An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -ant, -ance, -ent, -ence endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 5 writing targets. Over 110 SMART targets on a 5 page word document, grouped into the National Curriculum areas of writing. Easy to copy and paste onto reports or print out to use when marking of for AFL involving the children.
Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 6. 43 question templates under 10 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading.
Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading:
A4 black and white questions sheet.
A4 colour coded questions sheet.
Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home.
Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes.
Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular assessment resources:
Year 6 SMART Targets
Year 6 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 6 Writing Assessment Sheets
6 weekly plans, 6 teaching Powerpoints and all the resources needed for teaching key stage two reading for a whole term.
Includes effective starters, main activities and plenaries for everyday.
Each lesson in the week builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions.
Highlights
Easy to use
Organised
Ready-to-go
Engaging
Scaffolds learning
Ensures progression
Saves time
Questions prompt higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Focusing on the comprehension skills of:
Asking questions
Identifying themes
Making comparisons
Predicting
Understanding and identifying figurative language
Summarising main ideas
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
All reviews welcome.
A complete lesson pack teaching KS2 children to measure angles. Includes an engaging 47 slide PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets set in real life contexts and all answers. Easily help children move through fluency, reasoning and problem solving to an enhanced understanding of angles.
Lesson Pack
All necessary resources provided:
2 lesson starters to choose from
47 slide editable PowerPoint (includes all resources)
Video hyperlink
Activities
Worksheets - independent tasks, main activities and challenges
Answers
Whole Lesson
This is a good lesson with a theme of football to engage your class whilst challenging and extending their understanding. Teach KS2 how to estimate and measure angles and to develop mastery with their understanding of angles.
The visual PowerPoint covers all the key teaching points, taking the class through from starter to plenary.
Differentiation
A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet.
SEN - Measure the important angles with a protractor.
LA - Estimate angles using angle facts then measure using a protractor.
MA - Measure the angles in a game of football. Design your own game and measure the angles.
HA - Estimate acute, obtuse and reflex angles game, check with a protractor. Investigate angles in a game of football, plan how you will collect and present your answers in a systematic way.
Challenge:
Two different reasoning, application and problem solving investigations.
Possibility for a differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently play an angles game while you teach the lower and middle ability how to estimate and measure angles. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the highers.
Children can move on to the challenges when they feel confident.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources:
Drawing Angles Lesson
Area and Perimeter Lesson Bundle
Angle Fact Sheets
Place Value Chart
3 differentiated lesson packs on perimeter and area; includes detailed PowerPoints, diffferentiated worksheets, word problems and answers.
Calculating Perimeter
Effortlessly teach perimeter of squares, reasoning shapes questions, perimeter of rectangles, perimeter of composite shapes and perimeter of triangles.
A differentiated lesson of two halves - well pitched reasoning questions are provided for while you teach the higher half and lower half. Develop independence and mastery at the same time.
All resources and answers provided.
Perimeter of Composite Shapes
Show children this tricky concept in a clear and memorable way. A 29 slide animated PowerPoint clearly showing the method needed for calculating missing sides and finding the perimeter of composite shapes.
A lesson that is ready to go, taking you through the teaching points step-by-step, from starter to plenary.
A differentiated lesson by input and activities.
Word Problems
A bright and visual fully editable 24 slide PowerPoint teaching children how to solve area and perimeter word problems.
Includes an extensive set of questions where children need to use their understanding of area and perimeter to solve word problems. Most questions are multi step and cover key KS2 number skills (which are covered in the PowerPoint).
A differentiated lesson with 3 engaging worksheets with all the answers provided. Two challenges are also included so the pupils can really master these concepts.
All reviews welcome.
A complete KS2 angle display including titles, interactive questions, images, angle types, tips, key words, strategies and reminders. Contains 37 elements. A visual and colourful angle display for your classroom which can also be used in a maths toolkit or as support cards during lessons.
All ready to print and put up so your pupils are engaged, enthused and excited about angles.
Bright and visual posters of essential angle facts.
This extensive display, includes:
3 titles to choose from
Question and answer bubbles explain key aspects of this topic.
A question flap with an answer inside
5 easy steps to measure angles
10 simple steps to draw angles
Key word cards to label an angle and protractor
Real life images with a range of angles in to show pupils how this links to life outside of school.
Colour-coded images and captions showing and explaining these key angles:
acute angle
right angle
obtuse angle
straight line
reflex angle
complete turn
45, 135, 225, 270, 315 degrees on cards
angles on a straight line
angles around a point
Colour-coded examples showing and explaining equal angles:
when two lines intersect
when a line intersects a parallel line set 1
when a line intersects a parallel line set 2
Colour-coded examples showing and explaining interior angles of shapes and regular polygons:
Triangle
Quadrilaterals
Pentagon
Hexagon
Heptagon
Octagon
Decagon
Dodecagon
Enthuse your children with learning angles, help them remember these important facts with ease.
Use as a display, toolkit or support.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other popular angle resources:
Drawing angles with games and the context of aliens
Measuring angles in the context of football
The fifth of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What resources do they have in Scandinavia to create energy? Energy summaries
How else do they create energy? Burning waste videos
Where do they farm? Why? Maps and facts to discuss
What do they export each year? List of statistics for task
How do we draw a bar graph?Animated model with 5 helpful tips
What have you learnt? Bar chart task
Can we improve our energy sources in the UK? Challenge task
How else do they transport people and goods? Plenary discussion
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, a detailed lesson plan find some graph paper and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
All you need to teach the first week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 1 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions, challenges and answers included. Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
4 lessons included as most people have an INSET the first week back.
Small Steps Covered:
Counting in 100s
100s, 10s and 1s
Place Value up to 1,000
Problem Solving with place value
Highlights of this week 1 pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Links to useful interactive activities on PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
All reviews welcome.
Why not check out:
Year 3 Week 2 Place Value
Year 3 Week 3 Place Value
Place Value Display
A week’s KS2 English planning focusing on teaching writing skills through a history theme of WW2. Engaging activities, resources and opportunities for discussion all included. A bright and engaging PowerPoint leads you through the week, with starters, modelled examples and plenaries for every lesson.
Lessons cover these learning objectives:
L.O. I know how to use relative clauses in a recount of building a bomb shelter
L.O. I know how to use subordinating conjunctions in a recount of a woman’s day in the war
L.O. I know how to use brackets in a recount of escaping capture
L.O. I know how to use dashes and commas in a recount of a day in a tank
L.O. I know how to edit and improve my writing
Daily starters focusing on: punctuation, handwriting, verb prefixes and modal verbs.
All lessons are differentiated: support for lower ability and challenges for higher ability.
Detailed plan included.
All reviews welcome.
Could be used alongside a WW2 History unit or on its own.
An engaging PPT and a set of 4 different worksheets useful for a transition day in primary to prepare children for their next year. Differentiated for different ability and contains completed examples of each sheet to give the children ideas. Designed with displays in mind so you can easily get organised for September.
Themes
Me In a Nutshell
Looking forward to next year
Who am I?
Each format includes sections for children to reflect on their year, share details of themselves and to set goals and plans for the coming year.
Include lines or blank so you can choose how to present it. Spaces are just the right size so children aren’t overwhelmed but have enough room to right what they would like to say.
You could complete all the sheets if you have time, all cover different aspects of this change. Each resource comes with a completed example so you can peer assess this work before you begin, give them some ideas and discuss how it could be even better.
Use to help children adjust to their new year group and teacher.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for this time:
Reading Corner Display
Report Comment Mega Bundle
Place Value Display
An engaging lesson designed to develop children’s understanding of self esteem, themselves, their mental health and other’s emotional well-being.
A list of suggested classroom ground rules are provided to support the children with discussing mental health in a respectful way.
This extended lesson covers:
what decreases self esteem,
signs of high and low self esteem,
links to a growth mindset,
emotional well-being,
healthy coping strategies for low self esteem,
activities for raising self esteem
role play about why we should try to raise self esteem,
All the activities inspire high quality dialogue, reflection and progress in class. Designed to engage the children with talking about mental health and provide them with strategies to enhance their self esteem and therefore safeguard their mental health.
A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
An assessment task is also provided where children complete sentences assessing their:
Understanding
Beliefs
Strategies
Confidence
The lesson ends with a lighthearted post it note activity to refresh the children after covering deep and meaningful activities.
All reviews welcome.
A complete KS2 English story writing lesson with a Halloween theme. Includes starter, interactive planning activity, input, differentiation, all resources and plenary. Download and be ready for a spooky morning of writing fun.
Engage your class and see improvements in their writing by using the modelled sentences, editing practice, challenge cards and peer assessment extension.
Highlights:
high quality vocabulary
open questions
punctuation and grammar
editing
differentiation
dice activity
Complete with spooky images and animations appropriate for KS2, create a buzz in your classroom. Children will enjoy rolling a dice to plan their story on their planning sheet, before writing. The mini plenaries will help keep them on task and achieving.
