Week 4 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on 4 different forms of poetry (haiku, acrostic, kenning & shape poems). Chapters 8 - 11 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 8-11 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in online research, identifying syllables and poetry writing.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
35-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Kenning Poetry worksheet
Acrostic Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry Challenge worksheet
Counting Syllables worksheet (& answers)
Haiku Worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup & Toothless clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 5
X Week 6
Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hello Fellow Teachers,
Here is a large pack for an entire unit of diary writing lessons. It’s a week long, and all of the planning, resources, evaluations, examples, success criteria and word banks are provided!
Even included two fonts for you so that you can edit the .doc format files at your leisure!
Hopefully all of the above should help to turn the focus back to teaching as opposed to all of the other stuff we have to do!
If you’re looking for home-learning projects, here are links to the resources I’ve put together for whilst the children are distance learning and off school.
LKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-lks2-home-learning-project-12282480
UKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-6-week-english-project-for-ks2-12269809
Apocalypse themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/apocalypse-6-week-english-project-12270297
Detective themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/detectives-7-week-english-project-12270301
Romans & Celts themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romans-and-celts-home-learning-project-12278939
Week 5 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on personification, rhyming poetry and text comprehension using evidence from the text.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 12-14 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in using personification to describe, writing rhyming poetry in the ABCB pattern and providing evidence when answering comprehension questions.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 12, 13, 14 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Identifying Personification worksheet
The Story So Far worksheet
Personification in Poetry worksheet
Rhyming Poem Example worksheet
Poetry Write-Up worksheet
Chapter 14 Comprehension worksheet
Newspaper Article Challenge worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 4
X Week 6
**Want to save money on the whole unit? **
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 6 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on character description, prediction and planning, writing and editing a sequel.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 15-19 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in using textual evidence to predict future plot lines, describing characters using ‘show not tell’ and writing at length.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Making Predictions worksheet
Describing the Green Death worksheet
Evidence from Text worksheet
Book Review worksheet
Story Mountain Planning worksheet
Introduction Drafting & Editing worksheet
Sequel Write-Up worksheet
Front & Back Cover Design Challenge worksheet
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 4
X Week 5
**Want to save money on the whole unit? **
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Horizontal, Vertical, Perpendicular, Parallel, Diagonal – 1 Week Unit of Work
This download includes a maths unit on different types of lines, which is made up of 3 tasks. Children will identify five different types of lines discreetly and in the context of shapes and symmetry. They will also be exposed to right angles and the relationship to perpendicular lines. The main worksheets are differentiated for three levels of ability.
This download includes:
Recognising Types of Line worksheet (differentiated 3 ways)
Perpendicular & Parallel Challenge sheet with 3 levels of difficulty (answers included)
Vertical & Horizontal Challenge sheet with 3 levels of difficulty (answers included)
Three fonts to edit resources with
Access to a free border!
My Distance Learning Projects:
Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing skills in a variety of areas.
Information Texts: Space-Themed Independent Project
Play Scripts and Diaries: Island-Themed Independent Project
Research Skills: Romans & Celts-Themed Independent Project
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress.
Thank you and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Cardinal directions, degrees of turn, clockwise & anticlockwise – 1 Week Unit of Work
This download includes a maths unit on directions and turns, which is made up of 3 tasks. Children will identify 90 degree (90°) turns discreetly and in context of navigating a maze. They will also be exposed to north, south, east and west and their relationship to 90, 180, 270 and 360 turns. The main worksheets are differentiated for three levels of ability.
This download includes:
Recognising Types of Turn worksheet (differentiated 3 ways & answers included)
Navigating a maze worksheet (differentiated 3 ways)
Treasure Hunt Challenge (children must guide a character through a map to collect a pirate’s treasure)
Two fonts to edit resources with
Access to a free border!
My Distance Learning Projects:
Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing skills in a variety of areas.
Information Texts: Space-Themed Independent Project
Play Scripts and Diaries: Island-Themed Independent Project
Research Skills: Romans & Celts-Themed Independent Project
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress.
Thank you and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
A fun-filled and colorful workbook focused on learning the Japanese words for different colours in Katakana, Hiragana and Romaji!
This is a 6-paged, activity workbook that focuses on children (or adults!) learning the main colours in Japanese, in both Kana and Romaji alphabets. This resource spreads across 4 tasks (these could be set weekly or daily) which last for roughly 30 minutes each. The activities include:
Matching objects to their colour
Finding colours in a wordsearch in Kana
Translating from English > Romaji > Kana
Colouring by Romaji instructions
This download includes:
PDF version of the 4-task workbook
Word Document version of the workbook for editing
2 fonts for editing .docx Word documents
Worksheets to complete the tasks on within the document
A multi-language ‘dictionary’ for new vocabulary
UK and US versions for spelling differences
Colours Taught:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, black,grey & brown
More Beginner’s Japanese Resources:
Beginner’s Japanese Course- Week 1: Greetings & Introductions
Beginner’s Japanese Course- Week 2: Numbers 0-20
A pack of 2 chapter-projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 9 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar and creative themed.
