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Introduction to ''Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You''
This PPT constitutes an introductory lesson to the fictional text ‘‘Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You’’. It was planned as a shared reading lesson for Year 6, but it can adapted to other year groups.
The reading skills covered in this lesson are:
-Inference
-Prediction
-understand and explain vocabulary in context
Year 5/6 Graffiti Lesson
Children express their personality, transforming their names into graffiti tags, using block lettering, serifs contrasting colours and shadow.
Context clues explained - Year 3
A comprehension text based on context clues designed for Year 3. Contains a short explanation of the context clues.
Stone Age Boy Planning Year 3
Three weeks of planning on ‘Stone Age Boy’ for year 3. It is in line with the new requirements (2019) of the curriculum: cross-curricular writing, BIG question, WOW moments and link with the personal experiences of the children. I have followed the sequence for writing developed by Liz Holmes.
Science Week idea - Plastic in the Ocean
Here is a PPT used with Year 3 around the topic of plastic pollution in the Ocean. It has some creative writing ideas.
History - 5 British Monarchs through time
Five Year 6 lessons consisting of well-structured PPT lessons that follow the Rosenshine Approach.
Battle, conflict and events:study five past monarchs through time.
Lesson 1 How is William I remembered?What legacy did he leave?
Lesson 2 How is Henry VIII remembered? What legacy did he leave?
Lesson 3 How is Elizabeth I remembered? What legacy did she leave?
Lesson 4 How is Charles II remembered? What legacy did he leave?
Lesson 5 How is Queen Victoria remembered?What legacy did she leave?
Upper Pay Range Application model for Primary School
A model of Upper Pay Range Application that can be easily adapted. The model reflects a primary school teacher’s career, Art and DT Lead and Phase Lead.
Black History Month - Black Heroes - Stormzy
Two lessons on what makes Stormzy a black hero.
-ed and -ing participles Year 3/ 4
A lesson on past and present participle to teach Year3 but it can be used in the upper KS2 as well. It has the main spelling rules, examples, sentences and tables to fill in. Focused lesson grammar.
Context Clues
Short comprehension activity based on finding context clues. Questions about: prefixes, root words, synonyms and antonyms. Designed for Autumn Year 3.
Stone Age Boy -planning year 3
Here is one week of planning to introduce the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ and the historical context of the Stone Age. Planned for Year 3.
Context Clues
A short comprehension activity based on finding context clues. I planned this for the start of the year for Year 3. It helps the children to always refer to the text when answering a question and back up their ideas with evidence.
Shared reading
Short texts accompanied by questions to use in class in short shared reading sessions.
Each text focuses on a set of reading skills.
The following reading skills are covered:
Finding and explaining context clues
Comparing and Contrasting
Summarising Fiction
Summarising Non-Fiction
Predicting Skills
Lesson on predicting skills based on the book Gregory Cool. Main lesson with starter and challenge and a differentiated worksheet to support LA/SEND. Children to learn the structure and language of a prediction and to recap /shun/ sound found in ‘‘prediction’’.
Wood painting
An art lesson on wood painting aimed at KS2 but can be easily adapted for KS1.
Year 5/6 King's Coronation Poetry Writing unit
This is unit of five lessons for UKS2 on poetry writing to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
The progression of the lessons:
LO: To discover what a coronation is and why it’s a significant event
LO: To Learn more about the role of the monarch and how they represent British values.
LO: To analyse a ‘Coronation’ Poem
LO: To plan and create a ‘Coronation’ Poem
LO: To rehearse and recite my poem
The Dragon Slayer - Feelings Graph
Resource used with Year 3 as part of our inferencing a character’s feelings. We watched the dragon slayer and then described the hero’s feelings emphasizing the change in his emotions.
Stone Age Boy Storyboard
Here is storyboard PPT and worksheet I have created for my class as part of my second lesson on the book.