3 weeks (12 lessons) of planning and resources for teaching Recount Texts to Year 2 or Year 3. All of the resources needed for the lesson plans are included. A PDF and an editable version of each file is also included. Week 1 Day 1 - Giving a verbal recount Week 1 Day 2 - Recount comprehension (on a recount of a holiday) Week 1 Day 3 - Sequencing a recount Week 1 Day 4 - Connectives as sentence openers Week 2 Day 1 - Writing the beginning of a recount Week 2 Day 2 - Time connectives Week 2 Day 3 - Writing the middle of a recount Week 2 Day 4 - Recount comprehension (on a recount of a school trip) Week 3 Day 1 - Writing the final part of a recount Week 3 Day 2 - First and third person Week 3 Day 3 & 4 - Writing an entire recount (The Save Teachers’ Sundays logo can be quickly and easily deleted from the editable files once purchased) Please note: the planning refers to VCOP. If you do not use VCOP, the planning will need some adjustments, but the resources can be used with any system or strategy for teaching writing. You can find more English lesson plans and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website.

Year 3/4 Adventure Stories planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1) Comprehension. Lesson 2) Understanding figurative language. Lesson 3) Describing settings to create mood. Lesson 4) Using its and it’s correctly. Lesson 5) Describing characters. Lesson 6) Comprehension. Lesson 7) Showing characters feelings’ through actions. Lesson 8) Writing a scene from a different view point. Lesson 9) Punctuating direct speech. Lesson 10) Planning an adventure story. Lesson 11) Comprehension. Lesson 12) Writing the opening, build up and problem of an adventure story. Lesson 13) Adverbs. Lesson 14) Writing the resolution and ending of an adventure story. Lesson 15) Writing an adventure story in one lesson. - 3 weeks of plans and resources. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more KS2 English lesson plans, worksheets and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website.

Year 3/4 Myths and legends planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1) Comprehension. Lesson 2) Researching myths and legends and creating a poster. Lesson 3) Presenting the poster to the class. Lesson 4) Irregular verbs. Lesson 5) Describing mythical characters. Lesson 6) Comprehension. Lesson 7) Describing mythical settings. Lesson 8 - 12) Writing an extended myth/legend. Lesson 13) Punctuating direct speech. Lesson 14) Comprehension. Lesson 15) Using ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly. Lesson 16) Writing a short myth about a God plotting the downfall of a hero. Lesson 17) Comprehension. Lesson 18) Writing a short myth about a slave becoming a gladiator. Lesson 19) Identifying word families. Lesson 20) Writing a short myth assessment. - 3 weeks of plans and resources. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more KS2 English lesson plans, worksheets and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website.

Complete Year 1 Phonics Planning and Resources for the Autumn term. For each lesson, there is: - 2 alternative lesson plans - a one-slide story to introduce the grapheme - a series of slides to introduce the grapheme by asking children to first listen for it and then to spot it in words - cards with images and words containing the grapheme - a 'circle the correct word' worksheet - a 'join the letter to make the word' worksheet - an 'unscramble the letters to make the word' worksheet - a word search - an activity on drawing a line between matching words and images There is a PDF and an editable Word / PowerPoint / Excel version of each file. You can find more Phonics lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers' Sundays website.

Complete Year 1 Phonics Planning and Resources for the Summer term. For each lesson, there is: - 2 alternative lesson plans - a one-slide story to introduce the grapheme - a series of slides to introduce the grapheme by asking children to first listen for it and then to spot it in words - cards with images and words containing the grapheme - a 'circle the correct word' worksheet - a 'join the letter to make the word' worksheet - an 'unscramble the letters to make the word' worksheet - a word search - an activity on drawing a line between matching words and images There is a PDF and an editable Word / PowerPoint / Excel version of each file. You can find more Phonics lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers' Sundays website.

Year 3/4 Fables (and Play Scripts) planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1) Summarise a fable. Lesson 2) Comprehension (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 3) Identifying and using pronouns. Lesson 4) Comprehension (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 5) Writing a fable. Lesson 6) Identifying morals in fables. Lesson 7) Using a dictionary Lesson 8) Trip to a theatre. Lesson 9) Performing play scripts. Lesson 10) Comprehension (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 11) Writing a review. Lesson 12) Comparing stories and play scripts. Lesson 13) Using conjunctions. Lesson 14) Comprehension (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 15) Re-writing narrative as play script. Lesson 16) Writing a fable as a play script. Lesson 17) Understanding compound words. Lesson 18) Comprehension (4 levels of difficulty) - 4 weeks of plans and resources. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more KS2 English lesson plans, worksheets and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website. Please note: This unit was updated on 3rd September 2022. If you bought it before this date, please download and use the updated files.

