In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively describe characters including their appearance, personality/ behaviour and special traits. They will look at a range of book extract describing characters looking at this in practice. They will then look at the character description of Miss Trunchbull and be tasked to identify the different descriptions before writing their own character description using the plan and word banks provided. All plans and word banks are included. This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn what the stages of a story mountain are from beginning- build up- problem- resolution and ending. They will look at an example story and pick out each part before writing a story mountain plan as a class for the film Frozen. Following this, they will work in groups to write their own story mountain plan for a film they know well before moving on to doing the same for their own imaginative stories. This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can be easily modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will look at what makes a setting description effective. They will learn how to use expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language when describing a setting and will be tasked to identify these in setting descriptions. They will then develop their ideas for their own settings using group discussion, drama and the plan provided. All of the task resources for this lesson are included. This lesson is appropriate for KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below: -Introduction to science fiction -Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text -Character development -Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type -Boxing up the model text -Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending -Children independently write their own stories Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more! This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn about the British Empire before the Victorian era and how is developed throughout the Victorian period due to Britain’s military and industrial dominance. They will learn about the trade and imports from different countries across the empire and will be tasked to label countries on a map from 1920. They will then use research methods to match up the countries with what products were imported. Finally, they will learn why the British Empire came to an end. All resources for this lesson are provided. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide! The powerpoint covers: Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun) Prepositions Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions Main & subordinate clauses Relative clauses Modal verbs Determiners Prefixes and suffixes Root words Subject-verb agreement Pronouns Active & passive voice Synonyms & antonyms Progressive tense Perfect tense Word classes Hyphens Colons, semi-colons and dashes Apostrophe for contraction and possession

In this lesson, students will learn about why crime became such as problem in the Victorian era and how a police force and harsh punishments were brought in to solve the problem. They will learn about what punishments were given in schools, prisons and for more serious crimes. They will be tasked to enact short dramas based on the stories given and to then write a newspaper article focusing on one of the stories in detail (proforma provided). All resources for this lesson are provided. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This supportive resource will help students understand how to accurately write and punctuate speech. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn that a mixture is a combination of two or more substances that aren’t chemically joined and can be separated back into their individual substances. They will learn that there are two types of mixtures: heterogeneous and homogeneous and will look at examples of each. They will then look at how these mixtures can be separated before completing a quiz on what they have learnt. Following this, they will carry out 3 investigations of separating mixtures. They will follow the experiment proforma to help them organise, record and analyse their observations before discussing their experiments as a class. This lesson is one of 6 lessons on Properties and Changes of Materials. To view the other lessons, please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou/Primary science

This presentation was given as a staff training on the importance of reading. It incorporates my own research on the importance of intrinsic motivation and the benefits reading can bring. This is a FREE resource- enjoy! If you have enjoyed this resource and would like to see more of my resources, please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou