THIS BUNDLED RESOURCE IS COMPILED ESPECIALLY FOR ENGAGING BOYS IN READING, AND INCLUDES BOTH FICTION AND NON FICTION.
7 RESOURCES IN TOTAL, INCLUDING 3 FREE ONES.
INCLUDED:
JOHN STEINBECK - NAVIGATING DOUBT (N/F)
JACK LONDON - CALL OF THE WILD (F)
SHAKESPEARE - THE LEGACY (N/F)
DOYLE - HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (F)
DICKEN’S - A CHRISTMAS CAROL READING WORKBOOK - DIFFERENTIATED (F)
VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE (N/F)
PARALYMPICS (N/F)
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THIS READING COMPREHENSION BUNDLE HAS BEEN COMPILED SPECIFICALLY FOR ENGAGING BOYS IN READING WITH TOPICS RANGING FROM THE OLYMPICS TO ST VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE. RESOURCE INCLUDES BOTH FICTION AND NON FICTION PASSAGES.
IN TOTAL: 10 RESOURCES, INCL 2 FREE ONES
INCLUDED:
DOYLE - HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
LONDON - CALL OF THE WILD
OLYMPICS 2024
ST. GEORGE OF ENGLAND
ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
DICKEN’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL WORKBOOK - DIFFERENTIATED
STEINBECK - NAVIGATING DOUBT
ORWELL - THE LEGACY
VALETINE’S DAY MASSACRE
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE
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These A2 level reading resources are tailored to support English language learners.
The reading passages cover everyday activities like:
A Day at the Beach
Family Dinners at Home
Going to School
Making Breakfast
In the Garden
The comprehension questions reinforce understanding and vocabulary acquisition.
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These three tailored reading comprehension resources will support ESL language learners in their journey to becoming confident readers and speakers.
Encourage students to read the passage out loud a few times before assessing comprehension of the material through the MCQs.
Three topics:
My morning routine
My pet cat
A day at the park
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A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF READING PASSAGES WITH A RANGE OF QUIZZES (MCQ, T/F, FREE RESPONSE) WITH ANSWERS
INCLUDED:
DICKENS - A CHRISTMAS CAROL
EASTER - HISTORY OF THE EASTER EGG
SHAKESPEARE’S LEGACY -FREE
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE
ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
ST. GEORGE OF ENGLAND
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY
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THESE COMPREHENSIVE READING PASSAGES ARE SUPPORTED BY A RANGE OF COMPREHENSION QUIZZES - MCQ, T/F & FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
INCLUDED:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
DICKENS - A CHRISTMAS CAROL
SWIMMING (SEN) FREE
OLYMPICS 2024
PARALYMPICS 2024 FREE
ST. GEORGE OF ENGLAND
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE
EASTER - HISTORY OF THE EASTER EGG
WHAT’S AN ODE?
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THESE READING PASSAGES (FICTION/NON-FICTION) ARE SUPPORTED BY A RANGE OF COMPREHENSION QUIZZES - MCQ, T/F & FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
INCLUDED:
DICKENS - A CHRISTMAS CAROL (SEN)
GILMAN - THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
MAYA ANGELOU - FREE
PARALYMPICS 2024 - FREE
ST GEORGE OF ENGLAND
ST VALENTINE’S DAY
CHINESE NEW YEAR
HISTORY OF THE EASTER EGG
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This is a 13 resource bundle to teach the EDSQ (Essential Digital Skills Qualification) Unit 1 - Using Devices (teaches entire unit).
Unit 1 - Using Devices is broken down into:
Hardware & Software
Operating System Applications
Locate & Install an Application
Apply System Settings, including Accessibility Settings
A bonus practical session on setting up a computer system (cables and ports)
Resources include teaching PowerPoints, extension tasks, task booklets for Entry Level 3 and Level 1 and an evidence sheet for the practical task.
These worksheets have been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners ICT knowledge and capabilities using a functional approach. The tasks engage all and promote creativity and individuality.
This particular bundle of worksheets focuses on the following:
The World we live in.
A task that requires learners to demonstrate their capabilities of exploring a chosen country using online resources to research and then transfer their investigations into a presentation that will educate both their peers and tutor. They will then present their findings using the PowerPoint platform.
Plan your own Festival.
A task that focuses on familiarising learners with Microsoft PowerPoint. The task requires learners to research, plan and pitch their ideal Festival event. They will then present their idea to others using the PowerPoint platform.
Create your own Calendar
This task focuses on familiarising learners with the Microsoft WORD Calendar template. In addition, the task requires learners to experiment, design and print their own yearly Calendar.
