This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through 20 Guided Reading sessions using the book Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

Included is a series of 10 English lessons based on The High Street by Alice Melvin. Throughout the lessons, children will learn about and apply their learning of nouns, adjectives, determiners, lists and rhyming words. Learning objectives covered in this series of learning are: To use the determiners ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly. To write a list. To use commas in a list. To use adjectives to describe nouns. To write creatively. To review and edit my writing. By the end of the project, each child will have created their own version of The High Street zig-zag book. This pack included all of my lesson plans for these ten lessons as well as copies of each resource needed. I absolutely loved planning this and hope you enjoy the series of lessons.

A 3 week writing and science project on minibeasts. This pack includes a PowerPoint which covers every lesson, an activity booklet and a writing inspiration booklet. This project covers: Teaching information and resources about minibeats/invertebrates A minibeast hunting activity with techniques, identification sheets, recording sheets Teaching resources and an observation activity on food chains: herbivores, carnivores and omnivores Teaching resources and an activity on minibeast habitats An investigation into minibeasts’ legs Inspiration and guidance on how to make a minibeast hotel Inspiration and guidance on how to make a mini-pond Inspiration and guidance on how to go pond-dipping Inspiration and guidance on how to make a pitfall trap Inspiration and guidance on how to make a potato trap Teaching videos about minibeasts A series of lessons on classification keys Inspiration and guidance on how to make a minibeast field guild Children will end the project by creating their own minibeast field guide

A fantastic and engaging game that my class love. Simply give each child a card and get them to walk around the classroom. When they meet another child, they should high five them and say, “Quiz, quiz, trade.” Each child then asks the other child their question, when they both give the correct answers, they can trade cards and then continue to move around until they meet somebody else. If a child gets the answer one, a child can help support them by prompting/giving clues as they have the correct answer on their card. My class absolutely love this game and don’t realise just how much they’re learning when they play it!

This worksheet teaches that an adverb is a word that describes a verb, adjective or another adverb. It has a clear visual which teaches that there are 5 different types of adverbs: time (when?), place (where?), manner (how?), frequency (how often?) and degree (how much?) This worksheet has a range of sentences (written in cursive joined handwriting). The worksheet explains that the child needs to underline the adverb and tick whether it is a verb of time, place, manner, frequency or degree. My class really enjoyed this resource and understood it well.

For World Book Day, our school are completing a whole school project of completing a collection of book reviews. Each child will choose their favourite book and will complete an A4 page review. We will be using this PDF as inspiration for the children to give them ideas and to set a standard. This poster also includes ideas for what they could/should include in their review. We’re so excited to put the reviews into a book and to display it in our school library!

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through 12 Guided Reading sessions. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS1/2 National Curriculum for Reading through 11 Guided Reading sessions. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS1/2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through 15 Guided Reading sessions using the book The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. This could also be used for Year 2 (KS1) groups.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through 22 Guided Reading sessions using the book Whale Boy by Nicola Davies. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through a term’s worth of guided reading sessions. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

The questions to go alongside the video of me reading chapter 1 of Charlotte’s Web. Perfect for working on comprehension whilst home learning! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF__Dw-qeHM

Comprehension questions to go alongside a YouTube video of me reading chapter 1 of The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. A great resource to use whilst home learning! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFFb1r5n0I&t=161s

48 matching prefix cards. 24 of the cards have prefixes on and the other 24 have the root words which can be matched with them. All words/prefixes are taken from the National Curriculum statutory spelling requirements for years 3/4. Prefixes included are: Un- Dis- Inter- Auto- Mis- Super- Sub- Re-

Children must go on a word hunt (around the classroom or in reading books) to find contractions. They must sort the contractions they find in this grid based on the second word.

An activity where children can apply the learning of adding the suffix -ly.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading through 11 Guided Reading sessions. Included in the pack: • Questions which focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference, predictions, author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Activities/Questions. • Reading and respond to the text activities. This resource has been used with KS2 classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

An annual reading tracker to be completed by anyone to track the books read over the year. Simply colour in a book from the stack from the current month and colour it in and label it to look like the spine of the book you’ve just read. A great way to remember the books you’ve enjoyed over time and a great reward strategy for less enthusiastic readers! Enjoy :)

Each child receives a loyalty card with their name on and their own personalised target for their weekly spelling tests e.g. ‘to get at least 10 spellings correct,’ ‘to get full marks.’ (There is an allocated section on the card where each child’s target can be written.)Each time the child then meets their target they can add a sticker to their honeycomb collection on the reverse side of the card. Once they’ve received 6 stickers they receive a prize. (I have a box of small prizes including pencils, rubbers, stickers etc). Whilst the resource motivates children to succeed on their spelling test it also recognises the range of needs in each class and the need for differentiation regarding the words set and their targets. A great reward! My class are extremely driven by it.

Simply edit the names and then print these cards off onto coloured paper of your choice and display as desired. This is a great way to monitor what your children are reading and for them to see which books each other are reading too. I will get the children to stick new post-it notes on top of old ones which will then create a reading-log in itself. Both myself and my TA’s have a card too as we want to join in the fun and the kids love seeing which books we’re reading!