This is a powerpoint and various worksheets to practise and overlearn the different sounds that the combination of -ough can be used to present

Suitable for low ability groups, includes sentence starters and picture prompts. Useful revision aid

This is a comprehensive set of worksheets which accompanies this book by Michael Morpurgo about WW2 from the perspective of a family who were living in Dresden during the bombing by the Allies. Not entirely comprehensive as I've only done the first half of the book so far. But if you are interested I will post the rest when it's completed

These worksheets support individual or whole class reading of the excellent and very moving story about the life of a greyhound.

This is a simple ,if somewhat contrived, story using as many of the 100 HFW as I could muster. it can be used to read the words in context or dicate a paragraph at a time to test use of words within a sentence. I find students can spell the words correctly as the 100HFW list but frequently mispell them in context.

A range of questions from basic retrieval through to more complex interpretation and understanding of vocabulary.

A comic strip version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Suitable for late KS2 and early KS3 to support understanding of the plot. To write their own version of the story. To re-write script for key scenes. To create speech bubbles for key quotations or tweets for key scenes… or any other ideas that spring to mind.

This is a Storyboard That version of An Inspector Calls which can be used as a revision of the basic plot and key characters. It could be used as a revision task to add key quotations to learn/revise. Or to analyse what is happening in each frame . The possibilities are up to you and the needs/abilities of your group.

Target : year 4-5 students of low/ average ability to test the understanding of text and use of vocabulary

Upper KS2. Guided reading tasks/ homework activities for use with this classic text by Michael Morpurgo. covers 90% of the text from pages 45 - end in 15 sections available as A4 worksheets with lines for answers and coloured photos

A homework or classroom resource to use alongside the text of Billionaire Boy to check understanding and vocabulary. Suitable for years 5-6. Low/average ability

A worksheet based topic for LAPs and MAPs (3,4,5) to work individually on understanding the plot and the Gothic use of language in the final chapter of the book. The resource is divided into two sections , approximately as the two halves of the chapter, and the first section has 20 questions and the second has 26. The text has been re-written so that the more convoluted passages have been summarised in fairly straight forward language but parts of Stevenson’s original have been included for language analysis questions. The two text types are differentiated by the use of different fonts and bold,italics for the original text. The questions are also identified by (PEE) if the answer requires textual evidence or in other cases they are comprehension questions to understand the plot. Students were able to read through the text and work at their own pace with teacher support as needed.

A PowerPoint introduction to The Poison Tree by William Blake. This is aimed for the lower attaining students in KS4 who are studying the Conflict poems from the Edexcel anthology. The power point introduces the context of the poem with 5 simple questions to check understanding. The next 4 slides are annotated verses with supporting images and finally there are 15 more questions to test the students understanding of the annotations. The powerpoint is a self-contained activity to familiarise students with the poem that they can do at home as part of their on-line learning and preparation for English Literature GCSE.

These are printable worksheets with colour pictures of the characters from the television adaptation and lines to write responses. Questions vary from basic information retrieval to higher level inference and interpretation questions.

KS1 students or KS2 students who are struggling to master spellings

This work is for children at upper end of KS2 who struggle with spellings. it is revision for the difficult and often confusing use of the letter y to represent different sounds in many words.

A powerpoint with pictures to reinforce use of -ow phoneme in words that rhyme with cow and those that rhyme with crow. Accompanied by a short story to highlight the -ow phoneme and a second version for gaps to complete for homework or as a dictation test.

This is a power point to support VAK learning of the two main ways that -ow grapheme is used in English language with worksheets to highlight the words and spell some/or all of them

A spelling presentation with pictures to learn how to spell words with -or phoneme and worksheets to over learn the spellings.

A PowerPoint with worksheets to practise the spelling of words using the aw phoneme through watching a powerpoint and reinforced with matching worksheets