This lesson was used to round off Term 1 after using How to Train your Dragon as our class reader and as a stimulus for a unit of writing. During this afternoon, children chose which activities they liked and created work based on what they enjoyed in the book. Designed using a Voices for Choices approach this resource shares varied ideas based on different skills i.e. writing, art, design etc.

Used as a kindness afternoon resource for my class to choose their own way to spread kindness, this PowerPoint uses the Christmas 2020 John Lewis advert to encourage children to ‘Give a Little Love’. Please leave feedback :-)

This one off lesson is the ideal art lesson to ease back into school in Term 3. Using a video of the 2021 London New Year fireworks, the children can recreate the London skyline and use chalks to add fireworks to this picture.

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.

This lesson was planned and used as part of our Black history topic where we explored Black History and achievements in different fields including art. This resource is one art lesson which shares and explores Lorna Simpson’s art in a way that’s pitched for LKS2 but could certainly be used and explored with UKS2 students too. The only things you will need to provide are black and white photos of your class, straws and paint. My class loved this lesson and I would highly recommend it to any KS2 teacher.

Used as a fun lesson to boost well-being during our live lessons but could be used as a fun mini lesson as a whole class reward or to finish the week or term. This 10 questions quiz has all the answers included so you just need to download and enjoy with your class. Works perfectly alongside my Happy poetry writing unit.

This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

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.

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

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

This week long whole class guided reading resource is based on the Lighthouse short animation that is available on You Tube. We have used this animation many times in Year 4 and it goes beautifully alongside our other lighthouse resources so be sure to have a look in the shop to truly maximise your cross curricular links with Science, DT and English! 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. With a heavy focus on inference and deduction skills, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 to strengthen their inference skills. A true hit with my class for both reading and writing 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.