PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class. Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on. Weekly practise is as follows: Monday - highlighting the focus sound Tuesday - adding sound buttons Wednesday - sound sort Thursday - rainbow writing Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word) Sounds covered in spellings: Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week) Week 2: ey/e Week 3: sure/ture Week 4: ei/ey Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week) Week 6: que/gue

PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class. Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on. Weekly practise is as follows: Monday - highlighting the focus sound Tuesday - adding sound buttons Wednesday - sound sort Thursday - rainbow writing Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word) Sounds covered in spellings: Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week) Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week) Week 5: ear/ure Week 6: al/le Week 7: short ou (/u/)

PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class. Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on. Weekly practise is as follows: Monday - highlighting the focus sound Tuesday - adding sound buttons Wednesday - sound sort Thursday - rainbow writing Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word) Sounds covered in spellings: Week 1: al/ar Week 2: or/au/aw Week 3: air/are Week 4: ir/ur/er Week 5: ou/ow Week 6: oi/oy

PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class. Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on. Weekly practise is as follows: Monday - highlighting the focus sound Tuesday - adding sound buttons Wednesday - sound sort Thursday - rainbow writing Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word) Sounds covered in spellings: Week 1: ay/ai Week 2: ea/ee Week 3: igh/ie Week 4: ow/oa Week 5: long oo/ew/ue Week 6: short oo/o

2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks Individual documents containing the written tasks for each of the lessons The lesson sequence is as follows: Week 1: Monday - Prediction Tuesday & Wednesday - Retrieval based on Voice 1 Thursday & Friday - Vocabulary based on Voice 2 Week 2: Monday & Tuesday - Inference based on Voice 3 Wednesday & Thursday - Explaining based on Voice 4 Friday - Summarising

4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks 16 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Thursday – Summarising Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED) Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Explaining Week 2: Retrieval Week 3: Inference Week 4: Vocabulary Tasks include: Giving advice to the characters Writing letters in role Creating Instagram posts for characters using summarising skills and MORE

8 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 8 weeks Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons Linked texts The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills Friday – Summarising Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Retrieval (linked text ‘Why is a Tomato a Fruit?’) Week 2: Vocabulary Week 3: Mixed skills (linked text The Spider and the Fly poem from Twinkl) Week 4: Vocabulary (linked text A Seed is Sleepy) Week 5: Inference and Summarising Week 6: Mixed skills Week 7: Mixed skills Week 8: Summarising Tasks include: Making a foldable book summarising the story Using a dictionary to find meanings of words in the text Designing your own weather machine and MORE

2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Dark by Lemony Snicket. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks 1 document containing written tasks for each of the lessons The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Friday – Summarising Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Vocabulary Week 2: Inference

5 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 5 weeks Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons Linked texts The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Friday – Summarising Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Vocabulary Week 2: Inference (including linked text ‘How Far I’ll Go’ from Disney’s Moana) Week 3: Explaining (including linked text ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ by Dr Seuss) Week 4: Retrieval (including linked text on Grace Darling from Twinkl) Week 5: Mixture of VIPERS skills (including linked text ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ by Michelle Robinson) Tasks include: Drawing story maps Writing diary entries in role Sort vocabulary from the text by its intensity and MORE

4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Friday – Summarising Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Vocabulary Week 2: Inference (including 1 x linked image lesson) Week 3: Retrieval Week 4: Explaining Tasks include: Finding definitions of words in the text Inferring characters feelings Creating comic strips to summarise the text so far and MORE

4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks 20 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Thursday – Summarising Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED) Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Vocabulary Week 2: Inference Week 3: Explaining Week 4: Retrieval

4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Griffin Gate by Vashti Hardy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes who had never done whole class guided reading before. Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising. Pack contains: 1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks 1 document containing tasks for each of the lessons. The lesson sequence is as follows: Monday – Prediction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week) Friday – Summarising Weekly skills focus: Week 1: Vocabulary Week 2: Inference Week 3: Retrieval (linked text) Week 4: Explaining (linked text) Tasks include: Using dictionaries to find definitions of words in the text Ordering vocabulary by its ‘shade of meaning’ Writing questions to characters Thinking of new names for the chapters Creating story maps and MORE

Print and laminate this word mat to use in writing sessions based on Flood by Alvaro F. Villa.

Print and laminate this resource to use with LKS2 children to accompany teaching Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit. Sentence starters are separated into the five senses.

PRINTABLE word mat to accompany teaching on Superworm by Julia Donaldson. Used with Reception children to write sentences containing adjectives to describe a worm.

Printable WORD OF THE DAY grid for children to either use as a worksheet or teacher to laminate as a whole class display resource.

Stone Age Word Mat to accompany teaching on Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. Words separated into senses and atmosphere. Created to support teaching in a Year 3 (2nd Grade) class.

Children read the sentence and choose the correct punctuation mark to complete it by adding a peg to the correct answer. This PDF needs printing and laminating for best quality results.