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This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to teach Year 3 children all about Non-Chronological Reports. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the features of this type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own non-chronological reports. They will have the option of 4 interesting sports to research (using the internet, nonfiction books or both), and will use this information to create their own reports in a similar style. They will create, share, edit and improve their drafts before creating a polished report ready for display!
SPAG/GPS covered: Word Classes, Clauses, Conjunctions, Spellings and Suffix Rules.
Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports
Lesson 2: To recognise word classes and clauses
Lesson 3: To understand how to create a formal tone
Lesson 4: To apply spelling rules when adding suffixes
Lesson 5: To plan a non-chronological report
Lesson 6: To begin writing a non-chronological report
Lesson 7: To extend sentences using conjunctions
Lesson 8: To edit and improve my writing
Lesson 9: To prepare and deliver a persuasive argument
Lesson 10: To create a non-chronological report for display
This bundle comes with an End of Unit Child and Teacher Assessment Sheet to allow each pupil to assess and reflect on their own learning.
Total Number of Slides: 51
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 11 full lessons to support the teaching of the two units: Living Things and Habitats in the Year 4 Science curriculum. Each lesson comes with the necessary resources and annotated slides to help guide the teaching at each stage. These lessons can be used to support the Hamilton Trust Science plans.
Lesson 1: To understand the characteristics of a living thing (Mrs Nerg)
Lesson 2: To ask questions about local habitats and record observations
Lesson 3: How are living things classified?
Lesson 4: To record the details of local living things using close observational drawings
Lesson 5: To create a large-scale work of art of an invertebrate
Lesson 6: To understand how to group living things
Lesson 7: To discuss environmental changes
Lesson 8: To consider some of the natural changes that could happen to an environment
Lesson 9: To create a graph to show temperatures recorded over time
Lesson 10: To understand the impact of environmental change
Lesson 11: To plan and implement positive changes to a local environment
This bundle also comes with 4 formative assessments to assess pupils’ learning at different stages (after lessons 3, 6, 9 and 11).
Total Number of Slides: 131
Lesson Plans Included? No - slides annotated.
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This unit includes 10 lessons plans, activities and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 6 children all about instruction and explanation texts. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the different features of each type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own using the identified features.
SPAG/GPS covered: Bullet Points, Colons, Semi-colons and Parentheses (Brackets, Commas and Dashes).
Lesson 1: To identify the features of an explanation text
Lesson 2: To write an instruction text using bullet points and colons
Lesson 3: To read and answer questions about a text
Lesson 4: To plan an instruction text
Lesson 5: To write an instruction text
Lesson 6: To use brackets, commas and dashes to indicate parentheses
Lesson 7: To write and perform an informal explanation
Lesson 8: To research and plan an explanation text
Lesson 9: To write an explanation text
Lesson 10: To prepare and present my explanation text
Total Number of Slides: 54
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This unit includes 10 lessons plans, resources and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 5 children all about instruction and explanation texts. Children will begin by working in small groups to identify the main features of each type of text before applying their knowledge to their own written work. They will enjoy writing instructions for different technological devices such as: escalators, elevators and mobile phones in addition to using the internet to research and explain a range of unusual gadgets! To end and consolidate their learning during Week 2, children will have the opportunity to invent their own mode of transport which they will then plan and create a detailed guide for. This guide will include features of both explanation and instruction texts.
SPAG/GPS covered: causal conjunctions, adverbs of time, parentheses (brackets, commas and dashes).
Lesson 1: To discuss and identify the features of instructions
Lesson 2: To write instructions using adverbs
Lesson 3: To write an instructional text
Lesson 4: To answer research questions using the internet
Lesson 5: To write and present an explanation text
Lessons 6 &7: To use brackets, commas and dashes to indicate parentheses
Lesson 8: To plan an information guide for a new invention
Lesson 9: To write a guide for a futuristic mode of transport
Lesson 10: To edit and redraft my guide
Total Number of Slides: 50
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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Throughout this exciting 2-Week unit, children will enjoy exploring and analysing a selection of observational poems (included). They will focus on a number of different grammar techniques in addition to furthering their understanding of poetic devices such as similes, metaphors and personification.
