These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Simon Armitage’s love/relationships poem: Mother, Any Distance… 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.

This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game! The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills. Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to: - Define each animal class and understand its features; - Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices; - Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious; - Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers. The resources include: -Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation; -Resources for the card-sorting activity; -A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher); -An investigation log; -Step-by-step lesson plan. To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.

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 clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about prominent writers - past and present. It is useful as a part of a history study of significant people over time, or an English study of famous writers. Included in this bundle are 8 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities: William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Beatrix Potter Maya Angelou Dr Seuss Roald Dahl Geoffrey Chaucer J.K. Rowling 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 clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about prominent writers - past and present. It is useful as a part of a history study of significant people over time, or an English study of famous writers. Included in this bundle are 15 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities: William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Beatrix Potter Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Maya Angelou George Orwell Dr Seuss Roald Dahl Oscar Wilde Geoffrey Chaucer J.K. Rowling Jane Austen Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive information about the writer, their career and their life, including sections entitled: -Overview; -Key Times in their Life; -Career -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). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These 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 Year 3 and Year 4 expectations within the new 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. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. Both the Year 3 Booklet and the Year 4 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Boxing - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination’ and ‘Use a dictionary to check the meanings of words that you have read’ - FBI Vocabulary Agent - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ - Organised Ernie - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Say how a text is organised in order to help you understand it, for example using paragraphs, headings, sub-headings, and inverted commas to show speech.’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is over 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

This bundle contains 7 fantastic comprehension activity booklets - each is over 20 pages in length, and focuses upon a different popular classic text. The resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful activities - perfect for use throughout class reading of texts or equally in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the 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. There are booklets included for the following texts: - The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien - A Series of Unfortunate Events -The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket - Billionaire Boy - David Walliams - Charlotte’s Web - E.B White - Holes - Louis Sachar - Skellig - David Almond - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - C.S Lewis There are a huge range of activities! A PDF of each booklet is also provided, to prevent formatting issues.

These 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 Year 1 through to Year 6 comprehension expectations within the new 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. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. The Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 Booklets (normally 2 pounds each) are all included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’ - Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ -Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Golding’s key intentions in writing the novel. All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. Contained in the bundle are lessons based on: - 1. Savagery vs Civilization; - 2. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy; - 3. Golding’s Language Devices; - 4. The Beast - 5. Simon and Roger - 6. The Ending 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.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ AND ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, AND THE POINTLESS GAMES, AT A SPECIAL ‘GIGANTIC BUNDLE’ PRICE! These engaging, varied, and informative schemes of learning are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Great Expectations.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete these schemes having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ 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 - everything that you need to teach!

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Lord Byron’s love/relationships poem: When We Two Parted. 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 Byron’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 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 clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about writers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about: William Shakespeare; Charles Dickens; Beatrix Potter; Roald Dahl. 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, and is 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 children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about: Winston Churchill; Queen Elizabeth I; Abraham Lincoln; Queen Victoria. 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, and is 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 planning, learning and revising all areas of the KS1 Geography National Curriculum. The knowledge organisers included are: -The United Kingdom; -The Seven Continents; -Oceans and Seas; -Polar Explorers; -Capital Cities; There is also a organiser that can be adapted for whichever area of local study you choose to cover (the template focuses on ‘Exploring Essex.’) The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations. Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is 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 and are cited on a separate document (included).

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. 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 poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. 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.