Currently leading English at a junior school, previously a secondary English teacher. Reading is my obsession! I aim to provide fun, skills-based lessons based on engaging texts. All lessons provided have been tried and tested by 150 year 5 children and have proved successful so far!
Currently leading English at a junior school, previously a secondary English teacher. Reading is my obsession! I aim to provide fun, skills-based lessons based on engaging texts. All lessons provided have been tried and tested by 150 year 5 children and have proved successful so far!
This is a 3-4 week writing unit focusing on the genre of persuasive writing.
In the first week, the children complete a cold task based on Room 101, and then learn about persuasive techniques (AFOREST) before editing their Room 101 speech.
In the second week, children learn about the ‘holiday’ that they are selling to Viking customers. They must persuade Vikings to go on the raid of a lifetime with ‘Viking Voyages’. They end the week writing an introductory paragraph: ‘Join us on Our Voyage’.
In the third week, they independently write the other persuasive sections before editing their work using toolkits and publishing/ ‘writing-up’ their leaflet, complete with map of their journey/cruise. This tends to spill over into the following week for a day or so.
This unit encourages the children to be cohesive and use cohesive devices, so this would be good for Year 6 writing/SATS/moderated writing etc.
From my experience, the children really enjoy this unit and produce some great pieces of writing!
I am a huge advocate of the whole-class reading concept and its benefits. As a result, this scheme is planned around this idea. Lessons focus on one to two skills maximum per lesson - this gives children the opportunity to learn how to improve their work in this skill/area and maximise marks in reading tests later.
These lessons have been meticulously planned so that children engage with the of Land of Roar while learning about summary/retrieval/inference/explanation skills. The lessons contain advice on how to answer these sorts of questions.
These resources will help children prepare for SATS-style questions as some of chapters include specific guidance/SATS-style questions.
Each lesson is available separately if you want a closer look and includes: a PPT presentation leading through the lesson with modelling, reading material, and independent activities/answers. The only chapters that don’t have explicit teaching/a lesson are chapters 20-21, as I couldn’t fit them in the bundle! However, there is a separate lesson for this available for purchase if necessary.
EVERYTHING you need to teach these lessons is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you just need a copy of the book for reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
If you like this bundle, please review.
I am a huge advocate of the whole-class reading concept and its benefits. As a result, this scheme is planned around this idea. Lessons focus on one to two skills maximum per lesson - this gives children the opportunity to learn how to improve their work in this skill/area and maximise marks in reading tests later.
These lessons have been meticulously planned so that children engage with The Boy Who Grew Dragons while learning about summary/retrieval/vocabulary skills. The lessons contain advice on how to answer these sorts of questions. There is ALSO a lesson using the picture book ‘Tell Me a Dragon’ to kickstart your dragon unit.
The lessons focus specifically on the prologue, chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 8, chapter 15, chapter 19, chapter 21, and chapter 27, you will need to read the rest of the book outside of these lessons.
EVERYTHING you need to teach these lessons is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you just need a copy of the book for reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
Please review!!!
This year 6 writing mat covers the essential features needed for a newspaper.
I give this to children when they are writing newspaper articles and/or editing them.
It is up to the children to use the mat to edit their work so it is in line with the expectations for that genre.
The writing mat still allows differentiation - the first side (structure etc) can be used for LAPS and MAPS, and then HAPS should be encouraged to look at the other side too (parenthesis and active/passive voice).
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This lesson works on the skills of vocabulary/explanation. This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
children learn about shades of meaning and practise some quick but effective activities through a video
children read chapters 35-36 of Land of Roar
children learn how to explain the effect of specific words
children answer differentiated questions about specific vocabulary from chapters 35-36
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
This is a 1 week writing unit focusing on figurative language.
The children:
learn what figurative language is/techniques
practise using figurative techniques/techniques
identifuy techniques in ‘The Sea’ by Reeves
plan and write their own poem about a storm using figurative language.
I would say this is suitable for Year 6/5.
From my experience, the children really enjoy this and produce some great pieces of writing!
This is a year 6 lesson using the prologue of Cogheart, working on the skills of SEQUENCING/SUMMARY/.
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children make inferences and predictions using the front cover of the book
children discuss some vocabulary from the upcoming chapter
read the first chapter of Cogheart
children learn about sequencing/summarising and do some as a class
children complete some independent sequencing/summarising tasks /questions.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go.
These resources will help year 6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using David Litchfield’s picture book The Bear and the Piano
The lesson serves as a good introduction to reading lessons and encourages the children the follow the story and ask questions as they go. Questions are provided for each page of the book. At the end, the children draw the bear and summarise the story - this is differentiated.
