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 :)
More Guided Reading Resources- I’m hooked!
This week’s product is a week’s worth of inference slides based on 5 different pictures. Inference skills are a form of higher order thinking, which children struggle to understand through words. Take the words away and encourage them to develop this skill through pictures!
For more information about using the Whole Class Guided Reading approach, see my website:www.rebeccatheirishteacher.com
Act fast, download now, as it won’t be free forever!
Included:
5 slides with different pictures
4 questions daily to support inference skills
4 sentence scaffolding daily to support the structure of sentences
Copies of each picture to stick in the books.
If you have enjoyed this product, please let me know in the comments below!
Rebecca :)
4 reading skills graphic organizers and 5 support cards to structure children’s answers for comprehension questions. These post-it note graphic organizers are engaging and encourage children to discuss what they have read to arrive at the correct answer.
They can be printed in Black and White or can be printed on colored paper to make them nice and colorful. I love to use them during my guided reading sessions as it encourages children to engage in paired work, extending and elaborating on their own ideas. See how I use them over on my blog: rebeccatheirishteacher.com
Reading skills/strategies included:
-Main Idea/Details
-Making Connections
-Theme
-Summary
Support Cards include:
-Making Connections Support
-Evaluating
-Author’s Choice
-Characters
-Vocabulary
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The whole idea behind this resource is to structure and build on children’s understanding, by giving them the scaffolding to write their own answers. Reading lessons have become much more ‘talk based’ and fun as a result.
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)
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!
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.
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 :)
Let’s connect:
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Teach your students Times Tables with these Times Tables Games! Did you know that research says students learn more through interactive, fun learning? Use these games during starters for Maths lessons, flexible grouping, games, interventions, early finisher tasks or any other time during your day.
Let’s connect:
Instagram: rebecca.the.irish.teacher
Email: rebeccatheirishteacher@gmail.com
OBSERVATION LESSON:
Today was my observation and it was day 1 for us, engaging with Persuasive Writing. The children had to identify the features of a persuasive text using the AFOREST technique. (We used this support mat and it was EXCELLENT!
This resource includes:
a very detailed, differentiated lesson plan, which allows you to follow it step-by-step (just like I did).
Links to the texts I used.
Key for annotating.
Advertisements for Lower Ability pupils.
To start: children will try to persuade their teacher to allow them to go for break 5 minutes early. To you (and the observer, this will show their prior knowledge of persuasion, which should be little at this stage).
Main: Using a key, children will highlight and annotate a piece of persuasive writing using a key to spot the different features. There are 3 different persuasive texts for high, middle and low ability children so that they can all access the content.
Plenary: Children will be placed into mixed ability groups of 4/6 and asked to SELL you a random object from the class (e.g. a pencil case) in a dragon’s den type fashion. This will show the observer (and you) the progress made since the start of the lesson as the children apply the techniques that they have learned.
Please let me know your thoughts on this lesson plan.
I’ve added these key terms (in yellow) here for you to create a working wall for your English display. These headings can be kept up all year round, even when you change genre. All you need to do is to change the work around it, accordingly.
See my blogpost on my blog to see how exactly I use this display in my class.
(Note: only the headings in yellow and the clouds are included).
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.
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.
Products like this: Multiplication: Differentiated Activities
Remember to leave a review and follow me on Instagram for more ideas.
These spellings are based off the statutory spellings of the English National Curriculum 2014. Children in years 3&4 are expected to spell these words by the end of Year 4, and in my classroom, we try to learn and familiarise ourselves with them as much as possible.
With this resource, I print, laminate and cut up these words and have them in a basket or box in the classroom. As a starter to guided reading or any English lesson really, I take out the basket and give each table 5 words to focus on. They discuss the words and the spelling patterns, along with the meaning. This way the words are familiar to them.
To increase children’s use of these words, any time they use one of them in their writing, they are encouraged to underline it to show they can spell it. Thus, the spelling of my year 4s has greatly improved, thank god!
This resource comes with 109 words in both yellow and black and white.
Please leave a review and let me know your thoughts.
Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram for more ideas :)
Dreading a dull lesson on how to create a classification key? Look no further because here your children will be super engaged by creating a classification key for different types of sweets!
Included:
An activity to allow children to try classify animals in pairs.
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An editable Power Point which explains:
What ‘classifying’ is.
