I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 5 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources/activities.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
Statements to help you with assessing children against the 2014 Computing Curriculum, or with setting targets.
There are separate documents for years 1 and 2, which break down the learning and help to show progress between year groups.
As the assessment grids help identify learning for children in each year group, they can also be used to guide planning, again to ensure progress between year groups.
6 lesson plans for the Y4 science topic, living things and their habitats, including:
Grouping living things - plant and animal kingdoms.
Identifying and naming living things.
Vertebrates and invertebrates.
The 5 vertebrate groups.
Invertebrate groups.
Environmental changes.
Clear teaching points and questions to extend thinking.
3 differentiated tasks and ideas for activities.
Statements to help you with assessing children against the 2014 Computing Curriculum, or with setting targets.
There are separate documents for each year group (from y1-y6), which break down the learning and help to show progress between year groups.
Each document is split into 4 categories: e-safety; digital literacy; programming and algorithms and information technology.
As the assessment grids help identify learning for children in each year group, they can also be used to guide planning, again to ensure progress between year groups.
Lesson 1: We are learning to understand what different types of communication are available on the internet.
Link to website for children to conduct their own research into types of online communication.
Some questioning to develop children's thinking, particularly around which types of communication are most useful for what.
Touches on being respectful, kind and polite online.
Choice of activity for differentiation.
Plenary is a self assessment, which is included.
Lesson plan and PowerPoint included.
Lesson 2: We are learning to understand the dangers posed by online communication.
Learning focuses around using email safely.
Children learn about dangerous emails that trick you into opening them e.g. 'you have won a prize...'
A lot of learning is about the dangers of unknown attachments and the harm a virus can do to a devise.
Link to a video to hook children.
Lots of questioning to extend thinking and opportunities for discussion.
Two choices of activity for differentiation.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 3 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activities for identifying living things.
The second in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Living Things and Their Habitats,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to identify and name living things.
An interesting mastery starter - 'What am I?' to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning.
Recaps prior learning on how living things are grouped.
Opportunity for children to work in mixed ability groups to go on a hunt for living things in their school grounds or local environment.
Develop's children's scientific explanations of how to identify and name living things (e.g. specific species of trees, butterflies, birds).
Some 'mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
'Living Things' hunt work sheets provided for children to identify what they find and record these (focus on trees, shrubs, birds, insects, small mammals).
Opportunity for cross-curricular links to ICT for identifying any living things found that are not identified on the sheets. Mastery questions to encourage children to consider what to search for. Also links with e-safety by recapping how to search the internet safely.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint). Activities have cross-curricular links to maths (creating a bar graph).
Plenary requires mastery level thinking and leads into next lesson by encouraging children to consider why grouping all living things as plants or animals is not specific enough.
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
Lesson to introduce different types of nouns: proper nouns, pronouns, common nouns and collective nouns. Opportunity to practice within lesson plus separate, differentiated follow up task.
Lesson to introduce different types of verbs: action verbs (both physical and mental), ‘to be’ verbs, and modal verbs. Lesson includes opportunity to practise.
Used successfully with my capable year 4 class in the summer term, otherwise is suited to year 5.
Two SPaG tests for year 4 in the autumn term.
Test one:
42 Mark test and answer sheet.
Tests children's knowledge on:
Using 'a' or 'an'
Past/present/future tense verbs
Identifying adjectives
Identifying verbs
Pronouns
Paragraph punctuation
Punctuating speech
Possessive 's'
Plural 's'
Time conjunctions.
Test two:
30 mark SPaG test.
Tests children's knowledge on:
Adverbs
Common nouns
Fronted Adverbials
Nouns
Adjectives
Expanded/contracted word forms
Expanded noun phrases
Use of there/their/they're.
10 pages of quick fire maths questions - enough for 10 lessons. You set the time for each question, depending on your class.
Questions cover a range of topics including:
Times tables
Addition/subtraction
Time
Shape
Perimeter
Money
Problem solving
Decimals
Times by 10
30 mark SPaG test. Ideal for year 4 in the Autumn term. Could also be used for year 3.
