This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Carrie's War (aimed at year 6) In total there are 13 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo (aimed at years 5/6) In total there are 8 guided reading lesson plans, one for each chapter of the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (aimed at years 5/6) In total there are 17 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on adjectives and how they are used in sentences to describe nouns. In total there are three slides: Slide 1 - Definition of an adjective including examples of sentences containing adjectives.A definition of parenthesis is also included on this slide. Slide 2 - Ten sentences where the children need to underline the adjectives in the sentences. Slide 3 - Ten simple sentences which the children need to up level by adding adjectives. The children are encouraged to include parenthesis and expanded noun phrases. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard. It is also extremely good value for money, providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity! The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on adverbs and how they are used in sentences to describe a verb. In total there are three slides: Slide 1 - Definition of an adverb including examples of how they are used in sentences. Examples of less obvious (words not ending in ly) are given on this slide as well. Slide 2 - Ten sentences where the children need to add in adverbs to make the sentence make sense. Slide 3 - The children write eight sentences containing more adventurous adverbs and then replace the adverb with another which means the sentence still makes sense. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard. It is also extremely good value for money, providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity! The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on how brackets are used within sentences. In total there are three slides: Slide 1 - Definition of a how brackets are used with examples. Slide 2 - Ten sentences where the extra information inside the brackets are missing. The children need to add in the missing information. Slide 3 - Ten sentences where the extra information inside the brackets is given and the children need to complete the rest of the sentence. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard. It is also extremely good value for money, providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity! The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on how metaphors are used in writing. In total there are three slides: Slide 1 - Definition of a metaphor with examples accompanied by an explanation of why it is a metaphor. Slide 2 - Children to read a poem and pick out all the metaphors and then copy them out. Slide 3 - Five objects/people that the children need to write a metaphor about. Children then have to write a poem of their own that includes metaphors. The poem is started for them to complete. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard. It is also extremely good value for money, providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity! The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on prefixes. In total there are three slides: Slide 1 - Definition of a prefix with examples and how they change the meaning of the word. Slide 2 - Sixteen words where the children need to add a prefix to the beginning of the word to make a new word. Slide 3 - Ten prefixes given and the children need to use a dictionary to come up with three words beginning with each prefix. They then need to choose one word to put into a sentence. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard. It is also extremely good value for money, providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity! The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

With the introduction of the new spelling, grammar and punctuation test at the end of KS2 and the new National Curriculum our spelling resource is an absolute essential. This pack comes with 12 weeks of activities with a set of spelling words and three activities per week.The resource is organised around the new National Curriculum and includes: Weeks 1,3,5,7,9 and 11 10 spelling words to learn based on a spelling pattern or sound as recommended in the new National Curriculum. Activity 1 - 10 sentences with missing words. Children to write out the sentences including the correct spelling word. Activity 2 - Anagrams. The spelling words have been scrambled up and the children need to unscramble and then write out correctly. Activity 3 - Wordsearch. The spelling words are hidden in a wordsearch and the children need to find them. Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 10 spelling words from the new National Curriculum statutory word list. Activity 1 - Definitions. Children need to match the correct spelling word with the correct definition. Activity 2 - Missing vowels. The spelling words are jumbled up and the children need to add the missing vowels to correctly spell each word. Once completed they have to write them out in alphabetical order. Activity 3 - 100 word writing challenge. A visual prompt is given and the children need to include as many of the spelling words as they can in only 100 words. Each activity is designed to take between 10 and 30 minutes and can either be built into the curriculum or given as homework activities. The spelling words and activities are aimed at children in years 5/6 and can be completed on paper or in books. These activities are provided in both PDF and PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out. Each page is decorated with a playful Clipart image thanks to our license with Clipart.com,

Year 5/6 Great at Grammar - Spring Term Pack - newly updated to meet the demands of the New National Curriculum. We are pleased to announce that this resource has been updated to meet the demands of the new National Curriculum with the objective listed at the top of each activity. With the introduction of the new National Curriculum it is vitally important that grammar is taught throughout the school and is an integral part of the curriculum. This pack comes with 12 weeks of activities with five activities per week. These include activities which are linked to all aspects of the new grammar National Curriculum. At the top of each slide the learning objective from the National Curriculum is shown. There are also activities from the Year 3/4 National Curriculum which will serve as useful revision to the children. Each activity is only designed to take 5 minutes which means these activites are perfect to complete first thing in the morning or straight after lunch. Built up over the term the children will become grammar experts! These activities are aimed at children in years 5/6 and can be completed on paper or in books. These activities are provided in both PDF and PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out. Each page is decorated with a playful Clipart image thanks to our license with Clipart.com

