Reading SATs practice for KS2 will ensure your class is well-prepared for the English reading papers in their key stage 2 reading SATs at the end of primary school. This pack of SATs papers aims to practice reading comprehension skills through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and poems and 10 practice papers differentiated at three levels. Based on past papers and perfect for SATs revision, the reading assessments can be used as practice tests in class or for home learning. This pack of SATs practice papers is the perfect revision tool for the KS2 reading tests. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) 10 text extracts and 10 English SATs practice question papers (page 5) Each practice paper contains: English National Curriculum aligned content domain coverage Text extract SATs questions (differentiated as sets A, B and C) Marking scheme and answers (sets A, B and C) Featured texts: The Explorer – Katherine Rundell Wonder – R J Palacio Matilda – Roald Dahl Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo Who Was Marie Curie? – Megan Stine Who Was Anne Frank? – Ann Abramson The Short and Bloody History of Highway Men – John Farman Throwing a Tree – Thomas Hardy The Sailor’s Consolation – William Pitt

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place. Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year. Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students. The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning. What’s included 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6 answers where relevant teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set. What’s inside Teaching notes (page 4) Section 1 – student section Reading resources (pages 5-36) Comprehension resources Book review resources Poetry performance resources Different genres resources Figurative language resources Writing resources (pages 37-67) Resource – proofreading Resource – assessing a piece of writing Resource – describing characters Resource – describing settings Resource – the plot Resource – the big write Resource – a newspaper report Resource – persuasive writing Resource – formal or informal? Resource – a précis Resource – advice for year 6 Resource – your school report Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – a conversation Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses Section 2 – teacher section Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103) Answers Reading (pages 104-110) Comprehension resources Figurative language resources Writing (pages 11-112) Proofreading resources Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses

This Gothic scheme of learning will introduce KS3 students to the key elements of the Gothic genre, while building their reading, writing and comprehension skills. You’ll find extracts from some of the most celebrated Gothic novels to share with students in this engaging teaching pack, as well as Gothic poems and ghostly short stories from the 18th and 19th century to the present day, including The Castle of Otranto, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. There is also an extract from the exciting new YA series, City of Ghosts, to celebrate contemporary gothic fiction and encourage more reading for pleasure. The key stage 3 lesson activities are designed to provide an overview of Gothic genre conventions, tropes, settings and character archetypes, and anticipate the key themes in Gothic literature to prepare students for GCSE English Literature prose texts. To develop students’ exam skills for GCSE English Language, the teaching pack also includes a range of comprehension tasks to build students’ unseen fiction and unseen poetry skills and their confidence with new texts and new vocabulary. There are also exciting stimulus ideas for creative writing tasks for students to develop their fiction writing skills and comparative tasks looking at two texts. The 94-page pack is student-facing and aimed at year 7-9 students, and includes a range of engaging teaching resources, worksheets and PPTs. There are differentiated activities, with stretch and challenge extension suggestions as well as more supportive ‘ladder up’ tasks, such as sentence starters and scaffolded resources. What’s included? There are 14 lessons and lesson plans for English teachers which include: Do now activities Starter activities Main activities with embedded formative assessment tasks, learning checks and reading comprehension questions Plenaries Homework tasks. Each lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, and the teaching pack also includes the lesson tasks and classroom worksheets along with answers for self or peer marking in class. Several lessons include a focus on writing analytically, using the PETER paragraphing framework. The teaching pack culminates in a GCSE-style summative assessment task, which will help you to assess students’ progress in reading and writing. There is also a detailed and comprehensive 15-page scheme of learning to integrate into your KS3 curriculum plans.

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is a KS3 literacy intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading. The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists, literacy coordinators and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12-week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work for literacy intervention. The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need to catch up, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets. It’s been designed to support Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19 school closures. It also supports learners whose reading age doesn’t correspond to their chronological age, and younger learners who have transitioned from primary school but are not at the expected level for their reading. The lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes. Key features of this reading intervention programme: The 60-page teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying 69-page student workbook builds learners’ reading and literacy skills and includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers. It also includes worksheets and activities to develop their independent reading skills and reading fluency, and word reading and decoding strategies to develop their vocabulary skills. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels chosen to appeal to key stage 3 learners like City of Ghosts, Home Ground, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It also includes graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets to anticipate some of the text forms and genres of writing English students will encounter at GCSE. Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing, which develops students’ writing skills and provides targeted learning support for students.

