Important facts about setting work

When setting work for your students, you can choose from a total of 6 courses, giving you around 10,000 words, sounds and sentences, or you can choose your own lists:

• Nat. Curriculum 2014 England: spellings  Follows the English Government’s spellings for KS1 and KS2.
• 'Alpha to Omega' Follows the progression found in the book ‘Alpha to Omega’ by Bevé Hornsby and Frula Shear.
• Everyday vocabulary  Set 1 covers very basic words. Set 2 adds more lists plus simple sentences in the Simple Crossword game. Set 3 includes many more lists, with simple and complex sentences in two Crossword games.
• Secondary school subject lists Secondary school vocabulary lists arranged under subject headings. Importantly the Crossword game uses the words in context.
• High Frequency Words (HFW) Words that are needed most frequently for reading and for writing.
  
• Wordshark course (the same course used for Supershark)
• Your own word lists! This can be useful for vocabulary, for tailoring lists to a student’s errors, the weekly class list, an interest list etc. An option is to use your own voice and pictures.

Setting work is a simple but targeted approach to ensure students focus on your chosen wordlists.  When you set work this can be from any published course, from your own lists or from shared lists. 

Set Work summarised

1. To set work, select the Set Work tab in your main menu then click the Set Work button below. 
   
2. Students will need to click on My Set Work in their main menu if they have been set work.
   
3. Students need to complete each list in their set work to a level of 75% correct in one of the 3 spell check games (those with check in the name).
4. Students are moved on through the lists you have set as soon as each is mastered.
   
5. When all are achieved the work is shown as complete.
   

How to set work

Step 1:  Select Set Work from the main menu, then click the Set Work button.

Select a group, then students, and click on Next Step.  Within a group you can select all or select individual students.

Here, as an example, the publisher course Alpha to Omega has been chosen.

Step 3:  Select either a whole unit or individual word lists.  Example screens below.

Step 4:  Check the summary of the work you have chosen.  Use the Change hyperlinks to edit your selection.

Step 5:   Set a time limit and submit.

The screenshot below shows 1 out of 2 students having completed the work – ‘1 Done’. Clicking on this link will tell you which student has done the work.

How students access Set Work

Step 1:  Students click on the My Set Work tab to see the work that has been set for them.  You will need to point this out to your students (young children especially) so they know where to find their set work.

Step 2:  Next students click on the Start button to access the games. After each game they can click on the Play Next button. Encourage them to use a variety of games. When confident, they can try a spell check game.

To review student progress, click on Set Work and select the relevant title. Click on Status and then on the Results icon.

Removing/editing Set Work

If you want to remove or edit set work, the icons circled below allow you to do this.