I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at newspapers. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 15-17 lessons that focus on key features of newspapers and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Skills include: Using alliteration, punctuating speech accurately, converting direct speech to reported speech and work on pronouns.
***The extracts used are copyright of the author J.K Rowling, Roald Dahl, Trinity Media Group and News UK respectively .
Reading comprehensions related to Pokemon to try and engage children whilst also developing their comprehension skills. Included is a fact file about Charmander with three differentiated sets of 10 questions with the answers included.
A reading comprehension that includes a fact file about The Colosseum and is then followed up with three differentiated worksheets that check their comprehension skills (answers included).
A comprehensive set of resources for anyone to be able to teach a block on writing discussion texts. Planned for Year 5 but very easily adaptable to Year 4 or Year 6.
Included are:
Full lesson plans for 12-14 lessons, with differentiated activities for children.
IWB slides for every lesson that go step by step through the lesson. (N.B. In the shared writing sessions, the example paragraphs just need playing around with to a new topic. Whilst I could have done these, it is more powerful to do them with the class at the time)
Resource sheets required for lessons.
Word banks for children to use (in the IWB slides for powerful adjectives).
A self-assessment/ teacher assessment marking sheet that helps children assess as they write and can then be used for a simple marking sheet to pick out positives and targets for children.
These writing help mats have been made for Year 6 in mind but can easily be used with other children.
Simply print out the two pages and laminate them back to back to give children a work mat to help their writing and ensure they are addressing a number of the statements required for end of Key Stage writing assessments.
Included are:
The spelling word list for Year 5/6
Help for when to use paragraphs
Prepositions
Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Modal and passive verbs
Cohesive devices
Punctuating Speech
Some areas of punctuation
A range of colours represented with their name in French. Can be used for displays or for simple activities to help children learn the colours in French.
The months of the year represented with their name in French. Can be used for displays or for simple activities to help children learn the months of the year in French.
A mixed reading comprehension bundle that has a range of reading comprehensions that work on building understanding/ improving knowledge about particular facts.
Teach children all about the Sun, Earth and Moon with this block of differentiated lesson plans and resources.
These seven lessons take children on a journey from the developing understanding of the Solar System models to writing their own reports.
Lesson One - Reading comprehension task learning about the geocentric and heliocentric models
Lesson Two - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit
Lesson Three - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit and rotation
Lesson Four - Developing understanding of the Earth's rotation
Lesson Five - Learning about the orbit and phases of the Moon
Lesson Six and Seven - Writing a report about either the Sun, Moon or Earth.
Two fully planned and resourced schemes of work for writing information texts.
Included are:
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at information texts, writing an information text about the white elephant from The Firework-Maker's Daughter. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 10 lessons that focus on key features of information texts and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Skills include: planning, reading comprehension, using generalisers, peer-assessing writing, creating a glossary and structuring a text with sub-headings and a topic phrase.
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at information texts. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 14-15 lessons that focus on key features of information texts and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Skills include: researching and planning, reading comprehension, using generalisers, creating a glossary and structuring a text with sub-headings and a topic phrase.
Also included are a set of guided reading activity cards.
A bundle of reading comprehensions related to famous people that links to any work around Black History Month, focussing on significant figures and their lives whilst also developing comprehension abilities.