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.
6 weekly plans, 6 teaching Powerpoints and all the resources needed for teaching key stage two reading for a whole term.
Includes effective starters, main activities and plenaries for everyday.
Each lesson in the week builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions.
Highlights
Easy to use
Organised
Ready-to-go
Engaging
Scaffolds learning
Ensures progression
Saves time
Questions prompt higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Focusing on the comprehension skills of:
Asking questions
Identifying themes
Making comparisons
Predicting
Understanding and identifying figurative language
Summarising main ideas
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
All reviews welcome.
The fourth 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:
Where would people settle in Scandinavia? Map analysis
Why have people settled by the coast, waters and on flat land? Photo study and explanations
What are the capital cities like? Maps and facts to discuss
Where do they source water from? Map study
What natural resources do they trade and how?Children to use fact cards to complete a table
What have you learnt? Logo design task
Can you use your reasoning skills? Challenge pollution task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, tables 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
The final 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 Sami people? History of people and discussion
Where do the Sami people live? Map study
What is changing for the Sami people? Video of lifestyle and information
Why has their lifestyle changed? Images and discussion
What does the future look like for the Sami people?Video of opinions
How could we help? Main activity
Which technique have you used? Self assessment challenge task
All resources are included, so just open the video links and print the 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 target sheet for a year 3 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on.
Learning Objectives for year 3 in easy to understand short phrases.
Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file.
Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target.
You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol.
Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English:
Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
Whole School SMART Target Packs
An engaging PPT and a set of 4 different worksheets useful for a transition day in primary to prepare children for their next year. Differentiated for different ability and contains completed examples of each sheet to give the children ideas. Designed with displays in mind so you can easily get organised for September.
Themes
Me In a Nutshell
Looking forward to next year
Who am I?
Each format includes sections for children to reflect on their year, share details of themselves and to set goals and plans for the coming year.
Include lines or blank so you can choose how to present it. Spaces are just the right size so children aren’t overwhelmed but have enough room to right what they would like to say.
You could complete all the sheets if you have time, all cover different aspects of this change. Each resource comes with a completed example so you can peer assess this work before you begin, give them some ideas and discuss how it could be even better.
Use to help children adjust to their new year group and teacher.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for this time:
Reading Corner Display
Report Comment Mega Bundle
Place Value Display
A lesson on kindness includes an input, activity and extension. Perfect for World Kindness Day, a PSHE lesson or a themed week. Pack contains a World Kindness Day PowerPoint with an activity, discussion points, resources and modelled outcome.
Download this lesson to get your class talking, thinking and acting kind. Includes a gripping starter, paired activities, 16 slide PowerPoint, example ideas and differentiated outcomes. Handy for making an outstanding display in your class.
Covers:
Why it is important to be kind
What is kindness?
Who can we be kind to?
How can we be kind?
What symbol represents World Kindness Day?
Highlights
Colourful
Engaging
Ready-to-go
Animated
Differentiated
Written for a primary class, most appropriate for KS2, could be completed in KS1.
All reviews welcome.
An engaging lesson designed to develop children’s understanding of self esteem, themselves, their mental health and other’s emotional well-being.
A list of suggested classroom ground rules are provided to support the children with discussing mental health in a respectful way.
This extended lesson covers:
what decreases self esteem,
signs of high and low self esteem,
links to a growth mindset,
emotional well-being,
healthy coping strategies for low self esteem,
activities for raising self esteem
role play about why we should try to raise self esteem,
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 self esteem 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.
An assessment task is also provided where children complete sentences assessing their:
Understanding
Beliefs
Strategies
Confidence
The lesson ends with a lighthearted post it note activity to refresh the children after covering deep and meaningful activities.
All reviews welcome.
A large pack of bright inspirational posters designed to get children excited and talking about science. Every poster covers the new national curriculum for working scientifically in KS1. They are cheerful, realistic and clear. Perfect for engaging all the pupils.
Place around your school to inspire Science learning during British Science Week or any science topic. Use as discussion prompts or as part of your classroom displays.
Key Stage One
A set of 10 bright colourful posters asking and answering the question: What is Science?
For example, ‘Science is Observing’.
You might also be interested in my other updated time-saving British Science Week resources:
British Science Week KS1 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Posters
A complete lesson, perfect for the Christmas season to teach and review column subtraction. Includes a 25 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, modelling, differentiated worksheets, challenges, reasoning and problem solving questions and all the answers.
Written for year 3 and 4, also relevant to years 5 and 6.
A complete lesson, all ready-to-go. No preparation needed, just print and teach.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Hinge Point
Scaffolded
Answers on PPT for easy marking
Why not check out my other popular Christmas resources for KS2:
Christmas Column Addition
Christmas Poetry Lessons
Christmas Comprehensions
An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions.
Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today.
Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused.
Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers.
Takes the children through these key questions:
What did Darwin think?
How can we be a great scientist?
Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life
What were Darwin's theories?
What impact did his theories have?
Is evolution important today?
Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced:
Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey.
Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life.
Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you.
Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
All reviews welcome.
For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time!
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
Four lessons on famous scientists for a KS2 class. Each lesson comes with an engaging PowerPoint, video link, a detailed plan and all the paper resources necessary. Variety of tasks, experiments, discussions and written work. Differentiated for 3 ability groups and further challenges provided.
Written for a year 5 class, easily adaptable for other KS2 classes. Focuses on the new curriculum learning objectives, linking to the science topics of Forces, Life Cycles, Materials and Changing States.
Each lessons has an interactive and engaging powerpoint full of information and helpful video links.
Mixture of paired, group and independent tasks.
Differentiated activities for a range of abilities and support sheets.
Extension challenges for children to move onto.
Interesting plenaries to discuss.
Long detailed lessons, you could easily spread out some to two lessons so you have enough for a 6 week term.
All reviews welcome.
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
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of 5 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, -ably and -ation 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.
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 clear and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of effective spelling lessons.
All words are linked to WW2, a useful way to deepen the pupil’s understanding of important words and phrases from this topic.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 Thorough spelling 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 memorable PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons.
All words have the -ible and -ibly 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 - 3 thorough spelling lessons which enable children to learn these spellings in an active 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.
Year 5 writing 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 5 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 5 SMART Writing Targets
Year 5 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop:Teachallenjoy
Place value calculation charts, colour coded for mastery and showing links with multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.
Download these editable, easy to use, charts showing place value titles to build confidence. Ensure mastery and accuracy. There is no space for the decimal point on the charts to prevent the common misconception.
Available in lots of formats:
Enlarged for modelling multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Blank chart to laminate for multilpying and dividing by 10 (labelled arrows drawn on to show movement)
Black and white printable chart for children to write on and move numbers on 7 blank lines
Colour coded chart showing the place value titles grouped into 3s to enhance understanding
Various charts could be used in a maths toolkit, stuck into maths books or homework books, put on display or as helpful sheets on tables. Or print out place value title cards with matching colours for a maths sorting activity or an interactive display.
Check out my other popular maths resources at The Teachallenjoy Shop.
Why not print my whole Place Value Display?
10 word searches containing 110 words essential for SPAG in KS2. Covers all the word classes pupils will need to know, helpful for filling out English or SPAG lessons. Children can expand their vocabulary by finding high quality words whilst enhancing their understanding of grammar.
Useful as a starter, extension, challenge or plenary activity. Print off as whole slides or handouts to give to your class. Children could be doing this independently while you help a group with their writing or hold a guided reading session.
There are many words included with similar spellings to really develop their noticing skills and accuracy with spelling.
Word Classes Word Searches Included:
- Adjectives
- Range of adverbs
- Powerful verbs
- Articles and determiners
- Relative pronouns
- Prepositions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Probability adverbs
- Modal verbs
Colourful, bright and engaging.
All answers provided.
Why not check out my other popular English resources:
Grammar Glossaries Years 1-6
Modal Verbs Display
Word Bank Bundle
An engaging and effective game enabling children to add and subtract fractions with a purpose. Use to structure a maths lesson on fractions for KS2 children. Differentiated through output, children can move onto the extensions when they are ready.
3 styles of questions are included to ensure mastery in this skill. Children will become confident at adding fractions, subtracting fractions and solving fraction word problems.
Question Styles
Adding Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with different denominators.
Subtracting Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with different denominators.
Lucky Dip cards: Mixture of word problems, ordering and comparing fractions, equivalent fractions and converting decimals to fractions questions.
Challenge
5 extensions are included to challenge the children once they are confident with playing the game. Including the children writing their own cards on the blank cards supplied.
This game has a fun cat and mouse theme. All you need is one dice. The children can also choose and cut out one of 6 mice to be their game piece. Each go they can choose a card and answer the questions. All answers provided so pupils can work independently on this game.
For many more popular maths resources click here to visit my shop.
You might also be interested in:
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the same Denominator Game
Converting Fractions to Decimals Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting Fractions Differentiated Word Problems
10 complex word searches focusing on mental health. Covering emotion words and synonyms to enhance children’s vocbaulary. Deepen understanding and familiarity with key emotions. Includes colourful images and all answers.
Use these high quality emotion word searches for any lesson to encourage them to think deeper about their emotions.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools and PSHE lessons throughout the year.
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.
10 word searches each focusing on one emotion and the linked synonyms. Images and colours reinforce the feeling of each emotion. Words are carefully hidden. All answers included.
Why not 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.