Year 2 Reading - Working at the expected level TAF. The Tunnel by Anthony Browne Guided Reading planning includes: Comprehension - Whole class Comprehension - Independent P4C questions Independent Learning Grammar tasks - Use commas in a list Synoyms including idioms and phrases Author choice of language and features of text Excellent bank of ideas to use alongside other resources available in the shop to compare stories by the same author. Please see the shop for ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne guided reading 2 weeks of planning. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/rehanafazil Enjoy this fabulous story and creative ideas to inspire reading for pleasure and meeting the standards at expected level in year 2. Suitable for the English Reading National Curriculum.

Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak English writing unit. Use this fantastic resource suitable for year 2. Closely linked with the national curriculum year 2 TAFs for the expected level and beyond. Pupils will be able to write creatively using inspiration from the book such as narrative, diary writing and instructions. The main genre focus is instructional writing in a creative way. The resource includes an exemplar instructional text called how to trap a wild thing. Pupils can use this as a guide to write their own instructions such as how to tame a dragon, or how to become a kind of the wild things. Daily lesson plans and differentiated resources are included in the unit that is over 5 weeks. Reading is also embedded in the unit to develop comprehension of the exemplar text. Pupils are encouraged to internalize the text by using a text map. Sen provision is also available to support pupils with learning.

Year 2 Science - Plants Unit. This units consists of 5 weeks of planning with resources. It will give you a sequence of lessons that include observing, fair testing, sorting and classifying. You will see very interesting, engaging and fun resources to get young children thinking like scientists, researching like Darwin, and following their own lines of inquiry. This bundle of resources is well differentiated, allows opportunities of using the outdoors. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment at the end of the unit and good use of concept maps to introduce the topic to find out what children already know at the start. Suitable for the new Science Curriculum to help children ask questions, plan an investigation and think about follow up inquiry lessons they would like to find answers for. Please like this resource and thank you in advance for choosing it. I am sure it will go down a treat with your class.

Year 2 Writing Unit - linked to TAFs Stories with a twist for Year 2 Traditional stories Unit. This is an excellent bundle of useful resources that can be easily adapted to different areas of writing - from narrative, to character description to even further write a forest setting. All of the example texts incorporate the New National curriculum Grammar objectives for Year 2 writing. If the children imitate the narrative text, and innovate it to make it their own, they should achieve the greater depth expectations for writing. A learning ladder has been incorporated for children to self assess and peer assess using the new TAF standards from the English Curriculum. Children can also magpie model sentences and begin to understand varied sentence types within context. There is a supporting powerpoint to show a 3 week journey, with the exemplar, comprehension questions and visuals to support learning the text in the imitation phase. Supports National Curriculum English Writing standards to reach the expected level and greater depth using TAF framework statements.

A fun and enjoyable Pirate assembly for ks1 and easily adaptable for ks2. Its about two siblings who don’t get along but find themselves stuck on a pirate ship. They must learn to overcome their rivalry and learn how to speak like a pirate to avoid being fed to the sharks. This is a fun assembly with songs and dance and YouTube links with relevant dances and music. Performed by a year 2 class successfully for an end of year production. It includes drama, action and fun dialogue to be spoken as pirates. There is detail about cast and how to designate parts. It is suitable for up to 30 children.

Year 2 Maths - Measures ‘Capacity and Reading scales’ These are activities to assess children’s ability to read scales in ml and liters. Children should have first hand practical experience measuring into different size cylinders or bottles first to get secure understanding of when to use ml or liters. They should experience for example that four 250 ml containers fill a liter bottle. They can then move on to identifying the reading of scales in different jugs and solve problems. These resources are differentiated for mastery and greater depth. There are opportunities to show reasoning and is suitably adapted to provide high expectations for the new maths curriculum.

Year 1 and year 2 Maths Use Beebots to give directions on the road to different olympic venues. Can be used to introduce ordinal language for children working at the expected standard. Also available are time worksheets Suitable for year 1 and 2.

