Simple strategies for decoding when children are reading. The poster can be displayed in the classroom or minimised and laminated for individual children during independent/guided reading. The colourful poster has sounds and images to make decoding words simple.

A complete lesson on writing a character description of Augustus Gloop including PowerPoint, Video clip and worksheet

A PowerPoint with lessons teaching persuasive adverts including analysing features of, success criteria, writing an advert script and presenting their own oral advert

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for how to make inferences when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for making predictions when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A complete lesson with plan and resources taken from a lesson observation I did. It has everything you need to deliver the lesson all of which can be adapted to your needs.

Lesson on writing a character description of Mr Willy Wonka

An A4 sheet full of facts about Martin Luther King Junior that can be used for a unit of work or a report/biography writing activity based on figures in history

A mtp for year 3 and 4 of stories with suspense including what books to use and under the theme of Stone age

The PowerPoint is a guide to how to write a Place or setting for a story with the outcome being that the children can describe settings understanding how small details can be included to evoke time, place and mood.

An assessment sheet for self or peer assessment after writing a setting. Includes the success criteria for writing a setting

A full lesson for teaching the use of the full stop aimed at year 3 as a refresher but can be used with year 2 but activities may need to be altered. This contains lesson plan, PowerPoint and resource cards and sheets

An extension to previous resources where both are combined but with different activities to consolidate their understanding including planning, PowerPoints and activity resources

An activity where children are times reading a text and completing a short task

An activity based on how to make a fairy tale cottage where the children are given instructions with the conjunctions missing. They have to add them in

An activity where children are times reading a text and completing a short task

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for how to make inferences when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A collection of travel guide research sheets that can be used as differentiated sheets. One is completed as an example, the Australia travel guide. This could also be used for children to use to write up the research into a detailed guide. There are example places given which can be changed to fit the country/area you are studying.

Simple tasks to use when practising dictionary skills ranging from spell check to definition and location of words to alphabetical order