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Hot Like Fire - Valerie Bloom
These are the 2-week plans I used for my Y2, 3 and 4 class. Areas of poetry include performance, taking a poem and creating an informal letter and exploring rhyming.
Into the Forest - Anthony Browne Plans PoR
These are the 2 weeks worth of plans for Into the Forest. They were written for my Y2/Y3/Y4 class. Topics covered include extended noun phrases, direct speech, writing a personal statement, embedded clauses, writing a play script and writing a fictional narrative.
Additional resources include:
Some additional images
Text of the story
Werewolf Club Rules - Joseph Coelho Plans and Resources PoR
These are the 2 weeks of plans for a poetry unit for my Y2/Y3/Y4 class. It covers rhyming, copying and repeating poetic patterns and performance of poetry.
Additional resources include:
Versions of poems linked to the plans
Success Criteria
The Sun is Laughing (Poetry) - Sue Ellis Plans PoR
These are the 2 weeks of plans for the performance poetry unit of The Sun is Laughing. Topics covered include writing persuasive arguments, performing their own poetry and debating.
Additional resources include:
Persuasive words and phrases
Success Criterias
WAGOLL of a persuasive text
Gorilla - Anthony Browne Full Plans and Resources PoR
These are the plans used for my class of higher ability Y2 alongside Y3 and Y4.
There are 5 weeks of plans which have used the T4W approach and include predictions, direct speech, conjunctions, informal letter writing and adventure story writing.
Additional resources include:
Spelling checklists
Boxed-up plans
The story Mr. Big which accompanies the plans
Year 5 Art - Anglo-Saxons
This is the Anglo-Saxon based art unit I recently completed with my Year 5 class. They are a quite disengaged when it comes to art but this structure, along with the video links, helped them no end.
The pack contains:
Plan for 6 lessons inc. National Curriculum statements
Resources to go with lessons 1, 2 and 5/6 - 8 documents in total.
The Egyptian Cinderella - Full plans and resources
These are the plans I used this year for my Y4 class which went side-by-side with our Ancient Egyptians topic unit. The theory behind this unit is T4W. Plans are for three weeks.
Files include:
Character desciptions
Direct Speech
Fronted Adverbials
41 separate documents to support.
~Please note, other documents are still needed but I cannot offer these due to copyright issues~
African Tales - Adapted from Power of Reading plans
These are the plans and full resources for a 4-week block on African Tales. They are set up for a mixed Y3/4 class and have been adapted from the excellent Power of Reading.
Resources include:
4 weeks of plans
Printable Success Criterias
Homework Task
Short story adapted for independent writing
Powerpoint on the Impala
Plus more besides…
Year 5 Geography - North America and Map Skills
This is a Geography unit I have used with my Year 5 class. It is part of a linked curriculum based around the book, Wonderstruck.
There are 5 lessons which have been fully resourced (there are over 30 files in this unit) including:
Learning Objective slips
MTP and unit overview
Powerpoints for some lessons
Maps
Front Cover
Knowledge organiser
…and more besides
The 5 lessons cover World Geography, North America (including a comparison task), maps skills which include grid references and the use of a variety of maps.
Iron Man - Ted Hughes Plans and Resources
These plans (covering 3 whole weeks) and resources are the ones used for my split Y2/Y3/Y4 class. The plans cover predictions, similes, writing in the 1st person, newspapers and writing a suspense story which will include, multi-clausal sentences expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials.
Additional resources include:
Newwspaper Planning Report
Newspaper Planning Template
Sets of images to support the English lesson and associated GPS sessions
Success Criterias throughout
Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age - Raymond Briggs Full plans and resources
These are the 2+ weeks of plans and associated resources I used in my Y2/Y3/Y4 mixed-ability class. Topics include diary writing, formal letter writing, persuasive arguments and debating and writing a quest story.
Additional resources include:
Background image
Comparison grid
Success Criteria
Newspaper template
Persuasive letter WAGOLL
Diary Entry WAGOLL
Letter WAGOLL
Arthur and the Golden Rope Full Plans and Resources PoR
These are the 3 weeks of plans I used in my mixed 3/4 class all based on Power of Reading’s Arthur and the Golden Rope. Topics covered are letter writing, conjunctions, expanded noun phrases, writing a newspaper article, writing a Kenning and an adventure story.
Additional resources include:
WAGOLL of a letter
Success Criteria
Newspaper planning sheet
-ly sentence starters
Kenning WAGOLL
Fronted Adverbials Word List
Conjunctions arranged for competition
Editable Certificate
Escape from Pomepii - Christina Balit Full plans and Resources
These are the 4-week plans I used with my mixed-ability Y4 class. It ties in perfectly with the LKS2 geography unit ‘Europe’ and the the ‘Extreme Earth’ geographical unit in which volcanoes play a big part.
In terms of coverage, this unit has been planned to cover descriptions of setting and characters and direct speech which culminates in a fictional narrative being written. In week 4, instructional texts are covered. All this along with a T4W theory meant I got some super work from my class.
These plans also incorporate a high need of SEN.
Additional resources include:
Full LOs for every lesson
Comic strips to support direct speech
Adventure in Pomepii story which runs alongside the main story
Box it up grids
Volcano information poster Master Copy
Supporting word banks
SEN Treasure Hunt game (instructions)
40 documents in total