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.
Over 300 questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in years 1-6. Grouped under National Curriculum headings to build confidence in readers and reader helpers.
Enhance reading dialogue with colour-coded questions, engage children with books and ensure progress.
Scaffold learning so children can peer support readers and deepen their own understanding of the reading process.
Support and succeed with 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 English AFL Resource Bundles:
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School SMART Targets
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 -ent, -ence, -ential, -ency 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
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of connecting.
Engaging starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one.
All reviews welcome.
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 3. Over 80 question templates under 14 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 AFL resources:
Year 3 Writing Targets
Year 3 SMART Target Bank
Year 3 Reading Corner Display
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Includes inputs, resources and dictation.
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 -ance/y, -ation, -ance, -ant, -antial 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
A bundle for whole school English leaders.
Use these resources to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound writing targets in years 2-6.
Useful for teachers when writing targets so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small 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.
Year 6 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 6 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 6 SMART Writing Targets
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
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A detailed lesson teaching children how to use who, whose and which relative clauses.
Set in the context of magical stories it covers Scandinavian folklore dwarves - cross curricular links to Geography- with information about the history of these magical creatures.
Slides explain how to to use relative clauses and model examples of who, whose and which.
The children have a chance to have a go and add some into sentences before beginning their work.
Engaging starter focusing on the word class: nouns.
Differentiated main activity for two ability levels.
Modelled examples of how the children could start the main activity and resources to scaffold them achieving the success criteria.
A detailed lesson plan included.
All reviews welcome.
Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this amazing bundle of 10 circle time sessions, 14 posters, 10 word searches and a 32 slide KS2 assembly.
Be prepared and organised for this important time.
Designed for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
A large bundle of resources for KS2.
An engaging lesson teaching the area of shapes. Includes a this 39 slide PowerPoint, worksheets, starter, input, scaffolding, plenaries, higher level questioning, challenges and all answers.
Covers a range of shapes: rectangles, squares, triangles and parallelograms, enabling mastery of this area of maths.
Animated slides ensure understanding, competence and confidence. Starters, mini plenaries, extension and challenges ensure progression.
Worksheets differentiated 3 ways and each work through these styles of maths:
Fluency - Do It!
Misconception - Check It!
Reasoning - Prove It!
Application - Test It!
Problem Solving - Solve It!
Think outside the box - Do It Yourself!
All answers included to enable easy and quick marking.
Written for Year 5, but easily adaptable for all KS2 classes.
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A target sheet for a year 3 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on.
Learning Objectives for year 3 in easy to understand short phrases.
Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file.
Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target.
You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol.
Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English:
Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
Whole School SMART Target Packs
A lesson on kindness includes an input, activity and extension. Perfect for World Kindness Day, a PSHE lesson or a themed week. Pack contains a World Kindness Day PowerPoint with an activity, discussion points, resources and modelled outcome.
Download this lesson to get your class talking, thinking and acting kind. Includes a gripping starter, paired activities, 16 slide PowerPoint, example ideas and differentiated outcomes. Handy for making an outstanding display in your class.
Covers:
Why it is important to be kind
What is kindness?
Who can we be kind to?
How can we be kind?
What symbol represents World Kindness Day?
Highlights
Colourful
Engaging
Ready-to-go
Animated
Differentiated
Written for a primary class, most appropriate for KS2, could be completed in KS1.
All reviews welcome.
Pack of word searches and activities to engage and enthrall at Halloween. A 14 slide teaching PowerPoint, 3 word searches for low, middle and high ability levels and 2 extension activities included.
A useful teaching pack for around Halloween. To improve spelling, vocabulary, reading and writing. Aimed at KS1 with 3 ability levels of word search.
Extend your high achievers with the two extra for experts activities:
Make and decorate your own word search using the template provided
Write an acrostic poem about Halloween, publish it on the template and colour in the images.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in this popular Halloween resource:
KS1 Halloween Art Lesson
6 engaging homework task printables for KS1, complete with instructions, colourful images and ideas to start. Excite and inspire your pupils about science for British Science Week. Provide them with a choice of activities, all of which are easy to set up, promote discussion and develop questioning skills.
Written to achieve National Curriculum learning objectives these tasks will be a brilliant extension to any school work in British Science Week. Bright, colourful and clear these cards will save you time and encourage independence.
Year 1 Task Cards
Arts and crafts activity through learning about plants
Writing activity linked to animal classification
Arts activity about parts of the human body
Year 2 Task Cards
Presenting information creatively about body well-being
Drawing interactive images about habitats
Arts and crafts with materials
Check out my other updated British Science Week resources:
KS2 British Science Week Homework Tasks
KS1 British Science Week Posters
KS2/3 British Science Week Posters
A complete New Year’s assembly, it includes a 23 slide PowerPoint, video links, activity, information, writing extension tasks and a song link to finish.
Use this KS2 assembly to embrace the New Year with your school. Learn about cultures from around the world and try one of their new year traditions. Encourage the children to think of a range of new year resolutions and discuss the examples given.
Highlights:
All ready to go
Interactive
Differentiated extensions
Inclusive
Inspiring
Start the new year with an engaging assembly to kickstart discussion, aspirations and focus.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular assemblies for special days:
Mental Health Awareness Assembly
World Poetry Day Assembly
British Science Week Assembly
A complete assembly on Martin Luther King Junior Day, including a 23 slide PowerPoint leading you through his life story and achievements. Bright, colourful and engaging, ideal for KS2, easily adaptable for KS1 and kS3.
Includes:
What is this day?
Who was Martin Luther King?
Family
Inequality
School Life
Later Life
Career
Civil Rights Movement
‘I have a dream’ speech
Changes
Achievements
Assassination
Video links
How is this day celebrated in America?
Time given at the end of the assembly for reflection, children can think of their own dreams for the future.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular assemblies on important days:
World Kindness Day
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
National Speech and Debate Day
The last of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video link, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why people go to the park, what they can see and do there and why this can be a problem.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
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 all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons:
Journey through Russia
Human Impact on Coasts
Geography Report Comments
The sixth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 24 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why the dam was built at Yosemite and covers different opinions for and against the dam and reservoir.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
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 all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lessons on water in Geography:
Rivers in Europe
UK Coastal Erosion
One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 41 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, including hemispheres, key continents, countries, states, climate, land formation and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map templates, check out the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new curriculum:
Human and physical geography
describe and understand key aspects of:
physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers
mountain ranges
Understand technical vocabulary:
latitude, longitude, Equator,
hemispheres, tropics, polar circles & time zones
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units and lessons:
Scandinavia
Russia
Europe
The third of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches how the physical features of Yosemite were formed, covering volcanoes, glaciers, ice age, dams, rivers and more.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
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 all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia Unit
Europe Unit