Stories From Other Cultures give children the opportunity to experience a world outside of their own and to bring it into the classroom to appreciate a culture that they may not have even considered. It may also help to unlock some different texts that they wouldn’t normally reach for. This is a sequence of lessons to support the teaching of Stories from Other Cultures. The sequence follows: Lesson 1- Whole-Class Guided Reading on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Lesson 2- Identifying features of Stories from Other Cultures Lesson 3- Re-telling a story Lesson 4- Writing a character description Lesson 5- Writing a setting description Lesson 6- Planning and writing own story from another culture All of the supporting resources are provided as well as comprehensive lesson plans for each lesson. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this pack of activities, you will get the following task sheets in a 25 page booklet! All about ‘me’ activity sheets General getting to know my class and classroom sheet Maths from Year 5 recap Science topics from Year 5 recap English- holiday recount writing Art task to sketch a portrait of your partner DT teamworking task to build a structure using spaghetti and marshmallows Geography local area research task History ordering dates on a timeline This booklet is perfect for Year 6 pupils returning to school!

This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part. Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt. The lessons progress as follows: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing. Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt. Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based) Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below: -Introduction to science fiction -Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text -Character development -Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type -Boxing up the model text -Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending -Children independently write their own stories Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more! This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this unit of lessons, students will improve their ‘working scientifically’ skills by carrying out different investigations with a focus on presenting their results in different ways e.g. bar charts, scatter graphs, line graphs. All of the National Curriculum objectives for Year 5&6 working scientifically skills are covered in the 6 lessons and an overview plan is provided which outlines the resources needed for each lesson as well as the key areas covered. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This 3 week guided narrative unit of work follows the first six chapters of Pig Heart Boy and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The children work on their comprehension skills through whole class guided reading lessons based on what they have read so far. They learn to develop the characters through dialogue and description in structured lessons and through teacher modelling, they complete a shared write before independently writing the next chapter of the narrative. Lesson 1- ‘Have a go’ independently writing next chapter Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on model chapter Lesson 3- Exploring characters Lesson 4- Characterisation through dialogue Lesson 5- Characterisation through description Lesson 6- Planning shared write Lesson 7, 8 &9- Shared writing Lesson 10- Chapter 5 comprehension Lesson 11-15- Planning, writing and editing independent ‘Show what you know’ This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This sequence of lessons is based on the Victorian period. The model story ‘The Fall’ tells the story of a young coal miner who is nearly involved in a mine disaster. The lessons cover how to write a story, links to the Victorians and SPAG coverage. The unit lessons follow this sequence: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson2- whole class guided reading on the story ‘The Fall’ Lesson 3- identifying suspense Lesson 4- Identifying adverbials and subordinate clauses Lesson 5- Planning own historical fiction story Lesson 6- whole class guided reading- Queen Victoria Lesson 7- Writing the opening Lesson 8- Writing the build up Lesson 9- Writing the problem Lesson 10- Writing the resolution and ending Lesson 11 & 12- Writing own historical fiction story Lesson 13-15- editing, improving and sharing stories These lessons are intended for use with Year 5 & 6 children, however they can be easily modified to suit KS3 and lower KS2. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!