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.
Over 300 English report comments statements so you can quickly complete your primary English report comments. Select from this extensive bank to create individual differentiated paragraphs. Simply choose the right comment to suit each child, one from each of the 11 sections. There are enough comments to create personalised paragraphs of comments for a whole class of 30. Created with a large variety of phrases, openings and language so you can describe each pupil in a precise, eloquent and efficient way.
High Quality
English report comments written for KS2 and easily adaptable for KS1. They are perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 as they cover:
listening
speaking
reading
reading targets
word work
story writing
different genres
grammar and punctuation
spelling and handwriting
editing
writing targets
Differentiated
There are four different ability groups included with at least 80 comments in each, so a minimum of 320 different statements for your reports.
Easy to Use
They are all available in girl and boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace to insert names. All year groups are shown with 3 dots so you can replace them quickly as well.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
Also…
Check out these other handy end of year resources:
General Report Comments
Maths Report Comments
Geography Report Comments
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 -able -ible endings 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 can find many more reliable and useful KS2 English resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
Why not check out my bundles of spelling lessons, enough for a whole year!:
Whole Term 1 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 2 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 3 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 4 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 5 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 6 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
A festive and easy to teach poetry week on ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Includes 5 engaging PowerPoints leading you through 5 complete lessons, differentiated lesson resources and a detailed plan.
An excellent week of English lessons for the build up to Christmas whilst maintaining focus and high quality outcomes.
The original and useuful resources make teaching enjoyable and easy. The video links in the PowerPoint inspire poetry writing and performance.
Each lesson is differentiated for two ability groups.
Each lesson contains a success criteria.
Higher level thinking challenges are provided.
Grammar starters cover handwriting, a or an, word classes, rhyming words and spellings.
A lovely, tried and tested week of learning about narrative poetry, rhyming couplets, poetry format and syllables.
Includes a range of activities and differentiated tasks. Children will compare and evaluate poems, identify features and then write their own narrative poem using the structure of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with ideas from ‘The Snowman’.
Detailed weekly plan and all resources included.
All reviews welcome.
Download a page of questions for KS1 reading comprehension lessons. Suitable for a middle ability group, text extract also included.
This comprehension focuses on the style of SATs questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text.
Click this link to save even more time!
Roald Dahl Complete Week of Lessons Notebook, Resources and Differentiated Questions
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A complete bank of discussion text sentence openers. Includes a variety of words grouped into useful types. All that you need for expanding vocabulary and heightening progress during a discussion text unit.
Types of openers included:
Openers for additional points of view
Openers for opposing points of view
Openers for discussing opinions
Generalisation openers
Openers referring to time
A variety of extra openers
They are bright and colourful so would be perfect for a display, toolkit or word bank.
Print as either PowerPoint slides or aA4 format.
Check out my popular lesson packs on discussion texts:
Week 1 Explore and Learn About Discussion Texts
Week 2 Write Your Own Discussion Text
Relevant auditing questions to ask children when monitoring English as a subject leader. Written for primary school children, easily adaptable for secondary.
Review your subject so that if Ofsted arrive you can be confident in your knowledge of where the children are at, what they understand, what they can do and are likely to say in a discussion.
Choose from over 60 deep and meaningful questions to ignite interesting discussions with your pupils.
Covers key areas which are currently prominent in education, such as:
- key texts,
- independent learning skills,
- self and peer assessment,
- computing skills,
- teacher support,
- learning dialogue,
- drafting,
- editing and publishing skills,
- challenge,
- higher level thinking,
- marking styles,
- peer evaluation,
- targets,
- dictionaries,
- thesaurus,
- teacher feedback,
- evidence of improving ability
All of these topics are addressed within these main areas:
- General Lessons,
- Assessment,
- Reading,
- Exercise Books,
- SPAG,
- Wellbeing.
These questions could be adapted to other subjects easily.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful English Leader resources and tools at my shop: Teachallenjoy
To keep up to date with the new English curriculum 2017 use these handy tools for the whole school below:
- Writing Assessment Guidance
- Speaking and Listening Self, Peer and Teacher Assessments
- Guided Reading and Comprehension Question Openers
- SMART Writing Targets
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
All the spelling words and rules that year 5 and 6 need to know. Available in different formats for all of your spelling needs. Designed to save time, enhance progress and increase pupil independence.
Formats:
- Colour year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Black and white year 5/6 spelling word bank
- Year 5/6 spelling word bank with tick boxes
- Teaching PowerPoint with 11 slides
These sheets could be used as an teaching tool, assessment tool, homework support or stuck into books to support writing.
All reviews welcome.
For daily lessons on how to teach these rules follow this link:
Teachallenjoy
Here you will find year 5/6 spelling lessons for the whole year:
Term 1 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 2 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 3 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 4 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 5 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Term 6 Weekly Spelling Lessons and Dictations
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.
A week of detailed lessons on writing recounts for KS2, PPT, Plan and resources all included. Differentiated activities, quick and effective starters and plenaries and lots more…
Includes:
Differentiation provided for three groups - two challenges provided for every lesson
Engaging starters and plenaries designed to grab your pupil’s attention
Modelled texts provided highlighted to show how you construct paragraphs in recounts
Word banks provided to support and extend pupils
Editing skills developed
Peer and self assessment opportunities
Animated and clear PPT
Expand your pupil’s vocabulary and enhance their writing techniques whilst writing about personal events.
Engaging activities, opportunities for individual, paired and group work. Written for year 5 but relevant for year 6 and easily adaptable for years 3 and 4.
All reviews welcome.
To go with this unit download my Features of a Recount Display
All you need to write your English, Maths, Science and General comments for your primary reports. Over 1400 different high quality differentiated comments to save you time.
Save time and energy this year when writing your primary KS2 reports. Use these extensive report banks to quickly whip up a class full of personalised English, maths, science and general comment paragraphs.
Simply copy and paste a selection of thoughtful comments to suit each child, choosing from each large subject bank. Speedily create fluent paragraphs describing the whole child.
Each subject is divided into sections, in total there are enough sentences to create different paragraphs for every child in your class. All appropriate and relevant to your pupils.
Ideal for years 3,4,5 and 6, easily adaptable for KS1.
Impress your pupils, your parents and your head teacher with articulate and positive comments for these subjects. Show your pupils and their families you do know them well by choosing comments to suit each child. End the year knowing you’ve valued and helped each pupil in your class, whilst saving time for the wellbeing of yourself outside of school.
You can also find lots of other handy end of year resources at my shop.
Why not use my SMART targets to choose next steps for your pupils?
Or use my Assessment Guidance to speed up your end of year data decisions.
All you need for a week of reading lessons on summarising. Includes a detailed plan of the week, engaging teach-ready PowerPoint and all the necessary resources for UKS2. The animated 85 slide summarising reading Powerpoint takes you effortlessly through the week of 5 lessons.
Questions designed to develop higher order thinking skills and all activities focused on improving comprehension skills whilst enhancing reading assessment results.
Each day there are relevant and enjoyable starters, main activities and plenaries. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles, fiction and non-fiction.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes.
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Whole Term of Reading Lessons Holiday Saver Bundle
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6 verb word banks, A4 size, a bright and colourful resource pack. Spooky, positive and victorious verbs. Verb synonyms for 5 words children generally use too much. 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.
6 verb word banks included:
Spooky verbs for mystery stories, building suspense, spooky stories and for creating a tense atmosphere
Positive verbs for happy endings, adventure stories, poetry, setting descriptions and for creating a joyful atmosphere
Verb synonyms for ‘went / walked’
Verb synonyms for ‘said’
Verb synonyms for ‘got’, ‘put’ and ‘took’
Victorious verbs - general story verb synonyms
High quality presentation and words, designed to expand vocabulary and improve children’s writing.
Useful in all KS2 English lessons.
All reviews welcome.
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.
All other terms also available on tes by Teachallenjoy.
An eye-catching reading corner display for years 5 and 6, complete with titles, bunting, images, interactive elements, vocabulary, skills, book covers and extra free resources. Perfect for display boards, book shelves, ceiling mobiles and libraries.
A giant space themed reading display and reading resource pack to promote the love of reading. Glitter text, classic books and move-able elements, this display will save you time.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors. It includes the year 5/6 reading learning objectives, so they’re accessible to everyone.
All the year 5 & 6 reading statements are simplified to child speak. This helps everyone to feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. Adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could also use the reading statements on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Whole package includes:
A large title
Year 5 and 6 New Curriculum reading Skills in bubbles
3 large space images
6 interactive doors to open to see new books
12 Reading Questions - linked to the curriculum
12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading
16 Key Reading Vocabulary - cards to complete your display
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
All reviews welcome.
You might be interested in my other popular reading resources for yr 5/6:
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
Whole Term Yr 5/6 Reading Lessons
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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Whole Term of Reading Lessons Holiday Saver Bundle
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A large eye-catching display for a KS2 English unit on 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes. Includes titles, questions, text extracts, interactive activities, vocabulary, images, text features and examples.
Designed to engage and interest your pupils, this display brings this glorious narrative to life. Emotive stills and haunting images, alongside challenging questions and engaging explanations.
Includes:
- 2 Titles
- The poem broken down into lines and images this could also be used for a sequencing or analysis activity.
- 12 higher level thinking questions
- 2 interactive reasoning questions to answer on the display
- 24 key words (including themes of the poem)
- 8 important features of the poem
- 8 example cards of each poetry feature
- 3 interactive activities (matching, sorting, ordering)
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 English resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
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Extensive adverb word banks for expanding vocabulary and understanding of grammar. 4 eye catching pages of adverbs, grouped into synonyms. 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.
The adverbs are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these excellent resources.
4 bright and engaging pages of adverbs included:
1. Adverbs to create a positive atmosphere
2. Adverbs to create a tense/spooky/negative atmosphere
3. Unusual adverbs
4. Adverbs for describing characters
Extensive lists, all grouped with synonyms and colour coded.
Easy to use, handy for differentiation or for displays. Designed to cover your needs for all your KS2 English writing units.
All reviews welcome.
A complete display pack for a KS2 unit on The Piano. Includes title, review of the movie, images, key vocabulary, features, interactive activities, modelled texts and higher level thinking questions.
An enticing KS2 display for an English unit studying ‘The Piano’ a short movie clip by Aidan Gibbons, found on literacy shed.
Excite your pupils about learning from this evocative clip with effective images, modelled texts and thoughtful questions.
Enhance your pupils writing, expand their vocabulary and improve their memory of this clip using this brilliant 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
All ready to download, print and whip up onto your display board so you have more time to do the many other jobs of teaching and living.
Click here to use alongside 5 English lessons planning, resources and PowerPoint for The Piano
All reviews welcome.
Useful to teach alongside a WW2 topic or on its own.
Year 3 English objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar.
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 teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 3 SMART Writing Targets
Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions