Great lesson on this interesting book. Plus some nice Maths. Great for year 6. sample : Display the image from the front of the book. What does the title of the book tell you? What could the book be about? Why do you think that? Introduce the title. Children to identify what the book is about? What is the theme? Genre? What makes you think this? Children to make predictions about the book in groups using the cover – share and discuss ideas. Share extract from blurb ‘As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life in the countryside.’ 5ws and predictions modelled by CT. What has changed? Why has your opinion changed? What questions and predictions can you make now? Resources: Book cover, sentence starters, 5Ws sheet (LA), blurb extract Children to be reminded of the previous lesson. What did we learn? What do we think the text book is about? What happened in chapter one? Play BBC schools episode 1 - Children are to be given the first paragraph of the book. What is the theme? What is the genre of the book? Children to use talk partners and class discussion to list the characters involved in the first chapter and paragraph. Who are the characters we have met? What do we know about Tommo and his older brother Charlie? What is their relationship like? In this chapter, Tommo starts a new school – how would he be feeling about this? Look at the kindness of Molly – why does she act this way? Why doesn’t big Joe go to school? How would this be different today?

108 cloze exercises on Aesop’s Fables. Great for Literacy lessons. Gives lower ability pupils confidence. The Cloze worksheet is a standard exercise for improving students’ understanding of word context. The student then fills in the words on the worksheet based on an understanding of the sentence and the list of potential words removed from the text. The cloze procedure is a reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks. This procedure is incredibly useful in reading instruction because it can be easily done by any teacher and provides valuable reading comprehension information.

This is a zip file containing Literacy planning for a year 5 class (Autumn term) It consists of 14 short term plans I designed. There is one Literacy lesson per day. You will get 14 Microsoft Word documents. They are based on the Greek myths. I’ve also included for free some extra teaching materials that you can use. I’ve included too 3 medium term plans , one for each term). These cover plans and ideas not just for Literacy, but other subjects as well. I’ve also included an extra week from the next term. Feel free to use it to plug any gaps. This will help you do your own planning. Feel free to cut and paste into your own school’s plans. Ideal for someone who had to do a term’s supply like I had to do. Please bear in mind: every school is different. My plans assume you have the aide of a TA, but this is not essential. There is no differentiation in the planning. Everyone does the same thing to the best of their ability. you may want to add your own detail. These are short term plans remember. I have used walts and wilts. Your school may do something different. A very few number of weeks have a small gaps for things like tests and inset days. Use the extra week one planning for the next term (included for free) if you wish.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. This is planning for year 3 for a Summer term. Plenty of great material here that you can adapt and cut and paste into your own school’s model. After decades of teaching I’m retired from teaching now. I’d like to help the younger generation so I’m putting my plans online. I hope your Sundays will be made a little easier by cutting and pasting allowing you more free time. You get: Literacy planning e.g. Adventure and Mystery Stories 4 weeks, Authors and Letters 4 weeks, Plays and Dialogues 3 weeks Numeracy 9 weeks Creative curriculum (a bit) RE (a bit - I taught mainly in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch this if you please) Science (a bit) You get 190 mb of material, which is good value in my opinion. Remember, all schools are different so you will have to adapt my materials to suit your school. It’s not a silver bullet, but should save you lots of time as you can cut and paste. Great for N.Q.T.'s and experienced alike.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. This is planning for year 3 for a Autumn term. Plenty of great material here that you can adapt and cut and paste into your own school’s model. After decades of teaching I’m retired from teaching now. I’d like to help the younger generation so I’m putting my plans online. I hope your Sundays will be made a little easier by cutting and pasting allowing you more free time. You get: Literacy planning e.g. Stories with a familiar setting 3 weeks , Instruction 3 weeks, Reports 3 weeks, Sentence structure recap 3 weeks, shape poetry 2 weeks Numeracy planning 13 weeks worth Creative curriculum (a bit) Tudors, Heroes RE (a bit - I taught mainly in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch this if you please) Science (a bit) Pirate Day Planning You get 75 mb of material, which is good value in my opinion. Remember, all schools are different so you will have to adapt my materials to suit your school. It’s not a silver bullet, but should save you lots of time as you can cut and paste. Great for N.Q.T.'s and experienced alike.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Year 2 planning for the Spring term. You get 70 mb of info which is good value imo Literacy 12 weeks plans. Fantastic Mr Fox, Different Stories by the same author etc Numeracy 13 weeks Securing number facts, understanding shape etc Creative curriculum (bit) Great Fire of London, E Safety P.E (a bit) Science (a bit) materials, electricity R.E. (a bit) Marriage. I taught in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Autumn term for year 2. 60 mb of info which is good value imo. You get: Literacy planning 12 weeks. Performance poetry, Stories with familiar setting etc. Maths 14 weeks Measuring, Money etc Creative curriculum (a bit) the Police R.E (a bit) I taught in Catholic schools so feel free to ditch this. Science (a bit) Forces and Motions, Health and Growth Remember, all schools are different so you will have to adapt my materials to suit your school. It’s not a silver bullet, but should save you lots of time as you can cut and paste. Great for N.Q.T.'s and experienced alike.

