I have thoroughly examined the Bond books for 9-11 year olds for difficult vocabulary words and put them into lists. It took a bit of time, so I do hope others can make use of this resource as well! 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’. Includes 16 lists (2 lists per page, organised into groups of 8). UK/AU/CAN spellings Hope you find this resource useful! I know this has helped my students tremendously. UPDATE: I also have another resource with 16 more lists, including lists with a focus on roots.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Bill’s New Frock, 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

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. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Bill’s New Frock, 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

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. About this resource: I created this for a high ability guided reading group for Year 3. Please notice the pictures example I added at the end as well as a note. Other resources available: Guided Reading: Billy the Bird, Hodgeheg, Diary of a Killer Cat, Bill’s New Frock, 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

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 !

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 a low/average 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.

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 I left this resource in Word so that you can edit it to how you see fit. Please leave a message here if there's any problem with the format. Please also note that AFs links are still OLD AFs. A little about me and this resource: I was the English Coordinator at a small school and I developed many guided reading resources and class novel resources for Key Stage Two. This particular resource for How to Train Your Dragon has a focus on vocabulary. It was a class novel for Year Four at the school and we had a student with very limited vocabulary therefore I wanted to have a vocabulary support sheet for her. it took FOREVER to go through the entire book, pick out challenging vocabulary and then create this resource to list synonyms to have appropriate language ready. I do hope it helps you. TIP: copy pages 14-20 doubled-sided on cardstock or laminate and give to students to support learning. 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 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

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 I left this resource in Word so that you can edit it to how you see fit. I hope nothing gets mixed up since I didn’t put it in PDF. A little about me and this resource: I’m the English Coordinator at a 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 record sheets I use (not entirely mine as I found this somewhere and made some changes) as well as the individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher. About this resource: I created this for an average ability guided reading group for Year 3. Included -2 reading response options for each chapter: reading comprehension and usually parts of speech connection or writing connection (diary, letter, newspaper) -Guided Reading Record Sheet with old AFs and vocabulary for each chapter identified -IT’S IN WORD SO YOU CAN AMEND WHAT YOU WANT! Other resources available: Guided Reading: Sheep-Pig, Billy the Bird, Diary of a Killer Cat, Bill’s New Frock, 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, How to Train Your Dragon Kind Regards, Kelli

I hope I can save you a bit of time with this phonics screener. I created this for my intervention students based on a former phonics screener I used. I didn’t like using the same words each time, so I created Forms A, B and C along with teacher recording sheets (13 page document). I’ve got basic letters & sounds right up to multi-syllabic words! Phonics screeners are vital for pinpointing phonics gaps for our students. I’ve left this format in Word so that you can make any changes you need for your students. I also added a writing screener because I wanted more information about my students’ writing. If you aren’t familiar with phonics screeners, they are “diagnostic assessments that quickly and accurately identifies individual students’ strengths and instructional needs in phonics/decoding. This untimed assessment can be repeated periodically to monitor student progress in learning to decode.” Hope it helps! Please leave feedback : ) Kelli Includes A4 and US Letter formats.

This will make spelling homework so EASY for you and your students! Children love the power of CHOICE, and that’s exactly what the menu does for spelling homework. When I first came to my current school, the common practice was to write ten sentences with their spelling words each week. Yuck! They hated it, I hated marking it (I teach Year 5 and Year 6 English so that’s twice the fun of reading all.those.sentences.week.after.week.) After seeing ideas for this concept of a spelling choice menu, I pulled the ideas I felt best fit the needs of my students and added some of my own. This menu is for one term (9-12 weeks, depending on your school). For American schools, you’ll have to decide how long you want the choice board to go for. I like the idea that students don’t have to do every single choice (especially if they don’t have access to a printer as some of the choices deal with a printer). Choice 1: I use these for Year 3 and 4 at my school (Second and Third Grade). There are 2 pages; I use one for a term, and then the other (slight variation of activities) for the next term and then back to the first one again for the third term. Choice 2: I use these for Year 5 and 6 at my school (Fourth and Fifth Grade). There are 2 pages; I use 1 for a term, and then the other (slight variation of activities) for the next term and then back to the first one again for the third term. I’ve also added a copy of each of the menus in a basic font so that you can edit it as well.

Sometimes our students need help with their stories. It could be what to write about, how to start or what words to use. My students LOVE these mats and I have seen a great improvement in their writing after using them. What worked best for me was to print these (double-sided) on coloured paper, then laminate. I also made additional copies to send home with students or you could keep copies in homework folders. These word mats can be used for numerous activities so I hope you find them useful! Included in the 11 pages: -Character appearance & personality -Character thoughts & feelings -Figurative language -Senses -Openers -Verbs & Adverbs -Setting choices, description and openers -Alternative Adjectives -Persuasion -Language for various genres If you like this, I also have a resource with an overview of narrative writing that you might find useful.

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.