A study of minibeasts, using Powerpoint and Smart notebook and worksheets. Other topics covered: Living things; Living things and their environment

A resource with a series of powerpoint presentation lessons and website guide. It encourages pupils to assess and create stimulating descriptive writing pieces. The units focusing on ‘buttons’ also provides useful stimuli to create stories. These units can be used to produce coursework and exam practice and are very useful in terms of AFL practice.

This resource contains a web guide to basic literary skill it provides PowerPoint presentation starters and worksheets which are intended to be used briefly at the start of a lesson to consolidate previous learning. Topics covered include: Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, homophones, parts of speech, sentence types, sentence openings etc

This resource looks at writing a legend. There are 4 parts which look at : Beginnings : What should be included at the start of a legend, setting the scene, looking at words and phrases to describe it. Characters: Looking at the words and phrases to describe an extraordinary character and what features pupils can reproduce for their own character. Problems and Resolutions: Looking at the problems that could be encountered, and how, in an exciting way, these can be resolved.

Covers the comprehension and sequencing of a traditional Chinese story

This activity pack introduces pupils to two traditional fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man. Pupils read through the stories with the teacher and then complete a series of activities that describe characters, sequence events and discuss what is needed for good beginnings, middles and endings when writing stories. Objectives: to retell and recount two traditional fairy stories to sequence events in a story to describe characters from a story

This resource pack is designed to provide a range of activities to support the teaching of synonyms. It could either be used as a lesson to introduce or revise the subject or as a means of consolidating various concepts. This resource pack should enable pupils to: understand what is meant by the term 'synonym,' identify synonyms and use a conventional or online thesaurus. Included in this pack are a selection of supporting worksheets that can be adapted to suit the age range of the pupils being taught.

This resource introduces the concept of war and provides a framework on how to respond to 5 war themed poems using Content, Attitude, Techniques, Sucess. The poets and poems examined are:- * Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth * Robert Graves - Dead Boche * Edward Thomas - As the Team's Head Brass * Henry Read - Naming of Parts * Rupert Brooke - The Soldier This also includes guidance on how to draft coursework.

PowerPoint which allows pupils to read traditional fables and to discuss the moral of the story

The aim of this resource pack is to introduce pupils to capital letters and full stops. Activities include matching upper case letters with lower case ones and asking pupils to punctuate sentences correctly. The full stop is introduced and pupils have the opportunity to punctuate sentences with them. Pupils consolidate their learning on paper using the worksheets provided. This resource pack can be used to address sections 2.7 of English and 2.4 of the Welsh writing PoS of the national curriculum for Wales

A series of flipcharts and worksheets focussing on spelling patterns covered in Year 5/6. Includes Latin prefixes words from other languages suffixes

The resource is split into two main sections: An animation shows how two words are joined together using an apostrophe to form a contraction, before the children test their knowledge with an interactive activity. An animation explains using an apostrophe correctly to show possession before the children use what they have learned to answer multichoice questions

This resource will teach pupils how to read and say the different pronunciations of the letter string 'ough'. Most of the time we teach pupils to pronounce words using rules and then tell them about exceptions. In this case most of the pronunciations of 'ough' are exceptions or isolates. There are five whole class activities for the whiteboard. National curriculum links: 1.3, 2.3, 3.2 Teachers can assess pupils by listening to them read a section of the story in activity 1.

A series of powerpoint presentations that allow pupils the opportunity use the theme of horror to look at personification, character description, critical analysis, empathy writing and direct speech. There are two versions of the powerpoints, one for the teacher and the other for the pupils.

An interactive whiteboard resource exploring the story of Rhiannon from the Mabinogion. This lesson is based on the tale of Rhiannon's misfortune from the Welsh folk tale collection, The Mabinogion. The pack includes a version of the story suitable for KS2, a playscript, a wordsearch for revising key words, and a series of backdrops that can be used for performances of the play, or as a stimulus for improvisational drama.

Packaging is a series of Powerpoints that form a Unit of Work that supports the teaching of Design, in particular Packaging. Packaging is aimed at developing the skills needed to understand the process of Packaging and how to design a suitable product that fits the needs of the consumer. The aim is for the pupils to study the process of packaging, use 3D shapes from nets, develop their own ideas and design a cereal packet. There is an optional unit to advertise the finished product.For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

This resource is split into seven sections: Animals Body parts, Classroom objects, Clothes Colours and shapes, Food Numbers and Verbs There are also some general resources. Each section contains a self-correcting interactive resource along with printable games and writing frames.

This resource pack allows pupils to find differences and similarities between well-known fairy stories. They look at six scenes and characters from six fairy tales and then put them into the correct storybook. Pupils make a chart that compares characters and incidents in fairy tales. Pupils have the opportunity to make their own fairy tale, adding pictures and text from a large bank of images and props.

This pack consists of several activities that could be used to help pupils to examine sentences, look for key features and identify different sentence types. The activities will: allow the teacher to interactively demonstrate different types of sentences and allow pupils to sort sentences into the relevant groups. This pack contains: seven screens for use on the interactive, whiteboard , and three worksheets.

Introduce the phonics S,A,T,I,P,N with the aim of learning the letter sounds, letter formations and identifying the sounds in words.