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Spring term for year 1. You get 72 mb of material so good value imo. I taught in Catholic schools so a Catholic bent. But as we live in a multicultural society, that is good. You get planning for: Creative Curriculum Literacy Numeracy R.E. Science (Animals and Plants)

Important! If you’d like to buy the whole year’s planning (Autumn, Spring and Summer) you’d be better off buying my bundle. Planning for the Autumn term for year 1. You get 160 mb of material so good value imo. I taught mainly in Catholic schools so has a Catholic bent. But as we live in a multicultural society, this should be no problem. You get planning for: creative curriculum Literacy Numeracy P.E. (some) Science (some) R.E. (Advent etc) Loads of great lessons to ease your Sunday afternoons. Just cut and paste into your school template.

Reclaim your Sundays! Literacy planning for year 5 for the Autumn term. Plus 108 great close worksheets on Aesop’s fables. Planning covers topics such as Famous Authors’ Plans, Myths, Legends and Fables, Recounts. You get over 40 mb of material.

Some great year 6 short term Literacy planning. Covers the Gunpowder Plot. Brucie Bonus: some free Maths planning

Great Literacy planning for the first week back. You get the planning and three powerpoints and two word documents.

Four Weeks Gandhi work. Plus stuff on Roald Dahk Matilda. All on word documents. lots of great ideas. A few other goodies thrown in for good measure. Plenty of grammar as well with some great powerpoints. the zip file contains loads. I have uploaded a few examples too so you get the feel. sample planning : L.O: Understand who Mahatma Gandhi was. Success Criteria  Use limited information to deduce and infer.  Describe why Mahatma Gandhi was so well known and influential.  Consider what you would like to find out about him. Start by showing the phrase ‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.’ In table groups discuss what you think this means and what type of person you think may have said it. Feedback, discuss and put on working wall. Reveal that it was a man called Mahatma Gandhi who said this. Show the trailer to ‘Gandhi’ DVD (1982). All groups to complete a KWL grid. What do I know? What do I want to know? What have I learnt? APP links: L.O: Use L5 adjectives to analyse a real character from history. Success Criteria  Take useful notes on a subject.  Generate L5 adjectives and phrases.  Use alliteration if possible. Use PowerPoint to discuss Gandhi’s life further – children to make notes in SODA books. Give each pair a minute to decide on one fact they think should be on working wall. Make notes on working wall about his life to include: Helped free Indian people from British Rule Non violent protest based on courage and truth Different ways of protesting Started in South Africa then India Governments were forced to listen to him and negotiate Encouraged people to make their own resources rather than buying British. Used fasting as a protest and a penance Spent time in prison Is known as the ‘Father of the Nation’ Birthday is a public holiday in India. Children to have a picture of Gandhi in the middle of their page. Annotate with L5 adjectives and phrases to describe him. Fire group (AA): Extended by CN to include alliterative phrases that could be newspaper headlines of his life. Water Group (A): Working independently. Air group (BA): Supported by assistant.

