This resource consists planning to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters ‘The Trap’, ‘Fishing In The Dark’, ‘Tarantulas’, ‘Twice-Fried Oiseau Spectacle’ for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour.
‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest.
More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.
This is a powerpoint to support the teaching of The Fire chapter from the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It includes prediction, vocabulary, inference, retrieval and summarise work.
This is a short plan for a lesson on the chapter called The Fire from the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It includes prediction, vocabulary, summary, explanation, etc.
This resource consists of one Powerpoint file to teach Year 5 Reading lesson for ‘The Raft’ chapter from ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell.
The lesson is about an hour long, focusing on the one chapter for the lesson.
‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest.
More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.
This resource consists of one Powerpoint file to teach a Year 5 Reading lesson for the chapter: ‘The Raft’ from ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell.
The lesson is about an hour long, focusing on the one chapter for the lesson.
‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest.
More lessons are also available for the rest of the chapters.
This is a 2 week writing plan to go with the story ‘Katie In London’ by James Mayhew. Great for London/Britain topics.
It includes plans and Notebook presentations plus differentiated worksheets and supporting resources.
This was used for a teaching interview in Year 2 and I got the job!
There are three sheets for different abilities. I only used one but made them when I was getting the lesson ready as I kept changing my mind.
There is a powerpoint of the story in case you don’t have the book.
A series of 5 lessons for Year 1 geography curriculum coverage using Hot and Cold topic.
Includes planning, powerpoints and activities (also links to Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (a good book to use to link to Arctic).
This is a weeks lesson plan for learning and then writing the story of ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy.
It includes Notebook presentations, lesson plans, differentiated resources to match each activity such as word banks, story maps and worksheets.
It includes story sequencing, story mapping and punctuation practice. it also includes innovating the story and writing a new story.
A great story to enhance the Moon Zoom topic. The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield (an ex-astronaut).
This is one week’s plan to go with the brilliant book which includes learning objectives, differentiation, plus writing frames for the children to write a story at the end of the week.
This resource consists of four PowerPoints and worksheets to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour.
‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest.
More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.
Year 1 writing plans for first three weeks based on the Enchanted Woodlands topic. This includes detailed planning with learning intentions and differentiation. It also has some worksheets to use and adapt.
This is the planning and Notebook presentation for a 2 week writing plan using the traditional tale of Hansel and Gretel.
It includes differentiation opportunities and learning objectives.
The first week is learning the story through talking and actions and sequencing.
The second week is a carousel of 5 activities which could be changed to one whole class activity each day if carousels aren’t appropriate.
Math and Science Year 2 report comments that can be adapted.
Change name using find and replace. Greater depth, working at, working towards and pre-key stage for maths.
Homework instructions for a book review in preparation for World Book Day.
Includes a box for children to draw their favourite part of the story and stars to colour to give the book a star rating.
Suitable for Year 2 (also maybe Year 1 and Year 3)
This is a handwriting sheet that can be adapted with different words.
It has been made for home learning but could be used for the classroom.
It has a lined second page so children can write sentences using the common exception words.
Made for Year 2 but can be adapted.
English subject report comments for Year 2 children.
Includes comments for exceeding children, working at children, working towards children and also for a child who is not working in Key Stage One but is in Year 2.
The word boy or girl can be replaced with the child’s name.
Homework sheet for spelling -le and contractions. Can be adapted for any words for children to learning spellings. Also has a challenge page on the back for sentences. Can be printed on two sides to save paper.