A template with tips on how to create your own eye-catching journey
Size is preset to fit A3 paper
With location pin bank, red roadwork boxes (for even more detail, such as curriculum links) and there are even some vehicles parked ready in the car park - just get creative!
Includes help notes that can be over typed
This is a powerpoint document
30 reading comprehension sheets based on Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill.
Based on Literacy Shed’s reading VIPERS.
Targeted skill focus sheets on: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval, and summary
These sheets cover one chapter or double page spread each.
Full half term planning scheme suitable for KS2 (Year 3-6)
4 weeks worth of guided reading lessons linked to the text ‘Journey to the centre of the earth’. Each lesson contains a ppt, sheet for books and a support sheet for SEND. Reading vipers used so each lesson will focus on a Reading Viper.
Each lesson’s structure is as follows:
A think about it question
Vocab with word classes
Teacher reads
Speed retrieval
Independent reading
Main task (linked to reading viper)
learning journey map template to edit to visually show the long term planning intent for a department, whole school or could be changed to key stages.
This is an effective and interesting method of showing your intent for students learning and your full curriculum overview. It is currently designed for year 7 - year 11 but could be edited to suit a primary setting.
Example of how it can be used in the cover photo - the blank template is in the preview.
This resource contains everything you need to teach ‘Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan’. Based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language curriculum, but easily adaptable to any curriculum that you teach, this product contains:
54 Editable Google Slides with notes on each slide containing tips for how to use the information for different classes
Interactive quizzes and activities with answer keys included
Printable PDF versions of all activities
Engaging starter activity
Definitions and examples for 8 literary techniques used in the extract
Detailed annotations of language and structure for the whole extract
Comprehension quiz on the text with answer key
Practice exam questions based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language exam (questions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) but easily adaptable to any other curriculum
Structure, plan, mark schemes for each question + example answer for Q5
Question 5 (22 mark essay) comparison with ‘Explorers or boys messing about?’ - rubric, planning table, paragraph structure & example
Optional creative activities based on text, designed to develop skills in preparation for the transactional writing component of the exam - can be used as extension or homework
You can find a detailed guide on how to use this resource on my blog - expatedventures.com
I would love to see your students engaging with this activity in the classroom. Feel free to post pictures and tag me on Instagram.
I hope you find the resource useful for you and helpful to your students. If you have any questions or comments about the resource, contact me on expatedventures@gmail.com.
If you enjoy this resource, you might also enjoy my comprehensive resources for other English Language texts, such as The Danger of a Single Story and Chinese Cinderella.
Thank you and enjoy!
Let’s connect! You can find me on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram and my blog - expatedventures.com.
Learning journey road map templates to edit and produce a visual explanation of intent, long term plan and overall curriculum content - primary and secondary included with powerpoint or word templates
A bundle of example texts based on the picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The following model texts are included in this bundle:
• Character profile
• Description
• Diary
• Dialogue
All example texts include feature find worksheets with answers. Some also have planning and writing templates.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
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Complete half term English planning for ‘Journey to the River Sea’ by Eva Ibbotson for Year 5 or 6 - a book full of wonderful description and adventure. A great book for developing higher level writing. Planning includes differentiated work and on-going opportunities for assessment. Lesson resources included. This unit of work has been taught many times and has always been enjoyed by the pupils and the teachers who have taught it. I am the English Lead for my school and have always been praised for my clear and detailed planning.
I have uploaded flipcharts, using Activinspire. I have also uploaded these flipcharts as a Powerpoint for those who do not have the Activinspire software.
Please let me know if any resources are missing.
A model descriptive writing text based on the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The model text describes the girl approaching and entering the city in her boat.
The description comes with a feature find task, which asks pupils to search for the following writing features including figurative language and other literary devices:
• similes
• metaphors
• hyperbole
• personification
• repetition for effect
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• show not tell feelings
An answer sheet has been included.
The description can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own description based on Journey.
