After a big success last year I am sharing my GCSE Speaking Toolkit. This Powerpoint contains an introduction to the WJEC Unit 1 speaking exam, working memory and six functional chunks along with usability conditions, worked examples, translations, valid alternatives and what the chunk seeks to achieve (references to the past, present, future, subjunctive, easy idioms etc). I made this due to post-mock analysis revealing a lack of complex structures and now introduce it early in the GCSE. This year I have added some AI suggestions which students may add to the original six.

ll the literacy progression documents, 12 strands from the New Primary Framework, VCOP, RUCSAC, reading, writing, speaking and listening assessment. Topcis also included are: assessment.

This resource focuses on the language technique emotive language. The worksheet begins with an information box which explains the technique, gives an example and explains its effect. This is followed by a range of activities which build in complexity through the two-page worksheet. Activities include identifying emotive words in a range of examples, finding emotive nouns, verbs and adjectives for particular emotions and analysing emotive language in a speech extract. The PowerPoint is designed to accompany the worksheet and includes sample answers for a number of the worksheet tasks. This resource is suitable for a high school audience. The worksheet is included in both Word and pdf formats to ensure no loss of detail. This ‘techniques toolkit’ resource is part of a set on language features and techniques in English. Check out these other techniques toolkit resources: Allusion | Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance | Emotive Language | Euphemism | Focalisation (Point of View) | Iambic Pentameter | Imagery | Irony | Juxtaposition | Metaphor | Modality | Personification | Symbolism | Tone and Mood

A maths resource for progression of classroom displays, RUCSAC prompt, operation prompts, vocabulary glossary etc….. Topics also included: classroom display.

This resource focuses on the language technique iambic pentameter. The worksheet begins with an information box which explains the technique, gives an example and explains its effect. This is followed by a range of activities which build in complexity through the three-page worksheet. Activities include identifying whether particular examples are written in iambic pentameter, labelling examples using the slash/breve annotation method (˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /) and discussing the reasons for and effects of verse written in, and not written in, iambic pentameter. The PowerPoint is designed to accompany the worksheet and includes sample answers for a number of the worksheet tasks including worked annotations, and suggestions for a further video to deepen student understanding of the technique. This resource is suitable for a high school audience. The worksheet is included in both Word and pdf formats to ensure no loss of detail. Image credit: Tool icon made by Good Ware from Flaticon and used under licence. This ‘techniques toolkit’ resource is part of a set on language features and techniques in English. Check out these other techniques toolkit resources: Allusion | Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance | Emotive Language | Euphemism | Focalisation (Point of View) | Iambic Pentameter | Imagery | Irony | Juxtaposition | Metaphor | Modality | Personification | Symbolism | Tone and Mood

This toolkit has been designed for busy RE Teachers to plan an exciting unit of work exploring Religion and the Environment. Interleaving learning between RE, Geography and Science, the resource asks learners to consider “Should followers of religions and worldviews take special care of the environment?” The toolkit contains a menu of options to help you deliver a unit of work including; A fully planned introductory lesson Starter, main and plenary activities Current case studies and news stories to engage your students Bespoke films interviewing representatives from different religions and worldviews Religion and worldview fact sheet resources, useful for other topics too " The toolkit was perfect for our Year 8s it was very useful as is packed with content and activities that are relevant and allow students to demonstrate what they know about ecology and RE" Head of RE Stratford School Academy. This toolkit provides resources that will help students to explore the following questions: What do religions and worldviews teach about ecology? How does a religion or philosophy impact lifestyles? How do we know what the right moral action is in a situation? Do followers of religions and worldviews have a duty to campaign on environmental issues?

Dyslexia toolkit aims to help subject teachers, form tutors and teaching assistants to support dyslexic students in the mainstream classroom at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Whatever your role in supporting students with dyslexia, this toolkit will give you understanding, tangible ideas and practical strategies to enable young people to realise their full potential. What’s included? This 56-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dyslexia and how to identify it in the classroom a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings advice on avoiding sensory overload games to develop learners’ short-term and working memory templates for sentence starters, task maps and writing planners to reduce the load on learners’ working memory guidance on chunking tasks into manageable steps to help students to process information dyslexia strategies for reading writing strategies for students with dyslexia information about the link between a weak working memory and spelling difficulties, plus dyslexia spelling strategies strategies for supporting students with dyslexia in the maths classroom top tips on harnessing dyslexic strengths such as empathy and problem solving How does it support dyslexic students? Dyslexia toolkit offers dyslexia-friendly strategies that can be used with the whole class so that neurodivergent learners are not put on the spot. There are also approaches that can be carried out in small groups, and suggestions for how dyslexic students can support their classmates, fostering a supportive learning environment and helping young people to feel empowered. Information and activities are provided to raise awareness of what it feels like to have dyslexia, and ways are suggested of playing to dyslexic learners’ strengths. The toolkit includes tick lists for learners to articulate their own areas of challenge and learning preferences, and it provides printable resources to help students to plan written tasks. There is also a step-by-step guide for students to reading for comprehension and an overview of pros and cons of assistive technology such as electronic readers. About the writer Dyslexia toolkit was written by Dr Helen Ross, a leading voice on dyslexia within UK education. She is an experienced public speaker, international consultant and researcher, and contributor to a wide range of publications; Helen is also dyslexic. She supports families, teachers and organisations to better understand the implications of dyslexia, neurodiversity and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this toolkit, Helen draws on her experiences as a classroom teacher, SENDCo and dyslexia expert to help you to understand what dyslexia is, which aspects of learning can be affected by dyslexia and what you can do to support dyslexic learners.

