Ottoline and the Yellow Cat Guided Reading Packet – Comprehension, inference, summary, questioning, author’s intention, and prediction. This download includes a massive Guided Reading mega-booklet with a term’s worth of independent activities suitable for Key Stage 2 children. Children will make predictions for the text based on a front cover and blurb, ask questions to improve knowledge of character, summarise to write their own blurb, compare to other texts… I could go on!! Everything you need to deliver the objectives above is included. This download includes: 12-page PDF document of the guided reading packet (inc. title & quote answer page) 12-page editable .docx Word document version of the guided reading booklet I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress. Thank you and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Hi Teachers! Here is a diary planning resource. It comes as part of a larger set, which you can find at this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-diary-writing-entire-unit-12301089

A character description task based on Rhodopis from the Egyptian Cinderella text by Shirley Climo.

Hi there! * Includes * Learning Objective:I can describe a character’s appearance and personality, using VCOP to improve my sentences. Lesson Plan (Must, Should, Could) Lower ability worksheet for structure Examples of character descriptions (Harry Potter) Guessing Task Recipe for a good description Extension and Normal Task outlined When this was a free lesson, it was accredited by TES who commented saying: "Thank you for sharing your resource. This resource has been recommended for teachers by the TES Resource Team." Enjoy teaching, Miss Ritchie

Hello fellow teachers! Here’s a resource for years 3-4 and years 5-6 ( KS2 ) for independent guided reading activities. There’s a selection of activities to choose from and they are in the the following categories: short writing task long writing task text detective task (discrete grammar/punctuation) creative task Enjoy!

Week 5 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on personification, rhyming poetry and text comprehension using evidence from the text. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 12-14 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in using personification to describe, writing rhyming poetry in the ABCB pattern and providing evidence when answering comprehension questions. Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease 41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 12, 13, 14 and topical words Video clips suggested to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Identifying Personification worksheet The Story So Far worksheet Personification in Poetry worksheet Rhyming Poem Example worksheet Poetry Write-Up worksheet Chapter 14 Comprehension worksheet Newspaper Article Challenge worksheet Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form 5 x starter/extension activities on the PowerPoint slides to push higher ability How To Train Your Dragon clip art (not for commercial use) 2 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource Looking for the rest of the unit? X Week 1 X Week 2 X Week 3 X Week 4 X Week 6 **Want to save money on the whole unit? ** X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Hi there, Here's some of this week's planning for play scripts. It's an often forgotten text type, but is helpful for many reasons. I used this blank iphone template for children to separate who is saying what in a piece of text in order to prep them for writing a play script this week. I hope it works for you! Miss Ritchie

Help your children to improve their descriptions and narratives by using these colour vocabulary sheets in your literacy lessons or on display. They equip pupils with exciting words for ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’ and everything in between! I have been using these colour thesauruses as part of a Writing Toolkit (coming soon!) that I give to my class at the start of the school year. After modelling how to use them in writing, the children then independently use stronger, more effective colour descriptives when describing settings or characters- I even see them cropping up in their speech! BOTH SPELLINGS OF COLOR/COLOUR INCLUDED! Included in this download: A display poster and pocket-sized version of the color vocabulary grid PDF versions of the resources .docx Word versions of the resources for editing purposes 2 fonts to edit your resources with UK/AU/NZ/CA version using ‘colour’ spelling Looking for the full Writing Toolkit? Due to be completed by September 1st 2020 I hope this product saves you time and stress, Happy Teaching! Miss Austin

Hi, fellow teachers! Here’s a free resource for you- it contains a PDF and a wordx document version of an emotion graph where children can plot characters’ emotions throughout a story. Enjoy!

Hi All! Here’s a 2 lesson pack including 3-way differentiated worksheet, which can be used as homework or classwork, and a prescriptive powerpoint. Enjoy!

Here’s a nice, beefy pack of resources for Spiderwick Chronicles: Field Guide. Comprehension, setting description, IT collage for text detective work etc.

Week 4 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on 4 different forms of poetry (haiku, acrostic, kenning & shape poems). Chapters 8 - 11 are covered. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 8-11 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in online research, identifying syllables and poetry writing. Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease 35-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 Video clips suggested to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Kenning Poetry worksheet Acrostic Poetry worksheet Shape Poetry worksheet Shape Poetry Challenge worksheet Counting Syllables worksheet (& answers) Haiku Worksheet Evaluation challenges for children to give their opinions on each poetic form 5 x starter activities on the PowerPoint slides Hiccup & Toothless clip art (not for commercial use) 2 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource Looking for the rest of the unit? X Week 1 X Week 2 X Week 3 X Week 5 X Week 6 Want to get in early on the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020 X How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Hi there! ~_~ *includes* Extensive Lesson plan Deployment sheet for a TA (great for interview!) Lesson presentation Table labels (helpful for interviews) Learning objective and success criteria labels for childrens’ books A4 document of characters to describe (although I used alternative drawings that I made myself) and some pre-written adjectives to describe given characters for LA children. This lesson would take around 35/40 minutes, and would be perfect for a refresher lesson, or perhaps an interview. It’s greatly tweakable for different year groups and the like. I hope it’s useful for you!

Starters, plenaries, modeled descriptions and resources provided for two contrasting character descriptions. They're based on two characters from the book we're reading in class, but are easily adaptable. Let me know if you need anything else or have any comments. Miss Ritchie

Hi All! Here’s a pack of resources that can be used for diary entries and descriptions of Mr Morris Lessmore (and his fantastic flying books, of course!) There are differentiated writing frames, worksheets that’re attractive for presenting work and photos for stimuli. Enjoy :)

Here’s a resource that is differentiated 3 ways for children to explore prepositions and link them to fronted adverbials.

This is a set of resources that I use for my year 3 and 4 group. They are Egyptian themed so that they can link in with humanities topic. Shape poems are a great introduction to writing in a poetic structure for children, and the shapes offered in this pack are: canopic jars, a sarcophagus and a pyramid. I modelled the pyramid shape to the class so that my lower ability group had more input tailored to them. LO: To write a topical shape poem

Week 1 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on author fact files, research skills, prediction and comprehension. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Pre-Read & Chapter 1 unit pack helps to engage children in the text right from the start. With exciting, attractive and innovative worksheets designed to hook children in to the action from the get go, you can expect children to gain skills in text comprehension, independent research and plot prediction! Also, my own Guided Reading Approach “AEE” (answer, explain & evidence) is included in this pack, with a 6 page, child-friendly explanation included! Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 3 of the PowerPoint for ease 41-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary outline for Chapter 1 and the foreword (page 4) Video clips of the author talking about inspiration and planning (2 linked/included) Integrated QR codes for children’s author research purposes (page 7) Lap-book resources Author Research Planning Page worksheet Designing a Writing Room worksheet Questioning the Author worksheet Making Predictions worksheet Plot Recap worksheet Drawing Hiccup worksheet Chapter 1 comprehension, guided reading questions Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use) 3 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource Looking for the rest of the unit? Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

Hi, All! Here’s a little resource for your convenience- a wordsearch where childrne then must categorise the words into the following word classes: pronoun, determiner, adjective, adverb, verb, noun, conjunction. Enjoy!

This is a resource to use for things such as PSHE, RE, Class assemblies, English (recognising speech in text) and other lessons :) Enjoy!