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This interactive presentation includes 5 interesting and engaging lessons relating to Songs and Repetitive Poems based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. This exciting week of learning involves pupils actively engaging in their learning through performances and song writing. They will focus on the song ‘London’s Burning’ paying particular attention to its repetition, syllables and its use of the present tense. Children will enjoy creating sentences in both the past and present tense after learning how to add the -ing suffix correctly.
Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To rehearse and learn a poem by heart
Lesson 2: To compose a performance with instruments
Lesson 3: To write verbs in the past and present tense
Lesson 4: To compose a verse for a song
Lesson 5: To create a class book of poems
Total Number of Slides: 30
Resources included? Yes
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If necessary, this PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of your class.
Required Text:
‘Hurricane’ by David Wiesner
This interactive PowerPoint includes the final 5 lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this final week, children will enjoy reading the story ‘Hurricane’ by David Wiesner whilst continuing to further develop their knowledge of recounts. Pupils will be reminded how to use commas correctly and will have the opportunity to apply these rules to their own writing. In addition to this, they will develop their cooperation skills by working in small groups to act out the continuation of the story before applying their knowledge and skills to a final fictional recount (to be teacher and self assessed).
This presentation is Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To write a short recount of a story
Lesson 2: To read and identify the features of a recount
Lesson 3: To use role play to continue a story
Lesson 4: To understand and apply my knowledge of commas
Lesson 5: To make edits to a fictional recount
Total Number of Slides: 34
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This interactive PowerPoint contains the next 5 lessons relating to Songs and Repetitive Poems based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work which can be easily adapted to meet individual needs. During this second week, children will have fun imagining what they would get from the supermarket if they could purchase anything they wanted! They will share, discuss and brainstorm ideas before creating 2 list poems to show what they would buy compared to what ‘mum’ would buy! Each lesson contains a starter activity, main teaching, displayed success criteria and plenary.
Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To brainstorm ideas
Lesson 2: To use adjectives to describe a noun
Lesson 3: To create a ‘list poem’ using neat handwriting
Lesson 4: To complete my poem and add illustrations
Lesson 5: To read my poem out loud
Total Number of Slides: 27
Resources Included? Yes
Differentiated Activities? Yes
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Stories by the same Author based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons linked to the story ‘I’ll take you to Mrs Cole.’ Week 2 of 2.
Lesson 1: To use conjunctions to express time, place or cause
Lesson 2: To discuss and plan a story based on one read
Lessons 3 & 4: To write a story based on one read
Lesson 5: To complete and edit my story to remove errors
Total Number of Slides: 39
Resources Included? Yes
This presentation includes the final 5 lessons relating to Imaginary Worlds based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. This presentation is Week 2 of 2 of this unit.
Lesson 1: To use the past tense of verbs
Lesson 2: To plan a story in the style of Fantastic Mr Fox
Lesson 3: To use punctuated dialogue in my story
Lesson 4: To continue writing my story
Lesson 5: To complete and edit my story
Total Number of Slides: 32
This second bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Significant Authors. During this final week, children will continue focusing on the book Clockwork or All Wound Up as well as a short extract from Spring-heeled Jack by Philip Pullman.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, expanded noun phrases, effective punctuation and dialogue.
Lesson 1: To understand the structure and layout of a graphic novel
Lesson 2: To write a section of a graphic novel
Lesson 3: To perform an improvised role play
Lesson 4: To plan a film script for ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman
Lesson 5: To write a film script
NB. Children will need to have completed reading the book Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman during Week 1.
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities Included? Yes
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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 1 of 3 of this unit.
Lesson 1: To use spoken language to develop understanding
Lesson 2: To recognise different types of sentences
Lesson 3: To revise the use of commas within a sentence
Lesson 4: To write a character description
Lesson 5: To write a prediction
Total Number of Slides: 30
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 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 Game’ and ‘One Boy’s War’.
This presentation is Week 3 of 3 of this unit.
Lesson 1: To research the enlisting of footballers during WW1
Lesson 2: To find comparisons between books
Lesson 3: To write an informal letter
Lesson 4: To formally describe the trenches of WW1
Lesson 5: To use cursive handwriting to produce polished writing for display
Total Number of Slides: 25
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This interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Recounts based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. During week 1 of this unit children will learn to identify the features of a recount text as well as how paragraphs and fronted adverbials are used to create cohesion. These 5 lessons cover Recount Features and Fronted Adverbials in depth and may require extra SPAG/GPS lesson time.
Lesson 1: To read and discuss UFO recounts
Lessons 2 & 3: To understand and identify the features of a recount text
Lesson 4: To use fronted adverbials to plan a diary entry
Lesson 5: To write a UFO diary entry
Total Number of Slides: 44 (including resources/activities)
Worksheets Included? 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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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
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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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 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 interactive primary PowerPoint includes 5 lessons relating to Choral and Performance Poetry based on the Year 6 National Curriculum scheme of work.
Lesson 1: To identify features of a performance poem
Lesson 2: To analyse a performance poem
Lesson 3: To create expanded noun phrases
Lesson 4: To explore the vocabulary used within a poem
Lesson 5: To write a poem in the subjunctive form
Total Number of Slides: 31
Resources and Poems Included? Yes
Full Lesson Plan Included.
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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
No additional resources needed
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Labels, Lists and Signs based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons based on the story ‘Not a Stick’ by Antoinette Portis. This presentation is Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To sequence a familiar story
Lesson 2: To correctly label a picture
Lesson 3: To create imaginative responses
Lesson 4: To use descriptive phrases
Lesson 5: To create a role play from a familiar story
Total Number of Slides: 43
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 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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