Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
The 2023 Rugby World Cup is upon us again and if you’re like me, you’ve been trawling through the internet looking for something:
Engaging
Purposeful
Learning about the countries involved
Check my store regularly for more additions to the project. This particular activity pack is 11 pages of fun activities related to the Rugby World Cup.
In this pack, there is:
Design your own rugby jersey activity.
Design your own boots activity.
Learn about the host country colouring page.
Research facts on countries involved in the Rugby World Cup.
Get to know each flag in each group of the Rugby World Cup.
Prediction Activities.
Colouring pages and MUCH more.
This can be done as a whole class lesson, in pairs, as a homework based project or as an early finisher task. It’s up to you! All that’s needed is a copy of the booklet/pages required for each child.
I hope you and your children enjoy this lesson. I’d love to hear from you all :)
This 2023 Rugby World Cup pack is one of many rugby-related products in my store. It contains resources and display cards that can be used with any class group.
Included in this pack:
12 Vocabulary Cards
Display Heading
Colouring Sheet
7 Rugby Rules/Definitions
Other resources like this:
Rugby World Cup 2023 Activity Pack
Perfect for the run-up to and during the Fifa World Cup, this pack includes worksheets and fun activities and a teacher’s guide to assist you during your lessons.
Included in this pack:
Pass it like Portugal: a fun task that involves children recording the points on an axis. They won’t even realise they’re doing a Math activity as it’s to record the football passes of the Portuguese team.
Pass it like___: This can be used in small groups or as an early finisher task. Following on from the above activity, the children can plot the points of a team of their choice and give the activity to a peer to solve.
Dream Team: young students need to form opinions on what makes a good player and be able to discuss their opinions. Creating a class discussion on the players in the World Cup and then allow children to create their ultimate dream team from different players in the World Cup.
Dream Jersey – the children can comment on and discuss the jerseys in the World Cup. Talk about their likes/dislikes on the patters, colours, shapes etc and then create their own dream jersey for their dream team. This would make a lovely display also.
Fact File – using the internet, allow the children to research 4 players of their choice and to create a fact file on them. This could be done as a homework task also.
Teacher Guides & Answer Sheets
Each activity comes with a teacher guide to suggest ways to complete each task. There is an answer sheet as well for the Maths activity for self-assessment or peer assessmenent.
Other resources you may be interested in:
World Cup 2022 Colouring Pages
World Cup 2022 Activity Pack
Grab them all as part of a bundle
I would love if you could leave feedback on this resource, after all, TES is about supporting fellow teachers!
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Enjoy some fun Maths activities by engaging the children with the World Cup 2022. The country of Qatar is getting ready for 2022, so why shouldn’t we? A mathematical activity to engage children with converting units of measure (World Cup Theme). Lesson Plan included.
Familiarise the children with the layout of the stadiums. Children must measure the distance between a letter and a stadium. Then because 1cm=35 minutes, they must then calculate how long it would take to get to said stadium.
For example:
How long will it take A to get to Lusail stadium?
Using your ruler, measure the distance from A to Lusail stadium.
If it’s 7.6 cm- round to the nearest whole number which is 8cm.
1cm = 35 minutes so 35 x 8 = 280 minutes =4 hours 40 minutes
Children must then fill in a table with their findings. A fun activity for the whole class.
Please let me know what you and your class thought of this resource- I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
I have included a map of Qatar with the football stadiums.
Making Connections is a very valuable skill to teach in Guided Reading. Children learn to connect what they read to themselves, another text and the wider world, helping them to understand the text on a deeper level.
Most of us tell the children that a good reader “makes connections”, but for the most part, only a handful of the children actually know what this means.
This resource will explicitly teach your children how to make connections with what their reading to themselves, another text and the wider world. This resource can be used with ANY text. It teaches the SKILL of making connections and that can be applied to fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
What’s included
A detailed daily PowerPoint to structure the lessons and encourage children to engage in child talk/cooperative learning.
Making Connections support cards- to provide children with the sentence stems in order to be successful when structuring a connection.
Summarising Tweet template- to ensure children have understood the text read on a basic level before engaging in making connections. Children are challenged to include the main events, main characters etc in 280 characters.
Making Connection activity Sheets.
I hope this resource is useful for you. Please leave some feedback and let me know how these lessons went. I’d love to hear from you.
Want to create your own banners for your classroom?
Or decorate the back of you desk, like I’ve done?
This product allows you to create your own headings for any display as I have included all 26 letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.
This resource has been made on black and white, however, I printed the letters (in the above picture) on colored paper to make them POP!
Please leave a review to let me know your thoughts.
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Our Word Wall Display Banner
Display Banners/Headings
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A fun filled ‘back to school’ activity centered around children applying for classroom jobs!
Children will be shown (by powerpoint) what each job entails and what type of characteristics they need to have for each job.
