Island Man (Grace Nichols) is an excellent resource for teaching the poem Island Man by Grace Nichols. Our Island Man resource fully utilises PowerPoint as an effective teaching tool; all PowerPoint slides are clear and easy to follow and use a number of techniques to help students develop knowledge and understanding of the poem Island Man. To view the complete resource Island Man (Grace Nichols) PowerPoint in more detail you can preview the resource by clicking on the slides in the preview box underneath the resource’s description. English Teaching Resources: Island Man (Grace Nichols) includes a wide range of activities for pupils of all abilities such as: * a quick biography of Grace Nichols and the social and historical context of Island Man * activities to develop knowledge of the ‘narrative’ of Island Man * exploration of the key themes of Island Man (identity, immigration, isolation, etc) * developing awareness of techniques used in poetry – metaphor, imagery, alliteration, onomatopeia, etc * teaching the use of Point/Evidence/Explain to write about Island Man * Grace Nichols’ purpose and the poems meaning * analysis of Grace Nichols’ use of language in Island Man * Grace Nichols use of poetic techniques * developing inference and deduction skills * 5 accompanying worksheets

Comparing and Ordering Non-unit Fractions - Year 3 In ‘Comparing and Ordering Non-unit Fractions - Year 3’ pupils practise comparing and ordering fractions with the same denominators. This teaching resource covers the year 3 curriculum objective in the maths programme of study and supports the White Rose small steps guidance for year 3 - Spring - Block 3 - Fractions A. Content includes: PowerPoint presentation Activities to support the teaching of this small step 3 differentiated worksheets with answers ‘Comparing and Ordering Non-unit Fractions - Year 3’ is editable allowing teachers to adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar Year 3 fractions resources: Fractions and Interpreting Scales - Year 3 Understanding the Whole - Year 3 Numerators of Unit and Non-unit Fractions - Year 3 Denominators of Unit Fractions - Year 3 Comparing and Ordering Unit Fractions - Year 3 Finding Equivalent Fractions - Year 3 Fractions on a Number Line - Year 3 Year 3 Fractions ‘A’ Bundle

Let’s Take Away – Beginning to Subtract In this EYFS / KS1 maths resource, pupils practise subtraction within 10 as ‘taking apart’ and ‘taking from’ and begin to read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving subtraction and equals signs as per the statutory requirements of the year 1 maths programme of study (Number - addition and subtraction). Content includes: Taking away from a group of objects explanation Taking numbers away from each other explanation Link to a subtraction video 4 activities with accompanying worksheets 1 further worksheet with answers Colouring page As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Let’s Take Away – Beginning to Subtract’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar Year 1 addition and subtraction resources: Addition and Subtraction are Opposites - Year 1 Number Fact Families Addition and Subtraction Facts - Year 1 Making Ten - Year 1 Adding Using a Number Line - Year 1 Taking Away Using a Number Line - Year 1 Year 1 Addition and Subtraction Bundle Year 1 Number Bonds Bundle Year 1 Addition and Subtraction within 10 Bundle

Storm on the Island - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit covers Seamus Heaney’s ‘Storm on the Island’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 51-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 5 accompanying worksheets. The lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Seamus Heaney and the conflict in Northern Ireland First Reading – A reading of ‘Storm on the Island’ with glossary and comprehension / consolidation questions with example answers included. Language and imagery – Analysing ‘Storm on the Island’ in detail. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess students’ initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included. Lesson Two Imagery - Analysing Heaney’s use of imagery and poetic techniques (sibilance, simile, metaphor). Themes – Exploring the themes of ‘Storm on the Island’ – the power of nature, conflict and fear. Structure and Form – How Heaney uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme. The GCSE exam – Comparing ‘Storm on the Island’ with ‘The Prelude: Stealing the Boat’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam. This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. To preview a few slides from the ‘Storm on the Island’ PowerPoint presentation, please click on the images. Click below to see more AQA GCSE Anthology Power and Conflict Poetry resources: Ozymandias London The Prelude - Stealing the Boat My Last Duchess The Charge of the Light Brigade Exposure War Photographer Bayonet Charge Remains Checking Out Me History Poppies Tissue The Emigree Kamikaze AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Power and Conflict Pack

