This is not an exact copy of the planning from The Power of Reading. It is inspired by the planning - taking some lessons and elements and combining it with my school’s approach to writing.
Minimum of 14 lessons but another edit and improve session and publishing sessions can be added onto the end making this 16 potential sessions.
Aimed at LKS2, Year 3 and year 4.
Key skills taught in this unit:
Exploration and teaching of rich vocabulary around water
portraying a character’s emotion through verbs and adverbs
Inference skills
Present perfect tense/ past tense
Inverted commas for speech
This unit of work involves: Short bursts of writing involving of personal experiences around water which could be a diary entry but gives freedom of choice, poetry, asking key questions.
It also involves building up skills for children to write about an event that happens in the forest to the main character where he sees something scary in the bushes, runs away and then realises it was only a small animal such as a bunny or an owl. This gives the children opportunity to show, not tell emotions of fear, nervousness and relief.
The next part of the unit of work allows the main character to return home where Isac sees his Mum. This involves a conversation, applying their inverted commas skills. Here he can tell his Mum what happened in the forest and why he was so scared but then felt relieved because it was only an animal.
Planning documents attached. Key worksheets attached and differentiated activities attached.
Each lesson begins with a grammar warm up.
Inspired by the Emmanuel Project planning.
High quality unit of planning planning that comes with a written plan, Powerpoint and attached resources. This unit of work allows for three pieces of writing as well as practical learning and deep discussion.
Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of karma
Mostly a practical lesson involving the game Snakes and Ladders and how this links to Hinduism.
Lesson 2: Enquire into why karma is important.
More snakes and ladders games in an organised why to represent the key concept of Moksha and Samsara(reincarnation). Key videos to watch to aid understanding. Opportunity for asking deep questions about the concept.
Lesson 3: Explore Hindu ideas of Karma and Samsara through The Jackal and the Drum.
Exploring a hindu story.
2 tasks available: diary entry as the jackal, or a storyboard of the story.
Differentiated tasks attached.
Lesson 4: Explore ways Hindus encourage good karma through Sewa day.
What is Sewa day? Why is this important? Ways in which children could do good deeds.
Introduce Mahatma Ghandi and why he is an important Hindu. Complete factfile about Ghandi.
Lesson 5: Evaluate the Hindu belief in karma through Hindu daily life.
A chance for children to choose how they will represent their learning from this unit.
This unit if work is inspired by the NCETM unit of work for Year 4 - Unit 2 - Numbers to 10,000
Most resources and slides are made by myself but some high quality activities have been clipped from NCETM and White Rose.
The objectives covered per lesson are as follows:
Know what 1000 is made up of (representations up to 1000)
Use knowledge of 1000 to explain and measure conversions
Add multiples of 10
Add multiples of 100
Use knowledge of 1000 to add and subtract
Compare numbers to 10,000
Identify and estimate numbers on a number line
Round to the nearest 1000
Round to the nearest 100
Apply rounding to problems
Add and subtract four digits
Know how many 25’s and 50’s make 1000
This unit of work cross-teaches many topics in maths and includes a lot of capacity and measure problems.
Each lesson follows the lesson slide structure of:
Revisit
Address misconception
Vocabulary
Focus
Talk Task
Guided Practice
Deepen
Next steps (if it aimed to be a lesson that goes into books, which most are)
This unit of work is based on the planning of ‘Understanding Christianity’.It is the unit called: Salvation - Why do Christians call the day Jesus died as Good Friday?
This unit of work is all about Easter. The lessons include a range of activities such as:
Listening to stories
Writing a diary entry as Mary Magdalene
Creating a poster
Easter hunt
Art work
This Powerpoint essentially contains two lessons on LGBTQ.
This Powerpoint starts with definitions of LGBTQ+.
It contains information and history of the rainbow flag.
It contains the life story of Jin Xing, a transgender Chinese ballet dancer. There is opportunity to see ballet as a dance that requires muscle and strength with the opportunity of creating short ballet routines in groups.
At the end of the Powerpoint is a link to a story called Roxy the Racoon by Alice Reeves. There is an activity to complete that requires children to invent their own inclusive character for a children’s book.
