Do you want a quality, differentiated, engaging resources? Look no further! I'm a primary school SLE in English Primary, dedicated to making challenging resources that set high expectations for all pupils. The resources in my shop are outstanding and suitable for the national curriculum. You'll find resources for foundation subjects that promote a rounded curriculum and teach skills and knowledge progressively in each key stage. I hope you find a happy work life balance.
Do you want a quality, differentiated, engaging resources? Look no further! I'm a primary school SLE in English Primary, dedicated to making challenging resources that set high expectations for all pupils. The resources in my shop are outstanding and suitable for the national curriculum. You'll find resources for foundation subjects that promote a rounded curriculum and teach skills and knowledge progressively in each key stage. I hope you find a happy work life balance.
English Unit of work for Lower Ks2. This was written for year 3.
This is a complete 6 weeks unit of work linked to the English National Curriculum and the all these topics- Rocks, Soils, Fossils, Stone Age.
It is a half terms unit of work suitable for Year 3 and Year 4
It includes a ;
Supporting Power Points with visuals for each lesson
Immersion in the text to explore characters and settings
Writing a narrative set in the historical context
Creative Writing opportunities
Marking Ladder Targets that are matched to the National Curriculum
Sen resources included (Separate exemplar text)
Differentiated exemplar text – Narrative with biography
Differentiated resources for all lessons including targets for SEN and LA pupils.
Excellent creative links can be made to use the outdoors e.g to excavate hidden fossils or dinosaur bones.
Teaching Dragon Poetry and descriptive writing to year 2 will be extra fun following this outstanding unit of work. There are excellent creative ideas included in here, to enthuse children into writing interesting descriptions of dragons, and supporting them to writing missing posters about different types of dragons they’ve created themselves. They will begin by going on a dragon egg hunt, write a poem about what’s inside the egg, and then use the book ‘To Tell A dragon’ to write their own poems using a similar model. Find brilliant resources that are well differentiated to meet the needs of SEN and EAL. Haps are challenged with high level vocabulary and use of similes. Suitable for the teaching of the new English curriculum and can also be easily adapted to Year 3 as the text has ambitious description. Great text to use with an outdoors stimulus provided to engage boys writing. Enjoy and please leave a review. Thankyou for choosing this resource.
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne English Writing Unit.
An excellent 2 week unit of work for KS1/Year 2 to teach about bravery, sibling rivalry, compassion, similarities and differences. Rose is afraid of the unknown but she faces her fears to rescue her brother.
This unit teaches diary writing, poetry, and creative narrative writing. It is suitable for year 2 , (although easily adaptable to years below) and closely matched to the TAFS and standards. There is an example of writing provided for written lessons.
Lots of immersion activities are included so pupils can demonstrate empathy with the main character. This allows for pupils to write deeply and creatively and for Haps to achieve greater depth.
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Poetry for Year 2 focussing on grammar features including varied sentence types. Children can use visuals to support their learning to develop language to describe Christmas imagery. They then use the words to create a structured poem with a statement, exclamatory sentence with How…, a question, command and finally a statement that contains a simile.
This will create a great opportunity for children to engage with poetry, learn, perform and enjoy. The lesson matches the demands of the new English curriculum for 2014 for written and spoken language. Although this is a seasonal poem, it can be used as a starting to point to change and innovate to any topic of choice. The structure would still apply to any chosen subject e.g. animals or seasons. Please remember to review. Thank you.
Year 2 Guided Reading
This is a complete 5 week unit of work around the text Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish. It is suited to guided reading taught in a Reciprocal Reading approach. It is also useful to use to practice SATS style questions for Year 2 working at greater depth and within. Also adaptable for year 3. The story is linked to materials, science and rockets, and sustainable environmental issues. It is very suitable for boys because of the dinosaur theme. It is also a good book to use if you are doing a fossils unit or learning about climate change. The questions are written like the Paper SATs method, where there is a short text and then questions to answer below. The other included resources for each week, support additional activities that you may consider doing as a carousel during your guided reading independent work. A character description in week 5 is included to support creative writing opportunities. Definitely a good book to move on reluctant or EAL readers . This is a Tes recommended 5 star resource. Thanks for choosing it.
Year 2 Reading and Writing- poetry New English Curriculum
This fabulous resources has an array of classic poetry with comprehensions.
The sound collector has differentiated comprehension for higher ability (working at greater depth) and then differentiated down so that all the class can access and enjoy classic poetry. Children answer literal, inference and evaluative questions about the poem. After that , they spend a day creating their own verses using similar pattern structures.
