This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the βxβ grapheme of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the βxβ grapheme and the sound that it makes. It is designed to be the TWENTY-FOURTH lesson in a complete course of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phase 3 phonics sound mat
β Review slides for phase 2 phonics
β Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
β Segmenting and blending reading activities
β Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
All the resources you could ever need to teach the full set of the phonics phase 3 consonants; this bundle includes all the videos, games, activities and resources needed to teach children how to read and write the phase 3 phonics consonant sounds. It consists of six one-hour long lessons and each PowerPoint includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phonics phase 3 sound mat
β Review of previously learned sounds
β Videos introducing the sound
β Games practising identifying, segmenting and blending each sound
β Reading activities
β Writing activities
In phase 3 of phonics, children meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons and phase 3 digraph and trigraph lessons.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
You can download the βaiβ digraph for free from the Firefly Learner TES shopβs featured resources. We also have a bundle for all the phase 3 digraphs and tragraphs. This bundle includes the following sounds from phonics phase 3:
j
v
w
x
y
z
This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the βzβ grapheme of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the βzβ grapheme and the sound that it makes. It is designed to be the TWENTY-SIXTH lesson in a complete course of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phase 3 phonics sound mat
β Review slides for phase 2 phonics
β Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
β Segmenting and blending reading activities
β Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the βyβ grapheme of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the βyβ grapheme and the sound that it makes. It is designed to be the TWENTY-FIFTH lesson in a complete course of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phase 3 phonics sound mat
β Review slides for phase 2 phonics
β Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
β Segmenting and blending reading activities
β Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the βzzβ digraph of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the βzzβ digraph and the sound that it makes. It is designed to be the TWENTY-SEVENTH lesson in a complete course of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phase 3 phonics sound mat
β Review slides for phase 2 phonics
β Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
β Segmenting and blending reading activities
β Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Do your children still struggle to know where to place full stops? Do they understand the differences between the various components of sentences: subjects, verbs, objects, prepositional phrases, adverbs and adverbial phrases, co-ordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions? Can they distinguish between complex, compound and simple sentences? Or between different types of nouns (pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns) and different types of verbs (modal verbs, being verbs, infinitives, continuous verbs etc.)?
All this is covered in this ultimate sentence construction grammar lesson. Help your children begin to really understand what makes a sentence and not just a phrase. Help them understand where to place full-stops and how to use these different sentence components to make their writing more descriptive and interesting.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which contains all the information slides and consolidation activities you need to teach children how to contruct powerful, descriptive and grammatically correct sentences!
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter activity - AFL (Where should the full stops go?)
β Information and explanation slides
β Shared/ whole class consolidation activities for each learning point
β Independent, differentiated activities (3 difficulty levels)
β Activities reviewing relevant prior learning
β Answer slides
β Plenary activity
What does this lesson cover exactly?
A starter activity allowing teachers to assess childrenβs current understanding of where to place full stops.
The subject of a sentence is the one that does the verb. The subject usually (but not always) comes in front of the verb and almost all sentences have a subject (except for commands where the subject may be implied as βyouβ). The subject will be some form of noun (pronoun, proper noun, common noun etc.)
Differentiated consolidation activity - identify the subject in these sentences
All clauses must have a verb (otherwise they are just a βphraseβ). Verbs may be action/ doing words or βbeingβ verbs (is, are, am, was, were, will be etc.) Verbs tell us the tense of a clause. If a sentence has just one clause, it is a simple sentence but clauses can be joined together to make compound and complex sentences using conjunctions.
There are two main types of conjunction: subordinating conjunctions which join a subordinating clause to a main clause to add extra information about the main clause and coordinating conjunctions which join two main clauses together. There are only seven coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, ye
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This lesson is for you ifβ¦
You are looking for a lesson teaching children cases of gift giving in history (The Legend of the Trojan Horse, the Statue of Liberty, Faberge eggs etc.)
You prefer to teach interesting and engaging lessons rather than straight out of a textbook
You donβt want to spend hours and hours of your free time planning
You are environmentally conscious so would rather not print tons of worksheets
The PowerPoint presetation includes everything you need to deliver an outstanding lesson covering part 1.2 of the Cambridge, Stage 7, Global English curriculum (Making Connections - Itβs better to give than to receive). This resource is designed to support teaching and learning but does NOT include any of the original Cambridge materials. It is simply based on the same learning objective and so can be used by teachers following that curriculum. It can also be used by anyone wanting to teach learners about famous cases of gift giving in history, particularly the story the The Trojan Horse which is told in full during the lesson.
It includes:
β Starter activity
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Lesson input/ information slides
β Shared/ whole class consolidation activities
β Differentiated independent activities
β Extension tasks
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Speaking, listening, reading, writing & grammar activities
β All answer slides
β Plenary activity
Learning Objective:
To read and comprehend a text written in the past simple (The Trojan Horse).
