An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A complete and colourful display for a KS2 maths unit on place value. Includes 3 titles, vocabulary cards, fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions, interactive activities and concrete images of this concept.
Quickly pop up on your display board to start the term organised.
Contains:
Place Value titles (3 formats)
Place value chart
Place value vocabulary cards
Fish theme images
Fluency questions
Reasoning questions
Problem solving questions
Abacus images
Interactive activities
Provided in a beach theme, this will spark, support and extend your topic in an engaging and effective way.
Enjoy the cheerful summer theme of the seaside and brighten up your room.
Ideal for KS2.
All reviews welcome.
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Over 500 powerful adjectives for creative writing. Grouped into synonyms to aid understanding and save time. Use these 7 A4 page adjective banks to expand the vocabulary of your pupils. A bright and colourful pack of lists of adjectives for KS2.
Designed to cover your needs for all your English units.
You can use on a display, in a writer's toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary.
Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these.
Contains:
- Persuasive Adjectives
- Adjectives to describe monsters
- Adjectives to describe a hero
- Adjectives for a spooky setting description
- Adjectives for a positive setting description
- Adjectives to describe different characters
-Adjectives to describe different objects
All reviews welcome.
5 engaging, ready-to-go and beneficial circle time sessions to increase awareness of mental health. Each lesson includes a quick and catchy starter, paired and group discussions and activities and a reflective calm plenary.
Designed for use during a Mental Health Awareness Week in primary schools or at any time you need to develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing.
Appropriate for years 5 -6 they cover these key issues:
Fear of failure (tests, exams etc.)
Bullying
Body Image
The Online World
Career Choices
This week of circle time will develop your pupil’s awareness of these issues whilst improving their understanding of their feelings and how to cope with them.
The children will be supplied with strategies to:
Identify feelings
Communicate feelings
Notice warning signs
Use coping strategies
Ask for help
These effective sessions will develop your pupil’s wellbeing and understanding of mental health.
Why not use my Emotion Cards to further develop your pupils EQ. Or check out my circle time activities for years 3 and 4.
Or download a complete lesson on Dreams and Aspirations here.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
An engaging 45 slide assembly on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Includes a clear, animated and bright PowerPoint, a video link and fun facts. The Einstein assembly shows how his life choices led to great things and how it is important to follow your passions from a young age.
Celebrate a Great Scientist
Use to celebrate his birthday on March 14th or as an interesting assembly for any day of the year.
This science assembly includes:
A memory game
Young life
Family life
Working life
Fun facts
Images of his life
Scientific Research
Einstein quotes to inspire
Why was he such a great scientist?
Summary
Relevant for KS1.
Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies:
World Poetry Day KS1 Assembly
Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly
Mental Health Awareness KS1 Assembly
Inspire your pupils with this KS1 assembly celebrating World Poetry Day.
Includes an engaging PowerPoint, 4 poems, geography map skills, video link, reasoning questions and interactive activities.
This ready-to-go 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through the assembly explaining World Poetry Day and poetry. Read the children 4 world habitat poems written about environments from across the globe.
Choose poems from a world map, before reading about the animals, landscape and climate of jungles, grasslands, deserts and the arctic. Enhance geography skills whilst developing vocabulary and a passion for poetry.
An engaging video is included to provide a range of role models who clearly enjoy reading poetry and bringing it to life.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity and a shared understanding of the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers, enjoy the video link of a range of people reading a poem about how poets can write anywhere.
Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies:
Mental Health Awareness Week KS1 Assembly
Albert Einstein KS1 Assembly
Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly
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
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a bright and colourful, easy to use way.
All the year 2 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Also included:
12 Bunting Triangles - with characters and relevant quotes from well known children’s books
A large welcome title
All the year 2 New Curriculum reading statements in speech bubbles from colourful animals
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
All reviews welcome.
A complete display for a reading corner in a year 3 or 4 classroom. Bright, colourful and engaging. Inspire reading with this pack which includes: title, bunting quotes, vocabulary, higher level questions, reading statements, images and other reading resources.
A useful display for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the new curriculum in a colourful and easy to use way.
All the year 3 and 4 reading statements are simplified to child speak with engaging animals and speech bubbles, an easy way to jazz up your reading corner.
