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This unit includes 10 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to teach Year 3 children all about Non-Chronological Reports. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the features of this type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own non-chronological reports. They will have the option of 4 interesting sports to research (using the internet, nonfiction books or both), and will use this information to create their own reports in a similar style. They will create, share, edit and improve their drafts before creating a polished report ready for display!
SPAG/GPS covered: Word Classes, Clauses, Conjunctions, Spellings and Suffix Rules.
Lesson 1: To identify features of non-chronological reports
Lesson 2: To recognise word classes and clauses
Lesson 3: To understand how to create a formal tone
Lesson 4: To apply spelling rules when adding suffixes
Lesson 5: To plan a non-chronological report
Lesson 6: To begin writing a non-chronological report
Lesson 7: To extend sentences using conjunctions
Lesson 8: To edit and improve my writing
Lesson 9: To prepare and deliver a persuasive argument
Lesson 10: To create a non-chronological report for display
This bundle comes with an End of Unit Child and Teacher Assessment Sheet to allow each pupil to assess and reflect on their own learning.
Total Number of Slides: 51
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This unit includes 10 lessons plans, activities and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints to teach Year 6 children all about instruction and explanation texts. They will begin by reading, exploring and identifying the different features of each type of text before using their knowledge to plan and write their own using the identified features.
SPAG/GPS covered: Bullet Points, Colons, Semi-colons and Parentheses (Brackets, Commas and Dashes).
Lesson 1: To identify the features of an explanation text
Lesson 2: To write an instruction text using bullet points and colons
Lesson 3: To read and answer questions about a text
Lesson 4: To plan an instruction text
Lesson 5: To write an instruction text
Lesson 6: To use brackets, commas and dashes to indicate parentheses
Lesson 7: To write and perform an informal explanation
Lesson 8: To research and plan an explanation text
Lesson 9: To write an explanation text
Lesson 10: To prepare and present my explanation text
Total Number of Slides: 54
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 11 full lessons to support the teaching of the two units: Living Things and Habitats in the Year 4 Science curriculum. Each lesson comes with the necessary resources and annotated slides to help guide the teaching at each stage. These lessons can be used to support the Hamilton Trust Science plans.
Lesson 1: To understand the characteristics of a living thing (Mrs Nerg)
Lesson 2: To ask questions about local habitats and record observations
Lesson 3: How are living things classified?
Lesson 4: To record the details of local living things using close observational drawings
Lesson 5: To create a large-scale work of art of an invertebrate
Lesson 6: To understand how to group living things
Lesson 7: To discuss environmental changes
Lesson 8: To consider some of the natural changes that could happen to an environment
Lesson 9: To create a graph to show temperatures recorded over time
Lesson 10: To understand the impact of environmental change
Lesson 11: To plan and implement positive changes to a local environment
This bundle also comes with 4 formative assessments to assess pupils’ learning at different stages (after lessons 3, 6, 9 and 11).
Total Number of Slides: 131
Lesson Plans Included? No - slides annotated.
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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These 15 lessons will teach Year 4 children all about Aesop’s Fables. Throughout the unit they will study various fables including The Tortoise and The Hare, The Fox and The Grapes, The Town and The Country Mouse and many more.
Grammar covered throughout this unit includes:
Using and punctuating direct speech.
Extending their range of sentences with more than one clause.
Using conjunctions to express time or cause.
To end the unit, children will have the opportunity to discuss, plan and write their own fables in depth whilst focusing on the correct structure, relevant morals, spelling accuracy and correct punctuation marks with regards to written dialogue.
Total Number of Slides: 122
This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. During this second and final week, children will now focus on autobiographies; in particular, ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela. They will be fascinated to learn about the political history of South Africa and how becoming an anti-apartheid activist contributed towards Nelson Mandela’s positive and negative experiences in life. Once pupils have developed their understanding of the purpose and structure of an autobiography through this example text, they will then begin to plan, write and edit their own during the final 3 lessons.
SPAG/GPS covered this week: adverbials, head nouns and expanded noun phrases.
