics/decoding. This untimed assessment can be repeated periodically to monitor student progress in learning to decode.” Hope it helps! Please leave feedback : ) Kelli Includes A4 and US Letter formats.

Hello fellow educator! I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. Please note that I left this resource in Word so that you can edit it to how you see fit. I hope nothing gets mixed up since I didn’t put it in PDF. A little about me and this resource: I’m the English Coordinator at a little school and I took on the task last year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 as I noticed this was missing from the school. I have included the record sheets I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes) as well as the individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher. About this resource: I created this for an average ability guided reading group for Year 3. Included -2 reading response options for each chapter: reading comprehension and usually parts of speech connection or writing connection (diary, letter, newspaper) -Guided Reading Record Sheet with old AFs and vocabulary for each chapter identified -IT’S IN WORD SO YOU CAN AMEND WHAT YOU WANT! Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Billy the Bird, Diary of a Killer Cat, Bill’s New Frock, Butterfly Lion, The Iron Man, James and the Giant Peach Upper KS2 Guided Reading: Reading Assessment Focus tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy, Indian in the Cupboard, Wreck of the Zanzibar, Carrie’s War, Artemis Fowl, How to Train Your Dragon Kind Regards, Kelli

I was the English Coordinator at a small private school for several years, teaching both Year Five and Year Six English. I found that after Christmas (and most 11+ exams), my Year Six pupils were becoming bored and disinterested in the typical English homework they had been doing for years. I wanted to find something that they would enjoy and that was also a review (since at that point I had taught my students for four terms). I came across a brilliant ‘project’ type homework where tasks were interlinked across a half-term. I can’t find the link now, but the first two I used were a ‘Mystery’ unit (the students choose an item that goes missing, describe the item, do a writing piece for the investigation, etc) and creating a class trip (students decide what the class trip will be, create advert, create information leaflet, etc). THEY LOVED IT! Each week they came back, eager to read their homework to each other and were genuinely enthusiastic about it. I was shocked! I left these homework units in Word so that you can edit it to the needs of your class. Please let me know if there is any problem with the format, as I noticed the files are in very old Word, so I hope it works! I included a document with checklists of the genres so that if you want to change out a week that has a persuasive writing piece, but diary recounts would be better suited for that week/your students, you can just cut and paste! Additionally, I added reading comprehension tasks every other week, but if want to change that to spelling, grammar, additional writing, etc: just change it! DIRECTIONS: 1) Copy the two pages double-sided. Students can illustrate the front cover (or you can add a picture before giving out). 2) Edit front cover for success criteria and when homework will be set and returned. 3) Give due dates and have children write these in. 4) Give appropriate paper needed for assignments (unless completed into exercise book) INCLUDES: -genre checklists -'Butterfly Garden' homework tasks -'Dream House' homework tasks -'Mountain Climbing' homework tasks -'Holiday' homework tasks -'Fruit and Veggie Garden' homework tasks Please check back in the future as I have more homework tasks that I am finishing up!

I needed a fun way to practise the National Curriculum spelling words with my booster groups. I created these games to expose children to the words, discuss the syllables, discuss spelling patterns and practise writing them. My students have enjoyed them and even asked to have their own so they could play at home! The games cover Key Stage 2 spellings and have directions within the resource. The other games my students like are memory match and a game I call SPLAT! (also known as BOOM!) which is writing the spelling words on lolly sticks, as well a 1-2 lolly sticks that say SPLAT! and putting them in a cup/basket. Students take turns selecting a random stick, covering it and then writing it. If they are correct, they keep the stick. If wrong, they put the stick back in. If they get SPLAT, they have to put ALL their sticks back in! They loooove this game. Hope I can save you some time with these board games. It took a long time to put together but was definitely worth it! Best, Kelli I also added general spelling rule spellings to the Race to the Top game boards as well.