Total Number of Slides: 59
Includes 10 Complete Lesson Plans
Differentiated Activities and Resources
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. During this second and final week, children will now focus on autobiographies; in particular, ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela. They will be fascinated to learn about the political history of South Africa and how becoming an anti-apartheid activist contributed towards Nelson Mandela’s positive and negative experiences in life. Once pupils have developed their understanding of the purpose and structure of an autobiography through this example text, they will then begin to plan, write and edit their own during the final 3 lessons.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: adverbials, head nouns and expanded noun phrases.
Lesson 1: To read, understand and discuss an autobiography
Lesson 2: To answer questions about Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
Lesson 3: To plan an autobiography
Lesson 4: To write an autobiography
Lesson 5: To edit, improve and assess my autobiography
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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These 15 lessons will teach Year 4 children all about Aesop’s Fables. Throughout the unit they will study various fables including The Tortoise and The Hare, The Fox and The Grapes, The Town and The Country Mouse and many more.
Grammar covered throughout this unit includes:
Using and punctuating direct speech.
Extending their range of sentences with more than one clause.
Using conjunctions to express time or cause.
To end the unit, children will have the opportunity to discuss, plan and write their own fables in depth whilst focusing on the correct structure, relevant morals, spelling accuracy and correct punctuation marks with regards to written dialogue.
Total Number of Slides: 122
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This presentation includes 5 poetry lessons relating to Image Poems based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. Throughout this week children will cover many different grammar aspects such as: similes, metaphors, noun phrases, adverbs and prepositional phrases. They will learn to identify similes and metaphors within a selection of poems (included) and will practise converting these from one to the other. To end the week, children will enjoy writing fun and lively adverb poems followed by a short self assessment.
Week 1 of 2
Lesson 1: To use similes to create powerful images
Lesson 2: To extend sentences using prepositional phrases
Lesson 3: To convert metaphors in to similes
Lesson 4: To use adverbs to begin a sentence
Lesson 5: To write an adverb poem
Total Number of Slides: 26
Differentiation? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 15 lesson plans, interactive PowerPoints and all resources needed to teach children about traditional folktales. This unit focuses on the tales: The Little Red Hen, Tiger Child and Rama and Sita.
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Required Text:
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland
This interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based around the thought-provoking story ‘The Day of Ahmed’s Secret’. This book will take children to an unknown world with a powerful message. They will revise the features of recounts whilst writing in both the first and third person as well as applying their knowledge of adverbials and homophones within written sentences.
This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To listen and discuss a story
Lesson 2: To write a recount in the third person
Lesson 3: To write sentences using homophones
Lesson 4: To correctly use and punctuate adverbials within a sentence
Lesson 5: To write a recount in the first person
Total Number of Slides: 38
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This easy-to-use and adaptable interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Observational Poetry based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. During week 1 of this 2-week unit children will practise reading and understanding a selection of poems (included) as they work together to identify various poetic devices. Pupils will enjoy discussing objects and creating powerful images (with a partner) in preparation for writing their own observational poems during lesson 3.
SPAG/GPS covered throughout these lessons include expanded noun phrases and relative clauses.
