This smartboard includes 3 lessons on biography writing for Churchill. The lessons in a starter explore what a biography is before writing the actual biography. The smartboard has all three lessons including the starter, main activity and plenary. The key elements that are focused on in the writing are using conjunctions, relative clauses, passive voice and a range of punctuation.

This smartboard is a lesson that focuses on Churchill's achievements linked to the Battle of Britain. The lesson focuses on using Churchill's famous speech and a video to find out about Churchill's life. The main activity is linked to the learning in the introduction

This smartboard resource and other resources focusing on what the Battle of Britain was and how it led to WW2. The lesson itself allows children to create a timeline before summarising the key events of this time.

This smartboard has 2 lessons based on the Literacy Shed- The Road's End. The lessons are complete with starters, main activities and plenaries. The lesson focuses on watching the Road's End before planning their own character description and writing their own. The lesson has is a writing lesson that focuses on using similes, metaphors, conjunctions and a range of punctuation All resources attached Good lessons for lesson observation

This smartboard is a series of 3 booster or revision lessons based on poetry. The smartboard includes extra activities to deepen their understanding of Giants, Rain and Half-Mile. Proven to develop understanding of poetry

This resource explores poetry and the figurative language that poetry has. The main focus is on similes and personification. This series of lessons that span over two weeks explores a range of poems and the focus being on the language.

This powerpoint is based around the children's book the Gruffalo. The lesson is based on the children being able to retell the story using a range of vocabulary.

This smartboard is based on the children writing a letter as if they are Lucy who has been to Narnia. The focus is to explore her feelings and thoughts, use powerful adjectives and use modal verbs correctly

This smartboard explores the relationships between characters and comparing two characters. The focus being on Lucy and Edmund and how they react in Narnia. The lesson uses a mood/emotion graph which leads to writing Differentiated activities

This brilliant resource is based around the theme of hunger and people using food banks. This PSHE/ Geography lesson has a reading English focus. The children look for underlying messages in the poem. Excellent poetry resource linked to issues in the UK today.

This powerpoint is focused on poetry performance. The outstanding lesson focus on: - summarising the theme of the poem - analysing what a poetry performance is and creating their own performance.

This powerpoint is focused on comparing two poems. The focus of the lesson is: -identifying features of the poem and understanding the meaning. - commenting on a the language of each poem

This lesson is a grammar lesson in smartboard format. The activity is based on labelling different parts of a sentence with the -subject and object -verb -noun -adverb -conjunction Test style questions learning differentiated

Based around chapter 3 (pages 30-39) this smartboard is linked to developing inference skills. The aim is: retrieve key information on the character's actions Discuss their actions and what they say Summarize the character’s viewpoint

This smartboard is based on the Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe. The inference lesson is based on chapter 4 where the children: retrieve key information on the character's actions Discuss their actions and what they say Summarize the character’s viewpoint

Week 3 Jungle Book Planning. Main objective is to: -write effective settings and characterisation to engage reader The aim is to write the setting, dilemma, problem and resolution of the story Outstanding lessons

This smartboard has a week's worth of lessons to support the writing a character description for the landlord in Street Child. The smartboard focuses on developing the children's use of: -descriptive figurative language ( group work) -identify the key features of the character in terms of appearance and personality ( group work) -writing a character description Ideal for Year 5 and 6

This smartboard holds 3 lessons based on the Literacy Shed Alma film. The lessons are in full and are based on: -analysising on the video including first impressions, the atmosphere and the character development -analysis of how the atmosphere and mood is created by the director and writer -writing the story of Alma using all the information above

These smartboards are a week’s worth of lessons to allow children to write their own stories for year 3 pupils . Each lesson has a complete lesson with a starter, teaching elements and activities for the pupils. The lessons included are writing a story setting for the Chocolate factory, planning their own story and writing their own story. This is week 2 of a whole unit. Please look at week 1 lessons Please leave positive feedback

This powerpoint is the teaching presenatation to Rain and Shine- The Hottest Day of the Year - fiction This teaching powerpoint looks at the vocabulary to understand the text, retrieval and inference questions