A Ready To Teach English unit using the beautifully illustrated story ‘The Great Explorer’ by Chris Judge! This 5-lesson unit covers both reading and writing skills, and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources. Lesson 1: Exploring the story using reading skills. Lesson 2: Making inferences about a character. Lesson 3-5: Writing a letter from the perspective of the main character. All files are completely editable, allowing you to adapt as needed to suit your class!

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension!! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc grey level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-13. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. NTF Print font is used but please do ask if you would like an alternative font!

The perfect geography and history unit focusing on Polar Explorers - completely ready to teach! Each of the 6 lessons contains a highly detailed PowerPoint with all of the necessary subject knowledge presented in child-friendly terminology and an accompanying task. Where appropriate, simplified versions of the task are provided to enable differentiation. With easy-to-follow lesson plans, this unit is an absolute time saver and will leave you feeling Ready To Teach! Lesson 1 - locating the polar regions (geography) Lesson 2 - features of the polar regions (geography) Lesson 3 - the significance of Matthew Henson (history) Lesson 4 - expeditions in the past (history) Lesson 5 - the significance of Robert Scott and the Race to the South Pole (history) Lesson 6 - the significance of Felicity Aston (history) Files now saved with Comic Sans font to reduce file size

The perfect assessment tool for collating and analysing children’s results, identifying strengths and gaps in the KS1 curriculum. This bundle contains individual spreadsheets for the new 2024 KS1 Maths, Reading and GPS SATs papers. Simply enter the children’s marks per question for each paper, and not only will it calculate the children’s totals and level, but it will also identify which curriculum objectives they have achieved and which ones need further consolidation! Class averages are also calculated per question and objective to identify strengths and weaknesses across your cohort, informing your future planning and any additional support needed.

A Ready-To-Teach unit with not one, but 3 writing units based on the KS1 classic ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. This 4-week unit covers both reading and writing skills in a range of genres: character description, narrative retelling, and instructions. Each genre is complete with a detailed PowerPoint, lesson plans and resources. Unit 1 - Character Description Lesson 1: Exploring the text, focusing on new vocabulary Lesson 2: Generating adjectives to describe a character Lesson 3: Writing a character description Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making inferences Unit 2 - Narrative Retelling Lesson 1: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘but’ Lesson 2: Retelling the story using alliteration and a question Lesson 3: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘and’ Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making predictions Unit 3 - Instructions Lesson 1: Identifying the features of instructions Lesson 2: Sequencing events and planning instructions Lesson 3: Writing instructions Lesson 4: Writing instructions Lesson 5: Designing a disgusting sandwich Lesson 6: Planning instructions Lesson 7: Independently writing instructions Lesson 8: Independently writing instructions All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children!

The perfect resource for children who have difficulty with the sizing and positioning of their letters when writing! These lines are divided into two stripes - yellow and white - as a visual prompt to help children recognise where tall and small letters should be on the line. With 8mm spaced lines and a margin, these lines replicate the pages of many school exercise books. As a digital file, the lines can be adjusted to create wider spaced lines and the margin can be adjusted or even removed.

A Ready To Teach English unit focusing on developing children’s non-fiction writing skills! This 9-lesson unit introduces the features of non-chronological reports before guiding children through planning and writing their own text about penguins. Complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources, this easy to follow unit produces high-quality writing. Lesson 1 - exploring non-chronological reports Lesson 2 - recognising the features of non-chronological reports Lesson 3 - identifying the features of non-chronological reports Lesson 4 - writing question sentences Lesson 5 - grouping related facts Lesson 6 - writing a title and introduction Lessons 7-9 - writing sections of a non-chronological report All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children or even to an animal better suited for your topic.

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension!! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc blue level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-10. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book.

A Ready To Teach English unit based on the much-loved story “The Way Back Home” by Oliver Jeffers!! This 2-week unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources, as well as a marking ladder to assess children’s independent writing against the End of KS1 TAF. Lesson 1: Exploring the story using reading skills Lesson 2: Sequencing the story Lessons 3-5: Retelling the story Lesson 6: Planning a story Lessons 7-9: Writing a story independently All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children!

