This is a series of 10 lessons teaching students hoe to write a survival guide linked to Shackleton’s adventure across Antarctica. This unit works really well with my other unit of work Shackleton’s Diary Writing. This series of lessons includes exploring adventurous vocabulary, exploring the packing list, writing topic sentences, researching survival information and features modeled paragraphs of each of the subheadings. This unit worked really well for live lessons.

This unit is a series of 11 lessons teaching the children the story of Shackleton’s expedition using the book Ice Trap! These lessons have been used for live learning and have given opportunities for modeled and shared writing, editing, creative writing and developing the use of first person, FANTASTICs and using emotions in our writing.

This 3 week Guided Reading unit is a must for any Year 4 class exploring How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret / Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. This resource provides questioning around each of the first 10 chapters of the book (you will need your own copy of the text) alongside fun, engaging activities to promote reading for pleasure. With a heavy focus on retrieval, explain (to ensure they have a good understanding of the text) and inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 or a Year 6 LA group to strengthen their retrieval or basic text interaction skills. Although this resource states that it includes 6 files, the main resource is a PowerPoint spanning 74 slides. The additional 5 resources are images of the slides to give buyers more information on what this resource offers. This is a high quality resource that I have used myself in my own classroom and is of a high planning quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Enjoy!

Complete Year 4 Guided Reading resource using DERIC questioning to match National Curriculum expectations for KS2. Week long, stand alone unit.

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.

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 my Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.

How to Train Your Dragon Instructions Writing unit. I created these resources to use for live lessons but likewise they would work well in the classroom. Included is a sequence of 8 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: Features of Instructions including an introduction to how adverbs, if conjunctions and using conjunctions as sentence openers. Adventurous vocabulary - introducing 6 new adventurous words and modeled sentences. Planning our instructions. Choose a dragon and look at his key features. What special care instruction would they need? Writing our first 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing an Introduction to match your instructions - including modeled paragraph. Finalizing your instructions. Using our knowledge of the features of instructions, how can we bring all of our work together and present them effectively? 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 my Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting this writing unit are included. My class loved this unit and enjoyed being really creative with designing their dragons and what types of personalities they might have.