Synonyms are an important part of the 11+ grammar school exams. I have designed 100 worksheets on this area. I have chosen a group of over 600 words. There are 10 questions per sheets and pupils write a, b, c or d. The teacher will be able to have a lively discussion when going over the work with the pupils, discussing the meaning of all the words. Of course they can be used by not only grammar school pupils. They would suit anyone of the top end of primary, adults with learning difficulties or foreign students learning English.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Autumn term for year 2. 60 mb of info which is good value imo. You get: Literacy planning 12 weeks. Performance poetry, Stories with familiar setting etc. Maths 14 weeks Measuring, Money etc Creative curriculum (a bit) the Police R.E (a bit) I taught in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch this. Science (a bit) Forces and Motions, Health and Growth Remember, all schools are different so you will have to adapt my materials to suit your school. It’s not a silver bullet, but should save you lots of time as you can cut and paste. Great for N.Q.T.'s and experienced alike.

Save your Sundays! Great planning (7 weeks worth) for year 5 Literacy Topics covered: Older Literature Poetry Stories from other cultures Plenty of powerpoints in there. Plus great close sheets on Aesop.

I’m now retired from teaching after decades in the classroom. I’d like to help the younger generation. One aspect I don’t miss is Sundays. Trying to fill in planning grids that were rarely used or looked at. What a nightmare! So I’ve put together my teaching plans, powerpoints, adobe pdf files etc from the various schools I was in. Feel free to adapt for your planning grid. In it are lesson plans, powerpoints, questions etc. You get: 9 pdf files 19 powerpoints 16 word files

A 46 slide powerpoint that details Characterisation and contains exciting group work. The pupils create characters using the top tips.

Planning for Literacy Lesson. Pupils will focus on a soldier who was fighting at Dunkirk. Main character Jimmy Jones Medic in WW2. Lovable, friendly and family orientated but also proud and doesn’t talk about his experiences during the war. Two daughters and several grandchildren. Grandson Bobby will be in the story briefly. Present Scene A bonfire and fireworks event at the local park. Jimmy is enjoying himself with his family. Noisy, crowded, smells of hotdogs and candyfloss, feeling his Grandson’s hand in his. Seeing a father piggy back his children, having fun, children squealing in delight at the sparklers in their hands. Wishing his wife was there to experience this. Past Scene The beaches of Dunkirk, there were explosions here too as Luftwaffe bombed the boats. People being carried here too, carried to me as a medic. How can I help them? I have no supplies, no way of easing their pain. Soldiers scream in pain and give up on life. Gunfire and shells all around me, the chaotic sound of warfare. A ring of flames. Smell sweat on my bloody uniform. Damp clothes. Lice crawling over my body. Trigger The sound of wood crackling on the bonfire brings a distant memory and the sound of an exploding firework causes the flashback to begin… Ending Bobby ‘Daddy, what’s wrong with Grandpa?’ Jimmy’s son gently on his father’s forearm ‘Dad?’. ‘It’s nothing Son, ‘ he cleared his voice gruffly and tried to come back to the present.

Loads of planning. Great to reinforce sats work. About a month’s work. sample: Short Activity One Taught session. Use the two contrasting passages (from lesson support materials in purple Ros Wilson book). One written at L4/5 and one at L2/3. Play ‘Spot the differences’ – what makes one higher than the other? Use to establish the idea of levels and assessment. Identify differences in punctuation, openers, connectives and vocabulary. Use to establish that these are the four features that can easily make a difference to the level of pupils’ writing. Show the Punctuation Pyramid. If you only use a full stop, you are punctuating at level one. Name all the pieces of punctuation – pick a few of the level 4 pieces and ask how it is used – exemplify if time permits. Short Activity 2 Taught session Read the text ‘The Monster’ from lesson support materials. Highlight or underline examples of the four generic targets using a colour code. Children to continue this in pairs. Discuss the passage sharing likes and dislikes. Emphasise the suspense. How does the writer achieve it? Talk about language and punctuation.

77 files in total. The preview gives you an idea of the flavour. Sample planning: Reading as a Reader Introduction Discuss the purpose of instructions, what could they be used for? Allow the children to discuss for 1 minute the different types of instructions that there are that they know of. Take feedback and write on spider diagram. Inform the children that they are going to be going through several types of instructions over the next couple of days and analysing them as a reader. What made them successful for them, what they would have done differently etc. Main Activity Discuss the ‘Witches Fingers Recipe’ with the children, What do they notice straight away that is useful for us as readers? Annotate on WB. Inform them that we are now going to create these treats reflecting on the information provided and how useful it was for us as readers. Split the class into 2 groups - Create the treats – discussing the instructions as they go along. Ask the children to complete the reflection sheet in pairs. Discuss the instructions with the children and their reflection sheets, what made them successful? What would they have done better? Why? How would it have changed these instructions? Were the children ablet o follow the instructions? Were they able to evaluate the effectiveness of these instructions as a reader? Were they able to identify some of the key features that made them effective, such as the layout etc? Introduction Remind the children that they are evaluating instructions as a reader. Inform them that today, they are going to be evaluating different card game instructions and their effectiveness. Also that we are not to support them, as they need to evaluate them themselves and they are going to tell me whether they were effective instructions at the end of the lesson and why. Main Activity Children are to be in mixed ability reading pairs, read through the instructions and follow the instructions independently and play the card games. Carousel the pairs to the different games, allowing them 10 minutes at each activity.

Planning for writing a piece of jounalism. Full planning. Great powerpoint and lots of detail. Pupils write a piece with the teacher’s help. Model write for 2011 short writing task. A speech to my class persuading them to support the charity of my choice – charity to buy books for foreign schools. 8 for composition and effect 4 for sentence structure Hello 6J My name is Chloe and I would like to persuade you to support the ‘Books for foreign countries’ charity with the money that we hope to raise. There are many reasons for my choice and I am going to tell you about them today. Surely you agree that every child deserves an education? Isn’t this a fundamental human right? I think it is. Yet in some countries, children aren’t as lucky as us. Recently, I have been writing to a young girl in Bali, Indonesia. In 2002, a tsunami struck Bali millions of people died, thousands were injured, few survived. Bali is a poor country and finding the money to rebuild lives wasn’t easy. Most schools were swept away CHECKLIST: PERSUASIVE WRITING. Features of persuasive writing Achieved ü What sort of persuasive writing is it? e.g. letter, poster/flyer, travel brochure, advert, catalogue, book blurb etc. Is the point of view clearly explained in an introduction? Is there a series of points with elaboration? (Elaboration means adding more detail.) Is it in the present tense? Does it use logical connectives? e.g. because, consequently, as a result, however, nevertheless etc. Does it use emotive language (e.g. strong adjectives)? Does challenge the reader? E.g. using adverbs and phrases; Clearly, Surely, Obviously, Everyone knows that… etc Is there a clear conclusion or final statement?

Great planning and activities on the Tron Man. sample Introduce the book to the children. Highlight the cover of the book. What do you think the book will be about? Discuss with partners, share ideas with the class. Read the blurb. Why do you think the book is described as a modern fairy tale? Introduce that the author of the book is also a poet. Share that there are many poetic features in the text that are used to describe the characters and setting e.g. similes, metaphors and onomatopoeia. The children will have to take notes of these features. Read chapter 1 to the children. Ask the children to jot descriptions of Iron Man on their whiteboards while listening to the story. Use a PowerPoint to highlight the description of Iron Man on page 1-2.The children will create a mind maps on Iron Man. They will create a description his movements, his features and his personality. Focus: Characters WALT: To create a description of a character from a text. WILF: Use of adjectives, verbs and poetic features (i.e. similes, alliteration and onomatopoeia). Use neat handwriting. Recap on previous lesson. Ask what has happened so far in the text (Chapter 1 describes Iron Man stepping off a cliff and getting his body back together. In then walks into the sea).How has the author kept our interest so far? What have you enjoyed? Read first half of chapter two to ‘The Iron Man had gone back to the sea.’ Discuss how the boy might felt when he saw Iron Man. How might it have been different if his family didn’t believe him? Why do you think Iron Man went back to the sea? What might happen next? WALT: To create a description of a character and their actions. Identify and discuss powerful verbs, adjectives and adverbs which describe the Iron Man’s movement. Create a mind map of those from the text and other suggestions. Mind map to include similes. Task: Children are to create a ‘Wanted’ poster for the Iron Man. They give a detailed account of his description (using similes and metaphors.) They also must provide details for why he is wanted, listing crimes committed, reward, contact number etc.

Lovely powerpoints and planning. Sample : Give out copies or enlarge Fog by Carl Sandberg (see resources). Read the poem together. Write ‘personification’ on the f/c and discuss what this means. Write a definition: Giving human traits to non-human or abstract things. Or making a non-human thing do things that only a human can do. Enlarge or give out copies of Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room by William Blake (see resources). Discuss how the sunflowers are given human characteristics – they talk, they feel tired, they want a room with a view! Return to the poem Fog. In this, it is almost as if Fog is alive – either human or possibly feline (cat-like). Look again at Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room. Underline the words ‘topaz tortoises’. Do chn know what these last lines mean? Discuss whether it matters if we are not sure of the exact meaning of all the words in a poem. Why might it not matter? Because it is the sound and the rhythm of the words which is as important as their meaning in a poem. Look up topaz to find its meaning. Does this help us understand what the last two lines mean? Easy Working with the teacher, and using a copy of Fog, chn brainstorm other types of weather. They make a list and then write a short sentence or phrase which personifies that weather, e.g. The wind yells in the gaps between the buildings. TD

Tons of ideas to stimulate kids to read. Plenty of short snappy ideas. The zip file has over a dozen documents. Sample ideas Write a letter as a character in your book to either another character in your book, a new invented character or a real-life character. Write a letter from yourself to a character in your book. Write a letter to the author of your book – you could say what you like or dislike about the book, or give ideas for what else you would like included in the book. Have a go at drawing a map of one of the places in the story. See how much you can include and how much detail you can add. Pretend you are a travel agent and want people to visit the place in the story. Write a paragraph on what you would tell others. Re-tell an event from the story from another characters point of view. For example, if Jenny is visiting a haunted castle with her wimpy brother Joe, can you change it from Jenny’s point of view to Joe’s? Re-tell an event from the story as if you are a newspaper reporter and you are writing a newspaper article. Imagine you could interview a character in your story – what would you ask them? What would their replies be? Write your interview with your character. Set it out so you use 2 different colours for your questions and your character’s answers. Write the diary entry (or several) for a character in your story after something interesting has happened. Have a go at writing a second diary entry for a different character. Have a go at continuing the story after the end of the book. What might happen next? Change the story by changing the actions of one of the characters. Maybe they do something different when it’s a big event, that changes everything! Change the story into a very simple version for young children and illustrate it too. Change the story (or part of it) into a comic strip. Change the story (or part of it) into a poem. Change the story (or part of it) into a play. Create a passport or ID card for your character. Draw a picture of a character from the story. Make sure you use all the detail that the book gives you. Draw a picture of a place in your story. Make sure you use all the detail that the book gives you. Design a new blurb for the back cover of the book. You can use colours and pictures as well as writing. Redesign the front cover of the book. Design a poster to advertise your book. Think about it’s unique selling points – e.g. what is good about it. Design a radio advert to advertise your book… maybe you would read some of the exciting bits to the audience. Remember your audience can only listen, not see what you’re doing. Write about what a character might be thinking or feeling at different stages of the story. You could write it in the first person, or in a speech bubble.

A great deal of planning on Fiction. Loads of great powerpoints and word documents. Sample: Introduce the words ‘fiction’ and ‘genre’. TTYP and discuss the meaning of the word ‘genre’. At this point, introduce the new and improved writing journals where children can make notes during lessons, can jot down words they wish to magpie, jot words that they have generated but which aren’t suitable for the task in hand and can jot questions/things they are unsure about. Explain that I will prompt to use these for the first couple of days but then children need to become more independent. Prizes for most effective use! Ensure the children understand the difference between fiction ‘narrative’ and non fiction ‘non narrative’. Activity One Come back together and do class mind map for working wall. Ask children to think of any titles of books which could fit with any of these genres. Ask children to discuss their preferences and discuss our preferences with them. Activity Two Talk about how they sorted the books in activity two. What clues were you looking for? Talk about words which suggest different genres. Explain activity three. Activity One In lit books complete quick mind map of different types of fiction genre. Activity Two Children to work in table groups. Children to be given a wide range of fiction books from class/school library. Children to sort the books into fantasy, historical, science fiction and mystery by scanning the book, looking at the front cover and reading the blurb. Activity Three Children to have a selection of pictures from books (front covers and insides) and blurbs from a variety of fiction books. Ch to decide which genre they think they book comes from and justify their opinion by highlighting the key words or annotating the pictures. SEN: (Mrs Shephard & Mrs Maguire’s groups) to work as a group on this task. MA: In pairs. Miss Noble to work with ‘Quality Question Marks’ (both groups). HA: Independently. Plenary: What have we learned? What is narrative? Non narrative? What is a genre? Name some genres of narrative? What is your favourite? Why? Least favourite? Why? Does this link to visual literacy (i.e. do films and TV programs split into genres?)