Lesson 1: To read, understand and discuss an autobiography
Lesson 2: To answer questions about Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
Lesson 3: To plan an autobiography
Lesson 4: To write an autobiography
Lesson 5: To edit, improve and assess my autobiography
Total Number of Slides: 28
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This bundle includes 10 interactive fun-filled lessons where children will learn to read and understand a selection of short poems (included).
Pupils will participate in a range of activities such as: creating interesting noun phrases, writing a prose description, memorising and performing a poem, learning/revising how to use a dictionary and more!
Lessons include differentiated resources as well as additional visual aids to support activities.
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This bonus pack includes 15 whole lessons relating to The Jungle Book and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work). Within this unit you will find lessons linked to different extracts which can be sourced using the links provided in the presentations. This unit is also compatible with the Hamilton Trust Plans.
Total Number of Slides: 124
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This bundle includes: 15 complete (and editable) lessons plans, all necessary resources and 3 fully interactive PowerPoints to make this unit enjoyable and engaging. These lessons are centered around a variety of different musical instruments (both familiar and new) as children learn to explore, write and identify the features of information texts.
SPAG/GPS covered: coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, main and subordinate clauses , apostrophes to show possession and pronouns.
Lesson 1: To write about a musical instrument
Lesson 2: To prepare an oral presentation using conjunctions
Lesson 3: To read and answer questions about a text
Lesson 4: To explore and identify the features of an information text
Lesson 5: To use a range of conjunctions to form extended sentences
Lesson 6: To sort information into different headings
Lesson 7: To conduct independent research
Lesson 8: To write paragraphs using conjunctions
Lesson 9: To continue writing my information text
Lesson 10: To assess the work of others
Lesson 11: To research an instrument of my choice
Lesson 12: To sort my research into an organised plan
Lesson 13: To write the first draft of my information text
Lesson 14: To check, edit and redraft my information text
Lesson 15: To prepare and present my information text
Total Number of Slides: 80
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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Throughout this exciting 2-Week unit, children will enjoy exploring and analysing a selection of observational poems (included). They will focus on a number of different grammar techniques in addition to furthering their understanding of poetic devices such as similes, metaphors and personification.
Total Number of Slides: 59
Includes 10 Complete Lesson Plans
Differentiated Activities and Resources
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This pack contains 6 weeks (30 days) worth of daily starter activities for KS2 Maths lessons. Each day, the children will either be presented with either a key number in the center of the slide, a time on a clock face, a 2D or 3D shape. They will then answer a series of differentiated questions involving word problems as well as their knowledge of the four operations, time and/or shape.
Questions should be answered following the traffic light system with the green section being completed first, then the orange section and finally the challenge.
Each daily slide also comes with answers for pupils to easily self-mark directly after the activity.
PowerPoints can be easily adapted if necessary.
This ‘Powerful Verbs’ word mat and poster can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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This subordinating conjunctions word mat can be used to aid learning within different genres of writing. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into children’s books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed.
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NB. A copy of ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’ by Anne Fine is required to complete this unit.
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This bundle includes: a detailed scheme of work, all necessary resources and 2 fully interactive PowerPoints. These lessons are based upon the diary recount book ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’ by Anne Fine which will help children to learn about this style of writing in a fun and engaging way.
SPAG/GPS covered: Time Conjunctions, Adverbials of Time, Place and Manner, Inverted Commas and Prefixes.
Lesson 1: To explore the features of a diary entry
Lesson 2: To answer questions about a text
Lesson 3: To write sentences using the prefixes un-, in-, dis- and mis-
Lesson 4: To use adverbs to express manner
Lesson 5: To use adverbs to express time and place
Lesson 6: To correctly punctuate speech using inverted commas
Lesson 7: To discuss ideas for a new character
Lesson 8: To plan a diary recount
Lesson 9: To write my own diary recount
Lesson 10: To finish and edit my diary
Total Number of Slides: 61
Scheme of Work Included? Yes
Activities and Resources Included? Yes
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During this two-week unit pupils will learn about the style, structure and features of recount texts as well as when/why they are used.
