New assessment guidelines for writing 2018 English Curriculum at end of KS1 Working at Working towards Working at Greater depth Suitable for all teachers moderating English writing and making teacher judgements. Suitable to benchmark across classes and across phases. Also a suitable checklist to match against borough expectations and exemplifications. A must for moderated schools to keep evidence.

Children can use the smiley faces to give each other or themselves, a smiley, straight or sad face if they have followed the success criteria: ‘Steps To Success.&’ This helps to show the progress in lessons from good to outstanding when children can take responsibility for their own learning and suggest ways for improvement. Rotate books clockwise for peer assessment or walk around the classroom as if it were a museum in silence. stop at your friends work and read it to evaluate. V.successful in YR1 and 2.

Th is the Tear Thief Preview - A GD reading resource A Guided Reading resource for whole class teaching. Suitable for year 2, greater depth and end of KS1 moderation evidence. Pupils have to answer VIPER style questions related to the text. Please see the shop for the complete Tear Thief guided reading resource, with key questions and resources. There is a carousel guided reading planning as well as whole class approach included. Easily adaptable to the needs of your pupils and your planning process.

The Tunnel Year 2 Guided Reading Preview If you have used the Into The Forest Guided Reading Pack - Then this is the resource for you to compare stories by the same author. See Full weeks planning available in the shop. Week 1 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-by-anthony-browne-guided-reading-week-1-12050423 Week 2 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-guided-reading-anthony-browne-week-2-12052381 Suitable for year 2 for children working at the expected level and beyond. You can find further inspiration on my insta page as below. @thisisrehanafazil See you there.

**Year 2 ** Guided Reading Developing reading for deeper meaning in the classroom for all pupils (Year 2 and Year 6). This resource supports teachers how to set up guided reading in their classrooms. It offers the following Developing Lexical reading - word meanings Developing figurative language like idioms to support comprehension Using pictorial clues for context Using P 4 C to develop deeper, critical thinking. Using point, evidence and explain to promote deeper level and detailed answers from children. Quality response activity ideas after reading with the teacher Carousel reading activity suggestions Sequencing and summarizing text. Can be used to develop staff cpd or for teaches to self-reflect and promote reading for pleasure in the classroom (as well as bridging the vocabulary of disadvantaged readers). Supports current pedagogy and practice for the new national curriculum for reading. I hope you find it useful to self reflect on your practice and develop a research informed pedagogy in school. Written by SLE in English -supporting educators around the world. The ideas and suggestions are transferable across the school. This is a cover to view only. Please see the website below for the full resource. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/guided-reading-year-2-reading-for-deeper-meaning-12055146

Closing the vocabulary gap to impact reading and writing in primary schools Cover. Do you want an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for: Pedagogy and national data National Curriculum changes that demonstrate need for teaching of vocabulary Reading for meaning Reading and understanding high order vocabulary? This resource is a valuable guide and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach high order vocabulary. You will find interactive and stimulating ways to develop and enhance vocabulary through games that teach other grammar features such as:- picture word association, creative and inspirational visuals, pictures that lend themselves to inference, root words and morphology, idioms and riddles, homophones and homonyms, antonyms and synonyms verbs, nouns and past tense All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repertoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully. It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or for classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English. Please visit the website for the full 21 page resource that will impact on your whole school reading ability and also enhance writing.

Information Tex planning about Puffer Fish for Year 2 Front Cover Suitable for year 2 TAF writing objectives. Find the complete unit of work in the shop with the following; Three weeks of planning Exemplar Text for All About Puffer Fish (can be linked to under the sea or seaside topic). Focused grammar features and vocabulary in the exemplar text includes subordinating conjunctions suffix ly subheadings Varied sentences Expanded nouns Differentiated exemplar for SEN Key Vocabulary from exemplar with visual aids All About Turtles exemplar as application text Links to literacy shed under the sea short films Planning Information Text, summarising and identifying grammar features Many more resources included Follow the author on instagram for more resources @thisisrehanafazil

Traditional Story with a twist Front Cover Developing vocabulary in year 2 with the following grammar features; synonyms homophones idioms thoughts, feelings, speech and dialogue Exemplar text with a traditional story (LRRH), but re-written with a twist. This resources is to be used to encourage development of language using a variety of games, such as imitation, role play, over the fence etc. See the complete resources available in the shop. Follow the author for more updates on instagram @thisisrehanafazil

Ice Palace - Free Verse poem Front Cover Suitable for Year 3 and Year 4 Linked to the National Curriculum Writing for different purposes including poetry. Building a stamina for writing. Children will find this a fun activity describing Starjik Pupils first think of verbs for each character and then build on it e.g. for Starjik - maker, slayer, striker, snatcher, Fear instiller Grief striker Bat slayer monsterous rager tear Similarly they create a poem for Ivan by thinking of verbs first defender, defeater, grabber, risk-taker, saviour, brother Monster slayer ice cruncher wolf out-runner Pupils can write other free verse poems using figurative language including similes and metaphors for the character of the old lady

Stone Age Boy - Information Text This is a preview It links with the topic Stone Age and is relevant for Years 3 or Year 4. In the complete unit you will find; Planning unit of work for half term with differentiated resources Marking Ladder Exemplar Text Power Points included Tier 2 vocabulary SEND resources Opportunities for narrative included. Finale suggestions- Have a stone age day, make clay pots and clay tools and/or jewelery, stone age fashion show, and foraging fruit. Visit the shop for the full resource with suggestions for a stunning start day.

