Information text on Robert Burns and Burns’ night celebrations with 5 inference questions and 6 multiple choice questions to check for understanding and discuss.
Deconstruct the informal letter example looking at the features of the text and use those features and examples to plan your own letter.
Simple resource which can be used over 1-2 lessons.
Read the letter
Box up the features (highlight and discuss what you like)
Plan your own ideas as a class
Children then plan and write their own.
You can edit this resource to suit your class.
3 lessons of resources for £1.
2 model texts ready to be boxed up (recognizing and highlighting features)
Blank plan and boxed up plan (editable)
Spot the features and highlight them.
This is a resource for deconstructing an instruction text, which then leads into planning your instructions.
L1: You could model and explain the features using one example and then the students have a go on their own using the other example.
L2: Design your animal or alien. Designing an alien means it can be completely made up and the children will focus on the text structure when writing instead of being bogged down with technical knowledge.
L3: Plan how to catch that alien/ animal… (there is an example plan and blank plan)
A nice resource to help children who are less confident with drawing. this can be used alongside any topic relating to the human body from IPC or UK National Curriculum.
Subsitizing Cards are up there with the best ways to learn times tables!
This is a fantastic resource for assessing whether children know their times tables (and that they also understand the concept of repeated addition).
Subsitizing means counting, without counting.
You can use each times table on it’s own or mixed. The children split the cards between the players and when they play their card, the first person to say the correct answer gets the point. it’s very useful to have a referee armed with a times table grid to ensure the children are getting the answers correct ( the referee is also employing a very useful technique when checking the answers). That’s one of the things that makes it so effective because the game can be played alongside the use of other useful techniques. The children’s competitive edge masks the learning of times tables.
Read the character description in the story opening, which is typed up in the resource, and pick out the key features.
Substitute your own examples to extend your learning.
You could also use this for a mini guided read.
This is a yoga journal, which gives each child a chance to create symbols (dual-coding) for the poses they already know, record new poses and eventually create yoga sequences.
This a very simple resource that allows you to establish a starting point, record new learning, discuss and record your class yoga promise (to be repeated at the start of each session) and plan a set of individual yoga practices for each child, so they can practice independently.
You can support your class with teacher modeling, flash cards or videos to introduce new learning. Using this journal is an easy way to introduce yoga to your class.