There are also other many fun and enjoyable poems to learn and perform by Roger McGough, and Valerie Bloom- such as The River, and other sound poems. Children can recite these, perform them and offer opinions about them. Children will learn how to identify rhyming words and generate their own. They will understand language techniques used by the poet and create their own verse.
This resource can also be used as a poetry unit during English main teaching or guided reading. It will be good evidence for greater depth reading and writing.
Thank you in advance for choosing this resource.
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Year 2 English Writing Unit
This is a unit of work based on Monsters and a short clip.
There are two weeks of English Fiction planning that incorporates immersion activities, imagination ideas, and opportunities for children to write simple poetry about feelings of fear. The unit then moves on to watching the short clip and planning ideas for a narrative. Children describe the monster, where it has come from and write their own adventure story. ‘The day I found monster under my bed.’
The resources includes ideas of how to use the monster theme for topic work including DT and making a pesky monster punch drink, and thinking of ideas about how to trap a monster.
Please also additional linked resources called ‘How to trap a wild thing.’ in the shop for Instructions only. Their are also ideas for monster ink art and science inflatable monsters ideas in the Powerpoint.
It is considered useful to set children a holiday task/project before the unit commences and this has also been included.
Africa Year 2 unit about stories in a cultural setting. If you are looking for a new unit of work with excitement, culture, story, film, art links and research, - then look no further. This is a 3 week unit of work to link with a topic on Africa (or it can be taught stand alone). The planning included opportunities to learn an exemplar rewritten and condensed text using the ‘Masai and I’ story as inspiration. Children have the opportunity to imitate and innovate and then invent their own text. The resources included have excellent visuals to research from. Suitable links to real life Masai have been given as short film extracts to take notes about the cultural lifestyle, food, pets, schools of this tribe. This is an excellent and interesting unit to engage boys. Other links such as art have been made clear - whereby children learn about Kente cloth as worn by people in Kenya, create a traditional necklace and paint Masai dancers. As well as this, a guided reading text has been included in the unit to support reading for ‘working at’. There are also some additional resources called writing targets that can be edited to suit class needs. Enjoy and please leave a review.
Into the Forest by Anthony Browne
Year 2 Guided Reading
This is a guided reading three week unit for children who are working at the expected level. This book is a great visual story to compliment any English journey linked to traditional stories or forest themes. There are clear planned questions that include literal, inference and evaluative questioning. There are also accompanying grammar and response activities included for all weeks to support a carousel activity format of teaching guided reading in class. This resources supports the new national curriculum for English and Reading in Year 2.
This is an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for:
Pedagogy and national data
Reading for meaning
Reading and understanding high order vocabulary
Whole class Inset and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach vocabulary through games
picture word association,
creative and inspirational visuals,
pictures that lend themselves to inference,
root words and morphology,
idioms and riddles,
homophones and
homonyms,
antonyms and synonyms
verbs, nouns and past tense
All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repetoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully.
It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English.
This is a great resource to teach a year 2 three week guided reading unit. It starts with the book A squash and a squeeze by Julia Donaldson and then moves onto learning a classic poem about an old woman who swallowed a fly i week 3. The planning has looking (retrieval), clue (inference) and thinking(evaluative) style questions. Its a fun and engaging text to use for year 2 and can also be used for fluent readers in year 1. The planning has excellent ideas for the independent group work so that children can apply grammar skills, sequence text, make predictions, learn the poem from memory and even create their own simple poem. A must to promote reading for pleasure in your classes.
This book is linked to the Stone Age Topic.
It is called Stone Girl Bone Girl
The focus is a narrative writing. It includes 6 weeks planning with marking ladder and exemplar text to support learning.
The unit of work is suitable for year 3 and year 4 and includes the following; Hook lesson, Cold Write, Imitation Stage, Innovation Stage
Invention of narrative with a biography, Hot Task
Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak English writing unit.
Use this fantastic resource suitable for year 2. Closely linked with the national curriculum year 2 TAFs for the expected level and beyond. Pupils will be able to write creatively using inspiration from the book such as narrative, diary writing and instructions.
The main genre focus is instructional writing in a creative way.
The resource includes an exemplar instructional text called how to trap a wild thing. Pupils can use this as a guide to write their own instructions such as how to tame a dragon, or how to become a kind of the wild things.
Daily lesson plans and differentiated resources are included in the unit that is over 5 weeks. Reading is also embedded in the unit to develop comprehension of the exemplar text.
Pupils are encouraged to internalize the text by using a text map.
Sen provision is also available to support pupils with learning.
