A set of independent writing checklists for ‘working towards expected’; ‘working at expected’ and ‘working at a greater depth’, based on the Interim Frameworks for Year 6 Assessment. Checklists have two columns: one for self-assessment and the other for teacher assessment. They are great to use as a self-assessment tool for children as they complete independent work; for teacher assessment after the writing is finished and a method to inform children of their gaps. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced pack of 3 Lessons (1 x 1hour, 2 x 30 mins with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Spelling) Words with the letter string ‘ough’ Spell commonly misspelt words from the Year 5/6 spelling list. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (8 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on developing the ability to start sentences in a variety of ways through identifying, and composing sentences with different starters (Verb ‘ing’ clause, Adverb ‘ed’ or ‘ly’, use a feeling, use a simile or metaphor, use a subordinating conjunction and a noun or adjective). Children can there showcase there learning in a sustained write in Lesson 7 & 8. Lessons planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Writing) To start sentences in different ways. To use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced pack of 3 Lessons (1 x 1hour, 2 x 30 mins with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Spelling) I can use the first 3 or 4 letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both in a dictionary. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced pack of 3 Lessons (1 x 1hour, 2 x 30 mins with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Spelling) I can use apostrophes to mark plural possession. PS: Can you and your class spot the error on the title slide? Please leave a review!

A fully resourced pack of 3 Lessons (1 x 1hour, 2 x 30 mins with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: Spell commonly misspelt words from the Year 3/4 & 5/6 spelling list. I can use a range of spelling strategies. I can understand the rules for adding a prefix and a hyphen. Please leave a review!

This unit forms the first part of the Year 3 block work on poetry. In this unit, children will read and make comparisons between poems. Compose calligrams using word processing programs and explore the effects created. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) With the children, read a selection of poems on the same theme. Discuss vocabulary and capture ideas, for example through response to visual imagery, reflection on first-hand experience, etc. Through modelled and shared composition, children compose shape poems using language effects and making decisions about form. Children work collaboratively to edit and redraft poetry. Grammar Starters are also included with each lesson. Please leave a review! Thanks

