An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A festive and easy to teach poetry week on ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Includes 5 engaging PowerPoints leading you through 5 complete lessons, differentiated lesson resources and a detailed plan.
An excellent week of English lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes.
The original and useuful resources make teaching enjoyable and easy. The video links in the PowerPoint inspire poetry writing and performance.
Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups.
Each lesson contains a success criteria.
Higher level thinking challenges are provided.
Grammar starters cover handwriting, a or an, word classes, rhyming words and spellings.
A lovely, tried and tested week of learning about narrative poetry, rhyming couplets, poetry format and syllables.
Includes a range of activities and differentiated tasks. Children will compare and evaluate poems, identify features and then write their own narrative poem using the structure of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with ideas from ‘The Snowman’.
Detailed weekly plan and all resources included.
All reviews welcome.
A matching activity teaching the vocabulary from the poem 'Twas The Night Before Christmas. Includes a teaching PowerPoint with 18 slides, 24 word and picture cards, 2 extension activities and all the answers.
Clear, colourful pictures and a large school-friendly font so the children can become confident with the old fashioned language.
Simply print the word cards and picture cards and hand out. The children can cut them out, as they are already jumbled up. Answer sheets are included as well.
Each page has 4 words and 4 images, so one group could work on them together.
Over 300 English report comments statements so you can quickly complete your primary English report comments. Select from this extensive bank to create individual differentiated paragraphs. Simply choose the right comment to suit each child, one from each of the 11 sections. There are enough comments to create personalised paragraphs of comments for a whole class of 30. Created with a large variety of phrases, openings and language so you can describe each pupil in a precise, eloquent and efficient way.
High Quality
English report comments written for KS2 and easily adaptable for KS1. They are perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 as they cover:
listening
speaking
reading
reading targets
word work
story writing
different genres
grammar and punctuation
spelling and handwriting
editing
writing targets
Differentiated
There are four different ability groups included with at least 80 comments in each, so a minimum of 320 different statements for your reports.
Easy to Use
They are all available in girl and boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace to insert names. All year groups are shown with 3 dots so you can replace them quickly as well.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
Also…
Check out these other handy end of year resources:
General Report Comments
Maths Report Comments
Geography Report Comments
A colourful and complete word bank for KS2 children studying ‘The Highwayman’ poem by Alfred Noyes. Includes Title, poem features and examples, key vocabulary, images, main characters and themes of the poem.
All that your pupils need to know on one sheet of paper. Can be used in writer’s toolkits, on displays, in books and for support groups printed as A3.
Ensure the children are familiar and confident with the features, characters, themes and vocabulary of the poem.
Prevent any spelling mistakes with the clear vocabulary list.
Use within an English unit on The Highwayman and save time.
Check out other popular KS2 writing resources:
Highwayman Display
Adjective Word Bank
A large eye-catching display for a KS2 English unit on 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes. Includes titles, questions, text extracts, interactive activities, vocabulary, images, text features and examples.
Designed to engage and interest your pupils, this display brings this glorious narrative to life. Emotive stills and haunting images, alongside challenging questions and engaging explanations.
Includes:
- 2 Titles
- The poem broken down into lines and images this could also be used for a sequencing or analysis activity.
- 12 higher level thinking questions
- 2 interactive reasoning questions to answer on the display
- 24 key words (including themes of the poem)
- 8 important features of the poem
- 8 example cards of each poetry feature
- 3 interactive activities (matching, sorting, ordering)
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 English resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in my:
Modal Verbs Display
Persuasive Writing Display
The Piano Display
A week of detailed lessons on writing recounts for KS2, PPT, Plan and resources all included. Differentiated activities, quick and effective starters and plenaries and lots more…
Includes:
Differentiation provided for three groups - two challenges provided for every lesson
Engaging starters and plenaries designed to grab your pupil’s attention
Modelled texts provided highlighted to show how you construct paragraphs in recounts
Word banks provided to support and extend pupils
Editing skills developed
Peer and self assessment opportunities
Animated and clear PPT
Expand your pupil’s vocabulary and enhance their writing techniques whilst writing about personal events.
Engaging activities, opportunities for individual, paired and group work. Written for year 5 but relevant for year 6 and easily adaptable for years 3 and 4.
All reviews welcome.
To go with this unit download my Features of a Recount Display
10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed.
Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work.
Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate).
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,
complex sentences.
Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent).
The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it.
Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words.
Many more teaching points covered:
types of sentence openers,
how to start a story,
building suspense,
writing effective phrases to show change,
using synonyms
using a thesaurus
peer assessment
editing punctuation
editing for sense
editing to improve
Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum.
There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
Ability groups in plan:
Green - Low ability
Yellow - Mid/low ability
Blue - Mid ability
Red - High ability.
All reviews welcome.
All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included.
Display includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
A complete 2 week English planning pack for KS2. Download engaging PowerPoints leading you through each of the 10 lessons, differentiated resources and 2 detailed weekly plans.
Enjoy teaching these full lessons which are ready to pick up and go. Each containing engaging starters, short text extracts, paired and group discussion, word banks, challenges and quick and easy plenaries.
Improve your pupil’s writing whilst enjoying this festive season. Read them the Nisse story, a Scandinavian Christmas folk tale and watch as they are inspired to write about Christmas.
Use the peer and self assessments so your marking is quick and effortless. Have time for family this Christmas.
All reviews are welcome.
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All you need for a week of reading lessons on summarising. Includes a detailed plan of the week, engaging teach-ready PowerPoint and all the necessary resources for UKS2. The animated 85 slide summarising reading Powerpoint takes you effortlessly through the week of 5 lessons.
Questions designed to develop higher order thinking skills and all activities focused on improving comprehension skills whilst enhancing reading assessment results.
Each day there are relevant and enjoyable starters, main activities and plenaries. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles, fiction and non-fiction.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
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Whole Term of Reading Lessons Holiday Saver Bundle
Whole Term of Reading Lessons Teacher Survival Bundle
All you need to write your English, Maths, Science and General comments for your primary reports. Over 1400 different high quality differentiated comments to save you time.
Save time and energy this year when writing your primary KS2 reports. Use these extensive report banks to quickly whip up a class full of personalised English, maths, science and general comment paragraphs.
Simply copy and paste a selection of thoughtful comments to suit each child, choosing from each large subject bank. Speedily create fluent paragraphs describing the whole child.
Each subject is divided into sections, in total there are enough sentences to create different paragraphs for every child in your class. All appropriate and relevant to your pupils.
Ideal for years 3,4,5 and 6, easily adaptable for KS1.
Impress your pupils, your parents and your head teacher with articulate and positive comments for these subjects. Show your pupils and their families you do know them well by choosing comments to suit each child. End the year knowing you’ve valued and helped each pupil in your class, whilst saving time for the wellbeing of yourself outside of school.
You can also find lots of other handy end of year resources at my shop.
Why not use my SMART targets to choose next steps for your pupils?
Or use my Assessment Guidance to speed up your end of year data decisions.
An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more.
Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance.
Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas.
Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion.
All reviews welcome.
A set of 19 Arctic poems written for children to understand, enjoy and learn from. Perfect for teaching a topic on the Arctic. All written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about the Arctic whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
The poems are descriptive whilst using facts to educate and inspire.
Each poem could spark a whole lesson, they start discussions on important geographical issues about the Arctic:
What is the Arctic? What is it like there?
Global warming,
The future of the Sami people,
Understanding Inuit life,
Living with the polar night,
Taking responsibility for our world
Ice burgs
Glaciers
The Inuit Language
Arctic animals
Winter
Each poem comes with a simple explanation of its essential components. The children could use these as a scaffold before going on to write their own poem about the Arctic, or respond in a different way with a letter/poster/story/newspaper article etc.
A range of engaging but easy to imitate poetry styles are used:
Cinquains
Didactic Poems
Etherees
Free Verse
Ghazal Poems
Haikus
All the poems are written by me and the images are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my poems about India
An eye-catching reading corner display for years 5 and 6, complete with titles, bunting, images, interactive elements, vocabulary, skills, book covers and extra free resources. Perfect for display boards, book shelves, ceiling mobiles and libraries.
A giant space themed reading display and reading resource pack to promote the love of reading. Glitter text, classic books and move-able elements, this display will save you time.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors. It includes the year 5/6 reading learning objectives, so they’re accessible to everyone.
All the year 5 & 6 reading statements are simplified to child speak. This helps everyone to feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. Adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could also use the reading statements on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Whole package includes:
A large title
Year 5 and 6 New Curriculum reading Skills in bubbles
3 large space images
6 interactive doors to open to see new books
12 Reading Questions - linked to the curriculum
12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading
16 Key Reading Vocabulary - cards to complete your display
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
All reviews welcome.
You might be interested in my other popular reading resources for yr 5/6:
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
Whole Term Yr 5/6 Reading Lessons
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a bright and colourful, easy to use way.
All the year 2 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Also included:
12 Bunting Triangles - with characters and relevant quotes from well known children’s books
A large welcome title
All the year 2 New Curriculum reading statements in speech bubbles from colourful animals
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
All reviews welcome.
