A comprehensive pack that includes planning for 10/11 lessons working on the Maya. Planning includes cross-curricular links with writing, art and researching using I.C.T about Maya. In addition to differentiated planning, attached are the resources required for this topic as well as all the IWB slides required for the topic. This should save any teacher planning to teach this topic a huge amount of time, whilst providing the opportunity to make slight adjustments where required/ add any extra information you may wish to.

Four lessons aimed at teaching prefixes in Lower KS2. Included are the lesson PowerPoints as well as any activity sheets required and a sheet with example prefixes. Over the four lessons, children will deepen their understanding of what prefixes are and where they can find them, the different meanings of prefixes and how they change the meanings of words. This will include practising with different prefixes as well as a final lesson that involves more explanation of what each prefix is doing.

A lesson that focuses on active and passive. Included is the PowerPoint with some key recap elements before working on active and passive. This will include identifying the difference, identifying subject, object and verb and changing sentences into active or passive. Also included are green challenge bubbles for children who finish the tasks whilst others are working on them. There is then an activity for children to work through and an exit question taken from a KS2 GPS test.

A reading comprehension resource that focuses on Christmas, providing information about Christmas for Christians as well as activities linked to this to check understanding. The fact file includes a brief introduction before focusing on what Christmas celebrates and how Christmas is celebrated before considering some non-religious elements to Christmas as well. The resource includes: A fact file about Christmas mentioned above (both in colour and black and white for ink saving purposes) 3 different comprehension activities of differing challenge - answers are included for these A vocabulary activity that requires definitions to be found for each word provided.

A sample of a future product looking at creating a range of grammar starters for each day of the week. These could be used as children come in first thing in the morning/ after dinner or at the start of an English lesson. Included is a week sample with 5 different tasks per day. These are a variety of task styles including find it, fix it, apply it and remember it. The tasks have been written with Year 6 in mind but could be easily used in Year 5 as well. An answer sheet is also included.

Five weeks worth of writing skills to practise independently. These can be used as a starter activity when pupils come in at the start of the morning, at the start of an English lesson as a starter or at any other spare moment during the day or even as a short intervention with a child or particular group of children. The activities over the week work on different skills around writing. These are similar across the booklets so far and include: Putting capital letters and full stops in the right place Completing ideas so they become full sentences Using because, but and so to complete sentences Writing their own independent sentences Using other conjunctions within a sentence Creating sentences that use particular punctuation to mark the end Editing and improving sentences There is also a themed booklet included with all the writing tasks for the week linked to thunder storms. This has been used to support a writing unit for a setting description that involves a storm but can also be used as a general resource. Over time, more booklets will continue to be added that work on different skills alongside the ones previously mentioned.

A complete writing unit for teaching explanation texts through writing one about the digestive system. It has been created with lower KS2 in mind but is easily adaptable. Each ‘lesson’ is broken into chunks of learning rather than directly being a one hour lesson. This means some of the lessons may take more than an hour and be completed over a sequence of lessons instead, with the focus being on the learning and activities within this rather than ‘rushing’ through in an hour. Altogether, there is approximately two weeks worth of lessons, with slightly longer depending on how long drafting, redrafting and publishing take. The unit includes lessons on: Features of explanation texts Cohesive devices Research Creating simple sentences Drafting and redrafting Publishing All lesson PowerPoints with notes are included as well as a model text, a summary organiser about the digestive system, activity sheets and a explanation text summary sheet.

Attached are moderation grids for the interim statements (recently released 2016-2017) for Writing, Science and Maths. This includes working below and greater depth for writing and can be used as a simple tick box exercise. Whilst they include many potential tick boxes, these are in no way how many pieces of evidence you require.

A set of worksheets that were made for a Year 5 nouns lesson with three differentiated activities to complete. They worked well in my lesson so thought I would share them in case anyone else found them useful.

A lesson on being able to paragraph accurately that has been created for Year 5 children but is easily adaptable to other age groups. Included is a presentation looking at TiP ToP paragraphs, identifying what these are with children and then looking at examples and deciding how paragraphs are being changed. Also included are three differentiated activities and a writing help mat that includes TiP ToP paragraphs. N.B The activity one for LA is the first page from the lesson 3 and 4 LA sheet as this came from a different unit of work originally.

Activities that relate to adjectives whilst giving it a Christmas theme.

Activities that get children to practise using a dictionary whilst also giving work a Christmas theme.

Different activities that get children to practise using a dictionary or thesaurus.

An activity based around -ee for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the ee phoneme where children can then practise seeing what words they can create when blending sounds together. Recommended to print two sets of the letter cards.

An activity based around -air for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the air phoneme where children can then practise seeing what words they can create when blending sounds together. Recommended to print two sets of the letter cards.

31 different questions for Chapter Nineteen of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

17 different questions for Chapter Twenty of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

47 different questions for Chapter Eighteen of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

A set of pictures that can be used as writing prompts for independent or engaging writing in KS2 English lessons.

A set of pictures that can be used as writing prompts for independent or engaging writing in KS2 English lessons.