Success Criteria:
I can distinguish between regular and irregular verbs.
I can identify the regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs.
I can listen to and understand a story.
I can retell an Ancient Greek legend (The Trojan Horse) in the past tense.
I can describe some famous gifts that were given in the past.
The activities in the lesson include:
Listening to and retelling a story using drawings (starter)
A review of verbs and their roles in sentences, distinguishing between regular and irregular verbs etc.
Differentiated grammar task - identifying the past tense verb forms (3 levels)
Writing task - retelling of the story
Peer review activity
Grammmar task - mistake spotter (plenary)
Thereβs no need to print anything - students can complete their activities in their notebooks, on whiteboards or by discussing as a class/ in groups. The lesson includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities to suit the needs of different learners (ordering, reasoning, labeling, matching-up, filling-in-the-blanks, speaking, writing tasks etc.).
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This lesson is for you ifβ¦
You are teaching the Cambridge Global English Stage 7 Curriculum
You prefer to teach interesting and engaging lessons rather than straight out of a textbook
You donβt want to spend hours and hours of your free time planning
You are environmentally conscious so would rather not print tons of worksheets
The PowerPoint presetation includes everything you need to deliver an outstanding lesson covering part 1.1 of the Cambridge, Stage 7, Global English curriculum (Making Connections - Meeting and Greeting).
It includes:
β Starter activity
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Lesson input/ information slides
β Shared/ whole class consolidation activities
β Differentiated independent activities
β Extension tasks
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Speaking, reading, writing & grammar activities
β All answer slides
β Plenary activity
Learning Objective: LO: To explore ways of meeting and greeting others in different cultures
Success Criteria:
I can distinguish between formal and informal ways of greeting others.
I can identify which phrases are used when I meet others and which are used when leaving them.
I can read, understand and write paragraphs about greetings in other cultures.
I know that the pronoun βyouβ can be used to mean 'people in generalβ.
I can determine what preposition should be used with certain actions.
Thereβs no need to print anything - students can complete their activities in their notebooks, on whiteboards or by discussing as a class/ in groups. The lesson includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities to suit the needs of different learners (ordering, reasoning, labeling, matching-up, filling-in-the-blanks, speaking, writing tasks etc.).
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the βearβ trigraph of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the βearβ trigraph and the sound that it makes. It is designed to be the FIFTH lesson in a series of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Phase 3 phonics sound mat
β Review slides for phase 2 phonics
β Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
β Segmenting and blending reading activities
β Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write fantastic narrative stories filled with suspense, drama and excitement. The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter and plenary activities
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Examples of good character descriptions & feature identification tasks
β Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
β Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own character descriptions
β Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
β Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
β Feature checklists
β Writing inspiration
Learning Objective:
To build up suspense and drama in narrative writing
Success Criteria:
I can explain what suspense is and where we might find it in a story.
I can read and understand a suspense-filled text.
I can identify techniques used by authorβs to build suspense.
I can write my own suspense-filled part of a story.
I can write in the past tense.
I can check my work against a feature checklist.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - Quick creative writing task
Review of revelant prior learning - differentiated (3 levels) grammar task focusing on writing in the past tense, as is typically used when telling stories.
Review of revelant prior learning - story hills, typical structure of a narrative story + consolidation activity
Teaching input addressing the following: What is suspense? Where/ when is it found in a story? Why do authors use suspense? How do we build up suspense in our writing?
Mini-plenary reviewing teaching input
Listening task - listening to part of a story that is full of suspense
Speaking task - retelling the part of the story
Whole class/ teamwork activity - creating a mind-map of potential problems to describe with suspense in a story
Teaching input/ explanation + consolidation task for each of the following features of suspense:
- Short, snappy sentences
- Creepy atmosphere
- Empty words
- Show- not- tell
- Rhetorical questions
- Dramatic openers
- Dramatic punctuation (ellipses, exclamation marks etc.)
- Cliffhanger
Whole class writing task (model/ shared write)
Independent writing task
Differentiated feature checklist for each ability level (3 levels)
Plenary - review list of features and techniques for building suspense
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write fantastic character descriptions. The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter and plenary activities
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Examples of good character descriptions & feature identification tasks
β Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
β Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own character descriptions
β Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
β Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
β Feature checklists
β Writing inspiration
Learning Objective:
To identify the features of and write my own character description
Success Criteria:
I can read and understand a character description.
I can identify the structural features of a character description (paragraphs, most obvious details described first, describes both appearance, personality and life details).
I can identify the language features of a character description (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs, adjectives, adverbs, figurative language etc.)
I can write my own character description.
I can check my work against a feature checklist.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - Quick creative writing task
Review of revelant prior learning - What are characters? Where do we find character descriptions in a story? What tense are stories usually written in?
