Suzanne Murray

Developed for dyslexic learners, Clockwise is a new way to teach time, using narrative to turn the clock hands into characters and the clock face into a running track! This is a great activity to use in the sports hall as the children become the hands on the clock. Common Core Standard CC.2.MD.7 This is also great as an art activity as students get to colour the characters in.

These phonics cards are unique because they combine phonics with a picture that represents the sound, thus integrating visual and auditory memory! Students often struggle in particular with digraphs and trigraphs and this prevents them progressing within reading. The cards are great for reinforcing spelling choices too!

This lesson plan uses movement to embed punctuation use. It is based on the picture book, I want my hat back by Jon Klassen. As a children's yoga teacher, I am very interested in embodied literacy and I strongly believe young children need to move to learn!

This poster outlines the steps required to spell well, a useful reminder for teachers and students. Some students have an almost instant memory for spellings and many really struggle, the steps have to be pointed out and practised often!

This is a cursive alphabet writing template to help those children who have not acquired alphabet letter basic writing skills. Forming letters needs to be automatic. Children who cannot remember letter shape cannot progress and get left behind. Works with any age.

These phonics cards are unique because the sound and picture are combined, integrating visual and auditory working memory.

To help students understand and retain the language devices used to analyse poetry, images and the etymology (history of the language) are used in this poetry mindmap.