These resources are available to download as a PDF file; however, editable Word versions are available. Please message me for this format.
These Work Books have been designed and proven to educate and enhance learners knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials, English or various other sessions .
These particular BUNDLE Focuses on Functional skills in English and includes the following;
Using a Thesaurus - Understanding synonyms and enabling learners to expand their vocabulary both verbally and with in their written communication. The Workbook requires learners to demonstrate these new skills and confirm understanding using a series of engaging tasks including rewriting a wonderful poem by Spike Milligan (Extremely relevant to the events of 2020)
Homophones - Includes various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities. Learners will be able to expand their knowledge of homophones and confirm their understanding through tutor assessment.
Dictionary Skills - Requires learners to demonstrate new abilities in how to use it effectively through a series of tasks. The tasks include finding words associated with each other and sorting them alphabetically and a timed activity where learners compete to find certain words in the quickest time. The final light-heated challenge requires learners to find words in the dictionary to describe each other and their teacher or tutor using the letters of everyones first names.
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These resources are available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available, feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
These worksheets have been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently. They can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This Bundle Includes the following 10 Resources
IT COULD BE YOU!
Each has won the lottery and has £1,000,000 to spend.
Task 1 requires learners to decide on how much of their winnings they would gift, if any, to a charity and/or family and friends. This offers an effective platform for discussion around charities, generosity and their individual value of money.
Task two requires the learner to select from a list of items and how they would spend the remaining money. They will write reasons for their choices and share with the rest of the group, which is a great opportunity for speaking and listening and finding common interests within the group.
Task Three asks the learners to complete a shopping list and to include costs and keep a running total of their remaining balance.
The final objective is to get as close to spending 1,000,000 as possible. Calculator use is down to the discretion of the Tutor and the ability of learners.
WHATS ON THE BOX
Learners will work with a Fictional TV guide.
They will study the schedule and then attempt to answer a series of questions related to the information shown. They will then take part in a discussion based on their own favourite TV programme choices. They will create their own Perfect TV schedule, produce questions related to this new timetable and then test their peers.
SMARTIES INVESTIGATION
Learner focus on investigating number and frequency using a tube of Smarties.
Their task is to gather data and produce a bar chart showing their findings.
Learners will then take part in a speaking and listening task that requires them to extract data from other groups allowing them to be able to produce a second chart and accurately present this collective data.
World Records
This first resourse focuses on ‘Records set around the World’. Learners are tasked with estimating various measurements from the tallest to the heaviest, longest to shortest etc. They are then challenged to convert those amounts to an alternative form of measurement i.e. litre to pints, miles to Kilometres etc
Time for a Holiday
The second resouces starts with a warm up activity and tests the learner’s knowledge of Seaside towns in the UK and their locations. Great task to use on a SMART Board or in separate groups on A3 paper.
It then requires them to study a series of weather graphes and answer questions to confirm they are able to read and extract the correct information.
The final task involves budgeting a holiday to Newquay using a fictional scenario and an allowance of £650.
Possible Extension Tasks
Task 1 - Ask learners to find the location of other towns and activities.
Task 2 - Extend questions to work out the Mean, Mode and Median.
Task 3 - Limit Budget or change the scenario to make it more challenging.
Reading Timetables
This 3rd resource focuses on ‘Reading Timetables’. Learners are tasked with studying 3 examples, a Bus Timetable, a Swimming Pool Timetable and a College Session Timetable and then extracting the information required to answer the set questions and confirm understanding.
The questions can be answered individually or collectively by cutting them into cards. The larger A3 versions (included) can be displayed and the group can carousel around the room. Alternatively, the questions could be called out by the tutor for a more active learning experience. Lots of scope for interpretation, the resources also included some blank question sheets so learners can create some peer to peer questioning.
The Addition Workbook includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let’s use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
he Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
The Multiplication workbook includes:
Coloured Table and Sums (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
King Fred the frog (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Mum’s shopping trip (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
A day in the garden (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Right or Wrong (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Who has the Answer - A Card game that the whole group can play involving learner listening and calling out the correct answer.
The Division Workbook includes:
What is Division (intro)
Coloured bookmarks to use as revision
Sums (Easy, Trickier and More Difficult)
Joe and Beth Balloon trivia
Animal Division problems (Easy and More difficult)
Joe’s Smudged Homework
Sum Search
I Have Who Has (a 30 card Division based Card game where each learner try not to break the chain)
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Phonics Spelling Home Learning Pack.
honics book + phonics worksheets
Includes 100s of pages of worksheets covering the majority of the UK phonics covered during reception, year 1 and year 2 at school.
