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Six free planned units of work to accompany the book Lost Lives + three chapters of the book

Based on the book 'Lost Lives' by Leysa Henderson Six planned units of work based on the book. Genres covered are diary entries, poetry, instructional text, information text, persuasive text, presentation and book review. Each unit includes the internet resources (YouTube and websites), a progression of lessons, key features and most of the resources needed to deliver them. There are either modelled examples provided or you are directed to where good quality examples can be found. The book is about a young girl Megan who finds a magic atlas which transports her to another world. Here she meets the Manyak tribe and finds out why their land is being destroyed and why the orangutans are under threat of extinction. She learns that she can talk to animals and how to use her new magical powers to take revenge. The book highlights the environmental issues in Borneo when vast swathes of land are deforested and then planted with palm oil. The book uses the National Curriculum standards and expectations where possible - sometimes, for literary effect, I needed to stray from the confinements of the curriculum. It introduces pupils to new vocabulary and is short enough to be able to finish within half a term (approximately 120 pages including sketch drawings). The book will be published in September 2017 and can be purchased from Amazon or Waterstones. Or contact me at office@kreativefutures.co.uk to be added to the ever-growing list for further information. I asked an extremely honest 9-year-old to review it and was very clear that I wanted her candid opinion. This was her feedback. ‘I think you should definitely publish your book. I finished it last week and I thoroughly enjoyed it and you left a lot of curious cliffhangers and I always wanted to read on... you have used lots of brilliant grown-up words. This book was easy to understand and so addictive I could not stop reading! It has made me think differently about the things I buy in the shops. My favourite character is Megan because she is kind, helpful, adventurous and curious. I'm similar to her in the way that we both care about animals, we always try to help in tricky situations, we're both adventurous...and we're both scared of spiders!!! The only difference is that I haven't been on such an amazing adventure as Megan. Not only do I like the way Megan has the power to turn a negative into a positive thing but also the way she can control objects without touching them like Roald Dahl's Matilda. You've mixed magic, emotions, reality and extreme curiosity to make an amazing book that no-one could fail to enjoy. I would give it 10 out of 10 and recommend it to 7+. This book has inspired me to be a better person by caring more about our environment and wildlife. This book has now proved to be my favourite book.’

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Suspense story with a cliff hanger ending using Le Chaperon Rouge

This planning has achieved a very high level quality piece of writing from Year 6 pupils. The planning took 3 days to plan, resource and write a part modelled example so will save you many hours, which can be better spent elsewhere. Progression of lessons lasting over at least 14 sessions: 1. Listen to the video, without watching it, and decide what is happening. 2. Watch the video – use verbs to tick when they see an action 3. Compound sentences 4. Soundscapes – identify the sounds 5. What is the indefinite pronoun? 6. Starting a sentence with a progressive 7. Word collection – including Onomatopoeia 8. Personification poetry 9. Similes – choose some and make some up of their own. 10. Short sentences 11. Plan – choosing vocabulary 12. Model write and analyse 13. Children write and edit each section of the story Resources included: 1. Suspense adjectives 2. Suspense adverbs 3. Abstract nouns list – to create personification 4. Sound and movement verbs 5. Similes list 6. Planning sheet 7. PowerPoint of the story in pictures 8. PowerPoint on starting with the progressive 9. PowerPoint on the length of sentences 10. Model writing 11. Vocabulary sheet 12. Key features sheet 13. Onomatopoeia List 14. PowerPoint Indefinite pronoun 15. Indefinite pronoun meanings – answers 16. HA and MA Indefinite pronoun meanings 17. LA Indefinite pronoun meanings 18. PowerPoint on Personification, similes and abstract noun 19. PowerPoint of Compound Sentences

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Planned and full resourced writing of an Egyptian myth - Osiris and Isis

This is a planned unit of writing for a myth. 1. Analyse different myth texts and pull out the features 2. Collect language in a grid. Children have to identify similar features. 3. Can they create a myth orally using the pictures. Let them hear the story and see if they can order the pictures and then retell it. 4. Simples sentences and different ways to open them using adjectives or an emotion. 5. Drop in phrases and clauses to explain who someone is. 6. Watch the story of the Egyptian creation story - up-level a text 7. Nouns (pronouns, concrete nouns, proper nouns and abstract nouns) 8. Using the story of Osiris and Isis children box up a story for chronological events. 9. Re write the story and edit as they go along. 10. Metaphors for children to insert into their rewrite. 11. Continue writing and editing each paragraph.

