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This bundle includes 15 lesson plans, interactive PowerPoints and all resources needed to teach children about traditional folktales. This unit focuses on the tales: The Little Red Hen, Tiger Child and Rama and Sita.
No additional resources needed
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This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner.
Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting
Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character
Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
End of Unit Assessment? Yes
Required Text:
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland
This interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based around the thought-provoking story ‘The Day of Ahmed’s Secret’. This book will take children to an unknown world with a powerful message. They will revise the features of recounts whilst writing in both the first and third person as well as applying their knowledge of adverbials and homophones within written sentences.
This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To listen and discuss a story
Lesson 2: To write a recount in the third person
Lesson 3: To write sentences using homophones
Lesson 4: To correctly use and punctuate adverbials within a sentence
Lesson 5: To write a recount in the first person
Total Number of Slides: 38
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This presentation includes the final 5 lessons relating to Aesop’s Fables based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. To end this unit children will analyse the structure of an existing fable in order to correctly structure and improve their own writing. Week 3 of 3.
Lesson 1: To discuss ideas to plan my own fable
Lesson 2: To write the first draft of my fable
Lesson 3: To assess and improve my sentence structure
Lesson 4: To proofread my writing for spelling errors
Lesson 5: To perform my complete fable to an audience
Total Number of Slides: 39
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This bonus pack includes 15 whole lessons relating to The Jungle Book and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work). Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different extracts which can be sourced using the links provided in the presentations. This unit is also compatible with the Hamilton Trust Plans.
Total Number of Slides: 124
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Aesop’s Fables based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different fables which can be sourced from any Aesop’s Fables books for children. Week 2 of 3.
Lesson 1: To use conjunctions to link clauses
Lesson 2: To identify different character traits using evidence from a text
Lesson 3: To create extended sentences using clauses to express time and cause
Lesson 4: To write a letter using extended sentences
Lesson 5: To discuss morals in fables
Total Number of Slides: 50
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Traditional Tales based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons relating to Aesop’s fables which then lead into the children planning and writing their very own fables. Week 3 of 3.
Lesson 1: To write compound sentences
Lesson 2: To understand the meaning of different proverbs
Lesson 3: To write a character description of an animal
Lesson 4: To plan my own fable
Lesson 5: To write my own fable
Total Number of Slides: 32
Resources Included? Yes
This pack contains 6 weeks (30 days) worth of daily starter activities for KS2 Maths lessons. Each day, the children will either be presented with either a key number in the center of the slide, a time on a clock face, a 2D or 3D shape. They will then answer a series of differentiated questions involving word problems as well as their knowledge of the four operations, time and/or shape.
Questions should be answered following the traffic light system with the green section being completed first, then the orange section and finally the challenge.
Each daily slide also comes with answers for pupils to easily self-mark directly after the activity.
PowerPoints can be easily adapted if necessary.
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Throughout this two week unit pupils will learn to recognise the main features of both explanation and instruction texts. They will begin by analysing given texts in groups (provided in the resources) to discuss and decide on the main features before feeding their thoughts and opinions back to the class. Children will then have the opportunity to write their own instruction and explanation texts with the support of a printable self assessment success criteria. Week 2 of this unit consists of project based learning as pupils focus on creating their own instruction and explanation texts relating to the game show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’.
Total Number of Slides: 159 (Includes ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ PowerPoint game)
Teaching Duration: 10 lessons
Resources Included: Yes
This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Traditional Tales based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the the tale ‘Anancy and Mr Dry-Bones’. Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To write simple sentences using pronouns
Lesson 2: To act out a traditional tale
Lesson 3: To plan my own story based on a traditional tale
Lesson 4: To write my own story based on a traditional tale
Lesson 5: To create my own artwork based on a familiar tale
Total Number of Slides: 29
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Throughout this two week unit children will learn to sequence a familiar story, write descriptive phrases, label pictures and create short sentences. In addition to this, they will also focus on the correct use of capital letters and apostrophes.
These excellent stories celebrate the power of imagination and have been carefully chosen to help engage young minds.
Total Number of Slides: 85
Resources Included? Yes
No additional resources needed.
This bundle includes an interactive PowerPoint and 5 lesson plans relating to Stories With Familiar Settings based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this second week, children will practise reading and spelling words using the /oi/ phoneme before planning their very own ‘lost toy’ story inspired by the book ‘Knuffle Bunny’ by Mo Willems. After writing the beginning, middle and end of their story, the included worksheets are designed to be cut out and stapled together to create their very own book! (ideal for display!)
Lesson 1: To read and spell words containing the /oi/ phoneme
Lesson 2: To plan my own ‘lost toy’ story
Lesson 3: To begin writing my story
Lesson 4: To write the middle part of my story
Lesson 5: To write the ending of my story
Total Number of Slides: 33
Activity Resources Included? Yes
Detailed Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Each lesson contains a starter activity, displayed success criteria, main teaching and plenary.
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Week 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-stories-with-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192546
This bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Information Texts. During this second and final week, children will enjoy learning about useful trucks such as Army Recovery Trucks, Logging Trucks and Snow Ploughs before planning and creating their very own! They will then create labels and captions to describe their truck’s features during lessons 3 and 4.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: Phoneme /k/, graphemes c, k, ck and ch, simple sentences.
Lesson 1: To create a useful big truck
Lesson 2: To write sentences using the /k/ phoneme
Lesson 3: To write labels and captions
Lesson 4: To write an informative sentence
Lesson 5: To write captions using complete sentences
NB. Access to nonfiction books about trucks will support this week’s learning.
Total Number of Slides: 27
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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Throughout this two-week unit, pupils will focus on both a selection of image poems (included) as well as a range of different grammar rules. They will cover similes, metaphors, prepositional phrases, adverbs and fronted adverbials. Children will have fun learning to analyse the structure of a poem before using their imagination to create their own in a similar style.
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This interactive PowerPoint concludes this two-week Observational Poetry unit. During this second week, children will explore the use of imagery within poems by learning how to create powerful images using all 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell). They will have fun imagining themselves as ‘the classroom’ as they consider these senses. What would a classroom see and hear? They will then use their plans to create a poem called ‘I am a Classroom’ based on the poem ‘I am a Writer’ by Joseph Coelho.
Poetic Devices/GPS covered throughout these lessons include similes, metaphors, personification, imagery and relative clauses.
Related Poems:
‘Sky-Artist´ and ‘Don’t be Scared’ by Grace Nichols
’I am a Writer’ by Joseph Coelho
’Sunlight’ by David Windle
Lesson 1: To explore the impact of vocabulary within a poem
Lessons 2: To write a poem using metaphors and similes
Lesson 3: To plan a poem using descriptive language
Lesson 4: To write a poem about a given topic
Lesson 5: To revise and perform my poem
Total Number of Slides: 31
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Differentiation? Yes
No additional resources needed
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Postcards and Letters based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons relating to the story ‘John Patrick Norman McHennessy - The Boy Who Was Always Late’ by John Burningham (which can be listened to on YouTube using the provided link).
Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To create new ideas based on a story
Lesson 2: To recognise the features of a letter
Lesson 3: To practise writing my full name and address
Lesson 4: To write a postcard
Lesson 5: To write a letter to a given character
Total Number of Slides: 35
Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Labels, Lists and Signs based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Not a Stick’ by Antoinette Portis. This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To sequence a familiar story
Lesson 2: To correctly label a picture
Lesson 3: To create imaginative responses
Lesson 4: To use descriptive phrases
Lesson 5: To create a role play from a familiar story
Total Number of Slides: 43
Resources Included: Yes
This ‘Adverbs’ word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This word mat and poster can be used to aid learning when writing descriptions about food. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into children’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This ‘Powerful Verbs’ word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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