The resources come in easily editable Word format and as PDFs.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
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✦ Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Dialogue Text Examples Pack
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A visual mind-map analysing the writers use of language and structure for the Edexcel IGCSE Anthology extract Beyond the Sky and Earth: A journey into Bhutan.
A rhyming sensory story about a boy and his friend who are on a journey to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. They come across some problems along the way, whilst carrying the Olympic torch but eventually make it to Paris. It includes sensory elements accessible for learners with additional needs or Early Years provision. In the download there is the following:
A Journey to Paris PPT (editable) of the story which includes pictures and the use of Communication in Print to support.
A Journey to Paris Teacher Overview, including what props and resources you will need.
Careers Tube Map Journey Poster. We have transformed the iconic London Tube Map into a jobs journey resource , with over 100 different jobs arranged on different themed lines. Not all marry up many do.
This is a one off fantastic careers resource that will grab staff and students attention.
This resources come in a nice PDF. If you require the editable Powerpoint version - Just leave a review and then email mike at thecre8tiveresources@gmail.com we will be happy to send this to you.
How could you use this resource?
Print A4 Copies for students and use as a discussion prompt get students to colour code the jobs into categories of their own choosing
Great for open evenings
Print an A3 or A5 Copy and use an engaging Classroom Display
Give a copy to the science department and help achieve Gatsby Benchmark 4
Use as a tutor time activity or bonding activity with a KS4 or KS5 class to open up discussions about different careers
Minimal preparation required – Just print and go!
Description of Product
Ready-to-Print pack classroom activity poster that will enthuse and engage students.
This links to the 2021-22 White Rose Maths Scheme of Work.
You can add your school logo to the top right and your school aims at the bottom or a motivational sentence.
FIrst slide has years 1 - 6, next slides have more detailed information on a year by year basis.
Name Journeys by Raman Mundair poem lesson. Worlds and Lives poetry anthology lesson. A fully differentiated and resourced ‘ready to go’ lesson on the poem, one of the poems in the new AQA poem collection, with the lesson ideally suited for both KS3 and KS4 students. We cover meaning, language and explore how the writer uses the metaphor of mouths to explain the speaker’s thoughts and feelings about travelling and moving to a new place from their former home.
Includes differentiated activities, worksheets and more.
Leave a review and we’ll send you another resource for free! Just get in touch at info@englishgcse.co.uk once you’ve left your review.
A completely adaptabe learning journey that encompasses all aspects of the Edexecl (9-1) GCSE Business Studies qualification. Created using new Ofsted framework in mind, showing 3 year journey from year 9 through to 11 including Year 9 Business Studies taster and options advice and a two-year GCSE delivery model. It highlights the content and sequence for the Edexcel Business Studies course.
This can be used as:
A student as it can be printed large scale and be used as posters in classrooms, as well as given to students as part of their assessment matrix.
A teacher or HOD is used to support curriculum map, detailing lessons and project objectives in more detail, alongside scheme of work overviews and lesson powerpoints for each project.
A parent who can understand the key knowledge that underpins the GCSE and can support Year 9 parents/carers thinking of taking GCSE Business Studies.
A simple presentation about you going into Space to find a new planet and meet some aliens.Some questions to ask to create a discussion.What 10 objects would you take with you? A simple song I created is included. Further verses could be made up by the class.
Resource showing and explaining the journey of a river from source to mouth and the physical features of rivers along the way.
I created this to use with my year 5 class but it would be suitable for year 6 as well.
There are hyperlinks to videos on BBC learning zone and to a BBC bitesize activity - some of the questions in the activity are more complex as it is aimed at KS3 but I do not think this would be an issue as it is reinforcing what is learnt through the PowerPoint and extending the children further.
I have created this worksheet to accompany the PowerPoint I created of the same name.
Created to be used with my year 5 class, though suitable for other KS2 classes.
Children have to label the physical features of a river from source to mouth.