I’m the English Coordinator at a small little school and I took on the task last year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 as I noticed this was missing from the school. I have included: -the recording sheet I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes) -a sheet of individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher (again not entirely mine as I found some questions here and there). It will save lots of paper as I got 8 sets of questions per page. I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community.

Hello fellow educator! I am sharing this guided reading/comprehension resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your lessons. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. Please note that I left this resource in Word so that you can edit it for your needs. There are also PDFs. Please note that there are questions for every chapter and writing prompts for every other chapter. It’s there for you to pick and choose. A little about me and this resource: I was the English Coordinator at a UK school and I took on the task one year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 (ages 7-11) as I noticed this was missing from the school. I have included individual pupil questions and/or writing prompts that students glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher/independently. About this resource: I created this for a high ability guided reading group for UK Year 3 (US 2nd/3rd grade). I have also used these questions with reluctant readers and students I have tutored. Kids love Charlotte’s Web! Other resources available: US K-2/UK Lower KS2 Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Billy the Bird, Bill’s New Frock, The Iron Man, James and the Giant Peach US 3-6/UK Upper KS2 Guided Reading: Reading Assessment Focus tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy, Indian in the Cupboard, Wreck of the Zanzibar, Carrie’s War, Artemis Fowl PLEASE NOTE: -resources in Word so you can edit! -8 sets of activities/questions to a page to save paper

Hello fellow educator! I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. Please note that this resource is in PDF and Power Point so that you can edit it to how you see fit. This particular resource for Peter Pan has a focus on vocabulary. As this novel is written over 100 years ago, it contains archaic language and concepts. I used it with students prepping for the 11+ exam. Please note that the Guided Reading Record Sheet has the vocabulary presented as it comes up in each chapter. The vocabulary at the end of the resource is designed to be shared with students in the form of bookmarks or similar to support independent reading. –OTHER READING RESOURCES— Guided Reading Record with questions: James and the Giant Peach The Iron Man Sheep-Pig Billy the Bird Butterfly Lion Charlotte’s Web Hodgeheg Upper KS2 Guided Reading (vocabulary support): Reading tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy Indian in the Cupboard Diary of a Killer Cat Wreck of the Zanzibar Carrie’s War Artemis Fowl Kind Regards, Kelli

This is a follow-up resource to my most popular resource Eleven Plus Vocabulary Lists. I teach many Year Five and Six students that are prepping for the 11 Plus and last year I noticed that they needed more exposure to high level vocabulary for these exams. As many of these students are strong spellers, I decided to alternate weekly spelling lists with these vocabulary lists. They practise the words with activities from my spelling menu as many of the activities do not solely focus on spelling. This is NOT for learning the spelling, but for learning meanings of words. You will need to think of another way to test students instead of the typical ‘spelling test’. I suggest giving them another printout of their lists for them to write definitions/synonyms for their words. Includes 16 lists (2 lists per page, organised into groups of 8, except list 25 which is a whole page). UK/AU/CAN spellings Slightly different from my last resource, there are 9 high-level vocabulary lists and 7 lists with a focus on roots. From what I understand, roots are included in a huge section of round one in the Surrey 11 Plus for Sutton/Wilson/Nonsuch exam. Roots covered are: -aqua/aque -fort -dict -geo -grad/gres -ject -hydr -port -log/logue -astr -rupt -therm -scrib/script -chron Hope this resource helps! Kelli x

I was the English Coordinator at a small private school for several years, teaching both Year Five and Year Six English. I found that after Christmas (and most 11+ exams), my Year Six pupils were becoming bored and disinterested in the typical English homework they had been doing for years. I wanted to find something that they would enjoy and that was also a review (since at that point I had taught my students for four terms). I came across a brilliant ‘project’ type homework where tasks were interlinked across a half-term. I can’t find the link now, but the first two I used were a ‘Mystery’ unit (the students choose an item that goes missing, describe the item, do a writing piece for the investigation, etc) and creating a class trip (students decide what the class trip will be, create advert, create information leaflet, etc). THEY LOVED IT! Each week they came back, eager to read their homework to each other and were genuinely enthusiastic about it. I was shocked! I left these homework units in Word so that you can edit it to the needs of your class. Please let me know if there is any problem with the format, as I noticed the files are in very old Word, so I hope it works! I included a document with checklists of the genres so that if you want to change out a week that has a persuasive writing piece, but diary recounts would be better suited for that week/your students, you can just cut and paste! Additionally, I added reading comprehension tasks every other week, but if want to change that to spelling, grammar, additional writing, etc: just change it! DIRECTIONS: 1) Copy the two pages double-sided. Students can illustrate the front cover (or you can add a picture before giving out). 2) Edit front cover for success criteria and when homework will be set and returned. 3) Give due dates and have children write these in. 4) Give appropriate paper needed for assignments (unless completed into exercise book) INCLUDES: -genre checklists -'Butterfly Garden' homework tasks -'Dream House' homework tasks -'Mountain Climbing' homework tasks -'Holiday' homework tasks -'Fruit and Veggie Garden' homework tasks Please check back in the future as I have more homework tasks that I am finishing up!

