Do you want a quality, differentiated, engaging resources? Look no further! I'm a primary school SLE in English Primary, dedicated to making challenging resources that set high expectations for all pupils. The resources in my shop are outstanding and suitable for the national curriculum. You'll find resources for foundation subjects that promote a rounded curriculum and teach skills and knowledge progressively in each key stage. I hope you find a happy work life balance.
Do you want a quality, differentiated, engaging resources? Look no further! I'm a primary school SLE in English Primary, dedicated to making challenging resources that set high expectations for all pupils. The resources in my shop are outstanding and suitable for the national curriculum. You'll find resources for foundation subjects that promote a rounded curriculum and teach skills and knowledge progressively in each key stage. I hope you find a happy work life balance.
Year 1 and year 2 Maths
Use Beebots to give directions on the road to different olympic venues. Can be used to introduce ordinal language for children working at the expected standard.
Also available are time worksheets
Suitable for year 1 and 2.
Sorting and classifying seeds. Suitable for year 2 and above.
A fun and practical hands on lesson for children to handle different types of seeds, sorting and classifying them. Their is a high quality of differentiated resources available for children to record their results. Encourage children to choose and select the best or appropriate way of recording. The examples of recording sheets provided are a good scaffolding material, however, high ability children should be thinking of their own criteria.
Good example of classification keys given for sorting seeds for gifted and talented children. This lesson supports children to sort into different tables which makes goods links with maths curriculum also. Ideally you will have a range of seeds for children to sort. Easy and cheap seeds for you to get hold of (or you may have in kitchen) are as follows;
mung beans
broad beans
peas
kernel seeds (popcorn)
coriander seed
sunflower seeds
melon seeds
Suitable for the year 2 Plants new curriculum. This lesson has been used as evidence for the science quality mark.
Year 2 English Writing Unit
This is a unit of work based on Monsters and a short clip.
There are two weeks of English Fiction planning that incorporates immersion activities, imagination ideas, and opportunities for children to write simple poetry about feelings of fear. The unit then moves on to watching the short clip and planning ideas for a narrative. Children describe the monster, where it has come from and write their own adventure story. ‘The day I found monster under my bed.’
The resources includes ideas of how to use the monster theme for topic work including DT and making a pesky monster punch drink, and thinking of ideas about how to trap a monster.
Please also additional linked resources called ‘How to trap a wild thing.’ in the shop for Instructions only. Their are also ideas for monster ink art and science inflatable monsters ideas in the Powerpoint.
It is considered useful to set children a holiday task/project before the unit commences and this has also been included.
This resources is an excellent, differentiated, vibrant information booklet about jungle animals. The children can read the information text to find new and interesting facts about elephants, crocodiles, snakes, parrots and hippos. They can then make their own flap or pop up booklet with headings, captions and interesting facts about jungle animals and then read them to an audience. The text supports learning features of non-fiction text and demonstrates how to engage the reader with questions and interesting facts. This resources is differentiated for early readers working towards band 2 and fluent readers working at greater depth. The reading also supports writing non-fiction and using ambitious and technical vocabulary as well as grammar features (in particular questions). Writers working at greater depth can add their own exclamatory sentences about each animal. The text is presented interestingly and has clear text and visuals.
Lesson 2 Collage Overlapping using Canaletto as inspiration
This is the second lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can also be used as a standalone lesson
It is suitable for years 3 and year 4
The following is included;
Lesson Plan
Power Points and resources
Examples of work and tasks included.
Key vocabulary for the lesson
Differentiation
You Tube links with relevant examples.
Pupils will learn the following techniques and explore collage skills;
overlapping, layering, foreground, mid ground background, using inspiration from an artist
Overview of the unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit.
Week 1 Explore collage techniques
Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage
Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link)
Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps)
Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps)
Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage)
Week 7 Finale composition
The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish.
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Lesson 1 Collage techniques for Year 3 and 4
This is the first lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can be used in isolation too,
It is suitable for years 3 and year 4
The following is included;
Lesson Plan
National curriculum learning objectives and success criteria
Power Points and resources
Examples of work and tasks included.
Key vocabulary for the lesson
Differentiation
You Tube links with relevant examples.
Pupils will learn the following techniques and explore collage skills
zigzag, spiral, coil, spiral, twist, and lattice
Overview of the unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit.
