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Most resources come with colour coded differentiation activities ready to print. Beginning = Below Age Related Expectations (ARE) Developing = Working towards ARE Mastery = Working at ARE Deepening = Greater Depth ARE All lesson presentations are Promethean with a flip chart supported by a lesson plan.

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Most resources come with colour coded differentiation activities ready to print. Beginning = Below Age Related Expectations (ARE) Developing = Working towards ARE Mastery = Working at ARE Deepening = Greater Depth ARE All lesson presentations are Promethean with a flip chart supported by a lesson plan.
Year 5 Spelling - Bargain Bundle
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Year 5 Spelling - Bargain Bundle

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A total of 18 Spelling Lessons to revise and learn some Year 4 & 5 Spelling Objectives. All lessons come with an Activinspire flipchart and corresponding plan. Most lessons are resourced. What are you waiting for? Grab a BARGAIN bundle! Please leave a review!
Year 5 - Use of a Dictionary - 3 Mini Lessons Pack
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Year 5 - Use of a Dictionary - 3 Mini Lessons Pack

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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!
Apostophes for Possession Year 5 Revision - 3 Mini Lessons Pack
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Apostophes for Possession Year 5 Revision - 3 Mini Lessons Pack

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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!
Year 5 Hyphenated Work - 3 Mini Lessons Pack
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Year 5 Hyphenated Work - 3 Mini Lessons Pack

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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!
Plural Nouns 's,es,ies' Year 4/5 Revision - 3 Mini Lessons Pack
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Plural Nouns 's,es,ies' Year 4/5 Revision - 3 Mini Lessons Pack

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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!
Year 5 Spelling - Silent Letter - 3 Lesson Mini Pack
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Year 5 Spelling - Silent Letter - 3 Lesson Mini Pack

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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 spell words with silent letters Spell commonly misspelt words from the Year 5/6 spelling list. Please leave a review!
Year 5 Spelling - ough letter string - 3 resourced Mini Lessons
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Year 5 Spelling - ough letter string - 3 resourced Mini Lessons

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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!
Adventure Stories - Kensuke's Kingdom - Year 3 Reading and Writing Skills - Unit Pack of 20 Lessons
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Adventure Stories - Kensuke's Kingdom - Year 3 Reading and Writing Skills - Unit Pack of 20 Lessons

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A fully resourced Literacy Unit (20 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts, resources and 20 spelling starters. This resource is useful for year 3 children but could be adapted for Year 4. The units teaches a host of reading and writing objectives. As a class, children will read and examine the novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. 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 use of inverted commas and varied sentence starts. Please leave a review!
Year 3 Poems with a Structure - Calligrams, Shape and List Poetry Unit Pack 5 Lessons
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Year 3 Poems with a Structure - Calligrams, Shape and List Poetry Unit Pack 5 Lessons

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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
Year 3 Persuasive Writing: Letters- 8 Lesson pack including Grammar starters
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Year 3 Persuasive Writing: Letters- 8 Lesson pack including Grammar starters

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A fully resourced Literacy Unit (8 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts,resources and grammar starters. This resource is useful for year 3 children and will teach a host of Writing objectives. Children are to research the features of persuasive writing, looking in detail at persuasive letters. Children are to examine ‘causal conjunctions’ to extend sentences and give greater persuasion. Children to write their own persuasive letter to a company that wants to buy the school field to build a pickled onion factory on the grounds of ??? Primary School. Children to persuade company why they should not do this and how it will negatively affect the school. Please leave a review!
Year 3 Dialogue and Playscripts - The Twits 15 Lesson MEGA PACK!
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Year 3 Dialogue and Playscripts - The Twits 15 Lesson MEGA PACK!

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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!
Year 5 Inferences, Modal Verbs & Well Chosen Detail Unit Pack  7 lessons
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Year 5 Inferences, Modal Verbs & Well Chosen Detail Unit Pack 7 lessons

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A fully resourced Literacy Unit (7 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on drawing inferences from characters actions and dialogue, introducing and teaching modal verbs and adverbs and applying this add well chosen detail to writing. This resource is useful for year 5 and 6. Danny Champion of the World is used throughout these lessons. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To draw inferences from characters’ actions. ARE (Writing) To develop characters through action and dialogue To add well-chosen detail to interest the reader ARE Grammar To use modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility. Please leave a review!
Recount - Diaries - Year 3 Reading and Writing Skills Pack 10 Lessons with Grammar Starters
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Recount - Diaries - Year 3 Reading and Writing Skills Pack 10 Lessons with Grammar Starters

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A fully resourced Literacy Unit (10 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources to teach a host of Year 3 Reading and Writing skills. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) Children to explore recounts in the form of diary entries. Children will have the opportunity to read a range of extracts from texts as well as a longer story ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’. They will examine the key layout and linguistic features and consider the purpose of a diary. They will have the opportunity to study in greater detail the way that authors use descriptive words and detail and the effect that this has on a diary. They will finally have the opportunity to practise their writing by creating their own diary entry in role as an eye-witness to a Volcanic eruption. Please leave a review!
Novel as a Theme: The Firework Maker's Daughter -Y3 Reading and Writing Skills MEGA PACK 15 Lessons
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Novel as a Theme: The Firework Maker's Daughter -Y3 Reading and Writing Skills MEGA PACK 15 Lessons

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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!
The Unforgotten Coat - Developing Character Y5 Reading and Writing Skills 10 Lesson Pack
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The Unforgotten Coat - Developing Character Y5 Reading and Writing Skills 10 Lesson Pack

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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!
Upper KS2 Relative Clauses with Non Chron Report and Fictional Writing - Mega Pack!
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Upper KS2 Relative Clauses with Non Chron Report and Fictional Writing - Mega Pack!

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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!
Y5 Predicting and Settings with Fronted Adverbials & Figurative Language Unit Pack - 6 lessons
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Y5 Predicting and Settings with Fronted Adverbials & Figurative Language Unit Pack - 6 lessons

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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!
Year 5 Sentence Starters Unit Pack - Henry VIII Theme (adaptable)
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Year 5 Sentence Starters Unit Pack - Henry VIII Theme (adaptable)

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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!
Year 6 Independent Writing Assessment Checklists
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Year 6 Independent Writing Assessment Checklists

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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!
Year 6 Independent Non-Fiction Writing Stimulus Pack - UFO Newspaper Report
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Year 6 Independent Non-Fiction Writing Stimulus Pack - UFO Newspaper Report

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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!