I’m the English Coordinator at a small little school and I took on the task last year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 as I noticed this was missing from the school. I have included: -the recording sheet I use with tricky vocabulary highlighted. -a sheet of individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher. It will save lots of paper as I got 8 sets of questions per page. I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. About this resource: I created this for a high ability guided reading group for Year 4. Please notice the pictures example I added at the end. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Billy the Bird, Bill’s New Frock, The Iron Man, James and the Giant Peach Upper KS2 Guided Reading: Reading Assessment Focus tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy, Indian in the Cupboard, Wreck of the Zanzibar, Carrie’s War, Artemis Fowl

Working on word families, but not sure how to record it in notebooks? Here are a variety of ‘houses’ for your students to write in. You can extend by having them write the words again (with the remaining notebook page), draw pictures, or write in sentences. A4 and US Letter versions available.

As English Coordinator of a school, I recently gave a very brief overview of phonics (a phonics refresher is what I called it). I only had about 45 minutes, so this presentation doesn't go into nearly the detail that I would like, but many staff members said it was helpful. I hope this PowerPoint can give you some information on the stages of phonics development.

This is a resource that I use with intervention groups to make sure we cover all the phases, having mini-lessons where necessary. Copy double-sided, cut and staple on the sides for instant books. I guide pupils through a couple pages at a time, only writing one word per sound (although it depends on the levels of pupils). Use it as a warm-up or however you see fit. Covers UK Phases 3-6. Hope it helps!

I hope I can save you some time with these titles/covers. At the start of each unit, I have my students glue the title into their exercise books. They love colouring it and using it to organise their units. Enjoy!

Seven writing prompts with word banks to support Key Stage Two learners. I created these for a writing club I used to run once a week. I found that my students needed word banks to support vocabulary development. If I create more, I'll update it here. Best, Kelli

I have included the guided reading record sheet I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes). I went through each chapter and picked out vocabulary I thought was tricky. The vocabulary per chapter in the record sheet is not in abc order because it’s in the order that it comes up in the chapter. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Billy the Bird, Butterfly Lion, The Iron Man, James and the Giant Peach Upper KS2 Guided Reading: Reading Assessment Focus tasks linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy, Indian in the Cupboard, Wreck of the Zanzibar, Carrie’s War, Artemis Fowl

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for my students in my Year 3 Booster Group. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words highlight special sounds and break words into syllables to help the children learn the words. The words are from several sources for Year Three spellings. I have a similar resource for the National Curriculum Year 3 & 4 Words that I'll put up soon, as well as Year 5 & 6. Additionally I have a resource for Phases 2-5 for a key-ring reference. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover (2 different options) on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied the first 7-8 pages on one colour, the next 7-8 pages on another colour and the last 7-8 pages on the first colour again. I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday and the final 7-8 cards Wednesday, etc). 2. Decide if you're going to laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it's going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I also included an editable letter for parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli **UPDATED May 2017 as I noticed I left out break of syllables for the word 'answer'. Please re-download!

