Thankyou for looking at my resource. I have created 20 Christmas themed morning starter tasks. The tasks are designed to be completed independently and are purposely open ended to support and challenge all learners.

Thankyou for looking at my resource. In this lesson children will not only be writing prepositions but also developing a clear understanding of what exactly a preposition is. Children will start with a warm up task identifying the nouns in a festive picture. Children will then play a wheres wally style game with a snowman which will lead on to children spotting that the commonality of prepositions. Prepositions will be defined however a child friendly version will be established. Children will identify the two nouns relating to the snowman and then identify the preposition. Children will do this a number of times to establish their understanding. Children will move on to independently writing the preposition for various items on a snowman. Helping hands - Children will choose the appropriate preposition. Chilli Challenge - Children will make a snowman and write instructions containing a preposition to instruct a friend how to make theirs.

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This powerpoint contains 25 spelling starters with a variety of tasks to help build children’s confidence in their exception words.

Thankyou for looking at my resource. The lesson starts with a noun warm up which will lead into introducing apostrophes for possession. Children will introduced to apostrophes for possession through seagulls.This lesson will work through common misconceptions to ensure children have a clear understanding of when to use apostrophes for possession. Children will complete two tasks. The first will be identifying correct and incorrect application and the second will see children writing short sentences using apostrophe for possessions. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximize their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yellow slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson starts with a adverb/verb warm up task. Children will be shown and before and after of ‘un’ arriving. Children will be taught what a prefix is and what un does. Children will sort through words which can have the prefix un applied which will lead to the first independent task. The concept will then be further investigated as children explore the difference between words with the prefix un and words that simply start with un. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years)` Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yellow - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson focuses on adverbs and verbs. Children will be introduced to the elf. Children will start with a warm up rewind task where they will describe the elf. Children will think about their own experiences with an elf and what mischief they think an elf might get up to. Through careful well thought out small steps children will learn about verbs and adverbs and use these to describe what the elf gets up to. Children will create a comic strip of what the elf gets up to. Children will have access to a word bank. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yelliow slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Included are individual lesson resources and a detailed powerpoint. This five lesson sequence will see children converting the rhyme Five Little Monkeys into a story. Lesson 1 - Children will learn about the structure of a story and together place five little monkeys into this. Children will go onto create a comic strip. Lesson 2 - Children will focus on the introduction. Through carefully built up steps children will develop a sophisticated story openers and a bank of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe the monkeys and their home. Lesson 3 - Children will write the introduction to their story. Lesson 4- Children will plan the rest of the story thinking about how they can expand on the events of the story. Lesson 5 - Children will write up the rest of the story. Children will be guided through each stage in a thorough powerpoint that provides a variety of carefully thought out steps. Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson sequence provides a really nice assessment opportunity. Lesson 1 - Children will listen to the story of Goldilocks and then acted out the story. Children will not only reflect on the story but also will think about how we perform e.g using different voices for different characters. Lesson 2 - Children will be introduced to the idea of motive (in a very ks1 friendly manner) Children will think of ideas for what motivated Goldilocks to enter The Three Bears house. Lesson 3 - Using the story map used to support their performances in lesson one children will think about how the story will need to changed when the motive has changed. Children will be guided through adapting the story map plan. Lesson 4- Children will be writing their story. Children will be supported using a story map to write their story and will also be actively encouraged to uplevel their work. A teacher modelled example is provided for the first two parts of the plan children will discuss with a partner what techniques they can see the teacher has used. Children will then be shown the teacher explanation for their choices in their writing. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource Children will start with a warm up game of simon says which will lead into children recapping on verbs and ensuring all children have a clear definition of them. Children will think about what they did yesterday and discuss this in partner talk. Children will be shown an example of what somebody did. yesterday but the verb tenses will be incorrect. Children will start by exploring simple past tense verbs and spot that you simply need to add ed. Children will complete a task either independently or with support of an adult helping hands. A chilli challenge is provided when they have completed the main task - the differentiation comes in how children access the task. Children will then be taught examples where you can’t simply add ed. Children will again complete an independent task. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yellow slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Children will start the lesson with an I spy warm up. This provides a great opportunity to talk about nouns as well as getting children ready for learning. Children will move on to reflect what strategies they use to help them spell such as phonics. Children will shown a list of compound words and will discuss what is the same about them. This will lead into children learning what compound words are. Children will complete two tasks: Matching words to make compound words Identifying the words that have made the compound words. Chilli challenges will be provided to all learners - the difference will be in how children access it. Helping hands are provided for children who need some support to access the learning. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Children will be challenged to think why we need question sentences via the example of a new child starting in their class. Children will then be taught what a question is and using the child starting in their class will work with a partner to apply the 5 ws + 1h to questions they may ask a new student. Children will independently apply these to a similiar example in their own books where they will fill in the missing W/H. With the most able being challenged to write further questions while helping hands in the form of the teacher to be available. Children will return as a class and look at how we write a question sentence such as the punctuation. Children will be introduced to an alien who has given some answers. Children working with their partner will write the questions they think the alien was asked. Finally children will move on to independently writing the questions they think a paramedic was asked based on their answers. Helping hands scaffold and Challenge additional questions. Every lesson involves children being encouraged to idenitfy the importance of what they are learning. This is usually through a direct problem such as following instructions where there is no verb to emphasis the importance of a verb in instructions. Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Lesson 1 - Children to create six Halloween costume ideas and choose their favourite. Lesson 2 - Children to use adjectives to describe their costume. Children to be challenged to use expanded adjectives to add more detail to their writing. Lesson 3 - Children to write a description of their Halloween costume. Thankyou for looking at my resource. Central to the lessons within my teaching is by introducing the learning through a problem that can only be solved using the LO. e.g identifying a picture through a sentence that doesn’t contain expanded adjectives so it is impossible to identify the picture.Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving and having ownership of their own learning they develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Summary of learning objectives and task Lesson 1 L.O To generate ideas for a character description Children will design six aliens and choose their favourite. Lesson 2 L.O To use adjectives to describe a character Children will use their senses to write adjectives about their alien. Lesson 3 L.O To use adjectives to describe a characters personality. Children will write attributes to describe their alien. Lesson 4 L.O To write a character description. Children will write a description of their alien. All lessons start with children solving a problem that can only be solved using the LO. e.g identifying a picture through a sentence that doesn’t contain expanded adjectives so it is impossible to identify the picture.Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving and having ownership of their own learning they develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. In this resource there are four lessons. Each lesson focussing on a specific type of sentence. Lesson 1- Questions Lesson 2 - Command Lesson 3 - Exclamation Lesson 4 - Statement Indepth preview of lesson 1 In lesson one children will look at question sentences. Children will be challenged to think why we need question sentences via the example of a new child starting in their class. Children will then be taught what a question is and using the child starting in their class will work with a partner to apply the 5 ws + 1h to questions they may ask a new student. Children will independently apply these to a similiar example in their own books where they will fill in the missing W/H. With the most able being challenged to write further questions while helping hands in the form of the teacher to be available. Children will return as a class and look at how we write a question sentence such as the punctuation. Children will be introduced to an alien who has given some answers. Children working with their partner will write the questions they think the alien was asked. Finally children will move on to independently writing the questions they think a paramedic was asked based on their answers. Helping hands scaffold and Challenge additional questions. Every lesson involves children being encouraged to idenitfy the importance of what they are learning. This is usually through a direct problem such as following instructions where there is no verb to emphasis the importance of a verb in instructions. Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Lesson 1 - Where and when Lesson 2 - How In this set of lessons children will be looking at simple sentences and expanding them using when and where adverbs/adverbial phrases. Children will look at the problem with simple sentences. For instance children will be unable to identify which picture a particular sentence belongs to and through this will learn the importance of expanding sentences using adverbs/adverbial phrases . Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Children will do a variety of carefully thought out small step tasks to build up their understanding of what an adverb/adverbial phrase is and how to apply these using when,where and how. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. In this lesson children will be looking at simple sentences and expanding them using when and where adverbs/adverbial phrases. Children will look at the problem with simple sentences. For instance children will be unable to identify which picture a particular sentence belongs to and through this will learn the importance of expanding sentences using adverbs/adverbial phrases . Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Children will do a variety of carefully thought out small step tasks to build up their understanding of what an adverb/adverbial phrase is and how to apply these using when and where. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

In this resource children will focus on the importance of a noun in a sentence. Children will do a variety of carefully thought out small step tasks to build up their understanding of what a noun is and how to apply nouns to sentences. Resource includes a PPT and corresponding word resource Thankyou for looking at my resource. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

In this resource children will focus on the importance of a verb in a sentence. Children will do a variety of carefully thought out small step tasks to build up their understanding of what a verb is and how to apply verbs to sentences. Resource includes a PPT and corresponding word resource Thankyou for looking at my resource. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application