This pack includes 4 activities. The main activity has three tasks that involve classifying words into 1 of 7 categories. This opens up for lots of conversation and debate, which is a great basis for a lesson. The other three activities are mazes where children must get from the top row of the word-table to the the bottom by linking words of that type. I hope this proves helpful! Miss Austin

This is a set of resources that I use for my year 3 and 4 group. They are Egyptian themed so that they can link in with humanities topic. Shape poems are a great introduction to writing in a poetic structure for children, and the shapes offered in this pack are: canopic jars, a sarcophagus and a pyramid. I modelled the pyramid shape to the class so that my lower ability group had more input tailored to them. LO: To write a topical shape poem

Week 5 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on personification, rhyming poetry and text comprehension using evidence from the text. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 12-14 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 using personification to describe, writing rhyming poetry in the ABCB pattern and providing evidence when answering comprehension questions. Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease 41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 12, 13, 14 and topical words Video clips suggested to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Identifying Personification worksheet The Story So Far worksheet Personification in Poetry worksheet Rhyming Poem Example worksheet Poetry Write-Up worksheet Chapter 14 Comprehension worksheet Newspaper Article Challenge worksheet Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form 5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability How To Train Your Dragon 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 4 X Week 6 **Want to save money on the whole unit? ** X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Help your children to improve their descriptions and narratives by using these colour vocabulary sheets in your literacy lessons or on display. They equip pupils with exciting words for ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’ and everything in between! I have been using these colour thesauruses as part of a Writing Toolkit (coming soon!) that I give to my class at the start of the school year. After modelling how to use them in writing, the children then independently use stronger, more effective colour descriptives when describing settings or characters- I even see them cropping up in their speech! BOTH SPELLINGS OF COLOR/COLOUR INCLUDED! Included in this download: A display poster and pocket-sized version of the color vocabulary grid PDF versions of the resources .docx Word versions of the resources for editing purposes 2 fonts to edit your resources with UK/AU/NZ/CA version using ‘colour’ spelling Looking for the full Writing Toolkit? Due to be completed by September 1st 2020 I hope this product saves you time and stress, Happy Teaching! Miss Austin

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

Hi there! This was originally on this website a few months ago and had over 600 downloads and great reviews! In this pack is an extensive powerpoint concerning past, present and future (and perfect!) tenses :) Enjoy x

Hi there! 2 lessons here for introducing chronological explanation texts! LO's, success criteria all sorted along with mulitple worksheets and presentations.

Hi All! Here’s a 2 lesson pack including 3-way differentiated worksheet, which can be used as homework or classwork, and a prescriptive powerpoint. Enjoy!

Here’s a nice, beefy pack of resources for Spiderwick Chronicles: Field Guide. Comprehension, setting description, IT collage for text detective work etc.

Hi All! Here’s a pack of resources that can be used for diary entries and descriptions of Mr Morris Lessmore (and his fantastic flying books, of course!) There are differentiated writing frames, worksheets that’re attractive for presenting work and photos for stimuli. Enjoy :)

Hi All! Here are three lessons’ worth of resources for teaching the Christophe’s Story topic from literacy Evolve for Year 4. Lesson 1- Creating a glossary of terms from the story- differentiated for spelling purposes Lesson 2- Research Rwanda, collect facts and create a comparitive table for Rwanda and the UK Lesson 3 (and probably 4!)- Write a comparative essay using formal conjunctions and openers. There are differentiated LO and success criteria slips for their books.

Here’s a resource that is differentiated 3 ways for children to explore prepositions and link them to fronted adverbials.

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.

Home Learning, project-based activities, perfect for distance learning or homework. This is a ‘design your own country’-themed, distance learning project that will be used whilst the children are off school. This resource spreads across 4 tasks (these could be set weekly or daily) which last for an hour each. The activities see children coming across a new, previously-undiscovered country- they’ll need to: - Write a fact file about biome, climate, fauna and flora found in the country Create a new currency for the inhabitants Develop a new written language and decipher messages in code Write the laws for their citizens to follow! This download includes: PDF version of the 4-task home learning project Word Document version of the home learning project for editing 2 fonts for editing .docx Word documents England: This task would work great for KS2 (Key Stage 2) and it fits in with the Year 3 national curriculum expectation My Distance Learning Projects Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing and creativity in a variety of areas. X Distance Learning Project: Apocalypse Theme X Distance Learning Project: Detective Theme X Distance Learning Project: Space Theme X Distance Learning Project: Island Explorer Theme I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Two Ancient-Egyptian themed, 3-way-differentiated worksheets on identifying, understanding and using similes.

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

Book Review worksheet concentrating on summarising, forming opinions and concluding on How To Train Your Dragon (Book 1) by Cressida Cowell. In this book review, children are asked to summarise the main parts of the story, give their opinion on the story as a whole, state the funniest, scariest and favorite parts, rate the story from 1-5, explain if they would recommend the book, and discuss who their favourite and least favourite characters were. This works great as a post-text exercise, and also works as a movie review if you are following the feature film instead. Reviewing books helps children know that it’s okay to like or dislike a book, and also allows them to work out what their favorite genres are. Included in this download: PDF version of the book review .docx Word document version of the book review for editing purposes ‘Lost in Chalk’ font to help you edit the resource and keep the style I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

I used these for a creative writing club; each week, children were given an LO sheet with a prompt and had to carry the story on! Enjoy :)

This is a resource to use for things such as PSHE, RE, Class assemblies, English (recognising speech in text) and other lessons :) Enjoy!