In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively describe characters including their appearance, personality/ behaviour and special traits. They will look at a range of book extract describing characters looking at this in practice. They will then look at the character description of Miss Trunchbull and be tasked to identify the different descriptions before writing their own character description using the plan and word banks provided. All plans and word banks are included. This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn about the British Empire before the Victorian era and how is developed throughout the Victorian period due to Britain’s military and industrial dominance. They will learn about the trade and imports from different countries across the empire and will be tasked to label countries on a map from 1920. They will then use research methods to match up the countries with what products were imported. Finally, they will learn why the British Empire came to an end. All resources for this lesson are provided. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below: -Introduction to science fiction -Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text -Character development -Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type -Boxing up the model text -Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending -Children independently write their own stories Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more! This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will look at what makes a setting description effective. They will learn how to use expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language when describing a setting and will be tasked to identify these in setting descriptions. They will then develop their ideas for their own settings using group discussion, drama and the plan provided. All of the task resources for this lesson are included. This lesson is appropriate for KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing. Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt. Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based) Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson students will order and compare numbers to 10 000 000. They will look at numbers on a number line, order numbers in ascending and descending order as well as compare numbers using the symbols < >. They will be challenged to problem solve and reason with numbers in context. 3 levels of differentiated activity sheets are provided as well as answer sheets. Duration: 1 hour Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receieve a FREE single resource of your choice!

This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part. Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt. The lessons progress as follows: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn what daily life was like in Ancient Greece with links to the differences between Athens and Sparta. They will complete a research task in groups using the information fact files provided. These fact files cover: Jobs Housing Food and drink Clothing Pastimes Through this task, they will understand what life was like for different members of Greek society and will then be able to share their learning with the class. They will then have a short quiz on what they have learnt and will add to their learning review. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide! The powerpoint covers: Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun) Prepositions Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions Main & subordinate clauses Relative clauses Modal verbs Determiners Prefixes and suffixes Root words Subject-verb agreement Pronouns Active & passive voice Synonyms & antonyms Progressive tense Perfect tense Word classes Hyphens Colons, semi-colons and dashes Apostrophe for contraction and possession

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit. This lesson looks at describing settings. It teaches how to write an effective description using the senses, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language. Students are shown these in context of an extract and then have to identify them themselves within chapter 2 of The Hobbit. Students then read more of the chapter before planning and writing their own setting description on the woods the characters have entered. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for persuasive advertising: F- facts and font R- repetition E- exaggeration D- description E- emotive language P- pictures T- the rule of three O- opinions R- rhetorical questions S- slogans They will look at a range of persuasive leaflets and will be challenged to decide how they are made persuasive to the reader. They will then produce their own leaftlets using the planning frame provided. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This presentation was given as a staff training on the importance of reading. It incorporates my own research on the importance of intrinsic motivation and the benefits reading can bring. This is a FREE resource- enjoy! If you have enjoyed this resource and would like to see more of my resources, please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou