It's Christmas week, you have ten last minute play rehearsals scheduled, a church visit and the class are so excited about Christmas that you're thinking your job is closer to that of a cat herder than a teacher right now. Take a break from planning and take a look at these two lessons for Literacy in Christmas week (let's face it, you're not going to teach five Literacy lessons this week). These lessons were used to reinforce the use of relative clauses by getting them to write a relative clause poem. The class produced many outstanding poems using this method and remarkably got really excited about our Christmas-based Literacy lessons with a hidden SPaG focus!

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/sherlock-holmes-newspaper-report-6-days-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This planning worked incredibly well for all classes in UKS2. Every lesson links to the 2014 NC and is fully resourced with slides and worksheets. Below is a description of each Literacy lesson. Lesson 1: reading and answering differentiated reading comprehension questions about The Adventure of the Speckled Band from the book 'Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes' (a child friendly stepping stone book) which is available to purchase on Amazon in both Kindle form and paperback. Lesson 2: using direct and reported speech in newspaper reports - this is personally one of the most enjoyable lessons I have taught lessons as they really enjoyed converting text messages between Holmes and Watson into direct and reported speech! Lesson 3: how to write a newspaper introduction with examples and activities planned around Sherlock Holmes stories. Lesson 4: learning about unbiased newspaper reports and writing without giving personal opinions. Lesson 5: planning a newspaper report using a planning template. Lesson 6: writing a newspaper report about the story they read in lesson 1. Example newspaper report and detailed success criteria provided.

This week of Literacy lessons focuses on skills needed to write a high-quality diary entry. The skills covered in this week are past tense, past progressive tense and using a range of conjunctions. The lessons are resourced, all for under £1 per lesson! The writing outcome of the week is a diary entry as the old man from The Tin Forest and the final lesson gives pupils an opportunity to edit and redraft their work. This chain of lessons was highly successful and led to brilliant diary entries at the end of the week. The lessons can be used in isolation or after the other Literacy planning related to The Tin Forest found in my shop.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/tin-forest-setting-description-literacy-planning-1-week-literacy-resources-years-34/ A complete week of planning leading to a setting description for The Tin Forest by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson. The planning bundle includes all worksheets, notebook slides and resources for the week to save you time creating them. The week focuses on using a wide range of sentence structures through the use of fronted adverbials, similes, adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses to describe a number of settings before concentrating on describing the scene from the protagonist's dream. All lessons are differentiated to suit the needs of most classes, all for under £1 per lesson! Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

Week 2 of a Literacy unit focusing on writing Matilda themed stories. This week focuses on planning a short story, drafting the first two paragraphs with a partner (paired write) and writing their own short story. The first week of Literacy planning to go along with this one can be found in my shop by following the link below. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This is a word document information text about pirates (what piracy is, when did it start and some pirate laws). Could be used to identify the features of a report by circling features or just used as an introduction to a pirate topic.