Scaffold their learning using word banks, modelled sentences and peer assessment and see results.
You might also like to check out my other popular Halloween resource:
Halloween Fractions
17 inspiring, easy to set up and curriculum linked homework tasks for KS2. A range of ready to go printables for each year group in KS2 designed to inspire and excite during British Science Week.
Enable your pupils to try out science at home with activities that are easy and enjoyable for parents to resource and support. Includes a writing template for children to complete about their homework, which is especially useful for the hands on investigative style activities.
Year 3
Plants and data handling
Cartoon strip and nutrition
Pet diet and maths link
Garden discoveries
Year 4
Searching for States
Animal Instructions
Boiling water and data handling
Can you hear me? Investigation
Year 5
Mission impossible letter writing
Who wants to be a forces millionaire?
Sticky or Slippy investigation
If you look closely… Follow in the footsteps of a great man
Year 6
Such big teeth you have!
Animopoly and other games
I’m a poet and I don’t even know it
Pass the scalpel - plant studies
Where did it go? Light and reasoning
Check out my other updated British Science Week Resources:
KS2 British Scientist Quote Posters
British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
10 engaging and effective experiments for year 3 and 4 classes, includes instruction cards, extensions, challenges and scientific explanations. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week.
Use the questions provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Encourage your pupils to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about.
Extension activities and challenges are included to further enrich the learning and engage every child.
Mini Experiments LKS2 Pack:
5 easy to set up and manage science activities for Year 3.
Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for Year 4.
A short equipment list for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
Check out more popular British Science Week resources:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Assembly
Four lessons on famous scientists for a KS2 class. Each lesson comes with an engaging PowerPoint, video link, a detailed plan and all the paper resources necessary. Variety of tasks, experiments, discussions and written work. Differentiated for 3 ability groups and further challenges provided.
Written for a year 5 class, easily adaptable for other KS2 classes. Focuses on the new curriculum learning objectives, linking to the science topics of Forces, Life Cycles, Materials and Changing States.
Each lessons has an interactive and engaging powerpoint full of information and helpful video links.
Mixture of paired, group and independent tasks.
Differentiated activities for a range of abilities and support sheets.
Extension challenges for children to move onto.
Interesting plenaries to discuss.
Long detailed lessons, you could easily spread out some to two lessons so you have enough for a 6 week term.
All reviews welcome.
Place value calculation charts, colour coded for mastery and showing links with multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.
Download these editable, easy to use, charts showing place value titles to build confidence. Ensure mastery and accuracy. There is no space for the decimal point on the charts to prevent the common misconception.
Available in lots of formats:
Enlarged for modelling multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Blank chart to laminate for multilpying and dividing by 10 (labelled arrows drawn on to show movement)
Black and white printable chart for children to write on and move numbers on 7 blank lines
Colour coded chart showing the place value titles grouped into 3s to enhance understanding
Various charts could be used in a maths toolkit, stuck into maths books or homework books, put on display or as helpful sheets on tables. Or print out place value title cards with matching colours for a maths sorting activity or an interactive display.
Check out my other popular maths resources at The Teachallenjoy Shop.
Why not print my whole Place Value Display?
Relevant auditing questions to ask children when monitoring English as a subject leader. Written for primary school children, easily adaptable for secondary.
Review your subject so that if Ofsted arrive you can be confident in your knowledge of where the children are at, what they understand, what they can do and are likely to say in a discussion.
Choose from over 60 deep and meaningful questions to ignite interesting discussions with your pupils.
Covers key areas which are currently prominent in education, such as:
- key texts,
- independent learning skills,
- self and peer assessment,
- computing skills,
- teacher support,
- learning dialogue,
- drafting,
- editing and publishing skills,
- challenge,
- higher level thinking,
- marking styles,
- peer evaluation,
- targets,
- dictionaries,
- thesaurus,
- teacher feedback,
- evidence of improving ability
All of these topics are addressed within these main areas:
- General Lessons,
- Assessment,
- Reading,
- Exercise Books,
- SPAG,
- Wellbeing.
These questions could be adapted to other subjects easily.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful English Leader resources and tools at my shop: Teachallenjoy
To keep up to date with the new English curriculum 2017 use these handy tools for the whole school below:
- Writing Assessment Guidance
- Speaking and Listening Self, Peer and Teacher Assessments
- Guided Reading and Comprehension Question Openers
- SMART Writing Targets
A bright and memorable PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
All words have the -ible and -ibly endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
Year 5 writing objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 5 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 5 SMART Writing Targets
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy