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

Hi there, In this pack are many resources surrounding the Literacy Evolve topic of Bicho the animation. Resource: - reading comprehension questions - powerpoint of LO’s and lesson structures - starter activity looking at camera shots - planning sheet for sequel (characters and setting) differentiated - examples of expected work

Hi All! Here’s a 2 lesson pack including 3-way differentiated worksheet, which can be used as homework or classwork, and a prescriptive powerpoint. Enjoy!

Hi there! This resource bundle includes two activities three days of resources and two presentations to help the delivery of those lessons. They include: creating a glossary of new vocabulary related to film scripts, storyboarding a movie, discussion of camera angles etc.

Here’s a nice, beefy pack of resources for Spiderwick Chronicles: Field Guide. Comprehension, setting description, IT collage for text detective work etc.

Hi All! Here’s a pack of resources that can be used for diary entries and descriptions of Mr Morris Lessmore (and his fantastic flying books, of course!) There are differentiated writing frames, worksheets that’re attractive for presenting work and photos for stimuli. Enjoy :)

Hi there! At my school, the children’s homework generally all leads toward a final goal of creating a book or portfolio. I find these homeworks are great to incite excitement in a topic, to embed organisational skills and very fun to mark!

Hi there! This is a 7-week homework project that I use for my year 5 English class. The children absolutely love it because it allows for creative freedom and using art skills in English homeworks. I find projects work much better in getting children hooked on a topic and, consequently, there work is so much more interesting and impressive. This project’s about a theft that has occurred in Harcourt Manor- they need to become detectives to work out who the thief was…

Hi All! At the private school that I work at, we do Writing Portfolios to assess the children’s English skills 3 times a year. Each time we do one, we have a stimulus presentation and we all use the same planning sheet. This can be used from years 3-6 and is differentiated accordingly. There’re 2 different planning sheets to suit different abilities and to ensure the planning aspect is standardised across the school. Enjoy!

Here’s a resource for locating similes, metaphors and personification in context. Children have to underline in different colours to show they can find each type! Differentiated three ways.

Hi Everybody! Here’s a pack full of Year 3-level (yet differentiated for ability) resources that are focussed on grammar and writing. They’re Egypt themed, too! I hope this helps. Any questions, shoot them my way.

Here’s a differentiated resource (that I used for homework) about fronted adverbials; spotting them in context and using independently.

A pack of resources that includes two comprehension activities based around Erik The Viking book by Terry Jones. There’re also some grammar activities.

Planning and write-up sheet for a setting description focussing on scents, sights and sounds. This work is based on The Uncommoners: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell.

Here is a quick and easy isolated gramma rlesson on commonly-misspelled words. There’s a task on of/off, our/are and a challenge, matching activity for to/too. It’s differentiated in regards of expectation too! Enjoy!

Hello, fellow teachers! Here’s a pack of resources for teaching past and present tenses using simple and progressive forms. There is a differentiated resource for converting between them, including challenges and extensions. There is also a powerpoint presentation for inputting the lesson!

Hello Fellow Teachers, Here is an apocalypse adventure-themed, home learning project that will be used whilst the children are off school- it’s perfect for distance learning due to the tasks being able to be completed independently. This resource spreads across 6 tasks (could be set weekly or daily) which last for an hour-long each. The tasks included follow these learning objectives: LO: To write dystopian narrative LO: To write anon-chronological research report LO: To write a fictional recount LO: To write an instruction text LO: To use non-verbal communication to portray character emotion LO: To write in 3rd person, past tense This task would work great for high-ability KS2 (Key Stage 2) or Key Stage 3 (KS3) children. I upload my tasks as both an editable .docx / Word document, and as a PDF in case the alignment doesn’t work on your computers. If you’re looking for other home-learning projects, here are links to the other resources I’ve put together for my KS2 children. 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 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

Romeo & Juliet Introductory Guided Reading Packet – Predictions, vocabulary choice, Shakespeare quotes and prepositional phrases. This download includes a Guided Reading packet with 4 independent activities suitable for children aged 7-11. Children will make predictions for the text based on a front cover and blurb, analyse Shakespearean quotes and relate them to modern sentiments, analyse the effect vocabulary choice has on emotion of the reader and find prepositional phrases in the text. Everything you need to deliver the objectives above is included. This download includes: 6-page PDF document of the guided reading packet (inc. title & quote answer page) 6-page editable .docx Word document version of the guided reading booklet Space for teacher marking/comments/assessment at the bottom of each page Learning Objectives clearly stated on each page with clear progression Word banks and sentence starter suggestions for prediction task Two fonts to edit resources with I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress. Thank you and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Used when writing descriptions or a sequel to the novel How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell, this resource allows children to be creative when writing at length. PDF & Word document versions provided for layout and editing purposes. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this 2-pack of resources allows children the space to write their own sequel, present their work neatly and even design their own front and back cover. This resource could be used as a write-up sheet for character descriptions, as a book layout for writing a sequel or prequel to the story or for writing an in-depth book review. Other How to Train Your Dragon resources: X How To Train Your Dragon: Entire 6-week English Unit Pack X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 1 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 2 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 3 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 4 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 5 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 6 X How To Train Your Dragon: Book Review

COVID-19 has flummoxed us all, and it is vital that we ensure none of the children in our care get left behind in any facet of English language learning. This Recovery Curriculum document outlines key, end-of-year expectations for Year 4 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English. In this document, Year 3 expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the Year 4 expectation. 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 this download: PDF version of the A4 table National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation .docx Word Document version of the A4 table to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses 1 font to edit Word document with Looking for the rest of Key Stage 2 English recovery expectations? Year 3 Year 5 Year 6 Entire KS2 Recovery Curriculum Expectations