A fantastic Great Fire of London Guided Reading Information Text Unit. This unit supports comprehension of children working at the expected level as well as greater depth in year 2. Children will have the opportunity to read short extracts and answer retrieval, looking and inference questions. They are also required to summarize the text in their own words. More able readers are expected to read at greater length - which are leaflet style texts and separate questions. Following how the fire started, the children learn more about the Duke (future King Charles II) and learn about his bravery to help out in the fire. Finally they learn about the Monument to understand how we remember historical events from the past. They also follow through to finding out about a famous person from the past - Sir Christopher Wren (who designed many churches and buildings to help re-build the fire). This is a superb unit that can be used alongside the science planning for GFOL and inquire about how to make the best secret ink for Samuel Pepys to write a message to King Charles. See the shop for resources and science Materials topic. It is highly recommended (albeit optional) to visit St Paul’s Cathedral or the Monument if you are a London based school. Suitable to evidence TAF for reading in year 2 and the new English curriculum. Enjoy and I hope you find it useful.

This is a fantastic Toolkit with all the Year 2 grammar features to achieve expected in writing. It is designed to be used as a child friendly writing Toolkit. It can also be used as a display around the class on washing lines or working walls. .

A set of handwriting and presentation rules in different styles. There are a set of rules outlined for children to support them with developing neat presentation and move on gradually to cursive handwriting. This is suitable from EYFS to end of KS1 and possibly even year 3 to ensure consistency and progression. There is a selection of handwriting fonts used, depending on if you use a precursive style or not, there should be something in here to suit the requirements of your school. The rules should be introduced early so that all the expectations are made clear. A reminder of application of these skills in English writing books is also useful on an ongoing basis to get well presented work. Must be displayed clearly around the classroom and ideally the rules should be written and practiced into books. This has been a very useful tool in a year 2 classroom to get children to use cursive writing most of the time and consistently.

Writing with a voice, with audience in mind and for a purpose is the most crucial change in the new English framework. See the document to know how to teach the difference between audience and purpose. Teachers have been given examples from the year 2 units of work in this document. It explains how to do a Tweak it Task to show the purpose of writing can change from entertainment, to inform, or to instruct. For example, here is a narrative of an adventure story- now change it to instructions on how to go on an adventure - (the purpose here has changed - and this will effect word choices, tone, structure of writing). Hope you find it useful to explain to the younger ones. Suitable class teachers and English Leaders for CPD writing across the school although examples given are from year 2.

Year 2 ITAF statement- to be able to partition in different ways including 43 = 4 tens and 3 ones 43 = 3 tens and 13 ones (now continue the pattern). There are several slides demonstrating how to do this pictorially and practically with resources. Children can then move on to demonstrating how to do this using a systematic written approach. Useful for the new year 2 maths curriculum. Greater depth children are challenged to show other patterns such as the one below. 54 - 4 = 50 64 - 14 = 50 74 - 24 = 50 84 - 34 = 50 Children working at greater depth have additional True or False reasoning questions e.g. Adam thinks 2 tens and 13 ones is greater than 3 tens and 3 ones. Is he right? Explain your answer.

This resource is suitable for a KS1 and lower KS2 Friendship assembly. It can also be used to introduce friendship as part of PSHCE lesson or P4C. There are several poems about friendship as well as a magic gingerbread man trick with instructions to show the children. This activity always gets a big round of applause as the teacher is elevated to a magical performer. Most suitable to show how we can be friends with each other despite our skin colour, size, ethnicity and language barriers.

Th is the Tear Thief Preview - A GD reading resource A Guided Reading resource for whole class teaching. Suitable for year 2, greater depth and end of KS1 moderation evidence. Pupils have to answer VIPER style questions related to the text. Please see the shop for the complete Tear Thief guided reading resource, with key questions and resources. There is a carousel guided reading planning as well as whole class approach included. Easily adaptable to the needs of your pupils and your planning process.

Non-fiction labels and captions or narrative text - familiar settings.Retell and sequence. Describe the main character Sam or Jeremy. Write a list of rules for the bully Jeremy to follow. Write a letter to Sam advising him how to behave if someone is mis treating you or bullying you inside school, in the playground, or out of school. Link the story to Anti bullying week. Make a rosette from Jeremy to Sam as a good will gesture. The main characters (jeremy, sam, old lady, park keeper) can be made into stick puppets to role play the story successfully.

Year 2 working at greater depth and mastery level. This challenge is suitable for HAPS to challenge them to record in tables( by creating their own) and think about how to work systematically. It challenges them to begin looking for patterns and write a simple formula to estimate the 10th number. This is an excellent, engaging and fun way to see children working at greater depth level and how they apply their skill of reasoning. The challenge asks children to make a straw house and then estimate how many are needed for a street of 10. They are extended to look at rockets and create their own straw challenge for others to complete. Great team building exercise. Can also be used with children working within the expected level if, practical straws are provided alongside a table template.

Changing Materials by heating is an exciting investigation for children to learn about other materials - not just metal, plastic, wood, rubber. They understand that heating makes materials change shape, colour, size. They use their observation skills and predict what changes will happen to chocolate, butter and kernel seeds. This bundle has differentiated recording to allow for observation over time skills. Children can interpret data and then think about follow up questions like what will happen if we now let the heated materials cool down. Suitable for the new science curriculum in year 2.