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for my students in my Year 4 Booster Group. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words highlight special sounds and break words into syllables to help the children learn the words. The words are from the National Curriculum Year 3 & 4 word list. I have a similar resource for just Year Three spellings. Additionally I have a resource for Phases 2-5 for a key-ring reference. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover (2 different options) on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied the first 8-9 pages on one colour, the next 8-9 pages on another colour, etc (there are 37 pages). I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday, etc). 2. Laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it’s going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I also included an editable letter for parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli

Hello! These are some little titles I created for your students to make words into small journals. You can extend this by having students create sentences with the words, draw pictures, create other words with the rime, sort words by real words and nonsense words, ect. This works perfect for small journals for literacy centers, start of the day, ect. Students take the initial sound and match up with a rime and record if it makes a new word. I’ve made it for CVC words, blends and rimes with digraphs. If the horizontal format is too confusing, I’ve also included a vertical format. I hope you find this useful and that it saves you time and paper! A4 and US Letter versions available.

As English Coordinator of a school, I recently gave a very brief overview of phonics (a phonics refresher is what I called it). I only had about 45 minutes, so this presentation doesn't go into nearly the detail that I would like, but many staff members said it was helpful. I hope this PowerPoint can give you some information on the stages of phonics development.

This is a resource that I use with intervention groups to make sure we cover all the phases, having mini-lessons where necessary. Copy double-sided, cut and staple on the sides for instant books. I guide pupils through a couple pages at a time, only writing one word per sound (although it depends on the levels of pupils). Use it as a warm-up or however you see fit. Covers UK Phases 3-6. Hope it helps!

Seven writing prompts with word banks to support Key Stage Two learners. I created these for a writing club I used to run once a week. I found that my students needed word banks to support vocabulary development. If I create more, I'll update it here. Best, Kelli

These ‘marking ladders’ are an essential checklist tool to be glued into exercise books for writing (fiction or nonfiction). In addition, I created two levels of the checklists to differentiate for varying abilities. I have used laminated writing checklists before but it is just not as accessible and handy as these checklists that go directly into notebooks. These cut right to the necessities and also include a line for students to WRITE A PERSONAL GOAL for their writing piece. DETAILS: –for Years 5-7 UK –fiction & nonfiction –adventure –autobiography –balanced argument –biography –description –dialogue –diary –explanation –fable –fantasy –folk tale –instructions –journalistic recount –formal leaflet –legend –formal letter –myth –non-chronological report –origin/creation –persuasive advert –persuasive argument –play script –poetry –point of view –recount –science fiction

Hello! I created this for a pupil I was tutoring for the 11 Plus exam. But it can easily be used with a class/exam prep group. There are 10 words per page, written in sentences to support students deciphering words in context (10 pages in all). Definitions for the words are mixed up to the right to choose from. I have found this an extremely helpful way to expose my student to more vocabulary, connect it in context and continually revisit the words. I also write the words on coloured lolly sticks to play Boom (explained in resource). OPTIONS: Give out sheets with sentences and definition choices. Pupils write the number of definition next to vocabulary word after reading sentences (drawing lines across gets messy). More challenging: Give the sheets without the definition choices. Pupils write a simple definition next to word above sentence. Give quiz at the end of the week and/or randomly over the next few weeks/months. ANSWERS INCLUDED for you or students to use for marking I hope it helps! I will be creating more that include crosswords, so look out for that in the future. Best, Kelli

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for my students in my Year 3 Booster Group. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words highlight special sounds and break words into syllables to help the children learn the words. The words are from several sources for Year Three spellings. I have a similar resource for the National Curriculum Year 3 & 4 Words that I'll put up soon, as well as Year 5 & 6. Additionally I have a resource for Phases 2-5 for a key-ring reference. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover (2 different options) on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied the first 7-8 pages on one colour, the next 7-8 pages on another colour and the last 7-8 pages on the first colour again. I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday and the final 7-8 cards Wednesday, etc). 2. Decide if you're going to laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it's going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I also included an editable letter for parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli **UPDATED May 2017 as I noticed I left out break of syllables for the word 'answer'. Please re-download!

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for students in my Year 2 & 3 Booster Groups. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words progress through the phases in order to help the children learn the words (both reading and writing). The words are from the National Curriculum. I have a similar resource for the National Curriculum Year 3 & 4 Words that I'll put up soon, as well as Year 5 & 6. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied Phase 2 on one colour, Phase 3 on another colour, Phase 4 on another colour and finally Phase 5 on another colour. I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday, etc). 2. Decide if you're going to laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it's going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I included an editable letter for the parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli

I was the English Coordinator at a small private school for several years, teaching both Year Five and Year Six English. I found that after Christmas (and most 11+ exams), my Year Six pupils were becoming bored and disinterested in the typical English homework they had been doing for years. I wanted to find something that they would enjoy and that was also a review (since at that point I had taught my students for four terms). I came across a brilliant ‘project’ type homework where tasks were interlinked across a half-term. I can’t find the link now, but the first two I used were a ‘Mystery’ unit (the students choose an item that goes missing, describe the item, do a writing piece for the investigation, etc) and creating a class trip (students decide what the class trip will be, create advert, create information leaflet, etc). THEY LOVED IT! Each week they came back, eager to read their homework to each other and were genuinely enthusiastic about it. I was shocked! I left these homework units in Word so that you can edit it to the needs of your class. Please let me know if there is any problem with the format, as I noticed the files are in very old Word, so I hope it works! I included a document with checklists of the genres so that if you want to change out a week that has a persuasive writing piece, but diary recounts would be better suited for that week/your students, you can just cut and paste! Additionally, I added reading comprehension tasks every other week, but if want to change that to spelling, grammar, additional writing, etc: just change it! DIRECTIONS: Copy the two pages double-sided. Students can illustrate the front cover (or you can add a picture before giving out). Edit front cover for success criteria and when homework will be set and returned. Give due dates and have children write these in. Give appropriate paper needed for assignments (unless completed into exercise book) INCLUDES: -genre checklists -‘Amazon Jungle’ homework tasks -‘Restaurant’ homework tasks -‘Survivor’ homework tasks -‘Titanic’ homework tasks (or any historical event) -‘New Fish’ homework tasks (or any new species)

Hello! I made this spelling rules reference for my students in my Year 4, 5 & 6 Booster Groups. I made several sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The cards start with tricky sounds and move on to explaining spelling rules with examples (taken from National Curriculum spellings). There are 67 pages!! Additionally I have resources for Phases 2-5, National Curriculum Year 3, Years 3 & 4 and Years 5 & 6 word list on TES. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover on a separate colour. NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour! Then I copied each section on one colour, the next section on another colour, etc (there are 7 sections). I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday, etc). For some of the sections there are many example cards-don’t feel you have to use all of them! Equally if I didn’t include specific sounds that you need for your students (as in the first section which has ‘r’ words, silent ‘e’, contractions etc, then you use the parent page as a template to create your own). 2. Laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the rules mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it’s going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). I’ve had many parents tell me that they didn’t know how to help their child with the spellings before and that the cards have helped greatly. Best, Kelli

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for my students in my Year 5 & 6 Booster Group. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words highlight special sounds and break words into syllables to help the children learn the words. The words are from the National Curriculum Year 5 & 6 word list. I have a similar resource for just Year 3 & 4 spellings. Additionally I have a resource for Phases 2-5 for a key-ring reference. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover (2 different options) on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied the first 8-9 pages on one colour, the next 8-9 pages on another colour, etc (there are 32 pages). I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday, etc). 2. Laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it’s going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I also included an editable letter for parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli

WHAT’S INCLUDED: -genre posters (large and mini) -reading rockets for reading challenge -reading record cards -library labels (two different options) -reading challenge labels (genre and planet names) -zip file for A4 (UK, AU) and zip file for US Letter (US) Posters include: Biography & Autobiography, Informational & Reference, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Classic, Humour, Poetry and Traditional Tales. One of my goals this year was to encourage our students to discuss genre more frequently. I started the year with these posters to create a display board about genre and included some author info posters and photos of students holding books they enjoy, along with some written bits and pieces from pupils about books they recommend, books they want to read this year, etc. Later on, I moved these posters to my classroom and added mini-posters to our library door. Tip: print the questions/title (Which genre do you enjoy?) on coloured paper to stand out. In addition to the display boards, I organised a large portion of our library books into book baskets by genre and authors (with laminated labels). I also have my Year Five and Six pupils record books they read on a card where they have to write down what genre the books are. Additionally my Year Five reading challenge is centred around genres (rockets reading challenge: each planet represents a genre; read a book, write a book review and get genre ticked off on individual rocket). Hope you can use some/all of the resources! Kelli x