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No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary.
This bundle contains the final 5 lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this third and final week, children will be applying their knowledge of traditional Indian Tales by planning and writing their own in a similar style. They will choose a well-known fairy tale and replace some of these characters with the characters from the Indian Tales which have been covered during this unit. They will be aiming to apply their knowledge of prepositional phrases, adverbs of manner and powerful language.
Lesson 1: To use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words
Lesson 2: To ‘magpie’ powerful language to use within my own writing
Lesson 3: To convert a Fairy Tale into a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 4: To write a story in the style of a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 5: To edit and improve my writing
Total Number of Slides: 30
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
No additional resources needed
This interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this second week, children will continue to apply their knowledge of adverbials as they create multi-clause sentences relating to UFOs. In addition to this, they will enjoy working in small groups as they plan the events of a ‘hoax’ UFO sighting at school before writing drafts and completing their recounts independently. To finish the week children will work together in small groups as they learn more about the UFO-related world before presenting new information to the class.
Lesson 1: To write and punctuate adverbials in a sentence
Lesson 2: To plan a recount of a UFO sighting in school
Lesson 3: To write the first draft of a recount
Lesson 4: To complete and improve my first draft
Lesson 5: To create and deliver a UFO presentation
Total Number of Slides: 28
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner.
Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting
Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character
Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
End of Unit Assessment? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Instructions and Explanations based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. Children will enjoy learning to write instruction and explanation texts through a variety of fun art activities such as: how to make a paper airplane, drawing a cat’s face and following the step by step instructions to draw a particular dog. Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To recognise imperative verbs in a set of instructions
Lesson 2: To give verbal commands
Lesson 3: To use imperative verbs when writing instructions
Lesson 4: To write simple instructions relating to a picture
Lesson 5: To write an explanation text
Number of Slides: 44
Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Postcards and Letters based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons relating to the story ‘Dear Greenpeace’ by Simon James (which can be listened to on YouTube using the provided link). This PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of an individual class. Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To correctly sequence the events of a story
Lesson 2: To practise spelling words with the /ul/ phoneme
Lesson 3: To plan the continuation of a story
Lesson 4: To write the first draft of my letter
Lesson 5: To create a final copy of my letter for display
Total Number of Slides: 32
Resources included? Yes
Within this unit you will find more lessons linked to the book ‘The Orchard Book of Greek Myths’ by Geraldine McCaughrean. Week 2 of 3.
Lesson 1: To edit the first draft of our myth’
Lesson 2: To create a story map in order to recite a myth
Lesson 3: To recognise and use conjunctions to express time
Lesson 4: To understand the meaning of new words ending with the suffix -logy
Lesson 5: To discuss a live storytelling
Total Number of Slides: 31
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This bonus pack includes 15 whole lessons relating to The Jungle Book and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work). Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different extracts which can be sourced using the links provided in the presentations. This unit is also compatible with the Hamilton Trust Plans.
Total Number of Slides: 124
No additional resources needed
This interactive PowerPoint and 5 lesson plans conclude this unit about stories with Familiar Settings based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. This week, children will continue to focus on ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr as well as the well-known story ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Dragon’ by Jack Kent. Using these stories, they will begin to develop ideas, plan and write their own stories using the character that they created at the end of week 1. During lesson 3, they will also have fun playing a board game with a partner as they practise reading and spelling words containing the /j/ phoneme!
Lesson 1: To create an interesting problem for my story
Lesson 2: To plan my own story
Lesson 3: To read and spell words with the phoneme /j/
Lesson 4: To create a good story opening
Lesson 5: To use my ‘writing toolbox’ to complete my story
Total Number of Slides: 32
Resources included? Yes
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
If necessary, this PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of your class. Physical copies of the books would be beneficial, but links are provided.
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Week 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-fiction-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192909
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This presentation includes 5 project based lessons relating to Instructions and Explanations based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Children will begin by watching short clips of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ before answering 15 questions in a similar format to help understand the rules. To develop their understanding further pupils will then spend time working in groups to create their own questions (with the help of non fiction books) before writing their own instruction and explanation texts to support their game. To finish the week, children will have fun presenting and answering their questions!
Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To watch and understand the rules of a game show
Lesson 2: To plan my own game show questions
Lesson 3: To write a set of instructions to explain a game
Lesson 4: To write in the third person and in the present tense
Lesson 5: To play a class game
Total Number of Slides: 121 (includes the ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire quiz’)
Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Labels, Lists and Signs based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Billy’s Bucket’ by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons. This presentation is Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To consider an alternate ending
Lesson 2: To create short sentences
Lesson 3: To write descriptions
Lesson 4: To design and create a poster
Lesson 5: To write names with apostrophes
Total Number of Slides: 42
Resources Included? Yes
Within this unit you will find lessons based around the book ‘The Orchard Book of Greek Myths’ by Geraldine McCaughrean. Week 1 of 3.
Lesson 1: To research the myth 'Pandora’s Box’
Lesson 2: To explore words with Greek roots
Lesson 3: To compare different versions of the same myth
Lesson 4: To create sentences using powerful verbs
Lesson 5: To use powerful verbs to create our own version of Icarus and Daedalus
Total Number of Slides: 27
Worksheets Incliuded? Yes
Required Text:
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland
This interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based around the thought-provoking story ‘The Day of Ahmed’s Secret’. This book will take children to an unknown world with a powerful message. They will revise the features of recounts whilst writing in both the first and third person as well as applying their knowledge of adverbials and homophones within written sentences.
This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To listen and discuss a story
Lesson 2: To write a recount in the third person
Lesson 3: To write sentences using homophones
Lesson 4: To correctly use and punctuate adverbials within a sentence
Lesson 5: To write a recount in the first person
Total Number of Slides: 38
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Repeating Patterns and Repetitive Phrases which can be used in conjunction with the Hamilton Trust plans. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present’ by John Burningham. Presentation - Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To write sentences using verbs in the past tense
Lesson 2: To draw and write a description of an imaginary home
Lesson 3: To punctuate my own sentences
Lesson 4: To remember finger spaces between words in my own writing
Lesson 5: To write an imaginative card based on an event in a familiar story
Total Number of Slides: 42
Resources Included? Yes
This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Imaginary Worlds based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lessons 1 & 2: To show my understanding of a story through role-play
Lesson 3: To use adjectives to create a character description
Lesson 4: To read and discuss chapters from Fantastic Mr Fox
Lesson 5: To write a dialogue between two characters
Total Number of Slides: 21
Closely following the Hamilton Trust scheme of work, we have produced these presentations to support the learning of the Traditional Tales unit for Year 1. The required text for this unit is ‘Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone’ by Fiona French.
Total Number of Slides: 56
Resources Included? Yes
No additional resources needed
Throughout this two week unit children will embark on various activities as they revise, learn and further explore the features of Instruction and Explanation Texts. They will enjoy giving commands to a partner (to draw various given pictures) as they learn to identify and use imperative verbs. Once they have learned to identify various features of both types of texts, they will be given the opportunity to plan and write their very own.
Grammar Focus: Imperative Verbs & Personal, Possessive and Relative Pronouns
Total Number of Slides: 85
Duration: 10 lessons
Worksheets Included? Yes (with answers)
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Throughout this two week unit children will learn to sequence a familiar story, write descriptive phrases, label pictures and create short sentences. In addition to this, they will also focus on the correct use of capital letters and apostrophes.
These excellent stories celebrate the power of imagination and have been carefully chosen to help engage young minds.
Total Number of Slides: 85
Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle pack includes 10 whole lessons relating to the story ‘I´ll take you to Mrs Cole.’ (based on the Year 3 National Curriculum Scheme of Work). Compatible with the Hamilton Trust Plans.
Total Number of Slides: 77
Resources Included? Yes
This detailed unit will allow pupils to revise the features of recounts as well as covering adverbials, commas and the perfect tense in depth. They will read and explore a range of texts (included in the resources) whilst identifying their features. They will conclude the unit by writing a fictional recount as they compose a sequel to the story ‘Hurricane’.
Required Texts:
‘The Day of Ahmed’s Secret’ by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland
’Hurricane’ by David Wiesner
Total Number of Slides: 72
Worksheets Included? Yes
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Pupils will read historical fiction ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo.
Throughout the reading of this story they will practise writing dialogues, letters and descriptions of characters and settings. They will have the opportunity to convert a section of the story into a an authentic playscript and will have the opportunity to perform their scenes to an audience. To conclude the unit pupils will look at ‘One Boy’s War’ and ‘War Game’ in order to draw comparisons between these three historical stories.
Grammar Focus:
Relative Clauses and adding commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity.
Total Number of Slides: 93