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Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.

Hi, welcome to my shop. I have been a primary teacher for 34 years and have a wide range of experience in different roles. I have been a senior leader in schools and most recently a SENDCO for 10 years. I am posting resources that I think will be helpful for SENDCOs, class teachers or even parents and home educators. I am new to this - so please do send reviews to help me improve - or requests if there is something you think I might be able to create that you would find helpful.
Precision Teaching for Reading Booklet A - Year 1 CEW
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Precision Teaching for Reading Booklet A - Year 1 CEW

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading Year 1 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 or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use 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 for Reading Booklet C - Year 3/4 words part 1
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Precision Teaching for Reading Booklet C - Year 3/4 words part 1

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on reading half of the Year 3 and 4 spelling 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 or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use 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.
Daily Reading Intervention Pack
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Daily Reading Intervention Pack

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Everything you need to set up daily reading as a formal intervention for students in your class or school who are early readers. This pack includes: • A training presentation that you can share with adults supporting early readers to ensure that they are well prepared. • A detailed guide that you can give to adults hearing children read daily to help them support the development of decoding, fluency and comprehension skills. • A simple record keeping sheet that adults supporting early readers daily can complete – with an example of how this might be filled in. • A choice of assessments that you can use to measure impact, particularly on decoding ability. Check these pre and post a period of structured daily reading to see how much progress has been made. • An evaluation form that can be used at the end of the programme to summarise information and make recommendations about whether ongoing support is needed. I have used this approach across the school as SENDCO to help ensure that early readers are getting regular and well-structured support that they need to make progress. It also allowed me to see where daily reading support was not providing enough support and further assessment and intervention might be needed.
Precision Teaching Page Maker - read and spell key words
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Precision Teaching Page Maker - read and spell key words

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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.
Precision teaching for reading - intervention plan
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Precision teaching for reading - intervention plan

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Precision teaching is often recommended as a strategy to assist students in learning to recall or decode reading words with automaticity or fluency. Educational psychologists will sometimes suggest this approach for students with a dyslexic profile who need to use 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 spelling words for Key Stage 2 as students will need to be able to read words that they learn to spell. 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.
Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -infant
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Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -infant

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to read key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and reading of these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW
Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -primary
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Precision Teaching for Reading Bundle -primary

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to read key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and reading of these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets (labelled A to F so they can be used with students of any age) cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW C - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 1 D - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 2 E - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 1 F - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 2
Precision Teaching for Spelling Intervention Plan
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Intervention Plan

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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.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet B -Year 2 CEW
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet B -Year 2 CEW

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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 for Spelling Booklet A-Year 1 CEW
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet A-Year 1 CEW

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling Year 1 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 for Spelling Booklet D - Year 3/4 words part 2
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet D - Year 3/4 words part 2

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling the other half of the Year 3 and 4 National Curriculum spelling 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 for Spelling Booklet F -Year 5/6 words part 2
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet F -Year 5/6 words part 2

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling the other half of the Year 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling 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 for Spelling Booklet C -Year 3/4 words part 1
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet C -Year 3/4 words part 1

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling half of the Year 3 and 4 National Curriculum spelling 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 for Spelling Booklet E -Year 5/6 words part 1
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Booklet E -Year 5/6 words part 1

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This booklet is a pre- prepared resource to support work on spelling half of the Year 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling 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.
Recall and Retrieval Activity Bank
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Recall and Retrieval Activity Bank

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This resource is a bank of 10 different recall activities. Use these to add some variety to the way you ask students to activate memory and prior learning at the start of lessons. As well as a large copy of each activity that can be displayed on a board at the start of a lesson – there are pages with multiple smaller copies that can be printed to use in student’s books to record their learning. Most are generic enough to use in almost any subject – but there are enough to allow you to pick the one that best fits the lesson that you are planning. Inspired by reading of the work of writers such as Kate Jones – these were designed for Key Stage Two use but would also be appropriate at secondary.
Phonics Interactive Activity 1 - satpin
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Phonics Interactive Activity 1 - satpin

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An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned. They are presented with visual multiple-choice options that they can select using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses. This presentation covers the initial sounds students learn – satpin. It has 2 levels of challenge within the presentation. The first set of slides gives students 2 choices and from slide 20 there are 3 options to choose from. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the sound for the letter/ grapheme and say the options for the student where the activity is being used for teaching. Where it might be used to assess what has been retained – the adult might not voice the sound but voicing the options for the student. Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats.
Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle - infant
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle - infant

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to spell key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and knowledge of how to spell these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW
Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle -primary
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Precision Teaching for Spelling Bundle -primary

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Everything you need to use the precision teaching approach for interventions to support students to learn to spell key vocab from the English National Curriculum. Planning shows how to build student recall and knowledge of how to spell these key words in sessions lasting just 10 minutes a day. Booklets (labelled A to F so they can be used with students of any age) cover: A- Year 1 CEW B - Year 2 CEW C - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 1 D - Year 3/4 spelling words - part 2 E - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 1 F - Year 5/6 spelling words - part 2
Phonics Interactive Activity for CVC words
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Phonics Interactive Activity for CVC words

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An accessible way for students to show the phonics knowledge they have learned and begin to engage with blending sounds together into cvc words. They are presented with visual cue and then two written options that they can select from using computer/laptop, touch screen or adapted input device. The written words have sound buttons underneath to use as a teaching aid. The presentation gives the student instant feedback and prompts them to retry any incorrect responses. This presentation has 5 sections – one for each vowel as a medial sound and there are 6 items in each section giving 30 cvc words to work on overall. Students could work on just one section or complete the whole activity. The activity could be done independently. It can also be done with a supportive adult voicing elements for the student. I recommend voicing the visual cue and then either the student reads the written choices – or if an adult is voicing them to do so as separate sounds that the student then blends to say or know the word. Whilst this was designed with making phonics accessible for SEND students in mind – it can also be used with any student learning phonics who engages well with interactive formats. It would also make a game that can be used in group or class sessions.
Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Cross Curricular Texts
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Structure Strips: Writing Scaffolds for Cross Curricular Texts

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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.