Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
Mainly KS2 resources for English, Maths, Science and some topic also. Most of my resources include a lesson plan, presentation, activities and differentiated tasks. Please leave a review on any of my resources in which you purchase so I can use your feedback positively.
I have taught the majority of these lessons and they have worked well. All lessons coincide with the National Curriculum 2014 and have been approved by my subject leaders. Hope they are useful :)
My Division and Multiplication differentiated resource has been bundled together at a reduced price!
DIFFERENTIATED DIVISION FOR 4 GROUPS
When teaching division this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto long division, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: No remainders or carry ons.
Silver: Harder division calculations with some remainders.
Gold: All with remainders and involving all times tables.
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing ‘missing calculation’ division questions, ‘reasoning and explanation’ questions and ‘spot the mistakes’ questions (answers included). It’s based off Maths Mastery ideas.
These files have been saved as a PDF and include answers.
DIFFERENTIATED MULTIPLICATION FOR 4 GROUPS*
When teaching multiplication this week, I struggled to find a resource in which I needed. In Mathematics, I like a resource to be differentiated, while allowing the children to move up to a higher set themselves, if they find the work too easy.
This resource allows children to make great progress in one lesson as they can be challenged constantly, rather than completing page after page of the same type of calculation.
My class have not yet moved onto 2 digit multiplication, so it is differentiated by:
Bronze: TO x O (focusing mainly on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 times tables)
Silver: HTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Gold: THHTO x O (using a range including the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables)
Upon finishing the gold section, there is an additional section called platinum. This section allows a further challenge for children in completing missing calculation multiplication questions (answers included).
I have provided the success criteria at the top of the page, as I like to remind children constantly what they need to remember to do.
These files have been saved as a PDF and a word document.
St. Patrick’s Day Activities (Reading and Writing) - Let’s celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these fun no-prep activities in your class for March. These activties are based around a persuasive text, encouraging you to visit the country of Ireland.
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2- Clumping Activity (learning how to group similar information into the same paragraphs). Children will cut up and un-jumble the statements about Ireland, justifying why they have grouped certain statements together.
Page 3- Persuasive Passage about ‘Ideal Ireland’.
Page 4- Questions based on the passage ‘Ideal Ireland’ (retrieval and inference).
Page 5- Plan your own text on YOUR home country/home town (for those who are also from Ireland).
Page 6- Draw a labelled diagram of your home country/home town to persuade the reader to come visit- even MORE!
Page 7- Terms of use and credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have! It’s not directly linked to St. Patrick’s Day itself, however it’s based on the lovely country where St. Patrick’s Day was born- Ireland!
How to teach this lesson:
You can use this fully designed mini-unit as long as you need, because it includes all of the resources you need to teach it! You could also use it alongside your ‘Persuasive Writing’ unit too! It’s up to you :)
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St. Patrick’s Day: Teach your students about St. Patrick’s Day with this fun mini-unit designed to keep them engaged and excited through learning some basic phrase ‘As Gaeilge’ (in Irish).
This Product Includes:
Page 1- How to use this product.
Page 2-5- 12 different Irish greetings, including the English translation and pronunciation (in orange).
Page 6- St Patrick’s Day Comic Strip (using Irish greetings).
Page 7-9 Task Cards: Translate these Irish greetings into English.
Page 10- Terms of Use and Credits.
Description
Use this St. Patrick’s Day mini unit to supplement any St. Patrick’s Day activities you may have!!! Talk, chat, converse IN IRISH! The pronunciations are included, so children will be able to use these greetings in class, at home and in the playground all the way through March to show their Irish pride!
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The following resources are included in this product:**
Printables, worksheets, task cards, comic strip, vocabulary cards.
Time to move away from the guided reading carousel and onto whole class guided reading! This lesson plan is FREE to show you step-by-step how you can carry out a whole class guided reading lesson in your class too.
Outline:
10 mins teacher/student/chorus read
5 mins quick fire questions (to check understanding)
5 mins modeling the task
15 minutes task and feedback
This way your whole class are being guided in their reading daily, as opposed to once a week in a teacher led group.
It’s a free resource, so give it a try, let me know your thoughts, and check back later to see more resources like this!
Good luck!
*This is a follow on lesson from Whole Class Guided Reading: Vocabulary (see my store for more details)
Ah, end of term/year is upon us again and if you’re like me, you’ve been trawling through the internet looking for something to keep the children:
Engaged
Busy
This project is part of a growing bundle in preparation for the World Cup 2022. Check my store regularly for more additions to the project. This particular strand has a music focus! The children will listen to and discuss the Qatari National Anthem (links and translations included). The aim is for them to rate its effectiveness and compare and contrast this National Anthem with their own.
Following this, children will then create their own anthem based on either:
Their class
Their home town
Their football club
In this pack, there is:
An explanation page.
The lyrics to the Qatari National Anthem
Rate and Review page- where children rate the anthem.
Brainstorm page- children collate ideas for their own anthem.
Anthem Writing- the children have lined paper to write their own anthem.
