Engaging, structured English resources.
My lessons are designed to support all learners — including those with SEND — through clear routines, rich vocabulary, and purposeful tasks that build confidence and real progress. Ready to teach. Easy to adapt. Focused on growth.
Engaging, structured English resources.
My lessons are designed to support all learners — including those with SEND — through clear routines, rich vocabulary, and purposeful tasks that build confidence and real progress. Ready to teach. Easy to adapt. Focused on growth.
The Identity Project is an ideal way to start the school year and get to know your students.
It fosters self-expression, improves writing, promotes critical thinking, and encourages inclusivity.
By using WAGOLLs and WABOLLs, students learn from both good and not-so-good examples, enhancing their understanding and confidence.
This project equips students with communication skills and self-awareness for diverse situations.
This comprehensive literacy development toolkit has been designed for 11-15-year-olds and comprises of three crucial components: English Skills Baseline for Grammar, Writing, and Punctuation, a Sequential Teaching Approach, and a Pupil Progress Tracker. With this toolkit, teachers can aid students in developing and improving their language skills in a structured and organized manner. The sequential teaching approach ensures that students learn skills in a logical and incremental way, while the pupil progress tracker helps teachers monitor students’ progress and adjust their teaching strategies accordingly. This resource is a must-have for any teacher looking to enhance their students’ literacy skills.
Looking to streamline assessments in your school? Our pupil progress tracker is a powerful tool to help you do just that! Not only does it allow you to easily monitor your students’ progress, but it also highlights areas where targeted support may be needed. Record your children’s levels and use the colour-coded system to quickly identify which areas require attention. This valuable resource can help you plan your interventions more effectively and ensure that all your pupils are getting the support they need to thrive.
To ensure comprehensive tracking of students’ literacy skills, our assessment plan is divided into three sections.
The first section is based on the results of the literacy baseline test.
The second section is designed to monitor in-class understanding.
The final section is a reassessment at the end of the scheme of work to measure students’ progress.
This allows for a comprehensive evaluation of each student’s literacy skills, ensuring that they are on track and receiving the support they need to succeed.
The pupil progress tracking document allows you to track progress on various topics that are essential for effective literacy teaching. The following topics are included:
Nouns
Fronted Adverbials
Simile and Metaphor
Colons and Semicolons
Concrete, Abstract, and Compound Nouns
Synonyms and Antonyms
Alliteration and Assonance
Structuring and Organising Creative Writing
Personification and Oxymoron
Expanded Noun Phrases
Writing about Emotions
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Homophones
Capturing the Reader’s Attention
Adjectives
Noun Types and Modifiers
Verbs and Adverbs
Apostrophes and Inverted Commas
Collective and Plural Nouns
Ellipses, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks
Sentence Openers
Overall, the pupil progress tracking document covers a wide range of topics, offering guidance and support to teachers in their efforts to improve their students’ literacy skills.
Literacy Teaching Order
Are you looking to enhance your students’ literacy skills? Look no further than our comprehensive teaching resource on sequential language skills! Our approach is specifically tailored to students aged 11-15 and provides a structured and sequential approach to teaching literacy.
By providing a sequential approach to teaching language skills, our resource ensures that students have a strong foundation in the basic building blocks of language and can progress to more complex skills as they gain mastery. With our resource, educators can help their students develop the skills needed to communicate effectively and confidently in written language.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RESOURCE DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY LESSONS BUT IS A SPECIFIC ORDER TO TEACH LITERACY TO 11-15 YEAR OLDS.
There are 19 topics included in the sequence. They are as follows (in a mixed up order):
Expanding noun phrases
Personification and oxymorons
Sentence openers
Synonyms and antonyms
Apostrophes and commas
Homophones
Verbs and Adverbs
Fronted adverbials:
Alliteration
Similes and metaphors
Structuring and organising creative writing
Nouns
Concrete, abstract, and compound nouns:
Ellipses, question marks, and exclamation marks
Collective and plural nouns
Adjectives
Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Colons and semicolons
Parenthesis
Fifty-one multiple choice questions and one writing task designed to give you valuable insights into your students’ language abilities.
This test covers a range of topics including:
Basic Language Skills: This section assesses the students’ knowledge of the English language by testing their understanding of the alphabet, adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, and connectives.
Sentence Structure Identification: This section tests the students’ ability to identify different types of sentences, including simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Noun Types and Modifiers: This section tests the students’ ability to identify collective nouns, plural nouns, fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, concrete nouns, and abstract nouns.
Figurative Language
This section tests the student’s understanding of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, oxymorons, descriptive language, sensory details, alliteration, and assonance.
Punctuation Usage: This section tests the students’ knowledge of common punctuation symbols, such as full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, quotation marks, and apostrophes.
Creative Writing Techniques: This section assesses the students’ ability to structure and organise their creative writing, as well as their ability to use different writing techniques to capture the reader’s attention.
Reading Comprehension
This section of the test helps you assess a student’s reading comprehension abilities. It can also help you to identify if your students may need additional support or instruction in this area. Additionally, this exercise can help you to gauge how well your students are able to extract and comprehend information from written material, which is an essential skill in many academic areas.
Creative Writing
This section is designed to help you assess your student’s ability to communicate their ideas in a clear and organised manner, their ability to engage and maintain the interest of the reader, and their ability to use appropriate grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. This information can help the you tailor your instruction to meet the needs of individual students and to help them improve their writing skills.
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Not only will this test help you identify areas where your students need additional support, but it also comes with a mark scheme that includes low, mid, and high-ability example answers for the writing section. This makes it easy for you to quickly evaluate your students’ work and track their progress over time.