A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
I made a PowerPoint practice screening test following the guidance in the 'Assessment framework for the development of the Year 1 phonics screening check.' It is the twenty section 2 words.
It contains a total of 20 words, 12 real and eight pseudo-words with the following structures:
• 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the orthographical representation of the CVC phonological representations (4 words);
• 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the four orthographical representations of the CVCC and CCVC phonological representations and the three orthographical representations of the CV phonological representation (4 words);
• 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the three orthographical representations of the CCVCC phonological representations (4 words);
• 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the four orthographical representations of the CCCV, CCCVC and CCCVCC phonological representations (4 words); and
• 4 x two-syllable real words with different orthographical representations, one with five letters, one with six letters, one with seven letters and one with eight letters (4 words).
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The tasks require pupils to exercise critical judgment and creative thinking to evaluate, and use information for effective decision making in the tasks.
This is a series of thinking skills tasks, using the De Bono Thinking Hats methodology to respond to Michael Morpurgo's, 'Kensuke's Kingdom' with creativity. If students are to become better thinkers - to learn meaningfully, to think flexibly and to make reasoned judgements - then they benefit from being taught explicitly how to do it. The thinking hats are used to help make the steps in the thinking process more explicit.
The thinking skills approach provides oral and written ‘prewriting’ activities which act as mental organisers. If you wish, pupils could use the activities and lists as ‘prewriting’ tasks, building up to a final writing task.
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This is a free extract from a Premium PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on alternative words for said. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop.
The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.
The worksheet shows how to describe setting by describing weather and emotions.
The task requires children to write descriptive sentences to show how different weather affects people, places or things. For example, the task requires children to change statements that tell the weather, e.g. 'it is foggy,' to statements that show the affect of the weather, e.g. 'As the fog wrapped itself around her like a scarf, Amy shivered.' It also requires children to show rather than tell emotions in a similar way.
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An irregular verbs PowerPoint activity for Key Stage 1 (or may be useful for Key Stage 2 SEN).
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Meet Petobot - a voice activated robot toy. Pupils read an explanatory text of the toy, written to demonstrate the features of an explanatory text.
Children are then asked to draw a design for a robot toy with any features they want. There are detailed teaching notes and both a scaffold frame and a SEN sheet to offer support so that children can write an explanation for how their robot toy works. There is a model text and also an annotated text showing text features.
A simple PowerPoint introducing the idea of nouns and proper nouns for Key Stage1. There is an activity to test whether children can recognise nouns from verbs (not in sentences). It is simple, because it doesn't introduce the idea that the same word can act as either a noun, or verb depending on the sentence. It just talks about nouns in very basic terms with simple examples.
The resource is adapted from a US resource on a different part of speech.
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This is a suspense story about being locked in the Egyptian Gallery of a museum over night. This is a word document, so can be used as an ICT text for pupils. The pupils are instructed to improve and finish the story, using techniques (such as, adding description of the character's feelings, describing sounds and setting).
There is a self assessment worksheet ( that proves far more effective than success criteria) and also detailed teaching notes.
This is a persuasive brochure for Hogwarts Castle Theme Park, written to demonstrate persuasive techniques. There are detailed teaching notes and a scaffold frame for children to write their own theme park brochure: a blank brochure with theme park pictures is also provided, if required. There is also an extension task to develop further ideas for the theme park website, which could be done as an individual, or group, speaking and listening or writing task. There are support planning worksheets, if required, to help pupils requiring more support.
This is a descriptive vocabulary building worksheet task. It matches 'very' words, e.g. 'very exciting' to more precise synonyms, 'exhilarating' . This is a written task and includes some words to offer challenge, so is aimed at able children in Year 3 & 4, Upper Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3.
Download my other 'very' words cut up and do task, if you wish to select words to suit a wider ability range.
Examples of words include - 'very clean' - 'spotless', 'very smelly' - 'pungent.'
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The worksheet shows common ways that the body responds to fear. Children are then asked to write descriptive sentences, using the ideas to show rather than tell that a character is scared.
For example, 'His colour was ashen.'
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This is part of a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on speech tags. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop.
The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.
A PowerPoint explaining and testing knowledge of modal verbs.
It is adapted from a US resource about a different part of speech.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
There are some funny grammar worksheets, a fun summer holiday advert task and a reading challenge with certificate . Fun activities that should suit the end of term.
There is a word a day to increase pupils’ vocabulary, using relevant pictures, definitions and synonyms.
There are 666 picture words - enough for over three and a half school years!
It is an easy and effective way to boost a school’s vocabulary.
Aimed at KS3, KS4, KS5 or the vocabulary could provide some upper KS2 extension.
This resource could have a powerful impact on an entire school’s vocabulary acquisition, if the word a day pictures are added to newsletters or lessons.
I’ve made two small free word a day resources available to demonstrate how useful the resource can be, so you can try those out in a classroom.
There is a choice of using the resource in letter order or a random assortment.
This is a third Word a Day to increase pupils’ vocabulary, using relevant pictures, definitions and synonyms.
These are picture words, enough for a Word a Day for another school year!
It is an easy and effective way to boost a school’s vocabulary.
Aimed at KS3, KS4, KS5 or the vocabulary could provide some upper KS2 extension.
This resource could have a powerful impact on an entire school’s vocabulary acquisition, if the word a day pictures are added to newsletters or lessons.
I’ve made two small free word a day resources available to demonstrate how useful the resource can be, so you can try those out in a classroom.