They will take an in depth look into fronted adverbials and the use of paragraphs in order to develop their understanding of how these are used to create cohesion within a piece of writing.
To conclude the unit, children will enjoy working in small groups as they plan a ‘hoax’ UFO sighting within school. They will then apply their knowledge of recount texts as they independently draft and write their own News Reports.
Number of Slides: 72
Worksheets Included? Yes
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This presentation includes 5 poetry lessons relating to Image Poems based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. Throughout this week children will cover many different grammar aspects such as: similes, metaphors, noun phrases, adverbs and prepositional phrases. They will learn to identify similes and metaphors within a selection of poems (included) and will practise converting these from one to the other. To end the week, children will enjoy writing fun and lively adverb poems followed by a short self assessment.
Week 1 of 2
Lesson 1: To use similes to create powerful images
Lesson 2: To extend sentences using prepositional phrases
Lesson 3: To convert metaphors in to similes
Lesson 4: To use adverbs to begin a sentence
Lesson 5: To write an adverb poem
Total Number of Slides: 26
Differentiation? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
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This easy-to-use and adaptable interactive PowerPoint includes 5 whole lessons relating to Observational Poetry based on the Year 5 National Curriculum scheme of work. During week 1 of this 2-week unit children will practise reading and understanding a selection of poems (included) as they work together to identify various poetic devices. Pupils will enjoy discussing objects and creating powerful images (with a partner) in preparation for writing their own observational poems during lesson 3.
SPAG/GPS covered throughout these lessons include expanded noun phrases and relative clauses.
Related Poems:
‘Sharp Freckles’ and ‘Don’t be Scared’ by Carol Ann Duffy
‘The Cow’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Sir Autumn’, ‘The Matter of Holes’ and ‘Granny Granny Please Comb my Hair’ by Grace Nichols
‘Personal Helicon’ by Seamus Heaney
Lesson 1: To analyse a selection of poems
Lessons 2: To create expanded noun phrases based on observations
Lesson 3: To write an observational poem
Lesson 4: To explore relative clauses
Lesson 5: To use similes, metaphors and personification
Total Number of Teaching Slides: 28
Lesson Plan Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Differentiation? Yes
No additional resources needed
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This bundle includes 15 lesson plans, interactive PowerPoints and all resources needed to teach children about traditional folktales. This unit focuses on the tales: The Little Red Hen, Tiger Child and Rama and Sita.
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Related Poem - ‘The door’ by Miroslav Holub (included)
This interactive PowerPoint contains the final 5 poetry lessons relating to Image Poems based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. To conclude this unit pupils will practise writing descriptive sentences using comparative adjectives before editing their work to include fronted adverbials. They will learn the importance of a fronted adverbial as well as how and why these are used. Your class will become more engaged with poetry as they use their imaginations to visualise a range of different images when they ‘open a door’. They will then use these collaborative ideas to produce their own image poem (either independently or with a partner) before learning, rehearsing and performing their work during the final lesson.
Lesson 1: To write descriptive sentences
Lesson 2: To use fronted adverbials to improve my writing
Lesson 3: To plan a descriptive piece of writing
Lesson 4: To write an image poem
Lesson 5: To learn, prepare and perform my poem
Total Number of Slides: 29
Differentiation and Group Work? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
Lesson plan included? No
Week 2 of 2
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This presentation includes 5 whole lessons relating to Stories by the same Author based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. Within this unit you will find lessons linked to the story ‘I’ll take you to Mrs Cole.’ Week 1 of 2.
Lesson 1: To read and discuss ideas about a story
Lesson 2: To use the silent ‘e’ rule to add suffixes
Lesson 3: To identify noun phrases within a sentence
Lesson 4: To use conjunctions to expand simple sentences
Lesson 5: To use powerful verbs
Total Number of Slides: 38
Resources Included? Yes
This resource contains an easy to read list of causal conjunctions which can be used to support and extend pupil’s learning in a range of different lessons.
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