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Tried and tested resources for Junior and lower secondary students, made by a Y5/6 teacher.
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Tried and tested resources for Junior and lower secondary students, made by a Y5/6 teacher.
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Y5/6 Writing Aids (Targets, Word lists, Spelling Support and more)
A collection of writing aids and tools that I’ve made over a number of years to support writers of all abilities. Designed around the Year 5/6 National Curriculum for Writing.
What’s Included?
Book Flaps (see photos)
-NC Writing Checklists (x3: TARE, ARE, GDS)
-Punctuation Hitlist
-b/d orientation prompts (useful for Dyslexic children)
-Spelling strip
-2 sets of homophones
Target Setting
-Target bookmarks (Y5, Y6)
-Target stickers (Y5/6 NC for Writing)
Other Tools
-Ultimate List: Expressions
-Ultimate List: Actions
-‘Other Ways to Say…’
200 Words or Fewer: Story Coordinates
A fantastic resource that specifically develops:
-creativity
-writing speed
-enjoying writing
-enjoying stories
-just writing, rather than overthinking / worrying about grammar, vocab choice etc
Recommended for:
-reluctant writers (My Y5/Y6 boys love doing 200 Words each week)
-slow writers
-‘can’t get started’ writers
-children who don’t read very much at home / have limited experience of stories
How does it work?
There are 4 Story Coordinate cards in each set: Character, Situation, Object and Place. Pupils randomly choose a coordinate from each card, giving you four very random story elements (E.g. a mysterious shadow, a hilarious accident, a tiny sword, behind a waterfall.)
Set a time limit (my Y5/6 like to be given 10 minutes for this.) Within that time limit, pupils write a short story (or a part of a story) which includes as many of the 4 items as possible.
It is important to stress to your pupils that, unlike writing lessons, this task is not about using amazing vocabulary/ broad range of punctuation / your neatest handwriting; it is about being creative, letting go and having fun.
What’s incuded?
-Notebook document (with an example-page to get you started)
-4 x Character cards
-4 x Situation cards
-4 x Object cards
-4 x Place cards
Whole Class Comprehension: 5 Complete Lessons (Set 4)
Whole Class Comprehension Lesson x5
*Fully resourced
*Not read-only (so you can tweak / alter as needed)
*Range of genres
-Poetry (Travel)
-Instructions (Custard Vs Chocolate Muffins)
-Non-fiction(Water Safety)
-Infographic (8 Great Ways to be Thankful)
-Stage Show (Wicked - The Musical)
*
All of the lessons in this pack are lessons I’ve taught myself. Allow between 30 and 60 minutes per lesson, depending on your teaching style and class.
Three other sets available separately. All four sets also available as a 'Bundle’
Whole Class Comprehension: 5 Complete Lessons (Set 3)
Whole Class Comprehension Lesson x5
*Fully resourced
*Not read-only (so you can tweak / alter as needed)
*Range of genres
-Poetry (Fantastic Beasts)
-Non-fiction (Natural Disasters)
-Non-fiction (Introduction to Music)
-Biography (The World of Shakespeare)
-Stage Show (The Lion King- The Musical)
*
All of the lessons in this pack are lessons I’ve taught myself. Allow between 30 and 60 minutes per lesson, depending on your teaching style and class.
Three other sets available separately. All four sets also available as a 'Bundle’
Whole Class Comprehension: 5 Complete Lessons (Set 2)
Whole Class Comprehension Lesson x5
*Fully resourced
*Not read-only (so you can tweak / alter as needed)
*Range of genres
-Graphic Novel
-Non-fiction
-Novel
-Poetry
-Stage Show
*
All of the lessons in this pack are lessons I’ve taught myself. Allow between 30 and 60 minutes per lesson, depending on your teaching style and class.
Three other sets available separately. All four sets also available as a 'Bundle’
15 Poster Set: Great British STEM Innovators
What’s included on each poster?
-Birth / death
-Occupation
-List of works
-Short biography
-Quote
Who’s included?
-Alan Turing
-Alexander Fleming
-Ashok Venkitaraman
-Brian Cox
-Charles Darwin
-Charlotte Armah
-Florence Nightingale
-Helen Sharman
-Isambard Kingdom-Brunel
-Joseph Lister
-Maggie Aderin-Pocock
-Saiful Islam
-Sir Isaac Newton
-Sir Stephen Hawking
-Tim Berners-Lee
Also available
-Great British Children’s Authors
KS2 SATs Revision Booklets (SPAG)
Details
-25 multi-page word documents
-Past paper questions
-Organised into areas of learning
-National Curriclum, Year 5/6
-Answers included
-Excellent for SATs revision
-Great for homework
-This resource is used annually to support Y6 SAT prep in my own classroom!
Also Available: KS2 SATs Revision Booklets: Maths (Visit my Shop for more details)
What’s Included?
Punctuation Set
Apostrophes
Colons and Semi Colons
Commas for Clarity
Commas in lists
Full Stops, Capitals, Exclamation Marks and Question Marks
Inverted Commas
Parenthesis
Prefixes and Suffixes
Synonyms and Antonyms
Sentences Set
Active and Passive Voice
Clauses
Phrases
Sentence Types
Standard English and Formality
Verb Forms
Word Classes Set
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Determiners
Nouns
Prepositions
Pronouns
Subject and Object
Verbs
Word Classes, Mixed
KS2 Reading and Comprehension: Literary Classics (15 Complete Lessons)
I created these tasks mainly to hit the NC statement, “increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including…modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage…” after realising that many of my pupils had never even heard of (let alone read) many of the classic stories from our heritage. These tasks provide samples and accompanying tasks from 15 classics (both older and modern.)
Please note: the 75 files were too large for one listing on TES, so I’ve compressed them into a zip file. I’ve also uploaded one lesson separately (Hound of the Baskervilles) so you can see the resource.
What’s Included:
*15 complete reading comprehension lessons, made up of:
-The extract in Microsoft Word format
-The extract in Notebook format (for Whiteboard projection)
-Questions with response spaces (plus points per question, like SATs papers)
-Just Questions (for higher ability pupils or just to save on photocopying!)
-Suggested answers (my TA does these tasks with small groups, so the answer sheet comes in handy)
Useful for:
-Whole-class comprehension lessons
-Small group work (E.g. Round Robin Reading Groups)
-Boosting / extra support for poor readers
Titles:
-Alice in Wonderland
-Great Expectations
-Northern Lights
-Stardust
-Stig of the Dump
-The Butterfly Lion
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-The Secret Garden
-The Star of Kazan
-The White Giraffe
-The Wind in the Willows
-The Wizard of Oz
-Treasure Island
-Wonder
Bundle
Reading Comprehension Bundle: 30 lessons
What’s included?
-20 comprehension lessons. Each lesson includes a poem, questions (retrieval, inference, authorial intent, word meaning and opinion) and a mark scheme.
-a mixture of traditional and modern
-a mixture of serious and funny
Poems in the Bundle
SET 1
-A Liking for a Viking (Celia Warren)
-Bonfire (Jean Kenward)
-Eletephony (Laura E.Richards)
-History (John Kitching)
-Ice Cream Shop (Shel Silverstein)
-Ogre My Dead Body (Colin McNaughton)
-Seal Lullaby (Rudyard Kipling)
-Song of the Engine (Worsley Benison)
-Transylvania Dreaming (Colin McNaughton)
-Windy Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson)
SET 2
-Entering a Castle (Brian Moses)
-Fire burn and Cauldron Bubble (William Shakespeare)
-Important Notice (Phillip Waddell)
-It’s a Wonderful World but they Made a Few Mistakes (Judith Viorst)
-Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
-Mother to Son (Langston Hughes)
-Names (Brian Moses)
-Superman’s Dog (Paul Cookson)
-Two Witches Discuss Good Grooming (John Caldwell)
-Winter Time (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Great for
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-SATs prep
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
Bundle
Reading Comprehension:Great Brits (all 3 sets)
What’s included?
30 complete comprehension resources themed on great Britons, both modern and historical (including a good spread of men, women and Great Brits from the BAME community.)
Each resource includes a short biography, a series of questions and a mark scheme.
Great for:
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
Who’s included?
-Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit creator)
-Bushra Nasir (UK’s first Muslim Head Teacher)
-Charles Dickens (author)
-Florence Nightingale (Revolutionised nursing)
-Freddie Mercury (of Queen fame)
-Helen Sharman (UKs first astronaut)
-Jane Goodall (conservationist)
-Paul Stephenson (Racial Equality activist)
-Sadiq Khan (politician)
-William Shakespeare (poet, playwright)
-Ashok Venkitaraman (cancer researcher)
-Charles Darwin (evolutionary biologist)
-Claudia Jones (racial equality activitist, founder of Nottinghill Carnival)
-Helen Bamber (founder of Amnesty International)
-John Lennon (The Beatles)
-Kelly Holmes (athlete)
-Queen Victoria
-Sir Isaac Newton (discoverer of gravity)
-Sir Stephen Hawking (scientist)
-Sir Winston Churchill (WW2 Prime Minister)
-C.S Lewis (author)
-Doreen Lawrence (modern-day racial equality activist)
-Emmeline Pankhurst (historical gender equality activist)
-Isambard Kingdom-Brunel (historical engineer)
-J.K Rowling (author)
-J.R.R Tolkien (author)
-Princess Diana (philanthropist and ex-Royal)
-Roald Dahl (author)
-Shami Chakrabarti (politician, political activist)
-Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)