This lesson acts as an introduction/ recap of synonyms and antonyms as well as focussing on adjectives. The activities will help children identify how changing adjectives can create effective sentences. Included are all the resources needed for the lesson.

Two lessons that focus on being able to use thesauruses to find synonyms and antonyms. Included is a lesson on verbs and a lesson on adjectives.

A series of sheets that can form a reading folder in class for children to find new ideas for reading books. This is to help children find books that are similar to ones they like and expand their reading to different books. These have been made using the what people buy on Amazon, using books children may read and seeing what other books people read from that and will continue to be added to.

A simple activity to help develop children's understanding of reading comprehension, getting them to think about what different questions are looking for by matching the question up to what they would need to find.

A sample of the following resource: A fact file about Barack Obama that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 11 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Barack Obama at the same time. Included in the sample is the fact file and first set of 11 questions and answers. For the full set, visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/barack-obama-reading-comprehension-11747920

A revision sheet with information about adjectives that children can use to remind them what they are and the different types of adjectives. Also useful as a mat in sessions when children are using adjectives to remind them about the order of adjectives and how they can be used.

A presentation and a range of resources on adjectives that can be used to teach children about the use of adjectives in their writing/ check children's understanding of adjectives.

All the resources required for children to independently create their own instructions for creating a Halloween potion of some sort. Included are examples of potions from Harry Potter, different lists of potential items and key linking adverbs and imperative verbs. Also included is a cauldron picture where children can draw or list ingredients that will go in. Aimed at 5/6 where they should be confident with instruction writing anyway so can be used as they are for a couple of lessons of independent writing.

An activity that requires children to decide between an -er word and -est word for each sentence to decide which makes the most sense.

A whole class reading comprehension session based on Chapter Seven from the Firework-Maker's Daughter. The session focuses on reading the chapter before looking at any vocabulary children are unsure of. Children will then be shown how to pick out key words from questions as well as looking at what question words are looking for. Finally, children will be able to work through one of three differentiated worksheets that check their comprehension skills/ deeper understanding.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is Air Hotel 3000 which can be found on Pobble on the 27th January.

Five sets of lessons that try to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompts used for these are The Invisible Man which can be found on Pobble on the 13th May, Air Hotel 3000 on the 27th January, The Builders on the 2nd July, Shipwreck on the 29th June and Unwanted Visitors on 28th February.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is Shipwreck which can be found on Pobble on the 29th June.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is The Builders which can be found on Pobble on the 2nd July.

A simple activity that requires children to edit speech, ensuring it is punctuated accurately to indicate direct speech. There are three differentiated activities.

A fact file about Julius Caesar that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 15 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Julius Caesar at the same time.

An activity for children who are below expectations that allows them to still work on relative clauses through the use of relative pronouns.

This lesson acts as an introduction/ recap of synonyms and antonyms as well as focussing on verbs. The activities will help children identify how changing verbs can create effective sentences. Included are all the resources needed for the lesson. N.B The lesson resources are titled lesson 2 as it is the secondlesson from a bigger sequence of learning.

Three Year 5 grids for below, at and expected standard for writing. These have been based on the national curriculum expectations as well as using the current interim Year 6 documents as a starting point for creating them.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is Watery World which can be found on Pobble on the 20th April.