A fully planned, 3-week unit for writing an adventure story - WAGOLL/Oral Text is based on a battle between the Iron Man and a space creature! The final outcome (Hot Task) is for children to write an adventure story of their own in a similar style. Resources include a Smart Notebook file which follows the read as a reader/writer approach to analyse the adventure WAGOLL in detail, line by line. The resource also includes a range of activities including sentence ordering, cloze activities, word dominoes, bingo and spellings. The file includes detailed Read as a Reader and Read as a Writer questions. Also included a copy of the adventure story WAGOLL that was used as our oral text (learning actions and creating a story map), and 4 boxing up activities (1 for each paragraph) - plus, everything is editable to match the needs of your class! This was used with Year 3/4 but would be ideal for use across KS2. Boys and girls were engaged and this led to some excellent writing outcomes for all ability levels.

A set of 30 whole class reading comprehension lessons using clips from David Attenborough shows including Frozen Planet, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, etc all available to watch via YouTube (with links included) Designed to build vocabulary and test rerieval, inference, prediction and summarising. Perfect if you use Reading with RIC, VIPERS, Whole Class Reading or Reading Comprehensions as part of reading lessons. There are 30 sets, totalling over 350 questions - enough for nearly 1 lesson per week for the entire year, although most might need a second lesson depending on length. Designed for use across KS2 with varying levels of support.

Suitable for KS2 and KS3 - A set of 39 starters featuring 39 awesome books that should be in every KS2 library! Books featured include Holes, Stormbreaker, Street Child, The Graveyard Book, Harry Potter, Wonder, Who Let the Gods Out, Refugee Boy, Cosmic, The Girl of Ink and Stars and loads of other brilliant books! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! All based on the Reading with RIC approach so feature one of each question type - retrieval, inference and choice. 39 books - 117 questions!

Book blurb starter activity featuring a fantastic book blurb and 3 questions based on said blurb. Book blurb choices aimed at Year 5/6, but suitable across KS2 and KS3 - A set of 40 starters featuring 40 awesome books that should be in every Year 5/6 class library! Books featured include Harry Potter, The Graveyard Book, The Last Wild, Skellig, Oranges in No Mans Land, Northern Lights, Clockwork, A Monster Calls and loads of other brilliant books! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! Questions based on the RIC approach and a great resources for building retrieval, inference and vocabulary skills ahead of SATs. 40 books - 120 questions! More than enough for 1 per week for the entire school year!

Suitable for KS2 and KS3 - a set of 15 starters featuring a range of picture books including The Day the Crayons Quit, Stick Man, The Lion Inside and The Bear who Stared. All based on the Reading with RIC approach so feature one of each question type - retrieval, inference and authorial choice. A great way to start reading lessons and/or introduce Reading with RIC.

A set of 14 comprehension questions based on the song Shotgun by George Ezra! The questions have been written with a focus on retrieval, inference and vocabulary understanding, in line with the key skills tested at the end of KS2. They are ideal for use across KS2, with varying degrees of teacher input/support and could also be used in KS3. I have included the lyrics for the song (available freely via Google) and a link to a YouTube video. I would use these resources as part of the lesson, playing the video whilst the children followed the printed lyrics and then used these to answer the questions, marking as we worked through. The sets could also be used for distance comprehension lessons or homework.

Book cover choices aimed at Year 3/4, but suitable across KS2 - A set of 39 starters featuring 39 awesome books that should be in every Year 3/4 class library! Books featured include Varjak Paw, Aquila, The Demon Headmaster, The Nothing to See Here Hotel, The Iron Man, The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, Bill’s New Frock and loads of other brilliant books! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! All based on the Reading with RIC approach so feature one of each question type - retrieval, inference and choice. 39 books - 117 questions! Enough for 1 per week for the entire school year!

A set of 10 whole class reading comprehension lessons using clips from David Attenborough’s latest show with Netflix - Our Planet! All clips are freely available to watch via YouTube (with links included). Clips include cheetahs, narwhals, dolphins, humpback whales and lots of other incredible nature! Designed to build vocabulary and test rerieval, inference, prediction, and sequencing. Uses the iRead approach to ensure that all of the KS1 reading domains are covered in lessons; i - Inference (1d) R - Retrieval (1b) E - Explain sequencing (1c) A - Anticipate (1e) D - Define (1a) Perfect if you use Reading with RIC, VIPERS, Whole Class Reading or Reading Comprehensions as part of reading lessons. There are 10 sets, totalling 108 questions - this also comes with all answers too! Designed for use across KS1 (Year 1 -2) with varying levels of support and suitable for children who are perhaps working behind ARE in KS2. Included a PDF and editable Word Doc.

A fully planned, 2-week unit for writing a newspaper article - WAGOLL uses Batman and Penguin as inspiration. The final outcome is for children to write a newspaper article - we based ours on the novel There May be a Castle but this could be tailored to your classes needs. Resources include a Smart Notebook file which follows the read as a reader/writer approach to analyse the Newspaper WAGOLL in detail, line by line. The file also includes lesson starters and writing prompts including for direct and reported speech (taking quotes from Prime Ministers Questions during the Windrush debate), parenthesis and correct use of colons/semi-colons. Also included is a newspaper WAGOLL that was used as our oral text (learning actions and creating a story map), a boxing up activity and a writers toolkit - and everything is editable to match the needs of your class! This was used with Year 6 but would be ideal for KS2 and KS3. Boys and girls were engaged and this led to some excellent writing outcomes (for something children traditional find difficult to nail) assessed against the writing assessment framework.

