These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write each non-fiction text type. The give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. The text types included are: Recount/Diary News report Instructions Biography Persuasive argument Balanced argument Explanation Report If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues as images have been included to give some limited dual coding to help student understand what is required. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.

A pack to support the use of this picture book to study Remembrance Day with primary age children from Year 2/3. Please note this pack does not contain a copy of the text but has a link to buy it from Amazon. It is a beautifully illustrated book that warrants sharing with students. Includes comprehension, vocabulary, and retelling activities as well as craft tasks. Contents: • Cover study activity. • Recall and retrieval comprehension – in two versions for sentence answers or with multiple choice options. • Inference and prediction questions. • Vocabulary activities – at two levels for the same words from the text, one including visuals to support students. • Retelling as a story board activity – at two levels, one including sentences to scaffold. • Two poppy craft activities – make a wreath and make your own poppy. • PSHE and design activity to create medals for people it is important to remember and thank in your own life.

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. This pack contains materials to support using one advert to review students’ comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. This pack contains: • Comprehension task • Retrieval comprehension task • Response comprehension task • Vocabulary task • Diary writing activity If you would like similar activities for other Christmas adverts as well - do look at the booklet in my shop which has activities for 5 adverts including this one. You can see it at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-advert-comprehension-vocab-and-writing-pack-12946279

A pack to support the use of this picture book with primary age children – the main pack is aimed at students in Year 2/3 but it includes 4 additional activities to use with older students in Key Stage 2. Please note this pack does not contain a copy of the text but has a link to buy it from the publisher or Amazon. It is a beautifully illustrated book that warrants sharing with students. Includes comprehension, vocabulary, and retelling activities as well as craft tasks. Contents: • Cover study activity. • Recall and retrieval comprehension – in two versions for sentence answers or with multiple choice options. • Inference and prediction questions. • Vocabulary activities – at two levels for the same words from the text, one including visuals to support students. • Retelling as a story board activity – at two levels, one including sentences to scaffold. • Christmas activities – design a stained-glass window and make a Christmas star . • PSHE and design activity to think about the difference between needs and wants, noting the key things that the family in the story might need. • For older students, you will find an activity relating to the work of War Child (the charity that is supported by sales of the book), an activity relating to right respecting PSHE knowledge, a retelling in a journalistic style activity and a detailed vocabulary study based on the title of the book.

This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of spelling words for year 3 and 4 as well as short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.

This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of common exception words (CEW) for key stage one and short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.

Ever wished that students were looking at a plan as they wrote their story to help keep them on track. This structure strip will give them a ‘story mountain’ style structure to follow. These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write. They give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.

This printable workbook provides 8 sessions of scaffolded handwriting activities – there are two sessions for each of the 4 main letter formation groups. The letter formation groups covered are those that start with: • Curly shapes • Straight line shapes • Down, up and over shapes • Zigzag shapes Each session also applies the letter formation work to cursive writing of spelling words for year 5 and 6 as well as short sentences. The workbooks also include a self-assessment at the start and end. The workbook was designed for use in a handwriting intervention group which might be delivered by teaching assistant or appropriate volunteer adult.

This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling Year 2 common exception words. It can be used with the plan for delivering precision teaching as an intervention. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.

Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words. This plan supports the delivery of precision teaching as an intervention with small sets of words over 5 days each. It can be used with the booklets which have been created for the Key Stage 1 common exception words and the National Curriculum spelling words for Key Stage 2. The booklets have been labelled A to F so that they can be sensitively used with students of any age as appropriate. The sessions should be engaging, and progress is measured so that it can be celebrated as well as tracked. This is a one-to-one intervention and should be able to be delivered in 10 minutes per day. Options and advice is given to adapt the programme for individual student needs.

