AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts

Trace and understand the main events of chronological and instructional texts (a) Understand that chronological text is related to events in time (b) Understand that instructional texts must be read in sequence (c) Know and use text-level strategies to predict content and check meaning, e.g. their own background knowledge, context of text as a whole, title, headings, illustrations

Following instructions - BBC Skillswise

Provides step by step help to ICT / Lit / Num students plus useful practice in reading instructions.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
ICT
Entry 1 and 2 ICT
General
Study Skills and General Teaching

Pancake day literacy and numeracy activities

Two pancake texts to read, questions to answer, recipes to re-size (simple ratios) and instructions to match and order. Wonderful topical work for Entry 2 to Level 1.

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
English
Ws/E3.1
Ws/E2.1
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rs/E2.2 Use sentence structure to decipher and predict meaning
Maths
AN N1/L1.7
Context
Catering Food Nutrition

The Fright of my Life

A scary story for Entry 2 – with focused comprehension and phonics (particularly the ‘long I’ phoneme) activities that can be used for individual or small group work.

Level
Entry Level 2
English
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
AL Rw/E2.2 Recognise high frequency words & words with common spelling patterns

Willy the super ant

Margaret Adams wrote this story to help a dyslexic student distinguish between ‘want’ and ‘what’. Numbered ‘cartoon’ blanks for student to illustrate, plus introduction, story and background notes.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Homophones, homographs & confusables
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols
Rw/E2.1
Ww/E1.1
Ww/E2.1
General
Dyslexia support

Instant Pink Whip!

A great project for preEntry – Entry 2. Make the instant dessert, read and sequence instructions, match images to key word and more!

Level
M7
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
AL Rt/E1.1 Read short familiar texts
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rt/E2.3
Pre-entry
pE Rtc/M7.3
pre-Entry Rtc/M8.3 When working with texts communicate about persons, characters, events, objects
Context
Catering Food Nutrition

A gift for Charlie's Mum

Charlie’s search for a Mothers’ Day present is a wonderful comprehension exercise written especially to practice reading consonant digraphs. Vicky suggests this resource is used in conjunction with Karen White’s consonant digraph worksheet. A simplifed Entry 1 version and a related E2/E3 crossword are also available.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
English
Wt/L2.1
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Ww/E1.3
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