Simple strategies for decoding when children are reading. The poster can be displayed in the classroom or minimised and laminated for individual children during independent/guided reading. The colourful poster has sounds and images to make decoding words simple.

A PowerPoint with lessons teaching persuasive adverts including analysing features of, success criteria, writing an advert script and presenting their own oral advert

A complete lesson on writing a character description of Augustus Gloop including PowerPoint, Video clip and worksheet

Lesson on writing a character description of Mr Willy Wonka

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for making predictions when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A complete lesson with plan and resources taken from a lesson observation I did. It has everything you need to deliver the lesson all of which can be adapted to your needs.

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for how to make inferences when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

Planning for a week of writing looking at stories with a historical settings. Included are planned lessons on planning a story, check and editing our writing and then the first three paragraphs of Place, Person and Problem

A whole lesson looking at planning a story with a historical setting. It includes a PowerPoint, success criteria and differentiated planning sheets

A PowerPoint based lesson guiding the children through a shared writing for the place paragraph in their story with a historical setting

A PowerPoint for teaching two poetry lessons writing and performing their own Chocolate poem based on Kit Wright's Poem The Magic Box. Included are the poems The Magic Box by Kit Wright and Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen

To go with the Powerpoint for the lesson on Writing a character description of Willy Wonka

WAGOLL examples to go with the Next chapter lesson based on what Charlie should do when he finds the 50p. The lesson can be downloaded separately

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for a Newspaper report. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A writing task sheet and planning sheet for a writing assessment based on the story Cuda of the Celts, which can be bought online. An excellent book which shows aspects of Celtic history which we studied for historical settings. This resource can be adapted to other historical texts where two characters from different backgrounds meet.

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for adding tension to stories. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for using inverted commas. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for identifying past and present perfect tense. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for writing about the setting in a story. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for planning a story. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups