Week 1: Prefixes and Clauses
Focus Areas:
Recognizing prefixes such as “dis-”, “un-”, “im-”, and “il-” to change word meanings (e.g., “logical” to “illogical”).
Differentiating between main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences.
Punctuating subordinate clauses accurately.
Question Types:
Multiple-choice questions to identify correct prefixes.
Underline the subordinate clause in a sentence.
Rewrite sentences by adding a subordinate clause using conjunctions like “because” or “although.”
Week 2: Suffixes and Relative Clauses
Focus Areas:
Adding suffixes such as “-ness,” “-ment,” and “-ful” to root words to create nouns or adjectives.
Identifying and writing relative clauses with “who,” “which,” “that,” and “where.”
Applying commas to separate relative clauses.
Question Types:
Fill-in-the-blank to add appropriate suffixes to given root words.
Identify the relative clause in a sentence and underline it.
Write sentences including a relative clause to add detail to a subject or object.
Week 3: Fronted Adverbials and Dashes
Focus Areas:
Using fronted adverbials to add variety and clarity to sentence openers
Employing dashes to insert extra information or emphasize ideas in writing.
Question Types:
Match fronted adverbials (e.g., “Without hesitation”) with appropriate main clauses.
Rewrite sentences to include dashes for clarity (e.g., “James—a skilled musician—played the piano beautifully”).
Identify fronted adverbials in a text and add them to sentences.
Week 4: Sentence Types and Direct Speech
Focus Areas:
Distinguishing and constructing the four sentence types: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
Punctuating direct speech with quotation marks, commas, and attributions.
Question Types:
Sort sentences into categories (statement, question, command, exclamation).
Rewrite sentences to correctly punctuate direct speech (e.g., “Where are you going?” asked Sarah).
Write short sentences of each type, ensuring correct punctuation is applied.
Week 5: Grammar Consolidation
Focus Areas:
Combining grammar elements taught in previous weeks (prefixes, suffixes, clauses, fronted adverbials, sentence types, and punctuation) in extended writing.
Editing sentences for grammatical accuracy.
Question Types:
Spot-the-error: Correct grammar mistakes in a paragraph.
Write extended sentences incorporating at least two grammar features (e.g., a fronted adverbial and a relative clause).
Combine two simple sentences into one using a subordinate clause or relative clause.
Lo: Understanding the denominator and numerator
You will need some fraction walls or fraction circles for the first task.
Build slowly with sentence stems and real life context throughout the lesson before moving on to more pictorial representations of fractions.
Can be taught to a year 3 class, 4, 5 and 6 as a refresher on fractions.
SPAG work for any class from year 4-year 6
Covering:
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Nouns
Conjunctions
Question marks
As well as year 3 and year 4 spelling practice
Focuses on methods to subtract from 1000 to avoid lots of regrouping.
Lesson includes:
Worked examples
Number lines
Challenge questions
Reasoning explanation questions
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
Multi step problem lesson
Example question:
There are 24 bricks in a bag 1/3 of the bricks are red. 3/8 of the bricks are blue. The rest of the bricks are green. How many bricks are green?
Starts off with a modelled working out on sheet 1.
Builds on with extra practice.
Fraction of amount multi step lesson
Example question:
There are 24 bricks in a bag 3/10 of the bricks are red. The rest of bricks are blue. How many bricks are blue.
First task: Involves calculating the fraction that is missing.
Builds into finding the amounts.
Starts off with bar models and scaffolds to support learning
Lots of opportunity for practice with modelled practice on slides.
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
Rounding decimals to the nearest whole
Episodic lesson
Uses number lines and mastery teaching methods
Reasoning questions throughout to add context to the learning
Rounding to the nearest tenth teaching slides and worksheets
Focuses on number lines
Uses sentence stems
Two episodes of learning with number lines to support rounding
Counting recapped
Year 5 lesson can be adapted for year 4 and year 6
Orders decimals with tenths then hundredths and then into thousandths
Mastery approach with sentence stems
Small steps throughout the lesson with modeled practice
4 worksheets to accompany the lesson
1 week of arithmetic planning for year 5 maths
5-7 daily questions based on end of year expectations
Teaching slides that aid efficiency, accuracy and flexibility
Daily fluency
4-6 questions every day from Autumn to Spring 1
QLA for the spring mid term test base questions provides analysis for each domain in maths.
Spreadsheet that provides all of the data analysis for the spring mid term arithmetic.
Every single question requires a 0 or a 1.
For two mark questions there are two collumns.
After placing the 0’s and 1’s you are given an average percentage for each question + an average of question success rate for the different question types:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Fraction
Decimals
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