A lesson plan for the short ‘oo’ sound in Phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

This is a story volcano planner - one blank, one filled in. The idea is that the 5 boxes that flow around the volcano should help children when they’re planning and writing a story to write effectively. It encourages children to look at the beginning, the build up, the climax, problem, the resolution and the ending. I’d say that this is suitable for all of KS2.

Learning objectives: *To recognise the /ai/ grapheme and be able to sound out its phoneme *To segment and blend /ai/ words for reading and spelling

An all in one range of activities for children to complete as their morning task covering: Arithmetic Writing Place Value Number Bonds SPAG Font: Twinkl cursive looped

This is a worksheet that asks children to look at a picture and then circle the first letter of what the picture is. All of the pictures are carefully chosen so that the children will know what it is, no point using a cockatiel! The letters on this sheet are chosen o meet Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

A lesson plan for the long ‘oo’ sound in Phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

A weeks literacy planning for the first week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at different books by the same author, in this case the Katie Morag books. The week focuses on looking at the books, getting the children to explain their reactions to texts, find differences and similarities between the books etc. and at the end of the week, write a book review.

This is a story mountain planner - one blank, one filled in. The idea is that the 5 boxes that follow the mountain shape should help children when they’re planning and writing a story to write effectively. It encourages children to look at the beginning, the build up, the problem, the resolution and the ending, giving them a few questions to consider for each area to help them. I’d say that this is suitable for all of KS2 and into KS3.

Week 1 of a quick recap to get Year 2 through Phase 5 again ready for the phonics screening at the end of the Autumn term. Planning and resources included. Font: Twinkl cursive looped

2 week plan for Year 2 Poetry Unit 1: Patterns on the page

The attached document has assessment sheets for recording ability and progress in each of the 5 phases of the Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. Each section can be printed a number of times until you have one for each child at the phase they’re doing. They can then be used to assess their ability at that phase. Each assessment sheet covers areas such as: grapheme-phoneme correspondence, oral blending, oral segmenting, reading nonsense words, decodeable and tricky high frequency words (reading and spelling), spelling from spoken words, letter formation etc. as appropriate for each level.

I did a maths lesson based around a pirate theme and created this Pirate themed WALT image that you can add into any powerpoint presentation, smart notebook etc. and add a text box over it with your WALT/Learning Objective to show children what it is they’ll be covering that lesson. It could even be printed, laminated and written on using a whiteboard pen and changed for each lesson. If anyone wants it so that it says Learning Objective rather than WALT, just let me know.

40 different cards to help children practise their letter formation, reading CVC words and spelling CVC words. First the children use arrowed letters to help them trace the letters and then have a go at copying the words below. Pictures are used on the cards that have picture suitable words. The cards are made of a mixture of high frequency words and other CVC words with a few CVCC (back, sock, sack etc.) type words. A4 size, can be printed 2 per page or 4 per page.

This is a lesson plan for a Y2 lesson (also done with year 1) where the children write a recount of Florence Nightingale’s life using a website so that it can be printed. This was part of a 4 week block where the children wrote an information booklet about Florence Nightgale. Learning Objective: To use ICT to write information texts incorporating pictures

A weeks literacy planning for the fourth week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at fantasy settings. The week focuses on comparing, contrasting and discussing a range of fantasy settings, creating a magical object to write about, creating a story involving a fantasy setting and magical object, creating a character and profile.

A weeks literacy planning for the third week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at different books by the same author, in this case the Katie Morag books. The week focuses on looking at the character of Katie Morag, putting together a character profile, creating a new character to be a friend for Katie based on what we know about Katie already and planning and writing a story involving their new character.

Learning Objectives: To make simple notes to writing and plan for writing. A lesson focusing on writing a plan in note form for use in the next lesson so that children can write a recount of Florence Nightingale’s life.

A weeks literacy planning for the second week of the Summer term for a mixed year 1 and 2 class. The lessons focus on looking at different books by the same author, in this case the Katie Morag books. The week focuses on looking at the author Mairi Hedderwick, thinking of questions the children may like to ask her, looking at which books are favourites and why and at the end of the week the children choose a book and evaluate it.