Literacy Teaching Resource: PREVIEW - Balanced Argument - Should the Vikings have invaded England? (4 day Overview and Activities) This teaching resource uses the text genre balanced arguments to discuss whether or not the Vikings should have invaded England in easy to follow way. Students are taught to learn actions for conjunctions, know the difference of open and closed questions, take part in a hot-seating activity and identify features of a balanced argument. There are also SPaG starter activities mainly aimed at year 6 objectives. This is the first week of imitation following Pie Corbitt's sequence of work. It contains a 4 day overview with a 27 slide SMART Notebook presentation all activities including independent activities. If you like this resource, check out the complete unit of work which continues the complete teaching sequence of imitation, innovation and invention.

Literacy Unit of Work: Balanced Argument - Should the Vikings have invaded England? (3 complete weeks and Activities) This unit of work uses the text genre balanced arguments to discuss whether or not the Vikings should have invaded England in easy to follow way. Students are taught to learn actions for conjunctions, know the difference of open and closed questions, take part in a hot-seating activity and identify features of a balanced argument. There are also SPaG starter activities mainly aimed at year 6 objectives. The second week focuses on slight tweaks to the first week and the children are guided through writing a balanced argument on should monasteries keep the country's wealth? Finally, the children write a balanced argument independently about does money buy happiness? This unit of work includes all 3 stages of Pie Corbett's teaching sequence of work (imitation, innovation and invention). It contains 3 week overviews with a 72 slide SMART Notebook presentation, SPaG activities and differentiated independent activities. If you use this unit of work, please remember to rate and leave a comment. Thank you.

Science Teaching Resources: Year 6 Forces linked to the Ancient Greeks (SMART Notebook slides and worksheets) This unit of work explores working scientifically, gravity, mechanical advantage, gears, pulleys and air resistance in an easy to follow way. Students are taught a range of scientific skills while generating their own experiment. It contains a total of 88 SMART Notebook slides spread across 8 lessons and all activity worksheets. If you like this unit of work, please remember to leave a comment. Thank you.

Guided Reading: USK2 - Exploring World War Two (7 Week Flipchart Slides and Activities) This guided reading teaching resource uses the Curriculum Visions Text The Second World War written by Dr Brian Knapp in an easy to follow way. Students are guided through reading comprehension that uses the complete questions from a modified 2017 Reading SAT paper through the different strands of reading comprehension. We also use the CGP SPaG activity books to supplement the SPAG curriculum. This could easily be changed or use other paper resources with SPaG activities. Group A is the higher ability children leading through to group E. Monday lessons requires group E to follow the Scholastic reading comprehension Year 6 (ISBN-10: 1407100548 / ISBN-13: 978-1407100548) programme of work to help develop individual skills. This is easy to change if you chose not to follow this programme The book you will need is: The second world war / Children in the second world war written by Dr Brian Knapp (ISBN: 9781862145481) If you use this unit of work, please remember to rate and leave a comment. Thank you.