Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Looking for something a bit different for your Christmas poetry activity? This Christmas Kennings lesson will make a fun English activity ready for Christmas time and the resulting pieces of work create a fab festive classroom display!
In this Christmas literacy lesson, pupils will learn about what kennings are and practise using them with a festive twist! Then they will make their own kenning poem about Christmas trees and turn it into a fantastic colourful kenning tree ready for a Christmas classroom display!
The Powerpoint provided guides you though the full lesson, including time to discuss ideas and vocabulary. Then pupils can use the templates and instructions provided to make their own colouring kenning trees.
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint
- A resource pack including teacher instructions and templates for the activity.
This is a fun activity easily adapted for KS1 or KS2.
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This Christmas Present Riddles lesson will make a fun English activity for the festive season! We ho-ho-hope you will love making these lift-the-flap Christmas riddles!
Uh-oh! There has been a mix-up in Santa’s workshop and the cheeky elves have left clues about the presents instead of labelling them correctly! In this lesson, pupils will help Santa to solve the elves’ riddles and then they will write their own riddles about Christmas presents. Follow the instructions to turn the riddles into fun lift-the-flap Christmas presents, perfect for a festive classroom display!
The Powerpoint provided guides you though the full lesson, including time to discuss ideas and vocabulary. Then pupils can use the templates provided to plan their riddles and turn them into fun lift-the-flap pictures.
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint
- A resource pack including teacher instructions and templates for the activity.
This is a fun activity easily adapted for KS1 or KS2.
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Recommended by TES! Download this popular two-week unit for Year 6 based on classic performance poetry.
A two-week literacy unit of work for Year 6, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at some of Poe's atmospheric poems with dramatic mood changes in them.
In this unit pupils will:
- read and listen to classic poems by Edgar Allan Poe
- research the historical and literary context of the poems
- engage imaginatively with poetic language
- discover how Poe uses poetic devices to change the mood of a poem
- create their own mysterious Raven character
- hold a debate to find out what type of poetry 'The Raven' is
- write a recount of the frenzied events of 'The Raven'
- express the mood of a poem through performance
- prepare and give a performance to an audience
The poems include 'The Bells' and 'The Raven'.
The performance at the end of the unit would be perfect for World Poetry Day or to use in a poetry performance or assembly.
8 classic poems for Easter performances, suitable for primary school children to learn or perform. Themes range from Christianity to Easter bunnies to spring flowers.
Brilliant to use in the classroom or for an Easter assembly, performance or service.
A worksheet for pupils to record true or false answers about the Walter de la Mare's poem 'The Listeners'. You could use this as a comprehension activity or for guided reading. There is also included a printable copy of the poem.
A bundle of resources based on Walter de la Mare's classic poem 'The Listeners', including a week-long planning unit for KS2, a printable poem, a comprehension activity, a performance script and a worksheet.
This is a really useful sheet to use with pupils when they are editing their writing. They colour in each piece of the puzzle as they edit their work. Designed for Year 3 & 4, but could also be used with other year groups.
Download this fun KS1 English lesson revising the four types of sentence: statement, command, question and exclamation.
In this lesson pupils will recap the different sentence types and then create ‘Who Am I’ poems about animals and transport using the four different types of sentences, supporting the TAF statements for Y2.
This resource contains a full Powerpoint presentation that takes you through the lesson including revision, main activities and a plenary. There is also an accompanying worksheet for pupils.
This activity is great for revising SPAG objectives at in Year 2 and can also be adapted for other year groups.
Get poetry flowing in every season with our bundle of popular resources of poetry to see you through the year! Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter plus some seasonal extras are all covered in one handy bundle usually worth nearly £30!
Included in this pack:
- Spring Poetry
- Easter Poems
- Summer Poetry
- Seaside Poetry
- Summer Sports
-Autumn Poetry
-Bonfire Poems
-Christmas Poetry
-New Year Poetry
Bronze Age Lesson Plans for KS2
The plans are taken from our popular
Stone Age to Iron Age Resource Pack.
