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

A simple homework sheet to complete based on simple facts about Anne Frank. Can be adapted to remove the words at the bottom of the sheet so that they have to research the answers for themselves

An example of a two week rolling timetable for guided reading sessions. It can be easily changed and adapted to a one week plan. Reading workshop is any collection of activities found that are based around comprehension skills.

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for a Newspaper report. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for adding tension to stories. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for shape poetry. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple success criteria sheet for self assessment showing what needs to be included when asking questions

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for Answering questions in character. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for adding characters to stories. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for identifying past and present perfect tense. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for writing about the setting in a story. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for performing stories, plays or poetry. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for checking and editing their own writing . Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups