Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
My most recent class assembly was based on Theseus and the Minotaur (with a twist).
We had covered this story during our topic of myths https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/myths-understanding-the-features-11943412 and the children LOVED it. I wrote this play script based on the myth however we added a little twist. The minotaur is known to be a FEARSOME, UGLY creature, but in our story he turns out to be nice once people get to know him. Moral: Don’t judge a book by its cover.
The play script is editable to ensure that there is enough lines for the children in your class. I have 25 and there is 25 parts. However, it is an easy script to edit and adapt.
To tie it all together, we sang ‘Eye of the Tiger’ in the middle of the performance which went down a treat with the parents and the school.
Masks NOT included
This resource contains the script ONLY and in total the play lasted about 15 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did and please let me know how you and your class got on.
These spellings are based off the statutory spellings of the English National Curriculum 2014. Children in years 3&4 are expected to spell these words by the end of Year 4, and in my classroom, we try to learn and familiarise ourselves with them as much as possible.
With this resource, I print, laminate and cut up these words and have them in a basket or box in the classroom. As a starter to guided reading or any English lesson really, I take out the basket and give each table 5 words to focus on. They discuss the words and the spelling patterns, along with the meaning. This way the words are familiar to them.
To increase children’s use of these words, any time they use one of them in their writing, they are encouraged to underline it to show they can spell it. Thus, the spelling of my year 4s has greatly improved, thank god!
This resource comes with 109 words in both yellow and black and white.
Please leave a review and let me know your thoughts.
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My Division and Multiplication differentiated resource has been bundled together at a reduced price!
DIFFERENTIATED DIVISION FOR 4 GROUPS
When teaching division this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto long division, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: No remainders or carry ons.
Silver: Harder division calculations with some remainders.
Gold: All with remainders and involving all times tables.
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing ‘missing calculation’ division questions, ‘reasoning and explanation’ questions and ‘spot the mistakes’ questions (answers included). It’s based off Maths Mastery ideas.
These files have been saved as a PDF and include answers.
DIFFERENTIATED MULTIPLICATION FOR 4 GROUPS*
When teaching multiplication this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto 2 digit multiplication, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: TO x O (focusing mainly on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 times tables)
Silver: HTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Gold: THHTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing missing calculation multiplication questions (answers included).
I have provided the success criteria at the top of the page, as I like to remind children constantly what they need to remember to do.
These files have been saved as a PDF and a word document.
St. Patrick’s Day Activities (Reading and Writing) - Let’s celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these fun no-prep activities in your class for March. These activties are based around a persuasive text, encouraging you to visit the country of Ireland.
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2- Clumping Activity (learning how to group similar information into the same paragraphs). Children will cut up and un-jumble the statements about Ireland, justifying why they have grouped certain statements together.
Page 3- Persuasive Passage about ‘Ideal Ireland’.
Page 4- Questions based on the passage ‘Ideal Ireland’ (retrieval and inference).
Page 5- Plan your own text on YOUR home country/home town (for those who are also from Ireland).
Page 6- Draw a labelled diagram of your home country/home town to persuade the reader to come visit- even MORE!
Page 7- Terms of use and credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have! It’s not directly linked to St. Patrick’s Day itself, however it’s based on the lovely country where St. Patrick’s Day was born- Ireland!
How to teach this lesson:
You can use this fully designed mini-unit as long as you need, because it includes all of the resources you need to teach it! You could also use it alongside your ‘Persuasive Writing’ unit too! It’s up to you :)
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St. Patrick’s Day: Teach your students about St. Patrick’s Day with this fun mini-unit designed to keep them engaged and excited through learning some basic phrase ‘As Gaeilge’ (in Irish).
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2-5- 12 different Irish greetings, including the English translation and pronunciation (in orange).
Page 6- St Patrick’s Day Comic Strip (using Irish greetings).
Page 7-9 Task Cards: Translate these Irish greetings into English.
