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Upper KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklets Bundle! (aligned with the New Curriculum)
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!)
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Travel Writing Lesson Bundle!
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
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Writing for Different Forms Huge Bundle!
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;
- Writing to Argue/Persuade;
- Travel Brochure Writing;
- Travel Writing: Constructing Imaginative Content;
- Travel Writing: Crafting Imaginative Language;
- Travel Writing: Creating Imaginative Structures;
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!
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Popular Fiction KS2 Comprehension Activity Booklets Big Bundle!
This bundle contains 7 fantastic comprehension activity booklets - each is over 20 pages in length, and focuses upon a different popular classic text.
The resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful activities - perfect for use throughout class reading of texts or equally 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.
There are booklets included for the following texts:
- The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
- A Series of Unfortunate Events -The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
- Billionaire Boy - David Walliams
- Charlotte’s Web - E.B White
- Holes - Louis Sachar
- Skellig - David Almond
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - C.S Lewis
There are a huge range of activities! A PDF of each booklet is also provided, to prevent formatting issues.
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The Woman in Black Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Susan Hill’s ghost story ‘The Woman in Black.’ 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, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Hill’s language devices.
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.
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A Christmas Carol Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. 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, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ language devices.
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.
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What Were They Like? Resources Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Denise Levertov’s ‘What Were They Like?’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Levertov’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
The 16 page comprehension booklet;
A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included 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.
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KS1 Significant Individuals Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included are knowledge organisers about:
Nelson Mandela;
Neil Armstrong;
Florence Nightingale;
Stephen Hawking;
Marie Curie;
Elizabeth I;
Winston Churchill;
Martin Luther King.
Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in the Individual’s Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Life Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
Each resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Descriptive Writing Huge Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Help-Sheets, Games, and More!)
This giant bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities.
Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for:
-Amazing verbs and adverbs
-Adventurous adjectives
-Astonishing alliteration
-Capturing the readers' attention
-Exceptional expanded noun phrases
-Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons
-Structuring and organising creative writing
-Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors
-Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world
-Writing about Emotions
-VCOP - vocabulary
-VCOP - openers
-VCOP - connectives
-VCOP - punctuation
There are also a number of games and help-sheets, including:
- All 8 writing purpose help-sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)
- Literacy writing mat
-2 'Pointless' games
- Templates (Newspapers, Blogs, Postcards, etc.)
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Macbeth: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Plans, Resources, Everything!)
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 'Macbeth.' 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, in addition to a fun Pointless game!
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Descriptive Writing Big Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Help-sheets, Games, and More!)
This big bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities.
It is a slightly streamlined version of the Descriptive Writing Huge Bundle (minus the VCOP lessons, as those teaching slightly older/more advanced students may not need these lessons.)
Individually, these items amount to 27 pounds. Therefore the saving that you can make from purchasing the bundle is 70%!
Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for:
-Amazing verbs and adverbs
-Adventurous adjectives
-Astonishing alliteration
-Capturing the readers' attention
-Exceptional expanded noun phrases
-Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons
-Structuring and organising creative writing
-Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors
-Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world
-Writing about Emotions
There are also a number of games and help-sheets, including:
- All 8 writing purpose help-sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)
-Descriptive writing assessment and mark scheme
-Descriptive writing - knowing the words inside out posters.
- Literacy writing mat
-2 'Pointless' games
- Templates (Newspapers, Blogs, Postcards, etc.)
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An Inspector Calls Lesson Bundle!
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.
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Classifying Animals Lesson, Resources, and Pointless Game!
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!
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A Christmas Carol Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
- 'Context: 19th Century Britain' - to aid students with 'Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;'
- 'Dickens' Description' - to aid students with 'Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;'
- 'The Ghost of Christmas Past' - to aid students with 'Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;'
- 'Editing the Text' - to aid students with 'Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.'
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
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KS2 Negative Numbers!
This stimulating and comprehensive enables students to count forwards and backwards through zero using negative numbers, and to solve number problems and practical problems involving negative numbers, including using negative numbers in context.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Defining, exemplifying, and understanding the basic rules of calculations involving negative numbers, through clear and simple explanations;
Demonstrating their understanding through well-differentiated application and challenge activities;
Applying their understanding to real-life problems, for example temperatures, budgets and balances;
Gauging their own understanding through both AfL activities and self-reflection tasks.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - clear and precise, colourful and comprehensive;
Bronze, Silver, and Gold level award worksheets - carefully differentiated and provided in both Word and PDF;
Teacher answer sheets;
A detailed teacher lesson plan;
A number line;
I have previously taught this to children in years 5 and 6, although with suitable adaptations it could be used for children between years 3-9.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I've also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of characters, plot, and themes in 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.'
Round 1. The characters in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Round 2. Quotations from the text
Round 3. Settings, themes, and objects
Round 4. Similarities between Bruno and Shmuel
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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Animal Farm: Squealer (Double Lesson!)
These resources enable students to understand and analyse the character of Squealer in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding his role in within the consolidation of Napoleon’s dictatorship. Students also demonstrate their understanding of chapters 7 and 8, with a particular emphasis upon the actions of Squealer. There are easily enough resources here for two lessons.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge of 'propaganda' through a discussion-based starter task;
- Using an interactive, out-of-seat, group activity to build understanding of the features of propaganda;
- Reading chapters 7 and 8 with a particular focus on the character of Squealer, and demonstrating their understanding through a related activity sheet;
- Developing their understanding of Squealer's actions, and finding textual evidence to back this up, through a scaffolded, retrieval activity;
- Using their imaginative and creative skills, in addition to their knowledge of Squealer and propaganda posters, to construct their own propaganda poster for Animal Farm;
- Peer assessing their partners' learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Squealer's Propaganda worksheet;
- Four propaganda texts for group analysis;
- Template for recording group analysis;
- Chapters 7 and 8 worksheet (plus teacher answer sheet);
- Copies of Chapters 7 and 8.
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Animal Farm: The Rise of the Pigs!
These resources enable students to understand and analyse the rise of the pigs towards power in chapters 3 and 4 of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations about the emergence of the various characters as leaders on the farm, with appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating prior knowledge through a discussion-based starter task;
- Reading chapters 3 and 4 and demonstrating their understanding through a related group quiz activity;
- Developing their understanding of the changing nature of characters, and their allegorical ties, through a quotation retrieval mind mapping task;
- Analysing the allegorical nature of the pigs, by further exploring their characteristics in relation to those of the communist Russian leaders of the early 20th century;
- Peer assessing their partners' learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Analytical paragraphs worksheet;
- Mind-mapping activity template;
- Copies of Chapters 3 and 4.
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Triangulation of T+L Quality: Grids for Observations, Book Monitoring, and Pupil Progress
This resource pack is comprised of:
1.) Observation & Learning Walk Performance Grid
2.) Marking and Feedback Performance Grid
3.) Pupil Progress Performance Grid
For use alongside lesson observations, learning walks, book monitoring, and discussions about pupil progress, these succinct performance grids enable observers to gauge, categorise, and feedback on teaching and learning using OFSTED guidance for effective teaching. The documents provide descriptors of 'outstanding', 'good', 'requires improvement' and 'inadequate' practice within appropriately considered teaching and learning focus areas, for example: Questioning, Positive Feedback, Use of Additional Adults, Noticing Data Trends and Plotting Interventions etc. Schools who opt to grade individual teachers on their performance have noted that these are helpful aids in arriving at an overall judgement.
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New GCSEs Grades 1-9 - Answers to the Key Questions.
I have used this resource to explain the new GCSE changes to other staff, governors, and parents. Feedback has been that it is clear, concise, and answers some of the key questions. In the document, I have addressed:
- What changes have already taken place?
- When do the changes take place?
- How do the new grades equate to the old grades?
- Why are the changes necessary?
- What are the changes to the English GCSE?
- What are the changes to the Maths GCSE?
- How will school performance now be judged?
Also attached is a visual representation of how the new GCSE grades map onto the old GCSE grades. Within the PowerPoint are a number of links to key information provided by the DfE and OFQUAL. Hope this helps!