This Power Point file contains information, interactive whiteboard activities, and templates for games (such as Connect 4) for teaching spelling in 5th grade.

This PowerPoint contains all the resources needed to make a game of Poetry Connect 4. The first grid is a game mat with examples of similies, metaphors, personification and alliteration, and the second is the cards. We play in 4s (2 vs. 2), with students

I have built up this PowerPoint while teaching Myths, Legends and Fables. It includes slides of information and stories, handouts (like the heart rate graph and the cartoon storyboard), and cards that can be cut out for games and activities.

This is a ppt I have built up over a few years with resources for teaching middle school students about the poem The Highwayman. It includes slides with questions and key tasks; activities sheets to explore character; and question cards that can can be di

This Powerpoint includes resources to introduce pupils to different types of angles, supporting them to name , sort and measure them. The task sheets can be reduced to A5 or printed two to a page so that pupils can stick them in for clear instructions. I used these resources with my MA/ LA Year 5 class, but they could be used or adapted for any Key Stage 2 Maths group.

During our Commonwealth topic this term, the children have been finding out about different continents by sorting and ordering these domino cards, before using them to collect research about commonwealth countries within the continents. The ppt contains slides for Oceania, Europe and Africa so far, but I will add sets for the other continents as we study them!

These presentations and resources were made for whole staff training and termly targets that were implemented across the curriculum in our middle school. They focus on sentence structure, punctuation and reading skills, and the poster slides were on display in every classroom. I hope others might find them useful. Christianne:)

This lesson was created for a mixed ability year 5 class, focusing on using direct speech to build quotes into their newspaper articles. Pupils articles were about reporting the (fictional) theft of a Victoria Cross medal from the Imperial War Museum.

I am using this ppt of activities to introduce fractions with my lower ability Maths class this term. The worksheets and activities focus on finding fractions of shapes and numbers and finding equivalent fractions.

This is a blank, adaptable template for a week's Guided Reading. My class were grouped by ability and their activities were rotated each day: Adult- led reading Teacher - led reading Reciprocal reading (a group activity where pupils would read and discuss a shared text, taking on different roles) Paired reading. The plan could be used or adapted for any KS2 group.

This is a blank planning template for Literacy, which could be used or adapted for any KS1 or KS2 class.

I used these task cards, activities and worksheets with my lower ability Maths class, They focus on multiplying mentally and using written methods (including number lines and the grid method) to multiply. The word problems link with our Vikings topic, but are easily adaptable.

This is a set of KS2 Literacy AF reading question cards that I have in laminated packs on each of my year 5 tables for pupils to use in Guided reading sessions. They can be used by a TA as prompts to support their questioning of children as they read a shared text, but I often ask the children to use a selected card to ask each other questions.

I made this document to support year 1 teachers to plan focused, purposeful learning challenges for teaching and assessing Writing in their English lessons. It can be used as a long term plan as it shows all of the end of year expectations for Composition, SPAG and handwriting that pupils need to work towards achieving during the year. The document could also be used as a target sheet for pupils to stick into their books in order to track their progress in writing. The columns on the right can be used by teachers to record 3 dates on which the objectives have been achieved.

I made this document to support year 3 teachers to plan focused, purposeful learning challenges for teaching and assessing Writing in their English lessons. It can be used as a long term plan as it shows all of the end of year expectations for Composition, SPAG and handwriting that pupils need to work towards achieving during the year. The document could also be used as a target sheet for pupils to stick into their books in order to track their progress in writing. The columns on the right can be used by teachers to record 3 dates on which the objectives have been achieved.

I made this document to support year 4 teachers to plan focused, purposeful learning challenges for teaching and assessing Writing in their English lessons. It can be used as a long term plan as it shows all of the end of year expectations for Composition, SPAG and handwriting that pupils need to work towards achieving during the year. The document could also be used as a target sheet for pupils to stick into their books in order to track their progress in writing. The columns on the right can be used by teachers to record 3 dates on which the objectives have been achieved.

I made this document to support year 2 teachers to plan focused, purposeful learning challenges for teaching and assessing Writing in their English lessons. It can be used as a long term plan as it shows all of the end of year expectations for Composition, SPAG and handwriting that pupils need to work towards achieving during the year. The document could also be used as a target sheet for pupils to stick into their books in order to track their progress in writing. The columns on the right can be used by teachers to record 3 dates on which the objectives have been achieved.

I made this document to support year 5 teachers to plan focused, purposeful learning challenges for teaching and assessing Writing in their English lessons. It can be used as a long term plan as it shows all of the end of year expectations for Composition, SPAG and handwriting that pupils need to work towards achieving during the year. The document could also be used as a target sheet for pupils to stick into their books in order to track their progress in writing. The columns on the right can be used by teachers to record 3 dates on which the objectives have been achieved.

I used this carousel of writing activities using conjunctions as a revision exercise for my year 6 class, but it could be used to introduce conjunctions to any KS2 class. Every pupil tried the 3 activities, but It could also be used as a differentiated writing activity with 3 levels of difficulty.

This PowerPoint contains game boards for Connect 4. Each round - narrative (Peter Pan), Creation myths and Classical poetry (The Highwayman) contains similes, metaphors, alliteration and personification for pupils to identify and cover with the cards as they attempt to make lines of four before their opposing team. I have used the games on the whiteboard, with children moving the cards across and also as board games with laminated cards for starters and guided reading activities.