This is the test I gave the lower ability students in the Year 8 class. It first covers material on the Year 7 syllabus and then goes onto the Year 8 syllabus. The questions are set out clearly and accurately.
This resource offers a list of sentences. The student must choose a sensible ending from the options provided and complete each sentence. It is helpful to use this whilst teaching about commas because this teaches that sentences cannot be long-winded and must be broken up using commas.
This resource really excited my pupils. There are three exciting pictures which provoke their imagination to write anything they want. The keywords are provided and they produce sentences based on these words. This is a great activity to do at the end of the lesson when the students are tired. They can work in partners and think of ideas together.
This worksheet develops the student's skills with creating sentences, the child is given a number of words - nouns and verbs - and he/she must join them together to create a sentence. The next section gives the child a group of nouns and verbs which correspond. The student must fit each noun and verb into the sentences below, appropriately. This provides the student with the knowledge of various crafts.
This is a pair of worksheets teaching students the concept of opposites and practise with matching them up. This is helpful for students who find it hard to write, since this worksheet is visual.
This planning sheet template should be used when planning lessons, it includes the structure of the lesson (you can use in conjunction with my evaluation sheet).
This worksheet teaches students the five food groups and introduces the reasons why these groups are healthy. The student learns about nutrients and their benefits. This is ideal for students who struggle with learning a lot of information - this worksheet breaks it down into smaller parts.
This worksheet teaches the student the respiratory system and its functions. The student must name the parts of the lungs and explain how the breathing system works. This is ideal for students who can't read/ write a lot of information at once, this worksheet breaks it up for them.
This worksheet gives students the skills to multiply and divide with negative numbers. First the student must multiply by a small value, then divide by a small value. Once the student has done a few simple sums they are ready to go on to more complex multiplying and dividing sums.
This worksheet teaches students multiples and factors and introduces to them that many multiples and factors overlap - this shows they are common and is a stepping stone for lowest common factors and highest common multiples.
This is a worksheet which provides the student with a number of images of actions and instructs the student to describe the image briefly in their own words. The keywords are provided.
I used this with my behaviour management system, with older pupils. The ladder is rated 1 - 10 (10 is highest), the teacher rates how well the pupils behaved in the lesson and mark on a check card, when the check card is filled, they earn a reward (either individual or with the class).
This is a traffic light where you write what the students should achieve by the end of the lesson, they circle the red/orange/green traffic light to assess where they are holding. Then they see what they have learnt over the lesson.
This exercise is suited for students acquiring basic formatting skills. A small paragraph of text is included for typing practise. There are straightforward instructions which are especially helpful for those who need step-by-step guidance. I was successful in using these worksheets with learning disabled pupils. Look out for more worksheets in this series…
This exercise is suited for students acquiring basic formatting skills. A small paragraph of text is included for typing practise. There are straightforward instructions which are especially helpful for those who need step-by-step guidance. I was successful in using these worksheets with learning disabled pupils. Look out for more worksheets in this series…
This exercise is suited for students acquiring basic formatting skills. A small paragraph of text is included for typing practise. There are straightforward instructions which are especially helpful for those who need step-by-step guidance. I was successful in using these worksheets with learning disabled pupils. Look out for more worksheets in this series…
This worksheet is an extension to my other worksheets: People and Jobs; People Working 2. It introduces students to a wider-range of jobs and encourages them to use past knowledge to create sentences corresponding to the images shown. There is also an activity which gives students the practise of researching words and their meanings in the dictionary.