I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
St Swithin’s Day is on 15th July. This resource consists of a quiz and a 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
- key information about St Swithin’s Day
- important vocabulary
- the history of St Swithin’s day
- the St Swithin’s legend
- the St Swithin’s proverb
- is the superstition true?
- do other countries celebrate St Swithin’s day?
- other ways of predicting the weather
- quiz
- complete the rhyme activity
- proverb activity
- saint matching activity
- maps and diagrams
and
- links to videos
Please note that the quiz questions on the worksheet are the same as those on the presentation and that the answers to the quiz are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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Bastille Day Pack, Independence Day Pack , St Swithin’s Day Pack, Tour de France Presentation , Tour de France Activity Pack, End of Year Memory Booklet
Tags:
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A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities to teach spelling, punctuation and grammar.
This pack provides all resources needed for an hour-long staff meeting about activities to use in class for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar. Your staff team will look at examples of SPaG questions from SATs, reflect about the SPaG requirements for their year group and how they have been covered, complete a grammar terminology activity, take part in whole group grammar activities and then try out several fun grammar activities on their tables. I delivered this meeting to a large staff team and received a round of applause!
Included:
- requirement activity
- terminology activity
- spelling strategies
- grammar activities to demonstrate to team (x7)
- grammar activities for staff to participate in on tables (x5)
- 10 files to download
This resource is fully editable and all images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be interested in the following English Staff Meetings:
**WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies
A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics.
**[
READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading]( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-staff-meeting-pedagogy-strategies-for-reading-english-inset-training-11540049)**
A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.
**WRITING Staff Meeting: Punctuation (English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities.
This resource consists of spelling lists for reception to year 6. The lists are also presented in a precision teaching grid format. To make this resource, I referred to the common exception word lists in the National Curriculum which consist of combined word lists for years 3 and 4 and for years 5 and 6. I separated these by difficulty to create lists for each year group. The words for reception to year 2 are from the National Literacy Strategy. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Art in a primary school. Many of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are ten objectives for improving both progress and attitudes with regard to art and also 100 strategies for achieving these objectives.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Maths in a primary school. Some of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are objectives for improving teaching and learning in maths and 100 strategies for achieving these objectives. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you !
This resource includes all you need for a five lesson letter writing unit. Pupils will write a formal letter to the education secretary regarding whether SATs should be banned or kept.
Includes:
- News articles discussion
- Discussion opinions of professionals based on extracts
- Annotating features of formal letters
- Adverb activity
- Debate activity
- Modal verb activity
- Formal / informal language activity
- Letter drafting
- Letter writing
Requirements covered:
using a range of cohesive devices
using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
selecting vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect the level of formality required mostly correctly
This presentation is fully editable and copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you.
This activity pack includes:
- ‘Tour de France’ reading comprehension,
- ‘Tour de France Jerseys’ reading comprehension,
- ‘The History of the Tour de France’ reading comprehension,
- Tour de France word search and definition activity
and
- Tour de France crossword activity.
Questions in the reading comprehensions reflect different areas of content domain and include literal questions, inference questions, language-based questions and summarising. Question types include find and copy, multiple choice and ordering. This resource is fully editable and answers are included. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
Top resources:
Bastille Day Pack, Independence Day Pack , St Swithin’s Day Pack, Tour de France Presentation , Tour de France Activity Pack, End of Year Memory Booklet
Tags: Tour de France Assembly, Tour de France lesson, Tour de France activity, Tour de France presentation, Tour de France quiz
Harvest Festival is celebrated throughout the month of September . This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and 30 page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about the Harvest Festival
• The history of the Harvest Festival
• Harvest Festival celebrations around the world
• Harvest Festival traditions
• Interactive picture activity
• Interactive missing word activity
• Anagram activity
• Quiz
• Useful diagrams and images
• Links to videos
and more!
This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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interested in these resources:
Black History Month Pack
Halloween Pack
Diwali Pack
[Day of the Dead Pack] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11734435)
Tags: Harvest Assembly, Harvest Lesson, Harvest Presentation, Harvest Quiz, Harvest PowerPoint, Harvest Worksheet, KS1, KS
Black History Month takes place throughout the month of October. This resource consists of a visual, 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
Important vocabulary
Key information about Black History Month
When Black History Month takes place throughout the world
How Black History Month began
Criticism of Black History Month
The slave trade
Abolition of slavery
The Civil Rights Movement
Important people in black history
The Windrush
The Black Lives Matter movement
Quotes from celebrities about Black History Month
Quiz
Interactive matching activity
Interactive naming activity
Notting Hill Carnival spotting activity
Celebrity Activity
Useful images
Links to videos
Also included is a worksheet to accompany the quiz. Please note that the quiz questions are the same as those on the presentation, and that the answers are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be
interested in these resources:
Halloween Pack
Diwali Pack
Harvest Festival Pack
[Day of the Dead Pack] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11734435)
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month Assembly, Black History Month Quiz, Black History Month Worksheet, Black History Month Activity, Black History Month Activities, History of Black History Month, Black History Month Presentation, Black History Month Lesson
Halloween is on the October 31st. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and a visual, 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• important vocabulary
• key information about Halloween
• the history of Halloween
• Halloween celebrations
• Halloween traditions
• Halloween superstitions
• Halloween foods
• haunted places
• interactive scary film activity
• interactive Halloween food activity
• fun Halloween picture spotting activity
• quiz
• useful images
• links to videos
and more!
Please note that the quiz questions are the same as those on the presentation, and that the answers are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be
interested in these resources:
Black History Month Pack
Diwali Pack
Harvest Festival Pack
[Day of the Dead Pack] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11734435)
Tags: Halloween Assembly, Halloween PowerPoint, Halloween Presentation, Halloween Lesson, Halloween Activity,Halloween Quiz, KS1, KS2
This resource consists of a visual, 30-page PowerPoint Diwali presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about Diwali
• The history of Diwali
• Diwali celebrations
• Diwali traditions
• The Rama and Sita Story
• The significance of the five days of Diwali
• Interactive picture activity
• Interactive prayer activity
• Matching activity
• Quiz
• Useful images
• Links to videos
and more!
An optional worksheet to accompany the quiz is included in this pack.
Tags: Diwali, Diwali Assembly, Diwali Quiz, Diwali Worksheet, Diwali Activity, Diwali Activities, History of Diwali, Diwali Presentation, Diwali Lesson, Rama and Sita Lesson, Rama and Sita Worksheet, Rama and Sita Story
This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be interested in these resources:
Black History Month Pack
Halloween Pack
Harvest Festival Pack
[Day of the Dead Pack] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11734435)
The Day of the Dead festivities begin on October 31st. This resource consists of a visual, 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about The Day of the Dead
• The history of The Day of the Dead
• The Day of the Dead festivities
• The Day of the Dead traditions
• Special foods
• La Catrina
• The significance of marigolds, butterflies and sugar skulls
• Parades
• Interactive film activity
• Interactive Spanish word activity
• Quiz
• Photograph spotting activity
• Useful maps and images
• Links to videos
and more!
This pack includes Day of the Dead colouring sheets, a crossword and a quiz worksheet to accompany the quiz on the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
Tags: Tags: Day of the Dead Assembly, Day of the Dead Quiz, Day of the Dead Worksheet, Day of the Dead Activity, Day of the Dead Activities, History of Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead Presentation, Day of the Dead Lesson, Dia de los Muertos Assembly, Dia de los Muertos Quiz, Dia de los Muertos Worksheet, Dia de los Muertos Activity, Dia de los Muertos Activities, History of Dia de los Muertos, Dia de los Muertos Presentation