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

Used when writing descriptions or a sequel to the novel How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell, this resource allows children to be creative when writing at length. PDF & Word document versions provided for layout and editing purposes. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this 2-pack of resources allows children the space to write their own sequel, present their work neatly and even design their own front and back cover. This resource could be used as a write-up sheet for character descriptions, as a book layout for writing a sequel or prequel to the story or for writing an in-depth book review. Other How to Train Your Dragon resources: X How To Train Your Dragon: Entire 6-week English Unit Pack X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 1 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 2 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 3 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 4 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 5 X How To Train Your Dragon: English Unit Week 6 X How To Train Your Dragon: Book Review

COVID-19 has flummoxed us all, and it is vital that we ensure none of the children in our care get left behind in any facet of English language learning. This Recovery Curriculum document outlines key, end-of-year expectations for Year 4 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English. In this document, Year 3 expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the Year 4 expectation. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020. How do I use this product? I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed. They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources. Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups. In this download: PDF version of the A4 table National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation .docx Word Document version of the A4 table to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses 1 font to edit Word document with Looking for the rest of Key Stage 2 English recovery expectations? Year 3 Year 5 Year 6 Entire KS2 Recovery Curriculum Expectations

COVID-19 has flummoxed us all, and it is vital that we ensure none of the children in our care get left behind in any facet of English language learning. This Recovery Curriculum document outlines key, end-of-year expectations for Year 3 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English. In this document, Year 2 expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the Year 3 expectation. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020. How do I use this product? I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed. They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources. Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups. In this download: PDF version of the A4 table National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation .docx Word Document version of the A4 table to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses 1 font to edit Word document with Looking for the rest of Key Stage 2 English recovery expectations? Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Entire KS2 Recovery Curriculum Expectations

COVID-19 has flummoxed us all, and it is vital that we ensure none of the children in our care get left behind in any facet of English language learning. This Recovery Curriculum document outlines key, end-of-year expectations for Year 6 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English. In this document, Year 5 expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the Year 6 expectation. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020. How do I use this product? I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed. They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources. Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups. In this download: PDF version of the A4 table National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation .docx Word Document version of the A4 table to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses 1 font to edit Word document with Looking for the rest of Key Stage 2 English recovery expectations? Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Entire KS2 Recovery Curriculum Expectations

COVID-19 has flummoxed us all, and it is vital that we ensure none of the children in our care get left behind in any facet of English language learning. This Recovery Curriculum document outlines key, end-of-year expectations for Year 5 in line with the National Curriculum strands for English. In this document, Year 4 expectations are included in the left-hand column and act as prerequisites to tick off before a child moves on to the Year 5 expectation. This acts as a net to catch any gaps that may have manifested due to the time off in lockdown during the academic year of 2019-2020. How do I use this product? I will be sticking these into the back of the children’s books and ticking them off when completed. They could also be assigned to a child digitally to save on paper and needless touching of joint resources. Alternatively, these could be used holistically for an entire class, or for emerging, expected & exceeding groups. In this download: PDF version of the A4 table National Curriculum strands are referenced for each expectation .docx Word Document version of the A4 table to edit to address particular needs or school-wide focuses 1 font to edit Word document with Looking for the rest of Key Stage 2 English recovery expectations? Year 3 Year 4 Year 6 Entire KS2 Recovery Curriculum Expectations

Two Ancient-Egyptian themed, 3-way-differentiated worksheets on identifying, understanding and using similes.

Week 3 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on prepositions of place, figurative language (hyperbole, similes & metaphors) and character development. Chapters 4 - 7 are covered. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 4-7 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, parts of speech identification and character description using figurative language! Included in this download: 1 week of planning included in page 2 of the PowerPoint for ease 40-page teaching PowerPoint that breaks down all worksheets & learning Key vocabulary break down for Chapter 4, 5, 6 & 7 Video clips suggested to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Identifying Prepositions in Context worksheet Writing Prepositional Phrases worksheet Comparing Book to Movie worksheet Writing Instructions worksheet Me VS Hiccup worksheet for character empathy Writing to Hiccup worksheet Persuasive writing worksheet Identifying Figurative Language worksheet (similes, metaphors, hyperbole) 5 x challenge activities on the PowerPoint slides Hiccup clip art (not for commercial use) 2 fonts to edit your resources with PDF & Word Document versions of every resource I am currently teaching this unit and will be uploading new packs as they’re made, so follow me to stay up to date and to carry on the children’s learning consistently <3 Looking for the rest of the unit? Week 1 Week 2 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Want to get the whole unit? Due to be completed on July 12th 2020 How To Train Your Dragon - Full Unit I hope this resource saves you time and stress Happy teaching! Miss Austin

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

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

Week 6 of my No-Prep, 6-week How To Train Your Dragon English teaching unit. This week’s focus is on character description, prediction and planning, writing and editing a sequel. How to Train Your Dragon is an incredible book to study, and this Chapter 15-19 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 textual evidence to predict future plot lines, describing characters using ‘show not tell’ and writing at length. 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 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 and topical words Video clips suggested to complement planning Integrated QR codes for children’s independence purposes Making Predictions worksheet Describing the Green Death worksheet Evidence from Text worksheet Book Review worksheet Story Mountain Planning worksheet Introduction Drafting & Editing worksheet Sequel Write-Up worksheet Front & Back Cover Design Challenge worksheet 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 5 **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

Book Review worksheet concentrating on summarising, forming opinions and concluding on How To Train Your Dragon (Book 1) by Cressida Cowell. In this book review, children are asked to summarise the main parts of the story, give their opinion on the story as a whole, state the funniest, scariest and favorite parts, rate the story from 1-5, explain if they would recommend the book, and discuss who their favourite and least favourite characters were. This works great as a post-text exercise, and also works as a movie review if you are following the feature film instead. Reviewing books helps children know that it’s okay to like or dislike a book, and also allows them to work out what their favorite genres are. Included in this download: PDF version of the book review .docx Word document version of the book review for editing purposes ‘Lost in Chalk’ font to help you edit the resource and keep the style I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin

Book Review worksheet concentrating on summarising, forming opinions and concluding on Matilda by Roald Dahl. UK and US versions included In this book review, children are asked to summarise the main parts of the story, give their opinion on the story as a whole, state the funniest, scariest and favourite parts, rate the story from 1-5, explain if they would recommend the book, and discuss who their favourite and least favorite characters were. This works great as a post-text exercise, and also works as a movie review if you are following the feature film instead. Reviewing books helps children know that it’s okay to like or dislike a book, and also allows them to work out what their favorite genres are. Included in this download: UK and US versions of PDF and Word documents PDF version of the book review .docx Word document version of the book review for editing purposes ‘Lost in Chalk’ font to help you edit the resource and keep the style Looking for more Matilda resources? X 4-Week Matilda English Unit I hope this resource helps you to save time and save stress! Thank you, and happy teaching! Miss Austin