Bright, colourful and exciting teaching resources that help to keep your class engaged, stretch and challenge those that are soaring, and close the gap with the children who need an extra helping hand!
Bright, colourful and exciting teaching resources that help to keep your class engaged, stretch and challenge those that are soaring, and close the gap with the children who need an extra helping hand!
Hi Teachers!
Here is a diary planning resource. It comes as part of a larger set, which you can find at this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-diary-writing-entire-unit-12301089
Week 3 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on prepositions of place, figurative language (hyperbole, similes & metaphors) and character development. Chapters 4 - 7 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 4-7 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, parts of speech identification and character description using figurative language!
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
40-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 4, 5, 6 & 7
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Identifying Prepositions in Context worksheet
Writing Prepositional Phrases worksheet
Comparing Book to Movie worksheet
Writing Instructions worksheet
Me VS Hiccup worksheet for character empathy
Writing to Hiccup worksheet
Persuasive writing worksheet
Identifying Figurative Language worksheet (similes, metaphors, hyperbole)
5 x challenge activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
I am currently teaching this unit and will be uploading new packs as they’re made, so follow me to stay up to date and to carry on the children’s learning consistently <3
Looking for the rest of the unit?
Week 1
Week 2
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Want to get the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hi there,
Here's some of this week's planning for play scripts. It's an often forgotten text type, but is helpful for many reasons.
I used this blank iphone template for children to separate who is saying what in a piece of text in order to prep them for writing a play script this week. I hope it works for you!
Miss Ritchie
Hi there,
There are three resources in this pack. There's a background assembly powerpoint to create a backdrop (including links to sound effects etc), the lyrics to a version of 'Gold' by Spandeau Ballet with the lyric changed to 'STONE!' (much comedy), and the script.
On the script document, there's also a helpful table to write down who's who.
Help your children to improve their descriptions and narratives by using these colour vocabulary sheets in your literacy lessons or on display. They equip pupils with exciting words for ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’ and everything in between!
I have been using these colour thesauruses as part of a Writing Toolkit (coming soon!) that I give to my class at the start of the school year. After modelling how to use them in writing, the children then independently use stronger, more effective colour descriptives when describing settings or characters- I even see them cropping up in their speech!
BOTH SPELLINGS OF COLOR/COLOUR INCLUDED!
Included in this download:
A display poster and pocket-sized version of the color vocabulary grid
PDF versions of the resources
.docx Word versions of the resources for editing purposes
2 fonts to edit your resources with
UK/AU/NZ/CA version using ‘colour’ spelling
Looking for the full Writing Toolkit? Due to be completed by September 1st 2020
I hope this product saves you time and stress,
Happy Teaching!
Miss Austin
Hello Fellow Teachers,
Here is a large pack for an entire unit of diary writing lessons. It’s a week long, and all of the planning, resources, evaluations, examples, success criteria and word banks are provided!
Even included two fonts for you so that you can edit the .doc format files at your leisure!
Hopefully all of the above should help to turn the focus back to teaching as opposed to all of the other stuff we have to do!
If you’re looking for home-learning projects, here are links to the resources I’ve put together for whilst the children are distance learning and off school.
LKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-lks2-home-learning-project-12282480
UKS2 Space themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/space-6-week-english-project-for-ks2-12269809
Apocalypse themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/apocalypse-6-week-english-project-12270297
Detective themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/detectives-7-week-english-project-12270301
Romans & Celts themed:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romans-and-celts-home-learning-project-12278939
This pack includes 4 activities.
The main activity has three tasks that involve classifying words into 1 of 7 categories. This opens up for lots of conversation and debate, which is a great basis for a lesson.
The other three activities are mazes where children must get from the top row of the word-table to the the bottom by linking words of that type.
I hope this proves helpful!
Miss Austin
Here’s a resource for locating similes, metaphors and personification in context. Children have to underline in different colours to show they can find each type! Differentiated three ways.
Week 5 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores watercolour, the work of Paul Klee and the art of Hirameki- a Japanese doodle art! Children in years 1-3 will learn how to create a watercolor wash, emulate the work of famous artists and conduct research using internet search engines.
This product contains a 26-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through previous weeks’ learning (colour theory, critiquing peers’ work, photography basics) and develops their understanding of watercolours by looking at the work of Paul Klee and the Japanese art form of Hirameki. Children will be introduced to new vocabulary such as wash, saturation, research, tone and pattern.
This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on the ability to use watercolour paints in addition to improving digital literacy skills, using QR codes to conduct research on the chosen artist.
This lesson is likely to take 2-3 hours, and requires the use of worksheets (included), paintbrushes, watercolor pallets, water pots and pencils for writing. iPads to aid digital research would be beneficial but are not necessary.
