I am a qualified teacher with ten years of teaching experience. My first love is creativity. I have a masters degree in art which, over the years of teaching in primary school, I have endeavoured to incorporate into lessons. I hope the resources prove useful and allow a spare moment or two.
I am a qualified teacher with ten years of teaching experience. My first love is creativity. I have a masters degree in art which, over the years of teaching in primary school, I have endeavoured to incorporate into lessons. I hope the resources prove useful and allow a spare moment or two.
This bundle will help to develop the children’s understanding of using a subordinate conjunction in a subordinate clause.
Included in the bundle:
1 info mat
4 sets of worksheet: each set of 2 contains a differentiated worksheet.
1 video on how to write a subordinate clause in a sentence using a subordinate conjunction, and the video also explains how to complete the worksheets.
3 sets of writing skills resources: amazement, agitation, shock.
The videos are a visual guide for children to understand the characteristics of amazement, agitation and shock. The animations show situation in which a character would show these reactions. Through the videos the actions are highlighted in words: movement and sound.
A double-sided info mat is the next step. The info mat used stills from the video to create a bank of action resources. The other side of the info mat develops the actions into creative writing. Sentences are developed using a set of rules which the children can follow. Finally, the children can use the worksheets to practise their creative writing independently
Resources included are
Short animated video
Double-sided info mat
2 sets of worksheets
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The Time Traveller and the Adventure on the Ring of Fire is the second book in the series.
These resources allow teachers to fulfill the requirements of the National Curriculum.
The story includes facts about the eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980, as well as information about plate tectonics and the formation of volcanoes.
A whole story is narrated and animated in a set of videos which offer a visual option to the story.
The book is available from Amazon.
The book can be used as a class reader to introduce the volcanoes topic or as a group reader in a guided reading session.
This pack includes g to l words of the year 3 and 4 compulsory spelling list.
Each word has been placed in a sentence (words in context) which is read on the video. The children are allowed 30 second to write the sentence. Then the sentence is displayed on the video for the children to correct.
I have included ideas on how to use these video as well as a success criteria for the children and an extension task. The extension task relates to the evaluate and edit section of the year 3 and 4 English Programme of Study.
I have included a breakdown of the content of the sentences in a NC coverage sheet, which is included in the pack too.
This KS2 comprehension bundle has the added bonus of a Steps to Success help sheet with explanation video.
Also included in an original text: The Time Traveller and the Adventure in Ancient Rome. This text is also an Ancient Romans topic resource, with facts about Ancient Roman life set in a story format. There are 8 chapters and each chapter has a set of questions based on the NC content domains. An extension task ask questions on the NC SPAG learning objectives.
Finally, a video showing how the Steps to Success with Comprehension info mat was used to answer a short comprehension.
This is a video driven lesson. The pack has everything you need to teach persuasive letter writing. The resources are placed in the context of the story: The Time Traveller and the Adventure on the Ring of Fire, and the video used the character who wrote the letter to teach the processes of letter writing.
Video can be seen on my you tube channel:
https://youtu.be/Ri7XyowqvNg
The pack includes:
3 letters (original)
Info mat for writing a persuasive letter
Video of how to write a persuasive letter
Video of persuasive features in a letter
Worksheets to accompany the video
Task 1 worksheets: writing a letter using a plan
Task 2 worksheets: Finding the persuasive features in a letter
The video is a visual guide for children to understand the characteristic of shock. The animation shows a situation in which a character would show shock. Through the video the actions are highlighted in words: movement and sound.
A double-sided info mat is the next step. The info mat used stills from the video to create a bank of action resources. The other side of the info mat develops the actions into creative writing. Sentences are developed using a set of rules which the children can follow. Finally, the children can use the worksheets to practise their creative writing independently
Resources included are
Short animated video
Double-sided info mat
2 sets of worksheets
The video is a visual guide for children to understand the characteristic of agitation. The animation shows a situation in which a character would show agitation. Through the video the actions are highlighted in words: movement and sound.
A double-sided info mat is the next step. The info mat used stills from the video to create a bank of action resources. The other side of the info mat develops the actions into creative writing. Sentences are developed using a set of rules which the children can follow. Finally, the children can use the worksheets to practise their creative writing independently
Resources included are
Short animated video
Double-sided info mat
2 sets of worksheets
Take a look at the videos at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2SEbRpzk8mNR00erG0eoA
Resources include:
PDF of The Time Traveller and the Adventure on the Ring of Fire.
Differentiated comprehensions (3 sets)
Narrated and animated videos of each chapter with additional imagery.
Whole book activities: spelling, inference, character development.
Assessment sheets (whole class tick sheets)
Pre reading activities
KS2 newspaper report writing using the newspaper featured in The Time Traveller and the Adventure on the Ring of Fire
The video sets the scene at Skamania News offices.
A journalist works through an example giving tips along the way.
The children work on a headline and a report using worksheets and info mats.
The final part is independent work. It is a task set by the journalist.
Watch the videos at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2SEbRpzk8mNR00erG0eoA
Go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2SEbRpzk8mNR00erG0eoA for all the videos.
Watch the video All resources shown
The Time Traveller and the Adventure on the Ring of Fire is the second book in the series.
These resources allow teachers to fulfill the requirements of the National Curriculum.
The story includes facts about the eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980, as well as information about plate tectonics and the formation of volcanoes.
A whole story is narrated and animated in a set of videos which offer a visual option to the story.
The book is available from Amazon.
The book can be used as a class reader to introduce the volcanoes topic or as a group reader in a guided reading session.