These lessons were made with Year 4 students in mind but is very open to all ages. It is easily accessible and explains things simply in a way that all children should understand.
Here are high-quality, well-structured maths lessons created by myself as a maths specialist. I have used a variety of resources from NCETM, White Rose, Maths No Problem and other resources available online.
Each lesson has a clear structure:
Warm up
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
Next Step
This unit of work includes:
1 lesson on plotting coordinates (a rounding up/summarising lesson)
2 lessons on translating shapes
2 lessons on identifying angle types
2 lessons on identifying and creating symmetry
Involved are stem sentences, diagnostic questions, reasoning etc.
Independent practice slide contains ‘now, next, last’ key words to break down the tasks for SEN learners.
Tasks can be copied and pasted from the Powerpoint and printed to stick in their books.
This unit of work is based off of the NCETM lesson spines and is aimed at Year 4. Some tasks have been taken from White Rose to meet the learning objectives from the NCETM.
There are two parts to this planning unit.
PART 1: REVIEW OF FRACTIONS
Lesson 1: Identify the whole and the parts
Lesson 2: Identify equal and unequal parts
Lesson 3: Construct the whole from one part
PART 2: FRACTIONS
Lesson 1: Write mixed numbers
Lesson 2: Add and subtract mixed numbers from a part-whole model
Lesson 3: Add and subtract mixed numbers
Lesson 4: Label fractions on a number line
Lesson 5: Identify how many fractional parts make a whole
Lesson 6: Compare and order fractions on a number line
Lesson 7: Compare and order fractions
Lesson 8: Compare and order fractions with the same numerator
Lesson 9: Add fractions with the same denominator
Lesson 10: Subtract fractions with the same denominator
Lesson 11: Add and subtract fractions
Lesson 12: Identify equivalent fractions
Lesson 13: Identify equivalent fractions
Some of these lessons are intended to be purely practical, working with whiteboards and physical resources/manipulatives. This is stated on the first page of each lesson on the PowerPoint.
Lessons that are designed to be in books have tasks that are easily written into books by childen or come with a ‘Fluency, Problem-solving, Reasoning’ sheet to show clear progression. These lessons are provided with a ‘next step’ to move children on even further in their learning.
Each PowerPoint follows the structure of: Revisit, Address Misconceptions, Vocabulary, Focus, Guided Practice, Talk Task, Deepen, Independent Practise, Next Steps.
#ncetm #year4 #fractions #year4fractions #ks2 #ks2fractions #maths #mathsmastery #diagnosticquestions #stemsentences #mastery #progression #numerator #denominator #mixednumbers
In this unit of work you are downloading 15 lessons. Each lesson comes with a Powerpoint presentation. The number of lessons can be extended if you decide to add a ‘edit and improve’ session and a ‘publishing’ session on produced pieces of work.
This unit is inspired by the Power of Reading unit for Hot Like Fire by Valerie Bloom. The book is not needed as all resources needed from the book have been typed up and provided into the download unit.
Learning Objectives are as follows:
PART 1:
Session 1: to annotate a poem
(exploration of ‘Grandma, Bandana an’ me’ and ‘How to ask for a hamster’)
Session 2: understand language used in a poem
(translating the poem ‘De Familiar thing’ from Jamaican dialect to English)
Session 3: Understand the meaning behind words
(dramatising the poem De Bread Van’)
Session 4: Identify the difference between poetry and prose
The following sessions follow a writing cycle which allows build-up to a piece of writing/
Session 5: understand and annotate a poem (‘The People Next Door’)
Session 6: Identify and use conjunctions
Session 7: plan a responding letter (to the invite to dinner that is given to the audience in the poem ‘The people next door’)
Session 8, 9 and 10 can be a writing session, editing session and then publishing session.
PART 2:
This part of the planning unit is exploring and writing with inspiration by Valerie Bloom’s ‘The River’ poem.
Session 1: Explore a poem (The River by Valerie Bloom and then 'Life is Like a River by Patricia Walter)
Session 2: understand rhyming patterns
Session 3: Create my own rhyming poem (inspired by the river poems)
Session 4: Create a drama piece
PART 3
This part of the planning unit is about creating poems about chocolate, using the learning and inspiration that has been covered int he last two parts.