Structured intervention support to improve students’ writing Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It’s ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS2 and KS3. The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 teaching sessions and resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop students’ core skills. It includes chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words. The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills. You may also be interested in Fix it reading, Teachit’s reading intervention programme for KS3 students. What’s inside the teacher handbook? Introduction (pages 4-25) Progression in writing: a framework Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses Making sense of students’ writing Setting targets and planning sessions Fix it session structure Getting the most out of Fix it Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36) Session 1: Capital letters and full stops Session 2: Ending sentences Ways to improve Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49) Session 1: Varying conjunctions Session 2: To suit purpose Ways to improve Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66) Session 1: Lists and clarity Session 2: Clarity and effect Ways to improve Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82) Session 1: Sentence starts and word order Session 2: Varying for effect Ways to improve Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97) Session 1: Adding detail Session 2: Relative clauses Ways to improve Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108) Session 1: Identifying verbs Session 2: The past Ways to improve Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144) Session 1: Topic sentences Session 2: Writing paragraphs Ways to improve Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157) Session 1: To suit purpose Session 2: Comparing and contrasting Ways to improve Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171) Session 1: Adverbs and determiners Session 2: Making comparisons Ways to improve Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180) Session 1: Choosing the right words Session 2: Choosing the right tone Ways to improve Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190) Session 1: Setting and atmosphere Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters Ways to improve

Designed to support students preparing for the AQA GCSE, our revision workbook Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 revision workbook features revision tasks to cover the complete course. The workbook includes content summaries, recap tasks and exam-practice questions in a variety of styles, ensuring students can revise independently and build confidence for their exam. What’s included? content summaries in a variety of formats recap activities keyword and timeline tasks exam-style questions. What’s inside? Introduction to this workbook (pages 4-5) Topic 1: Peacemaking (pages 6-17) The aims of the ‘Big Three’ Clashes between the ‘Big Three’ The Treaty of Versailles: Did the peacemakers achieve their aims? Who was satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles? Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? How did Germany react to the Treaty of Versailles? What happened at the rest of the peace conferences? Topic 2: The League of Nations and international peace (pages 18-30) The aims of the League What did America’s absence mean for the League? How did the structure of the League undermine it? Was the League doomed to fail? What was the role of the League’s agencies? How successful was the League in the early 1920s? What was the effect of the Great Depression on world peace? What was the impact of the Manchurian Crisis on the League? What did the Abyssinian Crisis show about the League? How did the Disarmament Conference of 1932−34 go so wrong? Topic 3: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War (pages 31-41) What were Hitler’s aims as Chancellor of Germany? Hitler’s foreign policy Why did Britain and France follow a policy of Appeasement? How was Appeasement a cause of WWII? Who was to blame for the Second World War? Exam practice (pages 42-48) Question type 1 – Source A is critical/supportive of X. How do you know? Question type 2 – How useful are these sources for a historian studying X? Question type 3 – Write an account of… Question type 4 – X was the main reason for Y. How far do you agree with this statement? Appendix: Further notes and ideas on sources in this pack

Our templates packs have been designed to support your teaching in any subject at KS3, GCSE and KS5. These templates aim to support vocabulary development – encouraging students to engage in meaningful ways with words and narrowing the word gap. Many schools now recognise the importance of disciplinary literacy, and targeted vocabulary development and accelerated word learning can be an important strategy to improve literacy in every subject. These templates are designed to support the teaching of tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary and offer a variety of approaches to helping students explore new vocabulary and have fun with words. Best embedded in the lesson as part of the development of a student’s specialist language, they also work well to support revision, independent study and homework. What’s included? 13 adaptable templates including a Frayer diagram, vocab wheel, a word frame and a knowledge organiser teaching ideas, games and displays. What’s inside? Introduction for teachers (pages 4-5) Frayer diagram template (pages 6-9) Vocab wheel template (pages 10-11) Hexagon template (pages 12-13) Word bunting template (pages 14-15) Word frames template (pages 16-18) Word bookmark template (pages 19-20) Word dice template (pages 21-22) Word jigsaw template (pages 23-24) Knowledge organiser template (pages 25-26) Vocab zones template (pages 26-29) Oyster template (pages 30-31) Shape linking template (pages 32-33) Vocab spinner template (pages 34-35)