~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~
JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home.
She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages.
Chapter 1 Project:
With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 1 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Chapter 2 Project
With 5 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities and worksheets provided), children will work through the second chapter: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 2 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on Victorian schools, the uniforms, the lesson format and the punishments.
This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 16 roles that range from having a single line up to having ~6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download.
The props required are also listed, as well as there being a section for you to allocate roles on the front page.
A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike!
Looking for a play on Victorian inventions instead? Click here!
Enjoy.
Miss Austin
A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on the Victorians and their inventions in the style of an episode of Dragon’s Den.
This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 18 roles that range from having a single line up to having 6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download.
The inventions include the telephone, the flushable toilet, the lightbulb and a flop- the Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad. The dragons include Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne.
A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike!
Enjoy.
Miss Austin
Hi there!
Currently working in a storytelling school that base the whole term around a certain story.
This term we're reading and studying The Prince of Birds. It's a great story and would be a great one to choose as it's a diverse story, has a focus on birds which can be used in art, science and ICT and is set in Spain, which is great for RE, History and Geography.
LO's, success criteria and all resources set out above.
Happy teaching!
Miss Ritchie
Recognising Right Angles – Complete 1 Week Unit of Work
This download includes a complete maths unit on right angles and the relationship to quarter and half turns. Children will identify 90 degree (90°) angles discreetly and in shapes. Main worksheets are differentiated for three levels of ability. Everything you need to teach the whole unit is included.
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This download includes:**
Interactive Teaching PowerPoint for guiding children’s learning
3 activities for recognising right angles (discrete and contextualised)
Two fonts to edit resources with
Access to a free border!
My Distance Learning Projects:
Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing skills in a variety of areas.
Information Texts: Space-Themed Independent Project
Play Scripts and Diaries: Island-Themed Independent Project
Research Skills: Romans & Celts-Themed Independent Project
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress.
Thank you and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 1 of 10- An introduction to Japan, key vocabulary and greetings.
This product contains an 18-slide Teaching PowerPoint and worksheet that guides students through learning the basics about Japan and how to greet each other! The focus is on speaking and, thus, all vocabulary is taught in Romaji for this week! This product contains 5 activities, including:
Making and exchanging Meishi (business cards)
Finding Japan on a world map
Researching Japan’s key facts
Identifying Japanese vocabulary in the English language
Speaking activities
This download includes:
An 18-slide Teaching PowerPoint
‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
PDF version of the meishi templates
Word Document version of the meishi templates
2 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
QR codes and hyperlinks to aid research
A multi-language ‘dictionary’ for new vocabulary
Vocabulary Taught:
Konnichiwa, sayonara, arigatou, ohayou gozaimasu, konbanwa, oyasumi, sumimasen, meishi, sensei, gakko, namae, Ogenki desu ka, Hai, genki desu, anata wa, ja mata ne.
Beginner’s Japanese Resources
Japanese for Beginners: Colors Workbook
Beginner’s Japanese Course- Week 2: Numbers 0-20
Week 2 of 10- An introduction to the numbers 0-20 in Japanese (Kanji & Romaji).
This product contains an 17-slide Teaching PowerPoint and worksheet that guides students through learning the first 20 numbers in Japanese (not forgetting 0!). The focus is on speaking and writing, thus, all vocabulary is taught in both Romaji and Kanji for this week! This product contains 7 activities, including:
‘Last week’s learning’ question task
Identifying Japanese vocabulary in the English language
Speaking activities
Matching English-Kanji-Romaji numbers activity (worksheet included!)
Coloring by numbers activity (worksheet included!)
Prediction task
Writing task to improve Kanji memorization (worksheet included!)
This download includes:
A 17-slide Teaching PowerPoint
‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
PDF version of the 3 written worksheets
Editable Word Document versions of the 3 worksheets
3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
QR codes and hyperlinks to aid research
A multi-language ‘dictionary’ for new vocabulary
Vocabulary Taught:
rei, ichi, ni, san, shi/yon, go, roku, nana/shichi, hachi, kyu, juu, juuichi, juuni, juusan, juuyon, juugo, juuroku, juunana, juuhachi, juukyu, nijuu
More Beginner’s Japanese Resources:
Japanese for Beginners: Week 1: Greetings & Introduction
Japanese for Beginners: Colours Workbook
Week 1 of 12- An introduction to the Victorians topic, key vocabulary, BC/AD and timeline chronology activities
This product contains a 20-slide Teaching PowerPoint and 7 pages of worksheets that guide students through learning the chronology of where the Victorian era fell in the context of British and global history. The activities can be conducted as a class or in smaller groups both physically (using string and clothespins/pegs or laminated cards) or digitally. The focus is on problem solving, understanding the meaning of BC and AD and understanding the chronology of this pivotal era.
