These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources help to detail and categorise the EYFS foundation learning in each of the primary curriculum subject areas It is an important resource for EYFS teachers and parents, but also subject leaders, to aid them in the development of a clearly-mapped and well-sequenced subject curriculum across the school. This organiser groups the subject-related learning into the relevant EYFS areas of learning (e.g. Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design, Communication and Language, etc.) The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word documents (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for KS1 children when writing for a range of different poetry forms. The organisers are also perfect for teachers, parents and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children’s knowledge development for the following poetry forms: -Acrostic Poems -Shape Poems -Diamantes -Haikus -Free Verse Poems Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective free verse poems. They generally contain the following distinct sections: -Overview of the poetry form; -Content: What to include, the five senses, communicating a message; -Language: Word choices, word types, alliteration and onomatopoeia, punctuation checklist and word mat; -Structure: Poem length, syllables, rhyme, line lengths, line breaks; -Key Vocabulary. The resources were designed to be printed onto A3 (however can also be printed in A4) and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension skills when reading a range of texts related to Buddhsim. The three sessions include everything needed for whole class reading sessions on: -The Story of the Buddha; -Buddhist Monks and Worship (non-fiction text); -Buddhist Stories of Anger and Patience. The extracts/ texts needed for each session are included, in addition to a colourful, step-by-step PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each session. Each session contains a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. There is also a vocabulary check immediately after each extract is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities. The sessions are best suited for children in KS2, although with minor adaptations they could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups.

These engaging and thought-provoking lessons aid students in developing a secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy: Tales of Childhood.’ This bundle is comprised of all of the lessons that accompany each chapter of the text. There are 14 lessons in total, split into 7 double-lessons: Chapters 1-2: Starting Point Chapters 3-6: The Mouse Plot Chapters Chapters 7-9: Visits to Norway Chapters 10-13: St. Peter’s School Chapters 14-17:In Trouble Again Chapters 18-21: Repton School Chapters 22-25: The Final Chapters The resource pack contains everything that you need to teach the lesson, including comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations. Each session begins with a brief knowledge recall activity based on the prior chapters. Students then read and understand the new chapters, utilising retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. Clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations guide students through the learning activities. The lessons are suitable for students in either KS3 or upper KS2 (for advanced classes), depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This resource bundle contains all of the ‘Pigeon English’ lessons, plus knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet! The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. A double-lesson is provided for each chapter, meaning that there are 10 lessons in total. Lessons 1 and 2 - March Lessons 3 and 4 - April Lessons 5 and 6 - May Lessons 7 and 8 - June Lessons 9 and 10 - July The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students in KS4, but may be used for slightly older or younger classes, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE EDEXCEL TIME AND PLACE POEMS! These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Time and Place’ anthology: John Keats – “To Autumn” William Wordsworth – “Composed upon Westminster Bridge" William Blake – “Songs of Experience: London” Emily Dickinson – “I started Early – Took my Dog” Thomas Hardy – “Where the Picnic was” Edward Thomas – “Adlestrop” Robert Browning – “Home Thoughts from Abroad” U A Fanthorpe – “First Flight” Fleur Adcock – “Stewart Island” Moniza Alvi – “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” Grace Nichols – “Hurricane Hits England” Tatamkhulu Afrika – “Nothing’s Changed” Sophie Hannah – “Postcard from a Travel Snob” John Davidson – “In Romney Marsh” Elizabeth Jennings – “Absence” Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem: Context; Line-by-Line Analysis; Poetic Devices/ Language Devices; Themes; Form/Structure; Poems for Comparison; The Poet’s Influences. The resources are designed to be printed onto A4 or A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

This ‘Rooftoppers’ bundle contains all of the ‘Rooftoppers’ lessons, the detailed knowledge organiser, and the 22-page comprehension activity booklet. The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. Ten resource sets are included, each of which will take approximately 2-3 lessons to deliver. Chapters 1-3 Chapters 4-6 Chapters 7-9 Chapters 10-12 Chapters 13-15 Chapters 16-18 Chapters 19-21 Chapters 22-25 Chapters 26-28 Chapters 29-31 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for some of the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 5 and 6 classes).

