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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Spelling generalisation for ff ll ss zz

This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson for the ff ll ss zz spelling pattern (sometimes known as the ‘floss’ rule).

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Year 1 Phonics Check: Analysing individual reports using the word and code complexity continuum

This document supports analysis of Year 1 Phonics Check individual student reports. It gives instructions for finding and responding to student decoding strengths and needs as shown by their results.

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Year 1 Phonics Check: Administration guide

This guide provides detailed information for school leaders and teachers on what the Year 1 Phonics Check is (a free, 7-minute assessment that assesses students' decoding skills across words of increasing complexity). The guide contains information on delivery modes and key materials, administering the Check, recording ...

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Phonics Check user manual: Register and manage user accounts

This technical user manual supports school administrators and teachers when using the online Year 1 Phonics Check platform to register, log in and manage user accounts. The Year 1 Phonics Check is a free 7-minute assessment to assess students' decoding skills across words of increasing complexity.

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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Spelling generalisation for soft g and soft c

This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson for the soft g and soft c sounds (sometimes known as the ‘Gentle Cindy’ rule).

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Year 1 Phonics Check: Analysing group reports using the word and code complexity continuum

This document supports analysis of Year 1 Phonics Check group reports. It gives instructions for finding and responding to a group's decoding strengths and needs as indicated by the data.

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Student learning support

This webpage provides information and resources to support teachers to target specific student learning needs and create an inclusive classroom. It discusses differentiation and inclusion.

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Morphology instruction and SSP

This self-paced learning module outlines how teaching morphology complements reading and writing instruction. It explains how to plan morphology lessons using explicit instruction and daily reviews that include morphology. The module contains two webinars, free downloadable resources and further professional reading. It ...

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Informal units: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Informal units. Students develop their understanding of uniform informal units to measure the length of objects.

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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Spelling generalisation for letter-sound correspondences ai and ay

This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson on the ai ay spelling pattern.

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Planning resources

This webpage provides information on how to scope specific literacy content, and to plan what to teach and how to teach it. It provides links to further information and quality resources to support teacher planning.

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Morphology instructional model

This instructional model for morphology outlines the attributes of instruction, a lesson and review model and a sample morphology lesson plan. It illustrates a lesson sequence beginning with a review of previously learnt morphemes, followed by explicit teaching of a new morpheme.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -ing suffix double the final consonant

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for when to double the final consonant when adding the -ing suffix.

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Mathematical modelling: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive situations including simple money transactions.

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CLIL: What works

Strategies to support Languages teachers to implement the CLIL approach at secondary level

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Can AI guess your emotion?

Discuss emotions as a class, and introduce the idea of artificial intelligence (AI). This lesson can also be used to introduce image classification – a key application of AI. Developed in collaboration with Digital Technologies Institute.

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What's the buzz?

In this lesson students use BeeBots and Scratch Junior to synthesize what they know about Bees and are introduced to mapping concepts. This lesson idea was created by Karen Butler.

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My special time

Students tell time to the hour and half-hour. They match analog and digital time representations.

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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 2

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding operations, calculating, and reasoning about number patterns.

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Blue-Bot challenges

Use these challenges created by Kylie Docherty, QSITE to provide opportunities for students to learn how to design and follow a series of steps to program Blue-Bot.