Complete Year 1 Phonics Planning and Resources for the Spring term. For each lesson, there is: - 2 alternative lesson plans - a one-slide story to introduce the grapheme - a series of slides to introduce the grapheme by asking children to first listen for it and then to spot it in words - cards with images and words containing the grapheme - a ‘circle the correct word’ worksheet - a ‘join the letter to make the word’ worksheet - an ‘unscramble the letters to make the word’ worksheet - a word search - an activity on drawing a line between matching words and images There is a PDF and an editable Word / PowerPoint / Excel version of each file. You can find more Phonics lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website.

Ywar 3/4 Persuasive Writing planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1) Rhetorical questions. Lesson 2 & 3) Creating a persuasive brochure. Lesson 4) Paragraphing. Lesson 5) Presenting persuasive brochures (speaking and listening) Lesson 6) Comprehension. Lesson 7) Writing persuasively about a school trip. Lesson 8) The difference between facts and opinions. Lesson 9) Identifying fronted adverbials. Lesson 10) Writing persuasively about why people should not be vegetarian. Lesson 11) Comprehension. Lesson 12) Writing persuasively about the Olympics. Lesson 13) Debating. Lesson 14) Using a range of punctuation. Lesson 15) Comprehension. Lesson 16) Writing persuasively about flying. Lesson 17) Writing persuasively about why our school is the best. Lesson 18) Possessive apostrophes. Lesson 19) Writing a short persuasive play. Lesson 20) Performing their plays. - 4 weeks of plans and resources. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more KS2 English lesson plans, worksheets and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website. Please note: This unit was updated on 3rd September 2022. If you bought it before this date, please download and use the updated files.

Stories with Familiar Settings planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1) Short story comprehension 1 (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 2) Inferring feelings. Lesson 3) Understanding to, two and too. Lesson 4) Knowing the difference between similes and metaphors. Lesson 5) Short story comprehension 2 (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 6) Short story comprehension 3 (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 7) Personification. Lesson 8) Describing objects. Lesson 9) Using their, there and they’re correctly. Lesson 10) Describing settings. Lesson 11) Short story comprehension 4 (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 12) Describing characters. Lesson 13) Short story comprehension 5 (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 14) Punctuating direct speech. Lessons 15 - 20) Writing a long story. Lesson 21) Synonyms for ‘said’. Lesson 22 - 26) Writing a short story. Lesson 27) Using adverbs. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more Year 3 English lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website.

Non-chronological reports planning and resources. The unit is aimed at Year 3/4, but is set at a challenging level, so it may be suitable for older children too. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lessons 1 - 3) Giving a weather forecast. Lesson 4) Create a glossary of technical terms related to weather. Lesson 5) Introduction to weather, climate and climate zones comprehension Lesson 6) Compare the different features of fiction and non-fiction. Lesson 7) Organise sentences into paragraphs. Lesson 8) Comprehension on the temperate climate zone (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 9) Note-taking lesson and writing frame. Lesson 10) Note taking on temperate climates. Lesson 11) Comprehension on the desert climate zone (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 12 - 13) Note taking on desert climates. Lesson 14) Comprehension on the polar climate zone (4 levels of difficulty) Lesson 15 - 16) Note taking on polar climates. Lesson 17) Comprehension on the tropical climate zone (4 levels of difficulty) Lessons 18 - 19) Note taking on tropical climates. Lesson 20) To identify and use fronted adverbials. Lesson 21) Using conjunctions. Lesson 22) Using commas in a list. Lesson 23) Identifying independent / main clauses and subordinate / dependent clauses. Lesson 24) Types of punctuation. Lesson 25) Possessive apostrophes. Lessons 26 - 31) Writing a climate report. Lesson 32) Using ‘a’ or ‘an’. There is a PDF of all of the files and an editable version of each file. You can find more Year 3 English lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays website. Note: This unit was updated on 3rd September 2022. Please download the most recent version of it if you bought it before this date. Please also use the lesson plans that are not in the ‘Combined’ file.

R-controlled vowels worksheets, lesson plans, activities, flash cards and other teaching resources: - air - ar - are and ear - ear - ir - oar and our - or - ore and oor - stressed er - ur For each consonant digraph there is the following files: - 2 alternative lesson plans - a one-slide story to introduce the grapheme - a series of slides to introduce the grapheme by asking children to first listen for it and then to spot it in words - cards with images and words containing the grapheme - a 'circle the correct word' worksheet - a 'join the letter to make the word' worksheet - an 'unscramble the letters to make the word' worksheet - a word search - an activity on drawing a line between matching words and images You can see what each of these files looks like at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ch-phonics-worksheets-activities-flash-cards-lesson-plans-and-other-teaching-resources-11357094 There is a PDF and an editable Microsoft Office version of each file (you just need to delete the logo watermark from the first page of each editable file) You can find more Phonics worksheets, activities, flash cards and lesson plans on the Save Teachers' Sundays website.