Book blurb starter activity featuring a fantastic book blurb and 3 questions based on said blurb. Book blurb choices aimed at Year 1/2, but suitable across KS1 and LKS2 - A set of 40 starters featuring 40 awesome books that should be in every Year 1/2 class library! Books featured include The Squirrels who Squabbled, Giraffes Can’t Dance, The Day the Crayons Quit, Oi Frog!, Perfectly Norman, The Bear and the Piano, Grandad’s Island, Stick Man, The Book with No Pictures and loads of other brilliant books! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! Questions based on the RIC approach. 40 books - 120 questions! More than enough for 1 per week for the entire school year!

A fully planned, 2-week unit for writing a biography - WAGOLL uses Astronaut Chris Hadfield. The final outcome is for children to write a biography of their own - we based ours on the talking horse in the novel There May be a Castle (as this was our class novel - it’s brilliant!) but this could be tailored to your classes needs. Resources include a Smart Notebook file which follows the read as a reader/writer approach to analyse the biography WAGOLL in detail, line by line. The file also includes some lesson starters and writing prompts but again these could/should be tailored to the needs of your class. Also included is a biography WAGOLL that was used as our oral text (learning actions and creating a story map), a boxing up activity, cloze activities for each paragraph and my planning (though it was very near to SATs when I did this one!) - plus, everything is editable to match the needs of your class! This was used with Year 6 but would be ideal for KS2 and KS3. Boys and girls were engaged and this led to some excellent writing outcomes (for something children traditional find difficult to nail) assessed against the writing assessment framework. We were inspired to look in more detail at Astronaut Hadfield, watching his music and experiment videos on YouTube and even using a picture book he has written (The Darkest Dark) in guided reading.

Book blurb starter activity featuring a fantastic book blurb and 3 questions based on said blurb. Book blurb choices aimed at Year 3/4, but suitable across KS2 - A set of 41 starters featuring 41 awesome books that should be in every Year 3/4 class library! Books featured include Harry Potter, Aquila, The Demon Headmaster, The Nothing to See Here Hotel, The Iron Man, The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, Bill’s New Frock, The Famous Five, The Light Jar and loads of other brilliant books! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! Questions based on the RIC approach. 41 books - 123 questions! More than enough for 1 per week for the entire school year!

A character description exercise completed with my Year 6 class known as creative imitation. Children select a well-known character description and use the structure of this to create a new character of their own. Features characters from; The Jungle Book Lord of the Flies Harry Potter Northern Lights Scorpia Rising An excellent activity for challenging more able writers.

A newspaper article written to support Year 6 children - features Penguin getting upto no good in Gotham City. Can Batman save the day? Includes many key features from writing assessment framework.

A whole class reading lesson focusing on vocabulary and understanding meaning. Includes a RIC starter based on the back cover and then a number of SATs style vocabulary questions. Ideal for KS2 and KS3. Also used successfully with an intervention group.

A week of whole class reading planning for Year 2 and Year 1 using the fantastic picture book Orion and the Dark The planning consists of a 26 page PPT with 5 days of reading work. Monday is focused on your class novel and has a starter activity based on the front cover of Orion and the Dark which involves 4 questions using the Retrieve, Infer and Predict skills. Days Tuesday to Friday are all based on the picture book (broken down into approx 8 pages per day) and follow the same pattern. Each lesson begins with an exploration of new vocabulary that children will be exposed to in that lesson. This is followed by a section called Rapid Retrieval which is a selection of retrieval questions based on the day’s reading. From there there are a range of more challenging questions (based on the KS1 reading content domains) for children to explore together and individually. You do not need to own copies of the book as a link is provided to the book being read on YouTube.

Ideas for a half-term of English teaching using the superb novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I have taught this text a number of times in Year 6 and it always leads to excellent writing.

A set of 12 whole class reading comprehension lessons using clips from David Attenborough’s latest show with Netflix - Our Planet! All clips are freely available to watch via YouTube (with links included). Clips include cheetahs, narwhals, dolphins, birds of paradise, humpback whales and lots of other incredible nature! Designed to build vocabulary and test rerieval, inference, prediction, explanation and summarising. Uses the iReads approach to ensure that all of the KS2 reading domains are covered in lessons; i - Inference (2d) R - Retrieval (2b) E - Explain (2f and 2g) A - Anticipate (2e) D - Define (2a) S - Summarise (2c) Perfect if you use Reading with RIC, VIPERS, Whole Class Reading or Reading Comprehensions as part of reading lessons. There are 12 sets, totalling 164 questions - this also comes with all answers too! Designed for use across KS2 (Year 3-6) with varying levels of support. Would also make a super intervention for children in KS3. Includes a PDF version and an editable Word doc.

A set of 39 starters featuring awesome book front covers and designed to challenge children to think about reading in line with the KS1 Reading content domains. Lots of brilliant books and authors featured including Kevin by Rob Biddulph, the Oi! series by Kes Gray and Jim Field, The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywaly, Timothy Knapman, some Julia Donaldson and loads more besides! A great resource for using as a starter to reading lessons or as a morning activity and brilliant for inspiring reading and getting children talking about books! Questions based on the RIC approach. 39 books - 117 questions! Enough for 1 per week for the entire school year!

Developed in my role as Maths Lead, a whole school approach to ensuring learning and progression in times tables across school. Objectives are laid out to start working on number in Reception and aim to ensure that by Year 4 children are fluent with times tables upto 12 x 12. Year 5 and 6 then have extension based on number fluency including squares and primes, fractions and roman numerals. Includes a class overview sheet and individual record sheets designed to follow children through school. I have linked this to a reward system where children receive wristbands matching objective colours once they have successfully met all objectives and then passed a final test with myself.

A whole class reading resource aimed at UKS2 and KS3. A full set of comprehension questions for the book Erika’s Story, using the Reading with RIC approach, so focusing on retrieval, inference and authorial choice. Enough for 3 lessons. Ideal if you are doing a World War 2 topic.