This word mat and poster can be used to aid learning when writing descriptions about food. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into children’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This ‘Adverbs’ word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

A planning sheet designed to aid child when writing their own fables.

This FREE lesson is the first of a 2-Week Unit on instructions and explanation texts. This download includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson scheme of work and resources. During this lesson children will read, discuss and explore instruction texts as they work in small groups to identify the main features. Click here to download the complete unit! Lesson 1: To discuss and identify the features of instructions Total Number of Slides: 7 Lesson Plan Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

#No additional resources needed. Click here to download lesson 1 for FREE. This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to teach Year 3 children all about Non-Chronological Reports. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the features of this type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own non-chronological reports. They will have the option of 4 interesting sports to research (using the internet, nonfiction books or both), and will use this information to create their own reports in a similar style. They will create, share, edit and improve their drafts before creating a polished report ready for display! SPAG/GPS covered: Word Classes, Clauses, Conjunctions, Spellings and Suffix Rules. Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports Lesson 2: To recognise word classes and clauses Lesson 3: To understand how to create a formal tone Lesson 4: To apply spelling rules when adding suffixes Lesson 5: To plan a non-chronological report Lesson 6: To begin writing a non-chronological report Lesson 7: To extend sentences using conjunctions Lesson 8: To edit and improve my writing Lesson 9: To prepare and deliver a persuasive argument Lesson 10: To create a non-chronological report for display This bundle comes with an End of Unit Child and Teacher Assessment Sheet to allow each pupil to assess and reflect on their own learning. Total Number of Slides: 51 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities and Resources Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This FREE lesson is the first of a 2-Week Unit on instructions and explanation texts. This download includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson scheme of work and resources. During this lesson, children will read and compare 3 different explanation texts as they identify and record their common features. Click here to download the complete unit! Lesson 1: To identify the features of an explanation text Total Number of Slides: 6 Lesson Plan Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This check list can be used to support children as they learn to identify and apply the features of an explanation text. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to introduce children to Information Texts. This week they will learn about fire engines and other big machines. They will read and discuss short extracts of nonfiction texts, write simple sentences using full stops and capital letters, sort a fire fighting equipment word list into alphabetical order and much more! Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To correctly order a sentence Lesson 2: To read and discuss a nonfiction text Lesson 3: To write simple sentences Lesson 4: To write facts about a machine Lesson 5: To sort words into alphabetical order NB. Access to nonfiction books about machines will support this week’s learning. Total Number of Slides: 27 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

These resources can be used to support the learning of Adverbs of Manner (which include the different rules for adding the -ly suffix). This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This handy list of adverbs can be used to teach and support children as they begin to modify verbs within their own writing. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

Related Poem - ‘The door’ by Miroslav Holub (included) This interactive PowerPoint contains the final 5 poetry lessons relating to Image Poems based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. To conclude this unit pupils will practise writing descriptive sentences using comparative adjectives before editing their work to include fronted adverbials. They will learn the importance of a fronted adverbial as well as how and why these are used. Your class will become more engaged with poetry as they use their imaginations to visualise a range of different images when they ‘open a door’. They will then use these collaborative ideas to produce their own image poem (either independently or with a partner) before learning, rehearsing and performing their work during the final lesson. Lesson 1: To write descriptive sentences Lesson 2: To use fronted adverbials to improve my writing Lesson 3: To plan a descriptive piece of writing Lesson 4: To write an image poem Lesson 5: To learn, prepare and perform my poem Total Number of Slides: 29 Differentiation and Group Work? Yes Resources Included? Yes Lesson plan included? No Week 2 of 2 #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This interactive primary PowerPoint includes 5 lessons relating to Choral and Performance Poetry based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. Lesson 1: To identify features of a performance poem Lesson 2: To analyse a performance poem Lesson 3: To create expanded noun phrases Lesson 4: To explore the vocabulary used within a poem Lesson 5: To write a poem in the subjunctive form Total Number of Slides: 31 Resources and Poems Included? Yes Full Lesson Plan Included. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

#No additional resources needed. Click here to download lesson 1 for FREE. This unit includes 10 lessons plans, resources and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 5 children all about instruction and explanation texts. Children will begin by working in small groups to identify the main features of each type of text before applying their knowledge to their own written work. They will enjoy writing instructions for different technological devices such as: escalators, elevators and mobile phones in addition to using the internet to research and explain a range of unusual gadgets! To end and consolidate their learning during Week 2, children will have the opportunity to invent their own mode of transport which they will then plan and create a detailed guide for. This guide will include features of both explanation and instruction texts. SPAG/GPS covered: causal conjunctions, adverbs of time, parentheses (brackets, commas and dashes). Lesson 1: To discuss and identify the features of instructions Lesson 2: To write instructions using adverbs Lesson 3: To write an instructional text Lesson 4: To answer research questions using the internet Lesson 5: To write and present an explanation text Lessons 6 &7: To use brackets, commas and dashes to indicate parentheses Lesson 8: To plan an information guide for a new invention Lesson 9: To write a guide for a futuristic mode of transport Lesson 10: To edit and redraft my guide Total Number of Slides: 50 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities and Resources Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Information Texts. During this second and final week, children will enjoy learning about useful trucks such as Army Recovery Trucks, Logging Trucks and Snow Ploughs before planning and creating their very own! They will then create labels and captions to describe their truck’s features during lessons 3 and 4. SPAG/GPS covered this week: Phoneme /k/, graphemes c, k, ck and ch, simple sentences. Lesson 1: To create a useful big truck Lesson 2: To write sentences using the /k/ phoneme Lesson 3: To write labels and captions Lesson 4: To write an informative sentence Lesson 5: To write captions using complete sentences NB. Access to nonfiction books about trucks will support this week’s learning. Total Number of Slides: 27 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This easy-to-use and adaptable interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Observational Poetry based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. During week 1 of this 2-week unit children will practise reading and understanding a selection of poems (included) as they work together to identify various poetic devices. Pupils will enjoy discussing objects and creating powerful images (with a partner) in preparation for writing their own observational poems during lesson 3. SPAG/GPS covered throughout these lessons include expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. Related Poems: ‘Sharp Freckles’ and ‘Don’t be Scared’ by Carol Ann Duffy ‘The Cow’ by Robert Louis Stevenson ‘Sir Autumn’, ‘The Matter of Holes’ and ‘Granny Granny Please Comb my Hair’ by Grace Nichols ‘Personal Helicon’ by Seamus Heaney Lesson 1: To analyse a selection of poems Lessons 2: To create expanded noun phrases based on observations Lesson 3: To write an observational poem Lesson 4: To explore relative clauses Lesson 5: To use similes, metaphors and personification Total Number of Teaching Slides: 28 Lesson Plan Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes Differentiation? Yes No additional resources needed #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner. Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story Total Number of Slides: 29 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes End of Unit Assessment? Yes