used as a stimulus for writing a job application
Spy Kids stimulus
Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
This unit of work is based off the the NCETM Prioritisation and is created to be Y4 Unit 5 which is called ‘7 times tables and patterns’. This is a clear mastery approach to teaching maths.
This contains 7 lessons on this unit, plus an extra addition and subtraction revision lesson at the beginning. The objectives for each lesson are:
Revise column method for addition and subtraction
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lessons follows a structure which will support children’s understanding. There is at least one slide on each of the following:
-Revisit slide (prerequisite skills needed or revision of another previously taught skill)
-Address misconception (a slide that is put here to purposely address misconceptions through discussion, solving a problem)
-Vocabulary slide
-Focus (the teaching of the new skill)
Guided practice
Talk task (a problem to discuss)
Deepen (an opportunity to apply the skill to a deeper question or problem)
Independent practice (3 tasks)
Deepen/next steps (these can be used as feedback marking or trickier problems to give the children to deepen their understanding)
This unit of work is inspired by and based off of the planning from the Emmanuel Project which is attached in these downloads.
There are 5 lessons in this unit of work. There is a range of activites such as: Art, creating posters, debates and writing.
This unit of work has been taught for two years and has been successful each time.
Here are 28 Guided Reading lessons. Each lesson comes with a set of questions based on the reading VIPERS.
Questions are to be stuck in books for children to answer.
This was originally made for a Year 4 class so could easily be adapted up to Year 5 or down to Year 3.
Most lessons have two sets of differentiated questions.
Tasks in this unit include:
Diary writing
sequencing the story
book review
Answering questions
Drawing
This unit of work is inspired by the planning of Power of Reading. Some lessons are the same but I have adapted it to include a writing cycle. The writing cycle supports students by including a grammar lesson, a planning lesson and then the writing lesson.
Power of reading week 1
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Eagle poems)
Power of reading week 2
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Letters)
When referring to the names Amari and Nala, my class gave the characters name so we knew who we were referring to throughout the story. Amari is the farmer’s friend who comes to visit the farmer and is shocked by the eagle. Nala Amari’s wife.
Lessons included are:
Lesson 1: Read and respond to the story ‘Fly Eagle Fly’
Lesson 2: Identify effective vocabulary
Lesson 3: Create a storyboard for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 4: Visualise and draw a setting
Lesson 5: Build a bank of vocabulary to describe an eagle
Lesson 6: Identify and use expanded noun phrases
Lesson 7: Gather information about eagles
Lesson 8: Create a plan for a poem
Lesson 9: Write a poem about an eagle (this can be extended to edit and publish)
Lesson 10: Understand a character’s feelings
Lesson 11: Understand a character’s perspective
Lesson 12: Identify powerful vocabulary
Lesson 13: Answer questions about a text
Lesson 14: Write a book review for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 15: Identify and use prepositions
Lesson 16: Gather information about South Africa
Lesson 17: Create a plan for a letter
Lesson 18: Write a letter (this can be extended to edit and publish)
As part of the ‘States of Matter’ science topic for Year 4.
Here is the powerpoint for the an experiment on which chocolate melts the fastest. Included are visuals, explanations and details of the experiment.
You will need:
cake tray to a cube of chocolate into.
1 small square of white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate.
kettle to boil water
tray
THE EXPERIMENT:
Place one square of chocolate in each cake section of the cake tray.
Place the cake tray inside a tray.
Boil the kettle and pour the water into the tray.
Watch the chocolate melt.
Which one turned into a liquid the quickest?
Place the tray outside and see that it hardens back into a different shape
This Powerpoint essentially contains two lessons on LGBTQ.
This Powerpoint starts with definitions of LGBTQ+.
It contains information and history of the rainbow flag.
It contains the life story of Jin Xing, a transgender Chinese ballet dancer. There is opportunity to see ballet as a dance that requires muscle and strength with the opportunity of creating short ballet routines in groups.
