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The Firework Maker's Daughter VIPERS Guided Reading Question Tasks - 28 lessons
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The Firework Maker's Daughter VIPERS Guided Reading Question Tasks - 28 lessons

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Here are 28 Guided Reading lessons. Each lesson comes with a set of questions based on the reading VIPERS. Questions are to be stuck in books for children to answer. This was originally made for a Year 4 class so could easily be adapted up to Year 5 or down to Year 3. Most lessons have two sets of differentiated questions. Tasks in this unit include: Diary writing sequencing the story book review Answering questions Drawing
Jellyfish non-chronological animal reports - 9 lessons.
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Jellyfish non-chronological animal reports - 9 lessons.

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This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class. Can be easily adapted. It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters. Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs) Lesson 2: Use paragraphs Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2) Lesson 4: Create a shared plan Lesson 5: Create a shared write Lesson 6: Create an independent plan Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias) Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
Spy Mission Job Application writing lesson  KS2
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Spy Mission Job Application writing lesson KS2

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used as a stimulus for writing a job application Spy Kids stimulus Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
KS2 Art portrait PowerPoint
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KS2 Art portrait PowerPoint

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Suitable for all KS2. One Powrpoint document that can be used over a period of weeks for many art lessons based on portraits. explanation of a portrait famous examples of portraits Analysis questions of famous portraits Step by step guide to drawing part of the human face - proportions, eyes, nose, mouth, ears Body proportion
Demon Dentist Guided Reading Tasks
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Demon Dentist Guided Reading Tasks

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Created for Year 4 but easily adaptable. Included are the worksheets/questions for the whole book. 2 per page - easy to print and trim. All objectives based on the reading VIPERS
The Railway Children Guided Reading Unit Activities
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The Railway Children Guided Reading Unit Activities

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Here are 8 lessons which goes from page 1 up to page 53 of the book. -Read the book to the children/Children read the chapters stated. Children complete the activity for the lesson. Answers included for easy marking. Made and completed for Year 4. Easily Adaptable.
Loss and Bereavement Lessons Unit
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Loss and Bereavement Lessons Unit

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I taught this to a Year 4 class but this can be used from Year 4 - Year 6. This will support children in knowing how to cope with loss and exploring this and strategies to support them. Included in this are the tasks and links to stories on Youtube so you do not need the physical book yourself.
Self portraits: Cubism and Wool Painting Inspired
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Self portraits: Cubism and Wool Painting Inspired

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Lesson 1: Analysis and looking at the work of Alice Bailly and Pablo Picasso. Info about the artists with key questions to answer based on their work. Comparison task. (For KS1, this can be done whole class and stuck into books. KS2 independent work) Lesson 2: Children explore cubism skills by understanding what cubism is and drawing a selection of random objects through a cubist lens. Lesson 3: Children explore wool painting and have an opportunity to explore different patterns and styles of wool painting. Lesson 4: Children create their own cubism self-portraits. They add a section of wool painting to the art.
Ancient Maya Non-chronological Explanation Texts KS2 English Planning - 2 weeks
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Ancient Maya Non-chronological Explanation Texts KS2 English Planning - 2 weeks

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Clear planning leading up to an independent write on a non-chronological report on Ancient Maya. This can easily be adapted to another topic for the non-chronological report. It includes: Powerpoints Differentiated worksheets Extra information word document where needed Links to videos to use Lesson 1 - Features of a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) 2: Nouns and pronouns 3: Applying knowledge of nouns and pronouns 4: Using paragraphs 5: Shared write 6: Edit and improve a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like) 7: Planning a non-chronological report on Maya 8: Independent Write Step 9 would be to publish. The SPAG this includes: title, subheadings, glossary, paragraphs, fronted adverbials, nouns/pronouns for clarity, subject-specific vocabulary. Suitable for Year 3 and 4. This took 2 weeks to complete with my class.
2 week Romans Romulus and Remus English plan
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2 week Romans Romulus and Remus English plan

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The following plan will go through these lessons: I can understand what a myth is and identify their themes and features. I can compare and contrast different versions of a Roman Myth I can use drama to empathise with characters in a story I can explain when to use possessive apostrophes in character descriptions I can understand the general structure of a myth. I can plan the characters and setting for my own myth. I can use adverbials to open my myth. I can use conjunctions in my myth. Lots of fun to introduce the topic of Romans. Made for year 4 but can easily be adapted. Includes smart notes, differentiated resources and activities.