2 French wordseaches with answers. Each one has 20 basic words to find. Perfect for rainy Friday afternoons, homeworks etc. If you like these, please visit my shop where you can purchase 500 of these at a very reasonable price.

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Great planning. Powerpoints and worksheets plus a week plan. sample planning : Ask children to think about their literacy lessons – TTYP and name the important details that are needed in telling a story (e.g. time, place, characters and events). Ask children to the recall names of the four main Gospels. Do they all tell the same story? (Essentially yes but lead children towards idea that they are different versions of the same story). Use analogy of an incident occurring on the playground – would each child tell the same incident in the same way? No they would tell their version of the same event – some details and word choices would differ. Talk about today’s WALT and explain that we are going to be looking at some different Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus Christ. Explain to ch that, in order to achieve their WALT, they will need to be comparing and contrasting everything which they read. Explain briefly that three out of the four Gospels deal with the birth or Christ; there are many similarities and many differences in the way in which the Gospels record and explain the event. For today’s lesson we are going to focus on Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel. Discuss possible reasons for the differences in the two accounts. They are coming from two different people; points of view; written at different times but the basic story is the same. Briefly recap last lesson. Which two Gospels did we look at? Which story were we reading? Did both Gospels tell the story in exactly the same way? Refer to the list which was made in the plenary last lesson - which other characters were involved in the Christmas story? Re-read the story of the birth of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel. Continue to read until Chapter 2 verse 12. Why did the message of Jesus’ birth first come to shepherds rather than King Herod? Why did Herod want to get rid of Jesus? What words would you use to describe the threat that this baby was to Herod? What do you think led men to come from the east by the light of a star to find this child? Herod assumed the King of the Jews sought by the wise men was a conventional king and thus a rival to his throne. TTYP – what were the names of the three gifts which the wise men brought to the baby Jesus? Briefly recap the unit so far. Who are the main characters in the Christmas story? Which two Gospel accounts of the birth of Christ have we looked at? What are the similarities and differences between them? Share the WALT and explain that this lesson will focus on the birth of Christ according to St John’s Gospel. Explain that in St. John’s Gospel there is no account of the birth of Christ, but there is a poem at the beginning that speaks about him. Use PPT to explain a prologue.

Materials for teaching Easter and Jesus and his disciples. Planning powerpoints etc. Road to Emmaeus board game.

ten page script. Nice piece you can perform in class or to an assemlbly. sample : Narrator: Welcome to our Christmas celebration! Narrator Welcome to INSERT TOWN, where our journey begins! Narrator: Picture our winter scene… Narrator: The air is filled with excitement, the faint hum of an inflatable Santa, blinding Christmas lights line the streets, illuminating the December skies. Narrator: Our story begins in a beautifu; house not too far away from here… Narrator: It is a tale of sadness, humour and love. If you are young or old, our story is one you will love! Narrator : Oh no it isn’t! Narrator: Oh yes it is! So sit back and enjoy the show, a magical tale of a young girl called Cinderella. Narrator: It’s December 23rd. A bitterly cold winter’s eve. Across the globe people were making last minute plans for Christmas festivities. Narrator: People running frantically from shop to shop to get their last minute presents. DANCE: SHOPPING BAGS AND PRESENTS (Christmas Wrapping) Narrator: Cinderella was busy vacuuming, cooking the dinner, ironing (funny mime of Cinderella doing different jobs all at once!) and washing,…… when something caught her eye…

77 files in total. The preview gives you an idea of the flavour. Sample planning: Reading as a Reader Introduction Discuss the purpose of instructions, what could they be used for? Allow the children to discuss for 1 minute the different types of instructions that there are that they know of. Take feedback and write on spider diagram. Inform the children that they are going to be going through several types of instructions over the next couple of days and analysing them as a reader. What made them successful for them, what they would have done differently etc. Main Activity Discuss the ‘Witches Fingers Recipe’ with the children, What do they notice straight away that is useful for us as readers? Annotate on WB. Inform them that we are now going to create these treats reflecting on the information provided and how useful it was for us as readers. Split the class into 2 groups - Create the treats – discussing the instructions as they go along. Ask the children to complete the reflection sheet in pairs. Discuss the instructions with the children and their reflection sheets, what made them successful? What would they have done better? Why? How would it have changed these instructions? Were the children ablet o follow the instructions? Were they able to evaluate the effectiveness of these instructions as a reader? Were they able to identify some of the key features that made them effective, such as the layout etc? Introduction Remind the children that they are evaluating instructions as a reader. Inform them that today, they are going to be evaluating different card game instructions and their effectiveness. Also that we are not to support them, as they need to evaluate them themselves and they are going to tell me whether they were effective instructions at the end of the lesson and why. Main Activity Children are to be in mixed ability reading pairs, read through the instructions and follow the instructions independently and play the card games. Carousel the pairs to the different games, allowing them 10 minutes at each activity.

A zip file containing 500 French wordsearches I’ve designed. All answers provided. 10 sets of simple words. 50 different shapes. A big file so please be patient when downloading. Ideal for Friday afternoons, homeworks, fun etc. Each worksheet has 20 French words to find.

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.