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 bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 1, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Writing Target Sheet Year 1 and 2 Pupils
Year 1 Writing Assessment Sheet
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 4, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheets
Tear 4 SMART Writing Targets
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy
Bright and colourful resource pack, designed to cover your needs for all your English units. Includes our 3 most popular word banks: adjectives, verbs and adverbs.
You can use on a display, in a writer’s toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary.
High quality word banks build confidence, improve writing, save time, enhance progress and aid differentiation.
Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these.
For a pack of KS2 grammar word searches click here to further engage your class!
An engaging primary assembly about the benefits of eating breakfast, covering many science objectives and includes follow up lesson activities.
The complete PowerPoint, with a video link, leads you through the assembly and the farm animals explain the many reasons why breakfast is good for you.
Includes a range of activities to inspire the children to want to eat breakfast, including choosing their favourite breakfast plate and discussing which meal is the best.
There are many discussion opportunities for children so they are involved in the assembly and accept responsibility for making a change, eating a better breakfast and doing well in school. Classic choices for breakfast are covered and tasty new ideas to try.
This assembly is ready-to-go, just have a glance through and print the resources if needed.
Teaching Points Covered about Breakfast:
What Farmhouse Breakfast Week is all about
Local UK farms involved
Why breakfast is so good for us
What we can eat for breakfast and why
How to make a balanced breakfast
How we can be organised in the morning
Differentiated Writing Opportunities
1. Sort the breakfast food cards under the food group headings
2. Use an eat-well plate to design a healthy balanced breakfast
3. Design a breakfast menu for the queen for a week
Use this as an assembly or a lesson, both will brighten up you and your pupil’s day whilst learning about cross curricular content.
Check out my popular Kindness Assembly
Three essential resources for improving your own and your school’s behaviour management:
1. Noise Meter - Keep the level of classroom chat at the most appropriate for outstanding learning. Use this bright and clear tool with the children to save your voice.
2. Behaviour Management CPD Pack - An inspiring CPD pack for refreshing and updating your behaviour management.
A 29 slide PowerPoint takes you through key techniques and strategies to update your teaching. Within this there are moments to discuss, reflect and evaluate your practice.
Alongside this a 10 page document explain in more detail these key aspects:
How to lay the foundations for outstanding behaviour
How to explain your expectations and consequences
The 4 behaviour management essentials
The 10 strategies you need in your toolkit
How to teach for engagement and excellent behaviour management
Walking around school and behaviour
Table Plans
Playground behaviour management
Practical subjects, rewards and tidying up a classroom
How to evaluate and change your practice
Also included is an optional anonymous survey you can give your class to find out what they think about your strengths and weaknesses - a daring but effective way to move your skills forward.
This would be helpful for any NQTs and other teachers looking to refresh and update their pedagogy.
You could use it for your own personal CPD or provide it as a whole school CPD.
3. Seating Plan Pack: A bright and clear seating plan useful for teachers and your students.
Five seating plans that work for different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year.
Two sets of colour coding:
1. Colour coded for ability
2. Colour coded for groups
Labelled for subjects. Lots of spare tables and chairs so can edit each plan. Start the term with a focused, organised and refreshed classroom.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more free and inexpensive resources at my shop Teachallenjoy
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of writing and performing a poem.
Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Engaging and relevant 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 children’s understanding of poetry and their desire to write it.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. Example poems provided some text and some video form.
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 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 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 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 -eable and -ible 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 bright and effective PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons.
All words follow the pattern adding suffixes onto fer 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 - Download these 3 clear spelling lessons to 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 bright and cheerful PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and effective spelling lessons.
All words are common mistakes made by children higher up the school (they’re, their, there, with, who, which, what, where, were, we’re). Useful to refresh these words which they use every day.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 memorable 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 bright and engaging PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons linked to a popular KS2 topic.
All words link to the topic of Fair trade and being aware of global issues. Teach pupils these key words and phrases to deepen their understanding of this important international subject.
Most applicable for KS2.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective lessons 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.
A bright and visual PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons for year 5 and 6 pupils.
All words follow the rule of i before e except after c (with some exceptions) 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 effective and time saving 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.
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of creating images. 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 week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of scanning.
Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Engaging and relevant 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 texts provided on powerpoint, a range of interesting topics and styles with clear instructions throughout.
All reviews welcome.
A week of KS2 reading lessons on the comprehension skill of creating images. Includes a plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading.
Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for both lessons.
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 texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles.
All reviews welcome.
A complete Year 1 grammar pack including an A4 grammar glossary, grammar memory cards, grammar flash cards and an engaging PowerPoint which introduces these technical terms and gives children the opportunity to practice finding each one.
A colourful and useful resource designed to increase your pupil’s progress when learning English with the New Curriculum. Enhance the confidence of every child, parent, TA and Teacher with these clear and up-to-date glossaries.
All the technical vocabulary used in the new curriculum explained for children from year 1. Every word class and sentence type explained with clear helpful examples.
Useful to have as a large display or as a laminated mat for the tables. Very useful stuck in English or SPAG books to encourage independence, revision and confidence during lessons.
Can also be stuck in homework books to support children with explaining these new technical terms to parents and carers at home.
All reviews welcome.
Check out these other popular resources:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
Useful KS1 target sheets.
Can be used with the children stuck in their English books or kept in a teacher’s file.
Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target.
Can show recognition of target achieved in work with a sticker/star/symbol.
Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 1 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 2 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 2 Reading Assessment 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 -ant, -nce or -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
