An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
All the new curriculum writing objectives on one handy sheet for every year group. Separated clearly into transcription, composition and grammar so you can quickly see a child’s strengths and areas for development.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
5 complete English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons, found on the Literacy Shed. Inlcudes 5 PowerPoints, paired and group work, modelled texts, new vocabulary, editing activities, complete inputs, starters and plenaries and differentiation.
Higher order questioning probes deep into this interesting short movie inspiring descriptive writing and progress of writing skills. Engaging and complete Powerpoints provide many opportunities for productive paired, individual and group work.
A range of modelled texts are provided so children can magpie new vocabulary whilst developing their editing, writing and publishing techniques.
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points: relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, editing and improving language, parenthesis, creating an atmosphere, showing change within characters, describing settings, building suspense, summarising, identifying word classes and complex sentences.
Starters include: spellings, synonyms, identifying verbs and adverbs, relative clauses and handwriting.
Lesson 1 - Write a review of the clip responding to an email sent to the class.
Lesson 2 - How to write about playing an instrument on your own - description and atmosphere.
Lesson 3 - How to write about memories in stories, building suspense.
Lesson 4 - Showing change in story characters.
Lesson 5 - Planning your own memory story.
All resources, a detailed plan and 5 PowerPoints are included, just download, print a few documents and your week of English lessons are ready to go. There are writing frames to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
All reviews welcome.
You can also download this as part of a bundle to save money: 2 Weeks of Planning Resources PowerPoints and a Display for The Piano
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A set of 19 Arctic poems written for children to understand, enjoy and learn from. Perfect for teaching a topic on the Arctic. All written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about the Arctic whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
The poems are descriptive whilst using facts to educate and inspire.
Each poem could spark a whole lesson, they start discussions on important geographical issues about the Arctic:
What is the Arctic? What is it like there?
Global warming,
The future of the Sami people,
Understanding Inuit life,
Living with the polar night,
Taking responsibility for our world
Ice burgs
Glaciers
The Inuit Language
Arctic animals
Winter
Each poem comes with a simple explanation of its essential components. The children could use these as a scaffold before going on to write their own poem about the Arctic, or respond in a different way with a letter/poster/story/newspaper article etc.
A range of engaging but easy to imitate poetry styles are used:
Cinquains
Didactic Poems
Etherees
Free Verse
Ghazal Poems
Haikus
All the poems are written by me and the images are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my poems about India
A detailed week covering the imitate phase of learning about discussion texts. Includes open questions, higher order thinking, engaging texts, video links, differentiation, 5 teaching PowerPoints, all resources, worksheets and answers.
Every day starts with an engaging starter focusing on SPAG skills, such as KS2 spellings, parenthesis, conjunctions and handwriting. Extra for experts activities for further challenge and modelled texts to support the lower ability.
Learning Objectives:
To understand a discussion text and identify its features
To identify facts and opinions
To use conjunctions to link ideas in a for or against argument
To write an introduction and conclusion
To plan a discussion text on ‘Is Homework Necessary?’
Main activities differentiated by colour:
Green - LA
Yellow and blue - MA
Red - HA
Highlights:
Ready to teach
All printables provided
KS2 appropriate
Cross curricular links
Differentiated
Check out the follow up week for this unit here.
An engaging and detailed week taking children through the process of writing a discussion text. Each day there are engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Every teaching point comes with at least one modelled text with analysis.
Sequenced learning
Starters review key spellings and grammatical terms from the new curriculum.
Plenaries are written to encourage higher order thinking skills and encourage peer and self assessment.
The main teaching points are:
Writing a high quality introduction,
Structuring a paragraph with PRE
Using facts and opinions in discussion texts,
Using modal verbs and sentence openers,
Ideas of for and against points
Writing a high quality conclusion.
The success criteria are differentiated for three ability groups:
Green - LA
Blue and Yellow - MA
Red - HA
All reviews welcome.
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Exploring and Planning a Discussion text
Discussion text Openers
A complete set of targets for year 6 children. Covers all areas of the national curriculum. Includes at least 52 targets ability grouped and colour coded for the areas of English.
Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 6 writing targets.
Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the New Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
A week’s KS2 English planning focusing on teaching writing skills through a history theme of WW2. Engaging activities, resources and opportunities for discussion all included. A bright and engaging PowerPoint leads you through the week, with starters, modelled examples and plenaries for every lesson.
Lessons cover these learning objectives:
L.O. I know how to use relative clauses in a recount of building a bomb shelter
L.O. I know how to use subordinating conjunctions in a recount of a woman’s day in the war
L.O. I know how to use brackets in a recount of escaping capture
L.O. I know how to use dashes and commas in a recount of a day in a tank
L.O. I know how to edit and improve my writing
Daily starters focusing on: punctuation, handwriting, verb prefixes and modal verbs.
All lessons are differentiated: support for lower ability and challenges for higher ability.
Detailed plan included.
All reviews welcome.
Could be used alongside a WW2 History unit or on its own.
An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more.
Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance.
Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas.
Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion.
All reviews welcome.
A bundle for whole school English leaders.
Use these resources to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound writing targets in years 2-6.
Useful for teachers when writing targets so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
The first week of a 2 week Christmas story unit for KS2. This pack includes 5 PowerPoints to lead you through the learning sequence, modelled texts to inspire and support, a variety of activities to keep the pupils focused and all resources and plan included to save time.
Read the Scandinavian Christmas story about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Explore the story with the pupils and help them to plan a similar story, to write the following week (see links below).
The story has been written to include essential writing skills for year 5 such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. This unit could easily be adapted for other KS2 year groups.
Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, activities designed to suit a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.
KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:
Editing and improving example sentences,
Using relative clauses,
Accurate speech punctuation,
Comparing setting descriptions,
Highlighting writing techniques (relative clauses, sentence openers, adjectives, personification, parenthesis and conjunctions)
Adding in adverbs,
Using similes and metaphors,
Expanded noun phrases.
Engage your pupils with Christmas and develop their writing with these high quality PowerPoints. Each day use the modelled texts to capture their imagination, expand their vocabulary and teach them new skills for KS2. Enhance their progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture.
Check out Week 2 of this unit by clicking here where the children are guided to write their own version of the story.
Or grab a bargain and buy both Christmas Story Writing weeks by clicking here for a Christmas Unit Bundle
All reviews welcome.
For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below:
Scandinavia Geography Unit
Scandinavia Art unit
10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed.
Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work.
Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate).
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points:
relative clauses,
expanded noun phrases,
editing and improving language,
parenthesis,
creating an atmosphere,
showing change within characters,
describing settings,
building suspense,
summarising,
identifying word classes,
complex sentences.
Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent).
The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it.
Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words.
Many more teaching points covered:
types of sentence openers,
how to start a story,
building suspense,
writing effective phrases to show change,
using synonyms
using a thesaurus
peer assessment
editing punctuation
editing for sense
editing to improve
Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum.
There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
Ability groups in plan:
Green - Low ability
Yellow - Mid/low ability
Blue - Mid ability
Red - High ability.
All reviews welcome.
All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included.
Display includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
98 Videos of every letter of the alphabet as a capital and lowercase in cursive handwriting.
Example sentences and words for pupils to copy containing the focus letters.
Large selection of phonic digraphs for handwriting practice as well.
Have the best handwriting class in school!
All reviews welcome.
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5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint.
Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases.
Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing.
There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns.
Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria
Green - LA
Blue and yellow - MA
Red - HA
All reviews welcome.
Useful documents for assessing your pupil’s writing for every year group.
Make the new curriculum and assessment system easy to understand and fluid within your teaching.
Use your assessments to enhance your planning and teaching, notice where your children are at and know what small steps they need to take in order to move on and make progress.
Don’t be overwhelmed by all of the statements, look at them sorted into three steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track their progress throughout the year.
These are guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the new curriculum.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
A complete lesson on modal verbs, with an engaging PowerPoint, posters, word bank, differentiated activities and answers. All you need to make your class confident with using modal verbs in their writing.
Written for year 5 but easily adaptable for all KS2 year groups.
An easy to use PowerPoint leads you through the lesson. Explaining to the children about modal verbs, their purposes, rules, when to use them and order of probability.
Themed on the Simpsons it will engage your class. Bright, colourful, clear and memorable.
A differentiated lesson with 4 writing activities provided and a challenge.
All answers included.
All reviews welcome.
A week’s plan, 76 slide powerpoint and complete resources for KS2 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of understanding and identifying figurative language.
Written for UKS2 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other popular reading lessons:
Identifying Themes
Summarising Texts
Predicting When Reading
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of prediction. Includes 5 engaging starters, main activities and plenaries.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one.
All reviews welcome.
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of rereading and performing poetry.
3 days on rereading and 2 days on performing poetry.
Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one for both parts of the week.
All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles.
All reviews welcome.
Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 5 writing targets. Over 110 SMART targets on a 5 page word document, grouped into the National Curriculum areas of writing. Easy to copy and paste onto reports or print out to use when marking of for AFL involving the children.
Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand.
Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition.
You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool.
Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum:
Whole School SMART Targets
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School Guided Reading Questions
A whole week of year 2 reading comprehension lessons on The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me. Includes teaching PowerPoint, paired and group activities, scaffolding, differentiation, sequenced learning, challenge and answers.
Five complete lessons which develops the children’s understanding of the book and their ability to answer comprehension questions.
Every lesson includes:
Starter
Teaching points
Pages to read
Independent activities
Challenge
Plenary
This week focuses on the comprehension questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text. The teaching points emphasise the importance of looking back over what you have read and using what you know.
Colonel Code Breaker appears everyday to give the children handy tips and help them become confident at decoding tricky words.
All activities are differentiated into 3 ability groups, with printable sheets provided separately to support every child.
Enjoy teaching reading with this accessible and engaging famous book by Roald Dahl, excite your pupils with the charming characters whilst they expand their vocabulary.
You can find lots more useful resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
Or you might be interested in these handy resources:
Year 2 Reading Corner Display
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