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Beatrice Garland’s’ conflict poem: ‘Kamikaze.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Garland’s language devices. The bundle contains: -The comprehensive and engaging lesson, -The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, -The 16 page comprehension booklet; -A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems. The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s fluency and comprehension skills, through reading a range of informative and age-appropriate non-fiction texts. The texts include an appropriate mix of topical/ current affairs-type news stories and more uplifting, light-hearted articles: -The Russia-Ukraine War; -Climate Change; -The World’s Oldest Land Animal; -Alyssa’s Revolutionary Cancer Treatment; -Sebbie Hall’s Random Acts of Kindness; -The Increasing World Population. The reading is followed by a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. It also contains a vocabulary check immediately after the text is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. The PowerPoint presentations guide teachers and students through each of the thought-provoking activities. The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities. The texts have been downloaded and reformatted as PDF and Word documents for ease of use, but the link for each original source is also provided on the first slide of the respective PowerPoint presentation. The sessions are best suited for children across key stage 2 (particularly years 4-6) although with minor adaptations they could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups.

This giant bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities. Included are whole lesson resources for: -Amazing verbs and adverbs -Adventurous adjectives -Astonishing alliteration -Capturing the readers’ attention -Exceptional expanded noun phrases -Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons -Structuring and organising creative writing -Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors -Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world -Writing about Emotions -VCOP - vocabulary -VCOP - openers -VCOP - connectives -VCOP - punctuation All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their skills at writing for a number of different forms, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language ideas, tasks, and techniques. Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on: - Diary Writing; - Recount Writing; - Writing Autobiographies; - Writing Newspaper Articles; - Writing Reviews; - Writing to Argue/Persuade; - Travel Brochure Writing; - Travel Writing: Constructing Imaginative Content; - Travel Writing: Crafting Imaginative Language; - Travel Writing: Creating Imaginative Structures; Also included are helpsheets for students to use when writing for a wide range of purposes (e.g. inform, explain, etc.) Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - there is everything included that you need to teach!

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE 'THE SIGN OF FOUR' LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Doyle's language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of 9 different poems from other cultures. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of formal letter, informal letter, and email writing easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate and imaginative content, language and structural choices depending upon the purpsoe and audience of different letters/ emails. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. The pack also includes writing mats for each of the writing forms, to help students build their extended writing skills. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoints.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE OCR CONFLICT POEMS! These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the OCR ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology: Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen; Lament - Gillian Clarke; Honour Killing - Imtiaz Dharker; Envy - Mary Lamb Vergissmeinnicht - Keith Douglas Partition - Sujata Bhatt The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron There’s A Certain Slant of Light - Emily Dickinson The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy A Poison Tree -William Blake What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov Phrase Book - Jo Shapcott The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth Flag - John Agard Punishment - Seamus Heaney Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem: Context; Line-by-Line Analysis; Poetic Devices/ Language Devices; Themes; Form/Structure; Poems for Comparison; The Poet’s Influences. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Philip Pullman’s ‘Northern Lights.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding structural and language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These colourful, comprehensive, and well-structured revision cards have been creatively designed for students securing their understanding of: -Animal Farm; -Macbeth; -Romeo and Juliet; -A View from the Bridge. Each card is visually-appealing and highly-detailed, covering aspects of each feature including a full summary, cited quotations from the play, definitions/ examples, and a consideration of audience reactions. They are tried and tested, with teachers incorporating them in revision games, using them as essay writing aids, or utilising them as home revision aids. They are provided as both PDFs (to prevent formatting issues between computers) and as Word documents (for easy editing). The packs contain revision cards on each of the main: Characters, Features of Context, Events, Themes, and Devices. I have also included the revision cards templates so that you can create your own! For any questions or comments, please contact TandLGuru@yahoo.co.uk - Many thanks!