Book Review worksheet concentrating on summarising, forming opinions and concluding on How To Train Your Dragon (Book 1) by Cressida Cowell. In this book review, children are asked to summarise the main parts of the story, give their opinion on the story as a whole, state the funniest, scariest and favorite parts, rate the story from 1-5, explain if they would recommend the book, and discuss who their favourite and least favourite characters were. This works great as a post-text exercise, and also works as a movie review if you are following the feature film instead. Reviewing books helps children know that it’s okay to like or dislike a book, and also allows them to work out what their favorite genres are. Included in this download: PDF version of the book review .docx Word document version of the book review for editing purposes ‘Lost in Chalk’ font to help you edit the resource and keep the style I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Help your children to improve their descriptions and narratives by using these colour vocabulary sheets in your literacy lessons or on display. They equip pupils with exciting words for ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’ and everything in between! I have been using these colour thesauruses as part of a Writing Toolkit (coming soon!) that I give to my class at the start of the school year. After modelling how to use them in writing, the children then independently use stronger, more effective colour descriptives when describing settings or characters- I even see them cropping up in their speech! BOTH SPELLINGS OF COLOR/COLOUR INCLUDED! Included in this download: A display poster and pocket-sized version of the color vocabulary grid PDF versions of the resources .docx Word versions of the resources for editing purposes 2 fonts to edit your resources with UK/AU/NZ/CA version using ‘colour’ spelling Looking for the full Writing Toolkit? Due to be completed by September 1st 2020 I hope this product saves you time and stress, Happy Teaching! Miss Austin

Book Review worksheet concentrating on summarising, forming opinions and concluding on Matilda by Roald Dahl. UK and US versions included In this book review, children are asked to summarise the main parts of the story, give their opinion on the story as a whole, state the funniest, scariest and favourite parts, rate the story from 1-5, explain if they would recommend the book, and discuss who their favourite and least favorite characters were. This works great as a post-text exercise, and also works as a movie review if you are following the feature film instead. Reviewing books helps children know that it’s okay to like or dislike a book, and also allows them to work out what their favorite genres are. Included in this download: UK and US versions of PDF and Word documents PDF version of the book review .docx Word document version of the book review for editing purposes ‘Lost in Chalk’ font to help you edit the resource and keep the style Looking for more Matilda resources? X 4-Week Matilda English Unit I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Week 2 of my No-Prep 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on parts of speech (noun, adjective, adverb, verb), figurative language (similes & metaphors) and character description. Chapter 2 & 3 are covered. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 2 & 3 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, parts of speech identification and character description using figurative language! Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a multiple-page, child-friendly explanation included! Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease ~ 40-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 2 and 3 Video clips to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Character information worksheet Dragon description worksheet 2 x Parts of Speech starter tasks (matching activities) 2 x Parts of Speech in context worksheets Identifying similes and metaphors in context worksheet Character description worksheet Chapter 2 & 3 comprehension, guided reading questions Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use) 2 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource Looking for the rest of the unit? Week 1 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020 How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit - Growing Bundle I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Detective-Themed Distance Learning Project (7 Independent Tasks with a narrative, and letter-writing focus) Perfect for during quarantine, this download includes a complete home-learning packet that guides the children through the police case of a stolen item from the largest property in the region. Children will describe their own case of theft, play the role of the chief inspector in the case, give a presentation to show evidence, draw a floor plan of the home and create missing object forms. Everything you need to provide for the children to complete this work is included. This download includes: PDF version of the 7-task home learning project (7 pages) Word Document version of the home learning project 2 fonts for editing .docx Word documents Success criteria so that children know what to include in their work Writing frames to guide children through tricky tasks My Distance Learning English Projects Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing skills in a variety of areas. X Distance Learning Project: Apocalypse Theme X Distance Learning Project: Space Theme X Distance Learning Project: Island Theme I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Past tense worksheets & activities based around the simple, progressive and perfect forms (Present & Future Packs available too!) This download includes: Past Tense Forms Worksheet with 6 jam-packed tasks Past Tense Forms Wordsearch Answer sheets for ease of marking and assessment Editable versions of all worksheets to tailor work to your students’ needs 2 fonts for editing the resources This resource is part of a larger teaching bundle, with similar resources for both the past and present tenses, along with work on converting between them. X Teaching Tenses Mega-Pack Separate lessons: X Present Tense Forms Multi-Lesson Pack X Future Tense Forms Multi-Lesson Pack I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress. Thank you and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Writing prompt/stimulus based on finding a mysterious book. Teaching PowerPoint and 4-way differentiated planning sheets included in this 22-Page pack. Assessing writing is a subjective nightmare! With this independent writing assessment stimulus, children can engage in an exciting and mysterious plot centered around a magical book found in the school library. As teachers, we can decide which planning sheet most accurately matches the children’s abilities or targets and the writing they produce can be assessed against national or state standards. With Talk for Writing opportunities throughout the PowerPoint, children can discuss their use of vocabulary, ideas for plot and explore their characters’ emotions in peer work or small groups. This can be delivered to a single class, year group or whole-school cohort, or even as an extra-curricular Creative Writing club task! Included in this download: 18-page teaching PowerPoint 4 different planning sheet options in PDF format 5 fonts for editing purposes Editable versions of PPT and worksheets to suit your classes’ needs! Looking for more writing prompts? Look no further (: X Writing Stimulus | Narrative | House in the Woods X Writing Stimulus | Narrative | Spellbound I hope this resource saves you time and stress! Miss Austin