This can be done as a guided lesson, in pairs, or as a homework based project. It’s up to you! All that’s needed is a copy of the National Anthem from the country you currently live in, in order for the children to compare and contrast.
I hope you and your children enjoy this lesson. I’d love to hear from you all :)
Check my site: www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com for more ideas like this.
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My Literacy planning/resources are my biggest sellers! I hope to be of some help to someone with regards to planning Literacy.
I have a passion for planning and resourcing Literacy lessons and I try my best to make lessons as interesting and relevant to children's lives as possible. I do this by creating colourful, interactive notebook presentations, engaging activites and differentiated work.
I have taught all of these lessons (as has my Year 5 team) and they have been successful in improving children's writing and interest in writing.
I have included:
*Explanation Text
*Formal Argument
*Instructions
*Persuasive Letter Writing
*Persuasive Writing
*Playscripts
*Suspense and Mystery.
Each folder includes a detailed weekly plan, differentiated resources and a colorful, detailed notebook file.
Please leave a review if you enjoyed my resources/plans and check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Morrisr9
As shown on my Instagram (Rebecca.the.irish.teacher), here is my interactive Maths display!
As seen in the picture, it contains:
Maths Display Heading
Maths Vocabulary for Addition and Subtraction (not photographed)
Headings for ‘Make it’ ‘Layout’ and ‘Solve it’ to encourage children to represent the calculations in different ways.
Signs to promote reasoning skills: ‘What’s the same’, ‘What’s different’
‘Can you order these numbers?’ sign.
Clothes to hang on a string with space to write a new number each week.
The idea is to involve the children in the maths display to keep their skills fresh, vocabulary strong and reasoning skills constant.
If there’s any vocabulary you would like added, please let me know and I can add them in.
Lastly, this product is in Black and White. I printed them on colored paper!
Want to create your own banners for your classroom?
Or decorate the back of you desk, like I’ve done?
This product allows you to create your own headings for any display as I have included all 26 letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.
This resource has been made on black and white, however, I printed the letters (in the above picture) on colored paper to make them POP!
Please leave a review to let me know your thoughts.
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As my Reading resources have become quite popular, I’ve decided to make a GROWING BUNDLE!
Whole Class Guided Reading has changed my whole outlook on Guided Reading sessions. Children are more fluent, engaged and tapping into those Reading skills every day too.
These type of lessons allow for:
Collaborative learning
Increase in confidence and no constraints per ability
A chance to discuss a text as a whole class and really dive in deep.
Whole class guided reading packs come with:
A detailed day-to-day lesson plan
Daily Activities
PowerPoint for reference
Assessment/Feedback sheet
With the purchase of this growing bundle, you will have access to all Whole Class Guided Reading added in the future. You will simply just have to go to “downloads” and redownload the file.
Each time I make a new resource, I’ll upload it here and you get it for FREE once you have purchased this Growing Bundle!
See how I use these resources on my blog: www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com
Please leave feedback and let me know your thoughts on these resources.
Resources, plan, presentation and SPAG. This week of lessons really helped bring on the children's descriptive writing. The video clips help them to imagine things clearer and bring great life to their writing. I found it really successful. It focuses on getting the children to use their sense to imagine what a scene looks like.
SPAG lesson is on prepositions and this presentation was accumulated from TES website also.
Check out my other resources also: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Morrisr9
My class assembly that I did today as we have been studying fairy tales for the last 2 weeks.
Cinderella can seem a bit babyish for Year 4 students, however we made it a funny version and the audience were in tears laughing. This script is funny, modern and is easily adaptable. I made one of the stepsisters a boy (wears the wig etc) and the audience loved it. My prince was also a girl and she as fantastic, put on the deep voice and all.
Included is:
The script (which is easy to follow and has stage directions included)
The layout in which I sat the children
The downloads of the music I used
An invitation to give to the parents.
Both the children and the parents adored the assembly. A personal highlight of mine is that the children sing working 9-5 by Dolly Parton- amazing.
The Heliocentric Model- this lesson teaches children about another model of the Solar System in which was believed by another Ancient Scientist.
This lesson requires children to make a jigsaw of the model and figure out which planets have been included/left out. There is also an aspect of role play, for children to act as the planets rotating around the sun.
Included:
*A powerpoint presentation
*A jigsaw activity where children re-make the heliocentric model.
*A detailed lesson plan.
*True and false statements to sort.
It is a follow on lesson from others in which I have uploaded but can be taught as a stand alone lesson also.
To see a more in-depth snippet of this product, please see my preview :)
*LESSON PLAN ONLY**
I have chosen to only upload the lesson plan here as sometimes, people may want to use their own resources. I will upload them at in a different resource in my shop.
This lesson plan clear, detailed and differentiated extremely well. My differentiation groups are labelled bronze, silver and gold, which are referred to daily on the planning. The objectives covered on this plan are:
*What are multiples and factors?
*What are prime numbers and prime factors?
*What are prime and composite numbers?
*How do I solve problems involving multiplication?
*How do I solve problems involving division?
I have taught these lessons myself, and the children achieved the lesson objectives at their own level of ability.