SATs Revision Activity Pack 2. With this revision pack you will receive 10 weeks of activities. (50 activities in total) Our SATs revision activity pack is perfect for that 'little but often' practise in the run up to the SATs tests in May. Aimed at being used outside of literacy and maths lessons these activities are written in the same style of SATs questions are aimed at helping children who are already working at the expected standard but require additional revision. Perfect to be completed first thing in the morning, straight after lunch or whenever there is a spare minute. Questions are focused on all areas of the maths curriculum (3 activities per week) and the grammar elements of the literacy curriculum (2 activities per week). Each activity is designed to take between 10 and 15 minutes.

A great resource to accompany the teaching of Story writing. These A4 posters can be arranged into a colourful and informative display which will provide your pupils with useful prompts when writing their own Story. It will also provide an excellent revision aid for year 6 pupils. Included in this pack are: 25 x A4 Posters all with a black border 2 x Title Posters (How to Write a Story & Top Tips) 15 x Information Posters on how to write a Story 8 x Graphic Posters showing large pictures of the animations used throughout the display The posters are attractively designed and thanks to iclipart, each poster has an animated character to give a colourful and appealing look.

These A4 differentiated word vocabulary mats are an essential tool for any child and would be perfect laminated and stored in boxes in the middle of the table. The mat focuses on writing a letter of complaint. The mat gives helpful sentence starters for the beginning, middle and end of a letter of complaint as well as possible adverbs, conjunctions and adjectives that could be used. There is also a model example of sets of a letter of complaint that the children can use to uplevel or improve their own piece of writing. The attached images show each mat but each pack includes: Mat 1 for the less able pupils (one A4 sheet) Mat 2 for the middle ability pupils (one A4 sheet) Mat 3 for higher ability pupils (on A4 sheet) Mats 4 - example of model letter of complaint (could be laminated back to back with one of the above mats) The resource is colourfully designed with the colours linked to the language through colour system. However any child can use these mats regardless of whether they are using this system.

This Powerpoint pack contains seven weeks of GPS challenges aimed at covering half a term. Aimed at Year 6, there is one grammar, punctuation or spelling challenge for every day of the week covering a range of topic areas from the new National Curriculum. A great resource to use as a starter/plenary to a literacy lesson or to put up on the board during any spare minutes at the beginning or end of the day. Answers are provided.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: The Firework Maker's Daughter byPhilip Pullman (year 4/5) In total there are 7 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the sections in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

Year 5/6 Great at Grammar - Autumn Term Pack - newly updated to meet the demands of the New National Curriculum. We are pleased to announce that this resource has been updated to meet the demands of the new National Curriculum with the objective listed at the top of each activity. With the introduction of the new National Curriculum it is vitally important that grammar is taught throughout the school and is an integral part of the curriculum. This pack comes with 12 weeks of activities with five activities per week. These include activities which are linked to all aspects of the new grammar National Curriculum. At the top of each slide the learning objective from the National Curriculum is shown. There are also activities from the Year 3/4 National Curriculum which will serve as useful revision to the children. Each activity is only designed to take 5 minutes which means these activites are perfect to complete first thing in the morning or straight after lunch. Built up over the term the children will become grammar experts! These activities are aimed at children in years 5/6 and can be completed on paper or in books. These activities are provided in both PDF and PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out. Each page is decorated with a playful Clipart image thanks to our license with Clipart.com

A second pack of our new 'Can you describe me' range.A great resource to help with the teaching of descriptive writing. Included in this pack are 10 x A4 posters each showing a different character. Around the outside of the character are a number of key questions to help the child describe the character. Pictures range from monsters to human characters. All images provided thanks to our link with iclipart.com

A special monster pack of our 'Can you describe me' range.A great resource to help with the teaching of descriptive writing. Included in this pack are 10 x A4 posters each showing a different monster like character. Around the outside of the character are a number of key questions to help the child describe the character. All images provided thanks to our link with iclipart.com

The second of our 'Can you describe me?' character monster pack. A great resource to help with the teaching of descriptive writing. Included in this pack are 10 x A4 posters each showing a different monster like character. Around the outside of the character are a number of key questions to help the child describe the character. All images provided thanks to our subscription to clipart.com