Hello, fellow teachers! Here’s a pack of resources for teaching past and present tenses using simple and progressive forms. There is a differentiated resource for converting between them, including challenges and extensions. There is also a powerpoint presentation for inputting the lesson!

Here is a quick and easy isolated gramma rlesson on commonly-misspelled words. There’s a task on of/off, our/are and a challenge, matching activity for to/too. It’s differentiated in regards of expectation too! Enjoy!

Planning and write-up sheet for a setting description focussing on scents, sights and sounds. This work is based on The Uncommoners: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell.

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

This is a set of resources that I use for my year 3 and 4 group. They are Egyptian themed so that they can link in with humanities topic. Shape poems are a great introduction to writing in a poetic structure for children, and the shapes offered in this pack are: canopic jars, a sarcophagus and a pyramid. I modelled the pyramid shape to the class so that my lower ability group had more input tailored to them. LO: To write a topical shape poem

A differentiated, Egyptian themed resource where children have to place apostrophes into the correct places, state whether it is singular or plural and define the key terms.

This is a comprehension task regarding the Vikings. For each question they complete accurately, they get to save 1 of the Viking horde from the group at the bottom of the page.

Here’s a differentiated resource (that I used for homework) about fronted adverbials; spotting them in context and using independently.

A character description task based on Rhodopis from the Egyptian Cinderella text by Shirley Climo.

A pack of resources that includes two comprehension activities based around Erik The Viking book by Terry Jones. There’re also some grammar activities.

Hi Everybody! Here’s a pack full of Year 3-level (yet differentiated for ability) resources that are focussed on grammar and writing. They’re Egypt themed, too! I hope this helps. Any questions, shoot them my way.

I used these for a creative writing club; each week, children were given an LO sheet with a prompt and had to carry the story on! 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!

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!

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.

Hi All! At the private school that I work at, we do Writing Portfolios to assess the children’s English skills 3 times a year. Each time we do one, we have a stimulus presentation and we all use the same planning sheet. This can be used from years 3-6 and is differentiated accordingly. There’re 2 different planning sheets to suit different abilities and to ensure the planning aspect is standardised across the school. Enjoy!

Hi there! This is a 7-week homework project that I use for my year 5 English class. The children absolutely love it because it allows for creative freedom and using art skills in English homeworks. I find projects work much better in getting children hooked on a topic and, consequently, there work is so much more interesting and impressive. This project’s about a theft that has occurred in Harcourt Manor- they need to become detectives to work out who the thief was…

Here’s a resource that is differentiated 3 ways for children to explore prepositions and link them to fronted adverbials.

Hi there! At my school, the children’s homework generally all leads toward a final goal of creating a book or portfolio. I find these homeworks are great to incite excitement in a topic, to embed organisational skills and very fun to mark!

Hi All! Here are three lessons’ worth of resources for teaching the Christophe’s Story topic from literacy Evolve for Year 4. Lesson 1- Creating a glossary of terms from the story- differentiated for spelling purposes Lesson 2- Research Rwanda, collect facts and create a comparitive table for Rwanda and the UK Lesson 3 (and probably 4!)- Write a comparative essay using formal conjunctions and openers. There are differentiated LO and success criteria slips for their books.