2 literacy booklets with a range of tasks focusing on grammar, punctuation, reading skills and vocabulary. These booklets are aimed at KS3and KS4 low ability pupils but I have found it useful to use certain pages as lesson starters to recap with higher ability pupils too. Topics include: nouns verbs adjectives adverbs noun phrases verb phrases subject verb object simple and compound sentences avoiding splicing skimming and scanning coordinating conjunctions commas apostrophes subordinating conjunctions improving vocabulary complex sentences tenses summarising making inferences bias in writing comprehensions speech marks capital letters and full stops dictionary skills clauses subject-verb agreement

For any literacy based subject. This is a whole school literacy question generator which covers all the essentials: homophones, punctuation, sentence types, spelling, verbs, grammar.... everything. Great for English lessons, tutor time, immersion groups or any lesson that involves extensive writing. All the questions are phrased in student friendly language and each slide contains the answers and explanations of why this is the case. All our resources are always editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) More TUTOR TIME resources

I do not work in year 5 anymore, but I have banked together all my planning. Obviously it will need to be adapted to suit your class, but hopefully it should save you lots of time :)

Fully resourced literacy lessons with bell work (pre starter), differentiated learning objectives and highly-visual, scaffolded tasks for building literacy in less able learners. Many of the presentations contain links to relevant literacy games, which can be played on interactive whiteboards (or simply using a projector and computer). I have used these lessons to equal effect with years 7 - 9, but they could be enjoyed by other year groups, primary or secondary.

A calendar of ‘literacy dates’ for teachers’ diaries 2018/19 - kids’ writing & reading competitions, projects, awards, annual days/weeks etc. Word doc and PDF versions included. A calendar of literacy events is something I’ve wanted to sink my teeth into for a long time. I’ve always felt it would be useful to have and to share with all staff. I think it will put an end to all those last minute attempts to conjure up activities and resources for special whole-school events and will definitely save me from missing those all important competition deadlines. I decided to produce the calendar in my role as co-ordinator for writing on the Literacy Team. I hope it that these easily digestible diary dates will enable all school staff to further promote literacy and engage children in meaningful, purposeful reading and writing for pleasure. I do not expect everyone to participate in everything, but rather teachers can pick and choose what would suit their class and curriculum topics. Of course, we will all join forces for larger events such as World Book Day and National Writing Day. The following table provides a map of the academic year with a range of key calendar events. It includes national days or weeks and a whole host of school competitions and events. I’ve also added some key children’s literature award dates as it’s always good to keep an eye out for new and exciting quality texts. *Where possible, I have included precise dates but some dates were not available at the time of writing however each event is listed in the correct month/time of year.

13 lessons on the book 'Cave Baby.' The book focuses on The Stone Age but incorporates lots of different literacy activities. It is a full unit of work for Literacy. I created this for my Year 3 children.

A whole range of non-fiction texts which can be used during a topic on mountains: persuasive letter, newspaper, diary journal, explanation, non-chronological report, discussion text, advert place, advert object, instructions, biography

Literacy Lessons. This pack includes… A booklet of literacy support material-we will keep adding to this as we produce more literacy resources!! Subjects & Predicates This is an hour lesson on subjects and predicates. It contains: Discussion Points Clear, step-by-step explainations YouTube Clips Worksheets Interactive plenary Types of Clauses - Literacy Task Included in this resource is explanations of: Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, Subordinating Conjunctions, YouTube Clips, Interactive Activities, Worksheet Activities. We hope that you enjoy this Halloween resource! If you review this resource we will give you another resource of the same value for FREE. Have a spooktacular Halloween! We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes <a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeachElite”>TeachElite’s Shop</a> click the’Follow this Author button’ . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload. You can find us on Twitter and Facebook

This Literacy Quiz is designed as a fun way for teachers to audit/revise key literacy and language techniques with KS3 students. The file contains a slideshow of questions and answers and a grid sheet for students to fill in (which is designed to then be used by teachers to audit their skills, if required). Rounds: (1-3 are literacy audit) Spellings x 12 (of key linguistic/language terms) Punctuation (punctuating sentences using . ?! and ,) Language techniques (word classes and literary techniques) Books/author quiz (just for fun!) Also included in this file is a STUDENT DIRT feedback sheet where students fill in and reflect on their answers for each round on a grid sheet that can then be read by teachers to audit their attainment and level of complexity in each skill area (teacher notes + example included). Files are contained are both in a ready-to-use PDF format and an editable Powerpoint/Publisher document. Please note than some of the animations and GIFs may not work in the PDF version.

A 3 week literacy unit using the book and short film Lost and Found. The download includes: 3 weeks of lesson plans in the form of promethean/active inspire flip charts. All differentiated work sheets and resources to go with the lesson plans are included. Suitable for children aged 5 -8. Lessons include: story writing, sentence construction, spag, using prepositions, instruction writing, letter writing and non-chronological report writing. Year 1, year 2, year 3.

10 lessons of planning with slides to match each lesson. Includes differentiated templates needed for each lesson too. All you need is a camera, and an old action man doll you can pass off as Traction Man

Literacy planning to link with the topic ‘food’ or ‘farming’. Planned for a mixed year 1/2 class with a range of abilities so activities could be extended or adapted to suit your class. Enough planning for at least 3 weeks. Based on the books: Supertato and the other books in the series, I will never ever eat a tomato and eat your peas. Fiction based with some instruction writing

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.

Great as a settling activity or as a starter. Students can revise spellings as they identify them in the wordsearch.

These ideas are not my own - most of them have come from Lewis, M. & Wray, D. (2000) Literacy in the Secondary School London: David Fulton (an excellent text on literacy) but also include other theories and ideas such as Bloom’s taxonomy and the DOMs method. This is an accumulation of literacy strategies brought together as a guide for staff. Very handy for staff in any subject.

Highlighting the importance of subject specific literacy in Teaching and Learning.