These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 and Year 4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. Both the Year 3 Booklet and the Year 4 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Boxing - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination’ and ‘Use a dictionary to check the meanings of words that you have read’ - FBI Vocabulary Agent - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ - Organised Ernie - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Say how a text is organised in order to help you understand it, for example using paragraphs, headings, sub-headings, and inverted commas to show speech.’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is over 20 pages in length!) All images 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 children learning about writers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about: William Shakespeare; Charles Dickens; Beatrix Potter; Roald Dahl. Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Key Times in their Life; Important Vocabulary; Timeline of their Life; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about monarchs and leaders, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are knowledge organisers about: Winston Churchill; Queen Elizabeth I; Abraham Lincoln; Queen Victoria. Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Key Times in their Life; Important Vocabulary; Timeline of their Life; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists. Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving! Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach. Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen In Paris with You - James Fenton Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poppies - Jane Weir Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov When We Two Parted - Lord Byron Comparing Poems! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. 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 poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. 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 varied and engaging resources have been designed to enhance the learning of John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.’ They are perfect for aiding and developing comprehension, and also gaining a secure understanding of the social and historical context of the novel. Included in this resources bundle are: - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Comprehension Activities Booklet - 21 pages of comprehension activities aligned with the text; - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Holocaust Lesson - Enabling students to link the text to its social and historical context; - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Pointless Game - A fun and interactive way of securing understanding of the text. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat - An hugely detailed resource aiding revision of all aspects of the novel! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited at the end of presentations and in separate documents.

This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game! The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills. Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to: - Define each animal class and understand its features; - Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices; - Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious; - Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers. The resources include: -Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation; -Resources for the card-sorting activity; -A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher); -An investigation log; -Step-by-step lesson plan. To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Golding’s key intentions in writing the novel. All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. Contained in the bundle are lessons based on: - 1. Savagery vs Civilization; - 2. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy; - 3. Golding’s Language Devices; - 4. The Beast - 5. Simon and Roger - 6. The Ending 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.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell. All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including: - The Russian Revolution; - Old Major’s Dream; - The Rise of the Pigs; - Dictatorship; - Squealer; - The Ending (Orwell’s Message) 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.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a range of Love and Relationships poems. Each of the poems are widely studied, with some being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies: - Simon Armitage - Mother, Any Distance - Lord Byron - When We Two Parted - Carol Ann Duffy - Before You Were Mine - James Fenton - In Paris with You - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116 In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. 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. Individually, these resources would amount to £16, meaning that you can save 69%! These resources can also be bought individually for £2 each