Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Comprehension (Chapters 5 and 6)Quick View
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Comprehension (Chapters 5 and 6)

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PowerPoint to teach the children about inference questions and retrieval. 3 way differentiated letters for the children to receive their task. (Letter as a stimulus). Two different comprehension lessons on Chapter 5 and 6 following the same format. Easily adapted for other chapters and other topics of comprehension. Guided Reading slide for Chapter 6. Each pupil to carry out a role.
Party Planning Budgeting ResourceQuick View
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Party Planning Budgeting Resource

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A powerpoint task giving the children a budget and they have to plan their own party using some of the items on the slides and make decisions to ensure they get all the essentials. Prices can be edited or descriptions made more specific to ensure children have so much of every item and to make it easy / harder for other year groups.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Creating a narrative modeled from a text).Quick View
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Creating a narrative modeled from a text).

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PowerPoint resource of 4 lessons to enable children to model writing based on J.K Rowling. Gives the children chance to look at the individual elements and then try writing their own parts. This is the starting point before the children will be given an opportunity the following week to change the characters and setting. Breaks down the story into opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending. Can be easily changed or adapted depending on story.
Remembrance work to create poetry or descriptions.Quick View
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Remembrance work to create poetry or descriptions.

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Used with Year 6's. Children watched the videos and discussed, noting down key ideas on their whiteboards. Current popular remembrance poems included for discussion. Children then filled in the poppy planning sheet. This was used before the children produced a poem of 4 stanza's on poppy petals. Easily editable.
Pumpkin descriptive writing / poetry planning sheetQuick View
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Pumpkin descriptive writing / poetry planning sheet

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Used with Year 6's to get the children thinking about ways to describe a pumpkin using higher level vocabulary and personification, similes etc. They then used the planning sheet to create a 'What am I?' Poem. Would also be able to be used for a descriptive piece. LA sheet included suitable for Yr/3 Sheet can be easily adapted.