Week 1 Explore collage techniques
Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage
Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link)
Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps)
Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps)
Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage)
Week 7 Finale composition
The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish.
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This is an excellent information planning 'All About Whales'. The inspiration for this was from the book the Snail and the Whales by Julia Donaldson. It's a boy friendly text and the children got to keep African snails in the classroom. Leading on from this they learnt an exemplar text about whales, imitated it and then innovated to write their own information text about snails. This unit was linked to grammar features from the new curriculum 2017- 18 for Year 2. It includes using targets to develop use of expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and varied openers. Children structured their writing according to the purpose using headings as questions. The resource includes six weeks of planning, a text map, exemplar text, tool boxing ideas and visuals to support the imitation stage. Please also see independent writing opportunities called Snail Riddles available in the shop that also link to this unit. Enjoy and please leave a comment.
This book is linked to the Stone Age Topic.
It is called Stone Girl Bone Girl
The focus is a narrative writing. It includes 6 weeks planning with marking ladder and exemplar text to support learning.
The unit of work is suitable for year 3 and year 4 and includes the following; Hook lesson, Cold Write, Imitation Stage, Innovation Stage
Invention of narrative with a biography, Hot Task
Year 2 Reading - Working at the expected level TAF.
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne Guided Reading planning includes:
Comprehension - Whole class
Comprehension - Independent
P4C questions
Independent Learning
Grammar tasks - Use commas in a list
Synoyms including idioms and phrases
Author choice of language and features of text
Excellent bank of ideas to use alongside other resources available in the shop to compare stories by the same author. Please see the shop for ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne guided reading 2 weeks of planning.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/rehanafazil
Enjoy this fabulous story and creative ideas to inspire reading for pleasure and meeting the standards at expected level in year 2.
Suitable for the English Reading National Curriculum.
Year 2 Science - Plants Unit. This units consists of 5 weeks of planning with resources. It will give you a sequence of lessons that include observing, fair testing, sorting and classifying. You will see very interesting, engaging and fun resources to get young children thinking like scientists, researching like Darwin, and following their own lines of inquiry.
This bundle of resources is well differentiated, allows opportunities of using the outdoors. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment at the end of the unit and good use of concept maps to introduce the topic to find out what children already know at the start. Suitable for the new Science Curriculum to help children ask questions, plan an investigation and think about follow up inquiry lessons they would like to find answers for. Please like this resource and thank you in advance for choosing it. I am sure it will go down a treat with your class.
Year 2 English Writing with focus on Traditional stories with a twist. to support reading and writing at the expected level.
Can be used as part of the LRRH unit available in the shop or as stand alone with the exemplar provided.
Traditional Story with a twist
Developing vocabulary in year 2 with the following grammar features;
synonyms
homophones
description
expanded noun phrases
thoughts, feelings, speech
Exemplar text with a traditional story (LRRH), but re-written with a twist is provided. This resources is to be used to encourage development (of good wolf) and develop pupil’s language using a variety of games.
Year 2 Reading and Writing Poetry Preview
Suitable for GD readers and promote quality reading experiences for all Expected pupils.
This is a preview of resources available in the shop. It has an array of classic poetry with comprehensions.
The sound collector has targeted comprehension for higher ability (working at greater depth) and then differentiated down so that all the class can access and enjoy classic poetry. Children answer literal, inference and evaluative questions about the poem. After that , they spend a day creating their own verses using similar pattern structures.
There are also other many fun and enjoyable poems to learn and perform by Roger McGough, and Valerie Bloom- such as The River, and other sound poems. Children can recite these poems from memory, perform them to an audience and answer comprehension questions. Children will learn how to identify rhyming words and generate their own. They will understand language techniques used by the poet and identify the patterned structures to write their own verse in a similar style. This fun resource can also be used as a poetry unit during English main teaching or guided reading.
Please see the shop for complete unit of work and planning with resources.
Before children can estimate, they need to be able to round up or down. This is a great introduction to rounding to the nearest multiple of 10 up to 100. The children can practice identifying which multiple of ten is on either side of a given number. They then use the rounding rule to round up or down. This is a great differentiated activity to show mastery maths and reasoning with numbers up to 100. Children will be required to reason with problems such as Adam can read 8 pages a day. Estimate how many he can read in a week. The children will round first to solve this answer and show their reasoning. Encourage use of APE it - Answer it, prove it and then explain it to achieve mastery skills.