How to create your first question for a key.
How to use a classification key.
Allows children to work collaboratively by encouraging them to engage in ‘partner talk’.
It encourages them to JUSTIFY their choice of groups. Heightening their reasoning skills is very important, especially in Science.
I completed this lesson this week as an introduction to classification keys. Next week we will be classifying vertebrates and invertebrates.
Please leave a comment to let me know your thoughts.
My most recent class assembly was based on Theseus and the Minotaur (with a twist).
We had covered this story during our topic of myths https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/myths-understanding-the-features-11943412 and the children LOVED it. I wrote this play script based on the myth however we added a little twist. The minotaur is known to be a FEARSOME, UGLY creature, but in our story he turns out to be nice once people get to know him. Moral: Don’t judge a book by its cover.
The play script is editable to ensure that there is enough lines for the children in your class. I have 25 and there is 25 parts. However, it is an easy script to edit and adapt.
To tie it all together, we sang ‘Eye of the Tiger’ in the middle of the performance which went down a treat with the parents and the school.
Masks NOT included
This resource contains the script ONLY and in total the play lasted about 15 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did and please let me know how you and your class got on.
Prior to a ‘big write’, I ask the children to stick these into their books as a check list to ensure they include all of the necessary features of our chosen genre. You can add extra things on there too, such as a whole class target or focus you’ve been working on that week (e.g. similes or openers).
I use it as a slight assessment tool for myself to see how my children are progressing in writing. They complete a big write at the end of our genre which is usually every 2-3 weeks. It’s a simple tool to show progression in writing as well as make use of self and peer assessment.
Just edit this document to suit the needs of your class/genre in writing.
I’d love to hear how you got on using them :)
There was a lot of interest on my Instagram (rebecca.the.irish.teacher) of a sample cover letter for teaching abroad, so I decided to make one.
A cover letter is the school’s first impression of you as a person, professional and potential employee.
Even though you may be applying for lots of jobs, ensure you make your Cover letter stands out from the crowd. Read their mission and vision, read their objectives as a school and mention these things in your cover letter and how you are going prosper and flourish in their school.
For this sample cover letter, I have clicked on to a job offer on TESjobs and read their ethos, mission and vision statements. I quote from them and make my cover letter look very individual to their school in hope to make it ‘stand out’.
There is no set length required for a cover letter but you need to refer to their ethos and mission statements if you want to make them believe you would like a job at their school.
This product includes:
A detailed cover letter that’s specific to a school’s ethos, while providing information of you as a teacher.
20 philosophical thought cards to encourage children to discuss deep ideas and justify the reasons for their choice. These cards can be used as a display, or as a lesson in itself to engage children in paired discussion.
Philosophy for Children (P4C) has been proven to improve:
Critical reasoning skills.
Creative thinking skills.
Concentration skills.
Listening skills.
Communication skills.
Social skills.
Once a week for a lesson, give it a try!
As a person who has worked in the Middle East for three years, I have started to recruit with the company I work for. This product is an example of a completed CV, which has proven successful for many candidates.
Why am I selling this?
When I started applying for jobs in the Middle East, I struggled to make my CV stand out. I wondered:
What layout they looked for?
What to include?
How long should it be?
How do I stand out from the hundreds of applicants?
This product will take the stress out of applying for you.
Just read, edit (to fit your experience) and apply!
Happy job hunting!
Due to popular demand, I have created an editable CV template to use when writing your own CV for teaching abroad or at home. It includes the exact layout used and favored by recruiters and gives examples of what to write. Just read, then delete everything written in red and off you go.
Happy job hunting!
A mathematical activity to engage children with converting units of measure (Christmas Theme).
I have included a map of the world with different parts labelled for children to measure the distances between.
Children must measure the distance between 2 different parts of the world. Then because 1cm=35 minutes, they must then calculate how long it would take to get to said part.
For example:
How long will it take Santa to get from house A to house B?
Using your ruler, measure the distance from A to B.
If it’s 7.6 cm- round to the nearest whole number which is 8cm.
1cm = 35 minutes so 35 x 8 = 280 minutes =4 hours 40 minutes
Fill in the table below of your findings. This example has been done for you.
Children must then fill in a table with their findings.
Included also is two different design opportunities. Children can design their own Christmas jumper and Christmas cookies.
