This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of KS2 SPAG concepts (aligned with the newest National Curriculum standards) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all of the worksheets/activity resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

This bundle contains all of the ‘I am David’ double lessons, the detailed knowledge organiser, and the 22-page comprehension activities booklet! The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the story, with a double-lesson provided for each chapter. It includes all of the lesson questions, activities and any worksheets/ templates needed. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Each double-lesson also includes a deeper thinking task or creative task and an opportunity to reflect upon the stated lesson objectives. All of the resources are tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across upper KS2 and lower KS3 - I have used them in the past with children in both years 5 and 6.

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Katherine Rundell’s 'Rooftoppers.’ Ten resource sets are included, each of which will take approximately 2-3 lessons to deliver. Chapters 1-3 Chapters 4-6 Chapters 7-9 Chapters 10-12 Chapters 13-15 Chapters 16-18 Chapters 19-21 Chapters 22-25 Chapters 26-28 Chapters 29-31 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for some of the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 5 and 6 classes).

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Emma Carroll’s ‘Secrets of a Sun King.’ Double and triple lessons are provided for each chapter, broken down into ten resource packs: Chapters 1 and 2 Chapters 3 and 4 Chapters 5 and 6 Chapters 7 and 8 Chapters 9, 10 and 11 Chapters 12 and 13 Chapters 14, 15 and 16 Chapters 17 and 18 Chapters 19, 20 and 21 Chapters 22 and 23 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for some of the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 4 and 5 classes).

This resource bundle contains all of the ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ lessons, the comprehension activities booklet and the knowledge organiser! The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. The entire novel is broken down in to 7 double lesson packs, meaning that there is a total of 14 individual activity sets here. The Opening Chapters (2-19); Chapters 23 to 47 Chapters 53 to 83 Chapters 89 to 113 Chapters 127 to 157 Chapters 163 to 197 The End of the Novel (199 to 233). The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. The resources are suitable for students in either KS3 or KS4, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

These engaging and thought-provoking resources aid students in developing a secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy: Tales of Childhood.’ The bundle contains all of the ‘Boy’ lessons, the detailed knowledge organiser, and the extensive (over 20-pages) comprehension activities booklet. There are 14 lessons in total, split into 7 double-lessons: -Chapters 1-2: Starting Point -Chapters 3-6: The Mouse Plot Chapters -Chapters 7-9: Visits to Norway -Chapters 10-13: St. Peter’s School -Chapters 14-17:In Trouble Again -Chapters 18-21: Repton School -Chapters 22-25: The Final Chapters The resource pack contains everything that you need to teach the lesson, including comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations. Each session begins with a brief knowledge recall activity based on the prior chapters. Students then read and understand the new chapters, utilising retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. Clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations guide students through the learning activities. The lessons are suitable for students in either KS3 or upper KS2 (for advanced classes), depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

THIS ‘BIG BUNDLE’ CONTAINS ALL OF ‘THE EXPLORER’ LESSONS, PLUS THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET. It contains all that you need to deliver a complete unit of learning alongside reading Katherine Rundell’s ‘The Explorer.’ The engaging and thought-provoking lessons aid students in developing a secure understanding of every chapter. The double and triple-lesson resources are well-sequenced, and include: Chapters 1-2 - ‘Flight’ and ‘The Green Dark’ Chapters 3 and 4: ‘The Den’ and ‘The River’ Chapters 5 to 7: ‘Food (Almost)’, ‘Fire’ and ‘The Raft’ Chapters 8 to 10: ‘Maiden Voyage’ to Abacaxi’ Chapters 11-13: ‘The Monkeys and the Bees’ to ‘Smoke’ Chapters 14-16: ‘On the River’ to ‘The Ruined City’ Chapters 17-19: ‘The Explorer’, ‘The Trap’ and ‘Tarantulas’ Chapters 20-22: ‘Twice-Fried Osieau Spectacle’ to ‘The Vow’ Chapters 23-26: ‘Explorer School’ to ‘Behind the Vines’ Chapters 27-31 - ‘The Green Sky’ to the End of the Story Each session includes a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning for each lesson. Worksheets/ templates are also included where needed (both as Word and PDF documents). Each lesson also includes an answer key for the retrieval questions, and model answer ideas for the more detailed responses. The lessons are suitable for students across KS2 (with only minor adaptations, I have used the resources in the past with children from years 3 to 5).

