A Short KS1 Writing unit based on the popular children’s picture book: The Pirates Next Door. The unit inspires quality, structured writing that meets the new KS1 writing KPis at Expected and Greater Depth Level The unit covers: Reading phase: inferring a character’s thoughts and actions Writing with a clear purpose and viewpoint Organising related ideas into sections and paragraphs short openings and endings past tense regular and irregular verbs using capital letters for proper nouns I started this unit with drama - getting into the role of the villagers and focusing on their viewpoint. How were they feeling when the Pirates arrived in town? Why were most villagers angry? What did they think? say? Then they completed the reading inference speech bubbles for 2 different character viewpoints. (see example) Then I held a council meeting for the residents of ‘Dull-On-Sea’ and the children were given a format to record the ‘notes of the meeting’ From the notes- they used a structured letter template to create a letter to the council complaining about the Pirates’ arrival. This was highly successful and created fantastic letters with clear viewpoints. The pack includes: 1x character though bubble recording sheet 1x example speech bubbles inferring a character viewpoint 1x template for council notes recording sheet 1x letter to council template/structured support sheet 1x word mat containing regular past tense verbs and character names from the book to support spelling. Powepoint for guided group work- exploring which phrases are preferable for persuassive writing. utube videolink for the audio book (free link via utube)

5 xFun Call My Bluff games I use these to start a Whole Class Spelling Session The Game allows students to discuss the meanings of prefixes or Suffixes in a fun 5 minute Starter Game.

6 x in depth Reading Comprehensions question sheets based on the novel Shadow by Michael Morpurgo. Questions based on NEW end of KS KPIs and based on the new style SATs questions for reading. Covers 5 different sections of the book. Can be used as question sheet to answer independently or prompts for guided reading session.

2 reading comprehension sheets based on Yoshi and the Stonecutter to assess pupils understanding. Orange book band level. Questions based on NEW end of KS1 National Curriculum KPI's

Travel Guide Writing Modelled on The Popular destination of Florida- Why Visit? Includes key elements of the NEW Geography KS2 Curriculum: Climate , North America Study, Location, Physical and Human Features and Key landmarks. 1 x written modelled guide based on Florida- Why Visit? 1x Student planner to research own state and provides Key Questions to direct the search and structure own guide. (modelled on teacher example) Writing covers the NEW English KPIs and aimed at higher end of expected standard/ Greater Depth. Features include: Parenthesis- Hyphens, commas, dashes and colons Subordinating Conjunctions Fronted Adverbials Balance of Pronouns for Cohesion Noun phrases

A tick box quick questionnaire for Primary/secondary pupils to evaluate Pupils independent reading attitudes and values. Supports the New Curriculum and OFSTED focus on children's 'Love for Reading' Effective tool to evaluate current attitudes and inform future whole school focus for the future.

2 Resources to support a personal study on a US state, supporting the NEW Geography KS2 Curriculum. 1. An example Travel Guide Text based on the USA State of Montana. Aimed at higher end of expected level. 2. A planning format for students to plan each paragraph of own chosen US State (North America/South America) Students can research chosen state during lessons or for homework using planning frame. Meets many of the NEW English reading and writing KPIs - parenthesis, managing clause structures and manipulating for effect.

A powerpoint that features 3 poems to inspire high level Poetry (theme: Coast) Links to Geography- coastal study. Key questions given to analyse a poem. Provides reading phase: opportunity to look in depth how poets: -Manipulate grammatical structures for deliberate effect -Use precise noun and verb choices to create atmosphere -Use High Level punctuation at the KS2 Greater Depth Standard for deliberate effect (Hyphens, dashes, commas to separate clauses and semi colon.) Children can use the language choices to create own poetry.

A Reading activity based on the popular picture book: A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson 3 key questions aimed at Expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One Questions cover retrieval, inference and personal response/empathy. Quality Questioning task covering 3 key reading skills based on new curriculum for English.

A Reading activity based on the BIG CAT book: East of the Sun, West of the Moon Reading book A language inference task aimed at expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One/ Lower Key Stage Two Quality task covering key inference and language skills based on new curriculum for English.

Year 6 Spelling booklet containing all key spelling rules covered in the SATs. Pupil recording booklet to revise and practise spellings containing common rules. 49 pages in total. In the SATs, children will be tested on spelling rules for Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6. In 2016, only 2/20 of the words used in the SATs spelling test were on the English appendix. As a Year 6 teacher for over 15 years, this lead me to make my own recording booklet for pupils to revise in class and at home. It is important to remember that the format of the spelling test means children must write these words correctly into a sentence. They do not normally fall at the start of the sentence so they do not need a capital letter.