A visual and easy to use PowerPoint leading you through a week of spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in the dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words are homophones 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.
You might also be interested in my other year 5/6 spelling lessons on homophones:
Guessed/guest, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, ate/eight
Draft/draught, farther/father, heard/herd, led/lead, aren’t/aunt
Bridal/bridle, cereal/serial, compliment/complement, descent/dissent, desert/dessert
Aisle/isle, aloud/allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent
You can find many more high quality resources made by an English specialist here: Teachallenjoy
A complete assembly on storytelling, including a 24 slide PowerPoint, video links, interactive questions, extension tasks, reflection time and song to finish.
Use as an inspiring start to National Storytelling Week, 29th January - 4th February 2024.
Cover:
What is a story?
What types of story are there?
How is storytelling different to reading a story?
Where do stories come from?
Storytelling - The Frog Prince
What do all stories have?
Plot
Characters
Setting
Can you copy stories?
Reflection
Song
Video links provided for children to go back into class and become familiar with a classic fairy tale or story and retell it, before adapting it to make it their own.
Highlights:
Ready-to-go
Perfect for KS2 primary age
Colourful, engaging, animated
Inclusive
Perfect for all learning styles
After the reflection time where children can connect to themselves and discover what stories mean to them, there is a story song (The Lion Inside) for children to watch and listen to as they quietly leave the assembly.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other assemblies on special occasions, linked to English:
Book Day
World Poetry Day
National Speech and Debate Day
A complete display pack for a KS2 unit on The Piano. Includes title, review of the movie, images, key vocabulary, features, interactive activities, modelled texts and higher level thinking questions.
An enticing KS2 display for an English unit studying ‘The Piano’ a short movie clip by Aidan Gibbons, found on literacy shed.
Excite your pupils about learning from this evocative clip with effective images, modelled texts and thoughtful questions.
Enhance your pupils writing, expand their vocabulary and improve their memory of this clip using this brilliant display.
Includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
All ready to download, print and whip up onto your display board so you have more time to do the many other jobs of teaching and living.
Click here to use alongside 5 English lessons planning, resources and PowerPoint for The Piano
All reviews welcome.
Useful to teach alongside a WW2 topic or on its own.
A complete bank of discussion text sentence openers. Includes a variety of words grouped into useful types. All that you need for expanding vocabulary and heightening progress during a discussion text unit.
Types of openers included:
Openers for additional points of view
Openers for opposing points of view
Openers for discussing opinions
Generalisation openers
Openers referring to time
A variety of extra openers
They are bright and colourful so would be perfect for a display, toolkit or word bank.
Print as either PowerPoint slides or aA4 format.
Check out my popular lesson packs on discussion texts:
Week 1 Explore and Learn About Discussion Texts
Week 2 Write Your Own Discussion Text
All the spelling words and rules that year 5 and 6 need to know. Available in different formats for all of your spelling needs. Designed to save time, enhance progress and increase pupil independence.
Formats:
- Colour year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Black and white year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Year 5/6 spelling word bank with tick boxes
- Teaching PowerPoint with 11 slides
These sheets could be used as an teaching tool, assessment tool, homework support or stuck into books to support writing.
All reviews welcome.
For daily lessons on how to teach these rules follow this link:
Teachallenjoy
Here you will find year 5/6 spelling lessons for the whole year:
Term 1 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 2 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 3 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 4 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 5 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 6 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Relevant auditing questions to ask children when monitoring English as a subject leader. Written for primary school children, easily adaptable for secondary.
Review your subject so that if Ofsted arrive you can be confident in your knowledge of where the children are at, what they understand, what they can do and are likely to say in a discussion.
Choose from over 60 deep and meaningful questions to ignite interesting discussions with your pupils.
Covers key areas which are currently prominent in education, such as:
- key texts,
- independent learning skills,
- self and peer assessment,
- computing skills,
- teacher support,
- learning dialogue,
- drafting,
- editing and publishing skills,
- challenge,
- higher level thinking,
- marking styles,
- peer evaluation,
- targets,
- dictionaries,
- thesaurus,
- teacher feedback,
- evidence of improving ability
All of these topics are addressed within these main areas:
- General Lessons,
- Assessment,
- Reading,
- Exercise Books,
- SPAG,
- Wellbeing.
These questions could be adapted to other subjects easily.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful English Leader resources and tools at my shop: Teachallenjoy
To keep up to date with the new English curriculum 2017 use these handy tools for the whole school below:
- Writing Assessment Guidance
- Speaking and Listening Self, Peer and Teacher Assessments
- Guided Reading and Comprehension Question Openers
- SMART Writing Targets
