An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
The last of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video link, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why people go to the park, what they can see and do there and why this can be a problem.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons:
Journey through Russia
Human Impact on Coasts
Geography Report Comments
The seventh of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 39 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the 2 biomes that Yosemite is in and the 5 vegetation zones found in the park.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lesson on this topic:
Scandinavia Biomes
The sixth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 24 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why the dam was built at Yosemite and covers different opinions for and against the dam and reservoir.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lessons on water in Geography:
Rivers in Europe
UK Coastal Erosion
The fifth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 36 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the water features found in the park, including waterfalls, rivers and streams. How humans use the water in park and the water cycle within Yosemite.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Yosemite lessons:
Yosemite Biomes
Where is Yosemite?
Erosion in Yosemite
The fourth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 32 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the type of rock found in the park, erosion, rock falls and changes in the future linked to global warming and pollution.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on this topic:
Climate in Europe
Coastal erosion
Rivers in Europe
The third of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches how the physical features of Yosemite were formed, covering volcanoes, glaciers, ice age, dams, rivers and more.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia Unit
Europe Unit
The first week of a 2 week Christmas story unit for KS2. This pack includes 5 PowerPoints to lead you through the learning sequence, modelled texts to inspire and support, a variety of activities to keep the pupils focused and all resources and plan included to save time.
Read the Scandinavian Christmas story about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Explore the story with the pupils and help them to plan a similar story, to write the following week (see links below).
The story has been written to include essential writing skills for year 5 such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. This unit could easily be adapted for other KS2 year groups.
Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, activities designed to suit a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.
KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:
Editing and improving example sentences,
Using relative clauses,
Accurate speech punctuation,
Comparing setting descriptions,
Highlighting writing techniques (relative clauses, sentence openers, adjectives, personification, parenthesis and conjunctions)
Adding in adverbs,
Using similes and metaphors,
Expanded noun phrases.
Engage your pupils with Christmas and develop their writing with these high quality PowerPoints. Each day use the modelled texts to capture their imagination, expand their vocabulary and teach them new skills for KS2. Enhance their progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture.
Check out Week 2 of this unit by clicking here where the children are guided to write their own version of the story.
Or grab a bargain and buy both Christmas Story Writing weeks by clicking here for a Christmas Unit Bundle
All reviews welcome.
For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below:
Scandinavia Geography Unit
Scandinavia Art unit
10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed.
Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work.
Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate).
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points:
relative clauses,
expanded noun phrases,
editing and improving language,
parenthesis,
creating an atmosphere,
showing change within characters,
describing settings,
building suspense,
summarising,
identifying word classes,
complex sentences.
Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent).
The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it.
Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words.
Many more teaching points covered:
types of sentence openers,
how to start a story,
building suspense,
writing effective phrases to show change,
using synonyms
using a thesaurus
peer assessment
editing punctuation
editing for sense
editing to improve
Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum.
There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
Ability groups in plan:
Green - Low ability
Yellow - Mid/low ability
Blue - Mid ability
Red - High ability.
All reviews welcome.
All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included.
Display includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
A week’s KS2 English planning focusing on teaching writing skills through a history theme of WW2. Engaging activities, resources and opportunities for discussion all included. A bright and engaging PowerPoint leads you through the week, with starters, modelled examples and plenaries for every lesson.
Lessons cover these learning objectives:
L.O. I know how to use relative clauses in a recount of building a bomb shelter
L.O. I know how to use subordinating conjunctions in a recount of a woman’s day in the war
L.O. I know how to use brackets in a recount of escaping capture
L.O. I know how to use dashes and commas in a recount of a day in a tank
L.O. I know how to edit and improve my writing
Daily starters focusing on: punctuation, handwriting, verb prefixes and modal verbs.
All lessons are differentiated: support for lower ability and challenges for higher ability.
Detailed plan included.
All reviews welcome.
Could be used alongside a WW2 History unit or on its own.
Emotion synonym picture cards showing 30 feelings, questions and activities to support circle time. Use this pack to develop children’s awareness of their own feelings, so they can identify strong feelings, communicate them successfully and manage them. Foster positive mental health techniques within your classroom.
Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week in your school and heighten awareness of mental health. Use these 30 high quality emotion cards for a discussion, display, assembly, circle time or English writing lesson and for many more opportunities.
Each card contains an emotion with a bank of synonyms to help the students understand this emotion deeply and how other emotions link to it. They also contain a real photo of a child showing this emotion, to further explain each one.
Engage your pupil’s in this important and relevant dialogue. Enable your students to have a positive mental health using the questions and activities included in this pack.
Create a ‘How do you feel today?’ display and encourage your pupils to understand and identify their emotions.
Have a look at my popular circle time activities for years 3 and 4
Download a complete lesson on Dreams and Aspirations here.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
5 complete lessons with starters, activities, differentation, worksheets, challenges and answers. All you need to teach the second week of the Autumn term addition and subtraction unit, week 4 in year 3. Included in this pack is a colourful, engaging Powerpoint which leads you through each complete lesson, with starters and plenaries introducing and building on learning; differentiated worksheets for every lesson providing a range of engaging activities; challenges, extensions and answers for efficient marking.
Each lesson takes you through the small steps and advice given by White Rose, with progression through fluency, reasoning and problem solving. This sequence of learning also contains an overview showing you how Teachallenjoy’s planning covers the year 3 addition and subtraction small steps over the 5 week unit. Every lesson also contains activities for reviewing the relevant year 2 small steps.
Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
Year 3 Small Steps Covered:
Add and subtract 3-digit and 2-digit numbers - not crossing 100
Add 3-digit and 2-digit numbers - crossing 100
Subtract a 2-digit number from a 3-digit number - crossing 100
Add and subtract 100s
Highlights of this addition and subtraction pack:
Range of activities
Interactive animations of mathematical concepts on PPT
Visual and colourful
Differentiation
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Extension activities for every lesson
Friday lesson reviews learning from the week so the addition and subtraction small steps will last the 5 weeks allocated by White Rose in the overview.
All reviews welcome.
Why not check out my Unit for the first 3 weeks of term:
Place Value Unit
All you need to teach the first week of the Autumn term addition and subtraction unit, week 4 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions, challenges and answers included. Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
5 lessons included, with full differentiation across year 3 and extending into year 2 - reviewing small steps covered last year to make up for any gaps due to the Corona Virus school closures.
Small Steps Covered:
Add and subtract multiples of 100
Add and subtract 3-digit and 1-digit numbers - not crossing 10
Add 3-digit and 1-digit numbers - crossing 10
Subtract a 1-digit number from a 3-digit number - crossing 10
Highlights of this addition and subtraction pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Interactive animations of mathematical concepts on PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Extension activities for every lesson
Friday lesson reviews learning from the week so the addition and subtraction small steps will last the 5 weeks allocated by White Rose in the overview.
All reviews welcome.
Why not check out my Unit for the first 3 weeks of term:
Place Value Unit
All you need to teach the first 3 weeks of the Autumn Block of Place Value as advised by White Rose; complete PowerPoints leading you through the lessons, differentiated worksheets, all answers and a plan for each week.
All the 15 lessons builds through concrete, to pictorial and then abstract to give pupils a secure understanding and confidence with place value.
High quality and engaging lesson inputs, full of modelled and animated guided maths to encourage independence and achievement.
Variety of activities including differentiated worksheets, board games, dice games, small cards, treasure maps and code breaking tasks.
Thoughtful questions designed to enable mastery and to support variation theory.
Download this to save time, enjoy teaching maths and to show progress.
All reviews welcome.
All you need to teach the third week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 3 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions and challenges included. Also in this extensive pack of 5 lessons, is a detailed plan for the week.
Covers these small steps:
Ordering numbers,
Counting in 50’s,
Counting in 4’s,
Counting in 8’s,
Problem solving using an understanding of place value.
Highlights of this week 2 pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Animated and engaging PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Differentiated worksheets
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
Unique version of Monopoly for HA
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my:
Week 1 Place Value
Week 2 Place Value
Place Value Display
Or purchase this all as A Discounted Bundle.
All you need to teach the second week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 2 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions and challenges included. Also in this extensive pack of 5 lessons, is a detailed plan for the week.
Key Small Steps Covered:
Number lines,
10 and 100 more and less,
Comparing objects,
Comparing numbers.
Highlights of this week 2 pack:
Range of activities
Simple game
Concrete, pictorial and abstract maths
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
A ‘Crack the code to find the treasure in the map’ lesson reviewing all the objectives covered
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my:
5 star review Year 3 Week 1 Place Value
NEWYear 3 Week 3 Place Value
Place value display
All you need to teach the first week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 1 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions, challenges and answers included. Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
4 lessons included as most people have an INSET the first week back.
Small Steps Covered:
Counting in 100s
100s, 10s and 1s
Place Value up to 1,000
Problem Solving with place value
Highlights of this week 1 pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Links to useful interactive activities on PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
All reviews welcome.
Why not check out:
Year 3 Week 2 Place Value
Year 3 Week 3 Place Value
Place Value Display
7 Quality lessons covering all aspects of life in Scandinavia and National Curriculum Geography learning objectives.
Powerful images, video links, resources, detailed plans and no preparation needed.
Enjoy my other Scandinavian Units:
Scandinavian Art Unit
Writing Scandinavian Christmas Stories
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Yosemite
Europe
The final part of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Who are the Sami people? History of people and discussion
Where do the Sami people live? Map study
What is changing for the Sami people? Video of lifestyle and information
Why has their lifestyle changed? Images and discussion
What does the future look like for the Sami people?Video of opinions
How could we help? Main activity
Which technique have you used? Self assessment challenge task
All resources are included, so just open the video links and print the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The sixth part of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Who are the Scandinavians? Video link explaining Viking history
How do Scandinavians celebrate Christmas? Lesson starter craft activity
What will my mind map look like? Discussion and mind map examples
What makes each country in Scandinavia unique? Fact cards covering food, religion, music, art, festivals, symbols, royalty, language and immigration
How are these elements linked?Discussion of ideas
Which time zone is Scandinavia in? Challenge task
Who is from Scandinavia? Famous person research extra challenge task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards if you’d like and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
The fifth of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
What resources do they have in Scandinavia to create energy? Energy summaries
How else do they create energy? Burning waste videos
Where do they farm? Why? Maps and facts to discuss
What do they export each year? List of statistics for task
How do we draw a bar graph?Animated model with 5 helpful tips
What have you learnt? Bar chart task
Can we improve our energy sources in the UK? Challenge task
How else do they transport people and goods? Plenary discussion
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, a detailed lesson plan find some graph paper and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
