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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Significant Authors. This week, children will focus on the books Northern Lights and Clockwork or All Wound Up by the award winning author, Philip Pullman. They will enjoy learning about and creating their own fictional daemons, drawing comparisons between the book and film (The Golden Compass), writing summaries and making predictions!
SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, subordinating conjunctions, adverbs of possibility/probability.
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Lesson 1: To create my own daemon
Lesson 2: To identify nouns and verbs in sentences
Lesson 3: To compare the openings of the book and film
NB. This lesson requires children to watch the first few minutes of the film, The Golden Compass.
Lesson 4: To make predictions about a story
NB. Access to the book Clockwork or All Wound Up would be beneficial, however a link has been provided.
Lesson 5: To write a summary of Clockwork
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This check list can be used to support children as they learn to identify and apply the features of an instruction text.
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This FREE lesson is the first in a 3-Week Unit on Information Texts. This download includes a fully interactive PowerPoint and scheme of work. During this lesson, children will sort a selection of musical instruments according to their family classifications before writing about an instrument of their choice.
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Lesson 1: To record information about a musical instrument
Total Number of Slides: 7
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? N/A
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A small selection of Horrid Henry books are required for this unit.
This bundle includes lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the teaching of Stories in Familiar Settings based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will read and enjoy a selection of Horrid Henry books as they learn/remind themselves about this funny young boy who has a talent for getting into trouble! They will research, identify and describe familiar settings used within these stories as they practise extending sentences with descriptive phrases.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: prepositional phrases, noun phrases and prefixes.
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Lesson 1: To explore and describe a character
Lesson 2: To answer questions about a text
Lesson 3: To extend sentences using descriptive phrases
Lesson 4: To create descriptive language for familiar settings
Lesson 5: To use neat handwriting and accurate punctuation
Total Number of Slides: 29
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Help your class to understand how and when adverbs of manner should be used within a sentence with this simple worksheet. More able children could be further challenged by asking them to complete the questions independently using the information provided.
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This FREE lesson is the first of a 2-Week Unit based around diary recounts. This download includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson scheme of work and resources. During this lesson children will begin reading the story ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’ by Anne Fine before discussing and exploring the main features of this type of text.
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Lesson 1: To explore the features of a diary entry
Total Number of Slides: 12
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This simple list of conjunctions can be used to support pupils as they learn to extend sentences using additional clauses to express time, place or cause.
This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to introduce children to Information Texts. This week they will learn about fire engines and other big machines. They will read and discuss short extracts of nonfiction texts, write simple sentences using full stops and capital letters, sort a fire fighting equipment word list into alphabetical order and much more!
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Lesson 1: To correctly order a sentence
Lesson 2: To read and discuss a nonfiction text
Lesson 3: To write simple sentences
Lesson 4: To write facts about a machine
Lesson 5: To sort words into alphabetical order
NB. Access to nonfiction books about machines will support this week’s learning.
Total Number of Slides: 27
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to The Jungle Book 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 provided links. Week 1 of 3.
Lesson 1: To discuss extracts from Mowgli’s Brothers
Lesson 2: To correctly punctuate dialogue
Lesson 3: To read and retrieve information from a text
Lesson 4: To role-play a scene with a partner
Lesson 5: To include punctuated dialogue in a conflict story
These word mats and poster can be used to aid learning within grammar lessons. 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 fronted adverbials word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This list can be cut out and stuck into pupil’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This ‘Adverbs of Probability’ word mat has been created to support and develop children’s understanding of these adverbs. 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 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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This check list can be used to support children as they learn to identify and apply the features of an explanation text.
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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 1 of 3.
Lesson 1: To perform a fable
Lesson 2: To orally rehearse a dialogue between two characters
Lesson 3: To write a dialogue using the correct punctuation marks
Lesson 4: To read and discuss a fable
Lesson 5: To write jokes using correctly punctuated dialogue
Total Number of Slides: 33
These ‘Awesome Adjectives’ word mats and poster 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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Have children enjoy learning the first 100 high frequency words with this striking poster and additional word mats! This useful list can be cut out and stuck into student’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. This week, children will focus mainly on biographies. They will learn to read and identify the features of a biographical text before applying these when asked to write a biography about another member of the class during lesson 5! SPAG/GPS covered this week: prefixes, suffixes and sentence types (simple, compound and complex).
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Lesson 1: To read, compare and identify the features of a biography
Lesson 2: To rewrite a biography extract using dialogue
Lesson 3: To investigate suffixes
Lesson 4: To investigate sentence structure in formal writing
Lesson 5: To write a biography
Total Number of Slides: 32
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This FREE lesson is the first of a 2-Week Unit on instructions and explanation texts. This download includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson scheme of work and resources. During this lesson children will read, discuss and explore instruction texts as they work in small groups to identify the main features.
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Lesson 1: To discuss and identify the features of instructions
Total Number of Slides: 7
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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