Tests children's knowledge on:
Adverbs
Common nouns
Fronted Adverbials
Nouns
Adjectives
Expanded/contracted word forms
Expanded noun phrases
Use of there/their/they're.
Two SPaG tests for year 4. Ideal for the summer term. Both include an answer paper.
Test 1 includes:
Direct speech
Indirect speech
Proper nouns
Pronouns
Articles
Subordinate clauses
Homophones
Co-ordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Present tense verbs.
Test 2 includes:
Writing and punctuating fronted adverbials
Correct use of being/been
Converting indirect/reported speech into direct speech
Some year 4 spellings
verbs
Choosing appropriate co-ordinating conjunctions
Correcting tense
Correct use of were/where/we're
Determiners
Using subordinating conjuncitons and writing a subordinate clause.
5 Lesson PowerPoints and resources for activities for teaching or re-covering fronted adverbials. End of unit test on fronted adverbials - answer paper and mark scheme.
Ancient Greece theme to all lessons/ resources so really good for supporting writing if you are doing a topic on Ancient Greece. The lessons could also add to children's exploration of Ancient Greek, including of: Gods, heroes, mythical beasts, temples and battles.
Lessons explore what a fronted adverbial is and encourage children to consider where in the sentence it goes; what the verb is that it describes; whether it describes when, where or how; and what punctuation is required.
Each lesson has a relevant task with it (task for lesson 4 is included within the lesson PowerPoint)
Some critical thinking is required from children as they have to reason why their fronted adverbial was appropriate.
There are opportunities for peer assessment.
Lessons continue to re-cap children's knowledge, whilst also building on it. Very visual with use of images.
Learning objectives include:
We are learning to...
identify a fronted adverbial;
re-order sentences to create a fronted adverbial;
create fronted adverbials;
write fronted adverbials.
SPaG test focusing explicitly on fronted adverbials. Mark scheme included.
Assesses:
What a fronted adverbial is.
What a fronted adverbial describes
Punctuation
Linking fronted adverbials to sentences
Writing fronted adverbials.
Two Y4 SpaG tests, which are ideal for the summer term. Each has an answer paper and mark scheme.
Test one assesses children on:
Correct use of to/too/two
Adverbs
Pronouns
Some Y4 curriculum spellings
Punctuating fronted adverbials
Creating expanded noun phrases
Determiners
Conjunctions
Test 2 assesses children on:
Possessive pronouns
Use of Standard English
Paragraphs
Past tense verbs
Conjunctions
Fronted adverbials
Homophones
Inverted commas
Subordinate clauses
Brackets
Three easy to follow lesson PowerPoints to build on children’s learning about how to create an expanded noun phrase. Each PowerPoint also has examples for children to practise.
Follow up activities for lessons 1 and 2 (lesson 3 is just on the PowerPoint) - each with 2/3 differentiated levels of work sheet.
Focus is on building children’s knowledge to create expanded noun phrases e.g. determiner + adjective (s) + noun + preposition phrase.
PowerPoints and work sheets are very visual, with supporting pictures.
Included is a preposition phrase mat to support children in writing the preposition phrase.
You may also want to work with your class on creating a word bank of adjectives.
30 spelling lists for year 3.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 3 curriculum. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 3 is merged with year 4, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what it means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in years 4/5.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from year 2.
30 spelling lists for year 3 and 30 spelling lists for year 4.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 3/4 curriculum. For ease of coverage, I have split the year 3/4 spelling rules and common exception words into two separate year groups.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in upper key stage 2.
54 spelling lists for Y1
40 spelling lists for Y2
30 spelling lists for Y3
30 spelling lists for Y4
22 spelling lists for Y5
14 spelling lists for Y6
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year group curriculum, including common exception words.
For ease of coverage, I have split the year 3/4 and 5/6 spelling rules and common exception words into separate year groups.
The bulk of the Y5/6 spellings are covered in the year 5 set, in order to give year 6 time to recap spellings from other year groups before SATs week.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
PowerPoint lesson to guide children in identifying South America, Brazil and some significant places in Brazil.
To be used along side atlases.
You may want to download blank maps of Brazil/ South America for children to work on.