This is a full lesson teaching the difference between subject and object pronouns.
Subject pronouns often come before the verb in a sentence and tell us who or what did the verb (he, she, it, you, I, they, we etc.)
Object pronouns often come after the verb in a sentence and tell us who or what the verb was done to. (him, her, it, you, me, them, us etc.)
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
Learning objective
Three success criteria
Starter activity
Teaching input
Whole class consolidation activities
Extension and reasoning tasks
All answer slides
Hint and support slides
Plenary activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is the eighteenth lesson in this complete phonics course teaching children how to read and write! Focusing on the letter b, this lesson introduces the letter, the sound it makes and how to identify the initial, middle and end sound and letter of words. It is the eighteenth lesson of phase 2 phonics and includes all the information and activities you need to introduce this letter and the sound it makes.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend. From lesson 3, they start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 2 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 2.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 2 phonics sound mat
√ Review of prior learning
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Activities for identifying initial sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying middle sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying final sounds and letters
√ Letter formation practice
√ Decoding activities (preparation for reading)
√ Encoding activities (preparation for writing)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is the fifth lesson in this complete phonics course teaching children how to read and write! Focusing on the letter i, this lesson introduces the letter, the sound it makes and how to identify the initial, middle and end sound and letter of words. It is the fifth lesson of phase 2 phonics and includes all the information and activities you need to introduce this letter and the sound it makes.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend. From lesson 3, they start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 2 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 2.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 2 phonics sound mat
√ Review of prior learning
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Activities for identifying initial sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying middle sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying final sounds and letters
√ Letter formation practice
√ Decoding activities (preparation for reading)
√ Encoding activities (preparation for writing)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Never plan another phonics lesson! Here are all the resources you need to teach children how to read and write, created by an EYFS specialist and UK trained qualified teacher.
Whether you’re an experienced teacher whose realised that your free time is too valuable to spend hours planning everything from scratch, or you’re a parent with no idea on how to even start teaching your child how to read and write, this bundle contains everything you need.
Phase 2 of Phonics is when the letters and sounds they represent are introduced, and children learn how to form the letters. It is also where the skills of blending and segmenting are taught. We blend sounds in order to read words and we segment words into their sounds in order to write them down. All of this is covered in these resources and you will find you have everything you need to execute effective, engaging and inspiring lessons.
For those of you who have never taught phonics before, many slides contains directions, hints and tips in the notes section. These explain what each slide is for and often include additional ideas for their execution.
As a teacher, tutor, early-years specialist and head of English at an international school, I have personally used these lessons teach classes of children how to read and write, tweaking and perfecting them annually. They contain:
Reviews of prior learning
Learning objectives and success criteria
Phase 2 phonics sound mats
Video and game links
Activities introducing the letters and the sounds they make
Letter identification activities and texts (poems)
Activities for identifying the initial, middle and final sound in CVC (consonant- vowel- consonant) words
Letter formation activities and video links
Activities for blending sounds to read CVC words
Activities for segmenting words into their sounds to write CVC words down
These resources teach children the sounds and letters based on the order of their frequency of use in English:
Lesson 1 - S
Lesson 2 - A
Lesson 3 - T
Lesson 4 - P
Lesson 5 - I
Lesson 6 - N
Lesson 7 - M
Lesson 8 - D
Lesson 9 - G
Lesson 10 - O
Lesson 11 - C
Lesson 12 - K
Lesson 13 - E
Lesson 14 - U
Lesson 15 - R
Lesson 16 - H
Lesson 17 - B
Lesson 18 - F
Lesson 19 - L
Segmenting and blending activities begin from lesson 3 onwards. Lessons should be taught in the above order as they follow on from each other, building on prior learning and they also include a recap of previous learning at the start of each lesson.
These lessons will get children reading and writing words. You can then follow these lessons with the Phase 3 lessons (also available in bundles) which will get children reading and writing sentences.
Please check the notes sections on each slide for extra details, directions, hints, tips and ideas.
Environmentally friendly!
No printing is required for any activity in any lesson. Children can work on white-boards or in notebooks. The lessons can also be easily used to teach children online, especially with interactive apps such as Pear Deck, Seesaw, Nearpod etc.
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write fantastic setting descriptions. The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter and plenary activities
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Examples of good setting descriptions & feature identification tasks
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own setting descriptions
√ Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
√ Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
√ Support slides for struggling/ younger learners
√ Feature checklists
√ Writing inspiration
Learning Objective:
To identify the features of and write my own setting description
Success Criteria:
I can explain what a setting is.
I can read and understand a setting description.
I can identify the structural features of a setting description (paragraphs, most obvious details described first, describes what can be seen, heard, felt, smelt etc.)
I can identify the language features of a setting description (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs, adjectives, adverbs, figurative language, onomatopoeia etc.)
