This is a full unit of work (19 lessons) for English and Guided Reading for a Year 3 class who are exploring the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. All of the slides are prepared on smartnotebook and the unit takes the children through the book using talk for writing strategies. There are lessons on grammar and punctuation, using adjectives, similes and writing descriptions and the lessons build up to the children writing their own version of the story “Bronze Age boy or girl” or “Iron Age boy or girl”.

This pack contains everything you need to teach Just So stories. This is a series of 5 lessons that I use with my Year 6 class. I have included 3 edited just so stories so they are at the appropriate level and contain objectives for Year 6. This pack contains the smart notebook slides for all 5 lessons. The lessons start by analysing the texts and then move on to them planning and writing their own versions of Just So Stories. A planning pro-forma is included as well.

Here is my bank of spelling lists for Year 6. One for each term (1-5) to send home to parents. The lists cover all Year 6 objectives from the new curriculum.

This bundle contains everything you need to a 2 week unit of work on writing a historical narrative set in the Victorian Era. I have included: 2 weeks worth of English plans; smart notebook slides for the week with warm ups, lesson structures and activities; a building a picture sheet which children can use to asses their own writing to ensure they’ve included a range of language features; a planning sheet for children to fill in; and a modelled write which is written at year 6 level and contain all the features which children are expected to include.

This is a weeks worth of English lessons on the theme of Victorian Workhouses. It is aimed at Year 5 or 6 pupils. I have included a full weekly English plan, smart notebook slides for the week, a planning sheet for the children to use to plan their writing and a high quality modelled write which covers a lot of the main elements Year 6 children are expected to include (a range of sentence types, subordinate clauses in different positions, advanced language). This would be best taught after/ alongside reading the book ‘Street Child’.

This is a whole unit of work for Year 6 English lessons on Non-chronological reports. It comprises of 9 lessons and includes the build up to two big writes - one of which I use as a full independent write (assessed piece). The lessons are set up on smart noteboard and each slide contains the outline of the lessons, questions and explanation of activities. I have also created (and included) a modelled write which enables children to see the type of writing that is expected of them in Year 6. The modelled write contains a range of sentence types and high level punctuation.

This is the notebook file for an English unit where students will write their own Mayan Stories. I teach this unit with my Year 6 class towards the end of the Mayan topic when the class have a good knowledge of the Mayan Era. This notebook file contains the modelled write split up into sections to give students inspiration for their own writing.

This is a high quality modelled write about cinemas that I use with my Year 3 class to model what a non-chronological report should look like. It contains the key features of an information text: headings, subheadings, a picture, an introduction etc. As well as the key grammatical features that Year 3/4 children should be aiming to use (fronted adverbials, FANBOYS, subordinate clauses, brackets, questions, exclamations and colons). In the lesson, I would get the children to read the text and discuss what they have learnt from it. They could develop the skills of scanning and skimming and re-calling key information. Then, I ask them to highlight the key features of a non-chronological report. Finally, they could search for high quality language, facts or punctuation that they would like to use in their own writing.

This is a modelled write that I have written for my Year 3 class when studying the book 'Escape from Pompeii'. It's an information text/ travel brouchure about Pompeii. My class analysed this piece of writing before planning and writing their own versions where they chose their own city in Europe to write about. They had to decide on the layout and heading/ subheadings.