This is a set of resources that I use for my year 3 and 4 group.
They are Egyptian themed so that they can link in with humanities topic.
Shape poems are a great introduction to writing in a poetic structure for children, and the shapes offered in this pack are: canopic jars, a sarcophagus and a pyramid.
I modelled the pyramid shape to the class so that my lower ability group had more input tailored to them.
LO: To write a topical shape poem
Home Learning, project-based activities, perfect for distance learning or homework.
This is a ‘design your own country’-themed, distance learning project that will be used whilst the children are off school. This resource spreads across 4 tasks (these could be set weekly or daily) which last for an hour each. The activities see children coming across a new, previously-undiscovered country- they’ll need to: - Write a fact file about biome, climate, fauna and flora found in the country
Create a new currency for the inhabitants
Develop a new written language and decipher messages in code
Write the laws for their citizens to follow!
This download includes:
PDF version of the 4-task home learning project
Word Document version of the home learning project for editing
2 fonts for editing .docx Word documents
England: This task would work great for KS2 (Key Stage 2) and it fits in with the Year 3 national curriculum expectation
My Distance Learning Projects
Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing and creativity in a variety of areas.
X Distance Learning Project: Apocalypse Theme
X Distance Learning Project: Detective Theme
X Distance Learning Project: Space Theme
X Distance Learning Project: Island Explorer Theme
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress!
Thank you, and 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
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
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.
Hi!
In this bundle, there are three potential interview lessons covering the following LO’s.
LO: To understand and use subordinate clauses
LO: To understand and implement the processes behind mathematical word problems
LO: To use adventurous vocabulary to describe characters
In each pack, there’s a TA deployment sheet, an extensive plan, a lesson prompt, a powerpoint and all the differentiated resources provided.
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
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
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
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