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! * Includes * Learning Objective:I can describe a character’s appearance and personality, using VCOP to improve my sentences. Lesson Plan (Must, Should, Could) Lower ability worksheet for structure Examples of character descriptions (Harry Potter) Guessing Task Recipe for a good description Extension and Normal Task outlined When this was a free lesson, it was accredited by TES who commented saying: "Thank you for sharing your resource. This resource has been recommended for teachers by the TES Resource Team." Enjoy teaching, Miss Ritchie

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

Starters, plenaries, modeled descriptions and resources provided for two contrasting character descriptions. They're based on two characters from the book we're reading in class, but are easily adaptable. Let me know if you need anything else or have any comments. Miss Ritchie

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

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

Week 1 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on author fact files, research skills, prediction and comprehension. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Pre-Read & Chapter 1 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, independent research and plot prediction! Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a 6 page, child-friendly explanation included! Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 3 of the PowerPoint for ease 41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary outline for Chapter 1 and the foreword (page 4) Video clips of the author talking about inspiration and planning (2 linked/included) Integrated QR codes for children’s author research purposes (page 7) Lap-book resources Author Research Planning Page worksheet Designing a Writing Room worksheet Questioning the Author worksheet Making Predictions worksheet Plot Recap worksheet Drawing Hiccup worksheet Chapter 1 comprehension, guided reading questions Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use) 3 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource Looking for the rest of the unit? Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on Victorian schools, the uniforms, the lesson format and the punishments. This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 16 roles that range from having a single line up to having ~6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download. The props required are also listed, as well as there being a section for you to allocate roles on the front page. A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike! Looking for a play on Victorian inventions instead? Click here! Enjoy. Miss Austin

A class assembly for Key Stage 2 on the Victorians and their inventions in the style of an episode of Dragon’s Den. This class assembly lasts for 15 minutes and includes 18 roles that range from having a single line up to having 6. In the pack, you will receive the PDF copy and an editable Word Document format. In order to edit this document and maintain the formatting, you must install the two fonts also included in this download. The inventions include the telephone, the flushable toilet, the lightbulb and a flop- the Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad. The dragons include Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne. A funny play that will be loved by children and adults alike! Enjoy. Miss Austin

Past tense worksheets & activities based around the simple, progressive and perfect forms (Present & Past Packs available too!) This download includes: Past Tense Forms Worksheet with 6 jam-packed tasks Past Tense Forms Wordsearch Answer sheets for ease of marking and assessment Editable versions of all worksheets to tailor work to your students’ needs 2 fonts for editing the resources This resource is part of a larger teaching bundle, with similar resources for both the past and present tenses, along with work on converting between them. Teaching Tenses: Mega Pack Past Tense Forms Multi-Lesson Pack Present Tense Forms Multi-Lesson Pack I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress. Thank you and happy teaching! Miss Austin

**Home Learning, project-based activities, perfect for distance learning or homework. ** This is a ‘Dream House’-themed, distance learning project that will be used whilst the children are off school. This resource spreads across 4 tasks (these could be set weekly or daily) which last for an hour each. The activities see children wining the lottery and buying their dream house- they’ll need to: Write the advertisement for their property that they saw in the paper Write a moving setting description of their new home Design the colour pallette, their bedroom rug and bed sheets Buy furniture for their home by sticking to a strict budget Draw a floor plan for their new property Describe a secret room This download includes: PDF version of the 4-task home learning project Word Document version of the home learning project for editing 3 fonts for editing .docx Word documents Challenges to extend the higher-ability children This task would work great for KS2 (Key Stage 2) and it fits in with the Year 3 national curriculum expectation My Distance Learning Projects Perfect for whilst we’re away from school or for homework, these independent projects can help to develop your children’s writing and creativity in a variety of areas. X Distance Learning Project: Apocalypse Theme X Distance Learning Project: Detective Theme X Distance Learning Project: Space Theme X Distance Learning Project: Island Explorer Theme X Distance Learning Project: Designing a New Country I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Three whole weeks of Christmas themed morning challenges (otherwise known as early morning activities, class starters, welcome work etc.) There’s a mix of Maths and English questions. Maths include: Shape, graphs, addition etc. English includes: Poetry, creative writing etc.

Here's a pack of resources relating to a DT topic. We were tasting, making and analysing shortbread, but my resources are easily editable. There's a recipe-write-up sheet A taste, texture and appearance analysis booklet (before and after) Word bank of good adjectives This is the link to the font I used for titles: http://www.dafont.com/cookie-dough.font Enjoy! Miss Ritchie

A small pack based on Kennings. This was for 2 lessons in my class, with the second focused on reciting and memorising poetry as per National Curriculum objectives. Introductory powerpoint, a write up sheet (with Stone age theme- easily editable) and 2 day lesson plan Miss Ritchie

Hi there, Here's a big pack of two-way differentiated mental maths questions. Our school calls them '10 for 10' questions, but this is easily editable on all worksheets. They focus on age related expectations in Maths, and each week has a different focus. Some of these focuses include: Finding 1/2 mentally Finding 1/4 mentally Subtracting Adding + and - involving money 3D shape properties Times Tables practicing etc. I hope this helps. If you need anything, please message and I shall fix/assist as soon as I get the message. Miss Ritchie

Hi there, This is a two-lesson pack of resources for a moving setting description writing task. The planning and write-up sheets are differentiated and have themed backgrounds. In order to get the best layout and the originally intended look for the resources, you must download the font 'ordinary artichoke' from dafonts. It's free! (yay) The link is below: http://www.dafont.com/ordinaryartichoke.font Enjoy, and please review!

A three lesson bundle of resources for CatCF focussed guided reading sessions. LO’s: identify and use the possessive apostrophe in simple plurals Identify word and punctuation types by their features show awareness of author’s viewpoint through character description choices Differentiated two ways.

Hi All! Here’s a pack of resources that can be used for diary entries and descriptions of Mr Morris Lessmore (and his fantastic flying books, of course!) There are differentiated writing frames, worksheets that’re attractive for presenting work and photos for stimuli. Enjoy :)

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 resource to use for things such as PSHE, RE, Class assemblies, English (recognising speech in text) and other lessons :) Enjoy!