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.
Teach your class how to identify and explain themes within stories when reading. This pack includes 5 lessons, the week’s plan, a 75 slide PowerPoint, 5 short engaging texts, differentiated activities, starters and plenaries.
Use the detailed Powerpoint which leads your class through 5 lessons on themes so they are confident and independent with identifying themes when reading.
Small extracts of the texts are used as a guided model to support and scaffold pupils before their independent work.
Engage your class with the quick and relevant starter activities which build their vocabulary and consolidate their understanding of themes.
Identifying Themes Pack
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one.
All of the texts are provided, a range of interesting genres and styles.
Modeled answers to comprehension assessment questions are included.
Written and detailed plan included .
Prompt higher order thinking skills using the questions and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Include and challenge every child with the main activities which fit children of all learning styles.
Cover these teaching points:
What themes are.
How and why we can group themes.
How we can find themes.
How to use inference to find themes.
How to explain themes.
How to use evidence to prove your themes.
How to use 4 different types of evidence as proof.
Quickly print the differentiated resources for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Summarise and extend each lesson using the plenaries planned for everyday.
All reviews are welcome.
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30 spelling lessons to cover 6 weeks in term 1, years 5 and 6. This extensive pack includes daily lessons on PowerPoints, spelling rules, engaging activities, dictations and all the resources you will need.
Teach spellings for a whole term to boost your pupil's achievement in year 5 and 6. Lessons suit all learning styles, with a range of activities such as active, written, oral etc.
This bundle also includes a visual display of the spelling words to pop up on the wall so you can easily refer to them throughout each week.
Find easy to use PowerPoints and lessons all ready to go, be organised every day for 6 weeks! Use these engaging and memorable sessions to make your pupils confident with their spellings and successful in their assessments!
Enjoy teaching the words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in a logical and well planned way. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy term.
Quickly print the dictation to assess each week and be amazed at the progress and capability of your spellers!
All reviews welcome.
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Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 4 writing targets.
Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the National 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.
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Whole School SMART Targets
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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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Discussion text Openers
Five complete lessons teaching KS2 children how to ask questions when reading. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, weekly plan, starters, inputs, activities, differentiation, answers and plenaries. Covers question words, questioning grids, types of questions, questions linked to the bigger picture (themes).
Questioning lesson pack provides texts, questions, think, pair share time, written activities, discussion points and progression.
Each lesson builds on the previous to inspire confidence, understanding and success. The week ends with a small assessment style lesson where the children can show off what they have learnt.
All reviews welcome.
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
Over 500 powerful adjectives for creative writing. Grouped into synonyms to aid understanding and save time. Use these 7 A4 page adjective banks to expand the vocabulary of your pupils. A bright and colourful pack of lists of adjectives for KS2.
Designed to cover your needs for all your English units.
You can use on a display, in a writer's toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary.
Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these.
Contains:
- Persuasive Adjectives
- Adjectives to describe monsters
- Adjectives to describe a hero
- Adjectives for a spooky setting description
- Adjectives for a positive setting description
- Adjectives to describe different characters
-Adjectives to describe different objects
All reviews welcome.
Inspire your pupils with this KS1 assembly celebrating World Poetry Day.
Includes an engaging PowerPoint, 4 poems, geography map skills, video link, reasoning questions and interactive activities.
This ready-to-go 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through the assembly explaining World Poetry Day and poetry. Read the children 4 world habitat poems written about environments from across the globe.
Choose poems from a world map, before reading about the animals, landscape and climate of jungles, grasslands, deserts and the arctic. Enhance geography skills whilst developing vocabulary and a passion for poetry.
An engaging video is included to provide a range of role models who clearly enjoy reading poetry and bringing it to life.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity and a shared understanding of the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers, enjoy the video link of a range of people reading a poem about how poets can write anywhere.
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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.
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.
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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.
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An essential resource for teaching expanded noun phrases. Includes an engaging PowerPoint and complete word bank kits.
This pack teaches how to construct expanded noun phrases. Grouped word banks scaffold the learning.
It teaches children how to start with a simple noun phrase such as 'the dog' or 'the lady' and add in 8 new elements to the phrase.
3 simple noun phrases are modelled with the 'machine'.
Used in year 5, also appropriate for all other KS2 classes.
A|l reviews welcome.
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.
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.
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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.
Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 3 writing targets.
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
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A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -cious or -tious ending from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links:
Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons
A visual and easy to use PowerPoint leading you through a week of spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in the dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words are homophones from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other year 5/6 spelling lessons on homophones:
Guessed/guest, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, ate/eight
Draft/draught, farther/father, heard/herd, led/lead, aren’t/aunt
Bridal/bridle, cereal/serial, compliment/complement, descent/dissent, desert/dessert
Aisle/isle, aloud/allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent
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