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (17 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean flip charts (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) and resources. The first half of the unit (Lessons 1-6) focuses on developing reading skills and the second half (Lessons 7-17) develops use of varied punctuation. Cross-curricular links to World War 2 with a focus on the novel ‘Carrie’s War’. Lessons planned to meet the following Year 6 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To provide reasoned justifications for my views. To use scanning to find specific information. To refer to the text to support opinion. To identify and discuss themes in a text. ARE (Writing) To use a range of sentence starters to create specific effects. To use commas to mark clauses and phrases. To use the colon to introduce a list and the semicolon within lists. To use the semi-colon, colon and dash. To use the hyphen to avoid ambiguity. To sustain and develop ideas logically in narrative and non-narrative writing. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (15 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) Most lessons also include a GRAMMAR STARTER. This a great story to enable teaching of many of the Year 3 Writing and Reading objectives. As a class, children will read and examine the novel ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman. They will discuss the author and create predications as to what they think the story will be about. Children will examine the main characters in the story and use drama techniques to empathise with the characters. They will have the opportunity to deduce and infer information based on what they have read and give their own opinions about the text. They will develop their knowledge of grammatical terms such as; nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, identify them within shared and guided reading. They will have the opportunity to develop their writing through different genres of writing such as letters, written in roles as the characters Lila and Lalchand. Please note it is highly advised to purchase a hard/ e copy of this book. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (15 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) GRAMMAR starters are also included. This unit teaches a host of Year 3 Reading and Writing objectives. Children are to read and discuss stories, identifying the different characters and voices by using dramatised reading and puppets. Identify the features and conventions of written dialogue, demonstrate and then write dialogue. Compare this with a play based on the same story. Write and perform play scripts based on familiar stories. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (9 lessons and a research lesson) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on introducing and teaching relative clauses in isolation and then with an informative and fictional write. This resource is useful for year 5 and 6. Parts of the unit use a Tudor theme which can be adapted. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) I can identify grammatical features used by the writer (relative pronouns and clauses) to impact on the reader. ARE (Writing) To use relative clauses To edit and improve a setting description using figurative language. ARE Grammar Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (10 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) The unit uses the short but interesting book of The Unforgotten Coat to teach many Year 5 Reading skills and presents ample opportunities for children to develop writing skills too. This could also be used in Year 6. Please note the book does tackle some sensitive issues on immigration. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) Identify significant ideas, events and characters and discuss their significance. Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. Justify inferences with evidence from the text. Present the author’s viewpoint of a text. Summarise the main ideas drawn from a text. Identify the effect of the context on a text. for example, historical or other cultures. Express a personal point of view about a text, giving reasons. Present a personal point of view based on what has been read. ARE (Writing) Develop characters through action and dialogue Establish viewpoint as the writer through commenting on characters or events Please note it is highly advised to buy the hard / e copy of the book but it is well worth it! Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (14 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on developing writing through use of figurative language, cohesion, varied sentence structure and dialogue. Links to Literacy novels: Treasure Island and Kensuke’s Kingdom Lessons planned to meet the following Year 6 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To identify and comment on writers choice of vocabulary. To find information using skimming and scanning. To refer to the text to support opinion. ARE (Writing) To suggest vocabulary to enhance effects and clarify meaning. To write in paragraphs which clearly signal a change in subject, time, place or event. To use cohesive devices (connecting adverbs and adverbials) to link ideas within paragraphs. To vary sentence structure. To use dialogue to advance events in narrative writing. To sustain and develop ideas logically in narrative and non-narrative writing. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (19 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) The unit focuses on developing writing through use of varied punctuation, accurate use of dialogue and the passive voice. Cross-curricular links to topic based on ‘Frozen Kingdoms’. Lessons planned to meet the following Year 6 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To understand how texts are structured in different ways. ARE (Writing) To use the semi-colon, colon and dash. To use semi-colons and colons in lists. To use semi-colons to separate closely linked clauses. To understand the use of dashes to mark out extra information. To use dialogue to advance events in narrative writing. To sustain and develop ideas logically in narrative and non-narrative writing. To use the passive voice to present information with a different emphasis. Please leave a review! Thanks

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (13 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on developing setting and character descriptions through developing expanded noun phrases, varied sentence starts and commas to mark clauses. Lessons planned to meet the following Year 6 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) I can identify and comment on the writer’s choice of vocabulary, giving examples and explanation ARE (Writing) To use developed noun phrases to add detail to sentences. To use commas to mark phrases and clauses. To use a range of sentence starters to create specific effects. Please leave a review!

This writing pack is primarily aimed at Year 6 children as a stimulus for independent writing (non-fiction). Included within is a written plan, flipchart, links to example texts (in plan) and writing template as well as individual writing checklists for ‘working towards expected’; ‘working at expected’ and ‘working at a greater depth’. Please leave a review!

This writing pack is primarily aimed at Year 6 children as a stimulus for independent writing (non-fiction). Included within is a written plan, flipchart, eight example texts and writing template as well as individual writing checklists for ‘working towards expected’; ‘working at expected’ and ‘working at a greater depth’. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (6 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. The unit uses the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus to enable children to develop their prediction skills alongside planning and editing setting descriptions using figurative language, fronted adverbials and thesaurus skills. Children showcase there learning by creating a class travelogue (Lesson 6 - ALL DAY). Lessons planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To predict what might happen from details stated and implied. ARE (Writing) To plan setting explanations through discussing and recording ideas. To edit and improve a setting description using figurative language and a thesaurus ****** PLEASE NOTE IT IS HIGHLY ADVISED TO PURCHASE A COPY OF “JOURNEY” ALONGSIDE THIS PLAN******* Please leave a review!

A fully resourced pack of 3 Lessons (1 x 1hour, 2 x 30 mins with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: • Spell commonly misspelt words from the Year3/4 & 5/6 spelling list. • I can use a range of spelling strategies. • I can distinguish between plurals of nouns that are often confused. Please leave a review!