This lesson includes a fully interactive PowerPoint, lesson plan and activity to begin this Year 2 unit about Information Texts. Week 1 of this unit focuses on the two stories ‘Dogs’ and ‘Matilda’s Cat’ by the award winning author and illustrator, Emily Gravett. Download the complete unit here Lesson 1: To create dogs with opposite characteristics Total Number of Slides: 7 Lesson Plan Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Information Texts. During this second and final week, children will enjoy learning about useful trucks such as Army Recovery Trucks, Logging Trucks and Snow Ploughs before planning and creating their very own! They will then create labels and captions to describe their truck’s features during lessons 3 and 4. SPAG/GPS covered this week: Phoneme /k/, graphemes c, k, ck and ch, simple sentences. Lesson 1: To create a useful big truck Lesson 2: To write sentences using the /k/ phoneme Lesson 3: To write labels and captions Lesson 4: To write an informative sentence Lesson 5: To write captions using complete sentences NB. Access to nonfiction books about trucks will support this week’s learning. Total Number of Slides: 27 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to introduce children to Information Texts. This week they will learn about fire engines and other big machines. They will read and discuss short extracts of nonfiction texts, write simple sentences using full stops and capital letters, sort a fire fighting equipment word list into alphabetical order and much more! Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To correctly order a sentence Lesson 2: To read and discuss a nonfiction text Lesson 3: To write simple sentences Lesson 4: To write facts about a machine Lesson 5: To sort words into alphabetical order NB. Access to nonfiction books about machines will support this week’s learning. Total Number of Slides: 27 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This second bundle also includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to continue the learning of Significant Authors. During this final week, children will continue focusing on the book Clockwork or All Wound Up as well as a short extract from Spring-heeled Jack by Philip Pullman. SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, expanded noun phrases, effective punctuation and dialogue. Lesson 1: To understand the structure and layout of a graphic novel Lesson 2: To write a section of a graphic novel Lesson 3: To perform an improvised role play Lesson 4: To plan a film script for ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman Lesson 5: To write a film script NB. Children will need to have completed reading the book Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman during Week 1. Total Number of Slides: 28 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, activities and a fully interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Significant Authors. This week, children will focus on the books Northern Lights and Clockwork or All Wound Up by the award winning author, Philip Pullman. They will enjoy learning about and creating their own fictional daemons, drawing comparisons between the book and film (The Golden Compass), writing summaries and making predictions! SPAG/GPS covered this week: complex sentences, subordinating conjunctions, adverbs of possibility/probability. Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To create my own daemon Lesson 2: To identify nouns and verbs in sentences Lesson 3: To compare the openings of the book and film NB. This lesson requires children to watch the first few minutes of the film, The Golden Compass. Lesson 4: To make predictions about a story NB. Access to the book Clockwork or All Wound Up would be beneficial, however a link has been provided. Lesson 5: To write a summary of Clockwork Total Number of Slides: 28 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Activities Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This ‘Adverbs of Probability’ word mat has been created to support and develop children’s understanding of these adverbs. This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

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 #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. This week, children will focus mainly on biographies. They will learn to read and identify the features of a biographical text before applying these when asked to write a biography about another member of the class during lesson 5! SPAG/GPS covered this week: prefixes, suffixes and sentence types (simple, compound and complex). Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To read, compare and identify the features of a biography Lesson 2: To rewrite a biography extract using dialogue Lesson 3: To investigate suffixes Lesson 4: To investigate sentence structure in formal writing Lesson 5: To write a biography Total Number of Slides: 32 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

This second bundle also includes 5 lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Familiar Settings. During this second and final week, children will revise how to correctly use fronted adverbials when describing characters and various settings within the Horrid Henry books. To end the week, they will enjoy planning, writing and editing their very on Horrid Henry stories! SPAG/GPS covered this week: fronted adverbials and adverbs of manner. Lesson 1: To use fronted adverbials when describing a setting Lesson 2: To use adverbs and fronted adverbials to describe a character Lesson 3: To plan a story based on Horrid Henry Lesson 4: To write my story based on Horrid Henry Lesson 5: To read, edit and improve my story Total Number of Slides: 29 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes End of Unit Assessment? Yes

A small selection of Horrid Henry books are required for this unit. This bundle includes lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the teaching of Stories in Familiar Settings based on the Year 4 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will read and enjoy a selection of Horrid Henry books as they learn/remind themselves about this funny young boy who has a talent for getting into trouble! They will research, identify and describe familiar settings used within these stories as they practise extending sentences with descriptive phrases. SPAG/GPS covered this week: prepositional phrases, noun phrases and prefixes. Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To explore and describe a character Lesson 2: To answer questions about a text Lesson 3: To extend sentences using descriptive phrases Lesson 4: To create descriptive language for familiar settings Lesson 5: To use neat handwriting and accurate punctuation Total Number of Slides: 29 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes

No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary. This bundle contains the final 5 lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this third and final week, children will be applying their knowledge of traditional Indian Tales by planning and writing their own in a similar style. They will choose a well-known fairy tale and replace some of these characters with the characters from the Indian Tales which have been covered during this unit. They will be aiming to apply their knowledge of prepositional phrases, adverbs of manner and powerful language. Lesson 1: To use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words Lesson 2: To ‘magpie’ powerful language to use within my own writing Lesson 3: To convert a Fairy Tale into a Traditional Indian Tale Lesson 4: To write a story in the style of a Traditional Indian Tale Lesson 5: To edit and improve my writing Total Number of Slides: 30 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes

These resources can be used to support the learning of Adverbs of Manner (which include the different rules for adding the -ly suffix). This handy list can be cut out and stuck into pupils’ books or laminated and stored within the classroom to be used when needed. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme

No additional resources needed. All lessons include an easy-to-follow lesson plan, interactive PowerPoint, starter activity, main teaching, lesson activity and plenary. This bundle contains 5 whole lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this second week, children will have the opportunity to use their imagination when planning and writing their own versions of Rama and Sita with some changes. They will also learn to identify and use subordinate clauses as well as prepositional phrases to express time within their writing. Lesson 1: To plan a modified version of Rama and Sita Lesson 2: To use subordinate clauses within my writing Lesson 3: To make predictions about a myth Lesson 4: To use adverbs of manner to describe a verb Lesson 5: To use prepositions to express time and place Total Number of Slides: 31 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes

No additional resources needed This interactive PowerPoint contains 5 whole lessons relating to Stories From Other Cultures based on the Year 3 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will learn about folktales and myths whilst focusing on the stories ‘The Little Red Hen’, ‘Tiger Child’ and ‘Rama and Sita’. Lesson 1: To write a synopsis of a traditional folktale Lesson 2: To retell a folktale through roleplay Lesson 3: To identify and use prepositions of place Lesson 4: To compare different versions of the same story Lesson 5: To create a comic strip of a well-known folktale Total Number of Slides: 33 Lesson Plans Included? Yes Resources Included? Yes

Have children enjoy learning to read and spell words containing the /j/ phoneme by playing this simple yet effective game! In pairs, they will test each other by picking a card for their partner to spell on a whiteboard! Get the spelling correct, stay where you are! Get it wrong, move back 2 spaces! Who will be the first one to the finish line? #stressfreelearning_dreamscheme

Including four different designs, these easy-to-use ‘story planning templates’ are ideal for planning most short stories! #stressfreeteaching

No additional resources needed This interactive PowerPoint and 5 lesson plans conclude this unit about stories with Familiar Settings based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. This week, children will continue to focus on ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr as well as the well-known story ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Dragon’ by Jack Kent. Using these stories, they will begin to develop ideas, plan and write their own stories using the character that they created at the end of week 1. During lesson 3, they will also have fun playing a board game with a partner as they practise reading and spelling words containing the /j/ phoneme! Lesson 1: To create an interesting problem for my story Lesson 2: To plan my own story Lesson 3: To read and spell words with the phoneme /j/ Lesson 4: To create a good story opening Lesson 5: To use my ‘writing toolbox’ to complete my story Total Number of Slides: 32 Resources included? Yes Lesson Plans Included? Yes If necessary, this PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of your class. Physical copies of the books would be beneficial, but links are provided. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme Week 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-fiction-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192909

No additional resources needed This interactive PowerPoint and 5 detailed lesson plans relate to stories with Familiar Settings based on the Year 2 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this first week, children will focus on the two stories ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne and ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr. Not only will they enjoy reading both of these wonderful stories, they will also learn, revise and apply their knowledge of nouns, adjectives and punctuation (including question marks) within a variety of engaging activities. Lesson 1: To list nouns for different settings Lesson 2: To use adjectives after a noun Lesson 3: To read and compare two stories Lesson 4: To punctuate sentences using capital letters, full stops and question marks Lesson 5: To create and describe a character Total Number of Slides: 30 Resources included? Yes Lesson Plans Included? Yes If necessary, this PowerPoint can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of your class. Physical copies of both books would be beneficial, but links are provided for both stories. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme Week 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-fiction-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192909

No additional resources needed. This bundle includes an interactive PowerPoint and 5 lesson plans relating to Stories With Familiar Settings based on the Year 1 National Curriculum scheme of work. During this second week, children will practise reading and spelling words using the /oi/ phoneme before planning their very own ‘lost toy’ story inspired by the book ‘Knuffle Bunny’ by Mo Willems. After writing the beginning, middle and end of their story, the included worksheets are designed to be cut out and stapled together to create their very own book! (ideal for display!) Lesson 1: To read and spell words containing the /oi/ phoneme Lesson 2: To plan my own ‘lost toy’ story Lesson 3: To begin writing my story Lesson 4: To write the middle part of my story Lesson 5: To write the ending of my story Total Number of Slides: 33 Activity Resources Included? Yes Detailed Lesson Plan Included? Yes Each lesson contains a starter activity, displayed success criteria, main teaching and plenary. #stressfreeteaching_dreamscheme Week 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-stories-with-familiar-settings-week-1-of-2-12192546