This product contains 4 activities, including:
‘What do we already know?’ sticky note activity
Understanding timelines (creating your own)
Sorting British History events using physical or digital cards
Sorting key images of Victoria using physical or digital cards
A note-taking activity to improve summarizing skill
This download includes:
A 21-slide Teaching PowerPoint
‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
Outline of the planning with links to accessing the rest of the course
Many fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
Extra challenges to push on your critical thinkers
History Resources by LiL
Perfect for the classroom, home learning or even extra curricular clubs, these no-prep lessons make learning about History fun, exciting and (dare I say it…) easy!
X The Victorians | Week 1
X The Victorians | Week 2: Queen Victoria
X The Victorians | Week 3: Victorian Society
X The Victorians | Week 4
X The Victorians | Week 5
X The Victorians | Week 6
X The Victorians | Week 7
X The Victorians | Week 8
X The Victorians | Week 9
X The Victorians | Week 10
X The Victorians | Week 11
X The Victorians | Week 12
X British Monarchy Clip Art
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress!
Thank you, and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Mega Teaching Pack for the Past, Present & Future Tenses in the Simple, Progressive & Perfect forms.
This resource includes:
Past tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Past tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Present tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Present tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Future tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Future tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
All answer sheets
All Word document versions to assist with editing to your students’ needs
2 fonts to assist with editing in the same style
Teaching tenses can be frustrating for many reasons- we were never taught grammar to this extent before, making resources can be tedious and it can be difficult to make them entertaining!
For that reason, and to help out other teachers who are DONE making tenses worksheets time and time again, I thought I’d upload the unit I created and teach with year in and year out!
Miss Austin
Aimed to ensure no child is left behind, these recovery curriculum expectations grids outline key, end-of-year expectations for Key Stage 2 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English.
In each document, the previous year’s expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the current year’s expectations. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020.
How do I use this product?
I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed.
They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources.
Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups.
In each product (separated by year group), you get access to:
PDF versions of the A4 tables
National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation
.docx Word Document versions of the A4 tables to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses
1 font to edit Word documents with
A pack of 4 chapter-based projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 20 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar, punctuation, reading and creative themed.
~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~
JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home. She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages.
With each project file, you will receive:
PDF version of the Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Chapter 1 Project:
With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country.
Chapter 2 Project
5 tasks, made to be set daily, see children work through the second chapter of The Ickabog by JK Rowling: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context.
Chapter 3 & 4 Project
Set across 5 tasks, children work through the 3rd and 4th chapters and are introduced to five key reading skills: inference, summary, questioning, comprehension and synthesis. Each task dives deep into each skill allowing children to access the text on a continually higher level.
Chapter 5 & 6 Project
Set across another 5, jam-packed tasks, children dive deep into understanding, recognizing and using apostrophes for both contraction and possession whilst working through chapters 5 & 6. The activities include conversion tables, spotting apostrophe errors in Chouxville shop signs and placing apostrophes before or after the ‘s’ depending on singular or plural possession.
Key Stage 2: 4 Entire Weeks of no-prep, distance learning English lessons based on Matilda by Roald Dahl. Emphasis on play scripts, recipe writing and description.
Matilda is one of those novels that never gets old, is loved by children and adults alike and provides great opportunity to explore lots of different text types. Perfect for whilst we’re teaching from afar, I put this pack together to ensure this module can still be taught even though we’re not in the classroom!
Included in this mega pack:
30+ resources in PDF format to ensure aesthetic layout!
PDF version of the text
20-lesson, 4 week long planning sheet with brief lesson plans- all able to be completed from home.
Prediction worksheet based on the front cover and blurb
Glossary worksheet and definition answers provided
Character trait worksheet for Mrs Phelps, Matilda & Mr Wormwood
Two write up sheets for different character descriptions
Venn Diagram for comparing characters
‘Features of a play script’ help sheet
Jack and Jill play script to label
Converting prose to play script worksheet
Using commas in three different ways worksheet
Acrostic Poem worksheet
Intonation and expression worksheet
Mischief scale worksheet
Comparisons between movie and book worksheet
Matilda’s next trick hypothesis worksheet
Planning sheets for play scripts
Asking questions to Miss Trunchbull worksheet
Converting adjectives to adverbs worksheet
Antonyms starter activity
Synthesised chapter planning sheet
Sequencing of emotions worksheet
Recipe planning and example sheets
Various starter tasks and extension challenges
Additional Resources that didn’t make it onto the final plan
.docx Word Document versions of ALL resources to allow you to edit them
3 fonts to edit your resources with
Phew! What a massive pack to put together!
All of these will be sold separately as individual lessons in the coming weeks.
I hope this saves you time and stress.
Miss Austin