Diary of a Cornflake Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning. Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, the big write lessons with some modeled paragraphs and editing sessions embedding in each big write. Here is a break down of each lesson included: Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing. Sequencing key events in the journey of the digestive system and creating a cartoon strip. How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool. Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries. The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with teacher example to set the scene. Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph, editing section and checklist for writing. Writing paragraph 4 including editing example and checklist. Writing up in best lesson which encourages children to practice and perfect their handwriting. This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about the digestive system - a simple but effective way to show writing across the curriculum. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.

How to Train Your Dragon Instructions Writing unit. I created these resources to use for live lessons but likewise they would work well in the classroom. Included is a sequence of 8 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, using fronted adverbials, the big write lessons with modeled paragraphs and editing lesson. Here is a break down of each lesson included: Features of Instructions including an introduction to how adverbs, if conjunctions and using conjunctions as sentence openers. Adventurous vocabulary - introducing 6 new adventurous words and modeled sentences. Planning our instructions. Choose a dragon and look at his key features. What special care instruction would they need? Writing our first 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing our next 3 instructions - how can we turn our notes into instructions. Modeled examples using how adverbs, if conjunctions and conjunctions as sentence openers. Writing an Introduction to match your instructions - including modeled paragraph. Finalizing your instructions. Using our knowledge of the features of instructions, how can we bring all of our work together and present them effectively? This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about How to Train your Dragon. Works really well alongside my Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting this writing unit are included. My class loved this unit and enjoyed being really creative with designing their dragons and what types of personalities they might have.

Complete week long unit with planning and all supporting materials and resources. This is a favourite in my year group and always makes the perfect cross-curricular link for Mental Health week or when your class need some time to reflect on their emotions and identify what they feel like. This unit will be more valuable than ever at the moment in the aftermath of the pandemic. Included in this English unit is: Complete lesson teaching slides with modeled examples of tasks and poems. Planning All resources needed for all lessons (poem planning sheets, emotions identifying task sheet, charades emotions, poem writing templates, writing up in best frames). You really can’t go wrong with this unit. I hope your class enjoy it as much as mine have!

Used as a fun lesson to boost well-being during our live lessons but could be used as a fun mini lesson as a whole class reward or to finish the week or term. This 10 questions quiz has all the answers included so you just need to download and enjoy with your class. Works perfectly alongside my Happy poetry writing unit.

This lesson was planned and used as part of our Black history topic where we explored Black History and achievements in different fields including art. This resource is one art lesson which shares and explores Lorna Simpson’s art in a way that’s pitched for LKS2 but could certainly be used and explored with UKS2 students too. The only things you will need to provide are black and white photos of your class, straws and paint. My class loved this lesson and I would highly recommend it to any KS2 teacher.

2/3 week Guided Reading unit based on Ice Trap! the story sharing Shackleton’s expedition story across Antarctica. This resource includes pages taken from the picture book for children to examine the text and illustrations. Questions framed using the DERIC approach, matched to end of Key Stage expectations.

Complete Year 4 Guided Reading resource using DERIC questioning to match National Curriculum expectations for KS2. Week long, stand alone unit.

This 3 week Guided Reading unit is a must for any Year 4 class exploring How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret / Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. This resource provides questioning around each of the first 10 chapters of the book (you will need your own copy of the text) alongside fun, engaging activities to promote reading for pleasure. With a heavy focus on retrieval, explain (to ensure they have a good understanding of the text) and inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 or a Year 6 LA group to strengthen their retrieval or basic text interaction skills. Although this resource states that it includes 6 files, the main resource is a PowerPoint spanning 74 slides. The additional 5 resources are images of the slides to give buyers more information on what this resource offers. This is a high quality resource that I have used myself in my own classroom and is of a high planning quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Enjoy!

This week long whole class guided reading resource is based on the Lighthouse short animation that is available on You Tube. We have used this animation many times in Year 4 and it goes beautifully alongside our other lighthouse resources so be sure to have a look in the shop to truly maximise your cross curricular links with Science, DT and English! Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret / Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. With a heavy focus on inference and deduction skills, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 to strengthen their inference skills. A true hit with my class for both reading and writing lessons!

This resource has been used in the classroom but would also work well for live or recorded home lessons. This Guided Reading resource will provide a full week’s unit of work (possibly 2 - which is how long it lasted for us) with opportunities for wider curriculum / writing links too. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret, Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. With a heavy focus on inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for a bright Year 3 class or LA Year 5 group to strengthen their inference skills. The PowerPoint resource is 114 slides and is good value for money. I never sell anything I haven’t tried and testing before and fully believe this resource is good value for money and of high quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Note to buyer - you will need to have a copy of the book along side this resource to be able to use the questions provided.

Complete Year 4 Guided Reading teaching resource using DERIC to frame the questions around the National Curriculum expectations. This resource is a 2 week unit of half an hour lessons. Could be used for live lessons. Although this was planned for Year 4 the texts are quite challenging so could be used for Year 5 or a low Year 6 group focusing on vocabulary. In this unit we examined and focused on vocabulary choices and challenging texts. Works really well alongside the Spooky Writing English unit.

This unit is a series of 11 lessons teaching the children the story of Shackleton’s expedition using the book Ice Trap! These lessons have been used for live learning and have given opportunities for modeled and shared writing, editing, creative writing and developing the use of first person, FANTASTICs and using emotions in our writing.

Used as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, our Year 4 classes all participated in a Reading For Pleasure live session where they shared their favourite books, made recommendations and discussed story lines and their likes and dislikes. This lesson could be used across Key Stage 2 and supports the reading for pleasure strands of the National Curriculum.

This is a series of 10 lessons teaching students hoe to write a survival guide linked to Shackleton’s adventure across Antarctica. This unit works really well with my other unit of work Shackleton’s Diary Writing. This series of lessons includes exploring adventurous vocabulary, exploring the packing list, writing topic sentences, researching survival information and features modeled paragraphs of each of the subheadings. This unit worked really well for live lessons.

How to Train Your Dragon Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning. Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, using fronted adverbials, the big write lessons with modeled paragraphs and editing lesson. Here is a break down of each lesson included: Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing. How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool. Sequencing key events in the story from chapters 1 - 10 and creating a cartoon strip. Understanding the characters. Read alongside chapter 8 to complete the information about each characters dragon. Using fronted adverbials and examples of which ones (and types) we can use in our diary writing. Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries. The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with modeled paragraph. Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph and checklist for writing. Writing paragraph 4 including modeled paragraph and checklist. Editing your diaries using Bob the minion as the invisible child to edit and improve his work using key mistakes made by Year 4 writers. This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about How to Train your Dragon. Works really well alongside my Guided Reading lesson unit. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.

Used as a kindness afternoon resource for my class to choose their own way to spread kindness, this PowerPoint uses the Christmas 2020 John Lewis advert to encourage children to ‘Give a Little Love’. Please leave feedback :-)