A week of Literacy planning which is very well resourced for a mixed Year 3 and 4 class. This planning resulted in great diary entries written as Howard Carter. Every lesson is resourced fully and has a set of matching PowerPoint presentations. This pack is ready to use straight away and works especially well with classes who are learning about Ancient Egypt in their topic lessons.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/tin-forest-setting-description-literacy-planning-1-week-literacy-resources-years-34/ A complete week of planning leading to a setting description for The Tin Forest by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson. The planning bundle includes all worksheets, notebook slides and resources for the week to save you time creating them. The week focuses on using a wide range of sentence structures through the use of fronted adverbials, similes, adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses to describe a number of settings before concentrating on describing the scene from the protagonist's dream. All lessons are differentiated to suit the needs of most classes, all for under £1 per lesson! Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This week of Literacy focuses on writing persuasive letters. It includes an opportunity to read good examples, look at the skills involved in writing persuasive letters, planning the letter and an opportunity to write one. Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 a lesson! Day 1: Reading good examples of persuasive letters and looking at the features of persuasive writing. Day 2: Skills lesson focusing on using strong sentence openers. Day 3: Lesson about Fair Trade to generate an argument for buying Fair Trade produce. This lesson includes information about Fair Trade for pupils to record and discuss - all the research has been done for you! Day 4: Planning their persuasive letter on differentiated planning grids. Day 5: An opportunity to go through a good example of a persuasive letter on the board to remind children of the success criteria and a chance for the class to write their own persuasive letters to the headteacher.

A high-quality information text about volcanoes which is specifically designed to match the writing expectations for Key Stage 2. Your class can use this text as a WAGOLL, research or use it as a starter to search for the features of the information text using the writing checklists included which are differentiated for LKS2 and UKS2.

This week of Literacy lessons focuses on skills needed to write a high-quality diary entry. The skills covered in this week are past tense, past progressive tense and using a range of conjunctions. The lessons are resourced, all for under £1 per lesson! The writing outcome of the week is a diary entry as the old man from The Tin Forest and the final lesson gives pupils an opportunity to edit and redraft their work. This chain of lessons was highly successful and led to brilliant diary entries at the end of the week. The lessons can be used in isolation or after the other Literacy planning related to The Tin Forest found in my shop.

A high-quality information text about space which is specifically designed to match the writing expectations for Key Stage 2. Your class can use this text as a WAGOLL, research or use it as a starter to search for the features of the information text using the writing checklists included which are differentiated for LKS2 and UKS2.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/sherlock-holmes-newspaper-report-6-days-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This planning worked incredibly well for all classes in UKS2. Every lesson links to the 2014 NC and is fully resourced with slides and worksheets. Below is a description of each Literacy lesson. Lesson 1: reading and answering differentiated reading comprehension questions about The Adventure of the Speckled Band from the book 'Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes' (a child friendly stepping stone book) which is available to purchase on Amazon in both Kindle form and paperback. Lesson 2: using direct and reported speech in newspaper reports - this is personally one of the most enjoyable lessons I have taught lessons as they really enjoyed converting text messages between Holmes and Watson into direct and reported speech! Lesson 3: how to write a newspaper introduction with examples and activities planned around Sherlock Holmes stories. Lesson 4: learning about unbiased newspaper reports and writing without giving personal opinions. Lesson 5: planning a newspaper report using a planning template. Lesson 6: writing a newspaper report about the story they read in lesson 1. Example newspaper report and detailed success criteria provided.

A week of Literacy lessons based on Roald Dahl’s Matilda. This is a set of 5 lessons for LKS2 focusing on character descriptions. The week starts by the pupils reading good examples of character descriptions from other Roald Dahl books before moving onto two days of differentiated skills lessons focusing on using adjectives and similes before planning and writing their character descriptions. All lessons come with a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation and paper resources!

This differentiated homework asks pupils to create, illustrate and describe their own Greek Hero. We used the hero in their stories the following week but this could equally be used as a stand alone homework related to your topic.

