Five texts, completely original written by myself. Battle of Bosworth themed portal story. Tudor football game portal story. Comet portal story. Becoming Neil Armstrong portal story. Jupiter portal story. Perfect for group reading with really excellent vocabulary or as texts for higher ability children in focus groups or as model texts for writing.

A fun and engaging way to support Year 6 students in the run up to SATS. They can complete the 6 rounds of the quiz individually, in pairs or in teams. Each round has 10 questions and all answers are at the end. I’ve included a purely for fun movie round to help break up the session! Round 1 - arithmetic Round 2 - spellings Round 3 - name the movie Round 4 - punctuation and grammar Round 5 - reading comprehension Round 6 - maths reasoning (73 slides in total. Estimated time to complete = 45 minutes) These styles of quizzes have been incredibly popular with my Year 6 class and have helped to promote a lot of useful discussion around methods, pace and question types.

This Powerpoint contains five sets of song lyrics with two stages to activities for each. 1st slide = listening comprehension with words missing to be filled in. 2nd slide = comprehension questions. This resource is great for high engagement and especially useful for reluctant readers or just making comprehension a bit fun and different. I hope you enjoy using it. Songs How Far I’ll go - Moana Lava - Pixar Short Try Everything - Zootopia Let it go - Frozen Electricity - Billy Elliot Be prepared - Lion King Titanium - David Guetta Waving through a Window - Dear Evan Hansen Out There - Hunchback of Notre Dame When you love someone - James TW Speechless - Aladdin

I made this powerpoint following an amazing CPD session with Ashley Booth to test out with my class and they LOVED it. Even my most reluctant readers were really engaged and my greater depth readers were abuzz the rest of the day. This lesson is on the first chapter of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It includes all pages of the first chapter, vocabulary work using pictures, Individual Thinking tasks, Partner talk and two choices for Solo Tasks. Personally, I’m going to continue using the template for my subsequent lessons and obviously you can too should you wish to!

Fun and engaging English or Reading starter/activity for children in KS2 - can be adapted for KS1. Each Day children have a picture and must ‘follow the rainbow’ to answer fill in the boxes with information about the picture. RED = What can you see? (Nouns) ORANGE = What questions do you have? YELLOW = Verbs GREEN = Adjectives BLUE = Adverbs INDIGO = Links to other things I have seen/read and general thoughts/inferences VIOLET = WRITE A SENTENCE ABOUT THE PICTURE Personally, I use the sheet for children to access independently and then we have a class discussion however it could be completed in groups or as a whole class activity too. I hope you enjoy it!

Complete vocabulary book for The Hobbit. Includes contents page with full word list 60 words, a slide for each word. quote using the word from the book. word class. page number (Jemima Catlin illustrated copy). word meaning. example use in a sentence (separate to quote from text). picture to represent word (dual coding). Words are all in the order the appear in the text.

I’ve used these by trimming them and laminating them as individual handwriting practice cards. Could be used for handwriting sessions or morning work.

Slides on prefixes, suffixes, tenses, apostrophes, homophones, synonyms and antonyms etc. Perfect as starters for English or SATS revision.

Themed on How to Train your Dragon, cards for children to work on labelling adverbs, verbs, nouns, adjectives and conjunctions. Great for starters or grammar meetings.

I use a slide a day in order to work on and improve sentence structure in my Year 5 class. There are a variety of activities and they encourage children to think about the impact of their language choices on the reader and make small changes to create a big impact. Children have really enjoyed using them as a starter or brain break.