A high-quality information text about space which is specifically designed to match the writing expectations for Key Stage 2. Your class can use this text as a WAGOLL, research or use it as a starter to search for the features of the information text using the writing checklists included which are differentiated for LKS2 and UKS2.

A high-quality information text about volcanoes which is specifically designed to match the writing expectations for Key Stage 2. Your class can use this text as a WAGOLL, research or use it as a starter to search for the features of the information text using the writing checklists included which are differentiated for LKS2 and UKS2.

A week of Literacy planning which is very well resourced for a mixed Year 3 and 4 class. This planning resulted in great diary entries written as Howard Carter. Every lesson is resourced fully and has a set of matching PowerPoint presentations. This pack is ready to use straight away and works especially well with classes who are learning about Ancient Egypt in their topic lessons.

This 8 lesson Literacy unit (15 files) supports children in writing a high-quality voice over for the animated video ‘The Piano’. It is designed for a mixed Year 5/6 class however it can be easily edited for a younger or even older class. It is differentiated four ways and there are PowerPoint slides and sheets for every lesson.

A week of Literacy lessons based on Roald Dahl’s Matilda. This is a set of 5 lessons for LKS2 focusing on character descriptions. The week starts by the pupils reading good examples of character descriptions from other Roald Dahl books before moving onto two days of differentiated skills lessons focusing on using adjectives and similes before planning and writing their character descriptions. All lessons come with a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation and paper resources!

These sheets (which are differentiated three ways) give children the opportunity to use expanded noun phrases in a scaffolded way. These sheets would be great for helping pupils describe animals/characters using expanded noun phrases as part of a wider English topic or as a stand-alone SPaG lesson on expanded noun phrases! Pictures can be altered easily to suit your English topic.

Click to download this very comprehensive set of excellent drama activities. These activities are both very fun and very well explained so you can print them out and start what will be a very educational and exciting collection of drama lessons right away.

This full resourced lesson describes to younger pupils what the 2017 general election is they can understand. It introduces them to key vocabulary such as ‘voting’, ‘Member of Parliament’, ‘House of Commons’ and ‘ballot box’. All you need to do is slice up 30 pieces of paper and a cardboard box for your class to use to vote! During this interactive lesson, pupils will learn how people vote, who they vote for and what MPs do. They then vote for a class MP / student councillor to give voting a try themselves!

Three days on instruction texts for upper KS2 to feed into the task of writing instructions for making a ‘cursing potion’ - an activity from week 2 of The Book of Bad Things planning which can be found in my shop. Day 1: Going through an example instruction text Day 2: Imperative verbs Day 3: Paired write of an instruction text (making a ‘bad breath potion’ for their enemy)

This is the first week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!

This is the second week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!

This is the first week of planning and resources based around a book by Clive Gifford. It's a brilliant book -especially for boys who are reluctant to write- and will get lets of writing from them! This topic was taught in the morning in the run up to the submission of writing data for Year 6 as a way of gaining evidence ready for moderation. It came in very useful when moderation day did arrive!

Week 4 of planning and resources for a book based Literacy/Topic unit originally for Years 5&6. Five lessons all for under £1 each! The first, second and third week can be found on my page too. Children may need a session on iPads or laptops to research information on Easter Island to have enough to put in their brochure on Friday.

Here is a comprehensive set of guided reading questions for Ace Detective by Shelley Holmes. The questions cover all of the question types including recall, inference and evaluation and are segmented into six sets of questions. There are over 30 questions here. I've written the questions, all you have to do is read the book with the children!

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/diary-writing-homework-worksheet-ks2-ks3/ This homework sheet asks pupils to keep a diary entry over the weekend. It includes differentiated success criteria for their diary entries along with examples of the features you expect to see in their writing. It also includes a short example of a diary entry to demonstrate how the success criteria could be used to write a good diary entry. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This differentiated homework sheet asks pupils to create a short biography entry about Charlie Chaplin. It has a chronological list of key events in Chaplin's life in bullet points for pupils to turn into paragraphs. The homework is differentiated three ways and includes success criteria for each ability group!

This differentiated homework asks pupils to create, illustrate and describe their own Greek Hero. We used the hero in their stories the following week but this could equally be used as a stand alone homework related to your topic.

This resource can be found for a cheaper price at https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/week-fully-resourced-literacy-lessons-greek-myths-uks2/ This week of Literacy lessons focuses on developing children's understanding of Greek myths and gives them an opportunity to write a description of their own mythological creature. All of the classes who have been taught this week of Literacy have really enjoyed it, especially the boys! Day 1: Reading and analysing examples of Greek myths. Day 2: Creating word banks to describe mythological creatures. Day 3: Using expanded noun phrases to describe mythological creatures. Day 4: Creating and planning their own mythological creature (with a bit of drawing included to keep them interested). Day 5: Children write a written description of their mythical creatures using the skills taught during the week. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This week of Literacy focuses on writing persuasive letters. It includes an opportunity to read good examples, look at the skills involved in writing persuasive letters, planning the letter and an opportunity to write one. Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 a lesson! Day 1: Reading good examples of persuasive letters and looking at the features of persuasive writing. Day 2: Skills lesson focusing on using strong sentence openers. Day 3: Lesson about Fair Trade to generate an argument for buying Fair Trade produce. This lesson includes information about Fair Trade for pupils to record and discuss - all the research has been done for you! Day 4: Planning their persuasive letter on differentiated planning grids. Day 5: An opportunity to go through a good example of a persuasive letter on the board to remind children of the success criteria and a chance for the class to write their own persuasive letters to the headteacher.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/biographies-one-week-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This week of Literacy focuses on writing biographies. The class really enjoyed learning about the celebrities in this week's Literacy lessons, especially Taylor Swift and Christiano Ronaldo! Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 each! Day 1: Reading comprehension focus - children read biographies of a celebrity and answer differentiated (retrieval and inference) questions about the text. This gives them an opportunity to experience high quality, short biographies. Day 2: Children practise using adverbial phrases ready to use them in their own writing. Differentiated worksheets (as for all lessons) are included for their activities. Day 3: Children practise organising information into paragraphs by sorting information from biographies into subheadings. Day 4&5: Children write their own biography about either Christiano Ronaldo or Taylor Swift after going through a good example on the IWB. Differentiated success criteria is included.