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Much Ado About Nothing: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Resources, Plans, Everything!)
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Much Ado About Nothing: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Resources, Plans, Everything!)

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This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ 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 text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. 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.
Roald Dahl Comprehension Activities Huge Booklet Bundle!
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Roald Dahl Comprehension Activities Huge Booklet Bundle!

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These Roald Dahl resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS1 and KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are 10 activity booklets, which accompany the following texts: - The Twits - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - George’s Marvellous Medicine - Fantastic Mr. Fox - The BFG - Danny, Champion of the World - Esio Trot - The Witches - The Magic Finger - James and the Giant Peach There are a huge range of activities; each booklet is around 20 pages in length!
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Bundle!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Bundle!

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These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's vivid power and conflict poem: The Charge of the Light Brigade. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet's ideas/messages within the poem analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Tennyson'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.
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy - Bundle!
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War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy - Bundle!

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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.
Poppies - Jane Weir - Bundle!
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Poppies - Jane Weir - Bundle!

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These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Weir’s contemporary ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: Poppies. 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 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.
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bundle!
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Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bundle!

4 Resources
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.
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes - Bundle!
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Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes - Bundle!

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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.
Love and Relationships Poetry Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
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Love and Relationships Poetry Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!

15 Resources
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.’
In Paris With You Bundle!
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In Paris With You Bundle!

3 Resources
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.
OCR Love and Relationships Poems Comprehension Activity Booklet Bundle!
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OCR Love and Relationships Poems Comprehension Activity Booklet Bundle!

15 Resources
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.’
Writing Science Fiction - Primary Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
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Writing Science Fiction - Primary Knowledge Organisers Bundle!

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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.
Ocean Creatures Whole Class Reading Bundle!
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Ocean Creatures Whole Class Reading Bundle!

3 Resources
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.
Abi Elphinstone Whole Class Reading Bundle!
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Abi Elphinstone Whole Class Reading Bundle!

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These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension skills, whilst introducing them to the novels of popular children’s author Abi Elphinstone. The three sessions include the extracts/ texts and presentations for the whole class reading sessions on: -The Night Spinner -Sky Song -The Dream Snatcher 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 with years 4-6, 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.
Dinosaurs Non-Fiction Texts - Whole Class Reading Bundle!
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Dinosaurs Non-Fiction Texts - Whole Class Reading Bundle!

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These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension skills, whilst introducing them to a number of dinosaur non-fiction texts. The three sessions include the extracts/ texts and presentations for the whole class reading sessions on: -Everything You Know about Dinosaurs is Wrong! Nick Crumpton; -Tyrannosaurus Rex - Ben Garrod; -The Insiders Children’s Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. 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 across KS2, 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.
Medieval England - History Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
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Medieval England - History Knowledge Organisers Bundle!

8 Resources
These detailed and visually-appealing resources offer complete reference points for students learning or revising knowledge relating to Medieval England as a part of their history study. There are 8 knowledge organisers in total. The organisers included are: -The Romans; -The Anglo Saxons; -The Norman Conquest; -Thomas Becket and Henry II; -The Peasants’ Revolt; -The Crusades; -King John and the Magna Carta; -Everyday Life in the Middle Ages. Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resources are best suited for students in Key Stage 3. They are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided in both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to).
All About Nepal - Whole Class Reading Bundle!
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All About Nepal - Whole Class Reading Bundle!

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These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s readng fluency and comprehension skills, whilst simultaneously building their understanding of the Asian nation of Nepal. The three sessions include the extracts/ texts and presentations for the whole class reading sessions on: -Nepal Knowledge Organiser (non-fiction text); -Chandra’s Magic Light (Fiction text); -Mount Everest (non-fiction text); 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 text 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 across upper KS1/ lower KS2, 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.
Toys - KS1 Whole Class Reading Bundle!
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Toys - KS1 Whole Class Reading Bundle!

3 Resources
These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s readng fluency and comprehension skills, whilst simultaneously building their understanding of toys, through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. The three sessions include the texts and PowerPoint presentations for the whole class reading sessions on: -Toys in Space - Mini Grey -The Paper Dolls - Julia Donaldson -History of Toys (non-fiction text); 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 text 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 KS1 (years 1 and 2), 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.
The Explorer - Chapters 3 and 4: 'The Den' and 'The River' - Double Lesson!
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The Explorer - Chapters 3 and 4: 'The Den' and 'The River' - Double Lesson!

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This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 3 and 4 of Katherine Rundell’s 'The Explorer.’ The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings; -Sequencing key events from the text. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. There’s a lot here (18 slides in total) so I would recommend possibly splitting the content of two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in KS2 (I have used the resources in the past with children in years 4 and 5).
The Explorer - Chapters 1-2 - 'Flight' and 'The Green Dark' - Double Lesson!
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The Explorer - Chapters 1-2 - 'Flight' and 'The Green Dark' - Double Lesson!

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This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 1 and 2 of Katherine Rundell’s 'The Explorer.’ The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Making predictions; -Retrieving information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. The lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. There’s a lot here (18 slides in total) so I would recommend possibly splitting the content of two lessons. The lessons are suitable for students in KS2 (I have used the resources in the past with children in years 4 and 5).