The children can click on these links to play a variety of games to help the to fully understand adverbs so that they don't think they all end in ly! The most popular game was the battle ships one. The children are learning grammar and having fun at the same time!!

A Power point to help teach the vowels and when to use an. Learn what the vowels are through a song to the tune of 'bingo was his name&'. There is an activity explained at the end where the children can make a simple book about it.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

These writing tips are posters/reminders designed to be placed around the classroom. They include synonyms for nice, beautiful, don't like, angry and really/very so you can teach children to avoid the most obvious &'every day&'; words. There is also one which encourages them to extend their sentences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

The children are introduced to what a simile is on the smart board slides, which includes a link to some internet games. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! They then have to hunt for the similes in copies of popular books like MrGum, Harry Potter and the BFG. I photocopied pages from them-there is a word doc with the book titles and page numbers where the similes appear.

Introduce the artist and his work by using the Power point. There are differentiated reading comprehensions to go with this as we try to put literacy into all our topics. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

A fun game to help children to get to know their new class mates at the beginning of the year! There are two games, one of older junior school children. This resource could easily be adapted for older pupils. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Ask the children to think of some questions to ask Malvolio, for example they could work with a partner to write at least 5 questions in their books. They need to understand the plot of the play.Teacher can hot seat as Malvolio. Use his 'thoughts&' below to help you answer as though you are him. Ask the children to draw him, use the pictures of Malvolio to help them, and write thought bubbles of what he is thinking.Give the vocabulary list (words that you have used) so they can magpie these and reward them if they include a certain number in their writing.

Please leave feedback!This is a poetry idea by the excellent Pie Corbett, to use with Key Stage 2, which I have made into easy to follow smart board slides to use with the class. I did this in Big Write and it was my most successful poetry lesson this year. Enjoy!

If you have never tried philosophy before these lessons are a good starting point! The children really enjoy these discussions/debates! Based on ideas from Philosophy 4 children everything is explained in the lesson plans. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! The children sit in a circle and take turns to discuss what they think the answer to the question is-saying whether they agree or disagree with another child. They improve their listening, speaking and reasoning skills and learn that there is not always one right answer to a question.

This is for year 3 or 4 to help develop their understanding of Egyptian Gods and reading comprehension skills at the same time. The reading comprehensions are differentiated on 4 levels. Please leave feedback!

This resource links to my other resource 'Egyptian Adventure Story on Smartboard&'. Once they have learned and imitated that story they are ready to write their own.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! This is a very visual resource with lots of pictures of characters and treasures to help them generate interesting ideas. This resource works best when taught in the style of Pie Corbett (learn, imitate, innovate) The boxing up chart helps them to structure their story in 5 clear paragraphs.

This is a great activity to do at the beginning of the year-makes a great display. This Smart board introduces acrostic poems to the children and has lots of adjectives they could use to describe themselves. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! The children could type them out on to the computer once they have written them in rough.

This is a comprehension sheet about the dragon poem 'Troglodytic Owner-Occupier' by Nick Toczek. (The poem is on the sheet). It is suitable for year 5 and 6 but the HA one is definitely for Year 6. It focuses on alliteration, rhyme, repetition, rhythm, similes and personification. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Here are some detailed instructions, with pictures, to show how the Ancient Egyptians would have mummified a body. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!Use to help explain this process to children. You can chop up the instructions without numbers on and they can re order them. Pretend they are embalmers and do some drama where they imagine following these steps to mummify a body! They can do it in pairs! The children really enjoy this, especially pretending to put make up on the mummy!They could write their own instructions once they are familiar with the process.

A simple game which children enjoy.Play with the whole class. I have made some rules to download to explain how to play it. Please leave feedback if you use it!

In the style of Pie Corbett I have created a simple story, in five paragraphs, for the children to learn off by heart by adding their own actions. Create a picture map to help remember it (There is an example on the Smartboard of one). Then the children 'hug&' the text by using the story from the sheet to write their own version by changing names and key words (the words to change are underlined and there are gaps for them to add their own words.) I have created a separate resource where they write their own adventure story from scratch, which follows on from this.

Here is nearly everything you need to hold your own Spelling Bee. The spelling lists relate to famous children's books so it could be held during a Book Week. You will need a microphone. It is also worth having a cup made for each year group and having each winner&'s name engraved on it. We are shortly holding our first one. I think we will put the words from the lists for each year group in separate hats and have rounds where they individually come up and have to spell the word, by using letter names, speaking into the microphone. If you use this let me know how it goes!

Use this to test the children to see which list they need to start on. THIS RESOURCE LINKS WITH MY OTHER BIG SPELLINGS RESOURCES which contains all the files and info you need to use 'Big spelling&' in your school (years 3 to 6) to improve spelling! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! There is also a new file I have created which shows you how to link the new national curriculum statutory spelling lists into Big Spellings.