War Photographer - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson unit teaches students about Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. It is made up of a 50-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets. The lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context - An introduction to the poet Carol Ann Duffy and the poem’s inspiration and context. First Reading - A reading of ‘War Photographer’ with comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included. Language and imagery - Analysing ‘War Photographer’ in detail. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing - An essay question to assess students’ initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included. Lesson Two Imagery - Analysing Duffy’s use of imagery. Themes - Discussing the poem’s themes. Structure and Form - Considering how Duffy uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme. The GCSE exam - Comparing ‘War Photographer’ with ‘Poppies’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam. This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. To preview ‘War Photographer’ in detail, please click on the images. Click below to see more AQA GCSE Anthology Power and Conflict Poetry resources: Ozymandias London The Prelude - Stealing the Boat My Last Duchess The Charge of the Light Brigade Exposure Storm on the Island Bayonet Charge Remains Checking Out Me History Poppies Tissue The Emigree Kamikaze AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Power and Conflict Pack

Walking Away This two-lesson mini-unit explores Cecil Day-Lewis’s ‘Walking Away’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying the AQA Love and Relationships cluster, this resource studies the poem in depth and explains how to write an essay comparing it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 59-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 7 accompanying worksheets. The two lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Cecil Day-Lewis’s life and factors that may have inspired the poem. First Contact – An initial reading of ‘Walking Away’ with a glossary included. Comprehension questions with example answers. Exploring Meaning – Analysing ‘Walking Away’ in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. A model answer is included. Lesson Two Themes – Analysing the themes of ‘Walking Away’: parent/child relationships, memory, time, distance and growing up. Language – Exploring Day-Lewis’s use of language. An analysis of imagery and a line-by-line examination of the poem, with questions and answers. Structure and Form – How Day-Lewis uses the first-person perspective, direct address, caesura, rhyme and enjambment. The GCSE Exam – How to write a comparison essay. Comparing ‘Walking Away’ with ‘Before You Were Mine’ and ‘Mother, Any Distance’. Model answers included. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more AQA Anthology Poetry - Love and Relationships resources: When We Two Parted Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ Neutral Tones The Farmer’s Bride Eden Rock Mother, Any Distance Before You Were Mine Follower Letters From Yorkshire Winter Swans Singh Song! Climbing My Grandfather AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack

Traditional Stories (Year 1/2) is a complete unit of work including a planning overview, assessment guidance, detailed lessons and activities, a 66 slide PowerPoint and 16 accompanying worksheets. It includes a range of varied lessons and activities for children of all abilities: Talk for writing and prior learning tasks Exploring and discussing traditional stories and fairy tales Discovering multi-modal texts - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks Individual, pair and group work How to understand characters Hotseating and role play tasks to develop understanding of character Sequencing and storyboarding How to plan a story using the story mountain How to begin a narrative - teacher modelling the writing process Writing assessment task Detailed teaching notes for lessons and assessment

Present Perfect Form - Year 3 / Year 4 (a 20-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with 3 differentiated worksheet-based activities) This lesson explains the difference between two seemingly similar tenses - the past simple and the present perfect. The resource provides whole-class and differentiated individual exercises to put knowledge into practice. Teachers can use this as a standard lesson or for additional support for EAL pupils.

Comparing and Ordering Time - Year 2 KS1 Maths Measurement Teaching Resource In this teaching resource pupils practise comparing and sequencing intervals of time as per the curriculum objectives of the year 2 maths programme of study (Measurement). This engaging animated PowerPoint presentation is full of activities with 4 accompanying worksheets to use along side the presentation. ‘Comparing and Ordering Time - Year 2’ is fully editable giving you the freedom to adapt the resource to suit your individual teaching requirements. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Measuring Capacity and Volume - Year 2 Measuring Mass - Year 2 Measuring Length and Height Money - Year 2 Telling the Time - Year 2

