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This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to teach Year 3 children all about Non-Chronological Reports. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the features of this type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own non-chronological reports. They will have the option of 4 interesting sports to research (using the internet, nonfiction books or both), and will use this information to create their own reports in a similar style. They will create, share, edit and improve their drafts before creating a polished report ready for display!
SPAG/GPS covered: Word Classes, Clauses, Conjunctions, Spellings and Suffix Rules.
Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports
Lesson 2: To recognise word classes and clauses
Lesson 3: To understand how to create a formal tone
Lesson 4: To apply spelling rules when adding suffixes
Lesson 5: To plan a non-chronological report
Lesson 6: To begin writing a non-chronological report
Lesson 7: To extend sentences using conjunctions
Lesson 8: To edit and improve my writing
Lesson 9: To prepare and deliver a persuasive argument
Lesson 10: To create a non-chronological report for display
This bundle comes with an End of Unit Child and Teacher Assessment Sheet to allow each pupil to assess and reflect on their own learning.
Total Number of Slides: 51
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This free lesson bundle is part of a 10 lesson unit on Non-Chronological Reports and includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson scheme of work and resources. During this lesson, children will be introduced to the features of non-chronological report writing and will spend time exploring example texts whilst identifying and recording examples of the different features.
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Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports
Total Number of Slides: 10
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This bundle includes:
-An eye-catching Poster of Non-Chronological Report Writing Features
-Features checklist
-An activity ‘tick list’ to help children explore and record examples of each listed feature
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This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 2 children all about Information Texts. Throughout this unit they will begin by learning about cats and dogs by reading the two stories ‘Dogs’ and ‘Matilda’s Cat’ by the award winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett. They work in small groups to answer text-related questions as well as retelling the story of ‘Matilda’s Cat’ as they apply their knowledge of the -ing suffix. During week 2, they will begin to explore the features of information texts using the provided resources. They will research, plan and write their own information pages which they will then self assess at the end of the week.
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Lesson 1: To create dogs with opposite characteristics
Lesson 2: To answer comprehension questions about dogs
Lesson 3: To correctly spell words using the -ing suffix
Lesson 4: To retell a short story
Lesson 5: To describe an animal using expanded noun phrases
Lesson 6: To explore the features of a nonfiction text
Lesson 7: To research and plan an information text
Lesson 8: To correctly use new and familiar punctuation marks
Lesson 9: To begin writing an information text
Lesson 10: To edit and improve my information text
Total Number of Slides: 52
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This lesson includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson plan and activity to begin this Year 2 unit about Information Texts. Week 1 of this unit focuses on the two stories ‘Dogs’ and ‘Matilda’s Cat’ by the award winning author and illustrator, Emily Gravett.
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Lesson 1: To create dogs with opposite characteristics
Total Number of Slides: 7
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Information Texts. During this second and final week, children will enjoy learning about useful trucks such as Army Recovery Trucks, Logging Trucks and Snow Ploughs before planning and creating their very own! They will then create labels and captions to describe their truck’s features during lessons 3 and 4.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: Phoneme /k/, graphemes c, k, ck and ch, simple sentences.
Lesson 1: To create a useful big truck
Lesson 2: To write sentences using the /k/ phoneme
Lesson 3: To write labels and captions
Lesson 4: To write an informative sentence
Lesson 5: To write captions using complete sentences
NB. Access to nonfiction books about trucks will support this week’s learning.
Total Number of Slides: 27
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to introduce children to Information Texts. This week they will learn about fire engines and other big machines. They will read and discuss short extracts of nonfiction texts, write simple sentences using full stops and capital letters, sort a fire fighting equipment word list into alphabetical order and much more!
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Lesson 1: To correctly order a sentence
Lesson 2: To read and discuss a nonfiction text
Lesson 3: To write simple sentences
Lesson 4: To write facts about a machine
Lesson 5: To sort words into alphabetical order
NB. Access to nonfiction books about machines will support this week’s learning.
Total Number of Slides: 27
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This second bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Significant Authors. During this final week, children will continue focusing on the book Clockwork or All Wound Up as well as a short extract from Spring-heeled Jack by Philip Pullman.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, expanded noun phrases, effective punctuation and dialogue.
Lesson 1: To understand the structure and layout of a graphic novel
Lesson 2: To write a section of a graphic novel
Lesson 3: To perform an improvised role play
Lesson 4: To plan a film script for ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman
Lesson 5: To write a film script
NB. Children will need to have completed reading the book Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman during Week 1.
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Significant Authors. This week, children will focus on the books Northern Lights and Clockwork or All Wound Up by the award winning author, Philip Pullman. They will enjoy learning about and creating their own fictional daemons, drawing comparisons between the book and film (The Golden Compass), writing summaries and making predictions!
SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, subordinating conjunctions, adverbs of possibility/probability.
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Lesson 1: To create my own daemon
Lesson 2: To identify nouns and verbs in sentences
Lesson 3: To compare the openings of the book and film
NB. This lesson requires children to watch the first few minutes of the film, The Golden Compass.
Lesson 4: To make predictions about a story
NB. Access to the book Clockwork or All Wound Up would be beneficial, however a link has been provided.
Lesson 5: To write a summary of Clockwork
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This ‘Adverbs of Probability’ word mat has been created to support and develop children’s understanding of these adverbs. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. During this second and final week, children will now focus on autobiographies; in particular, ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela. They will be fascinated to learn about the political history of South Africa and how becoming an anti-apartheid activist contributed towards Nelson Mandela’s positive and negative experiences in life. Once pupils have developed their understanding of the purpose and structure of an autobiography through this example text, they will then begin to plan, write and edit their own during the final 3 lessons.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: adverbials, head nouns and expanded noun phrases.
Lesson 1: To read, understand and discuss an autobiography
Lesson 2: To answer questions about Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
Lesson 3: To plan an autobiography
Lesson 4: To write an autobiography
Lesson 5: To edit, improve and assess my autobiography
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. This week, children will focus mainly on biographies. They will learn to read and identify the features of a biographical text before applying these when asked to write a biography about another member of the class during lesson 5! SPAG/GPS covered this week: prefixes, suffixes and sentence types (simple, compound and complex).
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Lesson 1: To read, compare and identify the features of a biography
Lesson 2: To rewrite a biography extract using dialogue
Lesson 3: To investigate suffixes
Lesson 4: To investigate sentence structure in formal writing
Lesson 5: To write a biography
Total Number of Slides: 32
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner.
Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting
Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character
Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
End of Unit Assessment? Yes
This bundle includes 15 lesson plans, interactive PowerPoints and all resources needed to teach children about traditional folktales. This unit focuses on the tales: The Little Red Hen, Tiger Child and Rama and Sita.
No additional resources needed
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A small selection of Horrid Henry books are required for this unit.
This bundle includes lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the teaching of Stories in Familiar Settings based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will read and enjoy a selection of Horrid Henry books as they learn/remind themselves about this funny young boy who has a talent for getting into trouble! They will research, identify and describe familiar settings used within these stories as they practise extending sentences with descriptive phrases.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: prepositional phrases, noun phrases and prefixes.
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Lesson 1: To explore and describe a character
Lesson 2: To answer questions about a text
Lesson 3: To extend sentences using descriptive phrases
Lesson 4: To create descriptive language for familiar settings
Lesson 5: To use neat handwriting and accurate punctuation
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary.
This bundle contains the final 5 lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this third and final week, children will be applying their knowledge of traditional Indian Tales by planning and writing their own in a similar style. They will choose a well-known fairy tale and replace some of these characters with the characters from the Indian Tales which have been covered during this unit. They will be aiming to apply their knowledge of prepositional phrases, adverbs of manner and powerful language.
Lesson 1: To use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words
Lesson 2: To ‘magpie’ powerful language to use within my own writing
Lesson 3: To convert a Fairy Tale into a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 4: To write a story in the style of a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 5: To edit and improve my writing
Total Number of Slides: 30
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
These resources can be used to support the learning of Adverbs of Manner (which include the different rules for adding the -ly suffix). This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary.
This bundle contains 5 whole lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this second week, children will have the opportunity to use their imagination when planning and writing their own versions of Rama and Sita with some changes. They will also learn to identify and use subordinate clauses as well as prepositional phrases to express time within their writing.
Lesson 1: To plan a modified version of Rama and Sita
Lesson 2: To use subordinate clauses within my writing
Lesson 3: To make predictions about a myth
Lesson 4: To use adverbs of manner to describe a verb
Lesson 5: To use prepositions to express time and place
Total Number of Slides: 31
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This interactive PowerPoint contains 5 whole lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will learn about folktales and myths whilst focusing on the stories ‘The Little Red Hen’, ‘Tiger Child’ and ‘Rama and Sita’.
Lesson 1: To write a synopsis of a traditional folktale
Lesson 2: To retell a folktale through roleplay
Lesson 3: To identify and use prepositions of place
Lesson 4: To compare different versions of the same story
Lesson 5: To create a comic strip of a well-known folktale
Total Number of Slides: 33
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Have children enjoy learning to read and spell words containing the /j/ phoneme by playing this simple yet effective game! In pairs, they will test each other by picking a card for their partner to spell on a whiteboard! Get the spelling correct, stay where you are! Get it wrong, move back 2 spaces! Who will be the first one to the finish line?
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