There are differentiated worksheets on Fractions from working within to Mastery level in maths as well as a powerpoint with success criteria and word problems. There is opportunity for children to practice mental maths with fractions and then move onto word problems. For gifted children in maths, there is opportunity to work on 2 step problems. These activities have been used in a year 2 class to teach Maths for the new curriculum 2016.

Traditional Story with a twist Front Cover Developing vocabulary in year 2 with the following grammar features; synonyms homophones idioms thoughts, feelings, speech and dialogue Exemplar text with a traditional story (LRRH), but re-written with a twist. This resources is to be used to encourage development of language using a variety of games, such as imitation, role play, over the fence etc. See the complete resources available in the shop. Follow the author for more updates on instagram @thisisrehanafazil

Charlie Super hero Underpants is a complete bundle and unit of work with planning and differentiated resources. This is an excellent story for reluctant boy writers. You will find three examples of Exemplar text that can be used as a model piece of writing for students to learn in the imitation stage. The newspaper recounts are set in the context of the story as well as other examples, related to sports day and a made up news event about a fox invading sports day. The children will be able to design their own superhero, write recounts or news, and also be able to make inventions linked to whatever is happening in school or around the world. Newspaper templates have been provided. Great for meeting new English curriculum expectations - wriitng for different purposes.

Adding and subtracting on a number line including finding the difference. An excellent array of worksheets differentiated according to structured numberline in 5’s 10’s or in 1’s. Can be easily edited to move on to different scales for year 2 e.g. jumping in steps of 3s , 4s or 10s. Children can start from practical resources using bead strings and number lines and then move on to pictorial and abstract form when ready. Very good for EAL learners and SEN learners.

An excellent way of investigating science practically. children will undertake a comparative test to find out which material is the best to make Max dry. Linked to the Where the wild things are story. A useful science starter is included to make children think about the versatility of materials before they engage in an independent investigation to develop enquiry skills. Suitable for the new year 2 curriculum 2014.

This is a bundle resource designed to be made into a practical Velcro tape folder. Each page has missing boxes that children have to choose the answer which is on the adjacent page. Each page will need to be laminated with Velcro attached to the answers so that children can manipulate the resource practically. It is useful as a pre-teach tool, revision guide or as an early morning work folder. The resource is designed to be an aid to guide independence in maths once the activity has been previously taught in class. There are opportunities for children to match properties of shape, recognise numbers in order, place value recognition, o’clock and half past times, sequencing number, doubles, counting in steps of 2,5,10, arrays with repeated addition, comparing numbers, part- part -whole, bonds to 10, and adding money. All the working towards objectives for year 2 have been addressed in this and more. The resource can be edited to increase challenge once the child has mastered it independently. Can also be used for Year 1 end of year expectations for number to evidence meeting new TAF statements.

Year 2 Plants- Planning and resources Significant scientist study - how did he/she make a contribution to life today? In this lesson children research about the famous scientist Darwin and follow in his footsteps to go on a plant hunt. They match plants to the key from their immediate environment, playground, nature area or the local park. They make notes and annotate their work like Darwin identifying the species of flowers, their shapes, and color, and name. Challenge children to find different types of plants if they are available e.g. herbs, weed evergreen trees climbing bramble nettle flowering edible plant indoor plants Talk about how Darwin traveled the world to find exotic plants in the rainforest’s of the world. We now have some of these plants in UK. See complete unit of work in the shop or link below; https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=868530&q=plants&shop=rehanafazil

The Tunnel Year 2 Guided Reading Preview If you have used the Into The Forest Guided Reading Pack - Then this is the resource for you to compare stories by the same author. See Full weeks planning available in the shop. Week 1 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-by-anthony-browne-guided-reading-week-1-12050423 Week 2 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-guided-reading-anthony-browne-week-2-12052381 Suitable for year 2 for children working at the expected level and beyond. You can find further inspiration on my insta page as below. @thisisrehanafazil See you there.

Art and Design National Curriculum for key stage 2 Lesson and Plan written for year 3 and 4 Pupils will create a tessellating piece of work using inspiration from Escher. They will use geometric shapes in 2 simple or any other app that has shapes and fill tool colour options. Pupisl will repeat the 2d shapes and try to create an optical illusion of 3d piece of work. Lesson is differentiated 3 ways to suit the needs of different ability pupils in regards to using computing. Pupils will benefit from prior teaching and learning about the work of Escher and designing their own tessellation tiles. These lessons are available in the shop. Check you have suitable software like 2Simple or Googledraw before downloading this resource. This lesson can be differentiated for lower key stage pupils too. Many thanks for choosing this resource and I hope it saves you a lot of planning time.

Shapes Resource suitable for KS1 Suitable for Year 1 and year 2, understanding properties of shape. Name common 2d shapes and sort into given criteria. More able to be able to sort into more than one criteria, e.g color and number of sides. Record into a given table. This resource has been differentiated fer low ability children so they can identify common shapes in the environment.