Measuring Length and Height - Year 2 In this Year 2 teaching resource pupils are taught to choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length and height. They are also required to compare and order lengths and record the results using >, < and = (as per the Year 2 Programme of Study – Measurement). Content includes: interactive activities with 6 accompanying worksheets As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Measuring Length and Height - Year 2’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Measuring Capacity and Volume - Year 2 Measuring Mass - Year 2 Money - Year 2 Telling the Time - Year 2 Comparing and Ordering Time - Year 2

Unit Fractions - Year 2 In this maths teaching resource, pupils practise the concept of unit fractions as one equal part of the whole shape or quantity and that the denominator represents the number of parts the whole has been divided into. This Year 2 maths teaching resource has been created following the White Rose Small Steps guidance for year 2 - Spring - Block 4 - Fractions. The resource consists of 1 lesson, including a PowerPoint presentation and differentiated worksheets for independent learning, to guide your class through the curriculum objectives of the Year 2 maths programme of study (number - fractions). The worksheets contain varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving to reinforce and consolidate the children’s learning. Content includes: Varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving interactive class activities 3 differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving worksheets with answers ‘Unit Fractions - Year 2’ is completely editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching needs. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 2 Fractions resources: Fractions - Year 2 Equal Parts - Year 2 Halves - Year 2 Quarters - Year 2 Thirds - Year 2 Non-Unit Fractions - Year 2 Equivalence of One Half and Two Quarters - Year 2 Equivalent Fractions - Year 2 Finding Three Quarters - Year 2 Counting in Fractions – Year 2 Counting in Halves, Thirds and Quarters - Year 2

Equivalent Fractions - Year 2 This year 2 fractions teaching resource introduces equivalent fractions focusing on the equivalence of one half and two quarters as per the curriculum objectives of the year 2 maths programme of study (Numbers - fractions). Content includes: Equivalent fractions explanation Equivalent fractions activity with an accompanying worksheet Equivalent fractions of 1/2 animated sorting activity Equivalent fractions of amounts explanation Equivalent fractions of amounts activity with an accompanying worksheet 1 further worksheet with answers As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Equivalent Fractions - Year 2’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 2 Fractions resources: Fractions - Year 2 Equal Parts - Year 2 Halves - Year 2 Quarters - Year 2 Thirds - Year 2 Unit Fractions - Year 2 Non-Unit Fractions - Year 2 Equivalence of One Half and Two Quarters - Year 2 Finding Three Quarters - Year 2 Counting in Fractions – Year 2 Counting in Halves, Thirds and Quarters - Year 2

Counting in Halves, Thirds and Quarters - Year 2 In this maths teaching resource, pupils use their knowledge of halves, thirds and quarters to practise counting in fractions from any given number to ten. This Year 2 maths teaching resource has been created following the White Rose Small Steps guidance for year 2 - Spring - Block 4 - Fractions. The resource consists of 1 lesson, including a PowerPoint presentation and differentiated worksheets for independent learning, to guide your class through the curriculum objectives of the Year 2 maths programme of study (number - fractions). The worksheets contain varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving to reinforce and consolidate the children’s learning. Content includes: Varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving interactive class activities 3 differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving worksheets with answers ‘Counting in Halves, Thirds and Quarters - Year 2’ is completely editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching requirements. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 2 Fractions resources: Fractions - Year 2 Equal Parts - Year 2 Halves - Year 2 Quarters - Year 2 Thirds - Year 2 Unit Fractions - Year 2 Non-Unit Fractions - Year 2 Equivalence of One Half and Two Quarters - Year 2 Equivalent Fractions - Year 2 Finding Three Quarters - Year 2 Counting in Fractions – Year 2

Stone Cold - Unit of Work (18-lesson, 203-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 49 worksheets) Stone Cold is an 18-lesson teaching unit made up of a 203-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and a booklet of 49 worksheets. This Year 9 unit explores every chapter of the novel in detail and covers: Exploring attitudes to homelessness Reading and comprehension questions Developing understanding of implicit and explicit meaning Developing deduction and other key reading skills Exploring themes: homelessness, crime and punishment, family breakdown, the welfare state, poverty Speaking and listening activities Robert Swindells’ use of language in Stone Cold Character profiles and analysis - Link, Shelter, Ginger, Gail, Vince Empathy and descriptive writing Non-fiction writing And lots more! Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels: Boys Don’t Cry Cirque Du Freak Face Holes Noughts and Crosses Skellig The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night The Demon Headmaster The Silver Sword