A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing. The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling ‘problem’ areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts. Practical support to inspire your students. What’s included? KS4 curriculum assessment objective map lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Introduction (page 1) Summary of pack Getting students started (page 2) Generating an idea for a story (page 3) Tenses (page 4) Narrative point of view (pages 4-5) Varying sentences (page 6) Improving vocabulary and descriptions (pages 7-8) Conflict (page 9) Beginnings (page 10) Plans and planning (page 10) Resources (pages 11-83) Law and order in Britannica Packing your bag Encounter with Gromitz’ spy Getting across to Tongwe Island Extract from Beast Quest – Krabb, Master of the Sea, by Adam Blade How to have TipTop paragraphing skills Diary Openings Dead Trial by Matthew Green An Active Imagination by Virginia E. Zimmer

Help your students develop the maths skills they need for science GCSEs with 10 full-colour landscape and portrait posters. Each poster from this set of 10 features a different mathematical concept and asks a question to kick-start students’ thinking. The posters provide an engaging and thought-provoking visual reference for your students and will support you and your colleagues in your delivery of GCSEs.

Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (Spanish) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board. The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’. What’s included? The pack consists of eight units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms: present simple and present continuous tenses negatives and questions preterite and perfect tenses imperfect tense future tense conditional tense reflexive verbs modal verbs and the passive voice plus a review unit at the end. The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these. Each unit includes: an explanatory PowerPoint awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’) practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice) assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge) answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers). The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the Spanish one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4–10) Present tenses (pages 11–24) Negatives and questions (pages 25–37) Preterite and perfect tenses (pages 38–54) Imperfect tense (pages 55–66) Future tense (pages 67–83) Conditional tense (pages 84–95) Reflexive verbs (pages 96–102) Modal verbs and the passive voice (pages 103–113) Verb and tense review (pages 114–122)

Our flexible and engaging classroom templates are designed specifically for KS3-5 students, and cover a range of oracy skills. With a renewed focus on oracy from Ofsted and the DfE in 2023, spoken language is one of the cornerstones of teaching and learning in the National Curriculum, and key to school improvement. Using our oracy templates, you’ll be able to provide your KS3, GCSE and A-level students with a solid foundation in communication skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and professional lives: teach students how to structure their ideas and arguments effectively and coherently encourage students to listen actively and respond positively to different points of view help students to develop their critical thinking skills build confidence in public speaking. Our templates come with clear teaching instructions and examples, making it easy for you to incorporate them into your lesson plans. Suitable for small group or whole-class activities, these oracy activities help to develop students’ language skills and their overall confidence in speaking in class. The oracy templates are customisable, so you can adapt them to suit the needs of your learners, the topics you are teaching, and your teaching context. Our templates cover a range of skills, from active listening to persuasive speaking, and can be easily adapted to suit different subjects and learning levels. Whatever your subject area or year group, you’ll find ideas for modelling effective group discussion, using different types of questions, including Socratic questions, and helping students to recognise different tones of voice through role-play activities. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our downloadable whole-school oracy templates will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. These oracy skills are based on an established oracy framework and oracy-based pedagogy from Voice21 and Oracy Cambridge which focuses on four foundational oracy skills for young people: physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional. What’s included? There are 15 printable templates included in this 40-page downloadable pack, ranging from oracy starters and icebreakers to classroom activities and complete lesson ideas to develop students’ speaking skills. Introduction for teachers Oracy skills template Now you’re talking template Recognising tone templates ABCD template Taboo template ‘Speak like an expert’ template Word dice template Fortune teller templates Socratic questioning template Hexagon templates Summarising templates Think, pair, share template Debating skills templates Pick and mix oracy Oracy tracker templates About the writer Sarah Davies is a former Head of English and lead examiner, now an assistant headteacher in a MAT and an ECT (Early Career Teacher) Mentor. She’s also the author of Talking about Oracy (John Catt, 2020).

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners

What’s included? KS3 Comprehension contains 6 self-contained text extracts with reading comprehension worksheet questions, accompanied by model answers. This pack is versatile enough to be used in class, or as a sequence of homework tasks, end-of-term/year assessments and cover lessons. KS3 Comprehension helps students complete the transition from primary to secondary level and provides an effective introduction to 19th century and early 20th century literature. The extracts are suitable for year 7 and year 8 reading comprehension lessons and can be used to supplement existing schemes of work. NB – this pack is an adapted version of Teachit Primary’s ‘Comprehension’ pack, containing newly commissioned KS3 curriculum questions, replacement texts and a selection of supporting resources. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Extract 1 – Five Children and It by E. Nesbitt (Pages 5-10) Extract 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (pages 11-17) Extract 3 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (pages 18-23) Extract 4 – Odin’s Reward by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings (pages 24-30) Extract 5 – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (pages 31-38) Extract 6 – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (pages 39-45) Additional resources to support reading comprehension (page 46)