I can write my own setting description.
I can check my work against a feature checklist.
Lesson details:
Starter activity - Reviewing what is a setting
Review of revelant prior learning - Where do we find setting descriptions in a story? What tense are stories usually written in? What are similes and metaphors?
-Speaking & listening task - drawing a setting activity + evaluation of setting description discussion
Teaching input/ information slides - setting descriptions describe what we can see, hear, feel and smell in a place
Reading task - example of a good setting description
Consolidation activity - structure of a setting description
Consolidation task (differentiated 3 levels) - organising statements from description into correct order
Input - language features of powerful descriptions (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions etc.) + consolidation activities (differentiated 3 levels - rainbow writing )
Whole class writing task (model/ shared write)
Independent writing task (writing stimuli included)
Differentiated feature checklist for each ability level (3 levels)
Plenary - adjectives game
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This resource is a phonics phase 3 sound mat. It is great for children learning how to read and write and shows the full set of phase 3 letters, digraphs and trigraphs.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
Please check out my complete phase 3 Phonics Lesson PowerPoints with activities. Here is a free lesson for you to try - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-3-complete-lesson-activities-ai-digraph-free-12824943
Here is a bundle containing all my lessons which teach the phase 3 phonics digraphs and trigraphs at a discounted price -https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-3-digraphs-and-trigraphs-lessons-and-activities-complete-bundle-worth-pounds-57-00-12835017
This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write non-chronological reports. It includes examples, lists of features to include, details for a modelled/ shared writing task and an independent, consolidation writing task.
The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity - grammar task
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Examples from non-chronological report texts
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Feature checklist for non-chronological reports
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary
Learning Objective:
LO: To plan and write a non-chronological report
Success Criteria:
I can structure my non-chronological report correctly and with appropriate headings and subheadings.
I can fill my report with relevant and accurate facts.
I can use the correct tense and write in third person.
I can include an introduction and key information box.
I can use generalisers, technical vocabulary, formal language and factual adjectives.
Lesson details:
Differentiated starter activity (3 levels) - Verbs and tenses task (review of relevant prior learning, grammar task)
Teaching input - covering the following:
What does non-chronological mean?
What’s the difference between fiction and non-fiction?
What structural features will we find in a non-chronological report?
What tense is a non-chronological report usually written in?
What is the purpose of a non-chronological report?
What language features of a non-chronological report can you list?
Example of a non-chronological report introduction
Teaching input - structure of an introduction
Teaching input - language features of a non-chronological report, explanations, examples and consolidation tasks for these features (present tense, third person, generalisers, technical vocabulary, factual adjectives, formal language)
Modelled/ shared write task- Introduction for a report
Independent consolidation task
Example of a non-chronological report paragraph
Feature checklist
Plenary - Assessment of learning task
This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson showing the features of a non-chronological report but it can also be part of a bundle of three lessons teaching children how to write non-chronological reports. This is lesson one of three.
Lesson 1 - Identify the features of non-chronological reports and examine example texts
Lesson 2 - Conduct own research into a topic and present findings (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13117269)
Lesson 3 - Write own non-chronological report
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson presentation teaching what the past simple tense is, why we use it and how to write in the past simple tense.
The past simple tense is used to talk about things that have already happened. It is used especially for describing things that we know when happened. All clauses (and so sentences) must have a verb. Verbs tell us the tense of a clause. We distinguish between regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are verbs which follow a rule to change to past simple (we add the suffix -ed to these words). Irregular verbs do not follow a rule to change to their past tense form.
This lesson includes:
√ Complete PowerPoint presentation for the full lesson
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Teaching input & information slides
√ Consolidation activities
√ Differentiated independent activities
√ Differentiated questioning
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Extension & application tasks
√ Plenary activity
The lesson covers:
Identifying the verbs in sentences
Distinguishing between regular and irregular verbs
Changing regular verbs to their past simple tense form
Common irregular verbs in the past simple tense form
Forms of the verb ‘to be’ (brief introduction)
How to write in the past simple tense
When to use the past simple tense/ why we use it
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson (complete with activities) which teaches the key concepts from Cambridge stage 6 - ESL - Unit 8 - Entertainment.
Success Criteria:
•I can name and identify different activities done for entertainment.
•I can use past participle adjectives to describe feelings and qualities.
•I can describe the negatives of on-screen entertainment.
•I can describe the history of films.
•I can use the past simple passive to talk about events
•I can create a timeline.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity designed to engage
√ Two vocabulary - definition match activities
√ Past participle adjectives grammar activity
√ Speaking games and discussion tasks about on and off-screen time
√ Information slides - how to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words
√ Reading task - Too Much Screen Time?
√ Fact discussion - addiction to screens
√ Time line task looking at the history of film
√ Past simple passive - what is it + how and why do we use it?