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Explanation text using the Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions - fully resourced and planned

This is a fun unit of work which could be used for all of Key Stage 2. Key features covered in the planning unit. 1. Selecting vocabulary 2. Using a range of cohesive devices 3. Using passive and modal verbs 4. Using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases to add detail 5. Commas for clarity 6. Parenthesis – commas, dashes and bracket 7. Writing in paragraphs 8. Using co-ordinating and subordinate conjunctions 9. Range of punctuation - ! ? , ‘ 1. Statements/rhetorical questions 2. Words to show cause and effect 3. Present tense (sometimes past tense) 4. Third person 5. Link your sentences together 6. Chronological order 7. Formal language mixed with informal language 8. Technical language/vocabulary Progression of lessons: 1. Use the dishwasher text to identify the genre and some of the key features 2. Watch the video of the snoozatron – explain that they will be writing an explanation text for another cracking contraption but using this one to practice the language 3. Look at the Modelled example of the Snoozatron for them to pick out the key features from the Key features for an explanation text with vocabulary. Get them to explain how detail was added. 4. Pupils practice writing related sentences to the Snoozatron using the vocabulary at the bottom of the key features sheet. Group 1 are Year 3/4 words and group 2 are Year 5/6. Encourage them to use the group 2 words. Encourage the pupils to write a question or a command or an exclamation – see PPT Purpose and Success for examples 5. Give the pupils the Explanation text – word mat and the PPT of the few pictures of the Snoozatron – can they make up sentences 6. Watch the Tellyscope video and give pupils the PPT - Tellyscope (print if off 6 on each page – back to back) 7. Give them the vocabulary on the Key features sheet to practice possible sentences 8. Give them the word mat sheet for them to rehearse sentences. 9. Pupils plan and write an introduction – remind them of the snoozatron introduction by showing them again. Why would you need the Tellyscope. MA and HA need to develop their idea to add detail 10. Edit their first section using the key features. 11. Continue writing and editing.

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Personification and Observation Poetry - using the environment as a stimulus

Progression of lessons: 1. Observation Poetry 2. Sort the verbs into groups – verb game 3. Sort nouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs into groups 4. Match the adjective to the nouns 5. Decide which adjectives are for the countryside and which match the city. 6. Can they make links with the words to a picture? 7. Model the format of ‘I can see…’ from a given picture 8. Children rehearse their lines in pairs. 9. Can they put them into sentences which makes sense using the picture? They can add and change words. 10. Use countryside picture for them create their own ‘I can see…’ poems. 11. Personification Poetry 12. Explain what personification means 13. They add to the vocabulary lists using thesauruses – only focusing on synonyms to words given. 14. Model a few personification sentences from the picture. 15. Children write their own. 16. Edit their own poems.

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Suspense story with a cliff hanger ending using Le Chaperon Rouge

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What to cook for a dragon - instructional text

This unit of work leads to writing up a recipe for a dragon. Included: 1. Model writing with end of KS2 writing criteria examples 2. Vocabulary table to collect words and phrases to feed in to the writing 3. Hyphenated word sheet 4. 2 x adverb list (low ability and higher ability) 5. PPt to lead the lessons 6. Teacher planning for 11 lessons 7. Planning sheet for pupils 8. Key features sheet with examples 9. There are games and sentences rehearsal 10. How to use semi-colons in a list Also included but have been collected from other sites: 1. Gobblefunk activity - making up new words and definitions plus a glossary sheet 2. Bossy verb mat 3. Other examples of instructional texts There are hyperlinks on the planning sheet but I will warn you that sometimes they don't seem to work once the folder has been compressed, uploaded onto TES and then downloaded on to another computer - so apologise if they don't work.

