I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
The second of two lessons that focuses on synonyms and antonyms. These have been written with 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
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 including the plan, slides and differentiated resources.
The first lesson out of three that focuses on nouns. These have been written with 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
This lesson acts as an introduction/ recap of nouns with the focus then being on common and proper nouns. Included are all the resources needed for the lesson including the plan, slides and differentiated resources.
A reading comprehension about Tim Farron that children can use in the build up to the 2017 election. It is also useful as a general reading comprehension about important people.
Included is: a fact file about Tim Farron that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 10 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Tim Farron at the same time.
The first of two lessons that focuses on synonyms and antonyms. These have been written with 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
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 including the plan, slides and differentiated resources.
N.B The lesson resources are titled lesson 4 as it is the fourth lesson from a bigger sequence of learning.
A presentation that looks at determiners, focussing on numerical determiners and examples of these. This then extends to showing different examples of them in use before getting children to think about their position in relation to the noun and identify determiners themselves in a sentence.
A presentation that focuses on adverbial clauses as well as differentiated worksheets on adverbial clauses.
Each set of worksheets: Three differentiated worksheets that focus on adverbial clauses for children in either Year 5 or 6. Activities start with children being able to identify adverbial clauses before moving on to including them and then writing their own sentences that include adverbial clauses.
A presentation that looks at determiners, focussing on quantifying determiners and examples of these. This then extends to showing different examples of them in use before getting children to think about their position in relation to the noun and identify determiners themselves in a sentence.
A presentation that looks at determiners, focussing on the, a and an, identifying the difference between them and when a or an should be used. This then extends to showing different examples of them in use before getting children to think about their position in relation to the noun and identify determiners themselves in a sentence.
A presentation that looks at determiners, focussing on ordinal determiners and examples of these. This then extends to showing different examples of them in use before getting children to think about their position in relation to the noun and identify determiners themselves in a sentence.
A presentation that looks at determiners, focussing on possessive determiners and examples of these. This then extends to showing different examples of them in use before getting children to think about their position in relation to the noun and identify determiners themselves in a sentence.
A lesson that focuses on being able to recap word classes with a particular focus on nouns and adjectives.
Included in the resource is a lesson PowerPoint that recaps regularly as a class what a noun, verb, adjective and adverb are before focusing particularly on nouns (with a focus on common and proper nouns) and adjectives.
Also included are five different activities to choose from depending on which is most appropriate for your class or that can then be chosen for specific groups of children. Answers are included where possible. These activities include:
Naming nouns based on the images provided and then giving these adjectives (images courtesy of Pixabay)
Sorting nouns into common and proper nouns before creating adjectives for the common nouns
Defining nouns and adjectives and finding examples in sentences
Defining nouns and adjectives as well as creating examples of common nouns and proper nouns before giving common nouns adjectives
Using a given word in two sentences - once as a noun and once as an adjective
A fully-resourced double lesson that focuses on introducing expanded noun phrases.
The first lesson focuses on being able to identify the determiner, adjective/s and nouns before taking examples of expanded noun-phrases and placing them in sentences.
The second lesson then follows up by working on creating examples of expanded noun-phrases from images and given noun phrases.
Each lesson includes a lesson PowerPoint that provides the opportunity to teach, discuss and practice key areas before then moving on to independent activities which include answer sheets where relevant (some don’t due to the open nature of answers.)
Images are courtesy of Pixabay.
Two lessons that focus on being able to use full stops, exclamation marks and question marks as well as ensuring that capital letters are used appropriately.
Included in the bundle is:
A fully-resourced lesson that focuses on being able to punctuate sentences accurately using full stops, exclamation marks and question marks.
Included is a lesson presentation that includes discussion points, examples and practice questions which is then supported with an independent activity to apply what has been learnt and a challenge to apply this to their own sentences. An answer sheet is also included for the independent activity.
A fully-resourced lesson that focuses on being able to punctuate sentences accurately using full stops, exclamation marks and question marks as well as making sure they have capital letters, both at the start and for names.
Included is a lesson presentation that includes discussion points, examples and practice questions which is then supported with an independent activity to apply what has been learnt and a challenge to apply this to their own sentences. An answer sheet is also included for the independent activity.
A fully resourced lesson that focuses on homophones whilst also briefly visiting homonyms. This lesson identifies what homophones are, getting children to define different examples of homophones as well as then deciding on which is the correct option when they are used in sentences.
Included is the lesson presentation and three differentiated worksheets.
Reading comprehensions related to Pokemon to try and engage children whilst also developing their comprehension skills. Included is a fact file about Jigglypuff with three differentiated sets of 10 questions with the answers included.
Eight different fact files and reading comprehension tasks linked to significant black people in history or now.
Included in the pack is a fact file and comprehension for:
Marcus Rashford - there are three differentiated texts for Rashford
Dame Doreen Lawrence
Stormzy
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Tessa Sanderson
Mary Seacole
Answer sheets are also included for each set of comprehensions.
Reading comprehensions about the leaders of the four biggest parties based on 2015 seats that children can use in the build up to the 2017 election. It is also useful as a general reading comprehension about important people.
Included is: a fact file about them that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 10 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about party leaders at the same time.
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at instructions. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 8-10 lessons that focus on key features of instructions and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Independent writing is linked to George's Marvellous Medicines with children creating 'different' types of medicine with a list of possible ingredients also included and an example of how it could be written.
Skills include: Using linking adverbs (time adverbials) and using imperative verbs as well as creating a poppy for remembrance day.
A comprehensive set of resources for anyone to be able to teach a block on writing discussion texts. Planned for Year 5 but very easily adaptable to Year 4 or Year 6.
Included are:
Full lesson plans for 15/16 lessons, with differentiated activities for children.
IWB slides for every lesson that go step by step through the lesson. (N.B. In the shared writing sessions, the example paragraphs just need playing around with to a new topic. Whilst I could have done these, it is more powerful to do them with the class at the time)
Resource sheets required for lessons.
Word banks for children to use.
A self-assessment/ teacher assessment marking sheet that helps children assess as they write and can then be used for a simple marking sheet to pick out positives and targets for children.
A bundle of reading comprehensions related to famous people that links to any work around Black History Month, focussing on significant figures and their lives whilst also developing comprehension abilities.