A 2 day plan to go along side reading of Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present by John Burningham. The children will describe what is inside the present (before finishing the story) and then after reading the story they will describe Father Christmas.

Writing plan for first week of Cornerstones topic Bright Lights Big City - can be used in conjunction with Cornerstones resources. Includes introduction to the Queen and model letter plus letters for children to invite the Queen to tea. Also includes how to make a cucumber sandwich instruction writing for when the Queen visits.

Year 1 writing plans for first three weeks based on the Enchanted Woodlands topic. This includes detailed planning with learning intentions and differentiation. It also has some worksheets to use and adapt.

A story about a class animal’s adventure to London to inspire children to write their own story about their class animal. Includes a week’s planning with a story, Notebook of photos ideas. Can be adapted for any class animal.

Little red hen writing plan - story map to writing the story.

A week of Firework poem planning. With differentiation and learning objectives.

Early Year or Year 1 - Includes ActivPrimary presentation to record whole class ideas and pages to print to draw activity they did in the holidays and write about it.

Homework instructions for a book review in preparation for World Book Day. Includes a box for children to draw their favourite part of the story and stars to colour to give the book a star rating. Suitable for Year 2 (also maybe Year 1 and Year 3)

This is a handwriting sheet that can be adapted with different words. It has been made for home learning but could be used for the classroom. It has a lined second page so children can write sentences using the common exception words. Made for Year 2 but can be adapted.

Homework sheet for spelling -le and contractions. Can be adapted for any words for children to learning spellings. Also has a challenge page on the back for sentences. Can be printed on two sides to save paper.

Root words and suffixes to read and learn to spell and write. like, liked, make, making, wise, wisest, write, writer

This is a short plan for a lesson on the chapter called The Fire from the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It includes prediction, vocabulary, summary, explanation, etc.

This resource consists of one Powerpoint file to teach Year 5 Reading lesson for ‘The Raft’ chapter from ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. The lesson is about an hour long, focusing on the one chapter for the lesson. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.