Writing prompt/stimulus based on retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Teaching PowerPoint and 4-way differentiated planning sheets included in this 29-Page pack.
This can be delivered to a single class, year group or whole-school cohort, or even as an extra-curricular Creative Writing club task!
Assessing writing is a subjective nightmare! With this independent writing assessment stimulus, children can engage in an exciting writing task centred around retelling the story of Red Riding Hood, with older year groups synthesizing the story by adding their own endings. 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.
Included in this download:
25-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 stimuli? Look no further (:
X Writing Stimuli | Narrative | Red Riding Hood Retelling
X Writing Stimuli | Narrative | Spellbound
I hope this resource saves you time and stress!
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
Week 1 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on author fact files, research skills, prediction and comprehension.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Pre-Read & Chapter 1 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, independent research and plot prediction!
Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a 6 page, child-friendly explanation included!
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 3 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary outline for Chapter 1 and the foreword (page 4)
Video clips of the author talking about inspiration and planning (2 linked/included)
Integrated QR codes for children’s author research purposes (page 7)
Lap-book resources
Author Research Planning Page worksheet
Designing a Writing Room worksheet
Questioning the Author worksheet
Making Predictions worksheet
Plot Recap worksheet
Drawing Hiccup worksheet
Chapter 1 comprehension, guided reading questions
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
3 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 3 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on prepositions of place, figurative language (hyperbole, similes & metaphors) and character development. Chapters 4 - 7 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 4-7 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!
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 4, 5, 6 & 7
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Identifying Prepositions in Context worksheet
Writing Prepositional Phrases worksheet
Comparing Book to Movie worksheet
Writing Instructions worksheet
Me VS Hiccup worksheet for character empathy
Writing to Hiccup worksheet
Persuasive writing worksheet
Identifying Figurative Language worksheet (similes, metaphors, hyperbole)
5 x challenge activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
I am currently teaching this unit and will be uploading new packs as they’re made, so follow me to stay up to date and to carry on the children’s learning consistently <3
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 1
Week 2
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Want to get the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 4 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on 4 different forms of poetry (haiku, acrostic, kenning & shape poems). Chapters 8 - 11 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 8-11 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 online research, identifying syllables and poetry writing.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
35-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Kenning Poetry worksheet
Acrostic Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry Challenge worksheet
Counting Syllables worksheet (& answers)
Haiku Worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup & Toothless 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?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 5
X Week 6
Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
A pack of 2 chapter-projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 9 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar and creative themed.
~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~
JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home.
She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages.
Chapter 1 Project:
With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 1 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Chapter 2 Project
With 5 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities and worksheets provided), children will work through the second chapter: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context.
Included:
PDF version of the Chapter 2 Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Hello Fellow Teachers,
Here is a large pack for an entire unit of diary writing lessons. It’s a week long, and all of the planning, resources, evaluations, examples, success criteria and word banks are provided!
Even included two fonts for you so that you can edit the .doc format files at your leisure!
Hopefully all of the above should help to turn the focus back to teaching as opposed to all of the other stuff we have to do!
If you’re looking for home-learning projects, here are links to the resources I’ve put together for whilst the children are distance learning and off school.
LKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-lks2-home-learning-project-12282480
UKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-6-week-english-project-for-ks2-12269809
Apocalypse themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/apocalypse-6-week-english-project-12270297
Detective themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/detectives-7-week-english-project-12270301
Romans & Celts themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romans-and-celts-home-learning-project-12278939
Week 5 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on personification, rhyming poetry and text comprehension using evidence from the text.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 12-14 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 using personification to describe, writing rhyming poetry in the ABCB pattern and providing evidence when answering comprehension questions.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 12, 13, 14 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Identifying Personification worksheet
The Story So Far worksheet
Personification in Poetry worksheet
Rhyming Poem Example worksheet
Poetry Write-Up worksheet
Chapter 14 Comprehension worksheet
Newspaper Article Challenge worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon 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?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 4
X Week 6
**Want to save money on the whole unit? **
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 6 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on character description, prediction and planning, writing and editing a sequel.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 15-19 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 using textual evidence to predict future plot lines, describing characters using ‘show not tell’ and writing at length.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Making Predictions worksheet
Describing the Green Death worksheet
Evidence from Text worksheet
Book Review worksheet
Story Mountain Planning worksheet
Introduction Drafting & Editing worksheet
Sequel Write-Up worksheet
Front & Back Cover Design Challenge worksheet
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon 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?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 4
X Week 5
**Want to save money on the whole unit? **
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
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
Mega Teaching Pack for the Past, Present & Future Tenses in the Simple, Progressive & Perfect forms.
This resource includes:
Past tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Past tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Present tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Present tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
Future tense worksheets in all 3 forms
Future tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms
All answer sheets
All Word document versions to assist with editing to your students’ needs
2 fonts to assist with editing in the same style
Teaching tenses can be frustrating for many reasons- we were never taught grammar to this extent before, making resources can be tedious and it can be difficult to make them entertaining!
For that reason, and to help out other teachers who are DONE making tenses worksheets time and time again, I thought I’d upload the unit I created and teach with year in and year out!
Miss Austin
A pack of 4 chapter-based projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 20 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar, punctuation, reading and creative themed.
~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~
JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home. She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages.
With each project file, you will receive:
PDF version of the Home Learning project
Editable .docx Word document version of the project
2 fonts to edit resources with
Chapter 1 Project:
With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country.
Chapter 2 Project
5 tasks, made to be set daily, see children work through the second chapter of The Ickabog by JK Rowling: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context.
Chapter 3 & 4 Project
Set across 5 tasks, children work through the 3rd and 4th chapters and are introduced to five key reading skills: inference, summary, questioning, comprehension and synthesis. Each task dives deep into each skill allowing children to access the text on a continually higher level.
Chapter 5 & 6 Project
Set across another 5, jam-packed tasks, children dive deep into understanding, recognizing and using apostrophes for both contraction and possession whilst working through chapters 5 & 6. The activities include conversion tables, spotting apostrophe errors in Chouxville shop signs and placing apostrophes before or after the ‘s’ depending on singular or plural possession.
Aimed to ensure no child is left behind, these recovery curriculum expectations grids outline key, end-of-year expectations for Key Stage 2 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English.
In each document, the previous year’s expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the current year’s expectations. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020.
How do I use this product?
I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed.
They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources.
Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups.
In each product (separated by year group), you get access to:
PDF versions of the A4 tables
National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation
.docx Word Document versions of the A4 tables to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses
1 font to edit Word documents with
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