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Synonym Fries Interactive Display
This is a really fun interactive display, which has synonym ‘fries’ within take-away style packaging.
My English Working Wall display has synonym store, which has **10 high frequency **words and its synonyms. All of the synonyms are in the form of fries, which pupils can use when they are editing their creative writing. This resources works alongside my ‘mini thesaurus’ resources, however these are more interactive and fun. They have definitely made my pupils more interested in vocab!
I bought some cheap craft cardboard chip packages to place my synonym fries in. The text is cursive and written in mayo and ketchup colours!
There are 119 synonym fries in total - providing my quick Maths is correct! Note: I use the synonym fries (small) for my display.
I hope you and your pupils enjoy!
Creative Writing Story Mountain Resource (KS2)
This is a great resource which I’ve used for multiple creative writing tasks, particularly short stories.
It includes the key elements of a story, with prompts and a brief description of what is usually in each.
Once the scaffolding is used, I often encourage my higher attainers to think how they could move away from the scaffold, perhaps using the ending as a beginning for example.
Elements of the story mountain:
Opening
Build Up
The Problem
Resolution
Ending
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Autumn 1 Spellings Bundle (Upper KS2)
These lessons are part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection.
I was inspired by the Herts for Learning Spelling scheme to create these resources.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF), a lesson resource including model sentences and also a wordsearch with all of the weeks words in. There are ten spellings per week and eight weeks in total.
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English - Night of the Gargoyles bundle (Upper KS2)
An incredible English scheme of work for upper KS2, using the book ‘Night of the Gargoyles’, inspired by HertsforLearning and adapted for my class. There are ten lessons in total. This was a great tool for creative writing and encouraged some beautiful descriptive pieces particularly from my boys.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and accompanying resources. Each lesson includes modelling for each task.
I hope you love this book as much as me and my pupils did!
(01.03.23) UPDATE: PowerPoints Available to edit for every lesson (please note this may need slight reformatting depending on your font settings)
English - And Tango Makes Three L9 (Upper KS2)
This lesson is the ninth from a really lovely English scheme of work for upper KS2, using the book ‘And Tango Makes Three’, inspired by HertsforLearning and adapted for my class. There are ten lessons in total.
(01.03.23) UPDATE: PowerPoint Available to edit (please note this may need slight reformatting depending on your font settings)
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and accompanying resources. I’ve also included my Medium Term Plan for the entire scheme!
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Learning Intention and Targets for Success
Slide three: Starter
Slide four: Task Introduction
Slide five: Brainstorm
Slide six: Modelled Example
Slide seven: Brainstorm
Slide eight: Plan
I hope you love this book as much as me and my pupils did!
English - And Tango Makes Three L10 (Upper KS2)
This lesson is the final from a really lovely English scheme of work for upper KS2, using the book ‘And Tango Makes Three’, inspired by HertsforLearning and adapted for my class. There are ten lessons in total.
(01.03.23) UPDATE: PowerPoint Available to edit (please note this may need slight reformatting depending on your font settings)
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and accompanying resources. I’ve also included my Medium Term Plan for the entire scheme!
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Learning Intention and Targets for Success
Slide three: Starter
Slide four: Text Focus
Slide five: Let’s Read
Slide six: Plenary
Slide seven: Let’s Discuss
I hope you love this book as much as me and my pupils did!
Mini Thesaurus - English Resource
This resource contains 40 high frequency words, each containing 14 synonyms. They are a great visual resource for creative writing and editing. I hang mine onto my English Working Wall as cute hand-sized packs, which I ring-bind together, after laminating.
Show Don't Tell Me - English Descriptive Writing
This bundle contains 29 different emotion cards, which can be made into hand-sized resources for descriptive writing. I pin my to my English working wall, as a resource for pupils to use if needed, but they would work on table tops too! Each card has eight sentences, which show an emotion rather than telling how a character feels.
So rather than pupils writing:
Emmy feels sad…
They could utilise the resource to write:
Emmy hung her head low. She took a deep, heavy breath out of her trembling lips…
Star Wars Accelerated Reader Display
This is by far my favourite display ever! I still can’t believe I created something so cute. Definitely gender neutral and my pupils love it.
This is a super cute display for Accelerated Reader, which focuses on percentage rather than words read, so it’s inclusive for all. I went for a star wars theme because I wanted it to go for a sci-fi vibe. I personally like to use hessian and matte laminating pouches, but this will work on a variety of backings. There are over 40 individual parts, including the heading.
This display would also work for most reading tracking displays.
I’ve also added a display plan of how I envisage it to be hung, but you can experiment with what works best for your display boards.
