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.
A bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
All the year 1 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:
Writing Target Sheet Year 1 and 2 Pupils
Year 1 Assessment Guidance
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy
A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words link to the key stage two science units of changing states.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Download these 5 ready-to-go lessons which 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 display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in:
Fair Trade Topic Words Week of Spelling Lessons
WW2 Topic Words Week of Spelling Lessons
You can find many more useful and engaging resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 2, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English:
Year 2 Writing Assessment Sheets
Year 2 SMART Writing Targets
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 6, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English:
Year 6 Writing Assessment Sheets
Year 6 SMART Writing Targets
Year 6 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy
An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.
Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story.
Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints.
KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:
Using other verbs for said,
Correcting speech punctuation,
Improving sentence openers,
Choosing appropriate paragraph openers,
Comparing extracts of modelled versions,
Magpie-ing effective words,
Using a range of relative clauses,
Writing powerful personification phrases,
Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors,
Learning how to create atmosphere.
Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful.
Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions.
All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December.
All reviews welcome.
You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story.
For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below:
Scandinavia Geography Unit
Scandinavia Art unit
Or browse through my shop to find many more inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.
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.
A colourful and engaging display explaining modal verbs for KS2. Includes titles, posters, word banks, modelled sentences and much more. Editable and ready to print, this pack is ready to pop up on your display and save you time.
This extensive pack includes all that you need to teach modal verbs through your display. Bright and colourful posters, questions and key words are all ready to print and put up on your wall to inspire children, enhance learning and ensure progress in English.
Display includes:
Title
Visual representations of the meanings of modal verbs
Sentence starters using modal verbs for different purposes
Groups of hot and cold modal verbs
Key words sorted by intensity and colour coded
Modal verbs in the negative form
Groups of modal verbs which work in the future and past tense and those that don’t
These display cards could also be used in writer’s toolkits to support children using modal verbs during writing lessons.
Created on PowerPoint so easily editable to your needs.
For a whole lesson on modal verbs, including resources, click here
Check out my other popular grammar resources:
KS2 SPAG Word Banks
KS2 SPAG Word Searches
Whole School Grammar Glossaries
Relative Clause Lesson
Celebrate this week in your school and heighten your pupil’s awareness of mental health. Use these 14 colourful and thought provoking posters to promote discussion and awareness. Use as a circle time focus or as a calming plenary.
Designed for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools.
Enhance your pupil’s understanding of their emotions and how to deal with them. Engage your pupil’s in this important and relevant dialogue. Enable your students to have a positive mental health.
Posters cover these main topics:
Trying new activities
Balanced diet of life
When to ask for help
Sharing worries
Understanding feelings
Coping strategies
E-safety guidance
Explaining your feelings
Knowing your feelings
Goals
Support options available
Why not use my Emotion Cards to further develop your pupils EQ. Or check out my circle time activities for years 3 and 4.
Or download a complete lesson on Dreams and Aspirations here.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
A complete 2 week English planning pack for KS2. Download engaging PowerPoints leading you through each of the 10 lessons, differentiated resources and 2 detailed weekly plans.
Enjoy teaching these full lessons which are ready to pick up and go. Each containing engaging starters, short text extracts, paired and group discussion, word banks, challenges and quick and easy plenaries.
Improve your pupil’s writing whilst enjoying this festive season. Read them the Nisse story, a Scandinavian Christmas folk tale and watch as they are inspired to write about Christmas.
Use the peer and self assessments so your marking is quick and effortless. Have time for family this Christmas.
All reviews are welcome.
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An engaging lesson which develops children’s understanding of relationships. A 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through 7 key teaching points for KS2 PSHE. Lots of interactive activities, high level thinking questions, key vocabulary, case studies, real life scenarios and a video link.
Complete lesson structure included to warm up, accelerate and cool down the learning.
Starter
Input discussions
Small paired and group activities
Reflection time
A writing activity
Mini assessment
Plenary
Most children will leave the lessons knowing how to describe healthy and unhealthy relationships online and in the real world and what to do when you feel unhappy in a relationship. Ideal for a KS2 class, easily adaptable for KS1.
Teaching Points:
explaining what relationships are,
describing healthy relationships,
exploring why it is important to be accepting in relationships
understanding giving and taking in relationships
identifying unhealthy relationships
solving small problems in relationships
being safe in online relationships
All the activities inspire high quality dialogue, reflection and progress in class. Designed to engage the children with talking about mental health and provide them with strategies to enhance their understanding of their relationships and emotions and therefore safeguard their mental health.
A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other mental health lessons covering:
Self Esteem
Dreams and Aspirations
Understanding Emotions
Or why not check out my mental health awareness week resources:
KS1 Mental Health Bundle
KS2 Mental Health Bundle
The sixth part of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
This lesson covers these important teaching points:
Who are the Scandinavians? Video link explaining Viking history
How do Scandinavians celebrate Christmas? Lesson starter craft activity
What will my mind map look like? Discussion and mind map examples
What makes each country in Scandinavia unique? Fact cards covering food, religion, music, art, festivals, symbols, royalty, language and immigration
How are these elements linked?Discussion of ideas
Which time zone is Scandinavia in? Challenge task
Who is from Scandinavia? Famous person research extra challenge task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards if you’d like and a detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features.
All reviews welcome.
To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units:
Scandinavia Art Unit
Scandinavia Story Writing Unit
You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop
A colourful and engaging PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words follow the pattern of using the rule -i before e except after c and exceptions from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 thorough and effective lessons 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.
A bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
A bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
All the year 2 objectives on one handy double sided 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 2 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 2 SMART Writing Targets
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy
A bright and colourful animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
Teach your class words from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list in an easy effective way with little or no preparation.
A week of activities to master these words:
Monday - Teach the word class of each spelling, explain patterns, work through the rules and find the definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Enjoy original spelling activities that enable children to learn these spellings in a quick and successful way.
Friday - Use the imaginative dictation included to test the spelling words covered in the week. Easy to mark as you can see 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 clear and visual display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
Carefully written word problem questions for KS2 on converting fractions to decimals, with answers. Includes realistic and engaging contexts, consolidation of key maths skills, multi-step questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning practice, challenges and extensions.
Be confident that your pupils will master this tricky skill by answering word problems set in realistic and engaging contexts.
Develop their understanding of number as they relate to the people in these problems and consolidate their other mathematical skills such as: addition, subtraction, measure and time.
Enhance their problem solving skills as each interesting question is multi-step so will be excellent preparation for end of term and year reasoning tests.
Challenge your class even further by asking them to convert their decimal answer back to a fraction for each question.
Extend those quick finishers with two reasoning challenge questions and an open ended reasoning question.
Print all the answers provided for quick and easy marking and assessment.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other sets of word problems to save even more time:
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 1, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Writing Target Sheet Year 1 and 2 Pupils
Year 1 Writing Assessment Sheet
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 4, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheets
Tear 4 SMART Writing Targets
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy