Overview of the Unit:
Lesson 1: Engage Through Drama
Kick off the unit with playscripts and hot seating to spark interest and immerse pupils in the Viking topic.
Lessons 2–4: Master Relative and Embedded Clauses
Build technical skills by focusing on relative clauses and embedded clauses using dashes. Scaffolded tasks include identifying, practicing, and applying these skills to descriptive paragraphs about the Vikings.
Lesson 5: Expanded Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases
Teach pupils to add detail and precision to their writing by crafting vivid sentences about Viking roles and lifestyle.
Lesson 6: Ad Same Ad Sentence Structure
Introduce Allan Peat’s Ad Same Ad sentences to help students create impactful, descriptive sentences.
Lesson 7: Describing Viking Clothing
Apply learned skills to describe Viking clothing and settlements, blending expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and Ad Same Ad sentences.
Lessons 8–10: Using Formal Language
Guide students to write formally, using generalizers and precise vocabulary, while practicing formal sentence construction.
Lesson 9: Plan the Report
Pupils organize their ideas under clear subheadings, ensuring all features—relative clauses, formal language, expanded phrases—are included.
Lessons 10–12: Writing the Non-Chronological Report
Over three lessons, pupils draft their reports, working to different ability levels with sentence starters, scaffolds, and modeled examples.
Lesson 13: Publish with Style
Pupils polish their work, adding illustrations and neat formatting to create a final report ready for display or assessment.
Key Features:
Fully differentiated tasks to support lower ability, age-related, and greater depth learners.
Focus on grammar skills: relative clauses, embedded clauses, expanded noun phrases, and formal language.
Engaging activities including hot seating, sentence crafting, and publishing with illustrations.
Scaffolds, WAGOLLs, and success criteria provided for every step.
Perfect for cross-curricular links with history or thematic units on the Vikings.
Why Teachers Love It:
Saves time with ready-to-teach lesson plans and resources.
Encourages creativity alongside rigorous grammar skills.
Supports writing progression with clear success criteria and scaffolded tasks.
Engages learners with a high-interest topic and varied teaching methods.
What’s Included:
13 detailed lesson plans with objectives, activities, and differentiation.
WAGOLL examples for each skill.
Printable planning templates, worksheets, and success criteria.
Editable resources for tailoring to your class.
KS2 Literacy unit
Split your class in half or have one class against the other.
Focuses on:
Fronted adverbials
Generalisers
PEE argument structure
Rhetorical questions
Relative clauses
There is an oracy element to the unit as well where pupils practice saying their sentences and debate out loud.
Lesson structure:
WAGOLL and understanding what a debate is
Looking at graffiti and research
Practice using generalisers and fronted adverbials
Practice using rhetorical questions
Practice using relative clauses
Practice writing within a PEE format
Planning lesson with box up template
Widgit representations for:
spellings
sentence starters
Differentiation for B squared with picture orientated task where they need to replace some of the words with synonyms
Includes:
Pre/Post assessment for decimals
Understanding tenths
Understanding hundredths
Comparing and ordering decimals
Rounding to the nearest whole
Rounding to the nearest tenth
Mastery style teaching with teaching slides, sentence stems, pictorial and visual representations to support teaching
How to train your dragon isntructions writing unit
Can be adapted for year 3- year 5
Features:
Time conjunctions
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Sub headings
Adverbs
Imperative verbs
Daily 5 for a 8 week period
4-6 questions based on the end of year 5 test requirements.
Timer included on slides
Includes a celebration slide with all of the questions that need mastering.
Year 5 PSHE career bundle
Lesson 1: How can money be borrowed and what are the risks with this?
Lesson 2: What is enterprise?
Lesson 3: What influences peoples decisions about careers?
3 lesson bundle
suitable for year 5 and year 6
engaging maths lessons based on saving for a holiday.
lesson 1: Pupils must pick flights and hotels
lesson 2: Pupils must pick items they are taking on holiday
lesson 3: Pupils must pick the activities that they are completing on the trip
pupils have a budget and they must then calculate the total cost
Includes:
Teaching slides
differentiated questions
modeled questions
answers for questions
Two lessons bundle
Lesson 1: Flights and hotel
Lesson 2: Luggage and items
Engaging topic great for summer term
Calculator use
Can be used in upper ks2 and KS3
Challenges for higher ability children
Teaching slides and worksheets
Year 5/ year 6 plan
1 week worth of lesson plans
Teaching slides
Differentiated worksheets
Links to the European football championships
Day 1: Multiple equations mental maths
Day 2: Division using factors
Day 3: Long division 3 digits
Day 4: Long division 4 digits
Day 5: European football championships
Higher ability summer maths revision pack
Includes:
slides for answering HA questions and LA questions.
Daily revision/intervention questions.
Aids for getting children to greater depth.