Year 2 Writing Unit - linked to TAFs
Stories with a twist for Year 2 Traditional stories Unit. This is an excellent bundle of useful resources that can be easily adapted to different areas of writing - from narrative, to character description to even further write a forest setting. All of the example texts incorporate the New National curriculum Grammar objectives for Year 2 writing. If the children imitate the narrative text, and innovate it to make it their own, they should achieve the greater depth expectations for writing. A learning ladder has been incorporated for children to self assess and peer assess using the new TAF standards from the English Curriculum. Children can also magpie model sentences and begin to understand varied sentence types within context. There is a supporting powerpoint to show a 3 week journey, with the exemplar, comprehension questions and visuals to support learning the text in the imitation phase. Supports National Curriculum English Writing standards to reach the expected level and greater depth using TAF framework statements.
This document is to support teachers with feedback and marking. There is an example Powerpoint of good quality feedback and the pedagogy behind it - with children's work, next step marking, self assessment ideas and positive feedback language. There is also a bank of 'Next Step Marking' ideas that have been created to support teachers in their feedback to children that allow independence in revising their work. If marking is over explicit, then parts of the writing may be disqualified. It is highly recommended not to over mark and train children to understand teacher feedback e.g. Use varied sentences for effect on the reader/audience (means that the child has to use questions, commands, statements and exclamatory sentences). The detail in brackets is displayed in the classroom and given as verbal feedback to child. They then go away and improve their writing accordingly. This documents will give you more open bank of statements to use in your next steps (so moderators can't say the feedback was too explicit), and not use that piece of work as evidence for the child meeting the expected criteria (or above greater depth). Suitable for KS1, but can be easily adapted to Year 3 also. Hope you find it useful for your teams and use it to promote independent editing, revising and improvement of work. Linked to English 2018 TAF.
This resources is an excellent, differentiated, vibrant information booklet about jungle animals. The children can read the information text to find new and interesting facts about elephants, crocodiles, snakes, parrots and hippos. They can then make their own flap or pop up booklet with headings, captions and interesting facts about jungle animals and then read them to an audience. The text supports learning features of non-fiction text and demonstrates how to engage the reader with questions and interesting facts. This resources is differentiated for early readers working towards band 2 and fluent readers working at greater depth. The reading also supports writing non-fiction and using ambitious and technical vocabulary as well as grammar features (in particular questions). Writers working at greater depth can add their own exclamatory sentences about each animal. The text is presented interestingly and has clear text and visuals.
This is an excellent information planning 'All About Whales'. The inspiration for this was from the book the Snail and the Whales by Julia Donaldson. It's a boy friendly text and the children got to keep African snails in the classroom. Leading on from this they learnt an exemplar text about whales, imitated it and then innovated to write their own information text about snails. This unit was linked to grammar features from the new curriculum 2017- 18 for Year 2. It includes using targets to develop use of expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and varied openers. Children structured their writing according to the purpose using headings as questions. The resource includes six weeks of planning, a text map, exemplar text, tool boxing ideas and visuals to support the imitation stage. Please also see independent writing opportunities called Snail Riddles available in the shop that also link to this unit. Enjoy and please leave a comment.
Th is the Tear Thief Preview - A GD reading resource
A Guided Reading resource for whole class teaching.
Suitable for year 2, greater depth and end of KS1 moderation evidence.
Pupils have to answer VIPER style questions related to the text.
Please see the shop for the complete Tear Thief guided reading resource, with key questions and resources. There is a carousel guided reading planning as well as whole class approach included.
Easily adaptable to the needs of your pupils and your planning process.
Information Tex planning about Puffer Fish for Year 2 Front Cover
Suitable for year 2 TAF writing objectives.
Find the complete unit of work in the shop with the following;
Three weeks of planning
Exemplar Text for All About Puffer Fish (can be linked to under the sea or seaside topic).
Focused grammar features and vocabulary in the exemplar text includes
subordinating conjunctions
suffix ly
subheadings
Varied sentences
Expanded nouns
Differentiated exemplar for SEN
Key Vocabulary from exemplar with visual aids
All About Turtles exemplar as application text
Links to literacy shed under the sea short films
Planning Information Text, summarising and identifying grammar features
Many more resources included
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Ice Palace - Free Verse poem Front Cover
Suitable for Year 3 and Year 4
Linked to the National Curriculum
Writing for different purposes including poetry.
Building a stamina for writing.
Children will find this a fun activity describing Starjik
Pupils first think of verbs for each character and then build on it
e.g. for Starjik - maker, slayer, striker, snatcher,
Fear instiller
Grief striker
Bat slayer
monsterous rager
tear
Similarly they create a poem for Ivan by thinking of verbs first
defender, defeater, grabber, risk-taker, saviour, brother
Monster slayer
ice cruncher
wolf out-runner
Pupils can write other free verse poems using figurative language including similes and metaphors for the character of the old lady