Planning ideas plus ready-to-use resources for a Literacy unit based on Room on the Broom. Suitable for KS1, but all ideas are flexible and can be adapted for other classes. If this is useful to you, please leave a review!

Planning ideas plus ready-to-use resources for a Literacy unit based on The Smartest Giant in Town. Suitable for KS1, but all ideas are flexible and can be adapted for other classes. If this is useful to you, please leave a review!

A ready-to-use full lesson powerpoint on writing a newspaper report, aimed at lower KS2, but easily adaptable for any class. Based on Mrs Twit Goes Ballooning Up and Mrs Twit Comes Ballooning Down from The Twits by Roald Dahl. Includes starter activity on past tense verbs, model text, identifying features activity, comprehension questions and 2 printable blank templates for children to write their own report. I’ve set it in Scarborough, but you can edit it to include the name of your town and local landmarks!

Planning ideas plus ready-to-use resources for a literacy unit on Giraffes Can’t Dance. Suitable for Key Stage 1. All ideas are flexible and can easily be adapted for any class. If this is useful to you, please leave a review!

Lots of ideas for a Literacy unit using the book Katie in London by James Mayhew, plus worksheets and teaching resources. Created for a Year 3 class but could be adapted for other year groups. Please leave a review if this is helpful to you.

Some ideas and resources for planning a Literacy unit for KS1 based on Superworm by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Some ideas for lessons based on the book - can be adapted for any class. Includes worksheets suitable for pupils working below Year 1 or 2 standard. If you find this useful, please leave a review!

Here are lots of ideas for teaching the book Paddington by Michael Bond, aimed particularly at Year 1. These ideas are not prescriptive in any way, and can be adapted/changed to suit any class. The series of lessons can be done over any period of time from a couple of lessons to a few weeks, depending on the interests of the class. If you find any of these ideas useful, please leave a review!

Celebrate the world's greatest stortyteller! Suitable for Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2. Powerpoint to introduce the character, with whole-class and paired activities to reinforce language, plus template for writing children's own description. This could be done in one lesson or two. Powerpoint has notes with each slide giving tips for teaching. If you like this, please leave feedback!

Poem in French to practise Halloween vocab/colours/rhyming words etc. Includes ideas for use/teaching notes and links with KS2 Framework for MFL. Parts of the Powerpoint can be omitted/changed if required.

Very simple presentation of Je m'appelle... plus names of Roald Dahl characters. Can be printed out as flashcards.

Powerpoint to teach the words for the days of the week linked with the names of the planets.

This powerpoint is about Barney Bear's trip to Nice in France for the Mardi Gras carnival. He watches the parades and joins in by wearing a colourful mask and eating carnival food. I am quite new to teaching EYFS - any constructive feedback gratefully accepted!

Powerpoint activity to get pupils thinking about the differences between summer and autumn and making their own 'poems' in French. Their examples could use vocab for different foods/clothing/types of weather etc.

This powerpoint is a lesson to introduce the simple future with JE VAIS plus some common verbs.

Easter version of the well-known action rhyme 'Two little dicky birds'.

Song to fit with Metro 2 red Module 2. This song uses the language On pourrait aller.... to the tune of The animals went in two by two. My top set Year 8s enjoyed singing it and then making up further verses of their own.

Simple Powerpoint to practise rooms of the house and colours. To make sentences such as 'Il y a un oeuf jaune dans la cuisine' etc

Easter version of 2 little dicky birds. As usual, pupils can recite this while doing the actions!

Simple German action rhyme based on '5 little ducks went swimming one day'. Good for practising counting backwards!

Simple German song, to the tune of 'She'll be coming round the mountain.' Pupils can do an action for each verb mentioned! Older pupils could even use a dictionary to look up new verbs and make up verses of their own.