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Resources mostly focussed on the teaching and learning of KS2 pupils in English writing and Guided Reading lessons.
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Resources mostly focussed on the teaching and learning of KS2 pupils in English writing and Guided Reading lessons.
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Ice Trap Shackleton Whole Class Guided Reading Unit Year 4
2/3 week Guided Reading unit based on Ice Trap! the story sharing Shackleton’s expedition story across Antarctica. This resource includes pages taken from the picture book for children to examine the text and illustrations. Questions framed using the DERIC approach, matched to end of Key Stage expectations.
Year 4 Whole Class Guided Reading Fantasy Animation Eye of the Storm DERIC
Complete Year 4 Guided Reading resource using DERIC questioning to match National Curriculum expectations for KS2. Week long, stand alone unit.
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Year 4 How to Train your Dragon Complete Bundle Guided Reading and Diary Writing Unit
How to Train Your Dragon Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning.
Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, using fronted adverbials, the big write lessons with modeled paragraphs and editing lesson. Here is a break down of each lesson included:
Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing.
How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool.
Sequencing key events in the story from chapters 1 - 10 and creating a cartoon strip.
Understanding the characters. Read alongside chapter 8 to complete the information about each characters dragon.
Using fronted adverbials and examples of which ones (and types) we can use in our diary writing.
Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries.
The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with modeled paragraph.
Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph and checklist for writing.
Writing paragraph 4 including modeled paragraph and checklist.
Editing your diaries using Bob the minion as the invisible child to edit and improve his work using key mistakes made by Year 4 writers.
This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about How to Train your Dragon. Works really well alongside the Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting these units are included.
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Year 4 How to Train Your Dragon Guided Reading and Instructions Writing Unit
A bundle including a 2 week Guided Reading and 2 week Instructions unit based on Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon. These lessons would be perfect for live lessons but also work in the classroom too.
Year 4 / Year 5 Whole Class Guided Reading based on Spooky Stories DERIC
Complete Year 4 Guided Reading teaching resource using DERIC to frame the questions around the National Curriculum expectations. This resource is a 2 week unit of half an hour lessons. Could be used for live lessons.
Although this was planned for Year 4 the texts are quite challenging so could be used for Year 5 or a low Year 6 group focusing on vocabulary.
In this unit we examined and focused on vocabulary choices and challenging texts. Works really well alongside the Spooky Writing English unit.
Book Blether Year 4 Reading For Pleasure Live Lesson
Used as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, our Year 4 classes all participated in a Reading For Pleasure live session where they shared their favourite books, made recommendations and discussed story lines and their likes and dislikes.
This lesson could be used across Key Stage 2 and supports the reading for pleasure strands of the National Curriculum.
Greatest Gift Sainsburys Advert DERIC Whole Class Guided Reading Year 4
This resource is a week’s worth of planning that I use in our final week of school to enjoy whole class Guided Reading in a fun way while still promoting those fundamental reading skills.
Questions are appropriate for Year 4 but this resource could easily be adapted across Key Stage 2.
Questions framed around DERIC:
Decode
Explain
Retrieve
Infer / Interpret
Choice
Year 4 Man on the Moon John Lewis Christmas Advert Whole Class Guided Reading DERIC
This is a big hit with Year 4 at Christmas! With over 30 questions, this resource is a week’s worth of whole class Guided Reading. Using DERIC as a question frame, the questions in this resource are centered around retrieval, explain and interpret / inference.
A great resource to teach fundamental Reading skills while making it fun and engaging with a lovely Christmas story.
Diary of a Cornflake Science in English Digestive System Year 4 Complete English Unit
Diary of a Cornflake Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning.
Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, the big write lessons with some modeled paragraphs and editing sessions embedding in each big write. Here is a break down of each lesson included:
Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing.
Sequencing key events in the journey of the digestive system and creating a cartoon strip.
How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool.
Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries.
The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with teacher example to set the scene.
Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph, editing section and checklist for writing.
Writing paragraph 4 including editing example and checklist.
Writing up in best lesson which encourages children to practice and perfect their handwriting.
This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about the digestive system - a simple but effective way to show writing across the curriculum. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.