At the end of the Powerpoint is a link to a story called Roxy the Racoon by Alice Reeves. There is an activity to complete that requires children to invent their own inclusive character for a children’s book.
These lessons were made with Year 4 students in mind but is very open to all ages. It is easily accessible and explains things simply in a way that all children should understand.
Inspired by the Emmanuel Project planning.
High quality unit of planning planning that comes with a written plan, Powerpoint and attached resources. This unit of work allows for three pieces of writing as well as practical learning and deep discussion.
Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of karma
Mostly a practical lesson involving the game Snakes and Ladders and how this links to Hinduism.
Lesson 2: Enquire into why karma is important.
More snakes and ladders games in an organised why to represent the key concept of Moksha and Samsara(reincarnation). Key videos to watch to aid understanding. Opportunity for asking deep questions about the concept.
Lesson 3: Explore Hindu ideas of Karma and Samsara through The Jackal and the Drum.
Exploring a hindu story.
2 tasks available: diary entry as the jackal, or a storyboard of the story.
Differentiated tasks attached.
Lesson 4: Explore ways Hindus encourage good karma through Sewa day.
What is Sewa day? Why is this important? Ways in which children could do good deeds.
Introduce Mahatma Ghandi and why he is an important Hindu. Complete factfile about Ghandi.
Lesson 5: Evaluate the Hindu belief in karma through Hindu daily life.
A chance for children to choose how they will represent their learning from this unit.
This is a unit of work for three History lessons on Ancient Maya.
They include:
The Mayan creation story
Mayan Gods
What were Ancient Mayan homes like?
There are a range of activities such as drawing, designing, researching and creating a fact file.
Here are high-quality, well-structured maths lessons created by myself as a maths specialist. I have used a variety of resources from NCETM, White Rose, Maths No Problem and other resources available online.
Each lesson has a clear structure:
Warm up
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
Next Step
This unit of work includes:
1 lesson on plotting coordinates (a rounding up/summarising lesson)
2 lessons on translating shapes
2 lessons on identifying angle types
2 lessons on identifying and creating symmetry
Involved are stem sentences, diagnostic questions, reasoning etc.
Independent practice slide contains ‘now, next, last’ key words to break down the tasks for SEN learners.
Tasks can be copied and pasted from the Powerpoint and printed to stick in their books.
This is a unit of work I have planned, resourced and used from the Understanding Christianity scheme of work. This is ‘Gospel’ and it is aimed at Years 3 and 4.
This is a Powerpoint download of the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of Gospel through parables
A focus on understanding what a parable is and this looks at The Thankful Leper and The Good Samaritan. This has a fill in the gaps task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 2: Enquire into the idea of Gospel
This focuses on understanding why Jesus told the story of The Good Samaritan and what it means to Christians to be a good samaritan. This has a diary entry writing task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 3: Explore ways in which Christians practice Gospel
This focuses on what Christians might do to be a good samaritan and live life how God and Jesus wanted. This looks directly into the charity Christian Aid and what some Christians dedicate their life to. This contains a drawing task.
Lesson 4: Evaluate how Christians can share God’s message
This lesson focuses on rich discussion and writing to answer questions about what kind of world God wants and what kind of world the children want and why. This then goes into an art focus of creating a piece of artwork to encourage others to be kind.
The last slide of this Powerpoint contains ways in which children can express their learning about kindness by suggesting activities they can do to show kindness.
This is not an exact copy of the planning from The Power of Reading. It is inspired by the planning - taking some lessons and elements and combining it with my school’s approach to writing.
Minimum of 14 lessons but another edit and improve session and publishing sessions can be added onto the end making this 16 potential sessions.
Aimed at LKS2, Year 3 and year 4.
Key skills taught in this unit:
Exploration and teaching of rich vocabulary around water
portraying a character’s emotion through verbs and adverbs
Inference skills
Present perfect tense/ past tense
Inverted commas for speech
This unit of work involves: Short bursts of writing involving of personal experiences around water which could be a diary entry but gives freedom of choice, poetry, asking key questions.
