Part one

• Tasks
• Teachers' notes

You may not be able to visit The National Archives with your pupils, but you can introduce them to the idea of archives and documents and the precious treasures they hold.

Start this piece of work by collecting a range of different types of documents e.g. newspaper, photograph, letter, picture. Discuss with the pupils how all of these materials are documents. Explain to them that the documents held at The National Archives can be all of these different types of things, but that they’ve been kept by the government of the country and stretch back over 1,000 years into the past!

Why do they think it’s important to keep all of these documents? What can we use them for? You could even encourage the children to bring in a special document from home and create a class archive display.

You can talk to your pupils about different types of documents and provide examples of these e.g. newspapers, letters, photographs. You could also make the connection between special/precious things like the documents held in The National Archives and a personal treasure that they own.

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Tasks

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Teachers' notes

This scheme of work has been designed as a dyslexia-friendly resource, with interactive activities to encourage learning with minimal reading.

Veronica is a qualified dyslexia specialist teacher, who took an interest in dyslexia from an early age as both of her brothers are dyslexic. Early on in her teaching career, Veronica was given the opportunity to teach in a school in London for children with specific learning difficulties. She worked with small classes of children who all had dyslexia or other associated difficulties.

Veronica has since tutored dyslexic pupils one to one, and also home-schools her own dyslexic daughter.

Top tips for dyslexia:

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