These sheets (which are differentiated three ways) give children the opportunity to use expanded noun phrases in a scaffolded way. These sheets would be great for helping pupils describe animals/characters using expanded noun phrases as part of a wider English topic or as a stand-alone SPaG lesson on expanded noun phrases! Pictures can be altered easily to suit your English topic.

Week 2 of a Literacy unit focusing on writing Matilda themed stories. This week focuses on planning a short story, drafting the first two paragraphs with a partner (paired write) and writing their own short story. The first week of Literacy planning to go along with this one can be found in my shop by following the link below. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/biographies-one-week-literacy-planning-year-56-resources-included/ This week of Literacy focuses on writing biographies. The class really enjoyed learning about the celebrities in this week's Literacy lessons, especially Taylor Swift and Christiano Ronaldo! Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 each! Day 1: Reading comprehension focus - children read biographies of a celebrity and answer differentiated (retrieval and inference) questions about the text. This gives them an opportunity to experience high quality, short biographies. Day 2: Children practise using adverbial phrases ready to use them in their own writing. Differentiated worksheets (as for all lessons) are included for their activities. Day 3: Children practise organising information into paragraphs by sorting information from biographies into subheadings. Day 4&5: Children write their own biography about either Christiano Ronaldo or Taylor Swift after going through a good example on the IWB. Differentiated success criteria is included.

This resource can be found for a cheaper price at https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/week-fully-resourced-literacy-lessons-greek-myths-uks2/ This week of Literacy lessons focuses on developing children's understanding of Greek myths and gives them an opportunity to write a description of their own mythological creature. All of the classes who have been taught this week of Literacy have really enjoyed it, especially the boys! Day 1: Reading and analysing examples of Greek myths. Day 2: Creating word banks to describe mythological creatures. Day 3: Using expanded noun phrases to describe mythological creatures. Day 4: Creating and planning their own mythological creature (with a bit of drawing included to keep them interested). Day 5: Children write a written description of their mythical creatures using the skills taught during the week. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This differentiated homework sheet asks pupils to create a short biography entry about Charlie Chaplin. It has a chronological list of key events in Chaplin's life in bullet points for pupils to turn into paragraphs. The homework is differentiated three ways and includes success criteria for each ability group!

Here is a comprehensive set of guided reading questions for Ace Detective by Shelley Holmes. The questions cover all of the question types including recall, inference and evaluation and are segmented into six sets of questions. There are over 30 questions here. I've written the questions, all you have to do is read the book with the children!

Click to download this very comprehensive set of excellent drama activities. These activities are both very fun and very well explained so you can print them out and start what will be a very educational and exciting collection of drama lessons right away.

It's Christmas week, you have ten last minute play rehearsals scheduled, a church visit and the class are so excited about Christmas that you're thinking your job is closer to that of a cat herder than a teacher right now. Take a break from planning and take a look at these two lessons for Literacy in Christmas week (let's face it, you're not going to teach five Literacy lessons this week). These lessons were used to reinforce the use of relative clauses by getting them to write a relative clause poem. The class produced many outstanding poems using this method and remarkably got really excited about our Christmas-based Literacy lessons with a hidden SPaG focus!

This resource can be found at a lower price here: https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/diary-writing-homework-worksheet-ks2-ks3/ This homework sheet asks pupils to keep a diary entry over the weekend. It includes differentiated success criteria for their diary entries along with examples of the features you expect to see in their writing. It also includes a short example of a diary entry to demonstrate how the success criteria could be used to write a good diary entry. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

Week 4 of planning and resources for a book based Literacy/Topic unit originally for Years 5&6. Five lessons all for under £1 each! The first, second and third week can be found on my page too. Children may need a session on iPads or laptops to research information on Easter Island to have enough to put in their brochure on Friday.

This is a word document information text about pirates (what piracy is, when did it start and some pirate laws). Could be used to identify the features of a report by circling features or just used as an introduction to a pirate topic.