The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit. This lesson is based on The Hobbit, Chapter 2. It looks at the rules for speech punctuation and how to alter speech according to different characters. Students will add in the correct speech punctuation to an extract as well as write the dialogue for a clip of the trolls. A great lesson for studying speech and/ or the novel. This lesson is one of a sequence of lessons on the Hobbit. These lessons can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/classic-fiction-the-hobbit-complete-teaching-sequence-12170346

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit. This lesson looks at describing settings. It teaches how to write an effective description using the senses, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language. Students are shown these in context of an extract and then have to identify them themselves within chapter 2 of The Hobbit. Students then read more of the chapter before planning and writing their own setting description on the woods the characters have entered. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson students will learn the difference between direct and indirect speech. They will identify this in a newspaper report and write their own version of a newspaper report using both versions of speech. This lesson is one of a block of lessons on journalistic writing. To view these please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12170817

In this lesson students will learn and review the acronym FREDEPTORS to help them remember the key persuasive devices used: • F- facts and statistics • R- repetition • E- exaggeration • D- description • E- emotive language • P- personal pronouns • T- the rule of three • O- opinions • R- rhetorical questions • S- summary They will then look at formality in persuasive writing and organise sentences accordingly. They will decide what to write persuasively about and be taught how we might brainstorm our ideas before writing using the planning frame provided. These lessons are ideal for any KS2 class and can be modified to suit KS3 also. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

Persuasive Advertising is a type of product promotion that aims to persuade a consumer for buying a particular product. In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for: F- facts and font R- repetition E- exaggeration D- description E- emotive language P- pictures T- the rule of three O- opinions R- rhetorical questions S- slogans They will look at a range of persuasive adverts and will be challenged to decide how they are made persuasive to their audience. They will then try to sell an item themselves using these techniques using the activity sheet provided.

“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter. In this lesson, students will write a diary entry from the perspective of a character. They will first look at the features of a diary and then look at WABOLLs (What a bad one looks like) and WAGOLLs (What a good one looks like). With the WAGOLL they will highlight it according to the features of a diary (example given). Then they will ‘hot seat’ different characters from the poem to better understand their perspectives before writing their own diary entry using the writing frame provided. This lesson is intended for KS2 but could be modified to suit KS3. This lesson is part of a sequence of 7 lessons on The Highwayman.

“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter. In this lesson, students will learn how figurative language creates imagery and will be shown examples of a simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. They will then look at figurative language examples used in the poem through the online activity link and will be tasked to identify examples and write what these examples do for the reader, Finally, they will write their own versions of part of the poem using their own figurative language examples. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will understand what different narrative genres there are and will be tasked to guess the genre from the extract given. They will then learn what the different parts to a story are and what are the seven basic plots they can choose from. Finally, they will develop their own ideas for a story from the questions posed. This is the first in a 5 lesson sequence on story writing. The following lessons are: Setting description Planning story structure Character description Writing and reviewing stories All of the lessons include an engaging presentation and the relevant resources. This lesson is appropriate for KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS1- KS3 students.

This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide! The powerpoint covers: Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun) Prepositions Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions Main & subordinate clauses Relative clauses Modal verbs Determiners Prefixes and suffixes Root words Subject-verb agreement Pronouns Active & passive voice Synonyms & antonyms Progressive tense Perfect tense Word classes Hyphens Colons, semi-colons and dashes Apostrophe for contraction and possession

This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing. Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt. Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based) Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This 3 week guided narrative unit of work follows the first six chapters of Pig Heart Boy and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The children work on their comprehension skills through whole class guided reading lessons based on what they have read so far. They learn to develop the characters through dialogue and description in structured lessons and through teacher modelling, they complete a shared write before independently writing the next chapter of the narrative. Lesson 1- ‘Have a go’ independently writing next chapter Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on model chapter Lesson 3- Exploring characters Lesson 4- Characterisation through dialogue Lesson 5- Characterisation through description Lesson 6- Planning shared write Lesson 7, 8 &9- Shared writing Lesson 10- Chapter 5 comprehension Lesson 11-15- Planning, writing and editing independent ‘Show what you know’ This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part. Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt. The lessons progress as follows: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This sequence of lessons is based on the Victorian period. The model story ‘The Fall’ tells the story of a young coal miner who is nearly involved in a mine disaster. The lessons cover how to write a story, links to the Victorians and SPAG coverage. The unit lessons follow this sequence: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson2- whole class guided reading on the story ‘The Fall’ Lesson 3- identifying suspense Lesson 4- Identifying adverbials and subordinate clauses Lesson 5- Planning own historical fiction story Lesson 6- whole class guided reading- Queen Victoria Lesson 7- Writing the opening Lesson 8- Writing the build up Lesson 9- Writing the problem Lesson 10- Writing the resolution and ending Lesson 11 & 12- Writing own historical fiction story Lesson 13-15- editing, improving and sharing stories These lessons are intended for use with Year 5 & 6 children, however they can be easily modified to suit KS3 and lower KS2. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This lesson focuses on two National Curriculum objectives: Check that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction In this lesson, students will watch a clip of recently discovered footage of Queen Victoria to help engage them for the text. They will then read the biography of Queen Victoria while the teacher questions them on elements of the text. Following this, they will complete comprehension questions on the text as well as inference and true/false questions. This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.

In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below: -Introduction to science fiction -Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text -Character development -Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type -Boxing up the model text -Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending -Children independently write their own stories Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more! This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, children look at poetic devices used- expanded noun phrases, onomatopoeia, alliteration and powerful verbs (examples are given). In pairs/ small groups, they then highlight the use of poetic devices in the poem on the printed sheet. As a class then discuss their use and the effect they have on the poem and the reader. The children then learn the poem off-by-heart considering rhythm, volume and expression. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receieve a FREE single resource of your choice!

Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent metre patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. In this lesson, Children learn what free verse poetry is and how poems are structured. They look at example free verse poetry and identify repetition, rhythm, stanzas and how imagery is created. They then have a go writing their own free verse poem as a cold task based on an image using the scaffold provided. This lesson is the first in a 6 lesson sequence covering two weeks of teaching. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/imagery-poetry-complete-teaching-sequence-12148213

This lesson focuses on two NC objectives: -Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, considering the impact on the reader -Read books that are structured in different ways and read for a range of purposes Pupils will listen to the eerie music and will consider the genre of the text they are about the read. They will consider how to build tension and suspense from the poster shown. They will then read the text as a class with questions posed throughout by the teacher, considering how tension and suspense is built. Following this, they will write their own opening, using a haunted house picture as their stimulus and the text as their WAGOLL. This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receieve a FREE single resource of your choice!

This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives: -Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence -Ask questions to improve their understanding -Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction Pupils will look at a short extract from the text and be asked to infer what the text is about. They will then read the text as a class with the teacher posing questions throughout. They will then complete comprehension questions on the text before ‘hot-seating’ the subject of the biography to better understand their life. This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.