i have written this 5 week plan, and gathered/made resources for it for my year 6 class. This is in preparation for this years SPAG test. I will need to upload the other resources in a separate post. The videos referred to are the grammaropolis songs available on u tube Please comment ... It is polite as they are hard work :)

RESOURCES TO ACCOMPANY THE PLANS UPLOADED EARLIER adverb ppt fixed :)

How networks (including the internet) work. A Half term planning unit and all resources for the new curriculum. Written for year 6 but could be adapted. Please leave a comment! I would love to know if you have used/adapted it for your own use.

2 weeks planning for persuasive speech writing. Written for my Year 6 class but could be adapted. My class found it challenging but loved it - some great writing came from it too. All resources have been included, I have also made 2 prezi presentations available on-line. (link is in the resources) Please comment if useful. It would be lovely to know if my hard work has helped someone :)

A 2 week plan, based on ancient greek play scripts. All of the resources are also here for you. Some have been adapted from elsewhere so thank you in advance for any inspiration received! I wrote this plan for my year 4 class but it is easily adapted for other year groups. Please comment if you have used it !

2 week unit planned for year 6. Based on the Jabberwocky and other poems by Lewis Carroll. All of week 1 resources are included.

A unit of work all about the country of Spain. Written with year 4 in mind, but easily adaptable up or down

Written for my year 6 class, children loved the text and really enjoyed the unit. Links perfectly with a Victorian history topic.

I wrote this medium term plan as part of my spain topic, please let me know if you find it useful :-)

Written as a revision unit for my year 6 class. Based on the short film 'The mystery of mister hollow;' (available on the literacy shed website) Plan is for one week, all resources are included. Chdn write a newspaper report at the end of the week. (could easily be stretched over 2 weeks, if editing and redrafting)

A complete unit of art, based around the underground railroad/freedom quilt tradition. Perfect for a cross curricular topic on the Caribbean and its history (linked to the slave trade) Children learn about the underground railroad movement, its songs and also its symbolic artwork. They go onto make quilt squares depicting these symbols. Please comment and let me know if this has been useful to you :)

A unit of work and most of the resources for Toro Toro by Michael Morpurgo (and several other short films and stories set in spain) Written for year 4 and linked to our Spain topic The films (ferdinand the bull and Toro ( actually called ole on you tube) are available on you tube) Hope that it helps someone!

The last 2 weeks of resources for the planning previously uploaded.

A few more resources that I made to support the unit already uploaded :) the referred to in the planning as Toro - is actually called Ole!

This is the second upload for this unit. Please see the other upload for further details. A 3 week unit based around the brilliant book, Street Child by Belie Doherty.

A second week of narrative revision for upper KS2, based on The Immortal Monkey (a short animation available on the literacy shed WEBSITE) Includes all of the resources that I have made/gathered too. Written for year 6 but could easily be adapted Please comment if you use it :)

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for the book ’ PIG HEART BOY’ by Malorie Blackman. Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on adapting writing for impact and effect This is lesson 10 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 ’ KING KONG’ by Anthony Browne. It is differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to create and use effective expanded noun phrases for description. This is lesson 2 in a series of 12. 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 rampaging beast story (along the lines of KIng Kong in NYC) This scheme was incredibly engaging and produced brilliant pieces of writing. All images sourced from Pixabay. Fim images from publicdomain.com

I wrote this unit, based on animated short films to inspire boys writing in my year 6 class. \n\nThe planning focuses on narrative flashbacks and the building of pace and tension in story writing\n\nTwo of the films mentioned in the planning; 'The girl in the war&' and Germans in the woods are available free on the Literacy shed website.\nReplay is available on you tube.\n\nPlease leave feedback, it is useful and really appreciated - these plans are hard work!\n\nPlease comment and rate if you use it.

A complete lesson, PowerPoint and resources for chapter 2 of the book ' The London Eye Mystery' by Siobhan Dowd Differentiated 3 ways. The lesson focuses on how to create a variety of sentence types and how to use the comma correctly. This is lesson 2 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.