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Reading and Writing INSET sessions

This is a must have bundle for Literacy Leaders. It will save hours of time preparing for INSET training. It is a culmination of years of experience as a Year 6 teacher, Literacy Leader and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary Literacy with many years of staff training. It will accelerate your knowledge avoiding giving up weekends to research and prepare INSET sessions. Literacy Leaders have a massive task on their hands and they need all the support and quick roots that they can possibly find. All the resources have been used to great effect both by myself and all the staff I have trained over the years. Good luck with it all you have a big job to do.

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Subject Verb agreement - Demystifying the complexity of subject verb agreement

Subject verb agreement is not as simple as it seems. This PowerPoint is the result of many hours researching areas of confusion such as: 1. What verb form do I use when two nouns joined together with and/or/nor and one noun is plural and one singular? How does it change when one noun is positive and one negative? The rule changes in different circumstances. 2. What happens when you use a collective noun? And so on. This PowerPoint has 24 slides explaining how and when to use singular or plural verbs. There are notes in the notes sections to explain further.

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INSET - Questioning Skills

This INSET could last between 1/2 hour to 1 hour. It is also something you could apply in class to teach pupils how to ask good quality questions. My other hat is a performance coach, which specialises in questioning skills, and a Neuro Linguistic Programming Master practitioner, which also relies on open, clean questions to avoid influencing the answer. The power of asking the right question accelerates learning and development, whilst the problem with asking the wrong question can create barriers and close the pupil down. I wish I had learnt this technique at the beginning of my career.

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INSET - Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum

This INSET includes: 1. Asking probing questions, requiring teachers to explore the subject further. 2. An activity to do which teachers could take straight back into the classroom related to History. 3. Demonstrating how deeply English links with all the other subjects. 4. The need for all subjects to support English and English to support other subjects. 5. The benefits for all teachers if pupils have communicated clearly. This INSET helped inspire teachers in Years 7 and 8 to understand the importance of including literacy elements in their lesson. It was feedback that it gave them a great understanding why it was a high profile school development.

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Stories to support the English writing exemplification

These modelled texts use criteria needed to access the new 2016 government expectations. Two of the modelled writing relate to short films. This includes a modelled small section of the film, which includes many of the criteria from the KS2 English writing exemplification. There is a model for the pupils and a highlighted model for the teacher to analyse the text with a list of the included criteria. There is an historical text (Blitz story) which also includes a PowerPoint version that has pictures and sounds. A non-fiction argument is included on whether children should have been evacuated during the second world war. In the explanation text on mummification, there is a model with present tense and one with past tense. There is also a story using historical elements on the plague in the 1600s. There is scope for the pupils to write the next chapter. The report on the tiger destruction uses a lot of passive sentences.

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Multiple Intelligence

Posters and an explanation for pupils to identify what type of learner they are.

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Design your own restaurant

A fun activity which can lead in any direction. Pupils design a restaurant. Encourage the pupils to be as creative as possible. Anything can happen. It could lead to maths activities if you want, presentational activities, an advert and design technology. The pupils love it and it is really easy to organise: paper, pens and the PowerPoint.

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Neuroscience - INSET

This looks at the function of: 1. The pre-frontal lobe 2. Visual cortex 3. The role of the basal ganglia 4. Moving from unconsciously incompetent to consciously competent 5. Anterior Cingulated Cortex This information comes from many different Neuroscience courses, reading and embedded through providing INSET sessions for schools. My other hat in life is a performance coach and Master Neuro Linguistic Programmer. Both deal with how the brain works - how we think. You might need to do some more research to widen your understanding but this presentation gives you the structure and completed presentation to use.

