The story is about a Monkey who wants something just because his friend has it. He gives up his time trying to get it instead of being happy with what he has already. Great for PHSE or assembly. Text included. Questions for a comprehension or class discussion included. Assessment grid relating to the interim framework included. The story stops with the monkey needing to make a decision. The children in my class had to choose how the story should end and some wrote it up for homework. We also wrote a similar story about two bears looking for a cave with the same lesson.

This weekly planning can be used week after week with minimal adjustments and can be applied to almost all genres. I have used this in years 2 and 3 successfully. It is a HUGE time saver and since I have followed it, I have seen SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS in my children’s reading and writing. The result is a piece of evidence for reading and writing each week, completed independently by the children and gives them the confidence to take ownership of their targets and work largely independently. It will need to be adapted to suit your class and the type of writing you want to cover.

A great time-saver! This is a paragraph designed for the winter. It is a debate about school closures in heavy snow which is an engaging for children. It includes GPC, common exception and poly-syllabic words as well as words with common suffixes. I recorded my children reading the text and marked the words read correctly which then hit numerous objectives on the interim framework both on working towards and working at expected level. I also expanded the work so children then created their own debate regarding school closures in the snow.

Basic Phrases - Hello. How are you? How old are you? What is your name? What is your favourite colour? Numbers to 20 Colours Days of the week Worksheets and matching PowerPoint presentation for supporting verbal and written activities. Wordsearch, drawing, colouring and writing. Very easy to use! Saves a lot of time and works well when previous lessons are revisited.

Three workbooks with a range of information and activities covering the Grammar and Punctuation curriculum. The activities are differentiated with challenges and each workbook gets progressively more challenging with reduced scaffolding. There are also some accompanying PowerPoints which link to the pages in the workbooks. I used these workbooks and PowerPoints to teach the grammar and punctuation curriculum and they were also excellent reference books for children to look back through to remind themselves of the different concepts. Less able children completed the first activities whilst more able children moved onto the more difficult work at the bottom of the pages. Writing on the PowerPoints has been left to show examples and can be deleted by clicking on the writing. I hope this is helpful. I found it very useful and was great evidence for coverage!