Year 2 Reading and Writing Poetry Preview Suitable for GD readers and promote quality reading experiences for all Expected pupils. This is a preview of resources available in the shop. It has an array of classic poetry with comprehensions. The sound collector has targeted comprehension for higher ability (working at greater depth) and then differentiated down so that all the class can access and enjoy classic poetry. Children answer literal, inference and evaluative questions about the poem. After that , they spend a day creating their own verses using similar pattern structures. There are also other many fun and enjoyable poems to learn and perform by Roger McGough, and Valerie Bloom- such as The River, and other sound poems. Children can recite these poems from memory, perform them to an audience and answer comprehension questions. Children will learn how to identify rhyming words and generate their own. They will understand language techniques used by the poet and identify the patterned structures to write their own verse in a similar style. This fun resource can also be used as a poetry unit during English main teaching or guided reading. Please see the shop for complete unit of work and planning with resources.

This document is to support teachers with feedback and marking. There is an example Powerpoint of good quality feedback and the pedagogy behind it - with children's work, next step marking, self assessment ideas and positive feedback language. There is also a bank of 'Next Step Marking' ideas that have been created to support teachers in their feedback to children that allow independence in revising their work. If marking is over explicit, then parts of the writing may be disqualified. It is highly recommended not to over mark and train children to understand teacher feedback e.g. Use varied sentences for effect on the reader/audience (means that the child has to use questions, commands, statements and exclamatory sentences). The detail in brackets is displayed in the classroom and given as verbal feedback to child. They then go away and improve their writing accordingly. This documents will give you more open bank of statements to use in your next steps (so moderators can't say the feedback was too explicit), and not use that piece of work as evidence for the child meeting the expected criteria (or above greater depth). Suitable for KS1, but can be easily adapted to Year 3 also. Hope you find it useful for your teams and use it to promote independent editing, revising and improvement of work. Linked to English 2018 TAF.

Punctuation signs with corresponding bands for each band. Includes supporting vocabulary e.g when each punctuation should be used e.g commas in a list or apostrophe for possession or apostrophe for words with contracted form. This is an excellent visual and reminder for students and will support children to work at the expected band and at greater depth in KS1 and above. Excellent way of children self assessing and or editing. Can be easily adapted to suit all key stages. Very bright and engaging resource. Useful to be laminated and arranged to look like a pyramid. Band 2 Working below: full stop at the top of pyramid. Band 2 Working At: full stop, question mark, exclamation mark and apostrophe for contraction. Band 2 Greater Depth: as above including apostrophe for possession and commas in a list.

Year 2 Writing unit The children can use this resources to research all about the London Olympic Venues and the Torch relay. Children can be given parts of the information to think of their own caption or headings. It will support them to write a non-fiction piece of writing. It can also be used as part of Geography to find out about in London. This unit was written to celebrate the arrival of the Olympics in 2012. However, it can still be used to compare changes in local area/London, how Olympics compare, or in general to read around Sports Day.

Year 2 Planning with differentiation and high order activities for literacy to support the new English curriculum. This is a suitable activity for creative writing in the traditional stories unit or as a short write for character description. Children will have the opportunity to develop and use expanded noun phrases, similes, suffixes, contractions and conjunctions to extend ideas and sentences. A good extension for year 2 is to incorporate a twist in the story and so the good characters (the three billy goats) become bad and the troll becomes good. Can be used before or after the little red riding hood unit also available by the same author on TES. There is also a grammar features success ladder included. It is designed for children to be able to self assess and peer assess when editing, and up-level their own work to meet the expected standards. Suitable for year 2 to achieve 'at' and beyond - Greater Depth standard in writing.

Africa Topic Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters- A play script about an African Tale. Are you learning about Africa? Have you focused on learning a text in a different cultural setting? If so, this is the perfect and inspirational play script for you. It includes parts for 120 (a four form entry school), although this can be easily adapted, altered and edited. The resource includes relevant songs within an African setting including popular and contemporary songs that will add and enliven the show. These have been carefully selected according to the theme in each scene e.g envy, jealousy, beauty, king’s procession etc. There are clear guidance for props, staging and costumes that may be suitable for parents/carers or teachers to provide. These include pots, masks, drapes, spears, shields, plants and thrones. Hope this is useful and many thanks for purchasing this resource. Was used for end of key stage 1. However, it can also be used for any other year groups studying Africa.

Introducing cursive writing to years 1 and 2. By the end of the key stage children should be using a consistent legible cursive handwriting style to achieve greater depth. This resource is a good aid for classrooms to support teachers and pupils to remember the joins, and which letters to leave unjoined. The resource is useful for classroom and table top display. It can also be used to introduce all the joins correctly. In year 1 children should be reminded to form each letter correctly, with spacing and correct size. Year 2 should begin to join consistently.

This is an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for: Pedagogy and national data Reading for meaning Reading and understanding high order vocabulary Whole class Inset and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach vocabulary through games picture word association, creative and inspirational visuals, pictures that lend themselves to inference, root words and morphology, idioms and riddles, homophones and homonyms, antonyms and synonyms verbs, nouns and past tense All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repetoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully. It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English.

Activities suitable for Year 2 and Year 3. Grammar features to suit the new curriculum have been included such as using expanded noun phrases, suffix endings- ier, subordinating conjunction 'if'. This is a 31 page powerpoint with lots of ideas about how to write a poem, character description, use grammar features and include cross curricular links like Art. There are good examples given for each activity and differentiation has been explicitly shown for LA and SEN to access the poem and grammar sentence level work. This will be an excellent resource to compare.books by the same author - Dahl .

Instructional writing about how to grow peas -differentiated for working below, working at and working at greater depth. Good examples of all grammar features included, such as varied sentence types, and varied punctuation. Can be used for cross -curricular work in science topic or as an additional text type to teach the features of instructional writing to children during guided reading. The instructions have been organised into paragraphs with visuals and differentiated for learners. There are also comprehension questions attached so that children can demonstrate greater understanding of the text.