Page 10- Terms of Use and Credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have!!! Talk, chat, converse IN IRISH! The pronunciations are included, so children will be able to use these greetings in class, at home and in the playground all the way through March to show their Irish pride!
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The following resources are included in this product:**
Printables, worksheets, task cards, comic strip, vocabulary cards.
Time to move away from the guided reading carousel and onto whole class guided reading! This lesson plan is FREE to show you step-by-step how you can carry out a whole class guided reading lesson in your class too.
Outline:
10 mins teacher/student/chorus read
5 mins quick fire questions (to check understanding)
5 mins modeling the task
15 minutes task and feedback
This way your whole class are being guided in their reading daily, as opposed to once a week in a teacher led group.
It’s a free resource, so give it a try, let me know your thoughts, and check back later to see more resources like this!
Good luck!
*This is a follow on lesson from Whole Class Guided Reading: Vocabulary (see my store for more details)
My Literacy planning/resources are my biggest sellers! I hope to be of some help to someone with regards to planning Literacy.
I have a passion for planning and resourcing Literacy lessons and I try my best to make lessons as interesting and relevant to children's lives as possible. I do this by creating colourful, interactive notebook presentations, engaging activites and differentiated work.
I have taught all of these lessons (as has my Year 5 team) and they have been successful in improving children's writing and interest in writing.
I have included:
*Explanation Text
*Formal Argument
*Instructions
*Persuasive Letter Writing
*Persuasive Writing
*Playscripts
*Suspense and Mystery.
Each folder includes a detailed weekly plan, differentiated resources and a colorful, detailed notebook file.
Please leave a review if you enjoyed my resources/plans and check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Morrisr9
As shown on my Instagram (Rebecca.the.irish.teacher), here is my interactive Maths display!
As seen in the picture, it contains:
Maths Display Heading
Maths Vocabulary for Addition and Subtraction (not photographed)
Headings for ‘Make it’ ‘Layout’ and ‘Solve it’ to encourage children to represent the calculations in different ways.
Signs to promote reasoning skills: ‘What’s the same’, ‘What’s different’
‘Can you order these numbers?’ sign.
Clothes to hang on a string with space to write a new number each week.
The idea is to involve the children in the maths display to keep their skills fresh, vocabulary strong and reasoning skills constant.
If there’s any vocabulary you would like added, please let me know and I can add them in.
Lastly, this product is in Black and White. I printed them on colored paper!
Want to create your own banners for your classroom?
Or decorate the back of you desk, like I’ve done?
This product allows you to create your own headings for any display as I have included all 26 letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.
This resource has been made on black and white, however, I printed the letters (in the above picture) on colored paper to make them POP!
Please leave a review to let me know your thoughts.
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I’ve added these key terms (in yellow) here for you to create a working wall for your English display. These headings can be kept up all year round, even when you change genre. All you need to do is to change the work around it, accordingly.
See my blogpost on my blog to see how exactly I use this display in my class.
(Note: only the headings in yellow and the clouds are included).
Resources, plan, presentation and SPAG. This week of lessons really helped bring on the children's descriptive writing. The video clips help them to imagine things clearer and bring great life to their writing. I found it really successful. It focuses on getting the children to use their sense to imagine what a scene looks like.
SPAG lesson is on prepositions and this presentation was accumulated from TES website also.
Check out my other resources also: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Morrisr9
A 5 day lesson plan based on instructions. Three of the days are based on children evaluating and creating instructions through video clips and practical activities (making paper airplanes and origami fortune tellers). Two of the days are focused on comprehension and handwriting.
The children will be taught how to write successful instructions by understanding that they need to use clear, simple English for their reader to understand clearly what they are directing them to do.
This is a busy opening lesson on Earth, Moon and Sun topic. It requires the sorting of the scientific vocabulary as well as an interesting insight into the topic. This resource includes a presentation, plan and differentiated activity.
A 3 day series of lessons on suspense and mystery. These lessons allow children to write in a suspense style by using ellipses, short sentences and making the reader think that there is something hidden. These lessons involve video clips and setting a spooky scene my turning off the lights during the reading of these paragraphs.