The aim here is to get to know children’s personalities:
Who is a leader: who is shy: who is outspoken: who is a decent writer etc.
Plus it beats a ‘my summer holiday recount’ right?
Also another way to reinforce classroom expectations at the beginning of the year, i.e. what each child is expected to do as a responsibility to their classroom.
Included is:
14 page PPT outlining each job and explaining the activity
Job application form with scaffolding and images
Class Jobs posters (as seen in the cover image)
Please do leave a review to let me know how you got on
BACK TO SCHOOL!!! (Already?)
One of my main goals on day one is to build relationships with the children and leave them go home on the first day feeling happy and safe in their new classroom environment.
The idea behind this resource is that each child write a nice comment on their peers’ jigsaw pieces, so that by the end of the lesson, each child has a nice comment from everyone in the class.
I then plan to cut the jigsaw pieces out and display them in the classroom for the year, for children to refer to anytime they wish.
It also gives you an opportunity to set expectations for a more “busy” lesson, i.e. silent when walking around the room/no running/no pushing etc.
Included is:
The activity sheet
A short powerpoint explaining how to engage in this activity!
Please leave a review and let me know how you got on
As shown on my Instagram (Rebecca.the.irish.teacher), here is my interactive Maths display!
As seen in the picture, it contains:
Maths Display Heading
Maths Vocabulary for Addition and Subtraction (not photographed)
Headings for ‘Make it’ ‘Layout’ and ‘Solve it’ to encourage children to represent the calculations in different ways.
Signs to promote reasoning skills: ‘What’s the same’, ‘What’s different’
‘Can you order these numbers?’ sign.
Clothes to hang on a string with space to write a new number each week.
The idea is to involve the children in the maths display to keep their skills fresh, vocabulary strong and reasoning skills constant.
If there’s any vocabulary you would like added, please let me know and I can add them in.
Lastly, this product is in Black and White. I printed them on colored paper!
Enjoy some end of term activities by engaging the children with the World Cup 2022. The country of Qatar is getting ready for 2022, so why shouldn’t we? A mathematical activity to engage children with converting units of measure (World Cup Theme). Lesson Plan included.
Familiarise the children with the layout of the stadiums. Children must measure the distance between a letter and a stadium. Then because 1cm=35 minutes, they must then calculate how long it would take to get to said stadium.
For example:
How long will it take A to get to Lusail stadium?
Using your ruler, measure the distance from A to Lusail stadium.
If it’s 7.6 cm- round to the nearest whole number which is 8cm.
1cm = 35 minutes so 35 x 8 = 280 minutes =4 hours 40 minutes
Children must then fill in a table with their findings. A fun activity for the whole class.
Please let me know what you and your class thought of this resource- I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
I have included a map of Qatar with the football stadiums.
4 reading skills graphic organizers and 5 support cards to structure children’s answers for comprehension questions. These post-it note graphic organizers are engaging and encourage children to discuss what they have read to arrive at the correct answer.
They can be printed in Black and White or can be printed on colored paper to make them nice and colorful. I love to use them during my guided reading sessions as it encourages children to engage in paired work, extending and elaborating on their own ideas. See how I use them over on my blog: rebeccatheirishteacher.com
Reading skills/strategies included:
-Main Idea/Details
-Making Connections
-Theme
-Summary
Support Cards include:
-Making Connections Support
-Evaluating
-Author’s Choice
-Characters
-Vocabulary
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The whole idea behind this resource is to structure and build on children’s understanding, by giving them the scaffolding to write their own answers. Reading lessons have become much more ‘talk based’ and fun as a result.
Time to move away from the guided reading carousel and onto whole class guided reading! This lesson plan is FREE to show you step-by-step how you can carry out a whole class guided reading lesson in your class too.
Outline:
10 mins teacher/student/chorus read
5 mins quick fire questions (to check understanding)
5 mins modeling the task
15 minutes task and feedback
This way your whole class are being guided in their reading daily, as opposed to once a week in a teacher led group.
It’s a free resource, so give it a try, let me know your thoughts, and check back later to see more resources like this!
Good luck!
*This is a follow on lesson from Whole Class Guided Reading: Vocabulary (see my store for more details)
Time to move away from the guided reading carousel and onto whole class guided reading! This lesson plan is FREE to show you step-by-step how you can carry out a whole class guided reading lesson in your class too.
Outline:
10 mins teacher/student/chorus read
5 mins quick fire questions (to check understanding)
5 mins modeling the task
15 minutes task and feedback
This way your whole class are being guided in their reading daily, as opposed to once a week in a teacher led group.
It’s a free resource, so give it a try, let me know your thoughts, and check back later to see more resources like this!
Good luck!
