Room 13: Highly differentiated Workbook for learners with low-level literacy

Designed for use with students in Y7 whose reading ages range between 7 and 10 years, a highly differentiated workbook of activities providing pupils with opportunities to develop and demonstrate their reading comprehension skills and subject knowledge.

Activities include:

* Cloze exercise summary tasks
* Extension activities with sentence stems to support independent writing
* sequencing activities to demonstrate an understanding of narrative structure, introducing key terminology in readiness for GCSE English Language
* independent research task with prompts to scaffold
* scriptwriting the dialogue which evidently takes place in the 'Missing Chapter', Chapter 13, teaching or consolidating conventions
* AQA-style Language Paper 1 tasks on Qs 1 to 3, based on an excerpt from Stoker's 'Dracula' (adapted)
* homophone activity arising organically out of the narrative in Chapter 25
* AQA-style Language Paper 1 tasks on Qs 1 to 3, using the climactic episode from the novel in Ch 27
* Post-reading book cover design task, with model and template

Aswell as the 37 page pupil workbook, I have produced a set of SMART Notebook slides which replicate the workbook to support whole-class, interactive teaching of the resource.

I hope that this resource is of use to colleagues who are teaching children with low-level literacy, providing an appropriate level of challenge and an appropriate point of access to build pupils' confidence and enjoyment of reading, promoting rapid and sustained progress.

Matt :)