This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game! The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills. Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to: - Define each animal class and understand its features; - Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices; - Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious; - Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers. The resources include: -Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation; -Resources for the card-sorting activity; -A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher); -An investigation log; -Step-by-step lesson plan. To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.

These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 5 and Year 6 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. Both the Year 5 Booklet and the Year 6 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’ - Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ -Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell. All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including: - The Russian Revolution; - Old Major’s Dream; - The Rise of the Pigs; - Dictatorship; - Squealer; - The Ending (Orwell’s Message) Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a range of Love and Relationships poems from the new AQA poetry anthology: - Simon Armitage - Mother, Any Distance - Lord Byron - When We Two Parted - Carol Ann Duffy - Before You Were Mine - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Love's Philosophy - Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of each of the characters in J.B Priestley’s classic play ‘An Inspector Calls.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Priestley. All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. Contained in the bundle are lessons based on: - 1. Arthur Birling; - 2. Sheila and Gerald; - 3. Sybil and Eric Birling Double Lesson; - 4. Inspector Goole (Priestley’s message) - 5. Priestley’s Dramatic Devices - 6. The Context of the Play Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.

These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 through to Year 6 comprehension expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. The Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 Booklets (normally 2 pounds each) are all included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’ - Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ -Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 and Year 4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. Both the Year 3 Booklet and the Year 4 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Boxing - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination’ and ‘Use a dictionary to check the meanings of words that you have read’ - FBI Vocabulary Agent - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ - Organised Ernie - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Say how a text is organised in order to help you understand it, for example using paragraphs, headings, sub-headings, and inverted commas to show speech.’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is over 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of different types and uses of nouns (particularly prominent in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise nouns, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. Within this pack is included: - Exceptional Expanded Noun Phrases; - Collective and Plural Nouns; - Concrete, Abstract, and Compound Nouns All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the teaching and learning of Travel Writing exciting, interesting, and easily accessible for all children. Throughout each lesson, students consider a different element of their writing (content, language, and structure) in order to produce imaginative and appropriate travel writing texts. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. Included are the following lessons: 1. Travel Writing: Crafting Imaginative Content 2. Travel Writing: Constructing Imaginative Language; 3. Travel Writing: Creating Imaginative Structures All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists. Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving! Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach. Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen In Paris with You - James Fenton Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poppies - Jane Weir Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov When We Two Parted - Lord Byron Comparing Poems! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their skills at writing for a number of different forms, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language ideas, tasks, and techniques. Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on: - Diary Writing; - Recount Writing; - Writing Autobiographies; - Writing Newspaper Articles; - Writing Reviews. Also included are helpsheets for students to use when writing for a wide range of purposes (e.g. inform, explain, etc.) Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - there is everything included that you need to teach!

These Roald Dahl resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are activity booklets to accompany the following texts: - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The BFG - Danny, Champion of the World - The Witches - James and the Giant Peach There are a huge range of activities; each booklet is around 20 pages in length!

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of KS2 SPAG concepts (aligned with the newest National Curriculum standards) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all of the worksheets/activity resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a number of conflict poems, each of which are studied as a part of Edexcel’s new English Literature syllabus. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Included are lessons on: - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poppies - Jane Weir - War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy - What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov - PLUS A lesson on how to compare poems! Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of tricky punctuation concepts (which are particularly prominent in the most recent curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. Included are lessons on: - Awesome Apostrophes and Incredible Inverted Commas; - Ellipses, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks; - Using Colons and Semi-colons. The pack also includes a literacy writing mat to help students build their extended writing skills. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

These Roald Dahl resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS1 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are activity booklets to accompany the following texts: - The Twits - Fantastic Mr Fox - Esio Trot - George’s Marvellous Medicine - The Magic Finger There are a huge range of activities; each booklet is around 20 pages in length!

These Roald Dahl resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS1 and KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are 10 activity booklets, which accompany the following texts: - The Twits - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - George’s Marvellous Medicine - Fantastic Mr. Fox - The BFG - Danny, Champion of the World - Esio Trot - The Witches - The Magic Finger - James and the Giant Peach There are a huge range of activities; each booklet is around 20 pages in length!

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.