This is a bank of Year 1 report comments for reading writing and maths to use in mid term reports. Differentiated for all abilities.

This is a short plan for a lesson on the chapter called The Fire from the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It includes prediction, vocabulary, summary, explanation, etc.

A great story to enhance the Moon Zoom topic. The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield (an ex-astronaut). This is one week’s plan to go with the brilliant book which includes learning objectives, differentiation, plus writing frames for the children to write a story at the end of the week.

This resource consists of four Notebooks to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters The Vow, Max, Waiting For Dawn and Another Kind Of Exploring chapters for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

This resource consists of four PowerPoints and worksheets to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

This resource consists planning to teach Year 5 Reading lessons for chapters ‘The Trap’, ‘Fishing In The Dark’, ‘Tarantulas’, ‘Twice-Fried Oiseau Spectacle’ for ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. Each lesson is about an hour long, focusing on one chapter in each lesson for an hour. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

This is a powerpoint to support the teaching of The Fire chapter from the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It includes prediction, vocabulary, inference, retrieval and summarise work.

This was used for a teaching interview in Year 2 and I got the job! There are three sheets for different abilities. I only used one but made them when I was getting the lesson ready as I kept changing my mind. There is a powerpoint of the story in case you don’t have the book.

This resource consists of one Powerpoint file to teach Year 5 Reading lesson for ‘The Raft’ chapter from ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. The lesson is about an hour long, focusing on the one chapter for the lesson. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons also available for the rest of the chapters.

Year 1 writing plans for first three weeks based on the Enchanted Woodlands topic. This includes detailed planning with learning intentions and differentiation. It also has some worksheets to use and adapt.

This is a 2 week writing plan to go with the story ‘Katie In London’ by James Mayhew. Great for London/Britain topics. It includes plans and Notebook presentations plus differentiated worksheets and supporting resources.

This is a weeks lesson plan for learning and then writing the story of ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. It includes Notebook presentations, lesson plans, differentiated resources to match each activity such as word banks, story maps and worksheets. It includes story sequencing, story mapping and punctuation practice. it also includes innovating the story and writing a new story.

Suitable for Year one or adaptable for reception/KS1, this is a week of planning for poetry using the sense. It includes learning objectives, differentiation opportunities, example poems and a worksheet.

This is the planning and Notebook presentation for a 2 week writing plan using the traditional tale of Hansel and Gretel. It includes differentiation opportunities and learning objectives. The first week is learning the story through talking and actions and sequencing. The second week is a carousel of 5 activities which could be changed to one whole class activity each day if carousels aren’t appropriate.

A week of Firework poem planning. With differentiation and learning objectives.

A practise reading comprehension for able readers in KS1 with a short extract from The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. A short extract from text followed by questions with a space to write answers. Across 2 pages.

This is a set of 11 sentences that are about the game, ‘Minecraft’. There are wrongly spelled words to correct and pronouns to identify. These were originally used to help a child with special needs who was finding some spellings and the concept of pronouns tricky. He really enjoyed and engaged with the activity so I thought I would share it. I have highlighted the spellings to be corrected in bold but you could take them off of bold to make the activity a bit more difficult. I have made one sheet for only correcting spellings and another for correcting spellings and finding the pronouns. Answers are included - so the children can self mark and save you time!

This resource consists of one Powerpoint file to teach a Year 5 Reading lesson for the chapter: ‘The Raft’ from ‘The Explorer’ fiction book by Katherine Rundell. The lesson is about an hour long, focusing on the one chapter for the lesson. ‘The Explorer’ is a fiction book that was used to accompany a topic on the Rainforest and the book is about children surviving a plane crash in the Rainforest. More lessons are also available for the rest of the chapters.

A 2 day plan to go along side reading of Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present by John Burningham. The children will describe what is inside the present (before finishing the story) and then after reading the story they will describe Father Christmas.

Writing plan for first week of Cornerstones topic Bright Lights Big City - can be used in conjunction with Cornerstones resources. Includes introduction to the Queen and model letter plus letters for children to invite the Queen to tea. Also includes how to make a cucumber sandwich instruction writing for when the Queen visits.