Resources to support the teaching of commas. Notebook, Powerpoint and a couple of worksheets I made.

Completely ORIGINAL and works fantastically. Developed in collaboration with an esteemed colleague. These are some of the resources I used and created when the children were doing fantasy stories, we linked it to the Thundercat cartoon, did character descriptions and settings. I always do this topic with the children in year 3/4, the short episodes of the series all offer a clear beginning, middle and end which lends itself very well to some excellent short stories by the children. The ‘cave of time’ is an especially good episode with a clear problem, build up and solution etc Included a weekly plan and a map that can be printed over 2 pieces of paper for display. I have also included a set of Top Trump example attributes for this resource which really gets the boys extremely motivated and could be used as an additional activity to be played later on in Golden Time. This is very comprehensive and I have used this many times successfully with years 3-5. The boys especially don’t stop talking about it!

A set of worksheets I designed to help children practice using a dictionary. The first few letters are correct and children have to find the words in the dictionary, listing the page number at which they find them and correcting their spelling. (Tip, make sure you have a set of the same dictionary types for this!) Also… -KS2 Scheme. -A list of the ‘100 most common mis-spelt words’ that I found and edited from the internet. UPDATE: Lots of other worksheets to use for example using a thesaurus and homophones

Weekly lesson Plan / medium term plan Year 3/4 Characteristics of materials.

UPDATE NOV: added Dahl resources. A unit of work and worksheets I made for children to analyse and produce an 'Oompa Loompa' song based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This also has drama / dance links! A truly unique lesson idea you won't find anywhere. Please note these are resources to write lyrics to a tune plus lots of other extras, mostly Literacy based. I have now included the backing track (Karaoke version to the original tune.) UPDATE: I have added a collection of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory resources (including the first 3 book chapters and questions based on this) and additional files for the Oompa Loompa song resource

A document for parents and pupils to sign. Invaluable for E-Safety and security. Editable as I have included my word version of the document. Has gone down well with many schools. This is a snippet from the top of the document... Parents / Carers play a crucial role in ensuring that their children understand the need to use the internet / mobile devices in an appropriate way. Research shows that many parents and carers do not fully understand the issues and are less experienced in the use of ICT than their children. The school will therefore take every opportunity to help parents understand these issues through parents’ evenings, newsletters, letters, website / VLE and information about national / local e-safety campaigns / literature. This agreement is aimed at fostering that approach. Invaluable and guaranteed to save you time.

Lesson Plans for teaching the area of Calligrams / Shape poetry. Ideal for year 3/4. I have also included a set of resources for use in the genre. Reduced price.

Lots of comprehension based materials on Back to the Future Some based on ‘Newspaper Articles’ written. I’ve added lots of additional materials to match. In the UK this is in my top 5 resources, highly rated! Enjoy!

Report questions sheet for pupils I always give this before writing reports to every student, then keep it next to me whilst writing.

A BUMPER pack to dip into for the teaching of settings around several genres for example a ‘spooky house’ that would be of interest to boys especially. Taught with year 3-4 classes but can be easily adapted and used with years 5/6. Included: Lesson Plans Display Material Examples of children’s work Prompt sheets Powerpoints Notebook File Unit of work Useful Connectives for writing

An ‘outstanding’ observation lesson plan with resources, Powerpoint, worksheets etc There is also a lot of additional worksheets / Powerpoints included here too that would be useful for additional lessons and / homework.

A MASSIVE set of Spanish Resources initially designed for Primary School use. Powerpoint Resources that can be used across a whole years worth of work! Many of these are easily suitable for Early Secondary also. Included... Numbers Shapes Colours Transport Clothes Actions Weather Colours People ...and much much more...

Resources for children to explore different connective types. I have also included worksheets and a smart notebook to assist. Suitable for years 3-5.

Simple self assessment for play-script features

A one page version of the 3 little pigs text I have used in year 3.

Personally made Powerpoint. Points out the features of play scripts

Finding out about volcanoes questions, can be used as research questions for the Internet.

A prompt I made than can be used in a variety of ways for children to describe a 'new world&' / alien world.

Can be either used as an eye witness account in Newspaper topic (or) a simple character description.

A nice activity for children to think about designing their own robot.