Suitable for the new year 2 curriculum in maths.
Year 2 Science Plants
This is a bundle of differentiated resources for science and the plants unit. It’s excellent for teaching science cross curricular and supports the maths reasoning at greater depth questioning. The questions are based on a given block graph about the height of sunflowers and pupils are asked to answer ‘how many more, how many less, what is the difference between’ type questions. Children have to draw a tally to match the data. This resource can also be used to assess the end of the unit or at the start to address misconceptions in the True or False Quiz. Children can change the statements into questions if they are unsure and this can be the basis of the start of the unit. Excellent differentiated incorporated. To make this lesson more engaging and challenging, teachers may have paper cut flowers for HAPS to create their own graphs. This resources is adapted to suit the new science curriculum.
Year 2 Writing Unit - linked to TAFs
Stories with a twist for Year 2 Traditional stories Unit. This is an excellent bundle of useful resources that can be easily adapted to different areas of writing - from narrative, to character description to even further write a forest setting. All of the example texts incorporate the New National curriculum Grammar objectives for Year 2 writing. If the children imitate the narrative text, and innovate it to make it their own, they should achieve the greater depth expectations for writing. A learning ladder has been incorporated for children to self assess and peer assess using the new TAF standards from the English Curriculum. Children can also magpie model sentences and begin to understand varied sentence types within context. There is a supporting powerpoint to show a 3 week journey, with the exemplar, comprehension questions and visuals to support learning the text in the imitation phase. Supports National Curriculum English Writing standards to reach the expected level and greater depth using TAF framework statements.
Great visual resources suitably differentiated for year 1. Read the Blue Balloon and sequence the pictures and use time connectives to retell. Write a list and captions using words to describe the balloon changing shape. Link to the new curriculum and used expanded noun phrases and or adjectives. Use phonics and sounds to match words to pictures. As creative starters to the unit -teachers can write a message on a helium balloon from each child and release in outdoor playground - ‘This balloon is indestructable. Please look after it!’ Wait and see if anyone replies to the message. Blow up a balloon and release in hall for inspiration to dance and movement in P.E. Also includes ideas for problem solving in maths using balloons as inspiration.
English, Maths,Science, Topic, R.E A4 Display Bunting in capital case and lower case. All bunting is in black background and white lettering displayed on top, The bunting can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow;
ENGLISH , English
MATHS, Maths
SCIENCE, Science
TOPIC, Topic
R.E
To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display.
This resource is the complete set with all the lettering as displayed in the front cover. It includes one editble version for you to change your colour of bunting if you wish. Please follow the author for more updates on instagram.
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Display Bunting suitable for KS1 and KS2 Primary classrooms.
Reading Display Bunting in capital case and lower case is available. All bunting is in black background and white lettering displayed on top. The bunting can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow;
READING
Reading
Each letter is on an A4 page.
To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display.
Hope you have a nice year with your new class.
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Children can use the smiley faces to give each other or themselves, a smiley, straight or sad face if they have followed the success criteria: ‘Steps To Success.&’ This helps to show the progress in lessons from good to outstanding when children can take responsibility for their own learning and suggest ways for improvement. Rotate books clockwise for peer assessment or walk around the classroom as if it were a museum in silence. stop at your friends work and read it to evaluate. V.successful in YR1 and 2.
Closing the vocabulary gap to impact reading and writing in primary schools Cover.
Do you want an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for:
Pedagogy and national data
National Curriculum changes that demonstrate need for teaching of vocabulary
Reading for meaning
Reading and understanding high order vocabulary?
This resource is a valuable guide and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach high order vocabulary. You will find interactive and stimulating ways to develop and enhance vocabulary through games that teach other grammar features such as:-
picture word association,
creative and inspirational visuals,
pictures that lend themselves to inference,
root words and morphology,
idioms and riddles,
homophones and
homonyms,
antonyms and synonyms
verbs, nouns and past tense
All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repertoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully.
It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or for classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English. Please visit the website for the full 21 page resource that will impact on your whole school reading ability and also enhance writing.