I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
I am a primary school teacher and assistant head. I love my job and my aim is to produce high quality teaching resources that motivate learners and make life easier for teachers! All of my resources are ready to teach, differentiated and easy to adapt.
I don't make resources just to sell, all uploads have been made to be used in my own classroom. Therefore, I can vouch for their suitability, pitch and quality.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on the use of varied openers in a narrative
This is lesson 5 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete unit of 7 lessons, covering narrative objectives for upper KS2. Children apply the learning in the final lesson when they write a short story based on a fantasy setting.
**Objectives covered include: **
To use advanced punctuation
To use modal verbs
To use slow writing to develop my techniques.
To develop dialogue for advancing the action.
To understand and apply the structure of a short story.
There is a presentation for each lesson and all resources are included.
All images are from PIXABAY,
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on developing a character tone and voice (and maintaining it)
This is lesson 9 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson and resources for chapter 6 of the book ' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L Baum. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on the themes, motifs and symbols of the novel.
The lesson is also available as part of a scheme of work that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.The original text is in the public domain and available online.
The lesson is part of a scheme that is based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as narrative, non-fiction and descriptive writing skills. Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Scheme of work available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-wizard-of-oz-full-narrative-scheme-of-work-12-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11679928
All images sourced from Pixabay. Original illustrations are in the public domain.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to integrate dialogue in a narrative
This is lesson 7 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOR EFFECT
This is lesson 11 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson is a mid unit warm task to evaluate progress. It could also be used as a Big Write session.
This is lesson 8 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here:
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A series of 4 Poetry lessons, that teach and revise form poetry:
1. haiku
2. kenning
3. calligrams
4. concrete
Linked to the theme of winter (and animals) , chdn create a different type of poem each day.
All resources, presentations and resources are included.
A complete English lesson, based around Alan Peat’s DE:DE Sentences. Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated)
Children will learn about the special sentence type, practice writing them as a class, before completing independent work containing them. Fully differentiated 3 ways.
The lesson has a dragon/monster theme.
All images are sourced from PIXABAY.
Outstanding lesson - Judged by HMI inspection. I originally planned this lesson when coaching and mentoring a year 4 teacher, to model challenge for the more able and guided groups.
I updated and redrafted the plan to teach the lesson myself in year 5 for a HMI inspection, in 2014 for which the lesson was judged outstanding.
All resources are included, and a Prezi presentation (which is fully editable and accessible on any computer with internet access)
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A complete English lesson, written for year 5/6 and differentiated 3 ways.
The objective covered is mood and tone, with a starter that looks at sentence and cohesion for sense.
The planning uses the animated film: Alma, by Rodrigo Blaas, which is available on Youtube.
All images are public domain from pixabay.com
A complete scheme of work, presentations and resources for the book ’ Skellig ’ by David Almond. Aimed at Upper KS2 but easily adaptable. Each lesson is differentiated at least 3 ways.
All lessons are ready to go (the only thing missing is the book!). This unit is genuinely ready to reach and planned to a high quality.
Each lesson is also available separately and includes a presentation and all resources.
. Editable versions are included wherever possible.
Lessons are based on the understanding of the text and its themes, as well as key narrative, and descriptive writing skills. Coverage includes: personification , Precise language choices, description of setting and character, perspectives, foreshadowing, point of view, figurative devices and more.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for a unit on DESCRIPTIVE WRITING (winter themed) in Upper KS2 (Year 6) Although part of a scheme, it is also able to be taught as a standalone lesson.
The lesson focuses on the types of errors that we can make when writing sentences EG:
Fragments
Run-ons
Missing words
Punctuation errors
Tenses
The class explore these by looking at extracts together, before going onto proofread and edit extracts for themselves. The final task is then to repeat these activities with a piece of their own (previously done) writing.
This is lesson 2 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is also available as a bundle The planning for the whole unit of work is included in each individual lesson.
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing the cold task again as a hot task - in order to demonstrate progress.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman.
This lesson is ready to teach and covers the use of varying our sentence types in narrative writing. it is based around chapter 1 of the book.
This is lesson 3 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is also available
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing a dilemma story
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete set of plans for year 4. Written to last 1 week but could be stretched into 2 quite easily - at the end of which, the class will write an explanation text linked to the process of mummification (however, this could be linked to any process EG: opening a tomb, getting through the afterlife, becoming a Pharoah etc )
Written and taught as part of a wider topic on Ancient Egypt.
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A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for a unit on DESCRIPTIVE WRITING (winter themed) in Upper KS2 (Year 6) Although part of a scheme, it is also able to be taught as a standalone lesson.
The lesson focuses on how to describe a setting or character precisely, by using figurative language and devices
The class explore these by looking at extracts together, before going onto try the techniques for themselves.
This is lesson 5 in a series of 8. The whole scheme of work is also available as a bundle The planning for the whole unit of work is included in each individual lesson.
The whole scheme includes a cold and a hot task, and culminates in the class writing the cold task again as a hot task - in order to demonstrate progress.
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ The London Eye Mystery’ by Siobhan Dowd. (lesson 11 in a series of 14).
Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to structure and write an effective resolution and ending.
This is lesson 11 in a series of 14. The whole scheme of work is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-london-eye-mystery-full-scheme-of-work-14-days-of-planning-presentation-and-resources-11696150
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
All images sourced from Pixabay.
A complete DOUBLE lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’The Boy In The Striped Pyjama’s ’ By John Boyne
This is a lesson thattakes the children though planning and writing a story based around the themes of the novel
This is lesson 12 in a series of 12. The whole scheme of work is available.
The whole scheme includes 12 full lessons, each fully resourced, and including a detailed PPT. The scheme culminates in the class writing a short story, along a similar theme to the original text, using all of the descriptive techniques learned and developed during the series of lessons. The unit begins with a cold task, and ends with the short story planning and writing (hot task)
This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing.
Images sourced from Pixabay.
This is a full week of detailed planning , based around King Richard the third, and the discovery of his body in Leicester. The final lesson also uses Michael Morpurgo’s Story linking the Leicester cup win to Richard!
On the planning, there is a link to a fully adaptable Prezi presentation which accompanies the planning.
Linked to my other Wars of the Roses resources and planning, as they were taught as part of a cross curricular topic (the plan also stands alone though)
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A set of 2 complete writing lessons. Each lesson has a seperate PowerPoint and resources. The only thing that is missing is a range of leaflets to look through (web link for download and printing of PDF leaflets is included)
The aim of the lessons is to analyse and apply the features of ZOO attraction leaflets. The children will create a leaflet for a fictitious zoo. The lesson is linked to a Charles Darwin topic, however it is very easily adapted if necessary as all resources are fully editable.
IMages sourced from PIXABAY
Charles darwin images are used with permission from ARTIFEX (teacherspayteachers.com/store/artifex )
and are non reproducable without prior purchase or consent.