It also involves building up skills for children to write about an event that happens in the forest to the main character where he sees something scary in the bushes, runs away and then realises it was only a small animal such as a bunny or an owl. This gives the children opportunity to show, not tell emotions of fear, nervousness and relief.
The next part of the unit of work allows the main character to return home where Isac sees his Mum. This involves a conversation, applying their inverted commas skills. Here he can tell his Mum what happened in the forest and why he was so scared but then felt relieved because it was only an animal.
Planning documents attached. Key worksheets attached and differentiated activities attached.
Each lesson begins with a grammar warm up.
Here is 4 weeks worth of lessons based on The Pebble in My Pocket.
Some lessons are inspired by the planning sequence from The Power of Reading scheme of work which then builds up comprehension and understanding of the text to lead into writing.
Two high quality pieces of writing are planned, modelled, drafted, edited and published including a newspaper report and a persuasive speech on the environment.
Learning objectives for each lesson are:
1 - write a poem about a pebble
(examining and exploring real pebbles)
2 - create an image based on the text
(art inspired by the illustrations)
3 - use rich vocabulary
4 - create a storyboard
5 - identify and use formal language
6 - plan a newspaper report
7 - write a newspaper report
8 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
9 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
10 - respond to illustrations
11 - understand the impact of climate change
12 - explain the impact of climate change
13 - explain the impact of climate change
14 - identify and use emotive language
15 - plan a persuasive speech
16 - write a persuasive speech
17 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
18 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
This unit if work is inspired by the NCETM unit of work for Year 4 - Unit 2 - Numbers to 10,000
Most resources and slides are made by myself but some high quality activities have been clipped from NCETM and White Rose.
The objectives covered per lesson are as follows:
Know what 1000 is made up of (representations up to 1000)
Use knowledge of 1000 to explain and measure conversions
Add multiples of 10
Add multiples of 100
Use knowledge of 1000 to add and subtract
Compare numbers to 10,000
Identify and estimate numbers on a number line
Round to the nearest 1000
Round to the nearest 100
Apply rounding to problems
Add and subtract four digits
Know how many 25’s and 50’s make 1000
This unit of work cross-teaches many topics in maths and includes a lot of capacity and measure problems.
Each lesson follows the lesson slide structure of:
Revisit
Address misconception
Vocabulary
Focus
Talk Task
Guided Practice
Deepen
Next steps (if it aimed to be a lesson that goes into books, which most are)
Learning objectives:
Identify place value
Use column addition with regrouping
Use column addition with regrouping
Use column addition with regrouping twice
Decide on mental or written strategies
Solve addition problems
Identify minuend and subtrahend
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with two exchanges
This is the unit of work is the unit I taught my class at the beginning of the year of Year 4 to recap and re-teach addition and subtraction and deepen further into exchanging.
Each lesson follows the lesson structure of:
Revisit slide
Address misconception
Vocabulary (needed for the lesson ie. addend plus added is equal to the difference)
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Practice
The independent practice slide has first/next/last’ sections to encourage children’s independence.
4 Lessons based on shadow work of Kumi Yamashita.
Learning objectives include:
Analyse the work of Kumi Yamashita
Develop shadow skills and sketching skills
Create art inspired by Kumi Yamashita
Analyse my work
Lessons include practical work with activities like getting mathematical 3D blocks out and torches/lights to create shadows.
Created with Year 3 and 4 in mind.
This unit comes with a Powerpoint for each lesson and attached resources. I have provided SEN/EAL word banks within this unit if work too. Many of the lessons have simplified and differentiated worksheets and tasks for significant SEN and EAL pupils.
There are 13 lessons provided but this can be extended to 19 lessons if you follow my notes below.
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Illustrate the opening of Iron Man.
