A festive and easy to teach poetry week on ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Includes 5 engaging PowerPoints leading you through 5 complete lessons, differentiated lesson resources and a detailed plan. An excellent week of English lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes. The original and useuful resources make teaching enjoyable and easy. The video links in the PowerPoint inspire poetry writing and performance. Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups. Each lesson contains a success criteria. Higher level thinking challenges are provided. Grammar starters cover handwriting, a or an, word classes, rhyming words and spellings. A lovely, tried and tested week of learning about narrative poetry, rhyming couplets, poetry format and syllables. Includes a range of activities and differentiated tasks. Children will compare and evaluate poems, identify features and then write their own narrative poem using the structure of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with ideas from ‘The Snowman’. Detailed weekly plan and all resources included. All reviews welcome.

An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story. Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Using other verbs for said, Correcting speech punctuation, Improving sentence openers, Choosing appropriate paragraph openers, Comparing extracts of modelled versions, Magpie-ing effective words, Using a range of relative clauses, Writing powerful personification phrases, Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors, Learning how to create atmosphere. Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful. Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December. All reviews welcome. You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit Or browse through my shop to find many more inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.

An engaging Scandinavian art unit covering the key elements of art: pattern, line, shape, tone, colour. Includes 6 differentiated and fully resourced lessons to engage and enthuse your pupils. Simply download the 86 slide PowerPoint leading you through the unit, all paper resources and a detailed plan. Your pupils will be amazed and inspired by some well known and unusual Scandinavian Artists and their fantastic work. Lessons will focus on exploring the artistic elements, imitating key styles and designing and creating their own verisons of the art. Highlights Video links modelling artistic techniques Art history included Starters and plenaries Cross curricular links Easy to resource Simple but effective painting tasks Every lesson is differentiated with three stages of complexity and contains an engaging and interesting starter and plenary. Learning Objectives covered: Lesson 1: To identify and connect patterns in art Lesson 2: To explore tone and line in Scandinavian artist’s sketches Lesson 3: To use watercolour for effect in a fairyland Lesson 4: To create light using mixed media Lesson 5: To imitate the style of Edvard Munch’s ‘Scream’ Lesson 6: To imitate the colour and movement in Edvard Munch’s ‘Scream’ Download 6 complete animated lessons working through a range of media (pen, pencil, watercolour and pastels) to encourage creativity and develop artistic skills. Cross curricular links: Geography - Scandinavia Landscapes, History – Famous artists, English – Evaluating and analysing art, PSHE – Emotions. All reviews welcome. Check out my popular geography unit on Scandinavia: click here to teach excellent cross curricular links.