THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS THE ENTIRE ANIMAL LIMERICKS ANTHOLOGY, THE COMPREHENSION TASKS, AND THE LESSONS FOR HAIKU POEMS AND LUDICROUS LIMERICKS, PLUS THE HAIKUS AND LIMERICKS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS! These engaging, original and detailed resources are designed to help students gain an understanding of how to analyse and create imaginative limerick and haiku poems. Made up of interesting and exciting lessons, exceptional original examples, and fun tasks, students will complete this series of learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of haikus and limericks, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding and using creative language and structural devices, and conjuring and developing imaginative content. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the resources are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Carol Ann Duffy’s contemporary ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: ‘War Photographer.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices. The bundle contains: -The comprehensive and engaging lesson; -The 16-page comprehension booklet; -The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat; -A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems; The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the ‘Love and Relationship’ poems in the newest exam board anthologies. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Ted Hughes’ Power and Conflict poem: ‘Bayonet Charge.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices. The bundle contains: -The comprehensive and engaging lesson, -The 16-page comprehension booklet; -The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, -A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems. The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: ‘Ozymandias.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices. The bundle contains: -The comprehensive and engaging lesson; -The 16-page comprehension booklet; -The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, -A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems. The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Love and Relationships’ anthology: Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy; Love’s Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley; Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage; Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning Sonnet 29: ‘I think of thee’ - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis When We Two Parted - Lord Byron Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem: Context; Line-by-Line Analysis; Poetic Devices/ Language Devices; Themes; Form/Structure; Poems for Comparison; The Poet’s Influences. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Carol Ann Duffy’s love/relationships poem: Before You Were Mine. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Shelley’s language devices. The bundle contains: The comprehensive and engaging lesson, The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, The 16 page comprehension booklet; A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems. The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These colourful, comprehensive, and well-structured revision cards have been creatively designed for students securing their understanding of: -Animal Farm; -Macbeth; -Romeo and Juliet; -A View from the Bridge. Each card is visually-appealing and highly-detailed, covering aspects of each feature including a full summary, cited quotations from the play, definitions/ examples, and a consideration of audience reactions. They are tried and tested, with teachers incorporating them in revision games, using them as essay writing aids, or utilising them as home revision aids. They are provided as both PDFs (to prevent formatting issues between computers) and as Word documents (for easy editing). The packs contain revision cards on each of the main: Characters, Features of Context, Events, Themes, and Devices. I have also included the revision cards templates so that you can create your own! For any questions or comments, please contact TandLGuru@yahoo.co.uk - Many thanks!

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the OCR ‘Love and Relationship’ poems in the newest exam board anthologies. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of James Fenton’s love and relationships poem: ‘In Paris With You.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Owen’s language devices. The bundle contains: The comprehensive and engaging lesson, The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, The 16 page comprehension booklet; The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for primary teachers, parents and English subject leaders when delivering ‘Traditional Tales’ writing units. They also double-up as a handy help-mat for children throughout their traditional tales planning and creative writing attempts. Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective traditional tales, and contain distinct sections covering: -Traditional Tales Overview; -Content: Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales and Fables; -Language: Descriptive Devices, Sentence Openers, Dialogue, Conjunctions, Punctuation Checklist and Word Mat; -Structure: Titles, Structure Mountains and other tips; -Key Vocabulary The content is fully aligned with the National Curriculum age-related expectations for children across Years 1-6 in writing. They are designed to be printed onto A3 (although they can be printed onto A4), and are provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for primary teachers, parents and English subject leaders when delivering science fiction learning units. They also double-up as a handy help-mat for children throughout the planning and writing of their science fiction attempts. Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective science fiction, and contain distinct sections covering: -Science Fiction Overview; -Content: Settings, Characters, and Quests; -Language: Descriptive Devices, Dialogue, Conjunctions, Punctuation Checklist and Word Mat; -Structure - Titles, Structure Mountains and other tips; -Key Vocabulary The content is fully aligned with the National Curriculum age-related expectations for children across Years 1-6 in writing. They are designed to be printed onto A3 (although they can be printed onto A4), and are provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for primary teachers, parents and English subject leaders when delivering contemporary fiction units. They also double-up as a handy help-mat for children throughout the planning and writing of their contemporary fiction attempts. Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective contemporary fiction, and contain distinct sections covering: -Overview: Contemporary Fiction; -Content: Settings, Characters, and Plot; -Language: Descriptive Devices, Dialogue, Conjunctions, Punctuation Checklist, Sentence Openers and Word Mat; -Structure: Titles, Structure Mountains and other tips; -Key Vocabulary The content is fully aligned with the National Curriculum age-related expectations for children across Years 1-6 in writing. They are designed to be printed onto A3 (although they can be printed onto A4), and are provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for the development of poetry within your primary school. The organisers are perfect for teachers, parents, and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children’s knowledge development for the following poetry forms. There are 16 knowledge organisers in total: -KS1 Acrostic Poems -KS1 Shape Poems -KS1 Diamantes -KS1 Haikus -KS1 Riddles -KS1 Free Verse Poems -Lower KS2 Clerihews -Lower KS2 Kennings -Lower KS2 Romantic Poems -Lower KS2 Limericks -Lower KS2 Free Verse Poems -Upper KS2 War Poetry -Upper KS2 Sonnets -Upper KS2 Ottava Rima -Upper KS2 Narrative Poems -Upper KS2 Free Verse Poems Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective free verse poems. They generally contain the following distinct sections: -Overview of the poetry form; -Content: What to include, the five senses, communicating a message, themes, messages, subject matter; -Language: Word choices, word types, poetic devices, punctuation checklist and word mat; -Structure: Poem length, syllables, rhyme, line lengths, line breaks, stanzas, rhythm, metre; -Key Vocabulary. The resources were designed to be printed onto A3 (however can also be printed in A4) and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for primary teachers, parents and English subject leaders when delivering historical fiction learning units. They also double-up as a handy help-mat for children throughout the planning and writing of their historical fiction creative writing attempts. Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective historical fiction texts, and contain distinct sections covering: -Historical Fiction Overview; -Content: Settings, Characters, and Quests; -Language: Descriptive Devices, Dialogue, Conjunctions, Punctuation Checklist and Word Mat; -Structure - Titles, Structure Mountains and other tips; -Key Vocabulary The content is fully aligned with the National Curriculum age-related expectations for children across Years 1-6 in writing. They are designed to be printed onto A3 (although they can be printed onto A4), and are provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for KS1 children when writing for a range of different narrative genres. The organisers are also perfect for teachers, parents and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children’s knowledge development for the following narrative types: -Adventure Stories -Mystery -Fantasy -Science Fiction -Historical Fiction -Traditional Tales (inc. myths, legends, fables and fairy tales) -Contemporary Fiction Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective narratives. They generally contain the following distinct sections: -Overview of the narrative type; -Content: Settings, Characters. Plot; -Language: Word choices, word types, sentence structures, devices, punctuation checklist and word mat; -Structure: Story mountain, whole text cohesion, paragraphing; -Key Vocabulary. The resources were designed to be printed onto A3 (however can also be printed in A4) and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension skills when reading non-fiction texts. The three sessions include original non-fiction texts and whole class reading lessons on: -Great White Sharks -Blue Whales -Jellyfish Each whole class reading session contains a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. There is also a vocabulary check immediately after each extract is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities. The sessions are best suited for children in years 2-4, although with minor adaptations they could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their history study. Included in this bundle are 8 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities: 1.Elizabeth I 2. Winston Churchill 3. Queen Victoria 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Adolf Hitler 6. Nelson Mandela 7. Henry VIII 8. Julius Caesar Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Key Times in their Life; Important Vocabulary; Timeline of their Life; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). They are most suitable for children in KS2 and KS3. All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension skills whilst introducing them to an interesting range of texts focusing on the theme of the Stone Age. The three sessions include the extracts/ texts and presentations for the whole class reading sessions on: -Stig of the Dump - Clive King; -Wolf Brother -Michelle Paver; -Stone Age Non-Fiction Text - Who Were the First Britons? Each whole class reading session contains a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. There is also a vocabulary check immediately after each extract is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities. The sessions are best suited for children in KS2 (I have used them before with children in years 3-4) although with minor adaptations they could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups. The resources are also suitable for home/ remote learning.