Having the new curriculum statements on display for all to see will help everyone feel confident with knowing the learning objectives. All adults involved with the class will be able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children will be more accurate and relevant.
Children could use these on an interactive display to self and peer assess and prompt reading discussions.
Also included:
12 Bunting Triangles - with famous inspirational quotes about reading
A large welcome title
Key reading vocabulary cards
10 Bubbles containing thought provoking questions
Top Book Trump review cards
Book Recommendation sheets
A Reading Challenge
Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other popular reading resources:
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
Bundle of KS2 Reading Lessons
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 essential resource for teaching expanded noun phrases. Includes an engaging PowerPoint and complete word bank kits.
This pack teaches how to construct expanded noun phrases. Grouped word banks scaffold the learning.
It teaches children how to start with a simple noun phrase such as 'the dog' or 'the lady' and add in 8 new elements to the phrase.
3 simple noun phrases are modelled with the 'machine'.
Used in year 5, also appropriate for all other KS2 classes.
A|l reviews welcome.
A set of 10 original poems written for children about India, describing its culture, landscape, physical and human features. Perfect for a KS2 geography topic on India. All the poems are written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about this fascinating country whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
India Geography Topic
Each poem could spark a whole lesson enabling children to learn, discuss and write about the culture of India. They cover these geographical aspects of India:
Indian culture
Mumbai
Western Ghats
Thar dessert
Taj Mahal
Goa Beaches
Himalayas
Kerala
River Ganges
Collection of Poems
These poems are written to describe India whilst modeling essential writing skills such as: alliteration, rhyming, rhythm, personification and similes. Presented as word documents and all together on one PowerPoint with some higher-order questions to consider.
This pack includes 10 poems using these different styles:
Kennings
Haiku
Diamente
Repeated starting words
Kyrielle
Shape Poem
All the poems are written by me and all images used are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more engaging and useful resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in my Arctic Poem collection
A complete 2 week English planning pack for KS2. Download engaging PowerPoints leading you through each of the 10 lessons, differentiated resources and 2 detailed weekly plans.
Enjoy teaching these full lessons which are ready to pick up and go. Each containing engaging starters, short text extracts, paired and group discussion, word banks, challenges and quick and easy plenaries.
Improve your pupil’s writing whilst enjoying this festive season. Read them the Nisse story, a Scandinavian Christmas folk tale and watch as they are inspired to write about Christmas.
Use the peer and self assessments so your marking is quick and effortless. Have time for family this Christmas.
All reviews are welcome.
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The sixth part 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:
Who are the Scandinavians? Video link explaining Viking history
How do Scandinavians celebrate Christmas? Lesson starter craft activity
What will my mind map look like? Discussion and mind map examples
What makes each country in Scandinavia unique? Fact cards covering food, religion, music, art, festivals, symbols, royalty, language and immigration
How are these elements linked?Discussion of ideas
Which time zone is Scandinavia in? Challenge task
Who is from Scandinavia? Famous person research extra challenge task
All resources are included, so just print the fact cards if you’d like and a detailed lesson plan 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
A complete lesson teaching factors, multiples, squares and cubes. Includes animated PowerPoint, worksheets, challenges and all answers. Ideal for UKS2, will engage and extend all the pupils in your class.
Download this lesson to teach these important concepts:
Factors
Multiples
Square numbers
Cube numbers
Use the colourful and animated PowerPoint to develop your pupil’s problem solving skills using RUCSAC and trial and error.
Print out the colourful worksheets provided with engaging word problems set in realistic contexts.
Hand out the reasoning challenges to extend your high achievers and challenge everyone else.
Share out the calculations for fast finishers to consolidate their learning so they develop mastery for these mathematical concepts.
Use all the answers provided for quick and easy marking.
Designed for the national curriculum objective:
Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using your knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular maths word problems:
Adding &Subtracting Fractions
Area and Perimeter
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for KS2 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of making comparisons within and across texts. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries for everyday.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with possible answers modelled.
Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.
Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).
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 3 writing targets.
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 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
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!
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 1. 38 question templates under 10 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 1 Writing Assessment Sheet
Year 1 Grammar Glossary
Year 1 Reading Corner Display