KS2 Maths Teaching Resources: Converting and Comparing Units of Money - Year 4 In this Year 4 teaching resource pupils practise converting and comparing different units of money. This is an ideal teaching aid to use when covering the year 4 curriculum objectives in the maths programme of study - Measurement. Content includes: interactive activities with accompanying worksheet for pupils to use during the lesson 1 further worksheet with answers ‘Converting and Comparing Units of Money - Year 4 ’ is completely editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching needs. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Converting and Comparing Units of Length - Year 4 Converting and Comparing Units of Volume - Year 4 Converting and Comparing Units of Mass - Year 4 Measurement and Decimal Notation - KS2

Spring Haiku Poetry - Year 5 and 6 This 3-lesson mini-unit is designed to cover creative writing and poetry. It includes activities for pupils of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright colour, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery and easy to follow, child-friendly language. The resource is fully editable so can be adapted and used for different seasons or themes. Content includes: Discussion - what is a haiku? Exploring and discussing haiku poetry - reading, listening to and talking about haiku poems Create a class haiku activity Individual, pair and group work opportunities Reflecting on learning through constructive criticism Writing an individual haiku about spring Using colour photographs of spring scenes as writing stimulus Drafting - how and why we redraft How to plan and structure a haiku Exemplar poems Writing assessment opportunity - write a simple haiku poem about spring 38 slide PowerPoint presentation and 2 worksheets Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Summer Haiku Autumn Haiku Winter Haiku Haiku Poetry - Year 3/4

Square Numbers - Year 5 This Year 5 maths teaching resource has been created following the White Rose Small Steps guidance (Autumn - Block 3 - Multiplication and division A). The resource consists of 1 lesson, including a PowerPoint presentation and differentiated worksheets for independent learning, to guide your class through the curriculum objectives of the Year 5 maths programme of study (number - multiplication and division). The worksheets contain varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving to reinforce and consolidate the children’s learning. Content includes: An animated PowerPoint lesson Activities to support the teaching of these objectives and two accompanying worksheets 3 further differentiated worksheets with answers ‘Square Numbers - Year 5’ is completely editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching needs. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Cube Numbers - Year 5 Common Factors Activity - Year 5 Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 - Year 5 Identifying Factors - Year 5 Multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 - Year 5 Prime Numbers - Year 5 Identifying Multiples - Year 5 Factors Activities - Year 5 Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 - Year 5 Common Multiples Activity - Year 5 Year 5 Multiplication and Division Bundle 1

Bar Charts - Year 3: KS2 Maths Teaching Resource This KS2 mathematics teaching resource is an aid to delivering a lesson on Bar Charts, covering the curriculum objective of the year 3 maths programme of study (Statistics). Content includes: What are bar charts introduction Using the right scale Two activities with accompanying worksheets where pupils practise interpreting and presenting data using bar charts and solve problems using the information from the charts 1 further consolidation worksheet with answers ‘Bar Charts - Year 3’ can be edited so teachers can adapt it to use with all abilities. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar Year 3 statistics resources: Pictograms - Year 3 Tables - Year 3 Statistics Assessment - Year 3 Year 3 Statistics Bundle

Money - Year 2 'Money - Year 2' is an engaging PowerPoint presentation, ideal to use in a lesson covering the curriculum objectives of the year 2 maths programme of study (Measurement). Content includes: 1. Recognising coins activity 2. Money addition activity 3. Finding the correct amount activity and worksheet 4. Making the same amount activity and worksheet 5. Finding the correct change activity and worksheet 6. Printable coins cut out worksheet to use in the activities 7. Money word problem worksheet 'Money - Year 2' is editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to use with all abilities.