This product contains 7 activities, including:
‘What do we remember from last week?’ matching activity
An outline of watercolours with new vocabulary
A short exploration of the work of Paul Klee
Hirameki doodling activity worksheet
QR code-linked extension task for researching Hirameki
Artist research page (differentiated 2 ways for ability)
Learning consolidation task (speech bubble)
Bonus extension task focused on using fine liners create leaf line-drawings
This download includes:
A 26-slide Teaching PowerPoint
‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
Outline of the planning
3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
PDF versions of worksheets to aid printing
Hello fellow teachers!
Here’s a resource for years 3-4 and years 5-6 ( KS2 ) for independent guided reading activities. There’s a selection of activities to choose from and they are in the the following categories:
short writing task
long writing task
text detective task (discrete grammar/punctuation)
creative task
Enjoy!
Hi there,
This resource pack is a prescriptive six week course for children for BSL. 6 stand alone lessons with all the resources sorted for you!
Covered:
alphabet, animals, numbers, days of the week, months, greetings.
If you want any individual lesson, just message me and I can separate out those resources for you for a smaller price.
Week 4 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on 4 different forms of poetry (haiku, acrostic, kenning & shape poems). Chapters 8 - 11 are covered.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 8-11 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in online research, identifying syllables and poetry writing.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
35-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Kenning Poetry worksheet
Acrostic Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry worksheet
Shape Poetry Challenge worksheet
Counting Syllables worksheet (& answers)
Haiku Worksheet
Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form
5 x starter activities on the PowerPoint slides
Hiccup & Toothless clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 5
X Week 6
Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hi there!
Here's a pack on the roman calendar. I hope it works for you. If you need anything extra, don't hesitate to contact me!
* Includes *
Learning Objectives:
To understand the meanings of the Roman months
To learn about the transformation from original calendars to the one we use today!
Success Criteria (Must, Should, Could)
Brief History of the calendar
Romulus, Numa and Julian months
Why are the months named this way?
Main lesson activity
Activity sheet
Review from previous upload of this resource:
nld60:
"A lot of research time saved. Thank you."
Happy teaching,
Miss Ritchie
Hi!
This is an 8-week William Morris Art Topic pack that has a full term of discreet lessons that build on previous skills learned.
In this pack, there is a teaching PowerPoint, along with handouts for lesson that require them, 2 fonts for editing and
There are scanned-in examples of what the work is supposed to look like for many of the lessons and the hand-outs that I used are also provided.
The lessons include: lino printing, pattern replication and research tasks for artist style and background exploration.
Here’s a nice, beefy pack of resources for Spiderwick Chronicles: Field Guide.
Comprehension, setting description, IT collage for text detective work etc.
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat Guided Reading Packet – Comprehension, inference, summary, questioning, author’s intention, and prediction.
This download includes a massive Guided Reading mega-booklet with a term’s worth of independent activities suitable for Key Stage 2 children. Children will make predictions for the text based on a front cover and blurb, ask questions to improve knowledge of character, summarise to write their own blurb, compare to other texts… I could go on!!
Everything you need to deliver the objectives above is included.
This download includes:
12-page PDF document of the guided reading packet (inc. title & quote answer page)
12-page editable .docx Word document version of the guided reading booklet
I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress.
Thank you and happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Week 6 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on character description, prediction and planning, writing and editing a sequel.
How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 15-19 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in using textual evidence to predict future plot lines, describing characters using ‘show not tell’ and writing at length.
Included in this download:
1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease
41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning
Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 and topical words
Video clips suggested to complement planning
Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes
Making Predictions worksheet
Describing the Green Death worksheet
Evidence from Text worksheet
Book Review worksheet
Story Mountain Planning worksheet
Introduction Drafting & Editing worksheet
Sequel Write-Up worksheet
Front & Back Cover Design Challenge worksheet
5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability
How To Train Your Dragon clip art (not for commercial use)
2 fonts to edit your resources with
PDF & Word Document versions of every resource
Looking for the rest of the unit?
X Week 1
X Week 2
X Week 3
X Week 4
X Week 5
**Want to save money on the whole unit? **
X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit
I hope this resource saves you time and stress
Happy teaching!
Miss Austin
Hi, fellow teachers!
Here’s a free resource for you- it contains a PDF and a wordx document version of an emotion graph where children can plot characters’ emotions throughout a story.
Enjoy!
Hi, All!
Here’s a little resource for your convenience- a wordsearch where childrne then must categorise the words into the following word classes:
pronoun, determiner, adjective, adverb, verb, noun, conjunction.
Enjoy!