These structure strips are designed to be stuck on the left-hand side of a student’s page to provide a clear guide as they write. They give a guide to the paragraph structure of the text and what to write in each paragraph. They can be used to help students generate a plan as well as to support them when they write the final text. The text types included are: Science Investigation Report Famous Scientist Report Geography Country Report Geography Process Explanation History Event Report History Significant Person Report Art Famous Artist Report Music Famous Composition Report If used in an I do, We do, You do writing progression – these can scaffold the process for students. Not having to remember what to include, can free up working memory for a greater sentence and word level focus during the writing process. They are available in PDF format to avoid formatting issues as images have been included to give some limited dual coding to help student understand what is required. There are 3 of each strip on a page to allow for quick copying of them if being used for class support.

There is a well-established tradition in primary schools of using Christmas adverts as a context for literacy work. Christmas adverts provide an accessible way for students to review and demonstrate literacy skills as most students can access the text. They are also motivating as students often recognise them – which is why one of this year’s Christmas adverts has been included in the pack. This pack contains materials to support using 5 different adverts to review student’s comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills at the end of the autumn term, giving them an opportunity to apply all they have learned since the start of the year. For each of the adverts you will have: • Comprehension questions appropriate for students at 3 different levels – with answers at the end of the pack • A vocabulary development activity • A follow up writing activity. Text types covered include narrative, letter, diary, instructions, and review. Activities are provided in a range of formats to allow them to be adapted and appropriate for a range of students. The selected adverts included are: John Lewis – Bear and Hare 2013 Sainsburys – Christmas Truce 2014 Sainsburys – Mog’s Christmas Calamity 2015 John Lewis – Edgar the Excitable Dragon 2019 Lidl – Find the way back home 2023

These comic strips are designed to provide a scaffold for developing the speech and language skills needed for some of the conversations that students often need to take part in at school. There are lots of resources out there for general conversation skills about general topics but not often it can be those everyday conversations with friends and staff at school that it would help to work on. Situations covered include: • Morning greeting. • Difficult playtimes. • Planning a task with a peer. • Sharing news with an adult. • Asking to join a game or activity. • Asking for help with learning. • When I am not happy with a friend. • When I have done something wrong. There are also 2 blanks so that students can develop their own scenarios relevant to their experience. In each strip, it was planned that the student in the striped shirt would be the focus student – there are some strips with a peer and others with an adult to work on developing skills for talking with both. Students benefit from role playing the scenarios using the comic strip as a scaffold or basis for a script. At the end of the pack there is also a poster to remind students of the features of good conversation skills.

This set of planning has been written to go with the handwriting workbooks. It includes warm up activities, strength building exercises and games that will support the development of handwriting as well as make sessions engaging and fun. It is designed to be supportive for a teaching assistant or appropriate adult who has been asked to deliver a handwriting intervention. There is planning for 10 sessions which could be delivered once a week over the course of a term – or twice a week to complete the programme within a half term.

This is an Excel spreadsheet that has been set up so that the first two pages will allow you to create your own precision teaching pages for sets of 5 or 10 words by just inputting each word once in the top row. The following pages have all the word lists from the English National Curriculum. The common exception words for Year 1 and 2 are listed. The Year 3 and 4 words have been split into two lists – so they can be used across the year groups – as have the Year 5 and 6 words. This will allow you to create personalised precision teaching pages for students who might need a mixture of words from different lists – or just to work on a small number that they have not already learned. Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to read key words or recall spellings with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use long term memory to support their phonological processing. Study of the words should be done in line with a school’s phonics scheme approach to tricky or exception words.

This worksheet asks students to think of the impact different books or stories have had on them. They are asked to think of stories that have made them happy, sad, laugh and curious They could draw or write in response. It is designed to be a quicker activity for perhaps registration time on World Book Day - or for younger students. There is a more complex version with 9 responses in my shop if you are working with older students or want a longer task.

A printable booklet to review pupil understanding of a range of words selected from key vocab lists for maths, science, history, geography, music, art, DT and computing. 24 words have been selected that drawn from a range of curriculum subjects. There is a Frayer model diagram for students to complete to explore the meaning of each word. Additionally, there is a challenge to think about how each word can be used in creative and narrative writing contexts with an example given for each to scaffold ideas. Student can do them over any time scale – but as a word of the week will be able to complete them all before the end of the school year if they start them in January 2024 in class or as a home learning activity.