In these activities pupils will become familiar with the different types of artefacts that help us to know about life in the Shang Dynasty. They will be introduced to the concept of making deductions from evidence and they will fill in a table to show what information different artefacts give us about the Shang period.

Instructions for making a model woolly mammoth. This resource could be used as a DT lesson to go with the Stone Age topic, as a stand alone fun project or as a part of literacy work about instructional texts.

A list of adverbials of time and place for use with children practising writing sentences with fronted adverbials.

This is a fun introduction to verbal or written instructions in literacy. Pupils give each other instructions to draw the pictures on the cards and see how closely they can match the real picture!

This card sort activity is a good way of revising the features of instructions.

Lesson 6. Off to Work we Go!: What did ordinary people do for jobs in the Kingdom of Benin? In this lesson pupils will study what jobs there were for ordinary people in the Kingdom of Benin. They will discover how the high quality of its produce helped Benin Kingdom to thrive. Pupils will find out what the main crops grown by famers were and then will have the chance to make and test recipes using two of Benin's main crops: yams and plantains. The PDF file contains the full lesson plan and two pupil activity sheets. For Upper KS2.

This worksheet helps pupils to act like different animals below and then write a list of verbs to show how each one moves.

A bundle of poetry resources for KS1 containing unit plans, performance poems, activities and worksheets.

A worksheet that pupils can use as a template to plan a story based on the book Escape from Pompeii.

This worksheet allows pupils to label a bunny using different similes.

A bundle of resources based on Tennyson's sea monster poem 'The Kraken', including a week-long unit plan, a copy of the poem, worksheets and activities.

Mega bundle of Romans resources for history and literacy, including unit plans, lesson plans, activities, games and worksheets.

This worksheet provides a template for pupils to create a comic strip version of the story of Charge of the Light Brigade.

The activity allows pupils to look at the poetic devices used in Poe's 'The Raven' and to investigate how each device contributes to the changing poetic mood.

This is a bundle of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' resources, including a weekly unit plan, a printable poem, worksheets and activities.

This activity helps pupils to collect evidence from Poe's 'The Raven' poem to help them to decide whether this type of poetry is lyric. They can then use this to prepare for a written argument or a class debate.

A bundle of resources about Poe's 'The Raven' poem, including a week-long unit plan, a printable poem, worksheets and activities.

This worksheet allows pupils to research the context of Charge of the Light Brigade by using the web to retrieve and record information about the Crimean War.