Lesson 2: Use conjunctions
Lesson 3: Use similes
Lesson 4: Write from Hogarth’s point of view (when he first sees Iron Man)
Lesson 5: Write a diary entry from Hogarth’s point of view
Week 2:
(structured writing cycle)
Lesson 6: Plan a diary entry (More structure for the next diary entry which is about when Hogarth traps Iron Man in a deep hole)
Lesson 7: Write a diary entry
I then used the rest of this week to finish writing, edit writing and publish writing which took this to a whole week)
Week 3:
Lesson 8: Collect impressive adjectives to describe the scrapyard
Lesson 9: Create a piece of art inspired by the scrapyard
‘Extra SPAG lesson expanded noun phrases’ taught here.
Week 4:
Lesson 10: Identify and use similes and metaphors
Lesson 11:Plan a suspenseful horror poem (WAGOLL provided)
Lesson 12: Write a suspenseful horror poem
I then used the rest of week 4 to finish writing, edit and improve, and publish.
You will be downloading a Powerpoint for a series of lessons that cover the following objectives, stated by the NCETM for Year 4:
1 Pupils represent counting in threes as the three times table
2 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of three
3 Pupils use knowledge of the three times table to solve problems
4 Pupils represent counting in sixes as the six times table
5 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of six
6 Pupils use knowledge of the six times table to solve problems
7 Pupils use known facts from the five times table to solve problems involving the six times table
8 Pupils explain the relationship between multiples of three and multiples of six
9 Pupils use knowledge of the relationships between the three and six times tables to solve problems
10 Pupils represent counting in nines as the nine times table
11 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of nine (1)
12 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of nine (2)
13 Pupils use known facts from the ten times table to solve problems involving the nine times table
14 Pupils explain the relationship between multiples of three and multiples of nine
15 Pupils explain the relationship between pairs of three and nine times table facts that have the same product (1)
16 Pupils explain the relationship between pairs of three and nine times table facts that have the same product (2)
17 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of three
18 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of six (1)
19 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of six (2)
The learning objectives of the lessons included in the unit of work are:
1: Identify the multiplier and multiplicand
2: Count in and multiply by 3
3: Count in and multiply by 6
4: find the relationship between 3 and 6 times tables
5: count in and multiply by 9
6: Find links between the 3, 6 and 9 times table
7: Find links between the 3, 6 and 9 times table
8: Identify numbers divisible by 3, 6 and 9 times table.
9: Multiply 3 digit numbers together.
Each lesson follows the structure and has a slide for each step:
Revisit
Address misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided practice
Talk task
Deepen
Independent Practice
Next Step
Lessons come with accompanying worksheets that are structured into Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning tasks. Lessons are also accompanied by next steps which can be stuck into books.
The planning is heavily inspired by the NCETM but I have broken the lessons down into my own PowerPoints to ensure the steps taught are very small so all can access. This unit takes on a mastery approach to teaching maths and has been highly effective in my own classroom.
Included within the powerpoints are visual representations, small tasks for a ping-pong approach, stem sentences, high-level mathematical vocabulary, now/next/last visuals for SEN learners.
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This is a unit of work that is inspired by the planning from NCETM Year 4 Unit 5.
The learning outcomes that the NCETM state are covered in this unit if planning are as follows:
1 Pupils represent counting in sevens as the 7 times table
2 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of seven
3 Pupils use their knowledge of the 7 times table to solve problems
4 Pupils identify patterns of odd and even numbers in the times tables
5 Pupils represent a square number
6 Pupils use knowledge of divisibility rules to solve problems
In this unit of work the learning objectives are the following:
Revise column method for + and -
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lesson follows the Powerpoint slide structure of:
Revisit
Address Misonceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
TalkTask
Deepen
Independent Practice
These lessons follow a mastery approach and have been commented on by OFSTED as being a great tool for great maths teaching.
Print-outs are provided.
The following elements are mastery teaching are used throughout:
stem sentences, generalisations, high-level vocabulary, the slides allow for a ping-pong approach, clear and varied visual representations, opportunities for using resources etc.
Worksheets provided follow the structure of: Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning to ensure progression.
3 of these lessons are not intended to be in books and do not come with ‘next steps’ but the rest do. This is to allow next steps and progress to be een within books for that lesson.