A plan and two PowerPoints are included (depending on group’s ability). Children will watch a section of the video and answer questions. Modelled answers have been included in the PowerPoint for the 4 days.

Children will be reading fictional diary extracts and using the skill of inference over four days.

Changing singular nouns to plural nouns worksheet

To find the verbs, nouns and adjectives from the passage.

Phonics assessment which includes: suffixes (ed, ing, ly and y) prefixes (un, pre, dis and re) silent letters plurals (adding s) apostrophes homophones

PowerPoint displaying words with the: ea, ew, oe, ie, au, wh, ey, ir and ph sounds.

-ly suffix worksheet

Story map Character description ideas Setting description ideas

Children will use the picture of the character to write a character description . There are 3 challenges (dependent on child’s ability).

Children will use the picture of the tower to write descriptive sentences. There are 3 challenges (dependent on child’s ability).

Present and past tense activity

Match the sentences to the correct pictures. Cut them out neatly and stick them in your book.

Read the sentences about hamsters and decide which subheading it belongs to.

Read and identify the different features found in a non-chronological report. Use different colours to complete the table.

Children to read, edit and improve sentences.

Children to finish off the sentence. Answers at the bottom can be trimmed to give children more of a challenge.

Children to read and fill in the missing punctuation. This has been differentiated in three ways.

Fill in the blanks activity

This pre-made checklist can be used for when children complete an independent fairytale writing piece.

Sentences based on the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ that need editing and improving.