5 complete English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons, found on the Literacy Shed. Inlcudes 5 PowerPoints, paired and group work, modelled texts, new vocabulary, editing activities, complete inputs, starters and plenaries and differentiation. Higher order questioning probes deep into this interesting short movie inspiring descriptive writing and progress of writing skills. Engaging and complete Powerpoints provide many opportunities for productive paired, individual and group work. A range of modelled texts are provided so children can magpie new vocabulary whilst developing their editing, writing and publishing techniques. Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points: relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, editing and improving language, parenthesis, creating an atmosphere, showing change within characters, describing settings, building suspense, summarising, identifying word classes and complex sentences. Starters include: spellings, synonyms, identifying verbs and adverbs, relative clauses and handwriting. Lesson 1 - Write a review of the clip responding to an email sent to the class. Lesson 2 - How to write about playing an instrument on your own - description and atmosphere. Lesson 3 - How to write about memories in stories, building suspense. Lesson 4 - Showing change in story characters. Lesson 5 - Planning your own memory story. All resources, a detailed plan and 5 PowerPoints are included, just download, print a few documents and your week of English lessons are ready to go. There are writing frames to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability. All reviews welcome. You can also download this as part of a bundle to save money: 2 Weeks of Planning Resources PowerPoints and a Display for The Piano Visit My Shop to find all the planning, Powerpoints and resources that you need to survive a teaching life.

A set of 10 original poems written for children about India, describing its culture, landscape, physical and human features. Perfect for a KS2 geography topic on India. All the poems are written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about this fascinating country whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. India Geography Topic Each poem could spark a whole lesson enabling children to learn, discuss and write about the culture of India. They cover these geographical aspects of India: Indian culture Mumbai Western Ghats Thar dessert Taj Mahal Goa Beaches Himalayas Kerala River Ganges Collection of Poems These poems are written to describe India whilst modeling essential writing skills such as: alliteration, rhyming, rhythm, personification and similes. Presented as word documents and all together on one PowerPoint with some higher-order questions to consider. This pack includes 10 poems using these different styles: Kennings Haiku Diamente Repeated starting words Kyrielle Shape Poem All the poems are written by me and all images used are copyright free. All reviews welcome. You can find many more engaging and useful resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy You might also be interested in my Arctic Poem collection

An engaging set of 5 lessons teaching KS2 children how to recommend books. Save time by using this complete PPT, plan and all the necessary resources to inspire your readers this week. Enhance vocabulary, engage children and enjoy teaching. Every lesson includes a sparky starter, meaty main activity and personalised plenary. Questions prompt higher order thinking and activities are designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. Differentiated resources and activities for two ability groups. Written for year 4 or 5 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. All reviews welcome.

An engaging lesson pack with a plan, PowerPoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of comparing. Includes starters, main activities, plenaries, texts, worksheets and guided teaching points. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one, focusing on short, high quality texts. All reviews welcome.

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound writing targets in year 2. Useful for teachers when writing targets so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -ent, -ence, -ential, -ency endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of connecting. Engaging starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All reviews welcome.

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Includes inputs, resources and dictation. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -ance/y, -ation, -ance, -ant, -antial endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

Year 6 writing objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar. Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress. You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum: Year 6 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 6 SMART Writing Targets Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy

A detailed lesson teaching children how to use who, whose and which relative clauses. Set in the context of magical stories it covers Scandinavian folklore dwarves - cross curricular links to Geography- with information about the history of these magical creatures. Slides explain how to to use relative clauses and model examples of who, whose and which. The children have a chance to have a go and add some into sentences before beginning their work. Engaging starter focusing on the word class: nouns. Differentiated main activity for two ability levels. Modelled examples of how the children could start the main activity and resources to scaffold them achieving the success criteria. A detailed lesson plan included. All reviews welcome.

A target sheet for a year 3 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 3 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

Inspire your school with an assembly designed for Book Day on a 26 slide PowerPoint. Includes higher order questions, interactive activities, inspiring video link, many classic books, author quotes, follow up activities and much more. Covers: What is Book Day? What famous people like to read? Video What can we read? Where can we read? When is reading useful? Who is the funniest author? Vote Match the author to the book Top Tips for choosing a new book What book has this as the opening line? Guessing game Favourite Characters - Optional Fashion Show Looking Forward Written for KS2. This assembly takes about 20 minutes to complete. Follow the engaging and colourful PowerPoint for a ready-to-go assembly. Animations, images, video and more will inspire every child to keep reading. Highlights: Interactive Inspiring Involving Use the range of activities to structure the assembly and share some high quality books that are recommended for children of KS2. Could also be used as a lesson, as it includes 3 differentiated writing tasks: Draw and describe your favourite character Write a book review of your favourite book Use 3 favourite characters to write a new story Printable templates included. Enjoy and celebrate this important day. Check out my other popular assemblies on special occasions: World Poetry Day National Speech and Debate Day National Storytelling Week

A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons for years 5 and 6. All words follow the pattern of using the letter string ‘ough’ from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 animated and effective spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in a fun and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A bright and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6. All words have the -able/y -ible/y endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of 5 engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -able, -ably and -ation endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

A clear and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of effective spelling lessons. All words are linked to WW2, a useful way to deepen the pupil’s understanding of important words and phrases from this topic. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 Thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

An engaging and memorable PowerPoint leading you through a week of fun and active spelling lessons for years 5 and 6. All words follow the pattern of containing silent letters from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Clearly explains the word class of each spelling, the spelling patterns, all the rules and talks through the definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in a successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. Check out my whole term’s stash of spelling lessons: Term 1 Stash Term 2 Delight Term 3 Bonanza Term 4 Cool Collection Term 5 Time Saving Special Term 6 Relax and Enjoy Summer