Session 1: Use onomatopoeia and alliteration
Session 2: Use rhyming couplets and expanded noun phrases
Session 3: Experience chocolate for our poems
Session 4: Plan our poems
This will then lead onto a writing session, editing and publishing session.
#powerofreading #valeriebloom #grandmabandanaandme #theriver #chocolate #jamaica #poetryunit #poetry #ks2 #year3 #year4 #english #writing #writingpoems
Here are 24 lessons based on the book The Nothing To See Here Hotel by Steven Butler.
Each lesson up to lesson 15 comes with a Powerpoint and a task. Each task if based off of the reading VIPERS. There are 24 tasks planned to be completed in books and 15 of these tasks come with Powerpoints attached.
This was taught to Year 4 but can easily be taken and slightly adapted to Year 3 and 5.
Each Powerpoint follows the structure:
Talk Task (discussion question based on the book)
Vocabulary (introducing new words they may come across in today’s reading)
Focus (main reading part with a focus question)
Deepen (children asked to explain something)
Independent Activity (questions in Guided Reading books based on the VIPERS)
Exit Pass (summarising quick question)
#guidedreading #stevenbutler #KS2reading #LKS2 #VIPERS #year4 #year3 #year5 #guidedreadingunit #nothingtoseeherehotel #thenothingtoseeherehotel #brighton
You will be downloading a Powerpoint for a series of lessons that cover the following objectives, stated by the NCETM for Year 4:
1 Pupils represent counting in threes as the three times table
2 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of three
3 Pupils use knowledge of the three times table to solve problems
4 Pupils represent counting in sixes as the six times table
5 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of six
6 Pupils use knowledge of the six times table to solve problems
7 Pupils use known facts from the five times table to solve problems involving the six times table
8 Pupils explain the relationship between multiples of three and multiples of six
9 Pupils use knowledge of the relationships between the three and six times tables to solve problems
10 Pupils represent counting in nines as the nine times table
11 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of nine (1)
12 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of nine (2)
13 Pupils use known facts from the ten times table to solve problems involving the nine times table
14 Pupils explain the relationship between multiples of three and multiples of nine
15 Pupils explain the relationship between pairs of three and nine times table facts that have the same product (1)
16 Pupils explain the relationship between pairs of three and nine times table facts that have the same product (2)
17 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of three
18 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of six (1)
19 Pupils use the divisibility rules for divisors of six (2)
The learning objectives of the lessons included in the unit of work are:
1: Identify the multiplier and multiplicand
2: Count in and multiply by 3
3: Count in and multiply by 6
4: find the relationship between 3 and 6 times tables
5: count in and multiply by 9
6: Find links between the 3, 6 and 9 times table
7: Find links between the 3, 6 and 9 times table
8: Identify numbers divisible by 3, 6 and 9 times table.
9: Multiply 3 digit numbers together.
Each lesson follows the structure and has a slide for each step:
Revisit
Address misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided practice
Talk task
Deepen
Independent Practice
Next Step
Lessons come with accompanying worksheets that are structured into Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning tasks. Lessons are also accompanied by next steps which can be stuck into books.
The planning is heavily inspired by the NCETM but I have broken the lessons down into my own PowerPoints to ensure the steps taught are very small so all can access. This unit takes on a mastery approach to teaching maths and has been highly effective in my own classroom.
Included within the powerpoints are visual representations, small tasks for a ping-pong approach, stem sentences, high-level mathematical vocabulary, now/next/last visuals for SEN learners.
#ncetm #unit4 #year4 #mathsmastery =stemsentences #timestables
This is a unit of work that is inspired by the planning from NCETM Year 4 Unit 5.
The learning outcomes that the NCETM state are covered in this unit if planning are as follows:
1 Pupils represent counting in sevens as the 7 times table
2 Pupils explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of seven
3 Pupils use their knowledge of the 7 times table to solve problems
4 Pupils identify patterns of odd and even numbers in the times tables
5 Pupils represent a square number
6 Pupils use knowledge of divisibility rules to solve problems
In this unit of work the learning objectives are the following:
Revise column method for + and -
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lesson follows the Powerpoint slide structure of:
Revisit
Address Misonceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
TalkTask
Deepen
Independent Practice
These lessons follow a mastery approach and have been commented on by OFSTED as being a great tool for great maths teaching.
