Hello fellow teachers!
Here’s a resource for years 3-4 and years 5-6 ( KS2 ) for independent guided reading activities. There’s a selection of activities to choose from and they are in the the following categories:
short writing task
long writing task
text detective task (discrete grammar/punctuation)
creative task
Enjoy!
Week 1 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on author fact files, research skills, prediction and comprehension.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Pre-Read & Chapter 1 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, independent research and plot prediction!
Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a 6 page, child-friendly explanation included!
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 3 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary outline for Chapter 1 and the foreword (page 4)
Video clips of the author talking about inspiration and planning (2 linked/included)
Integrated QR codes for children’s author research purposes (page 7)
Lap-book resources
Author Research Planning Page worksheet
Designing a Writing Room worksheet
Questioning the Author worksheet
Making Predictions worksheet
Plot Recap worksheet
Drawing Hiccup worksheet
Chapter 1 comprehension, guided reading questions
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
3 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on the Victorians and their inventions in the style of an episode of Dragon’s Den.
This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 18 roles that range from having a single line up to having 6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download.
The inventions include the telephone, the flushable toilet, the lightbulb and a flop- the Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad. The dragons include Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne.
A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike!
Enjoy.
Miss Austin
A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on Victorian schools, the uniforms, the lesson format and the punishments.
This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 16 roles that range from having a single line up to having ~6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download.
The props required are also listed, as well as there being a section for you to allocate roles on the front page.
A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike!
Looking for a play on Victorian inventions instead? Click here!
Enjoy.
Miss Austin
Week 4 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on 4 different forms of poetry (haiku, acrostic, kenning & shape poems). Chapters 8 - 11 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 8-11 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in online research, identifying syllables and poetry writing.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
35-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Kenning Poetry worksheet
Acrostic Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry Challenge worksheet
Counting Syllables worksheet (& answers)
Haiku Worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup & Toothless clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 5
X Week 6
Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 2 of my No-Prep 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on parts of speech (noun, adjective, adverb, verb), figurative language (similes & metaphors) and character description. Chapter 2 & 3 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 2 & 3 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, parts of speech identification and character description using figurative language!
Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a multiple-page, child-friendly explanation included!
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
~ 40-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 2 and 3
Video clips to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Character information worksheet
Dragon description worksheet
2 x Parts of Speech starter tasks (matching activities)
2 x Parts of Speech in context worksheets
Identifying similes and metaphors in context worksheet
Character description worksheet
Chapter 2 & 3 comprehension, guided reading questions
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 1
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit - Growing Bundle
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hi there,
This resource pack is a prescriptive six week course for children for BSL. 6 stand alone lessons with all the resources sorted for you!
Covered:
alphabet, animals, numbers, days of the week, months, greetings.
If you want any individual lesson, just message me and I can separate out those resources for you for a smaller price.
Week 3 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on prepositions of place, figurative language (hyperbole, similes & metaphors) and character development. Chapters 4 - 7 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 4-7 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, parts of speech identification and character description using figurative language!
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
40-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 4, 5, 6 & 7
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Identifying Prepositions in Context worksheet
Writing Prepositional Phrases worksheet
Comparing Book to Movie worksheet
Writing Instructions worksheet
Me VS Hiccup worksheet for character empathy
Writing to Hiccup worksheet
Persuasive writing worksheet
Identifying Figurative Language worksheet (similes, metaphors, hyperbole)
5 x challenge activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
I am currently teaching this unit and will be uploading new packs as they’re made, so follow me to stay up to date and to carry on the children’s learning consistently <3
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 1
Week 2
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Want to get the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Here is a set of differentiated Egyptian-themed word problems for addition.
The children can collect the gems based on how many questions they collect!
A pack of 2 chapter-projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 9 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar and creative themed.
~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~
JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home.
She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages.
Chapter 1 Project:
With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 1 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Chapter 2 Project
With 5 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities and worksheets provided), children will work through the second chapter: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 2 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Hi!
This is an 8-week William Morris Art Topic pack that has a full term of discreet lessons that build on previous skills learned.
In this pack, there is a teaching PowerPoint, along with handouts for lesson that require them, 2 fonts for editing and
There are scanned-in examples of what the work is supposed to look like for many of the lessons and the hand-outs that I used are also provided.
The lessons include: lino printing, pattern replication and research tasks for artist style and background exploration.
Hi, All!
Here’s a little resource for your convenience- a wordsearch where childrne then must categorise the words into the following word classes:
pronoun, determiner, adjective, adverb, verb, noun, conjunction.
Enjoy!
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat Guided Reading Packet – Comprehension, inference, summary, questioning, author’s intention, and prediction.
This download includes a massive Guided Reading mega-booklet with a term’s worth of independent activities suitable for Key Stage 2 children. Children will make predictions for the text based on a front cover and blurb, ask questions to improve knowledge of character, summarise to write their own blurb, compare to other texts… I could go on!!
Everything you need to deliver the objectives above is included.
This download includes:
12-page PDF document of the guided reading packet (inc. title & quote answer page)
12-page editable .docx Word document version of the guided reading booklet
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress.
Thank you and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hello Fellow Teachers,
Here is a large pack for an entire unit of diary writing lessons. It’s a week long, and all of the planning, resources, evaluations, examples, success criteria and word banks are provided!
Even included two fonts for you so that you can edit the .doc format files at your leisure!
Hopefully all of the above should help to turn the focus back to teaching as opposed to all of the other stuff we have to do!
If you’re looking for home-learning projects, here are links to the resources I’ve put together for whilst the children are distance learning and off school.
LKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-lks2-home-learning-project-12282480
UKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-6-week-english-project-for-ks2-12269809
Apocalypse themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/apocalypse-6-week-english-project-12270297
Detective themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/detectives-7-week-english-project-12270301
Romans & Celts themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romans-and-celts-home-learning-project-12278939
Hi there!
Here is a resource for Year 4/5 science 'switches in a circuit'
Included in this pack is a powerpoint that outlines LO's, success criteria, full input for the lesson, class activity for the main and a plenary.
Let me know if I can provide anything else for you!
Enjoy teaching,
Miss Ritchie xxx
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This is a comprehension task regarding the Vikings.
For each question they complete accurately, they get to save 1 of the Viking horde from the group at the bottom of the page.
Hi Teachers!
Here is a diary planning resource. It comes as part of a larger set, which you can find at this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-diary-writing-entire-unit-12301089
A planning sheet for designing a fruit. Chn must come up with a target market, key positive facts, cost and name for the fruit. This then led my class into making them in a DT lesson, and creating the packaging in a 3D nets Maths lesson.