Two examples of a balanced argument: Should cars be banned from town centres and should mobile phones be banned in schools

A full lesson for teaching the use of the full stop aimed at year 3 as a refresher but can be used with year 2 but activities may need to be altered. This contains lesson plan, PowerPoint and resource cards and sheets

The PowerPoint is a guide to how to write a Place or setting for a story with the outcome being that the children can describe settings understanding how small details can be included to evoke time, place and mood.

This PowerPoint is a guide to how children can describe the place where the action will take place adding details to show mood

Planning for week 1 covering the objectives: Can I listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books and read books that are structured in different ways? (Ongoing) Can I discuss ideas and outcomes for our new literacy unit, and link these with our new topic? Can I retrieve and record information from non-fiction? Can I draw inference about characters feelings, thoughts and motives for their actions? Can I justify these with evidence? (HA) Can I predict what might happen from details implied?

A set of example recounts written about events occurring during WW2

An activity where children can either self or peer assess their own work or it can be used to analyse recounts at the start of the unit of work

A collection of Year 6 comprehension texts for questions and analyse

An activity where children are times reading a text and completing a short task

An activity where children are times reading a text and completing a short task

A simple but useful record sheet for guided reading sessions

An A4 sheet full of facts about Martin Luther King Junior that can be used for a unit of work or a report/biography writing activity based on figures in history

A planning frame for writing a balanced argument that can be adapted to any argument

Balanced argument information and activity for writing a balanced argument/writing assessment

Success criteria for adding tension to a story

An assessment sheet for self or peer assessment after writing a setting. Includes the success criteria for writing a setting

A complete lesson including PowerPoint, video clip and thought bubbles to create a freeze frame of the moment Veruca Salt gets her Golden ticket. It asks children to think about whether she really deserved the ticket and what the worker who found it would have thought, felt and said.

Unit cover with suggested books, purpose for writing and objectives for reading, writing and spag

A complete lesson teaching reading response to stories with historical settings looking at asking questions