This toolkit provides information on how to support the needs of pupils with SEN/EHCPs in the classroom as part of a quality first teaching approach. Each section links to one of the four broad areas of need. You will find: Cognition & learning • Categories of potential difficulty within that need. -Memory -Task Organisation, Maintenance and Completion Skills -Concentration -Transferring/Generalising Learning -Time Management -Self-Assessment Skills -Information Processing -Letter and/or Number Recognition and Recording -Phonic Application -Spelling:High Frequency Words and Phonetically Irregular Words -Reading Accuracy -Reading Comprehension -Learning and Application of Number Facts -Organising Ideas for Writing -Developing Writing (Letter Formation) • What that area of difficulty might look like in the classroom. • Supportive quality first teaching strategies that will offer support. Each list of ‘What it might look like?’ and ‘Supportive Quality First Teaching Strategies’ are not exhaustive but may provide a useful starting point to help you help your pupils access learning. At the end of each section are resources linked to some of the strategies. The Toolkit can be edited and new needs and provisions can be added to meet the needs of your students.

An A4 double sided booklet I created in Google Slides, using symbols from thenounproject.com, with key vocabulary for new learners of English.

A Maths toolkit to support your pupils in Numeracy and Maths. Simply print, laminate and bind, or place inside plastic wallets, which allow for concrete resources and whiteboard pens to be used on them. Easy to add to group tables or working walls. Toolkit includes: ten frame blank number line part-part-whole model part-part-part-whole model blank bar model place value charts - up to hundreds of thousands place value charts for decimals (up to 3 decimal places) squared working out space plain working out space

Our EAL toolkit is designed for teachers and teaching assistants who don’t have a background in teaching English as an additional language to support EAL students in mainstream classrooms at key stage 3 and key stage 4. What’s included? The 74-page toolkit includes: general classroom strategies to support EAL learners an outline of the challenges faced by international new arrivals fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners printable EAL support resources and EAL displays for classrooms a CPD PowerPoint for staff training and meetings a glossary of English language teaching terminology a list of EAL websites for teachers with links to EAL assessment materials. This EAL toolkit will be invaluable for subject teachers, form tutors, heads of year and SENCos who wish to develop their understanding of the learning approaches you can use to support EAL pupils. How does it support EAL learners? The toolkit recommends general classroom strategies to support EAL learners, such as setting up a buddy system with a student who speaks the same home language. It also includes fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas, such as games, songs and role-plays, helping EAL students to feel less anxious about taking part in whole-class activities. It suggests EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners, such as labelling images and diagrams, and for those who have a more advanced level, such as adding complexity to sentences. It includes printable EAL classroom resources, such as an alphabet letters mat, phonics mats, word mats, flashcards, sentence builders and writing frames that can also be used as templates for you to make your own, along with printable EAL support resources that could also be used as EAL displays for classrooms, such as an irregular verbs list, a tenses table, a list of easily confused words or homophones, a list of prefixes and suffixes and a list of common verbs used in academic writing. It demonstrates how to adapt worksheets for EAL learners in order to support them with both language development and subject knowledge. It offers advice on how to pre-teach vocabulary before a reading or listening activity and how to help students who are learning English as an additional language identify key words and learn new vocabulary from a reading or listening text. About the writer Our EAL toolkit was written by Anna Czebiolko, currently a secondary head of EAL. Since starting to work with EAL learners in 2009, she has worked with children in every year group from nursery to sixth form. She also has experience of coordinating EAL provision in a large secondary academy.

The EAL Toolkit provides over 50 strategies for helping learners across the Key Stages who are learning English as an additional language. Each strategy is explained and accompanied by an illustration to aid memory. The strategies are non-subject and non-age specific. No more searching for EAL ideas now they are all in one place!