Hello! I recently made this key-ring word list reference for students in my Year 2 & 3 Booster Groups. I made a few sets so that I have 2-3 sets for school, and a few sets to send home with students. The words progress through the phases in order to help the children learn the words (both reading and writing). The words are from the National Curriculum. I have a similar resource for the National Curriculum Year 3 & 4 Words that I'll put up soon, as well as Year 5 & 6. This is a bit time-consuming to make, but I feel that it is absolutely worth it. Through trial and error, I have fixed the document so that hopefully it is not as labour-intensive for you as it was for me initially. STEPS: 1. Decide how you will copy the word lists. I chose to copy the cover on a separate colour. (NOTE: colour is a big deal. The children really like the colour!) Then I copied Phase 2 on one colour, Phase 3 on another colour, Phase 4 on another colour and finally Phase 5 on another colour. I did this so that when students practise with their cards, they can break them up by colour (for example practising the yellow cards on Monday, the orange cards Tuesday, etc). 2. Decide if you're going to laminate or print on cardstock. 3. Cut, hole punch and put on ring (as mentioned, this does take some time to assemble, but then the words are all in one place!) TIP: I told my students that this took a long time to put together and to really take care of it. I also told them to return it either when I ask or when they feel they have most of the words mastered. It is not to keep forever! Since I made a point of telling them this, they seem to understand a bit more. I ask them frequently how it's going with their cards and what strategies they have for practising their cards (some say their parents test them, some practise in the car, etc). *I included an editable letter for the parents* I hope you can use this resource in some way! Kelli

I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community. WHAT IS IT? I was inspired by a Bloom’s reading reflection resource I saw in the States and decided to do something similar with the AFs for the UK curriculum. Basically it is a way to differentiate reading response questions (after a student has read a chapter(s) with a teacher in guided reading). The questions link the AFs with Bloom’s Taxonomy. WHAT AGE? It depends on your class of course, but I introduced this to Year 4 during the last term, and I use it with Year 5 and 6. There are also picture examples !

Hello! I created these for my Year Four Booster pupils. I wanted my students to practise reading questions carefully and circling/underlining KEY WORDS in the questions. I copied these sheets on bright coloured paper, laminated them, cut them and put them in an envelope. This is why the concepts are mixed on some of the pages. I didn’t want the pupils to recognise that the ‘apostrophe’ questions were one colour, and the ‘comma’ questions were another colour. Therefore the students have to identify the key words in the questions. These cards need to be laminated so that the children can circle/underline the key words in the question, answer the questions and then the cards can be used over and over again. Also please note that the boxes for the commas and apostrophes are sometimes above and sometimes below the sentence. The assessments at my school are arranged this way, so I wanted my students to become familiar with it. Included: noun adjective verb adverb pronoun determiner preposition singular and plural nouns past/present/future tense verbs comma apostrophe subordinating connective root word prefix suffix speech marks Hope this can help your students! Kelli

I have included the guided reading record sheet I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes). I went through each chapter and picked out vocabulary I thought was tricky. The vocabulary per chapter in the record sheet is not in abc order because it’s in the order that it comes up in the chapter. I created this for an average/ high ability guided reading group for Year 5. Please notice the pictures example I added at the end as well as a note. I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community.

I created these posters for my Year Five class, and now Year Four and Year Six use them as well at my school. Year Three uses some of the posters. I tried to keep them as simple as possible and really found my pupils referred to them and used them as a tool. I did not put on the display board all at once, but gradually. The large posters (A4) give a brief definition of the terms, and the mini-posters (half an A4 page) have example sentences using the parts of speech. Includes: -noun -verb -adjective -adverb -preposition -article (option for determiner as well) -conjunction (option for connective as well) -interjection -pronoun -modal verb -relative pronoun -synonym -antonym -homophone -homonym *updated November 2016 with: -main clause -subordinate clause -adverbial clause -expanded noun phrase -active/passive voice -standard English/non-standard English -personal/impersonal writing Hope you find these useful and that it saves you time! Kelli comments always appreciated!

These narrative writing resources were created to help my students when they were planning their narrative writing. I like to laminate them (double-sided on coloured paper) so that students can have them at their desks and support their writing. Many students struggle with the structure of narrative writing and I wanted to give them support in a similar way to word mats. Included in this resource: -how to start a narrative (brainstorming) -genre -planning (with scaffold questioning) -hooking your reader -how to move the story along -conflict ideas -elements of plot -how to end -narrative checklist (not entirely mine, pieced together form here and there) -narrative writing word mat (transition words, words instead of said, adverbs, senses, figurative language, character feelings, setting ideas, adding tension, punctuation) -text extracts for highlighting feature of narrative writing/annotation If you like this, I also have word mats for adverbs, verbs, openers, etc called Word Mats: Key Stage Two English

I’m the English Coordinator at a small school and I took on the task last year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 as I noticed this was missing from the school. I have included: -the recording sheet I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes) -a sheet of individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher (again not entirely mine as I found some questions here and there). It will save lots of paper as I got 8 sets of questions per page. I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. I know I lose countless hours looking up resources, creating resources and copying resources myself, so if this helps you in any way, then I count that as a small victory for our educating community.