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Resources mostly focussed on the teaching and learning of KS2 pupils in English writing and Guided Reading lessons.
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Resources mostly focussed on the teaching and learning of KS2 pupils in English writing and Guided Reading lessons.
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Year 4 English Newspaper Writing Complete Unit Ancient Egypt Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb
This is a complete unit of writing including everything you need for the 2 week cross-curricular piece of writing.
Resources included:
Teaching slides for 10 lessons
2 week of written plans
writing up in best template
Lessons include:
*Lesson 1 - This lesson includes everything you need to teach your children about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. This lesson has been used as the unit hook previously so the chn need no prior knowledge before teaching this lesson. This lesson includes 37 teaching slides using primary sources such as telegrams, photos of the tomb and treasures and newsreel.
*Lesson 2 - Focuses on vocabulary development and gives the children 9 unfamiliar words to look up in the dictionary and find the definition of before using them in sentences that can be used in their newspaper reports.
*Lesson 3- explores newspaper orientations and scaffolds how to write our own orientation.
Lesson 4 - hot seat interviewing the main characters from the story and thinking about how they felt and what they would have said in an interview.
Lesson 5 - teaches the chn how to use their character interviews using inverted commas.
Lesson 6, 7 and 8 - all teach the main body and reorientation of the newspaper report using event checklists for each paragraph, uses spaces for whole class modeled examples and shares common misconceptions and gives a chance to edit these as a whole class.
Lesson 9 & 10 - editing, writing headlines and starting to write up in best.
Emotions Poetry Unit based on Pharrell Williams Happy KS2 PSHE Links
Complete week long unit with planning and all supporting materials and resources. This is a favourite in my year group and always makes the perfect cross-curricular link for Mental Health week or when your class need some time to reflect on their emotions and identify what they feel like. This unit will be more valuable than ever at the moment in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Included in this English unit is:
Complete lesson teaching slides with modeled examples of tasks and poems.
Planning
All resources needed for all lessons (poem planning sheets, emotions identifying task sheet, charades emotions, poem writing templates, writing up in best frames).
You really can’t go wrong with this unit. I hope your class enjoy it as much as mine have!
Greatest Gift Sainsburys Advert DERIC Whole Class Guided Reading Year 4
This resource is a week’s worth of planning that I use in our final week of school to enjoy whole class Guided Reading in a fun way while still promoting those fundamental reading skills.
Questions are appropriate for Year 4 but this resource could easily be adapted across Key Stage 2.
Questions framed around DERIC:
Decode
Explain
Retrieve
Infer / Interpret
Choice
Minions / Despicable Me Class Quiz!
Used as a fun lesson to boost well-being during our live lessons but could be used as a fun mini lesson as a whole class reward or to finish the week or term.
This 10 questions quiz has all the answers included so you just need to download and enjoy with your class.
Works perfectly alongside my Happy poetry writing unit.
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Shackleton Guided Reading and English Diary Writing Unit Bundle
This bundle includes a 2/3 week Guided Reading unit based on the picture book Ice Trap! showing Shackleton’s journey to Antarctica. The questions about the text are based on DERIC in line with National Curriculum end of Key Stage expectations.
The English unit is a complete 2 week unit that has been used for both live lessons and has been taught in the classroom. The children love it!
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Year 4 Shackleton Complete Bundle Guided Reading and Survival Guide Writing Unit
This bundle includes a 2/3 week Guided Reading unit based on the beautiful picture book Ice Trap! The questions posed on this resource are based on the DERIC strategy focused on questioning in line with the National Curriculum end of key stage expectations.
The English unit is a complete 2 week unit examining how to write a survival guide, some great You Tube How To videos and models writing every paragraph and sub-section. The children really enjoyed this unit. Used for live lessons and also previously taught in the classroom.
Year 4 Whole Class Guided Reading Fantasy Animation Eye of the Storm DERIC
Complete Year 4 Guided Reading resource using DERIC questioning to match National Curriculum expectations for KS2. Week long, stand alone unit.
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Year 4 How to Train your Dragon Complete Bundle Guided Reading and Diary Writing Unit
How to Train Your Dragon Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning.
Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, using fronted adverbials, the big write lessons with modeled paragraphs and editing lesson. Here is a break down of each lesson included:
Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing.
How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool.
Sequencing key events in the story from chapters 1 - 10 and creating a cartoon strip.
Understanding the characters. Read alongside chapter 8 to complete the information about each characters dragon.
Using fronted adverbials and examples of which ones (and types) we can use in our diary writing.
Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries.
The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with modeled paragraph.
Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph and checklist for writing.
Writing paragraph 4 including modeled paragraph and checklist.
Editing your diaries using Bob the minion as the invisible child to edit and improve his work using key mistakes made by Year 4 writers.
This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about How to Train your Dragon. Works really well alongside the Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting these units are included.
Year 4 / Year 5 Whole Class Guided Reading based on Spooky Stories DERIC
Complete Year 4 Guided Reading teaching resource using DERIC to frame the questions around the National Curriculum expectations. This resource is a 2 week unit of half an hour lessons. Could be used for live lessons.
Although this was planned for Year 4 the texts are quite challenging so could be used for Year 5 or a low Year 6 group focusing on vocabulary.
In this unit we examined and focused on vocabulary choices and challenging texts. Works really well alongside the Spooky Writing English unit.