A set of resources about Remembrance Day! This is primarily designed to be a huge amount of resources to ‘dip into’ during the day or week of this event. I have now also included a Literacy unit plan including a Remembrance Day segment suitable for years 3-6 based on comments and feedback recieved. Included in this resource pack… -A Powerpoint to introduce Remembrance day with included example poems to read to the children to help scaffold their own -Acrostic Poem Templates -Planning (please note this is under ‘Creating images weekly plan’) in the resources. This follows on from Bonfire night planning. -Comprehension , unique, questions and answers. A Fantastic Veterans Day Video -Information about Poppy Day -Crossword -Poems -Using a dictionary activity -Newspaper articles uniquely writted designed to discuss England and the FIFA Poppy Ban from the England football match from the last World Cup, an excellent PSHE lesson. NB: An EXCELLENT movie is 'The Piano' - this is absolutely perfect, emotional for the occasion and can be used in assemblies or the classroom to promote discussion.

Lesson Plans for teaching the area of Calligrams / Shape poetry. Ideal for year 3/4. I have also included a set of resources for use in the genre. Reduced price.

UPDATE NOV: added Dahl resources. A unit of work and worksheets I made for children to analyse and produce an 'Oompa Loompa' song based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This also has drama / dance links! A truly unique lesson idea you won't find anywhere. Please note these are resources to write lyrics to a tune plus lots of other extras, mostly Literacy based. I have now included the backing track (Karaoke version to the original tune.) UPDATE: I have added a collection of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory resources (including the first 3 book chapters and questions based on this) and additional files for the Oompa Loompa song resource

The Twits Comprehension. Based on the first 3 chapters of the book.

LO: Understand how writers portray character personality through writing. This is a lesson based on exploring the techniques a writer uses to show a characters personality and requires pupils to use the evidence from the text extract I have included from the book 'The Hobbit' it is an excellent extract featuring the character 'Gollum.' The Powerpoint I have made goes through the process of... S (speech) A (actions) D (description) Children can then annotate their text accordingly and / or draw the character with annotations. Highly adaptable for many ages. The 1970's version of the hobbit features a similar conversation on YouTube. BONUS I have included a snippet of the text from 'The Hobbit' an activity for children to highlight all the parts of the text that describe the hobbit / wizard and the house. They then draw a picture to match their highlights. The results can be compared to the artists impression I have included.

A collection of some of my best bookmarked sites. These have been collected by me over MANY years and some are literally GEMS! I hope this helps some people out. Please comment if you find useful!

Resources for children to explore different connective types. I have also included worksheets and a smart notebook to assist. Suitable for years 3-5.

Resources to support the teaching of commas. Notebook, Powerpoint and a couple of worksheets I made.

Newspaper Headlines Homework. Useful activity to set fro homework when doing this topic.

Worksheet where children have to identify what the lancashire dialect phrases mean in standard English.

Blank lesson plan format for both Literacy and Numeracy that you may consider adopting

A selection of multiple choice questions for selected Chapters from the Charlie and the Chocolate factory books. Great for whole class / guided reading chapter by chapter.

Worksheet where children have to identify what genre the description is from generalisations. Useful as a starter or part of a main lesson.

Finding out about volcanoes questions, can be used as research questions for the Internet.

Can be used as a creative writing opportunity.

Weekly Simile Shape Poems Plan Y3

A good notebook file I made to use in a lesson teaching about writing adventure and mystery stories.

A homework children could do to raise the profile of reading and then the books discussed in class.

A prompt I made than can be used in a variety of ways for children to describe a 'new world&' / alien world.

Can be either used as an eye witness account in Newspaper topic (or) a simple character description.