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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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This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner.
Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting
Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character
Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry
Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
End of Unit Assessment? Yes
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 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 presentation includes the final 5 lessons relating to Aesop’s Fables based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. To end this unit children will analyse the structure of an existing fable in order to correctly structure and improve their own writing. Week 3 of 3.
Lesson 1: To discuss ideas to plan my own fable
Lesson 2: To write the first draft of my fable
Lesson 3: To assess and improve my sentence structure
Lesson 4: To proofread my writing for spelling errors
Lesson 5: To perform my complete fable to an audience
Total Number of Slides: 39
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This bonus pack includes 15 whole lessons relating to The Jungle Book and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work). Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different extracts which can be sourced using the links provided in the presentations. This unit is also compatible with the Hamilton Trust Plans.
Total Number of Slides: 124
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Aesop’s Fables based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different fables which can be sourced from any Aesop’s Fables books for children. Week 2 of 3.
Lesson 1: To use conjunctions to link clauses
Lesson 2: To identify different character traits using evidence from a text
Lesson 3: To create extended sentences using clauses to express time and cause
Lesson 4: To write a letter using extended sentences
Lesson 5: To discuss morals in fables
Total Number of Slides: 50
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Traditional Tales based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons relating to Aesop’s fables which then lead into the children planning and writing their very own fables. Week 3 of 3.
Lesson 1: To write compound sentences
Lesson 2: To understand the meaning of different proverbs
Lesson 3: To write a character description of an animal
Lesson 4: To plan my own fable
Lesson 5: To write my own fable
Total Number of Slides: 32
Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Instructions and Explanations based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit children will read and explore exemplar texts in order to identify various features before applying these to their own work. Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To identify the features of a set of instructions
Lesson 2: To use powerful verbs
Lesson 3: To write a set of instructions
Lesson 4: To identify the features of an explanation text
Lesson 5: To write an explanation text
Total Number of Slides: 38
Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes: 15 complete (and editable) lessons plans, all necessary resources and 3 fully interactive PowerPoints to make this unit enjoyable and engaging. These lessons are centered around a variety of different musical instruments (both familiar and new) as children learn to explore, write and identify the features of information texts.
SPAG/GPS covered: coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, main and subordinate clauses , apostrophes to show possession and pronouns.
Lesson 1: To write about a musical instrument
Lesson 2: To prepare an oral presentation using conjunctions
Lesson 3: To read and answer questions about a text
Lesson 4: To explore and identify the features of an information text
Lesson 5: To use a range of conjunctions to form extended sentences
Lesson 6: To sort information into different headings
Lesson 7: To conduct independent research
Lesson 8: To write paragraphs using conjunctions
Lesson 9: To continue writing my information text
Lesson 10: To assess the work of others
Lesson 11: To research an instrument of my choice
Lesson 12: To sort my research into an organised plan
Lesson 13: To write the first draft of my information text
Lesson 14: To check, edit and redraft my information text
Lesson 15: To prepare and present my information text
Total Number of Slides: 80
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Creating Images based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit children will revise and practise using adjectives, nouns and verbs. They will enjoy working together in small groups to memorise and perform small parts of a poem before performing together as a whole class. To end the week they spend time writing their own chant with a partner whilst applying the same structure and rhythm as ‘The Bug Chant’ by Tony Mitton.
Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To create noun phrases
Lesson 2: To understand abstract nouns
Lesson 3: To write a prose description
Lesson 4: To memorise part of a poem
Lesson 5: To use adjectives and verbs to write my own chant
Total Number of Slides: 33
Success Criteria Included? Yes
Differentiated Activities and Resources? Yes
Resources 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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Related Poem - ‘The door’ by Miroslav Holub (included)
This interactive PowerPoint contains the final 5 poetry lessons relating to Image Poems based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. To conclude this unit pupils will practise writing descriptive sentences using comparative adjectives before editing their work to include fronted adverbials. They will learn the importance of a fronted adverbial as well as how and why these are used. Your class will become more engaged with poetry as they use their imaginations to visualise a range of different images when they ‘open a door’. They will then use these collaborative ideas to produce their own image poem (either independently or with a partner) before learning, rehearsing and performing their work during the final lesson.
Lesson 1: To write descriptive sentences
Lesson 2: To use fronted adverbials to improve my writing
Lesson 3: To plan a descriptive piece of writing
Lesson 4: To write an image poem
Lesson 5: To learn, prepare and perform my poem
Total Number of Slides: 29
Differentiation and Group Work? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Lesson plan included? No
Week 2 of 2
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No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary.
This bundle contains the final 5 lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this third and final week, children will be applying their knowledge of traditional Indian Tales by planning and writing their own in a similar style. They will choose a well-known fairy tale and replace some of these characters with the characters from the Indian Tales which have been covered during this unit. They will be aiming to apply their knowledge of prepositional phrases, adverbs of manner and powerful language.
Lesson 1: To use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words
Lesson 2: To ‘magpie’ powerful language to use within my own writing
Lesson 3: To convert a Fairy Tale into a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 4: To write a story in the style of a Traditional Indian Tale
Lesson 5: To edit and improve my writing
Total Number of Slides: 30
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
This interactive PowerPoint concludes this two-week Observational Poetry unit. During this second week, children will explore the use of imagery within poems by learning how to create powerful images using all 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell). They will have fun imagining themselves as ‘the classroom’ as they consider these senses. What would a classroom see and hear? They will then use their plans to create a poem called ‘I am a Classroom’ based on the poem ‘I am a Writer’ by Joseph Coelho.
Poetic Devices/GPS covered throughout these lessons include similes, metaphors, personification, imagery and relative clauses.
Related Poems:
‘Sky-Artist´ and ‘Don’t be Scared’ by Grace Nichols
’I am a Writer’ by Joseph Coelho
’Sunlight’ by David Windle
Lesson 1: To explore the impact of vocabulary within a poem
Lessons 2: To write a poem using metaphors and similes
Lesson 3: To plan a poem using descriptive language
Lesson 4: To write a poem about a given topic
Lesson 5: To revise and perform my poem
Total Number of Slides: 31
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Differentiation? Yes
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Throughout this two week unit pupils will learn to recognise the main features of both explanation and instruction texts. They will begin by analysing given texts in groups (provided in the resources) to discuss and decide on the main features before feeding their thoughts and opinions back to the class. Children will then have the opportunity to write their own instruction and explanation texts with the support of a printable self assessment success criteria. Week 2 of this unit consists of project based learning as pupils focus on creating their own instruction and explanation texts relating to the game show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’.
Total Number of Slides: 159 (Includes ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ PowerPoint game)
Teaching Duration: 10 lessons
Resources Included: Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Classic Fiction based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons linked to the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling which can be sourced using the provided links. Week 2 of 3.
Lesson 1: To create a concept map
Lesson 2: To correctly punctuate subordinate clauses
Lesson 3: To use and punctuate embedded relative clauses
Lesson 4: To adapt a story to change the point of view
Lesson 5: To write a diary entry to show a new point of view
Total Number of Slides: 41
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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This word mat and poster can be used to aid learning when writing descriptions about food. 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 ‘Powerful Verbs’ 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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