Includes full lesson plans with Powerpoint slides and pupil resources/worksheets.
1. Introduction: What does Prehistory Mean?
This lesson puts the Bronze Age in context by introducing the period of British history from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Pupils will make a timeline to set this period into the wider context of British History and they will discover how we break up this period into distinct ages.
2. How did bronze replace stone in the Bronze Age?
This lesson looks at the changes between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, including the implications of the discovery of bronze and the process of how bronze was made. Pupils will find out why bronze was so important and they will create their own flowcharts to record the process of how it was made.
3. What do grave goods tell us about the Bronze Age?
In this lesson pupils will find out about how people in the Bronze Age were buried alongside some objects that were important to them. Pupils will reflect upon how artefacts found in Bronze Age burial sites can give us information about what life was like in this period. This lesson also introduces the idea that not all artefacts survive over time and invites pupils to sum up their learning by exploring the grave of the Amesbury Archer.
You may also like our other Stone Age planning resources:
Stone Age Boy Literacy Planning
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth Literacy Planning
Stone Age to Iron Age planning bundle of all 3 packs
Looking for English planning for Y3 and Y4?
This mega bundle contains 10 popular English planning units for Year 3 and 4 plus two seasonal extra units worth over £49 in total!
Save a lot of time and money with our super literacy bundle for lower KS2!
A bundle of resources about Lear's poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat', including two lesson plans, a printable poem for pupils to perform and a vocabulary activity. Ideal of KS1 but can be adapted to other year groups too.
An activity to help pupils develop inference. Pupils read the 'show-not-tell' descriptions of the king and match him to the emotion that is inferred.
This is a useful activity for guided reading, independent literacy work, homework challenges, revision etc.
This Stone Age to Iron Age Reading Comprehension Bundle contains 3 reading comprehension activities designed for lower KS2. They can be used for guided reading, whole class reading, homework activities or individual comprehension based on the Stone Age topic.
This topics covered are:
1. Iron Age Hill Forts Recount
2. Skara Brae (A Stone Age settlement)
3. Stone, Bronze & Iron Ages - Information Text
Each pack contains the text, two pages of questions, an additional challenge and an answer key. #lovehistory
Recipe for a Happy New Year: New Year 2018 Activity
Updated especially for New Year 2018! Recipe for a Happy New Year (including full lesson Powerpoint and all templates) - a fun new year project and display for your classroom!
Please follow the instructions at the bottom of this description to download all of your files.
Here is a fun activity to help your pupils think about what will make this new year successful!
Pupils will create a recipe for a happy new year (the writing activity is included in the Powerpoint lesson provided) and then they can use the templates to turn it into a fabulous baker craft, perfect for display!
This resource includes:
- A full lesson powerpoint including discussion points and a differentiated writing activity.
- A teacher instruction pack
- A template pack for making the back to school chef craft
This is an easy, fun activity perfect for the primary classrooms!
Please note that due to terms of use in the images used, the Powerpoint file is not editable.
Please follow the steps below to access your files:
1. Return to this page.
2.Further down the page you’ll see the files included within the Resource listed under the header ‘Files Included’. You may need to click on the ‘See all Resources’ to view them all.
3. Use the individual download arrow icons found to the left of each of the file names for each separate file.
This is an activity designed to help pupils understand how tension mounts in the story Beowulf. Focusing on the scene where Beowulf journeys through the lake to battle Grendel's Mother, pupils should discuss where each card should be placed on the diagram to show how tension is built and relieved by the storyteller.
This resource contains a template that pupils can use when they are planning their own instructional texts. Pupils can record each step of their instructions in pictures or words. There is also space on the plan to record a title, an equipment list, useful imperative verbs, prepositions and other helpful details.
This is a versatile resource that can be used for planning instructions for lots of different topics.