This practical and accessible toolkit is designed to help teachers and teaching assistants to support key stage 3 and key stage 4 students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the mainstream classroom. ADHD toolkit presents an overview of what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed and how it can be treated. It provides a variety of strategies and printable resources to help learners with ADHD thrive in your classroom. What’s included? This 43-page toolkit includes: an overview of the three types of ADHD: combined, hyperactive-impulsive and predominantly inattentive a checklist of ADHD symptoms a summary of the ADHD treatment available, including types of medication and therapeutic support an explanation of how ADHD affects the brain, including impacts on executive functioning an overview of how ADHD affects girls and women comorbid conditions that can occur with ADHD, such as autism and Tourette syndrome classroom strategies for managing ADHD tips and templates for rewarding students’ success a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings. How does it support students with ADHD? ADHD toolkit helps teachers to recognise behaviours that may be indicative of the three main symptoms of ADHD: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. It offers advice on seating arrangements, turn-taking skills and conflict resolution, with reminders to praise students and showcase their strengths. It also provides classroom strategies to support executive functioning weakness, and teaching strategies for supporting students with memory skills, organisation skills and writing tasks. For students, the toolkit offers self-regulation techniques, tips on how to avoid getting distracted, and planning tools such as timetables and activity planners. The toolkit also suggests sensory supports such as fidget toys that can be beneficial for learners with ADHD and highlights the importance of regular healthy snacks, and of staying hydrated to combat the side effects of ADHD medication. About the writer ADHD toolkit was written by Elizabeth Swan. Lizzy draws upon lived experience and upon professional expertise from over 20 years as a qualified teacher, SENDCo and headteacher in secondary schools and special schools. She exploits her postgraduate study of psychology to present the ‘best bets’ from research-informed approaches to supporting children and young people with ADHD.

This is a FULL Online 104 page toolkit full of activities for Basketball, differentiated lesson plans and Task Cards. The resources can either be printed in PDF format or used as an interactive resource. These resources can be used to inspire and engage children in KS1 - KS4, focusing on Basketball skills, games and techniques.

A practical toolkit for supporting students with handwriting difficulties at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Dysgraphia toolkit is intended to help young people develop the fine motor skills they may be lacking and offers a full dysgraphia intervention programme targeting specific areas of need. What’s included? This 71-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dysgraphia and the difficulties in obtaining a dysgraphia diagnosis a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings handwriting assessment tools for you to monitor and record students’ specific difficulties display resources on writing posture and pen grip general classroom strategies, including whole-class warm-ups activity ideas and games for practising visual motor skills and fine motor skills letter tracing worksheets and cursive writing patterns worksheets How does it support dysgraphic students? Dysgraphia toolkit offers time-effective and straightforward ways of diagnosing and supporting dysgraphia in teens. It suggests warm-ups and motor skill activities that are helpful not just for teaching students with dysgraphia but for teaching all young people, and it presents simple ways of supporting dysgraphia in the classroom, without the need for special equipment – although examples of assistive technology are suggested where appropriate. The intervention programme that it proposes does not need to be followed systematically and can be dipped into by subject teachers and teaching assistants in the mainstream classroom. The toolkit presents arguments for and against print and joined/cursive writing and recommends that at secondary school students should not be required to adopt one or the other as long as their handwriting is legible and pain-free. It outlines the additional challenges faced by left-handed students and suggests specific support strategies. Finally, it includes editable handwriting worksheets that can be adapted for any age group and printable handwriting practice sheets for older students. About the writer Dysgraphia toolkit was written by Abigail Hawkins, who runs SENDCO Solutions, an SEN consultancy, and SENsible SENCO CIC, a not-for-profit networking support group. She has been a SENDCo for over 25 years and has taught a multitude of subjects across all phases, from two-year-olds to adults. Abigail works with software companies developing supportive software for SEN and safeguarding purposes, has developed and delivers a teaching assistant apprenticeship programme. She has authored several books on SEN and exclusions, and runs a support network for over 10,000 SENDCos. Abigail has a no-nonsense, practical approach to SEN issues faced by schools, believing that many high-incidence needs can be met in the classroom with basic teaching tweaks.

This resource focuses on the language technique allusion. The worksheet begins with an information box which explains the technique, gives an example and explains its effect. This is followed by a range of activities which build in complexity through the two-page worksheet. Activities include identifying different types of allusion, students writing their own examples, and understanding and analysing a complex example of allusion in a poem. The PowerPoint is designed to accompany the worksheet and includes answers and examples for many of the worksheet tasks, as well as an example of allusion in print advertising and a visual discussion/analysis task. The presentation includes links to two images which should be inserted into the presentation before use - they could not be included in the original for copyright reasons. This resource is suitable for a high school or upper primary school audience. The worksheet is included in both Word and pdf formats to ensure no loss of detail. Image credit: Tool icon made by Good Ware from Flaticon and used under licence. This ‘techniques toolkit’ resource is part of a set on language features and techniques in English. Check out these other techniques toolkit resources: Allusion | Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance | Emotive Language | Euphemism | Focalisation (Point of View) | Iambic Pentameter | Imagery | Irony | Juxtaposition | Metaphor | Modality | Personification | Symbolism | Tone and Mood

This toolkit provides information on how to support the needs of pupils with SEN/EHCPs in the classroom as part of a quality first teaching approach. Each section links to one of the four broad areas of need. You will find: • The broad area of need. Cognition & learning, Communication & interaction, SEMH & Sensory needs. • Categories of potential difficulty within that need. • What that area of difficulty might look like in the classroom. • Supportive quality first teaching strategies that will offer support. Each list of ‘What it might look like?’ and ‘Supportive Quality First Teaching Strategies’ are not exhaustive but may provide a useful starting point to help you help your pupils access learning. At the end of each section are resources linked to some of the strategies. The Toolkit can be edited and new needs and provisions can be added to meet the needs of your students.