Designed by a year 1 school teacher and used in many schools around the world
Special bundle price with my best phonics resources.
Limited time offer, available only during Covid19 school closures.
Phase 3 and Phase 4 Phonics Worksheet Bundle
Includes:
My best selling Phonics Book (Most of phase 3/4/5 covered)
4 large Phase 3 worksheet packs (with extra example words and worksheet styles)
beautifully designed phase 2/3 phonics mats
Very proud of these resources and I used them with my year 1 class most weeks as worksheets, teaching aids, and displays.
All worksheets designed with close reference to Letters and Sound Planning documents and Jolly Phonics word lists.
BEST SELLING WORKSHEETS IN MY SHOP FOR 1 DISCOUNTED PRICE!
Total price of the items individually is £63.10
80% discount with this bundle
Worksheets can be used for a range of ages and are perfect for cover lessons, extending tasks, starters, wet play tasks, etc
Happy Teaching.
Helpful phonics bundle for Letters and Sounds phases 3 & 5 all graphemes covered.
Includes;
my best selling 242 page phonics book
a carefully designed, and very useful phase 2 and 3 phonics mat
a similar style double-sided, flippable phase 5 mat
phase 3, sets 6 & 7 differentiated worksheets
phase 3, sets 7 & 8 worksheets
phase 3, sets 8,9 & 10
Split digraph flashcards
a helpful medial vowel sounds mat
a fun phase 3 tricky words game
fun partner write & read activity worksheets
/er/ digraph labeling worksheets
/oo/ digraph labeling worksheets
/igh/ trigraph labeling worksheets
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials, English or ICT sessions.
This bundle includes the following 3 Resources:
DREAM JOB - focuses on allowing the learner to decide what they would imagine their perfect job to be. It then tasks them with breaking that job role down and asks them to create an advert for their chosen vocation.
They will explore the pros and cons of each others ‘perfect job’ choices and demonstrate their capabilities of understanding the opinions of others as well as being able to put their own opinion across. It includes and example of an advert designed by a previous learner.
ATTENDANCE and PUNCTUALITY focuses on the importance of Attendance and Punctuality and is broken down into the following
Why is attendance so important? - An activity that requires learner to fill in the gaps of an informative piece of writing. An effective way of going over text and gaining a full understanding.
Reasons v Excuses - A couple of tasks that require learners to understand the difference between reasons and excuses used for being absent or late. Promotes some great lighthearted and fun group discussion.
Being on time - A eye opening activity where learners will use maths skills to determine the amount of time lost at school, work and College through poor punctuality. Scenarios given.
Q&A - A series of thought provoking questions that learner will answer individually and then take part in a group discussion to share thoughts and opinions.
Attendance and Punctuality Task - Learner are given a scenario that requires them to Propose, Produce and Promote an Incentive and reward scheme to help improve Attendance and Punctuality in a struggling primary school. The task then requires them to present their schemes with the rest of the group and even display in their ideas in the classroom.
SHOULD ANIMALS LIVE IN THE ZOO focuses on the controversial issue of Animals in Captivity and requires learners to demonstrate their capabilities of understanding the opinions of others as well as being able to put their own opinion across. They will explore the pros and cons of the subject using online research and also have the opportunity to debate their findings with each other.
The task then requires them to present their final investigations in a newspaper article which they can design and present to the rest of the group and even display in the classroom. The Resource also includes worksheets to brief learners on the task as well as a Word Doc newspaper article Template to get them started.
3 SENCO assignments that I used towards National SENCO (Special educational needs coordinator) Award part of the first unit from the University of Wolverhampton in partnership with SERCO. I received at least 70% for all of these assignments. Check out each one for more details.
This 3 Workbook Bundle Pack has been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners understanding of the knowledge required of them to achieve a Functional Skills Maths Certificate at Entry level.
The workbooks include various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities in preparing them for their up and coming assessment. The resources have been very successful with keys stage 1 and 2 and with SEN/LLDD learners of all ages.
These particular workbook primarily focus on Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication and can be easily adapted to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level. Word versions are available just message me for these formats.
The Addition installment includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let's use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
and the Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
The Multiplication workbook includes a range of tasks and activities that works well with smart board or interactive technology... i.e King Fred the frog, Mum's shopping trip or even 'a day in the garden'...
Functional Skills Challenge Workbook - Division will be available soon.