Year 2 English Writing Unit This is a unit of work based on Monsters and a short clip. There are two weeks of English Fiction planning that incorporates immersion activities, imagination ideas, and opportunities for children to write simple poetry about feelings of fear. The unit then moves on to watching the short clip and planning ideas for a narrative. Children describe the monster, where it has come from and write their own adventure story. ‘The day I found monster under my bed.’ The resources includes ideas of how to use the monster theme for topic work including DT and making a pesky monster punch drink, and thinking of ideas about how to trap a monster. Please also additional linked resources called ‘How to trap a wild thing.’ in the shop for Instructions only. Their are also ideas for monster ink art and science inflatable monsters ideas in the Powerpoint. It is considered useful to set children a holiday task/project before the unit commences and this has also been included.

This document is to support teachers with feedback and marking. There is an example Powerpoint of good quality feedback and the pedagogy behind it - with children's work, next step marking, self assessment ideas and positive feedback language. There is also a bank of 'Next Step Marking' ideas that have been created to support teachers in their feedback to children that allow independence in revising their work. If marking is over explicit, then parts of the writing may be disqualified. It is highly recommended not to over mark and train children to understand teacher feedback e.g. Use varied sentences for effect on the reader/audience (means that the child has to use questions, commands, statements and exclamatory sentences). The detail in brackets is displayed in the classroom and given as verbal feedback to child. They then go away and improve their writing accordingly. This documents will give you more open bank of statements to use in your next steps (so moderators can't say the feedback was too explicit), and not use that piece of work as evidence for the child meeting the expected criteria (or above greater depth). Suitable for KS1, but can be easily adapted to Year 3 also. Hope you find it useful for your teams and use it to promote independent editing, revising and improvement of work. Linked to English 2018 TAF.

This is an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for: Pedagogy and national data Reading for meaning Reading and understanding high order vocabulary Whole class Inset and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach vocabulary through games picture word association, creative and inspirational visuals, pictures that lend themselves to inference, root words and morphology, idioms and riddles, homophones and homonyms, antonyms and synonyms verbs, nouns and past tense All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repetoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully. It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English.

Into the Forest by Anthony Browne Year 2 Guided Reading This is a guided reading three week unit for children who are working at the expected level. This book is a great visual story to compliment any English journey linked to traditional stories or forest themes. There are clear planned questions that include literal, inference and evaluative questioning. There are also accompanying grammar and response activities included for all weeks to support a carousel activity format of teaching guided reading in class. This resources supports the new national curriculum for English and Reading in Year 2.

This resources is an excellent, differentiated, vibrant information booklet about jungle animals. The children can read the information text to find new and interesting facts about elephants, crocodiles, snakes, parrots and hippos. They can then make their own flap or pop up booklet with headings, captions and interesting facts about jungle animals and then read them to an audience. The text supports learning features of non-fiction text and demonstrates how to engage the reader with questions and interesting facts. This resources is differentiated for early readers working towards band 2 and fluent readers working at greater depth. The reading also supports writing non-fiction and using ambitious and technical vocabulary as well as grammar features (in particular questions). Writers working at greater depth can add their own exclamatory sentences about each animal. The text is presented interestingly and has clear text and visuals.

**Lesson 4 Collage using tessellation and inspiration from Escher ** This is the fourth lesson of a 7 week unit of work although it can be used in isolation too. It is suitable for years 3 and year 4 The following is included; Lesson Plan 4 Powerpoints and resources Examples of work and tasks included. Key vocabulary for the lesson Differentiation You Tube links with relevant examples. Pupils will learn tessellation skills such as translation and rotation. They can create their own tessellation tiles if time permits or use templates like Escher’s fish, and lizard. Overview of the collage unit in the shop is as follows if you want to purchase the complete unit. Week 1 Explore collage techniques Week 2 Use inspiration from Canaletto to create a collage Week 3 Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (newspaper strip collage and BAME link) Week 4 Tessellation and Escher (collage with no gaps) Week 5 Mosaic - (collage with gaps) Week 6 Matisse and (scissors cutout collage) Week 7 Finale composition The theme of the unit was based around buildings and grand designs - but the skills of each lesson can be applied to any focus e.g plants, animals, seaside, world war, landscape, etc The unit can be extended or condensed as you wish. Follow on instagram for more ideas and ways to save your teacher Sundays. @thisisrehanafazil