Print-outs are provided.
The following elements are mastery teaching are used throughout:
stem sentences, generalisations, high-level vocabulary, the slides allow for a ping-pong approach, clear and varied visual representations, opportunities for using resources etc.
Worksheets provided follow the structure of: Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning to ensure progression.
3 of these lessons are not intended to be in books and do not come with ‘next steps’ but the rest do. This is to allow next steps and progress to be een within books for that lesson.
Created with Year 3 and 4 in mind.
This unit comes with a Powerpoint for each lesson and attached resources. I have provided SEN/EAL word banks within this unit if work too. Many of the lessons have simplified and differentiated worksheets and tasks for significant SEN and EAL pupils.
There are 13 lessons provided but this can be extended to 19 lessons if you follow my notes below.
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Illustrate the opening of Iron Man.
Lesson 2: Use conjunctions
Lesson 3: Use similes
Lesson 4: Write from Hogarth’s point of view (when he first sees Iron Man)
Lesson 5: Write a diary entry from Hogarth’s point of view
Week 2:
(structured writing cycle)
Lesson 6: Plan a diary entry (More structure for the next diary entry which is about when Hogarth traps Iron Man in a deep hole)
Lesson 7: Write a diary entry
I then used the rest of this week to finish writing, edit writing and publish writing which took this to a whole week)
Week 3:
Lesson 8: Collect impressive adjectives to describe the scrapyard
Lesson 9: Create a piece of art inspired by the scrapyard
‘Extra SPAG lesson expanded noun phrases’ taught here.
Week 4:
Lesson 10: Identify and use similes and metaphors
Lesson 11:Plan a suspenseful horror poem (WAGOLL provided)
Lesson 12: Write a suspenseful horror poem
I then used the rest of week 4 to finish writing, edit and improve, and publish.
This unit of work involves 7 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a creative unit if work which requires less writing and more hands-on, illustrative work. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. It is a good unit of work to do when returning to school from a holiday break.
Lesson 1 - Exploring the cover
Lesson 2 - Exploring illustrations
Lesson 3 - Understanding and emphathising with characters
Lesson 4 - Tracking the emotional journey through text and illustration
Lesson 5 - Understanding and illustrating characters
Lesson 6 - Design the next page in the book
Lesson 7 - Infer the characters’ feelings
Each lessons comes in its own Powerpoint.
The book can be accessed online via Youtube.
Each lesson follows the same maths lesson structure of:
Revisit
Address Misconceptions
Vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Talk Task
Deepen
Independent Task
The ‘Independent Task’ slide has a ‘Now, Next, Last’ visual to promote children’s independence in completing their tasks.
The Powepoint is infused with STEM sentences, different representations, practical activities, fluency, and reasoning tasks.
The overall structure of the unit is inspired by the NCETM for Year 4 and some questions and representations are taken from White Rose. There is a real mixture of resources used and combined to create a comprehensive unit that can be delivered straight from this download.
The lesson objectives are as follows:
Identify place value
Use column addition with regrouping
Use column addition with regrouping twice
Use column addition with regrouping twice
Decide on mental or written strategies
Solve addition problems
Identify the minuend and subtrahend
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with one exchange
Use column subtraction with two exchanges
There are multiple lessons on subtraction with one exchange as this is where I have found children struggle the most within the unit. There are multiple lessons with multiple representations and a variety of challenging questions which extend those who do grasp this concept quickly.
#mastery #year4 #addition #subtraction #writtenmethod #columnmethod #exchange ##regroup #NCETM #Whiterose #placevalue
Here is 4 weeks worth of lessons based on The Pebble in My Pocket.
Some lessons are inspired by the planning sequence from The Power of Reading scheme of work which then builds up comprehension and understanding of the text to lead into writing.
Two high quality pieces of writing are planned, modelled, drafted, edited and published including a newspaper report and a persuasive speech on the environment.