Our Year 6 maths assessments pack is designed to prepare children for their end-of-year maths tests and to help year 6 teachers assess children’s understanding of national curriculum objectives. All the questions are presented in the style of KS2 maths SATs papers and a mark scheme is included. The pack includes 10 test papers in total, eight of which are based upon a specific mathematical strand and two of which are KS2 SATs practice tests. Test papers included in the assessment pack: Paper 1: Number and place value Paper 2: Number and calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) Paper 3: Fractions, decimals and percentages Paper 4: Ratio and proportion Paper 5: Algebra Paper 6: Measurement Paper 7: Geometry (properties of shapes and position and direction) Paper 8: Statistics (charts and data) Paper 9: KS2 SATs practice test (arithmetic) Paper 10: KS2 SATS practice test (reasoning) These printable diagnostic maths tests can be used in the classroom or for home learning. Tracking sheets are included to enable teachers to quickly identify gaps in children’s understanding of the maths curriculum. Perfect for ensuring children are well-prepared for their final maths assessments at primary school.

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.

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.

Designed to support your teaching of the GCSE applications paper, Geographical applications and skills is a comprehensive teaching pack to be used throughout your GCSE programme of study. The pack includes teaching notes, PowerPoint presentations, activities and student workbooks to develop your students’ knowledge, understanding and application of geographical skills. Geographical applications and skills covers all the skills and fieldwork required for GCSE. What’s included? teacher notes and PowerPoints to walk you through all the different skills and fieldwork techniques required activity sheets and workbooks for students to practise key skills divided into different geographical skills and fieldwork themes, so finding what you need is easy. What’s inside? Teacher notes Geographical applications and skills personal learning checklist Graph types Data map types Geographical skills match-up activity Teacher answers for student workbook Teacher answers for PowerPoints Student work Mean, median, mode and interquartile range Calculating area Atlas skills – describing patterns OS map symbols Four- and six-figure grid references Compass directions Scale and measuring distance Latitude and longitude Synoptic charts Cross sections Ground, satellite and aerial photographs Drawing sketches from photographs Labelling and annotating photographs Using maps and photographs together Labelling and annotating diagrams Data key terms – sampling and data types Bar charts and histograms Divided/compound bar charts Line graphs Calculating percentages and creating a pie chart Pie charts Scatter graphs Dispersion graphs Pictograms Proportional circles Triangular graphs Star and radial diagrams Kite diagrams Desire lines Flow lines Choropleth maps Population pyramids Interpreting graphs Fieldwork enquiry questions Fieldwork data collection Sampling Methodology Evaluating methods Dictionary/glossary

Ensure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives. Based on the themes of the sea, travel, money and the environment, AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack will give your students all the exam practice they need. What’s inside Targeted activities help students understand how to improve their responses to the questions eight non-fiction and literary non-fiction text extracts reading and writing sections for each theme exam tips on assessment objectives for each question exam-style questions and suggested answers. It includes analysis of assessment objectives to help students understand exactly what they need to do to gain marks, and targeted activities to improve their responses to each exam question. What’s included Teacher introduction (pages 4-5) Reading: Student introduction (pages 6-34) Source 1A: ‘How to stay safe at the beach’ by Karl West (2017) with activities Source 1B: ‘The Pleasures of Life’ by John Lubbock (1890) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 35-49) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 50-72) Source 2A: ‘The Guardian view on over-tourism: an unhealthy appetite for travel’ (2018) with activities Source 2B: Francis Kilvert’s diary from the 1870s with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 74-88) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 89-110) Source 3A: A Girl Called Jack by Jack Monroe (2014) with activities Source 3B: Letter from George Dunlop (1813) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 111-123) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 124-143) Source 4A: ‘Squids and octopuses thrive as “weeds of the sea” warm to hotter oceans’ by Alan Yuhas (2016) with activities Source 4B: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 144-157) Activities Practice exam question

A set of 39 photocopiable home learning tasks mapped to NC objectives and differentiated where appropriate. Includes tasks for reading, writing composition and GPS. Answers included where relevant. All of your English year 6 homework all in one place!