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 KS2 mental health lesson on understanding emotions. Includes an engaging PowerPoint leading you through the lesson, differentiated activities, resources and a mini assessment.
Develop children’s understanding of their emotions, show them how to identify emotions and teach what to do when you have negative emotions.
Animated PowerPoint Covers:
identifying emotions within memories,
knowing the four main emotions,
understanding why all emotions are healthy, even negative ones,
strategies for identifying emotions,
healthy coping strategies for managing emotions,
understanding emotion scales,
preventing negative emotions from turning you into a monster
Use the activities to foster high quality dialogue. Provide reflection time. Create a positive and calm atmosphere which enables progress.
Get children talking about mental health and provide them with strategies for understanding and managing their emotions.
A range of mental health support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class.
Ideal for a KS2 class, easily adaptable for KS1.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other mental health lessons covering:
Self Esteem
Dreams and Aspirations
Or why not check out my mental health awareness week resources:
KS1 Mental Health Bundle
KS2 Mental Health Bundle
A bright and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of memorable spelling lessons for years 5 and 6.
All words contain the endings -cial and -tial (some not following the rule) from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 engaging and memorable spelling lessons which enable children to learn these words in an effective 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.
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 are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Effective 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
Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed.
Six engaging PowerPoints leading you through a term of daily spelling lessons.
All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list.
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.
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.
6 verb word banks, A4 size, a bright and colourful resource pack. Spooky, positive and victorious verbs. Verb synonyms for 5 words children generally use too much. 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.
6 verb word banks included:
Spooky verbs for mystery stories, building suspense, spooky stories and for creating a tense atmosphere
Positive verbs for happy endings, adventure stories, poetry, setting descriptions and for creating a joyful atmosphere
Verb synonyms for ‘went / walked’
Verb synonyms for ‘said’
Verb synonyms for ‘got’, ‘put’ and ‘took’
Victorious verbs - general story verb synonyms
High quality presentation and words, designed to expand vocabulary and improve children’s writing.
Useful in all KS2 English lessons.
All reviews welcome.
Carefully written word problem questions for KS2 on converting fractions to decimals, with answers. Includes realistic and engaging contexts, consolidation of key maths skills, multi-step questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning practice, challenges and extensions.
Be confident that your pupils will master this tricky skill by answering word problems set in realistic and engaging contexts.
Develop their understanding of number as they relate to the people in these problems and consolidate their other mathematical skills such as: addition, subtraction, measure and time.
Enhance their problem solving skills as each interesting question is multi-step so will be excellent preparation for end of term and year reasoning tests.
Challenge your class even further by asking them to convert their decimal answer back to a fraction for each question.
Extend those quick finishers with two reasoning challenge questions and an open ended reasoning question.
Print all the answers provided for quick and easy marking and assessment.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other sets of word problems to save even more time:
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes
A useful document for assessing children’s writing in Year 3, guidance for you to have a better understanding of assessing with the New Curriculum.
Make your assessments quick, clear and useful so that your planning hits the spot.
Ensure progress for every child as you confidently identify their next steps and find any small essential gaps to fill.
See all of the writing statements in an easy to understand grid, sorted into three simple steps:
- Beginning/Entering
- Within/ Developing
- Secure
You can use these for one child or for the whole class to track and enhance their progress throughout the year.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching English:
Year 3 Writing Assessment Sheets
Year 3 SMART Writing Targets
Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions
An engaging lesson pack with a plan, PowerPoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of comparing. Includes starters, main activities, plenaries, texts, worksheets and guided teaching points.
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, focusing on short, high quality texts.
All reviews welcome.
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 5. 60 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 assessment resources:
Year 5 SMART Targets
Year 5 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 5 Reading Corner Display
Over 300 questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in years 1-6. Grouped under National Curriculum headings to build confidence in readers and reader helpers.
Enhance reading dialogue with colour-coded questions, engage children with books and ensure progress.
Scaffold learning so children can peer support readers and deepen their own understanding of the reading process.
Support and succeed with 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 English AFL Resource Bundles:
Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets
Whole School Writing Assessment Guidance
Whole School SMART Targets
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 -ent, -ence, -ential, -ency 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 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 -cious or -tious ending 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 bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons.
All words follow the pattern of doubling the r when adding suffixes onto fer 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 - 3 thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an active 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.
A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of connecting.
Engaging 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 reviews welcome.
A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 6. 43 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 assessment resources:
Year 6 SMART Targets
Year 6 Writing Assessment Guidance
Year 6 Writing Assessment Sheets
All the Year 4 English writing objectives on one handy sheet. Separated into transcription, composition and grammar. All National Curriculum comments included for AFL, marking or planning to ensure coverage and progression.
Useful for remembering what to cover, assessing work and for planning for progress.
You could have one sheet for each child or use as a resource on its own.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in these resources for teaching English with the New Curriculum:
Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance
Tear 4 SMART Writing Targets
Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions
You can find all of this and more at my shop: Teachallenjoy
3 differentiated lesson packs on perimeter and area; includes detailed PowerPoints, diffferentiated worksheets, word problems and answers.
Calculating Perimeter
Effortlessly teach perimeter of squares, reasoning shapes questions, perimeter of rectangles, perimeter of composite shapes and perimeter of triangles.
A differentiated lesson of two halves - well pitched reasoning questions are provided for while you teach the higher half and lower half. Develop independence and mastery at the same time.
All resources and answers provided.
Perimeter of Composite Shapes
Show children this tricky concept in a clear and memorable way. A 29 slide animated PowerPoint clearly showing the method needed for calculating missing sides and finding the perimeter of composite shapes.
A lesson that is ready to go, taking you through the teaching points step-by-step, from starter to plenary.
A differentiated lesson by input and activities.
Word Problems
A bright and visual fully editable 24 slide PowerPoint teaching children how to solve area and perimeter word problems.
Includes an extensive set of questions where children need to use their understanding of area and perimeter to solve word problems. Most questions are multi step and cover key KS2 number skills (which are covered in the PowerPoint).
A differentiated lesson with 3 engaging worksheets with all the answers provided. Two challenges are also included so the pupils can really master these concepts.
All reviews welcome.
Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this amazing bundle of 10 circle time sessions, 14 posters, 10 word searches and a 32 slide KS2 assembly.
Be prepared and organised for this important time.
Designed for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
A large bundle of resources for KS2.
An engaging lesson teaching the area of shapes. Includes a this 39 slide PowerPoint, worksheets, starter, input, scaffolding, plenaries, higher level questioning, challenges and all answers.
Covers a range of shapes: rectangles, squares, triangles and parallelograms, enabling mastery of this area of maths.
Animated slides ensure understanding, competence and confidence. Starters, mini plenaries, extension and challenges ensure progression.
Worksheets differentiated 3 ways and each work through these styles of maths:
Fluency - Do It!
Misconception - Check It!
Reasoning - Prove It!
Application - Test It!
Problem Solving - Solve It!
Think outside the box - Do It Yourself!
All answers included to enable easy and quick marking.
Written for Year 5, but easily adaptable for all KS2 classes.
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