This series of resources includes a mapping document of the whole pic. Also a series of planning for 5 weeks. A summary of the work produced is shown on the power point.
These resources will help to start ideas about reading and writing play scripts. They include a planning format for a whole play, a model for beginning a play script from a known text and a poster with the features of a play script and related issues.
Children can have fun with improvisation of a dramatic event, film the scenes and look at it to rehearse and analyze what they will write. Re film and show to present work to others.
This power point shows some shared books made by classes of children reflecting their topic or interest. It shows various aspects, planning, writing, edit, rewrite, illustration, diagrams, etc.
Its purpose is to spark ideas for others.
This selection includes an explanatory text about how a torch works, pictures of torches, features poster, vocabulary poster and a planning frame. This could be used as a starting point for a unit of work, to show the order and progression of how to write a text. Children should be able to then research, take notes, discuss, plan and write their own text and be able to present it in an interesting way to others. There is a selection of photographs, but ideally children should be able to use their own.
This is a collection of outlays for various aspects of learning about instruction texts. They can be modified to suit the child and once children have learned the skills, they can research and write their own instruction text, based on their own interests.
As with other concepts, there are aspects that can be changed and there is always room for choice, for example, using bullet points, or numbering.
This is a plan sheet and model text for use with IWB and could be used for reading , writing, or speaking and listening. It discusses points of view and presents a discussion around this issue. It could be used to start a unit of work, or to initializes a specific piece of work by children.
Keep it flexible and with opportunities for children to think of their own ideas - that is best of all... if it becomes a burden, then scrap it!
This power point and activity sheets, are to help children think logically and methodically about solving number problems. The class could rehearse the skills needed, or just let the children have a go at working out the puzzles.
This contains various activities to support reading and writing narrative texts. The texts can be used to introduce the idea of planing and constructing narratives and to analyse features and concepts used to write a good story.
The best start is to encourage the children to read a broad cross-section of good literature so that they can understand how an author's mind works and the processes they use to make a good story.
This is a series of resources for learning about non-Chronological reports. It includes, texts for reading and analysis, Charts to aid planning and analysis, notes, labels and poster, and features of NC texts. They can all be adjusted to suit age groups and abilities. Notes can be used by children to practice writing texts, and then they could research and write their own NC report.
This series of resources is to present to teachers some wider ideas as to what Mathematics and learning actually is. It steps outside the National Curriculum and asks some searching questions about what we are doing and why we are doing it.
It is linked to a website called maths anarchy.
This selection of resources could be adapted for any age range and is a good mini-project that is a bit different and enjoyable to do.
It could be included with another topic as a side issue.
Young people could make their own collection of buttons and present them in a unique way, encouraging actual items rather than just images from the internet. Research could be a broad as time would allow.
This power point celebrates the work completed at the end of a project focusing on drawing. We explored seeing and perceiving and experimented with different ways to record our thoughts and ideas. We took ourselves as starting points and produced these innovative and insightful drawings using charcoal and some chalk.
Adults were also offered opportunity to take part in Drawing inset day. The work was put on display to enjoy looking at what we all had done and accomplished.