A powerpoint that gives ideas on how to do short spag exercises in lessons Could be used as part of an inset day.

I’ve retired from twenty five years teaching in the UK. I’ve gathered together my planning I did over the years for 4 to 11 year olds. There’s some great stuff there. Plenty of planning, powerpoints, worksheets, scripts for assemblies etc etc There is some stuff on Christmas in the world e.g. France There will be lots of things you can use to entertain the kids at this busy but wonderful time of the year. You get a massive of planning. 257 mb over 400 files Some caveats: I spent most but not all of my career in Catholic schools so everything has a Catholic feel. Lots of math stuff. I don’t have the time to sort everything so feel free to delete anything you regard as filler or irrelevant. You’ll need powerpoint and word to access most of it. Nearly everyone has that. there are some notebooks, flipcharts etc. I obviously can’t give you that so you have to get the free adobe reader and other free software to read some of the files.

My planning for teaching Matilda in Year 6. Nice planning and powerpoint. Great to adapt for your personal planning. sample planning :

33 worksheets I have used for guided reading. Please look at the piccie to get an idea of the books used. There’s Roald Dahl. It;s important that kids have some written record of what they have done in guided reading. This is good evidence I’ve linked them to app targets. Feel free to adapt. Just cut and paste the text questions.

Assorted great planning and ideas for the superb poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Great powerpoints. Great ideas and worksheets. Plenty to get your teeth into and reassemble. Sample planning : Introduce children to ‘The Highwayman’. Explain that it is a poem that tells a story involving a highwayman. They will need to listen carefully as the poem is read, as it uses a lot of ‘old-fashioned’ language. The poem was written by Alfred Noyes and was first published in August 1906. Read the poem to the class and then children talk with partner about what they have found out about the story. Come back together and discuss the story told through the poem. How can children tell that this poem was written some time ago? Make notes on the board about character and story. Make notes about the Highwayman’s appearance. Recap on the techniques we use in fiction writing (and make clear again that poetry is a type of narrative) to describe the scene/setting to the reader. What is our main objective? To create an image in the reader’s mind. We do this by using the senses – recap. Re-read just the first three lines of the poem, ask children to close eyes and visualise the setting as I read it again. Talk about the language and the kind of pictures it created for them. The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, Can the children see a technique which has been used in each of the three lines? Metaphor. Discuss. Children to pick out words which evoke the senses: Darkness, gusty trees, ghostly etc Recap what we have found out so far about ‘The Highwayman’. What makes it a narrative poem? Explain children’s final writing outcome. They are going to use the opening part of ‘The Highwayman’ as their inspiration and they are going to write their own poem based on Bess, the Landlord’s daughter. Recap on last lesson – what is a simile and what is a metaphor? What are the three nouns which Noyes describes using metaphor? The wind, the moon and the road. Children are also going to use metaphor to describe these, they are then going to use simile to describe Bess waiting for her love. Explain that today’s planning session is going to focus on the metaphor part of the writing outcome. Model how to write a metaphor by first mind mapping each item.

A fantastic planning set. Four weeks worth. J K Rowling. Worked very well when I was a teacher. Focuses on : Tales of the Beadle Bard’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.’ Two long powerpoints included. In total you get : 4 Powerpoints 3 pdf files 7 word files that have 4 weeks planning on them 2 excel files Sample planning: Genre: Narrative Unit 1 - Stories by a significant children’s author. Focus Texts: ‘Tales of the Beadle Bard’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.’ Objectives Primary Framework Group Discussion and Interaction: Understand the process of decision making. Understanding and interpreting texts: Infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and what is implied. Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured. Explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects. Engaging with and responding to texts: Reflect on reading habits and preferences and plan personal reading goals. Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts.