Week 6 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on character description, prediction and planning, writing and editing a sequel.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 15-19 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in using textual evidence to predict future plot lines, describing characters using ‘show not tell’ and writing at length.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Making Predictions worksheet
Describing the Green Death worksheet
Evidence from Text worksheet
Book Review worksheet
Story Mountain Planning worksheet
Introduction Drafting & Editing worksheet
Sequel Write-Up worksheet
Front & Back Cover Design Challenge worksheet
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
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I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Writing prompt/stimulus based on retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Teaching PowerPoint and 4-way differentiated planning sheets included in this 29-Page pack.
This can be delivered to a single class, year group or whole-school cohort, or even as an extra-curricular Creative Writing club task!
Assessing writing is a subjective nightmare! With this independent writing assessment stimulus, children can engage in an exciting writing task centred around retelling the story of Red Riding Hood, with older year groups synthesizing the story by adding their own endings. As teachers, we can decide which planning sheet most accurately matches the children’s abilities or targets, and the writing they produce can be assessed against national or state standards.
With Talk for Writing opportunities throughout the PowerPoint, children can discuss their use of vocabulary, ideas for plot and explore their characters’ emotions in peer work or small groups.
Included in this download:
25-page teaching PowerPoint
4 different planning sheet options in PDF format
5 fonts for editing purposes
Editable versions of PPT and worksheets to suit your classes’ needs!
Looking for more writing stimuli? Look no further (:
X Writing Stimuli | Narrative | Red Riding Hood Retelling
X Writing Stimuli | Narrative | Spellbound
I hope this resource saves you time and stress!
Miss Austin
A Pugs of the Frozen North themed worksheet that I used for a week-long homework task based on subtraction using the column method.
There are four challenges in increasing difficulty that see children securing more and more desirable food for the pugs when Shen is abandoned with them on the frozen ocean.
Mega Teaching Pack for the Past, Present & Future Tenses in the Simple, Progressive & Perfect forms.
This resource includes:
Past tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Past tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Present tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Present tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Future tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Future tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
All answer sheets
All Word document versions to assist with editing to your students’ needs
2 fonts to assist with editing in the same style
Teaching tenses can be frustrating for many reasons- we were never taught grammar to this extent before, making resources can be tedious and it can be difficult to make them entertaining!
For that reason, and to help out other teachers who are DONE making tenses worksheets time and time again, I thought I’d upload the unit I created and teach with year in and year out!
Miss Austin
Week 1 of 6- A no-prep lesson that opens a course on the use of nature within art. Gets children outside exploring, and it is perfect for teaching in Fall, Summer or Spring with Grades 1-3!
This product contains a 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guide students through learning the basics of groupings in nature (flora and fauna), and walks them through exploring the outdoors, taking an interest in the world around them and creating a collage using the objects they find, pens and paper.
This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on talking about the items that they find, exploring patterns in nature, and lateral thinking when creating a collage based on examples on the slides.
This lesson is likely to take 1-1.5 hours, involving a nature walk that could be as short or as long as you like!
This product contains 4 activities, including:
‘What do we already know?’ questioning activity about natural objects
Grouping activity with manipulative images on PPT slides
Exploration task involving magnifying glasses
Nature collage task involving pens and paper
This download includes:
A 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint
‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
Outline of the planning with links to accessing the rest of the course
3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
Links to websites for extra inspiration, if needed!
Key Stage 2: 4 Entire Weeks of no-prep, distance learning English lessons based on Matilda by Roald Dahl. Emphasis on play scripts, recipe writing and description.
Matilda is one of those novels that never gets old, is loved by children and adults alike and provides great opportunity to explore lots of different text types. Perfect for whilst we’re teaching from afar, I put this pack together to ensure this module can still be taught even though we’re not in the classroom!
Included in this mega pack:
30+ resources in PDF format to ensure aesthetic layout!
PDF version of the text
20-lesson, 4 week long planning sheet with brief lesson plans- all able to be completed from home.
Prediction worksheet based on the front cover and blurb
Glossary worksheet and definition answers provided
Character trait worksheet for Mrs Phelps, Matilda & Mr Wormwood
Two write up sheets for different character descriptions
Venn Diagram for comparing characters
‘Features of a play script’ help sheet
Jack and Jill play script to label
Converting prose to play script worksheet
Using commas in three different ways worksheet
Acrostic Poem worksheet
Intonation and expression worksheet
Mischief scale worksheet
Comparisons between movie and book worksheet
Matilda’s next trick hypothesis worksheet
Planning sheets for play scripts
Asking questions to Miss Trunchbull worksheet
Converting adjectives to adverbs worksheet
Antonyms starter activity
Synthesised chapter planning sheet
Sequencing of emotions worksheet
Recipe planning and example sheets
Various starter tasks and extension challenges
Additional Resources that didn’t make it onto the final plan
.docx Word Document versions of ALL resources to allow you to edit them
3 fonts to edit your resources with
Phew! What a massive pack to put together!
All of these will be sold separately as individual lessons in the coming weeks.
I hope this saves you time and stress.
Miss Austin
Hi there!
This was originally on this website a few months ago and had over 600 downloads and great reviews!
In this pack is an extensive powerpoint concerning past, present and future (and perfect!) tenses :)
Enjoy x
Hi there!
Included in this pack is a presentation that outlines the LO, success criteria, input, whole class activities and plenary. There is also a detailed Lesson Plan for you to amend to your children's abilities.
Hope you enjoy this and find it useful!
Please leave a review if you download it!
Miss Ritchie x
* Includes *
3 powerpoints, including one recap of rounding and multiplying,
Learning Objective: To be able to multiply 4 digit numbers by a 1 digit number using a formal algorithm.
Success Criteria
Recapping on 2 digit numbers multiplied by 1 digit numbers
Recapping on 3 digit numbers multiplied by 1 digit numbers
A cheat sheet for how to do the sums
Introduction and practice for 4 digit numbers x 1 digit numbers
Simple, clean but fun layout and images for the children to enjoy
Lesson Plan for the week
3 worksheets
Hi there!
There's a main focus on gravity in this week's planning- just a heads up!
* includes *
3 Power Point presentations
multiple worksheets and resources for activities
Sorting activities
2 Lesson Plans that describe work for the rest of the week
A4 page full of helpful websites, games and quizzes for plenary/input/extension work
Let me know if you need anything else!
Enjoy Teaching!
Miss Ritchie x
LO's and success criteria outlined for each lesson
Butterfly, Frog and Ladybird lifecycles outlined
Numerous online resources linked and sourced
5 lessons planned and resources outlined
appendix of worksheets, ordering activities and flash cards for drama lesson.
Cross curricular with DRAMA, ICT and ENGLISH
Hi there!
In this pack there's three lessons outlined and planned with learning objectives and success criteria.
Multiple worksheets, powerpoint presentations and sorting activities!
Enjoy!
Miss Ritchie x
Hi!
Here's another resource pack for you. This time it's regarding the use of databases online. Children are to research certain areas using websites that are stated in the planning.
Worksheets are differentiated and are suitable for Year 1, 2 or 3.
Happy teaching
Miss Ritchie
Hi there!
Currently working in a storytelling school that base the whole term around a certain story.
This term we're reading and studying The Prince of Birds. It's a great story and would be a great one to choose as it's a diverse story, has a focus on birds which can be used in art, science and ICT and is set in Spain, which is great for RE, History and Geography.
LO's, success criteria and all resources set out above.
Happy teaching!
Miss Ritchie
Hi there!
Here's another lesson pack for you, this time with map reading and using grids in Maths and Geography.
The Thursday's lesson is pretty intense- it involves a geocaching type event, with the class hunting around the playground using their own map of the playground that they have gridded up.
Only thing you'd need to do is provide a map of your playground, or even classroom.
LO's, success criteria and learning outcomes outlined.
Lots of activities!
Enjoy!
Miss Ritchie
Included:
Learning objective
Examples of previous work
An introduction to the sun and common facts
A short lesson on writing a sun-kenning to compliment the art piece
There's 7 weeks of morning challenges for you- 35 whole days!
There's a metal theme in these as that's my current topic, but it's easily altered if you need.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
This resource is differentiated 3 ways and serves as a way to assess children’s baseline abilities at the start of term in Year 3 (or SEND Upper-KS2) to organise them into ability tables or to check progress against.
Let me know if you need anything alternative!
Miss Austin