***LESSON PLAN, NOTEBOOK FILE AND A WEALTH OF IMAGES***
This package includes a lesson plan for 4 activites based on the book 'Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish'. Our theme for the day was purple, so we engaged in 4 different activities trying to incorporate both dinosaurs and the colour purple.
Very practical, hands on art in which the kids loved. It made a fantastic display also.
Children will make:
Dinosaur Silhouettes
Dino Fossil
Purple Plate-a-sauruses
Recycled Rockets
In my class, I got really fed up of using the carousel for teaching guided reading. I felt only 1-2 groups benefited from it, while the others were in engaging in monotonous activities.
The idea behind this is to engage in whole class reading/discussion about a picture or text and answer only 3 questions in the CAR format:
C- Choice of the Author
A- Always Infer
R- Retrieval
Included in this pack is:
6 different activities to use CAR technique
How to use page
Display of CAR to remind children what the different letters stand for.
After hours of reading and PD on Pie Corbett’s Talk4Writing, I decided to plan my English lessons around his style of teaching. The idea behind it is fun filled, active and different so my children and I absolutely love it!
Included:
4 day, detailed lesson plan (differentiation included).
Power Point of the features of a report.
‘Who killed King Tut’ text resource (colour coded).
‘Boxing it up’ plan
Report starters- which allow the children to get into the mind of writing report style sentences.
Text mapping opportunities- which allow children to act out and DRAW the entire report so they can recite it, thus learning the sentence structure orally.
I have put a lot of detail into the lesson plan, so it can be easily followed to apply this style of teaching to your English lessons.
The idea behind it is:
Week 1= Imitation Phase.
In this week, children need to learn off a text to fully immerse themselves in the style of writing, structure, language etc. This is done through actions and also text mapping (drawing pictures).
Only when children fully understand a text type, should they begin to write. The writing of a report will be done at the end of week 2. (This resource is only week 1).
By the end of the week, your children should fully understand the features of a report, and should be able to recite the whole thing using their text map.
It’s lots of fun and a fantastic scaffolding for children to understand before they write.
Give it a try!
This is a follow on lesson from:Non-Chronological Reports: Understanding the features.
Children cannot and should not be writing their own report without first of all familiarising themselves with the text type. Having completed that step, they can then begin to think about planning their very own report.
This resource includes:
*4 day detailed lesson plan with a step-by-step guide on how to deliver these lessons.
*Report adaption sheet for drawing their new idea to change.
*Pictures to caption- this confirms children’s ability to order the report.
*‘Who murdered King Tut’ text for reference.
*Comprehension on the text used to ensure understanding.
*Success Criteria for children to self and peer assess their report writing.
*Drama ideas: such as text tennis, hot seating etc.
The idea behind this week of teaching is that children are reciting/acting out the text each day, confirming their understanding of the report structure/sentence structure orally. Once children can do this, they will be able to write their very own version. They are encouraged this week to change one part of the report in order to write their very own version. For example: instead of ‘Who killed King Tut?’, it could be ‘Who killed King Thor the Viking’ children will have to adapt the report they know so well to make it their own. Now that they have a basis to go off, their report will be much more successful.
6 Guided Reading Assessment/Guidance Sheets to use with your younger readers.
These sheets can be printed for each child to keep track of their reading abilities/areas needed to improve.
How to use this product:
Each week, I use a new assessment focus (AF). They are marked as
*AF1- decoding of the text.
*AF2- retrieving information.
*AF3- deducing and inferring information.
*AF4- structure and organisation of the text.
*AF5- comment on the writer’s use of language.
*AF6- to identify the purpose.
*AF7- to relate the story to others.
Each sheet contains 4-5 ‘I can’ statements in which you can shade in to mark where each child is at in terms of reading. By using one assessment focus per week of guided reading, you can see real progression in the children’s understanding of the particular questions you’re asking.
Beside each ‘I can’ statement, I have put a heart shape in which the teacher shades:
Green: if the child is secure in that area.
Orange: if the child is emerging in that area.
Red: if the child is un-secure in that particular area.
FUN, COLORFUL and SUPERHERO THEMED!
This resource is 25 pages of superhero themed guided reading activities to cover lots of objectives from the curriculum.
Children will engage with activities such such:
*Sorting fiction and non-fiction book titles.
*Feature spotting in a non-fiction text.
*Adding an appropriate sub-heading.
*Adding captions to pictures.
*Book review
*Designing book covers
*Designing blurbs
*Identifying what makes a book cover attractive in fiction books.
*Identifying what makes a book cover attractive in non-fiction books.
*Dictionary work.
*Alphabetical ordering and why it’s important…
And much more!
Just PRINT and TEACH!
Coming from a football crazy class, I decided to base my classroom decor on soccer this year! With the World Cup just past, the children are still hyped up from the events.
This resource contains a variety of soccer themed classroom décor. Everything in this resource is editable so that you can personalise it to your tastes/needs.
Includes:
Behavioral clip-chart
MVP award
Class jobs
Name tags
Drawer Labels
Just edit, print, laminate and stick it up!