Review of revelant prior learning - Adjectives and their importance in descriptions
Mini-plenary reviewing teaching input
Speaking and listening task - describing and drawing a character activity
Teaching input/ information slides - structure of character descriptions (appearance, personality, additional details, most obvious information first etc.)
Differentiated consolidation activity (3 levels) - structure of a character description
Reading task - example of a good character description
Grammar task (differentiated 3 levels) - using βwasβ and βhadβ correctly to describe character traits
Input - language features of powerful descriptions (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions etc.) + consolidation activities (identifying features in the character description)
Whole class writing task (model/ shared write)
Independent writing task (writing stimuli included)
Differentiated feature checklist for each ability level (3 levels)
Plenary - adjectives game
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This resource is a phonics phase 2 sound mat. It is great for children learning how to read and write and shows the full set of phase 2 letters in the order that they are typically learnt.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet many of the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend.They start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
Please check out my complete phase 2 Phonics Lesson PowerPoints with activities. Here is a free lesson for you to try - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-2-complete-lesson-activities-letter-n-free-12930734
Here is a bundle containing the complete course of phase 2 phonics lessons at a discounted price - all the resources you need to teach your children phase 2 of phonics and get them reading and writing! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/complete-phase-2-phonics-lessons-bundle-all-the-resources-you-could-ever-need-to-start-teaching-children-how-to-read-and-write-12949891
This resource is a word mat showing the full list of high-frequency words/ sight words/ tricky words taught to children in EYFS as part of learning to read and write.
High frequency words (AKA tricky/ sight words) are words which appear with great frequency in the English language and so are necessary to learn early on in the process of learning to read and write. What makes them βtrickyβ or βsightβ words is that they are often not phonetically decodable and so children must simply learn to recognise them by sight.
If you are teaching children how to read and write, check out my phase 2 and phase 3 phonics lessons - all the resources and activities you need to cover all of phase 2 and phase 3 phonics.
FREE Phase 2 phonics lesson (letter n) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-2-complete-lesson-activities-letter-n-free-12930734
FREE Phase 3 phonics lesson (ai sound) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-3-complete-lesson-activities-ai-digraph-free-12824943
Here is a bundle containing a full set of phase 2 phonics lessons - PowerPoint presentations complete with games and activities:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/complete-phase-2-phonics-lessons-bundle-all-the-resources-you-could-ever-need-to-start-teaching-children-how-to-read-and-write-12949891
Here is a bundle containing all my lessons which teach the phase 3 phonics digraphs and trigraphs at a discounted price -https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-3-digraphs-and-trigraphs-lessons-and-activities-complete-bundle-worth-pounds-57-00-12835017
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to plan and write fantastic narrative stories filled with powerful descriptions and suspense!
The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter and plenary activities
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Example texts for each part of a story
β Differentiated feature checklists for each part of a story (3 levels)
β Whole class/ shared writing activities
β Independent consolidation tasks
β Speaking, listening, reading & writing tasks
β Differentiated grammar task - writing in the past tense (3 levels)
β Writing inspiration
Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write my own fiction story
Success Criteria:
I can explain the structure of a typical story.
I can write in past tense.
I can use powerful, descriptive language (adjectives, adverbs, fronted adverbials etc.)
I can describe events in chronological order.
I can use figurative language.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - adjectives bingo game
Review of revelant prior learning - True or false statements about stories
-Teaching input/ information slides - story hills, typical structure of a narrative story + differentiated consolidation activity
Differentiated grammar task - writing in the past tense
Story openings - setting descriptions (what they are, example of a good setting description, features of setting descriptions, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
Story openings - character descriptions (what they are, example of a good character description, features of character descriptions, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
Story build ups & Climaxes - using suspense to describe the problem (what suspense is, example of a good suspense-filled climax of a story, structural and language techniques for building suspense, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
Story resolution - (what happens here, example of a good resolution, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
Story ending - (what happens here, example of a good ending, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
Independent extended writing task (assessment of learning)
Differentiated feature checklists for stories (3 levels)
Plenary - synonyms of βwentβ game
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Three PowerPoint Presentations complete with tasks and activities to teach children how to write fantastic non-chronological reports.
Lesson 1 - Examine example non-chronological reports, look at their features and learn how to use these in our own writing.
Lesson 2 - Guides students in researching a non-fiction topic (dinosaurs or natural disasters) in preparation for a class presentation.
Lesson 3 - Teach children how to write non-chronological reports using the information that they found in lesson 2. Includes shared/ modelled writing tasks, example texts, feature checklists etc.
Each lesson is complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter activity
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Speaking, listening, reading and writing consolidation tasks
β Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
β Plenary
This lesson can be used as part of a unit on non-chronological reports OR it can be used as a stand-alone lesson teaching children how to conduct research and present their findings to the class.
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to conduct research into a topic, make detailed and informative notes and then present their findings to the class in a clear and concise manner.