Related Poems:
‘Sharp Freckles’ and ‘Don’t be Scared’ by Carol Ann Duffy
‘The Cow’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Sir Autumn’, ‘The Matter of Holes’ and ‘Granny Granny Please Comb my Hair’ by Grace Nichols
‘Personal Helicon’ by Seamus Heaney
Lesson 1: To analyse a selection of poems
Lessons 2: To create expanded noun phrases based on observations
Lesson 3: To write an observational poem
Lesson 4: To explore relative clauses
Lesson 5: To use similes, metaphors and personification
Total Number of Teaching Slides: 28
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Differentiation? Yes
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This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 2 children all about Information Texts. Throughout this unit they will begin by learning about cats and dogs by reading the two stories ‘Dogs’ and ‘Matilda’s Cat’ by the award winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett. They work in small groups to answer text-related questions as well as retelling the story of ‘Matilda’s Cat’ as they apply their knowledge of the -ing suffix. During week 2, they will begin to explore the features of information texts using the provided resources. They will research, plan and write their own information pages which they will then self assess at the end of the week.
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Lesson 1: To create dogs with opposite characteristics
Lesson 2: To answer comprehension questions about dogs
Lesson 3: To correctly spell words using the -ing suffix
Lesson 4: To retell a short story
Lesson 5: To describe an animal using expanded noun phrases
Lesson 6: To explore the features of a nonfiction text
Lesson 7: To research and plan an information text
Lesson 8: To correctly use new and familiar punctuation marks
Lesson 9: To begin writing an information text
Lesson 10: To edit and improve my information text
Total Number of Slides: 52
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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Throughout this two-week unit, pupils will focus on both a selection of image poems (included) as well as a range of different grammar rules. They will cover similes, metaphors, prepositional phrases, adverbs and fronted adverbials. Children will have fun learning to analyse the structure of a poem before using their imagination to create their own in a similar style.
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Historical Stories based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the two stories ‘War Horse’ and ‘War Game’.
This presentation is Week 2 of 3 of this unit.
Lesson 1: To create a guide for historical writers
Lesson 2: To write an authentic sounding dialogue between two characters
Lesson 3: To convert a section of War Horse into a playscript
Lesson 4: To complete, revise and perform a scene based on War Horse
Lesson 5: To identify and write relative clauses
Total Number of Slides: 38
This ‘Adverbs’ word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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NB. A copy of ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’ by Anne Fine is required to complete this unit.
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This bundle includes: a detailed scheme of work, all necessary resources and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints. These lessons are based upon the diary recount book ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’ by Anne Fine which will help children to learn about this style of writing in a fun and engaging way.
SPAG/GPS covered: Time Conjunctions, Adverbials of Time, Place and Manner, Inverted Commas and Prefixes.
Lesson 1: To explore the features of a diary entry
Lesson 2: To answer questions about a text
Lesson 3: To write sentences using the prefixes un-, in-, dis- and mis-
Lesson 4: To use adverbs to express manner
Lesson 5: To use adverbs to express time and place
Lesson 6: To correctly punctuate speech using inverted commas
Lesson 7: To discuss ideas for a new character
Lesson 8: To plan a diary recount
Lesson 9: To write my own diary recount
Lesson 10: To finish and edit my diary
Total Number of Slides: 61
Scheme of Work Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation has been created to teach and revise the differences between formal and informal language. Children can use whiteboards to complete various activities throughout this PowerPoint.
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This interactive PowerPoint and 5 lesson plans conclude this unit about stories with Familiar Settings based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. This week, children will continue to focus on ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr as well as the well-known story ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Dragon’ by Jack Kent. Using these stories, they will begin to develop ideas, plan and write their own stories using the character that they created at the end of week 1. During lesson 3, they will also have fun playing a board game with a partner as they practise reading and spelling words containing the /j/ phoneme!
Lesson 1: To create an interesting problem for my story
Lesson 2: To plan my own story
Lesson 3: To read and spell words with the phoneme /j/
Lesson 4: To create a good story opening
Lesson 5: To use my ‘writing toolbox’ to complete my story
Total Number of Slides: 32
Resources included? Yes
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
If necessary, this PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of your class. Physical copies of the books would be beneficial, but links are provided.
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Week 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-fiction-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192909
This subordinating conjunctions word mat can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into children’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This handy list of adverbs can be used to teach and support children as they begin to modify verbs within their own writing.
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