This is a whole week of class guided reading based on the two poems above (you can download the poems easily from the internet). Each day focuses on a different skill: Monday - text type, prediction and summarising; Tuesday - vocabulary and grammar; Wednesday - retrieval; Thursday - inference and Friday is then a combination of all skills. Teaching guided reading this way is proven to up rates of progress and achievement by 40% and it has had a huge impact on my year 6 results already! Answer and a script for teaching are also included. This can be accessed by nearly all children as the questions get harder as they go down (challenge questions in purple).

This is a great resource if you are leading any training on whole class reading. It gives you ideas about how to teach the skills for reading and how to set up comprehension questions for a text based on different a different skill each day. It also includes resource ideas, a break-down of each day and how to build in reading for pleasure.

A full scheme of work based around religion in the local community for year 5/6 children. Based on Nottinghamshire, but could be adapted to suit any local area. Includes learning objectives, teaching input and independent activities including support for SEN and challenge for the more able.

This resource is based around the following pages from the book Young, Gifted and Black: Mary Seacole, Matthew Henson, Ava Duvernay, Bessie Coleman, Barack and Michelle Obama, George Washington Carver and Malorie Blackman. It is 5 days of reading based around the following skills: fluency, vocabulary, retrieval and inference. The resource includes answers and a differentiated version for lower ability children, which has snippets of the text of it to support these children in reading. The resource also includes LO and how to teach each lesson. I can’t put the text on here, but you can find it online or leave your email address in the comments and I can send it to you.

Great resource for training primary school staff how to teach spelling lessons. Includes ideas for lessons on making spelling fun and how you need to be teaching it - rules, activities etc.

This is a week’s worth of reading activities based around Act 1, Scene 1 of the Tempest. I can’t upload the text, but you can find it online or leave me your email address in the comments and I’ll send you it on email. The work is based around 5 days of activities around the reading skills - fluency, vocabulary, retrieval and inference and includes a mini-comprehension at the end. I have also included a lower ability version for children who might struggle with this which has snippets of the text included to support.

Fantastic resource if you are leading staff training on how to plan English lessons. Includes the 3 stages of planning and how to plan the whole unit, including immersion in texts and producing good-quality writing at the end. Includes ideas of text types to plan for in each key stage and ideas for activities and making English fun.

Full set of planning for RE - teaching year 5/6 pupils about what the Holocaust was, how it affected Jewish (and other) people and what we can learn from the mistakes made today. Includes learning objectives, teaching sequence and activity ideas.

An excellent picture book, The Viewer by Gary Crew and Shaun Tan, packed full of precise vocabulary, imagery and suspense - perfect for year 6 children and EAL children. A full 3 week set of plans for the book. Includes lots of exciting activities and plenty of opportunities for writing. Also includes starters, grammar, main input and activities, plenary and resource ideas.

Two weeks of English planning based on the book Rose Blanche. This is an amazing picture book that is perfect for children learning about World War II. It has a lot of pictures in it and so is perfect for EAL children. It also contains lots of inference (show and not tell) and really helps them to develop their vocabulary. The plan includes starters, main activities, differentiation, learning intentions and success criteria.

A complete four week plan for the book War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. Good cross-curricular links with World War topics. Includes starters, grammar, main input and activities, plenary and resource ideas.

Four weeks planning for the book Street Child. Works well when combined with the Victorians topic. Includes starters, main input, activity ideas, key questions and plenaries.

A full 2 week set of lesson plans for biographies in which the children explore and write their own biography based on the life of Scrooge. Great Christmas unit! Includes starters, grammar, main input and activities, resources and plenaries. Also includes differentiation and a planning sheet.

This is a full medium term plan for sewing worry monsters. It could serve as Art or DT. The plan includes full lessons; differentiation for extending greater depth children and supporting SEND children; activities to complete; learning objectives and ideas for how to sew the worry monster. It’s a great activity for year 5/6 children when they first move into their new year group and it’s something they can keep.

This 4-5 week unit of persuasive writing is based around the book ‘The Curse of the Maya.’ It links perfectly with the Ancient Maya Civilisation topic. It includes 4-5 weeks of writing planning based around the book and the children eventually write a leaflet to persuade people to visit Guatemala and a persuasive letter to the British government. The planning includes grammar, spellings, teaching and outcome which is differentiated as needed for greater depth and SEND children. It also includes all of the resources I have made myself. Unfortunately, I cannot include resources such as the smartboards due to copyright, but if you buy this resource and you want them, then just leave your email address in a review and I can send them over to you.

This is a 5 week block of planning based around the book Wonder. It includes writing a diary entry and letter, based on the experiences of Auggie within the book. Planning includes the resources used, grammar starters, main teaching and activities, and differentiation for the more able and SEN pupils. There is development time and reading before writing to enable children to write in the style of August. Great for informal writing and capturing the writer’s voice.

Perfect for planning and teaching whole class guided reading - comprehension skills. The question stems are based around the KS1 and 2 SATs and are broken down into the different skills that children need to learn and different question types that appear in comprehensions. They are perfect for helping teachers to plan questions in reading and they include greater depth question stems. The reading answer stems give children sentence starters for answering the questions and are split into the different types of questions such as inference, retrieval, vocabulary etc.

This is an English 4 week unit of work based on the book ‘Wonderscape’ for the last half-term for year 6. It is focused around transition activities and planned in the way that children will learn English at secondary school. It includes starters, spellings, main teaching, differentiated activities and plenaries. There are some resources included. I have smartboards for each unit but I can’t upload them due to copywrite. If you purchase this unit and would like them, please leave your email address in the comments and I will email them all to you.

This English unit of work runs over 6 weeks and is based around the book ‘Stories from the Silk Road.’ It is the best way that I have found to enliven the topic ‘Islamic Civilisations’ and ensure that children learn deeply about it and this year, we taught it online, so it works well remotely. The plans include starters, main teaching, activities and differentiation, and I have uploaded all of the worksheets that I made to go alongside the unit. I can’t upload the smartboards due to copyright laws, so if you buy the unit and want these, leave me a comment with your email address and I can send them over to you.

A full 4 weeks worth of lessons for teaching the chapter book Skellig. This is a fantastic book that the children really enjoy as it is mysterious. There is also a film you can show them. Lesson plans include starters to develop vocabulary and linked to SATs, main input, differentiated activities, learning intentions and success criteria.