Learning objectives for each lesson are:
1 - write a poem about a pebble
(examining and exploring real pebbles)
2 - create an image based on the text
(art inspired by the illustrations)
3 - use rich vocabulary
4 - create a storyboard
5 - identify and use formal language
6 - plan a newspaper report
7 - write a newspaper report
8 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
9 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
10 - respond to illustrations
11 - understand the impact of climate change
12 - explain the impact of climate change
13 - explain the impact of climate change
14 - identify and use emotive language
15 - plan a persuasive speech
16 - write a persuasive speech
17 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
18 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
This unit of work includes a PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets, challenges and activities.
Lessons LO’s include:
Write mixed numbers
Add and subtract mixed numbers from a part-whole model
Add and subtract mixed numbers
Label fractions on a number line
Identify how many fractional parts make a whole
Compare and order fractions on a number line
Compare ans order fractions
Compare and order fractions with the same numerator
Add fractions with the same denominator
Subtract fractions with the same denominator
Add and subtract fractions
Identify equivalent fractions
Identify equivalent fractions
All lessons state whether they are ‘practical’ or ‘in book’ lessons with most being in books. All in book lessons come with ‘Next steps’ which can be printed and glued into books for children to take on an extra challenge or answer in feedback marking.
All lessons come with a ‘Now, next, last’ slide included in the PowerPoint for the encouragement on independent learning and SEN learners.
All lessons follow the slide structure of:
Revisit
Address Miconceptions
Key vocabulary
Focus
Guided Practice
Deepen
Independent Practice
Next steps (for ‘in book’ lessons)
Some tasks, activities and planning is taken from a mixture of and inspired by White Rose, NCETM and various other planning sites and resources.
8 Lessons based on Sweden, all with activities.
Most of these lessons comes with PowerPoints to accompany. There are some lessons where a PowerPoint is necessarily needed so there are teacher comments on the activity sheet on what to do - some require using atlases or Google Maps.
The lesson learning objectives are as follows:
Design my own Swedish Darla Horse (art based - can be turned into a sequence of lessons easily and an art final product)
Compare England and Sweden on a map of the world.
Compare Swedish to English houses
Locate key landmarks on a map of Sweden
Identify Human or Physical Geographical features of Sweden
Why do 90% of Sweden live in the south?
Answer questions about Sweden
Compete in a quiz about Sweden.
2 of the resources are taken and adapted from Twinkl but the rest are my own created for my Year 4 class when we did a Geography unit on Sweden.
This is a unit of work I have planned, resourced and used from the Understanding Christianity scheme of work. This is ‘Gospel’ and it is aimed at Years 3 and 4.
This is a Powerpoint download of the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of Gospel through parables
A focus on understanding what a parable is and this looks at The Thankful Leper and The Good Samaritan. This has a fill in the gaps task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 2: Enquire into the idea of Gospel
This focuses on understanding why Jesus told the story of The Good Samaritan and what it means to Christians to be a good samaritan. This has a diary entry writing task about The Good Samaritan.
Lesson 3: Explore ways in which Christians practice Gospel
This focuses on what Christians might do to be a good samaritan and live life how God and Jesus wanted. This looks directly into the charity Christian Aid and what some Christians dedicate their life to. This contains a drawing task.
Lesson 4: Evaluate how Christians can share God’s message
This lesson focuses on rich discussion and writing to answer questions about what kind of world God wants and what kind of world the children want and why. This then goes into an art focus of creating a piece of artwork to encourage others to be kind.
The last slide of this Powerpoint contains ways in which children can express their learning about kindness by suggesting activities they can do to show kindness.
The following plan will go through these lessons:
I can understand what a myth is and identify their themes and features.
I can compare and contrast different versions of a Roman Myth
I can use drama to empathise with characters in a story
I can explain when to use possessive apostrophes in character descriptions
I can understand the general structure of a myth.
I can plan the characters and setting for my own myth.
I can use adverbials to open my myth.
I can use conjunctions in my myth.
Lots of fun to introduce the topic of Romans. Made for year 4 but can easily be adapted. Includes smart notes, differentiated resources and activities.
This unit of work is inspired by and based off of the planning from the Emmanuel Project which is attached in these downloads.
There are 5 lessons in this unit of work. There is a range of activites such as: Art, creating posters, debates and writing.
This unit of work has been taught for two years and has been successful each time.