This is a great resource to teach a year 2 three week guided reading unit. It starts with the book A squash and a squeeze by Julia Donaldson and then moves onto learning a classic poem about an old woman who swallowed a fly i week 3. The planning has looking (retrieval), clue (inference) and thinking(evaluative) style questions. Its a fun and engaging text to use for year 2 and can also be used for fluent readers in year 1. The planning has excellent ideas for the independent group work so that children can apply grammar skills, sequence text, make predictions, learn the poem from memory and even create their own simple poem. A must to promote reading for pleasure in your classes.

This is an excellent information planning 'All About Whales'. The inspiration for this was from the book the Snail and the Whales by Julia Donaldson. It's a boy friendly text and the children got to keep African snails in the classroom. Leading on from this they learnt an exemplar text about whales, imitated it and then innovated to write their own information text about snails. This unit was linked to grammar features from the new curriculum 2017- 18 for Year 2. It includes using targets to develop use of expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and varied openers. Children structured their writing according to the purpose using headings as questions. The resource includes six weeks of planning, a text map, exemplar text, tool boxing ideas and visuals to support the imitation stage. Please also see independent writing opportunities called Snail Riddles available in the shop that also link to this unit. Enjoy and please leave a comment.

This book is linked to the Stone Age Topic. It is called Stone Girl Bone Girl The focus is a narrative writing. It includes 6 weeks planning with marking ladder and exemplar text to support learning. The unit of work is suitable for year 3 and year 4 and includes the following; Hook lesson, Cold Write, Imitation Stage, Innovation Stage Invention of narrative with a biography, Hot Task

Stone Age Boy - Information Text This is a preview It links with the topic Stone Age and is relevant for Years 3 or Year 4. In the complete unit you will find; Planning unit of work for half term with differentiated resources Marking Ladder Exemplar Text Power Points included Tier 2 vocabulary SEND resources Opportunities for narrative included. Finale suggestions- Have a stone age day, make clay pots and clay tools and/or jewelery, stone age fashion show, and foraging fruit. Visit the shop for the full resource with suggestions for a stunning start day.

Children can use the smiley faces to give each other or themselves, a smiley, straight or sad face if they have followed the success criteria: ‘Steps To Success.&’ This helps to show the progress in lessons from good to outstanding when children can take responsibility for their own learning and suggest ways for improvement. Rotate books clockwise for peer assessment or walk around the classroom as if it were a museum in silence. stop at your friends work and read it to evaluate. V.successful in YR1 and 2.

Closing the vocabulary gap to impact reading and writing in primary schools Cover. Do you want an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for: Pedagogy and national data National Curriculum changes that demonstrate need for teaching of vocabulary Reading for meaning Reading and understanding high order vocabulary? This resource is a valuable guide and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach high order vocabulary. You will find interactive and stimulating ways to develop and enhance vocabulary through games that teach other grammar features such as:- picture word association, creative and inspirational visuals, pictures that lend themselves to inference, root words and morphology, idioms and riddles, homophones and homonyms, antonyms and synonyms verbs, nouns and past tense All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repertoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully. It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or for classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English. Please visit the website for the full 21 page resource that will impact on your whole school reading ability and also enhance writing.

Information Tex planning about Puffer Fish for Year 2 Front Cover Suitable for year 2 TAF writing objectives. Find the complete unit of work in the shop with the following; Three weeks of planning Exemplar Text for All About Puffer Fish (can be linked to under the sea or seaside topic). Focused grammar features and vocabulary in the exemplar text includes subordinating conjunctions suffix ly subheadings Varied sentences Expanded nouns Differentiated exemplar for SEN Key Vocabulary from exemplar with visual aids All About Turtles exemplar as application text Links to literacy shed under the sea short films Planning Information Text, summarising and identifying grammar features Many more resources included Follow the author on instagram for more resources @thisisrehanafazil