√ Past simple passive grammar consolidation activities (differentiated)
√ Extension tasks and writing tasks
√ Independent research activity - the history of an invention
√ Vocabulary anagrams activity - alternative words for ‘said’
√ Plenary task
√ All answer slides
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching how to use the present continuous/ present progressive tense complete with all the activities required to consolidate writing in this tense.
The present continuous tense is made up of the present tense form of the verb ‘to be’ (is, are or am) + the progressive/ continuous form of the verb (a verb with the -ing suffix). It is used to describe actions and events that are happening now. It can also be used to refer to future plans.
This lesson presentation on the present continuous tense includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Review of prior learning (identifying the tenses of a variety of sentences)
√ Teaching input/ information slides (explaining how to identify and construct sentences in present continuous tense)
√ Multiple differentiated group & paired activities (3 levels)
√ Differentiated independent activities (3 levels)
√ Extension of learning and application challenges
√ Reading, writing, speaking and listening tasks
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary activity
The lesson covers the following:
Review of other tenses
Difference between ‘is’, ‘are’ and ‘am’ (plural and singular subjects)
How to describe the actions of plural and singular subjects in the present continuous tense
How to describe the actions of both regular and irregular plural subjects in the present continuous tense
How to describe the actions of both countable and uncountable nouns in the present continuous tense
How to describe the actions of collective nouns, exceptions and pronouns using the present continuous tense
Changing verbs into their progressive/ continuous form
Purposes of using the present continuous tense
Using the present continuous tense to describe current events and actions
Using the present continuous tense to describe future plans
Consolidation activities include fill in the blanks, spot the mistakes, change the sentences to present continuous tense, match-ups, speaking and listening tasks, reasoning questions, sorting activities, writing tasks and quiz-type questions etc.
The lesson builds upon prior learning and gradually develops in difficulty as the learners become more familiar with the content. The majority of activities are differentiated three ways and it also covers in detail the reasons for using the present continuous tense when speaking and writing.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching how to use the following vocabulary associated with finding places on a map: street, town, city, county, country, continent, global, local, national, international, equator, prime meridian, longitude, latitude, postcode
The lesson also introduces the concept of using coordinates to locate countries on a world map using the lines of longitude and latitude.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity (Vocab Volley) involving choosing the correct definition for the given vocabulary - all answer slides included.
√ Activity identifying the terms for various parts of an address + answer slide
√ Information slides + consolidation activities for learning the following vocabulary: global, continents, countries, international, national.
√ Differentiated versions of some activities and questions.
√ Information slides explaining lines of latitude, longitude, the equator and the prime meridian.
√ Information slides explaing how to use coordinates to locate countries on a world map plus example and consolidation activity.
√ Plenary - corners - AOL for parts of an address plus global, international, national and local vocabulary.
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about world and map vocabulary.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full writing lesson teaching how to write in the present perfect tense.
The present perfect tense consists of the word ‘has’ or ‘have’ followed by the past participle of the verb. The past participle may be the same as the past tense form with most regular verbs but there are many differences with irregular verbs.
The present perfect tense is used for the following reasons:
To describe our past experiences and talk about places we have been to
To refer to things that have happened very recently
To talk about things that started in the past but the effects of which are still true now
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity designed to get children in the writing mood
√ Review slides, activities & answer slides - reviewing the present perfect tense & its grammar points
√ 3 x writing activities to practise writing in the present perfect tense for 3 purposes:
To describe our past experiences and talk about places we have been to
To refer to things that have happened very recently
To talk about things that started in the past but the effects of which are still true now
√ Plenary activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson teaching the names of different feelings and emotions, including: happy, nervous, angry, scared, excited, interested, worried, confused & proud.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - AFL
√ Teaching input slides learning to name and identify different feelings: happy, nervous, angry, scared, excited, interested, worried, confused, proud, miserable
√ Speaking and listening activity
√ Consolidation activities:
- Reading activity & discussion points
- Writing activity - apply the learning
√ Plenary activity
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about feelings and emotions.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching the difference between synonyms and antonyms and how to use them in your writing.
Synonyms = words with a similar or the same meaning
Antonym = words with opposite meanings
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - your AFL
√ Teaching input - exploring what synonyms and antonyms are, the differences between them and examples of each being used in sentences.
√ Differentiated speaking & listening activities - group/ paired activity (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Differentiated independent tasks (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Reasoning task - applying learning
√ Plenary - Creative application
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is a full lesson teaching the difference between when to use ‘is’, when to use ‘are’ and when to use ‘am’.
‘Am’ is used only with I and when writing in the present tense.
‘Is’ is used with singular nouns and pronouns.
