Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
This is a 3 and a ½ week unit of work where pupils create their own charity inspired leaflet. The book used to stimulate the thoughts of being unselfish and thinking of others is ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde. This is a great story with a strong moral of sharing one’s wealth in order to find happiness.
The end piece is a digitally created persuasive leaflet where pupils create logos, slogans and persuasive writing to produce an engaging charity inspired leaflet. This unit of work is targeted best at Year 4 - 6 pupils. I have included all the resources you need to start teaching this tomorrow. Below are all the learning objectives and resources included for the unit:
Stage 1- Stimulate and generate - Learning outcomes
• To write a letter to a persuade
• To understand themes in a book
• To draw inferences from the text.
• To retrieve and record information from a piece of text.
• To discuss philosophical ideas
• To find the meaning of words
Stage 2 - Capture, Sift and Sort- Learning outcomes
• To find the key features of a leaflet
• To write a persuasive slogan
• To write captions
• To write an engaging opening statement
• To write a heading and subheadings
• To use causal conjunctions
Stage 3 - Create refine evaluate- Learning outcomes
• To retrieve and record information from a piece of text
• To design a campaign slogan and logo
• To write an engaging opening statement
• To plan and organise my ideas to effectively support my writing
Resources Include:
• Selfish Giant LOs PowerPoint
• 1 – Sign
• 2 - Themes in a book
• 3 - Extract of the Selfish Giant
• 4 - Philosophical Questions
• 5 - The Selfish Giant Word Mat
• 6 - Key Features of Leaflets
• SEAQAB PowerPoint
• 7 – Slogans
• 8 – To write captions
• iPads & Computers
• 10 - Headings & Subheadings
• 11 – Causal Conjunctions
• 15 – Plan a Leaflet
This unit of work uses the 3 stage planning process of:
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Activities can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
This is 3 units of English planning that produce a charity leaflet, descriptive poetry or an alternative ending. These lessons were planned for a year 4 class but they could be easily adapted up or down. All the planning includes all the resources and worksheets so you can start teaching them tomorrow.
This is 10 full units of English planning that includes all the resources you need to teach it tomorrow. Each unit is between 2 1/2 and 4 weeks long. This is a fantastic bundle of resources which I have used for a few years to inspire my class. their written outcomes have always been great too.