A PowerPoint resource to use in a whole class reading session featuring the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert. This resource has been produced using Education Endowment Fund (EEF) research and model lessons and so has a focus on vocabulary at the beginning of the lesson. Includes a quick picture warm-up, perfect to put up whilst setting up teh lesson/transitioning from one lesson to another.

A set of 3 PowerPoints based around relief printing using the artwork of William Morris’ wallpaper as inspiration. Lesson 1 - learning about and apprecaiting William Morris’ art Lesson 2 - looking at colour palette using tints and shades Lesson 3 - looking at how wallpaper was created (YouTube link) and then designing own.

This is a model text for a newspaper report. It is matched to the New Curriculum and features the necessary criteria for a pupil writing at ARE in Year 3 or 4. Use during the first week of a newspaper unit to analyse the structure and style of a newspaper report.

An explanation text about hot air balloons. The text has been written specifically to meet the Y3/4 English objectives. It can be used at the beginning of an explanation unit to analyse both the layout and language features of the text.

These instruction texts have been written to be used as model texts within Literacy lessons. They are all on the same topic show the progression is clear. Pupils can interrogate them in order to see the progression across the text. They are based on the old level system of Level 3, 4 & 5.

The PowerPoint includes five different images with questions to use as reading comprehension starters. This can be used as part of guided reading or whole class reading sessions. Each image could be used as a starter to begin a reading comprehension lesson without children having to read a text. Therefore, they are able to concentrate on retrieval and inference skills.

A display to encourage pupils to solve a problem themselves before coming to the teacher fo help.