Oct. 21, 2024
Tutors can now get access to fantastic resources through the 2Simple's Purple Mash and Serial Mash, helping them to teach interactive, inspiring lessons.
Find out more below 👇
Purple Mash is an innovative and comprehensive online platform designed to empower educators. It offers a wealth of tools and resources that cater to a wide range of subjects and student age groups, making it a versatile asset for tutors. Tutors can utilise Purple Mash to design activities and assessments tailored to the unique needs of their students. The platform also offers a vast library of educational resources, including games and printable worksheets to supplement lessons.
Purple Mash is available to tutors at £150 for one year, and includes up to 20 pupil accounts.
Serial Mash provides access to a diverse range of serialised stories and comprehension materials, which are designed to captivate students' imaginations and foster a love for reading. With its comprehensive collection of age-appropriate, high-quality texts, Serial Mash empowers tutors to encourage reading for pleasure, critical thinking, and creative writing. Furthermore, the platform includes interactive comprehension quizzes, activities, and writing prompts that allow tutors to assess and support their students' literacy development.
Serial Mash is available as an add-on to Purple Mash, and tutors can get both for £200 for one year, with up to 20 pupil accounts.
Pupils will only need one log-in to access both Purple Mash and Serial Mash. Here are just some of the great features you'll have access to as a tutor:
The fully-editable writing templates within Purple Mash mean you can ensure all of your resources are at the right level for your students, and cater to their interests easily. With the templates, you can add sentence prompts and key words to help them with their ideas, as well as changing the background colour and font to help any children with dyslexia.
Writing templates can be used online, set as a 2Do so your student can complete it outside of your lesson time. Or, you can print them off to use offline.
There are also some fantastic resources to use alongside popular children's texts, including resources for:
In addition to printable writing templates, there are vast amounts of other printable resources.
If you're working on spelling with your students, there are dictation and Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheets included in our whole school Spelling Scheme of Work. There are also resources for homophones and prefixes within the English Printable Resources folder. If you're working with younger students, there are even Phonics printables including flashcards.
For maths, there are number lines and number squares as well as printable worksheets.
Break up your tutoring sessions with fun and educational interactive games that are sure to boost your students' key skills. There are a wide array of maths games, with Monster Multiplication being a firm favourite... and there's even a Multiplication Tables Check tool to prepare your Year 4 tutees. Alongside these are grammar games for ages 5-11 where students can practise verb tenses, punctuation and sentence building.
Also included inside Purple Mash are Resources on Popular Texts - reading and writing activities for popular children's books - and a large selection of DK Learning information texts, perfect for exploring topics and children's specific interests.
For just £200 for a year, you'll not only have access to all resources on Purple Mash, but you'll also get access to a whole online library of over 250 books and comprehension resources with Serial Mash. The libraries on Serial Mash are:
🔴Diamonds - Recommended for ages 5-7
🟢Emeralds - Recommended for ages 7-9
🔵Sapphires - Recommended for ages 9-11
🔥 Fire bolts - Books to motivate and promote eager reading
☄Comets - Longer novels for ages 9-11
📝 Poetry - A collection of poems and linked activities for ages 5-11
📖DK Learning - Dynamic, inspiring and engaging books from Dorling Kindersley
