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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Big Bundle!
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.
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Private Peaceful Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIVATE PEACEFUL LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative collection of lessons is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s’ ‘Private Peaceful.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete the lessons having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
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. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
Teaching Phonics: The Basics CPD Session!
This informative, engaging CPD session is intended to offer a valuable introduction to phonics for teachers and support staff. It aims to enable participants to:
-To understand what phonics are and understand why they are widely used;
-To grasp key phonics terminology and apply it in different contexts;
-To break down the key phonics stages, comprehending how skills develop.
The session is aimed at those who are new to phonics. I myself moved from secondary to primary, and can understand how daunting phonics schemes can appear! These resources, whilst detailed, present ideas in a simple way, helping to make key ideas understandable. Included is:
A 27-slide colourful, clear PowerPoint presentation, including post-CPD quiz;
Resources for an optional card-sorting activity, to learn appropriate phonics terminology;
A comprehensive phonics helpsheet, detailing most of the main points from the session.
I hope that you find these resources helpful. Many thanks!
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Year 5-6 SPAG Bundle!
These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of SPAG concepts in the upper Key Stage 2 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.
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David Walliams Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These resource booklets based on David Walliams’ stories contain a wide range of purposeful, age-appropriate and engaging comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Included are activity booklets to accompany the following texts:
Bad Dad;
Gangsta Granny
Demon Dentist
The Boy in the Red Dress
Awful Auntie
Ratburger
Billionaire Boy
Mr Stink
Please note that each comprehension booklet contains the same tasks, but tailored to the characters, events and ideas in each book. Each booklet is around 20 pages in length!
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Skellig Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE SKELLIG LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of David Almond’s ‘Skellig.’ 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 of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
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.
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Skellig Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in David Almond’s ‘Skellig.’
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. The Derelict Garage;
- 2. Michael and Mina;
- 3. The Development of Skellig
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.
Skellig - Michael and Mina!
This engaging and informative lesson helps students to make detailed interpretations about two of the main characters in David Almond’s Skellig: Michael and Mina. In particular, students comprehend the character traits of the two characters, before analysing the development of their relationship over the course of the story.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Defining and exemplifying the key character traits of both Michael and Mina;
- Reading and tracking Michael and Mina's relationship development throughout the story;
- Analysing how and why Michael and Mina's relationship becomes so strong by the end of the story;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts;
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Character Profile Sheets - Michael and Mina (pdf and word);
- Relationship Development Graph (pdf and word);
- Essay Template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with minimal adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Fantastic Mr Fox Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Boggis, Bunce and Bean;
- 2. The Very Clever Mr Fox;
- 3. The Structure of the Story;
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.
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Fantastic Mr Fox Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE FANTASTIC MR FOX LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ 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 of the story, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
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.
Fantastic Mr Fox - The Very Clever Mr Fox!
This fun and informative helps students to gain a deeper understanding of the main character in Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox:’ Mr Fox himself! Students use their skills of inference and deduction in order to establish key information about Mr Fox’s character, likes, dislikes, and mannerisms. They then create a character profile using the information that they have gathered!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Considering how Roald Dahl was influenced by real-life foxes in his characterisation;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening of Fantastic Mr Fox, in which Mr Fox's character traits are revealed;
- Inferring and deducing key features about Mr Fox from across the text;
- Creating a character profile for Mr Fox, utilising knowledge that they have gathered from over the course of the lesson;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Text Detectives Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Selected extracts - Fantastic Mr Fox;
- Character Profile Template (Word and PDF);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
Fantastic Mr Fox Pointless Game! (and template to create your own games!)
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I've also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, interesting tasks, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of characters, plot, and themes in 'Fantastic Mr Fox.'
Round 1. The characters in Fantastic Mr Fox
Round 2. Quotations from the text
Round 3. Settings and Objects
Round 4. Themes in Fantastic Mr Fox
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
Fantastic Mr Fox - Structure of the Story!
This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand the narrative structure used by Roald Dahl throughout ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ In particular, students identify the features of each stage of the narrative structure within the story, before recreating sections of the structure themselves!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Taking part in a fun group quiz to recap on the key elements of the plot leading up to the ending;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the ending of Fantastic Mr Fox, answering comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding;
-Understanding features of narrative structure and applying the plot of Fantastic Mr Fox to the individual elements;
-Recreating elements of the plot, using their understanding of the stages of narrative structure;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Storyboard Template (and PDF version);
- Selected extracts - Fantastic Mr Fox;
- Recreations Template (and PDF version);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
Fantastic Mr Fox - Boggis, Bunce and Bean!
This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand the descriptive language techniques used by Roald Dahl in his descriptions of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean in ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ In particular, students analyse how Dahl's language is used to create imagery, before designing and describing their very own mean farmers!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Completing a card-sorting activity to define and exemplify each of the descriptive devices;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening of Fantastic Mr Fox, in which the farmers are described;
- Identifying and analysing Dahl's use of language devices throughout the description of the farmers;
- Writing their own language device-filled descriptions of their farmers, with support from a clear template;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Language Analysis Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Selected extracts - Fantastic Mr Fox;
- Cards for Sorting Activity;
- Planning Template (Word and PDF);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Billionaire Boy Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in David Walliams’ ‘Billionaire Boy.’
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Bumfresh Towers!;
- 2. Money vs Happiness;
- 3. The Ending;
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.
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Billionaire Boy Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE BILLIONAIRE BOY LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of David Walliams’ ‘Billionaire Boy.’ 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 of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
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.
Billionaire Boy - The Ending!
This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand the key events of the ending of David Walliams ‘Billionaire Boy.’ In particular, students explore the concept of narrative structure, and apply the events of Billionaire Boy to each narrative stage. They explore to what extent the ending of the text fits the features of an adequate denouement.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Taking part in a fun group quiz to recap on the key elements of the plot leading up to the ending;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the ending of Billionaire Boy, answering comprehension questions to check their understanding;
- Understanding the features of narrative structure, and applying Billionaire Boy to the individual elements;
- Analysing how the ending of Billionaire Boy fits the features of a denouement;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- 'Narrative Structure Template (and PDF version);
- Selected extracts - Billionaire Boy ending;
- The Ending Essay Template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 9 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Stone Cold Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE STONE COLD LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ 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 of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
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.
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Holes Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HOLES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Louis Sachar's 'Holes.' 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 of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
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.
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Holes Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Louis Sachar’s novel ‘Holes.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Sachar’s key messages throughout the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Stanley Yelnats;
- 2. The Warden;
- 3. Kissin’ Kate Barlow and Sam;
- 4. The Importance of the Past.
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.