A target sheet for a year 4 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 4 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

An excellent lesson jam packed with time saving goodies: Animated Powerpoint, Have-a-go AFL questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning worksheets, lesson plan and all answers included. Download this effortless lesson which teaches children how to multiply and divide decimals to save hours of your planning and marking time. Be confident in your pupils understanding as the engaging PowerPoint covers these key teaching points: An explanation of decimals A review of place value titles and how they work Visual examples of when we need to multiple and divide decimals An interactive, step by step animation of how to do the written method for multiplication An interactive animation of the division written method (bus stop) A reminder of how to solve word problems Clues for if the operation is multiplication or division Enjoy using these helpful slides showing the written methods clearly using colour, arrows and reminders to make it easy to understand. Print our these interesting and realistic word problems so your pupils can consolidate their learning in real life contexts. Extend your pupils with multi step problems for a challenge and a page of higher level questions for quick finishers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular maths word problem packs: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Converting Fractions to Decimals Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes

An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story. Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Using other verbs for said, Correcting speech punctuation, Improving sentence openers, Choosing appropriate paragraph openers, Comparing extracts of modelled versions, Magpie-ing effective words, Using a range of relative clauses, Writing powerful personification phrases, Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors, Learning how to create atmosphere. Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful. Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December. All reviews welcome. You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit Or browse through my shop to find many more inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.

98 Videos of every letter of the alphabet as a capital and lowercase in cursive handwriting. Example sentences and words for pupils to copy containing the focus letters. Large selection of phonic digraphs for handwriting practice as well. Have the best handwriting class in school! All reviews welcome. Check out my Teachallenjoy Shop for more amazing resources.

5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint. Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases. Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing. There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns. Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria Green - LA Blue and yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome.

A week’s plan, 76 slide powerpoint and complete resources for KS2 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of understanding and identifying figurative language. Written for UKS2 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other popular reading lessons: Identifying Themes Summarising Texts Predicting When Reading

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of prediction. Includes 5 engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All reviews welcome.

A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 2. 43 question templates under 12 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading. Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading: A4 black and white questions sheet. A4 colour coded questions sheet. Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home. Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes. Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular KS1 English resources: Year 2 Grammar Glossary Year 2 SMART Writing Targets Year 2 Reading Corner Display

A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 4. 68 question templates under 14 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading. Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading: A4 black and white questions sheet. A4 colour coded questions sheet. Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home. Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes. Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular assessment resources: Year 4 Writing Target Sheet Year 4 SMART Target Bank Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheet

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -ant, -ance, -ent, -ence endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of rereading and performing poetry. 3 days on rereading and 2 days on performing poetry. Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one for both parts of the week. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles. All reviews welcome.

An engaging pack for easily teaching predicting to KS2. Contains all you need for the week: plan, powerpoint, resources and answers. Includes sparky starters, meaty main activities and personalised plenaries. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension questions. Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Designed for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of predicting. Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Differentiated resources and activities for two ability groups. All reviews welcome. For a whole term’s worth of reading lessons click here to save yourself lots of time!

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 5 writing targets. Over 110 SMART targets on a 5 page word document, grouped into the National Curriculum areas of writing. Easy to copy and paste onto reports or print out to use when marking of for AFL involving the children. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A good lesson teaching year 5 (or any KS2 class) how to find the perimeter of compound/composite shapes. Includes teaching PowerPoint, differentiation, worksheets,extensions and answers. Show children this tricky concept in a clear and memorable way. A 29 slide PowerPoint with 11 slides focusing on the method needed for calculating missing sides and finding the perimeter of composite shapes. An easy to use PowerPoint visually showing the children how to find missing sides, taking you through the lesson step by step from starter to plenary. A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet. LA - An independent starter and a simple input, with a worksheet using whole numbers only MA - Support and challenge as needed. HA - A reasoning starter, complex input involving calculating perimeter with decimals and a worksheet using whole numbers and numbers to 1 and 2 decimal places when finding perimeter. All answers included. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources: Calculating Perimeter of Regular Shapes Lesson Area and Perimeter Word Problems Measuring Angles Lesson Drawing Angles Lesson

A whole week of year 2 reading comprehension lessons on The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me. Includes teaching PowerPoint, paired and group activities, scaffolding, differentiation, sequenced learning, challenge and answers. Five complete lessons which develops the children’s understanding of the book and their ability to answer comprehension questions. Every lesson includes: Starter Teaching points Pages to read Independent activities Challenge Plenary This week focuses on the comprehension questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text. The teaching points emphasise the importance of looking back over what you have read and using what you know. Colonel Code Breaker appears everyday to give the children handy tips and help them become confident at decoding tricky words. All activities are differentiated into 3 ability groups, with printable sheets provided separately to support every child. Enjoy teaching reading with this accessible and engaging famous book by Roald Dahl, excite your pupils with the charming characters whilst they expand their vocabulary. You can find lots more useful resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop Or you might be interested in these handy resources: Year 2 Reading Corner Display Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions

The fifth of seven engaging lessons which bring Scandinavia into the classroom. Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go. This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3. This lesson covers these important teaching points: What resources do they have in Scandinavia to create energy? Energy summaries How else do they create energy? Burning waste videos Where do they farm? Why? Maps and facts to discuss What do they export each year? List of statistics for task How do we draw a bar graph?Animated model with 5 helpful tips What have you learnt? Bar chart task Can we improve our energy sources in the UK? Challenge task How else do they transport people and goods? Plenary discussion All resources are included, so just print the fact cards, a detailed lesson plan find some graph paper and your lesson is ready. All lessons in this unit are designed to link to and extend work in English with challenges linking to English objectives, e.g. persuasive writing features. All reviews welcome. To teach Scandinavia throughout the curriculum, download my English and art units: Scandinavia Art Unit Scandinavia Story Writing Unit You can find many more engaging and high quality resources at my Teachallenjoy Shop

6 engaging homework task printables for KS1, complete with instructions, colourful images and ideas to start. Excite and inspire your pupils about science for British Science Week. Provide them with a choice of activities, all of which are easy to set up, promote discussion and develop questioning skills. Written to achieve National Curriculum learning objectives these tasks will be a brilliant extension to any school work in British Science Week. Bright, colourful and clear these cards will save you time and encourage independence. Year 1 Task Cards Arts and crafts activity through learning about plants Writing activity linked to animal classification Arts activity about parts of the human body Year 2 Task Cards Presenting information creatively about body well-being Drawing interactive images about habitats Arts and crafts with materials Check out my other updated British Science Week resources: KS2 British Science Week Homework Tasks KS1 British Science Week Posters KS2/3 British Science Week Posters

An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions. Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today. Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused. Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers. Takes the children through these key questions: What did Darwin think? How can we be a great scientist? Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life What were Darwin's theories? What impact did his theories have? Is evolution important today? Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced: Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey. Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life. Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you. Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. Relevant for KS2 and KS3. All reviews welcome. For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time! You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy