This powerpoint has been created to give the children something to do when they fisrt come into the classroom in the morning. They could use a jotter or scrap paper to complete the activities. There are maths and spelling sections to complete each day and a SPAG or reading focused activity once a week too. There is a slide for each day of the week and the following slide gives the answers where needed so that the children can self mark. This is a great resource for settling the children in the morning and to keep them focused. The maths questions are arithmetic focused to help the children use their mental maths skills.

This full unit includes an overview for 5 lessons which will help the children to write a narrative poem based on the story ‘Alice in Wonderland’. A modelled write is included, plus the other resources needed to complete each lesson. Example of what the children may produce has also been included where appropriate for the teacher to reference and use to support any shared writing.

These questions have a vocabulary focus and are SATS style questions. They are based on the book ‘What Katy did’ chapter 1. There are 9 questions on this question mat.

This is a spag loop card game suitable for Year 6 as a revision game.

Based on the fariytale Little Red Riding Hood. A newspaper report example text.

This is a reading comprehension mat suitable for Year 5/6 based around chapter 10 of the book Peter Pan. (Text not included).

This is a reading mat of questions linked to the book ‘Secret friends’ by Elizabeth Laird. (text not included).

This is a prediction focus of questions linked to the text Lost in Space by Roland Mathew Christensen. (Text not included but available online).

This is an example of a magazine article which includes an interview. The modelled write is based around the story of ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ and interviews the character Willie. This can be used to support any topic linked to writing a magazine article.

This is the story of Cinderella as told by the glass slipper. The story would be useful as a modelled write to support writing from the point of view of an inanimate object.

This would be useful to support a World War 2 topic. I used it to support the book ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’. The children then created their own dig for victory campaigns.

For writing a story with a pivot, these examples of well know children’s stories will help your students to clearly see what is meant by a pivot. Explain to the children that a pivot involves a change in the story so that the character moves in a different direction to what they originally intended to. Suitable for upper KS2.

This complete unit based around the topic ‘Iceland’ covers English, Geography. History and Art lessons. The unit includes a lesson overview, suitable resources and links to resources and Learning objectives. English lessons included 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction text. Art includes a drawing lesson and a painting lesson. Geography focuses on volcanoes, human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. History focuses on the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor. Lessons can be adapted to suit any KS2 class. 30 lessons are outlined in this unit overview.

Prediction focus SATs stle questions based on the book ‘Great Expectations’ adapted version by Gill Tavern. The text can be sourced from lovereading4kids for free.

Reading comprehension questions for chapter 1 of the book ‘In the Shadow of Heroes’ by Nicholas Bowling. Suitable for Year 6.

WAGOLL of pathetic fallacy based on the Titanic. suitable for year 5/6.

Talking to the moon by S E Durrant. SATs style questions and suggested answers. Please note: Text not included but is based on the free excerpt that can be downloaded on love reading 4 kids.

I used this alongside the Jungle Book to support my year 5 class in writing their non-chron report about plastic pollution. The unit includes a wagoll and overviews for 6 lessons. It also includes an example plan.

The purpose of this unit is to re-write the Jungle Book story in the children’s own words. The unit makes use of visual aids through some youtube videos. There are 17 lesson overviews for this unit and examples of what the children could produce are included to give you an idea of expectations and these can also be used to aid shared writing. This is a good unit to do at the start of the year in either year 5 or 6 as it helps the children to focus on the skills of writing in detail, writing shorter sections each day as opposed to writing a full piece over 1 or 2 lessons. Everything needed to teach this unit is included in the pack or is linked to except the Jungle Book story itself, which can be downloaded online or a physical copy purchased.

These reading comprehension questions are based on the extract about Mozart from the book ‘Pets and their Famous Humans’. The extract is available for free on lovereading4kids. Suitable for year 5 or 6 children.