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about prominent writers - past and present. It is useful as a part of a history study of significant people over time, or an English study of famous writers. Included in this bundle are 15 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities: William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Beatrix Potter Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Maya Angelou George Orwell Dr Seuss Roald Dahl Oscar Wilde Geoffrey Chaucer J.K. Rowling Jane Austen Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive information about the writer, their career and their life, including sections entitled: -Overview; -Key Times in their Life; -Career -Important Vocabulary; -Timeline of their Life; -Answers to the Important Questions; -Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

This ‘Matilda’ big bundle contains all of the Matilda lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet! The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 21 individual lesson activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text. Chapters 1 and 2 - ‘The Reader of Books’ and ‘Mr Wormwood, the Great Car Dealer’ Chapters 3 and 4 - ‘The Hat and the Superglue’ and ‘The Ghost’ Chapters 5 and 6 - ‘Arithmetic’ and ‘The Platinum Blond Man’ Chapters 7 and 8 - ‘Miss Honey’ and ‘The Trunchbull’ Chapters 9 and 10 - ‘The Parents’ and ‘Throwing the Hammer’ Chapters 11, 12, and 13 - ‘Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake’, ‘Lavender’ and ‘The Weekly Test’ Chapters 14 and 15 - ‘The First Miracle’ and ‘The Second Miracle’ Chapters 16 and 17 - ‘Miss Honey’s Cottage’ and ‘Miss Honey’s Story’ Chapters 18 and 19 - ‘The Names’ and ‘The Practice’ Chapters 20 and 21 - ‘The Third Miracle’ and ‘A New Home’ The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 4 and 5 classes).

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Michelle Magorian’s 'Goodnight Mister Tom.’ The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 23 individual activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text. -Chapters 1-2 - Meeting and Little Weirwold -Chapters 3-4 - Saturday Morning and Equipped -Chapters 5-6 - Chamberlain Announces and Zach -Chapters 7-8 - An Encounter Over Blackberries and School -Chapters 9-10 - Birthday Boy and The Case -Chapters 11-13 - Friday, The Show Must Go On and Carol Singing -Chapters 14-15 - New Beginnings and Home -Chapters 16-17 - Search and Rescue -Chapters 18-20 - Recovery, The Sea and Spooky Cott -Chapters 21-23 - Back to School, Grieving and Postscript The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range f activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. The lessons are suitable for students in either KS3 or upper KS2, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for the development of poetry within your primary school. The organisers are perfect for teachers, parents, and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children’s knowledge development for the following poetry forms. There are 16 knowledge organisers in total: -KS1 Acrostic Poems -KS1 Shape Poems -KS1 Diamantes -KS1 Haikus -KS1 Riddles -KS1 Free Verse Poems -Lower KS2 Clerihews -Lower KS2 Kennings -Lower KS2 Romantic Poems -Lower KS2 Limericks -Lower KS2 Free Verse Poems -Upper KS2 War Poetry -Upper KS2 Sonnets -Upper KS2 Ottava Rima -Upper KS2 Narrative Poems -Upper KS2 Free Verse Poems Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective free verse poems. They generally contain the following distinct sections: -Overview of the poetry form; -Content: What to include, the five senses, communicating a message, themes, messages, subject matter; -Language: Word choices, word types, poetic devices, punctuation checklist and word mat; -Structure: Poem length, syllables, rhyme, line lengths, line breaks, stanzas, rhythm, metre; -Key Vocabulary. The resources were designed to be printed onto A3 (however can also be printed in A4) and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

This ‘Rooftoppers’ bundle contains all of the ‘Rooftoppers’ lessons, the detailed knowledge organiser, and the 22-page comprehension activity booklet. The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. Ten resource sets are included, each of which will take approximately 2-3 lessons to deliver. Chapters 1-3 Chapters 4-6 Chapters 7-9 Chapters 10-12 Chapters 13-15 Chapters 16-18 Chapters 19-21 Chapters 22-25 Chapters 26-28 Chapters 29-31 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for some of the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 5 and 6 classes).

This ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ big bundle contains all of the Secrets of a Sun King lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 22-page comprehension activities booklet! The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 23 individual lesson activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text. -1. Chapters 1-2 -2. Chapters 3-4 -3. Chapters 5-6 -4. Chapters 7-8 -5. Chapters 9-11 -6. Chapters 12-13 -7. Chapters 14-16 -8. Chapters 17-18 -9. Chapters 19-21 -10. Chapters 22-23 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets/ templates are provided for tasks where they are required - everything that you need to teach the lessons is here! The lessons are most suitable for children in KS2, (I originally used them with year 4/5 children) but with minor adaptations could be used with older or younger year groups.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to a wide range of history topics, including: The Ancient Egyptians The Ancient Greeks The Vikings The Romans The Victorians The Aztecs Baghdad c.900AD World War I World War II Tudors and Stuarts The Great Fire of London Anglo-Saxons The Holocaust The Cold War Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including: Overviews of the era; Annotated maps/ diagrams; Timelines; Rulers/ Emperors/ Prominent People; Daily Life at the time; Important facts/ dates The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The knowledge organisers may be used for students of all ages, but are most suitable for children in upper KS2 and lower KS3.

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of SPAG concepts (particularly prominent in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all of the worksheets/ resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. The pack also includes a literacy writing mat to help students build their extended writing skills. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

This giant bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities. Included are whole lesson resources for: -Amazing verbs and adverbs -Adventurous adjectives -Astonishing alliteration -Capturing the readers’ attention -Exceptional expanded noun phrases -Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons -Structuring and organising creative writing -Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors -Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world -Writing about Emotions -VCOP - vocabulary -VCOP - openers -VCOP - connectives -VCOP - punctuation All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for planning, learning and revising all areas of the entire Primary Geography National Curriculum. The KS1 knowledge organisers included are: -Polar Explorers; -The Seven Continents; -Oceans and Seas; -Capital Cities; -The United Kingdom; The KS2 knowledge organisers included are: -Rivers; -Rainforests; -Latitude and Longitude; -Human and Natural Disasters; -North America; -South America; -Europe; -Italy (European Comparison); -Greece (European Comparison); -Peru (South America Comparison); -London; There is also an organiser for each key stage that can be adapted for whichever area of local study you choose to cover (the templates provided focus on ‘Exploring Essex’ for KS1 and ‘East Anglia’ for KS2.) The organisers are separated into logical compartments, based on the key curriculum expectations. Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

This ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ big bundle contains all of the Goodnight Mister Tom lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet! The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 23 individual lesson activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text. -Chapters 1-2 - Meeting and Little Weirwold -Chapters 3-4 - Saturday Morning and Equipped -Chapters 5-6 - Chamberlain Announces and Zach -Chapters 7-8 - An Encounter Over Blackberries and School -Chapters 9-10 - Birthday Boy and The Case -Chapters 11-13 - Friday, The Show Must Go On and Carol Singing -Chapters 14-15 - New Beginnings and Home -Chapters 16-17 - Search and Rescue -Chapters 18-20 - Recovery, The Sea and Spooky Cott -Chapters 21-23 - Back to School, Grieving and Postscript The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range f activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. The lessons are suitable for students in either KS3 or upper KS2, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about writers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are 20 knowledge organisers, about: Florence Nightingale Mary Seacole William Booth Mother Teresa Marie Curie Tim Berners-Lee Stephen Hawking Isaac Newton Robert Scott Amy Johnson Christopher Columbus Neil Armstrong Winston Churchill Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth I Abraham Lincoln Nelson Mandela Martin Luther-King Guy Fawkes Emmeline Pankhurst Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Key Times in their Life; Important Vocabulary; Timeline of their Life; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.