My reading lessons focus on the explicit teaching of 1-2 reading skills from the VIPERS skill set, to allow children to build on their understanding of different reading strands.
All texts belong/created by David Litchfield no copyright infringement intended
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
children brainstorm things they love/hate
children read to chapter24-25 of Land of Roar (included)
children look at some maps by other authors
children design their own world/map, drawing inspiration from Land of Roar.
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes), but you just need a copy of the book for reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes: Little Red Riding Hood.
The children discuss their existing knowledge of Little Red Riding Hood, read the new version, discuss, and then summarise the story. HAPS will be pushed to discuss the differences between different tales.
My reading lessons focus on the explicit reaching of 1-2 reading skills from the VIPERS skill set, to allow children to build on their understanding of different reading strands.
All texts belong/created by Roald Dahl, no copyright infringement intended
This is a year 5/6 lesson using the first chapter of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skill of RETRIEVAL.
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
children make inferences and predictions using the front cover of the book
children read the first chapter of Cogheart
children learn about retrieval
children complete some independent sequencing/summarising tasks /questions.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too as that’s how we used it! ANSWERS included.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go. The lesson uses Activinspire.
These resources will help year 6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children practise making inferences using a funny picture
-children read chapters 15-17 of Land of Roar
children learn about ‘impressions’ questions, and a way to answer them.
children make inferences about Win’s character, sometimes RETRIEVING evidence too. (good for 3 mark q practise)
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
I will be posting all of the other lessons/resources for this book shortly!
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children complete a fun visual illusion task to improve scanning skills
children read chapter 2-3 of Land of Roar (included)
children learn about the skill of retrieval.
children complete some differentiated SATS-style retrieval questions and mark their answers as a class.
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
This resource will help children prepare for SATS questions as the activities follow the same style/structure.
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children learn what an inference is and have a practise making inferences using a picture
-children read chapters 9-11 of Land of Roar
read the first chapter of Land of Roar
children make inferences about Arthur’s feelings using a short passage of the text, RETRIEVING evidence too. (good for 3 mark q practise)
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
I will be posting all of the other lessons/resources for this book shortly!
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children practise making inferences using a funny picture
-children read chapters 26-27 of the Land of Roar
children work as a class to infer character feelings
children consider/explain how characters are changing:drawing them at the start and end of the book, and writing a short explanation.
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
I will be posting all of the other lessons/resources for this book shortly!
I am a huge advocate of the whole-class reading concept and its benefits. As a result, this scheme is planned around this idea. Lessons focus on one to two skills maximum per lesson - this gives children the opportunity to learn how to improve their work in this skill/area and maximise marks in reading tests later.
I paired these lessons with some writing-based lessons and the children loved this book. You would need a copy of the book of photocopies of some pages.
These reading lessons focus specifically on these pages: prologue, 17-26, 48-56, 56-63, 92-97, 188-193, 206-216. The lessons are all retrieval-based but one lesson also looks at inference.
Please review this resource if it is useful to you and I will make more!
I am a huge advocate of the whole-class reading concept, having previously been a secondary English teacher before switching to primary teaching.
This resource allows the class teacher to lead a session whereby:
-children make inferences and predictions using the front cover of the book
-children consider how to ‘monitor’ their reading (with a cool lizard video)
read the first chapter of Land of Roar
children learn about sequencing/summarising and do some as a class
children complete some independent sequencing/summarising tasks /questions.
Please note, I take texts choices incredibly seriously and can confirm this book has been ADORED by the year 5 and 6 classes I have taught. I also believe it would be good to use with a year 7 class.
This resource would be suitable for home learning/online learning too.
EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.
These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.
I will be posting all of the other lessons/resources for this book shortly!
This is a FREE resource that is suitable for home learning lockdown.
In this lesson, children go on a nature walk/hunt and observe a square habitat over time and record their results.
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This is a FREE resource suitable for home learning/lockdown.
In this lesson the children learn about the brain and how to take care of it.
I did borrow an image from another user for the brain poster- please let me know if this is you.
I used this with years 5-6, but I’m sure it woould work with other year groups as well.
If you like this resource, please please please review it and I will add more!
This is a FREE resource suitable for home learning/lockdown.
In this lesson, children discuss how soap works before investigating for themselves and writing up their ideas.
I used this with year 5/6, but I’m sure it would work for other year groups.
If you like this resource, please review and I will add more.