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INSET - questioning, neuroscience and subject verb agreement

Three INSET training sessions to add a further dimension to training staff. The questioning skills and neuroscience were well received. The subject verb agreement is very complicated so would need to be broken down in order to avoid boring everyone to death. However, it is very useful for Year 6 teachers as SPaG tests can trick the pupils. It would be very useful to extend the high ability pupils.

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4 Maths Games

Covers: 1. Percentages 2. Compound interest 3. Multiplying 2 x 2 digit, 1 x 3 digit, 2 x 3 digit games 4. Square numbers 5. Prime numbers 6. Number challenge Resources and answers (where necessary) included.

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Challenges and Games

Some fun fraction challenges and problem solving. 4 Maths Games 1. Percentages 2. Compound interest 3. Multiplying 2 x 2 digit, 1 x 3 digit, 2 x 3 digit games 4. Square numbers 5. Prime numbers 6. Number challenge Algebraic lesson for high ability pupils 1. To simplify algebraic equations with multiplication and check it is correct 2. To simplify algebraic expressions of addition and subtraction and then check they are correct 3. Investigations in how to formulate algebraic equations from patterns 4. A more advanced investigation to formulate data of their own in order to create algebraic equations. This could take several lessons. This is completely independent. 5. There are also some worksheets using brackets which could be taught very easily but no plan is in place for this.

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Past SATs paper Activities

Teaching past SATs papers can be a little tedious both for teacher and student, these activities make it much more interesting and the pupils have a chance to understand the text at a deeper level through meaningful discussion. One teaching assistant raised the point score of her group by 10 marks in 6 weeks using this method. The pupils loved it and pestered her for more guided reading sessions.

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Three INSET session in teaching and learning

Three valuable INSET sessions which can be used for all members of staff and for pupils as well. The neuroscience and questioning skills can also be used personally in your own life to understand how you learn and how to ask really good quality questions: a skill underestimated and not developed. When I trained, I was taught that if I wanted to ask an open question I should ask a why question. I didn't realise how naive I was being. This was a long way away from the truth. Having trained as a performance coach and Master NLP practitioner I have a very different perspective.

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The Plague a resourced and planned unit of work

This is a cross-curricular unit with History. There are a lot of resources with this unit of work. To help you navigate your way round go to the Teacher Planning Plague Story. The structure of the series of lessons is: 1. What was London like in the 17th C. dirty, unhygienic, human waste out the windows, lack of sewage system. 2. Noun phrases. Magic three descriptors. 3. Description of London from the video and pictures. Setting of London in the 1600s. 4. What is the plague. Symptoms. Plague doctor. 5. Similes and HA personification. 6. Short description of someone’s house who’s ill- diary entry. 7. Past perfect . ex. She has died. 8. Vocabulary collection for story. 9. The story of Eyam village. Berlie Doherty, children in winter. 10. Inverted commas (speech marks). 11. Read the story and box it up (structure) 12. Key features of story. 13. Planning of story. 14. Write and edit, show the model and they correct it. Many other genres could spring from this planning such as report writing, poetry and diary entry.

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Word Detective - How to work out the meaning of a word in a text.

This is a guided reading lesson which was rated outstanding. The aim was to learn strategies to work out the meaning of a word? There are six possible strategies for pupils to apply if they don't know what a word means in a text. The PowerPoint then gives examples and practice to use those strategies one by one. This culminates in a guided reading session in groups with two different texts. Each text has a set of questions. The low ability pupils have a very easy step by step process for either a teacher or TA to follow. This lesson took many hours to prepare as it was challenging to find the appropriate texts to practice the strategies. Also included is an activity with adverbs to extend their understanding of how adverbs can be linked together with either and 'and' or 'but'. This is part of the reading strategy. This could also be used as an In-school training session to demonstrate good guided reading practice.

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History lessons to make pupils think

These lessons help you teach History, making it fun and interactive. In my experience, the pupils loved the challenge of unravelling how or why something happened. It offers pupils a chance to speak and construct their own argument after playing detective. It then leads into writing a well-constructed cross-curricular writing.

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Past SATs paper Activities

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