‘Are’ is used with plural nouns and pronouns.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity introducing forms of the verb ‘to be’
√ Teaching input - difference between use of ‘is’ and ‘are’
√ Consolidation activity - fill in the blanks
√ Extension Input - exceptions (you and I)
√ Differentiated independent activity - mistake spotter
√ Extension Input - Introduce ‘was’ and ‘were’ (whole class activity)
√ Consolidation - fill in the table
√ Plenary - Sentence maker activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
This is a full lesson teaching the spelling of words ending in ‘-le.’ It includes all the information and activities to teach the spelling of these words and achieve this year 2 objective.
The spelling lesson includes the following:
√ A spelling assessment
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Spelling rule teaching slides
√ Comprehension activities
√ Spelling definition/ meaning activities
√ Spelling rule consolidation activities
√ Spelling strategies mat
√ Reading application activities
√ Writing application activities
√ All answer slides
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of words which end in -le, ensure that they understand the meaning of these words, help them apply their spelling knowledge to reading and writing tasks and also teach them several strategies for learning future spellings.
A full lesson teaching how to use ‘yet’ to talk and ask about time in the past.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Quizlet game starter activity learning new unit vocabulary
√ Present perfect tense review activity plus answer slide
√ Input slides teaching how to use ‘yet’ in statements plus example sentences, reasoning questions and explanations
√ 1 multiple-choice review questions
√ 1 reasoning consolidation activity plus answer slide
√ Sentence builder consolidation activity for ‘yet’ as a statement plus answer slides
√ Input slide teaching how to use ‘yet’ in questions plus example sentences
√ Sentence builder consolidation activity for asking questions including ‘yet’
√ Plenary - fill in the blank - AOL for yet, & AFL for ‘ever’
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about using ‘yet’ to refer to time in the past.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching what ‘ever’ and ‘never’ mean, how to use them when speaking and writing and the differences between them.
The presentation includes:
Learning objective
Three success criteria
Starter activity reviewing ‘yet’ plus answer slide
Present perfect tense review activity plus answer slide
Input slides teaching how to use ‘ever’ in statements plus example sentences, reasoning questions and explanations
Two consolidation activities (multiple choice question and reasoning question plus answer & explanation slides
Extension activity - Introducing ‘never’ plus consolidation activity & answer slide
Sentence builder consolidation activity for ‘never’ and ‘ever’
Input slide teaching how to use ‘ever’ in questions plus example sentences
Sentence builder consolidation activity for asking questions including ‘ever’
Plenary - fill in the blank - AOL for yet, ever and never
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about ‘ever’ and ‘never’.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Homophones Group A, Part 1: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry
Homophones Group A, Part 2: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
It is advisable to teach homophones separate from each other to avoid confusion (e.g. teach ‘main’ on a different day to ‘mane’). This bundle contains two full lesson teaching the spellings of the homophones in group A; each lesson focuses on one half of all the pairs of homophones in group A.
Lesson 1 covers: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry.
Lesson 2 covers: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
The lessons include an explanation of what ‘homophones’ are, explain the meanings of all the words and include a multitude of activities for learning both the spelling and meaning of these words (anagrams, word searches, crosswords, fill in the blanks, spelling pyramids, acrostic poems and many more). They also include spelling strategies mats for extra ideas and methods for learning spellings.
A homophone is a word with the same pronunciation as another word but which has a different meaning and usually, a different spelling. It is advisable to teach homophones independently from each other so as to avoid confusion between the word spellings and meanings.
The spelling lessons include the following:
√ Spelling assessment
√ Learning objectives
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activities
√ Review of prior learning
√ Teaching inputs and information slides
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word spellings
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word meanings
√ All answer slides
√ Spelling strategies mats
√ Extension task - writing application activities
√ Plenary activities
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of these homophones in a fun, engaging and impactful way.
Homophones Group A, Part 1: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry
Homophones Group A, Part 2: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
This is a full lesson teaching the spelling of the following homophones: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry. The lesson includes an explanation of what ‘homophones’ are, explains the meanings of all these words and includes a multitude of activities for learning both the spelling and meaning of these words (anagrams, word search, crossword, fill in the blanks, spelling pyramids and many more). It also includes a spelling strategies mat of extra ideas and methods for learning spellings.
A homophone is a word with the same pronunciation as another word but which has a different meaning and usually, a different spelling. It is advisable to teach homophones independently from each other so as to avoid confusion between the word spellings and meanings.
The spelling lesson includes the following:
√ A spelling assessment
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter Activity
√ Teaching input - explaining homophones, word meanings etc.
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word spellings
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word meanings
√ All answer slides
√ Spelling strategies mat
√ Extension task - writing application activity
√ Plenary introducing the alternative homophones
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of these homophones. There is a separate lesson teaching the alternative homophones for each of these words (plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury) and which should be taught at a different time to avoid confusion.