Pirate themed character description worksheet. Differentiated using work banks for children who require more support in developing ideas.

Party invitation encouraging the use of commas when creating lists. Ideal for use when teaching pirates as a topic.

Ideal for a teacher in year 1. Includes a full week's worth of English and Maths planning including some PSHE for the afternoons. English work is based around the poem titled Cats by Eleanor Farjeon.

Pirate themed character description worksheet including marking ladder. Ideal for a key stage 1 class. Includes a word bank to support the children in developing related vocabulary.

2 weeks of guided reading teaching for LKS2 linked to understanding vocabulary. Includes vocab strategies and multiple meaning words. Activities are based on optional year 4 SATs style papers called Feet First. Screen grabs are on the flipchart but the file hasn’t been attached to avoid copyright issues. The tasks are all based on this document which can be downloaded quite easily online.

Handwriting for Key Stage 2 using Fronted adverbials - ISPACE Files include an Activeinspire flipchart and a PDF version. Please ensure you have these programs before you download the file. Activeinspire can be accessed or downloaded for free online.

Guided reading planning for Lower Key Stage 2. Four lessons based on the skill of inference. Includes worksheet for teaching the objective to the whole class as well as a follow up activity. Planning is all on a flipchart.

1 week of English planning linked to pirates including Character descriptions, creating own pirate characters and creating pirate invitations. Perfect to inspire children in writing using the theme of pirates.

Lower Key Stage 2 guided reading planning teaching children the skill of making connections when reading including text to text connections, text to self connections and text to world connections. The flipchart teaches the children how to make connections using a range of different activities.

Handwriting for the autumn term to support your children to develop a thesaurus and help them use a wider vocabulary within their own writing. Planning begins with synonyms and builds to use of show don’t tell strategies. File is an Activeinspire flipchart but also includes a PDF version of the flipchart file.

2 week Performance Poetry planning perfect for year 3/4. Includes build up to understanding and performing poetry and then moving onto writing their own poem using a frame based on a popular poem style. My year group responded very well to this planning and thoroughly enjoyed producing their own poems and performing them to one another. They also loved playing critics and had fun evaluating their own performances as well as those of others. Planning is in the form of a flipchart and includes other necessary resources. Marking ladders for work to be completed are included as well as a modelled text which can be used to model to the children how their poems might sound.