Included:
A powerpoint
Detailed, differentiated lesson plan
Spooky pictures to spark writing
Sample of mysterious writing for WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like)
Picture of the finished product from two Year 4 girls.
These playscripts allow children to create their own play while learning the features of the play-script also. I have attached fairy tales that are turned into playscripts. The features that they will learn how to use are:
*Cast list
* Scene Headings
* Character name and :
* Stage Directions
The first lesson allows children to create their own list of the features of a playscript by finding them themselves. This exploratory, paired learning works best when it comes to the end product at the end of the week.
Children are encouraged to choose a fairytale that they already know to alter slightly, to make the actual story part easier. There is a SPAG lesson included also on adverbs. This will help children to use them for the stage directions also.
In this topic, children will need to know two different models of the solar system: The geocentric model and the heliocentric model.
Included:
*A detailed lesson plan.
*An informative Power Point presentation to be used alongside the lesson.
*A prior and post lesson assessment to check for understanding.
*Role play labels to ensure children understand the positioning of the planets in this model.
*Preview of this product to inform you how I use some of these resources.
Please leave a review to let me know how you and your class got on with this resource.
This is a weeks worth of planning, resources and presentations based on imaginary settings. Children will be creating their own imaginary world in which they will need to know inside out to write about. To make it more interesting, children will need to pretend that they are Horrid Henry entering their own imaginary land.
I taught these lessons this week and they worked very well. Children loved creating their own worlds in which they could bring Horrid Henry into it. There is planning stages to these lessons also which allow children time to edit their worlds for the ‘big write’ at the end of the week.
Included is:
Powerpoint on Frontal Adverbials
Planning sheet
Model Plan
Powerpoint for reference
Scaffolding sheet
Success Criteria for stick in (checklist for children while writing).
Detailed, differentiated plan.
The Heliocentric Model- this lesson teaches children about another model of the Solar System in which was believed by another Ancient Scientist.
This lesson requires children to make a jigsaw of the model and figure out which planets have been included/left out. There is also an aspect of role play, for children to act as the planets rotating around the sun.
Included:
*A powerpoint presentation
*A jigsaw activity where children re-make the heliocentric model.
*A detailed lesson plan.
*True and false statements to sort.
It is a follow on lesson from others in which I have uploaded but can be taught as a stand alone lesson also.
To see a more in-depth snippet of this product, please see my preview :)
*LESSON PLAN ONLY**
I have chosen to only upload the lesson plan here as sometimes, people may want to use their own resources. I will upload them at in a different resource in my shop.
This lesson plan clear, detailed and differentiated extremely well. My differentiation groups are labelled bronze, silver and gold, which are referred to daily on the planning. The objectives covered on this plan are:
*What are multiples and factors?
*What are prime numbers and prime factors?
*What are prime and composite numbers?
*How do I solve problems involving multiplication?
*How do I solve problems involving division?
I have taught these lessons myself, and the children achieved the lesson objectives at their own level of ability.
Shared/Guided Reading lesson based on the story ‘Journey to Jo’Burg’.
This was used to inspire these kids and completely engage them with the story. My idea is for the starter, display three questions (see planning) and get them to write their answers in groups on post-it notes. Then stick them up on the IWB on a picture of South Africa (also in resources). This will engage them straight away with the text and what’ll happen.
Then you’ll move on to explaining that the idea is to focus on what a dilemma is and what it is in this chapter. (The chapter is linked on the planning and you can download it as a pdf). The children should have a hard copy in front of them and together you will make a success criteria of what a good, interesting reader sounds like. Get them to critique you reading in a boring way.
Children to sort pre-made laminated statements into positives and negatives about going to Jo’Berg. In groups children will then engage in a conscience alley (role-play) to thrash out both sides of a dilemma.
You can do it as a whole class or small groups either. Children really get into the story this way and feel they’re helping Naledi choose her dilemma.
Great, engaging lesson. Really enjoyed it!
