I created this quiz for the children when they got back from the EXCELLENT exhibit at Bolton Museum. The questions were obviously pre-prepared and prompts given during the trip activities for a 'memory challenge' when they returned!
The first few 3 chapters formatted and nicely presented for reading with some great class or guided reading activities from ‘The Twits’
Suitable for Year 2 / 3, but easily adaptable if required.
EXTRAS: MARCH 2019
A script that can be used to act out
Up to Chapter 8 Printable
A Great Video for ‘Wormy Spaghetti’
Indiana Jones - Adventure, survival stories - Implementing genre features - Internal dialogue - Could alternatively be used as a stimulus for a ‘big write.’
I found very little in terms of creative content in this area so made my own creative lesson up. (Delivered to a year 5/6 class of 30 children.)
RESOURCE FEATURES…
Lesson Plan (used in an observation lesson.)
PowerPoint - Including embedded video clips, starter to the lesson and details of activity.
Worksheet for starter asking the children to name the genre from a general description. (Answers on PowerPoint.)
Separate video clip for lesson
All you need for a creative literacy lesson with the following objectives and success criteria.
Learning Objective: To know and understand the features of survival / adventure stories
Success criteria:
• Powerful verbs
• Dialogue and internal voice (the PowerPoint / clips are especially useful for this concept.)
• Description to create excitement
Children are then asked to produce a piece of creative writing (as set out in the lesson plan / PowerPoint) with the film clip as a stimulus.
A short presentation on how to classify animals
Vertebrates - Invertebrates
Mammals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians
Presentation is in PowerPoint and Apple Keynote formats.
Lots of comprehension based materials on Back to the Future
Some based on ‘Newspaper Articles’ written.
I’ve added lots of additional materials to match.
In the UK this is in my top 5 resources, highly rated!
Enjoy!
Suitable for lower KS2.
Ideas for a pirate topic, ideas and worksheet to make your own pirate flag, pictures to help plan a character description and a storyboard template.
This lesson is aimed at using descriptive vocabulary to create an atmosphere with a seaside / beach theme.
This was used as part of an Ofsted lesson observation with excellent feedback.
Delivered to a Year 4/5 mixed age group class.
Includes…
Introductory text to explore
Lesson Plan
Powerpoint
Planning Sheet
Word Bank
Two texts based around Halloween AND comprehension questions suitable for years 3-5.
1. Where 'Jack O Lanterns' came from and questions
2. A story 'Croglin Grange' with questions related (year 4-5.)
Project based around the 'Dragons Den' TV program. Pupils are asked to design their own toothbrush.
I have converted my Keynote document I made into a movie file as I created this on a mac.
Also useful for Science and 'teeth' Included are some of the worksheets I made.
Powerpoint to aid teaching about David Hockney including photos of some of his work.
Made personally, initially used with 9 year olds although could easily be adapted for older.
I have also included a Powerpoint with information about him.
NEW October, 2015
Due to the popularity of this resource I have included some additional work.
A weekly plan I made for use with these resources
A pdf. that can be printed out to make an enormous picture of his Artwork 'splash' on separate A4 pieces and put together like a jigsaw for display.
On the UK site this resource is rated extremely highly 4.7 / 5 with reviews from users.
I have included it at a lower price here for a short introductory period, enjoy!
A collection of worksheets for your class which can be used as part of lessons or time-fillers at the end of the day.
Perfect for the newly qualified or experienced teacher.
A unique ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’ based around ‘Bonfire Night’ in the UK.
This can be adapted for ANY topic, includes visuals and sound effects from the programme.
I used successfully in a whole class assembly, the staff loved it too!
Suitable for Primary.
Pupils must write the names of the bones (written to match up) next to the corrent location on the skeleton.
This can easily be differentiated by not giving higher ability pupils the list of bones to match up.
There are 29 in total.
A really high quality worksheet