Enjoy!
Sentence Types and Punctuation (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on sentence types and punctuation, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Basic punctuation learn
Slide three: Sentence learn
Slide four: Sentence types learn
Slide five: Question 1: Punctuation/Sentence Types
Slide six: Question 2: Punctuation
Slide seven: Question 15: Punctuation
Slide eight: Question 17: Sentence Types
Slide nine: Question 27: Sentence Types
Slide ten: Question 28: Punctuation
Slide eleven: Question 31: Punctuation/Sentence Types
Slide twelve: Sentence types practice
Slide thirteen: Sentence types practice feedback (answers)
Slide fourteen: Punctuation practice
Slide fifteen: Punctuation practice feedback (answers)
Word Class Visual Aids
I created these as visual aids to be hung above my interactive whiteboard, as a reminder of each word class. Great for a teaching resource or a personal memory aid.
Includes ** 8 different word classes**, with examples, descriptions and visual prompts.
verb
noun
adverb
adjective
determiner
preposition
conjunction
pronoun
Enjoy!
Pronouns (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on pronouns, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Question 4: prefixes
Slide three: Question 4: prefixes 2
Slide four: Question 5: pronouns
Slide five: Question 20: pronouns
Slide six: Question 6: standard english
Slide seven: Pronoun task
Tenses (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on tenses, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Question 1 - exclamation marks
Slide three: Question 3 - dashes
Slide four: Question 12 - punctuation
Slide five: Question 2 - tense
Slide six: Tenses
Slide seven to eight: Pairs work
Slide nine: Independent work
Semi-colons and Conjunctions (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on semi-colons and conjunctions, but also contains some - further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Question 7: Punctuation
Slide three: Semi-colon teach
Slide four: Question 43: Punctuation
Slide five: Question 2: Semi-colon
Slide six: Question 8: Expanded Noun Phrase
Slide seven: Question 49: Noun Phrase
Slide eight: Question 9: Word Class
Slide nine: Question 18: Word Class
Slide ten: Question 13: Word Class
Slide eleven: Question 10: Conjunction
Slide twelve: Question 33: Conjunction
Slide thirteen: Semi-colon task
Direct Speech (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on Direct Speech, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Direct Speech Video Link
Slide three to six: Important features of direct speech
Slide seven: Question 21: Punctuation
Slide eight: Task
Slide nine: Task feedback (answers)
Apostrophes (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on apostrophes, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Question 1: apostrophes
Slide three: Apostrophes questioning
Slide four: Apostrophes
Slide five to six: Apostrophes teach
Slide seven: Question 25: Apostrophes
Slide eight: Contraction Task
Slide nine: Contraction Task feedback (answers)
Slide ten: Possession Task
Slide eleven: Possession Task feedback (answers)
SATs Writing Introductions (Upper KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on the writing framework overview for KS2 SATs, but also contains some further example of writing at different grades.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Starter
Slide three: Grading
Slide four: Working towards the expected standard
Slide five: Working at the expected standard
Slide six: Working at greater depth
Slide seven: Independence
Slide eight: Examples of working towards
Slide nine to twelve: Examples of working at
Slide thirteen to fifteen: Examples of greater depth
Clauses (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on clauses, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two to three: Starter
Slide three: Question 8: main clauses
Slide four: Clauses
Slide five: Question 23: Subordinate clauses
Slide six: Question 32: Clauses
Slide seven to eight: Clauses tasks
Adverbs (KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection. This lesson focuses on adverbs, but also contains some further grammar practice. This lesson was created completely independently and was created purely to plug gaps in my pupils knowledge.
I tend to get my class to complete a baseline for SPaG, so I know where to target.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF) and any accompanying resources.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two: Question 9: adverbs
Slide three: Adverbs
Slide four: Question 9: adverbs
Slide five: Question 18: word class
Slide six: Question 13: word class
Slide seven: Question 50: adverbs
Slide eight: Adverbs task
Slide nine: Adverbs task feedback (answers)
Spellings - Homophones (Upper KS2)
This lesson is part of my SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - sometimes abbrieviated to GPS) collection.
This lesson is the fourth spelling lesson focusing on homophones. I followed the Herts for Learning Spelling scheme to create these resources.
Resource bundle includes: Lesson Powerpoint (PDF), a lesson resource including model sentences and also a wordsearch with all of the weeks words in. There are ten spellings per week.
Slide one: Title page
Slide two to three: Weekly Overview
Slide four: Spelling practice using techniques
Slide five: Find the definitions task
Slide six: Spelling in context - sentences activity
Slide seven: Word search with the spellings activity