Here to provide some handy resources to help with the huge amount of time that planning takes up. A variety of resources for literacy, library, English and Classics teaching.
Teacher of English and Classics for 17 years with plenty of experience in secondary schools.
Whole school Literacy co-ordination in 5 schools.
If you are looking for something particular, please let me know and I will see if I can help you out.
Here to provide some handy resources to help with the huge amount of time that planning takes up. A variety of resources for literacy, library, English and Classics teaching.
Teacher of English and Classics for 17 years with plenty of experience in secondary schools.
Whole school Literacy co-ordination in 5 schools.
If you are looking for something particular, please let me know and I will see if I can help you out.
A fun resources with activities such as word classification matching and bingo. Used as a revision for KS3 or KS2 pupils.
There is also a focus on the impact of word choices at the end where the pupils look at verbs in an extract
This is one example of a number of lessons that I have which are called ‘Literacy Focus’ I have this on for free, please do purchase the others in this series for £1 if they work for your class.
KS3 core spelling booklet for prep for the year/ to use in class.
The booklet goes through tricky spelling rule plus a number of other core spellings from across the curriculum:
Part 1
List 1: ie/ei 3
List 2: s/c/sc/cc/xc 4
List 3: g/ge/dge 6
List 4 and 5: Double letters 7
List 6: Suffix -ing/-ed 9
List 7: Suffix -ous/-eous/-ious 10
List 8: Suffix -ence/-ance 11
List 9: Suffix -ent/-ant 12
List 9 (cont): Suffix -tion/-cion/-sion 12
List 10: Suffix -ly/-ally 13
List 10: Suffix -ful/-fil 14
Lists 11 and 12: Words that look or sound similar 15
List 13: Other common misspellings 16
Example sentences 18
About this booklet
Part 1 lists all the words you are required to know, organised by spelling rule. Begin by rating your confidence on each spelling by ticking the appropriate box. This will help you identify the spelling rules you most need to focus on.
You will see on your prep timetable that there is a fortnightly slot for literacy. Your teacher will tell you which lists to learn ahead of a ten-question quiz the following literacy lesson.
You may also like to refer to Part 2 of this booklet to see each word used in a sentence.
E.G. page 1 without practise grid
List 1: ie/ei
Rule: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
Not confident Moderately confident Very confident
achieve
believe
chief
friend
hierarchy
hygiene
medieval
mischievous
perceive
piece
receipt
receive
siege
Rule breakers:
Not confident Moderately confident Very confident
foreign
height
leisure
neighbour
seize
weird
A booklet created for prep/ homework to improve cross curricula Literacy. One year worth of prep.
Key words provided by Head of Departments across subjects. Meant to be used weekly throughout the year. Pupils to find definitions and write them down with tests the next week and area to record their scores.
Extra vocabulary lists at back for stretch and challenge.
We have been using this successful for three years.