St. Patrick’s Day: Teach your students about St. Patrick’s Day with this fun mini-unit designed to keep them engaged and excited through learning some basic phrase ‘As Gaeilge’ (in Irish).
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2-5- 12 different Irish greetings, including the English translation and pronunciation (in orange).
Page 6- St Patrick’s Day Comic Strip (using Irish greetings).
Page 7-9 Task Cards: Translate these Irish greetings into English.
Page 10- Terms of Use and Credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have!!! Talk, chat, converse IN IRISH! The pronunciations are included, so children will be able to use these greetings in class, at home and in the playground all the way through March to show their Irish pride!
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The following resources are included in this product:**
Printables, worksheets, task cards, comic strip, vocabulary cards.
St. Patrick’s Day Activities (Reading and Writing) - Let’s celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these fun no-prep activities in your class for March. These activties are based around a persuasive text, encouraging you to visit the country of Ireland.
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2- Clumping Activity (learning how to group similar information into the same paragraphs). Children will cut up and un-jumble the statements about Ireland, justifying why they have grouped certain statements together.
Page 3- Persuasive Passage about ‘Ideal Ireland’.
Page 4- Questions based on the passage ‘Ideal Ireland’ (retrieval and inference).
Page 5- Plan your own text on YOUR home country/home town (for those who are also from Ireland).
Page 6- Draw a labelled diagram of your home country/home town to persuade the reader to come visit- even MORE!
Page 7- Terms of use and credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have! It’s not directly linked to St. Patrick’s Day itself, however it’s based on the lovely country where St. Patrick’s Day was born- Ireland!
How to teach this lesson:
You can use this fully designed mini-unit as long as you need, because it includes all of the resources you need to teach it! You could also use it alongside your ‘Persuasive Writing’ unit too! It’s up to you :)
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Teach your students Times Tables with these Times Tables Games! Did you know that research says students learn more through interactive, fun learning? Use these games during starters for Maths lessons, flexible grouping, games, interventions, early finisher tasks or any other time during your day.
Let’s connect:
Instagram: rebecca.the.irish.teacher
Email: rebeccatheirishteacher@gmail.com
OBSERVATION LESSON:
Today was my observation and it was day 1 for us, engaging with Persuasive Writing. The children had to identify the features of a persuasive text using the AFOREST technique. (We used this support mat and it was EXCELLENT!
This resource includes:
a very detailed, differentiated lesson plan, which allows you to follow it step-by-step (just like I did).
Links to the texts I used.
Key for annotating.
Advertisements for Lower Ability pupils.
To start: children will try to persuade their teacher to allow them to go for break 5 minutes early. To you (and the observer, this will show their prior knowledge of persuasion, which should be little at this stage).
Main: Using a key, children will highlight and annotate a piece of persuasive writing using a key to spot the different features. There are 3 different persuasive texts for high, middle and low ability children so that they can all access the content.
Plenary: Children will be placed into mixed ability groups of 4/6 and asked to SELL you a random object from the class (e.g. a pencil case) in a dragon’s den type fashion. This will show the observer (and you) the progress made since the start of the lesson as the children apply the techniques that they have learned.
Please let me know your thoughts on this lesson plan.
I’ve added these key terms (in yellow) here for you to create a working wall for your English display. These headings can be kept up all year round, even when you change genre. All you need to do is to change the work around it, accordingly.
See my blogpost on my blog to see how exactly I use this display in my class.
(Note: only the headings in yellow and the clouds are included).
My Division and Multiplication differentiated resource has been bundled together at a reduced price!
DIFFERENTIATED DIVISION FOR 4 GROUPS
When teaching division this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto long division, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: No remainders or carry ons.
Silver: Harder division calculations with some remainders.
Gold: All with remainders and involving all times tables.
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing ‘missing calculation’ division questions, ‘reasoning and explanation’ questions and ‘spot the mistakes’ questions (answers included). It’s based off Maths Mastery ideas.
These files have been saved as a PDF and include answers.
DIFFERENTIATED MULTIPLICATION FOR 4 GROUPS*
When teaching multiplication this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto 2 digit multiplication, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: TO x O (focusing mainly on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 times tables)
Silver: HTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Gold: THHTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing missing calculation multiplication questions (answers included).
I have provided the success criteria at the top of the page, as I like to remind children constantly what they need to remember to do.
These files have been saved as a PDF and a word document.
DIFFERENTIATED DIVISION FOR 4 GROUPS
When teaching division this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto long division, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: No remainders or carry ons.
Silver: Harder division calculations with some remainders.
Gold: All with remainders and involving all times tables.
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing ‘missing calculation’ division questions, ‘reasoning and explanation’ questions and ‘spot the mistakes’ questions (answers included). It’s based off Maths Mastery ideas.
These files have been saved as a PDF and include answers.
Products like this: Multiplication: Differentiated Activities
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