A full 6 week’s worth of reading planning based on Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom. Within this planning is the following documents: Daily Powerpoint Slides (with animations) Maths Morning Starters All resources and worksheets for every lesson included Differentiated Sheets for Lower Ability Children Annotations sheets to support children’s ability to retrieve information from the text 2 Fluency Reading Texts per week to improve children’s reading speed and control / intonation BONUS Two Christmas Comprehension Activities based on Christmas Adverts! This planning has been created by an experienced Year 6 Teacher in the UK purposely for a Year 6 classroom, hence the inclusion of some ex SAT’s questions within the morning starter slides. Though, this planning can be easily adapted to suit the needs of any Year 5 or Year 6 class. Powerpoint Slides Include the following: *Morning Starter slides (Maths focus, some weeks also contain answers to these questions on following slide) Fluency Reading Slide (specific Vocabulary words have been pulled from the text into the slides to be discussed and shared with the class before children read). Children have 1 minute to read as much of the fluency text as possible with as much eloquence and clarity as they can Kensuke’s Kingdom Vocabulary Words (similarly to Fluency Vocab, words / phrases have been taken from that day’s reading section and placed into a slide. Teachers can discuss this vocabulary (pictures included in slides for understanding) so children have experienced that vocab before coming across it in the text *Modelled Questions (annotation) Slide. Teachers can use the I, We, You strategy to model how different comprehension questions can be answered. Using the annotations worksheet (included until Week 6 of this planning), to help children replicate the skills needed to retrieve information for their answer. *A set of independent questions for the children to answer themselves, replicating what they have learnt from the modelling section of the lesson. *Friday’s lessons come away from the Kensuke’s Kingdom text and the class are set a compreh As stated above, these lesson plans have been created for a Year 6 classroom and have produced fantastic results in developing children’s phonetic reading ability, speed of reading, comprehension of reading and their ability to answer a wide variety of questions based on what they have read. Further, these slides will also inform the teacher exactly how much of the Kensuke’s Kingdom book should be read each day (this is shown either on the vocabulary slides or during the Modelling slides). All documents and completely editable and adaptable to suit the needs of the teacher and their class, and is being shared on TES to hopefully ease the workload of some fantastic teachers across the UK! Enjoy! P.S. - There are many other products available similar to this Kensuke’s Kingdom Reading Plan if you visit Teks93 on TES.

This product contains a whole term’s worth of Reading lessons based on the book Skellig by David Almond. The planning includes the following: Introductory Tasks (including Morning Maths Slides upon entry to class) 4 - 8 questions every morning based on the KS2 Arithmetic SATS Paper. Great welcoming routine for a class to independently interact with as they enter the room. Some of the answers to these are included in following slides. Fluency Speed Read Slides (improving children’s speed and fluency of reading). A great strategy to improve children’s reading speed, fluency and expression. Texts are seperate to the Skellig reading and include a variety of different writing styles to expose children to a various texts (e.g. poems, narratives, reports etc). Vocabulary Work Before the actual reading of the text for each lesson, specific words or phrases have been identified in the text and highlighted with definitions so that children are aware of their meaning / context before coming across them in the Skellig book. Conversations, images and challenges are also included in these vocabulary slides. Reading Time Slides are included which explain the amount of text that needs to be read during each individual lesson. This is usually 1 or 2 chapters worth of reading and can be done by the teacher themselves, the children, group of children, or a mixture of everyone. Supported annotation documents. An addition within this planning, from week 5 onwards, there are differentiated questions included which can be utilised to support children in their retrieval skills. Some of these include Communicate in Print (text including pictures to support understanding), and others included annotation documents which have been created to further encourage children to annotate their texts and pull ideas from the book itself to support their ideas and answers. Friday Comprehension Every Friday of the week, comprehension texts have been chosen for the children to use and practice the skills they have learnt throughout that week. All questionings within this document are focussed on the VIPERS notion of reading (V ocabulary I nference P rediction E xplanation R etrieval S ummarise). Powerpoint slides have been made for each learning week, which are fully animated for teacher’s ease of use. Further, all slides, documents and resources are completely editable and adaptable to suit the needs of the classroom.

Within this product is a set of Table targets that have been purposely designed and created for KS2 (mainly UKS2 classrooms working towards assessments and SATS) to support their learning across multiple subjects. Included in these targets; Variety of Punctuation Resource Spelling Rules Resource Stretching Sentences Visual Resource Variety of Clauses (Main, Subordinate, Relative) Writing Checklist (Features of Writing Can be used a handout for individual lessons, used within slides for lessons or laminated and stuck down onto student’s tables for a consistent resource across lessons. Completely editable and adaptable.

This folder contains a term’s worth of English Writing Planning and resources based on the popular UKS2 Primary Text - Skellig. Some resources are also differentiated to support ability, SEN and EAL. Lessons contain - Powerpoint slides (which include animations), resources and differentiation.