Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy Resources File Horror stories have common features, such as: – a setting that is uncomfortable, creepy or scary. Often these are unusual places; – use of darkness and cold to unsettle the reader; – use descriptive words to create an atmosphere – appealing to all the reader’s senses; – create suspense through building up tension and sudden action; – suspense is built through long compound sentences and action is sudden and ‘jumpy’ conveyed through short, dramatic sentences; – dramatic endings and use of cliffhangers. - there will usually be a sinister, evil villain There is often an element of guesswork through clues given in the text. Who is bad – or carried out an evil deed – can be hidden and concludes with a moment of revelation; – include simplistic themes of right and wrong, and good over evil. This sheet is designed to prompt discussions on the features of a specific genre. Leave a review

Links to the objective: Add several numbers (e.g.four or five single digits,or multiples of 10 such as 40 + 50 + 80). Explain methods and reasoning,orally and in writing. • Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise and explain patterns and relationships,generalise and predict. • Suggest extensions asking ‘What if…?’ • Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers or shapes by finding examples that satisfy it. • Explain a generalised relationship (formula) in words. Worksheet: Playing Cards with Answers. Leave a review

Get the full unit via our website: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-explanation-5-lesson-unit-life-cycles-12330576 Includes Lesson plan and Worksheets WALT • Read and follow a text about the life cycle of a plant. • Know what a glossary is. This long lesson links to the topic of plants and how they grow by introducing the children to a variety of seeds. It may be preferable to spread the lesson over two sessions, using the Glossary activities on the second day. Children will complete an investigative study, which will form the basis upon which they will learn how to read and compose explanatory texts. Leave a review

Aim To help children understand the damage that can be caused to their bodies by eating too much of the wrong food types. Lesson length: 30 minutes Learning outcomes Children should be taught: • to talk and write about their opinions, and explain their views, on issues that affect themselves and society; • what makes a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise and healthy eating … ; • to make informed choices (for example, about issues affecting their health and well-being). All resources and lesson plan included Leave a review

The big picture In every gurdwara there is a langar, a free kitchen/dining hall where anyone of any gender, religion or colour can come and share a meal. The provision of the langar is part of the Sikh belief that everyone is of equal value and worth. This lesson also demonstrates the Sikh belief in equality. Learning objective Learning about • To explain how the water carrier’s beliefs led him to act as he did despite influence from other people. Learning from • To learn that standing up for your beliefs and doing what you think is right can be challenging. All resources included

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 6: Pirates links to Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Mathematics DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 5 Animals includes links to Science, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and DT . DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.

A worksheet to run alongside any publication of Beowulf. Prompts children to look at the meaning of the words found in the text. Leave a review

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: Boats through History The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

Each unit contains Activity ideas packed with facts, suggestions for different abilities and for working both in and out of the classroom, one Activity sheet, two Visual resources and a photocopiable Factsheet. Supporting the units are two Timelines, a World War I Glossary and two Maps of Europe showing how the geographical landscape and country boundaries changed as a result of the war. It provides an example of creative and effective cross-curricular planning, taking a key historical event as a starting point for meaningful, subject-focused activities. All the activities and resources included are matched to the requirements of the NEW Primary Curriculum (implemented September 2014) and are designed to be flexible, and used to follow ideas for English and Foreign Languages Years 5 & 6 so that teachers can choose to use them in their entirety, as a complete project framework, or as a dip-in resource bank of ideas. There are 6 units. This is unit 1- Other units are available. Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 6 Titanic includes links to History, Art, DT, Writing and Reading, DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 2 Inventors includes links to Science, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and History. All resources included. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review

Get all five sheets from our TES shop Encourage your child’s natural curiosity with this River Investigation. Links to measure in Maths Taken from the KS2 Geography Resources File. Available in PDF Leave a review.

As the story has a repetitive structure, it should be accessible to children who are secure at Letters and Sounds Phase 4 and familiar with some aspects of Phase 5. The following vowel digraphs and trigraphs are included and could be revisited as part of your phonics sessions: Phase 3: ‘oa’, ‘ai’, ‘oo’, ‘ur’, ‘ar’, ‘er’, ‘igh’, ‘air’ Phase 5: ‘a-e’, ‘ay’, ‘ie’, ‘i-e’, ‘ea’, ‘ou’ Taken from Make Phonics Fun: Summer. For each topic covered there are two pages of practical teacher’s notes offering activity ideas to help you make the best use of the resources and texts provided. Activities are clearly signposted to indicate whether they are most suitable for shared, guided or independent reading sessions and, where relevant, opportunities for writing and for developing speaking and listening skills are also highlighted. The book makes frequent references to the phases of Letters and Sounds. Each topic within Make Phonics Fun is supported by a range of lively and appealing pupil texts – including original stories, fascinating non-fiction and quality poetry. There are two photocopiable activity sheets for each topic, providing a range of fun things to do – from reading games which involve listening for specific phonemes, to sequencing activities and track games providing sounding out and blending practice At the heart of each topic within this book is a carefully selected list of 40 real and pseudo words (20 words for Section 1 and 20 words for Section 2), building a word bank, from topic to topic and term to term, that will cover the broad range of grapheme-phoneme correspondences that the children should be familiar with by the time they approach the end of Year 1 Leave a review

The Three Billy Goats Gruff- one lesson with resources (includes text) WALT • Say what we think about why characters in stories do the things they do. • Understand the characters’ feelings. • Use adjectives which describe feelings. Activity: • Shared reading of the text. • Pairs of children respond to the story: Was it right to trick the troll? How did the troll feel? • Take feedback and scribe and categorise responses. • List troll’s feelings and make a list of feeling adjectives. • To develop oral skills. • To write lists with adjectives. Leave a review

Taken from our EYFS/KS1 PSHE Resources File LO: To help children understand that their choices have different consequences. Learning outcomes: To share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views. To recognise choices they make To take part in discussion with one other person or as a whole class To understand that choices have consequences Inclues lesson plan and resources Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. Day 3 Water includes links to Science, Art, English and Geography DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

Learning Objective: Estimate angles, and use a protractor to measure and draw them, on their own and in shapes; calculate angles in a triangle or around a point. Great homework activity/ class sheet. Like this resource? Why not grab the entire bundle from our TES shop? Leave a review

Lesson Plan: How to identify different types of buildings Learning objectives Children should learn: • that a locality includes a range of types of building; • about the function or significance of some buildings in their own locality; • how to annotate maps. Success criteria Children can: • annotate a simple route map Taken from LCP’s KS1 Geography Resource File

An activity to encourage children to think and collect alternative words for imperative verbs of direction. Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Leave a review