The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter activity
β Review of relevant prior learning (fact and opinion)
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Two research tasks (one historical and one present day)
β Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
β Differentiated research support slides
β Tips for taking notes, presenting findings, speaking and listening well
β Presentation plan examples
β Answer slides
β Plenary activity
Learning Objective:
LO: To conduct research and create a presentation on a particular topic
Success Criteria:
I can use multiple sources to find out information about a given topic.
I can make useful notes as part of my research.
I can use present my findings to others in a clear and concise way.
I can make listen carefully and make notes on a presentation.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - Fact or opinion?
Game to engage learners in research task - twenty questions
Teaching input - how to conduct research
Historical research task (dinosaurs topic)
Speaking and listening task - class mind-map + suggestions
Differentiated research support (questions to answer etc.)
Preset day research task (disasters topic)
Speaking and listening task - class mind-map + suggestions
Differentiated research support (questions to answer etc.)
Example presentation plans for both topics
Hints and tips for speaking/ presenting and listening/ note-taking
Plenary - Assessment of learning task
This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson teaching children how to conduct research into a topic and then present their findings. It can ALSO be part of a bundle of three lessons teaching children how to write non-chronological reports. This is lesson two of three.
Lesson 1 - Identify the features of non-chronological reports and examine example texts (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/non-fiction-lesson-features-of-a-non-chronological-report-teaching-powerpoint-with-activities-13116858)
Lesson 2 - Conduct own research into a topic and present findings
Lesson 3 - Write own non-chronological report
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Before children try to write a non-chronological report, they need to know what one looks like, they need to know how it should be set out and they need to know what features to include.
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 about non-chronological reports and their features. It includes two example non-chronological report texts for you to examine in class.
The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
β Learning objective
β Success criteria
β Starter activity
β Review of relevant prior learning
β Teaching input/ information slides
β Examples of good non-chronological reports
β Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
β Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own non-chronological reports
β Consolidation tasks for each feature
β Whole class and independent activities
β Feature checklist
β Plenary
Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the structural and language features of a non-chronological report
Success Criteria:
I can distinguish between fiction and non-fiction.
I can explain the meaning of βnon-chronologicalβ.
I can describe how a non-chronological report is structured.
I can identify language features of a non-chronological report.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - Sorting texts task
Review of revelant prior learning - fiction & non-fiction
Teaching input - meaning of non-chronological
Example of a non-chronological report (6 text slides)
Teaching input - structure of a non-chronological report, explanations, examples and consolidation tasks for these features (headings, sub-headings, an introduction, paragraphs, facts, photos, diagrams, key information boxes)
Teaching input - language features of a non-chronological report, explanations, examples and consolidation tasks for these features (present tense, third person, generalisers, technical vocabulary, factual adjectives, formal language)
Independent consolidation task
Example of a non-chronological report (5 text slides)
Feature checklist
Plenary - Assessment of learning task
This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson showing the features of a non-chronological report but it can also be part of a bundle of three lessons teaching children how to write non-chronological reports. This is lesson one of three.
Lesson 1 - Identify the features of non-chronological reports and examine example texts
Lesson 2 - Conduct own research into a topic and present findings (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13117269)
Lesson 3 - Write own non-chronological report
(https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13118600)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This lesson is for you ifβ¦
You are teaching the Cambridge Global English Stage 7 Curriculum
You prefer to teach interesting and engaging lessons rather than straight out of a textbook
You donβt want to spend hours and hours of your free time planning
You are environmentally conscious so would rather not print tons of worksheets
The PowerPoint presetation includes everything you need to deliver an outstanding lesson covering part 1.3 of the Cambridge, Stage 7, Global English curriculum (Making Connections - What should I give?). It does not include any of the Cambridge original material - it is simply a lesson covering the same objective and can be used alongside the Cambridge resource books.
It includes:
β Starter activity
β Learning objective and success criteria
β Lesson input/ information slides
β Example text - radio interview script
β Paired, team and whole- class activities
β Differentiated consolidation activities
β Feature checklists
β Support slides for LA learners
β Speaking, listening, reading & writing activities
β All answer slides
β Plenary activity
Learning Objective: LO: To plan and create a radio interview
Success Criteria:
I can listen to and understand a radio interview.
I can answer comprehension questions about what I have heard.
I can express my own opinion about gift giving in different cultures.
I can use βshouldβ to give and ask for advice.
I can identify the features of a radio interview.
I can design some questions relating to the topic.
I can plan detailed responses to the questions.
Thereβs no need to print anything - students can complete their activities in their notebooks, on whiteboards or by discussing as a class/ in groups. The lesson includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities to suit the needs of different learners (ordering, reasoning, labeling, matching-up, filling-in-the-blanks, speaking, writing tasks etc.).
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the βnotesβ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.