Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Serif body text at the usual size.
Four ways to set the page
Same questions. Different sheet.
Chosen from the Print / Download menu, per document – so one worksheet can go out four ways in the same lesson. Each card below is set in the layout it describes.
Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
OpenDyslexic, line spacing at 1.8, letters tracked apart. The weighted letterforms make a character harder to rotate or transpose.
Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Open letterforms, wide tracking, no OpenDyslexic. Plenty of dyslexic readers dislike it and read better with ordinary well-spaced type – worth trying both with a pupil rather than assuming.
Which gas do plants take in?
A third bigger, with the answer lines growing to match so there is still room to write. For low vision.
Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Larger text, generous space between questions, and the two-column layouts dropped to one. For pupils who lose their place on a crowded sheet – as often an attention or visual-processing issue as a reading one.
Check before you print. The export menu has Preview as a pupil sees it, which renders the real printed document in the chosen layout – the same page the PDF is built from.
Paper
Coloured overlays, printed in.
The colour prints onto ordinary white paper, so there is no plastic overlay to lose and no tinted stock to buy. Independent of the layout above – “large print on cream” is one selection away.
- AaWhite
- AaCream
- AaBlue
- AaGreen
- AaPink
- AaYellow
Deliberately pale. These sit behind body text that has to stay legible, and every one holds a contrast ratio above 12:1 against the text – well past the 4.5:1 WCAG AA asks for. A pale tint also costs a fraction of the ink.
Writing the questions
Scaffolding, not an easier paper.
Under Additional support on the worksheet generator. Tick any combination – they stack.
Lower reading age
Short sentences, one idea each, everyday words for everything except the subject terminology being tested. Subject terms are kept and supported rather than swapped for vaguer ones – replacing them would change what is being assessed.
Chunked instructions
Every instruction broken into numbered steps, one action per step, placed immediately before the question they apply to.
Sentence starters
An opening line on written answers, chosen to commit the pupil to the right kind of answer without giving it away.
Key terms glossary
Subject vocabulary listed with one-line plain-English definitions, each term introduced before the first question that relies on it. Written with EAL learners in mind.
Described visuals
Concrete examples preferred over abstract ones, and any diagram, table or scenario a question depends on also described in words.
This is not the difficulty slider. Support and difficulty are separate controls on purpose. A pupil can need instructions chunked while working on higher-tier content, and a class with EAL learners in it is not a foundation-tier class. The instruction sent to the model says explicitly not to reduce the difficulty of the questions to compensate – because “needs support” being read as “give them the easy sheet” is the failure this exists to avoid.
Pupils
The quiz page they actually open.
A live quiz is a link. No account, no app, nothing to install – and nothing for you to configure per pupil. There is a Display button on that page, always visible and never buried in a menu, offering the same text styles and paper colours plus four text sizes. The choice is saved on the device, so a pupil who sets it once in September still has it in March.
- A skip link straight to the questions
- A visible focus outline on every control – usable end to end with only a keyboard
- Answer options grouped and labelled with their question, so a screen reader announces what is being asked rather than “radio button, one of four”
- Unanswered questions marked for assistive technology, not shown in red alone
- A count – “three questions still need an answer” – not a generic warning
- Focus that follows the error, moving the pupil to the question that needs them
- Labelled drawing tools, with the selected tool exposed as state rather than by colour alone
Your own screen
Settings → Accessibility scales the whole interface up to 150%, and can force reduced motion on. The app already follows your operating system’s reduce-motion setting; the switch is for a shared machine whose settings nobody can change.
Set it once
A default layout and paper colour applies to everything you print. Changing it in an export menu affects that one document – printing a single large-print copy will not quietly change what the rest of the class gets.
Fonts and licensing
OpenDyslexic is used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is embedded in the application, not fetched from a third party. It works offline and on a locked-down network, and no pupil’s browser calls out to a font host to read a worksheet.
Tell us where it fails.
If something here does not work for a pupil, that is worth hearing about specifically: which layout, which page, what happened. An accessibility problem reported by someone who hit it in a lesson beats any checklist.
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