Key Stage 2: 4 Entire Weeks of no-prep, distance learning English lessons based on Matilda by Roald Dahl. Emphasis on play scripts, recipe writing and description. Matilda is one of those novels that never gets old, is loved by children and adults alike and provides great opportunity to explore lots of different text types. Perfect for whilst we’re teaching from afar, I put this pack together to ensure this module can still be taught even though we’re not in the classroom! Included in this mega pack: 30+ resources in PDF format to ensure aesthetic layout! PDF version of the text 20-lesson, 4 week long planning sheet with brief lesson plans- all able to be completed from home. Prediction worksheet based on the front cover and blurb Glossary worksheet and definition answers provided Character trait worksheet for Mrs Phelps, Matilda & Mr Wormwood Two write up sheets for different character descriptions Venn Diagram for comparing characters ‘Features of a play script’ help sheet Jack and Jill play script to label Converting prose to play script worksheet Using commas in three different ways worksheet Acrostic Poem worksheet Intonation and expression worksheet Mischief scale worksheet Comparisons between movie and book worksheet Matilda’s next trick hypothesis worksheet Planning sheets for play scripts Asking questions to Miss Trunchbull worksheet Converting adjectives to adverbs worksheet Antonyms starter activity Synthesised chapter planning sheet Sequencing of emotions worksheet Recipe planning and example sheets Various starter tasks and extension challenges Additional Resources that didn’t make it onto the final plan .docx Word Document versions of ALL resources to allow you to edit them 3 fonts to edit your resources with Phew! What a massive pack to put together! All of these will be sold separately as individual lessons in the coming weeks. I hope this saves you time and stress. Miss Austin

Three whole weeks of Christmas themed morning challenges (otherwise known as early morning activities, class starters, welcome work etc.) There’s a mix of Maths and English questions. Maths include: Shape, graphs, addition etc. English includes: Poetry, creative writing etc.

Hi there! Currently working in a storytelling school that base the whole term around a certain story. This term we're reading and studying The Prince of Birds. It's a great story and would be a great one to choose as it's a diverse story, has a focus on birds which can be used in art, science and ICT and is set in Spain, which is great for RE, History and Geography. LO's, success criteria and all resources set out above. Happy teaching! Miss Ritchie

There's 7 weeks of morning challenges for you- 35 whole days! There's a metal theme in these as that's my current topic, but it's easily altered if you need. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Miss Austin here! Here is another resource pack for diary writing. Included in this pack is: Editable diary writing frames Entire week of lesson plans Assessment grids against Y3 NC (national curriculum) expectations I hope this proves helpful. Happy teaching, All! LA

Starters, plenaries, modeled descriptions and resources provided for two contrasting character descriptions. They're based on two characters from the book we're reading in class, but are easily adaptable. Let me know if you need anything else or have any comments. Miss Ritchie

success criterias, ideas sheet differentiated three ways, examples of persuasive writing and other resources!

Pair these with persuasive writing powerpoint from twinkl, and you've got three or four lessons worth!

Hi there, Here’s a big pack of spellings for Year 3 that work toward age related expectations. They’re differentiated either 2 or 3 ways and cover many different objectives. Such as; suffixes (ness, ful, ly, less etc.) prefixes (auto, super, pre etc.) alternative phonemes/spellings for sounds HFWs

Hi there! Here's a new resource pack- it's a pretty prescriptive and detailed set of resources that cover 4 days worth of work, along with challenges to boot. Included - 3-way differentiated guided reading booklet including the following *Day 1- predictions based on blurb and front cover *Day 2- author's intention through language and 'connotation' *Day 3- prepositions text marking and identifying *Day 4- decoding shakespearean quotes- prediction and answers. Learning objectives outlined on the sheets, and marking area prescribed. I used this with my year 3/4 class, but is easily adapted for 5/6.

Two lesson focus on Willy Wonka and planning a character description based on his appearance in the movies. We focused on the recent movie, however there are clips for both.