This 7-week VIPERS planning pack for the Roald Dahl classic George’s Marvellous Medicine is completely ready-to-teach! With 7 teacher-led sessions and follow up independent tasks, all complete with answers, this unit will support your children’s comprehension skills by covering all of the 6 VIPERS skills (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising). This resource is completely editable, meaning you can adjust it as needed to suit the children in your class.

A Ready To Teach English unit based on the KS1 favourite “Man on the Moon (A Day in the Life of Bob)” by Simon Bartram!! This 4-lesson unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources. GPS starters help to keep the basics fresh through SATs style questions. Lesson 1 - making inferences and predictions about the story Lesson 2 - SATs style comprehension questions Lesson 3 - commas in a list Lesson 4 - writing a character description All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children.

Develop your Year 2’s arithmetic skills with these Ready To Use practice activities. Broken down into different questions types, these activities cover the key areas of the Year 2 arithmetic curriculum: addition and subtraction within 20 adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers and ones adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers and tens adding and subtracting two 2 digit numbers multiplying by 2, 5 and 10 dividing by 2, 5 and 10 finding fractions of amounts Designed to be completed as extra practice at home, each activity has 10 practice questions split into 5 parts - one part for each day of the week. To support both children and parents, each activity has a QR code linking to a demonstration video which shows appropriate jottings for each question type. All documents are completely editable, meaning you can adjust and adapt as necessary to suit your school and children!

This VIPERS planning for the KS1 exemplification text ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’ is completely ready-to-teach! With 6 teacher-led sessions and follow up independent tasks, all complete with answers, this unit will support your children’s comprehension skills and provide valuable evidence for your teacher judgements. This resource is completely editable, meaning you can adjust it as needed to suit the children in your class.

The ultimate combination of curriculum review and mindfulness activities, perfect for early morning work or those speedy finishers! With activities for every week of the half term, your children will always have something purposeful and productive to do. Curriculum activities recap basic skills including number bonds, place value, punctuation, spelling, reading comprehension and wider curriculum areas such as science, geography and art. Files are completely editable meaning you can personalise them to your class’ needs and prior learning.

This is the perfect Geography and History unit focusing on the popular topic of the Seaside! Each of the 6 lessons contains a highly detailed PowerPoint with all of the necessary subject knowledge presented in child-friendly terminology and an accompanying task. With easy-to-follow lesson plans, this unit is an absolute time saver and will leave you feeling Ready To Teach! Lesson 1 - what are seasides? Lesson 2 - where are seasides in the UK? Lesson 3 - what are the geographical features of seasides? Lesson 4 - what are seaside holidays like now? Lesson 5 - what were seaside holidays like in the past? Lesson 6 - how have seaside holidays changed over time?

These colourful and easy-to-use spelling mats contain all of the common exception words for Years 1 and 2. Presented in alphabetical order to make words easier to find, these are the perfect resource to support children in correctly spelling key words in their writing. Completely editable so you can use your preferred font, this file is ready to print, laminate, and put out in your classroom!

Never miss a date again! Have all your important events, clubs and meetings visible on one page with these handy half term calendars! Print them out small to keep in you diary, or why not print them on A3 to have on display for parents to see! Simply print, write in the dates, and display! It couldn’t be easier!

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc grey level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-4. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. NTF Print font is used but please do ask if you would like an alternative font!** If you like these, why not buy the full set for books 1-13!

This ready-to-teach lesson focuses on the location of the Arctic and Antarctica. Complete with an easy-to-follow written lesson plan, highly-detailed PowerPoint with all necessary subject knowledge presented in a child-friendly format and two levels of accompanying activity tasks, this is the ultimate planning time saver! This is the first lesson in a 6-lesson geography and history unit. Find the whole unit at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/polar-explorers-geography-and-history-12783769

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc blue level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-4. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. If you like these, why not buy the full set for books 1-10!