A set of 19 Arctic poems written for children to understand, enjoy and learn from. Perfect for teaching a topic on the Arctic. All written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about the Arctic whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. The poems are descriptive whilst using facts to educate and inspire. Each poem could spark a whole lesson, they start discussions on important geographical issues about the Arctic: What is the Arctic? What is it like there? Global warming, The future of the Sami people, Understanding Inuit life, Living with the polar night, Taking responsibility for our world Ice burgs Glaciers The Inuit Language Arctic animals Winter Each poem comes with a simple explanation of its essential components. The children could use these as a scaffold before going on to write their own poem about the Arctic, or respond in a different way with a letter/poster/story/newspaper article etc. A range of engaging but easy to imitate poetry styles are used: Cinquains Didactic Poems Etherees Free Verse Ghazal Poems Haikus All the poems are written by me and the images are copyright free. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my poems about India

A week’s KS2 English planning focusing on teaching writing skills through a history theme of WW2. Engaging activities, resources and opportunities for discussion all included. A bright and engaging PowerPoint leads you through the week, with starters, modelled examples and plenaries for every lesson. Lessons cover these learning objectives: L.O. I know how to use relative clauses in a recount of building a bomb shelter L.O. I know how to use subordinating conjunctions in a recount of a woman’s day in the war L.O. I know how to use brackets in a recount of escaping capture L.O. I know how to use dashes and commas in a recount of a day in a tank L.O. I know how to edit and improve my writing Daily starters focusing on: punctuation, handwriting, verb prefixes and modal verbs. All lessons are differentiated: support for lower ability and challenges for higher ability. Detailed plan included. All reviews welcome. Could be used alongside a WW2 History unit or on its own.

A detailed week covering the imitate phase of learning about discussion texts. Includes open questions, higher order thinking, engaging texts, video links, differentiation, 5 teaching PowerPoints, all resources, worksheets and answers. Every day starts with an engaging starter focusing on SPAG skills, such as KS2 spellings, parenthesis, conjunctions and handwriting. Extra for experts activities for further challenge and modelled texts to support the lower ability. Learning Objectives: To understand a discussion text and identify its features To identify facts and opinions To use conjunctions to link ideas in a for or against argument To write an introduction and conclusion To plan a discussion text on ‘Is Homework Necessary?’ Main activities differentiated by colour: Green - LA Yellow and blue - MA Red - HA Highlights: Ready to teach All printables provided KS2 appropriate Cross curricular links Differentiated Check out the follow up week for this unit here.

The first week of a 2 week Christmas story unit for KS2. This pack includes 5 PowerPoints to lead you through the learning sequence, modelled texts to inspire and support, a variety of activities to keep the pupils focused and all resources and plan included to save time. Read the Scandinavian Christmas story about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Explore the story with the pupils and help them to plan a similar story, to write the following week (see links below). The story has been written to include essential writing skills for year 5 such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. This unit could easily be adapted for other KS2 year groups. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, activities designed to suit a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Editing and improving example sentences, Using relative clauses, Accurate speech punctuation, Comparing setting descriptions, Highlighting writing techniques (relative clauses, sentence openers, adjectives, personification, parenthesis and conjunctions) Adding in adverbs, Using similes and metaphors, Expanded noun phrases. Engage your pupils with Christmas and develop their writing with these high quality PowerPoints. Each day use the modelled texts to capture their imagination, expand their vocabulary and teach them new skills for KS2. Enhance their progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Check out Week 2 of this unit by clicking here where the children are guided to write their own version of the story. Or grab a bargain and buy both Christmas Story Writing weeks by clicking here for a Christmas Unit Bundle All reviews welcome. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit

An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more. Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance. Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas. Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion. All reviews welcome.

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 4 writing targets. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the National Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of rereading and performing poetry. 3 days on rereading and 2 days on performing poetry. Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one for both parts of the week. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles. All reviews welcome.

A complete KS2 English story writing lesson with a Halloween theme. Includes starter, interactive planning activity, input, differentiation, all resources and plenary. Download and be ready for a spooky morning of writing fun. Engage your class and see improvements in their writing by using the modelled sentences, editing practice, challenge cards and peer assessment extension. Highlights: high quality vocabulary open questions punctuation and grammar editing differentiation dice activity Complete with spooky images and animations appropriate for KS2, create a buzz in your classroom. Children will enjoy rolling a dice to plan their story on their planning sheet, before writing. The mini plenaries will help keep them on task and achieving. Scaffold their learning using word banks, modelled sentences and peer assessment and see results. You might also like to check out my other popular Halloween resource: Halloween Fractions

5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint. Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases. Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing. There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns. Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria Green - LA Blue and yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome.

Five complete lessons teaching KS2 children how to ask questions when reading. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, weekly plan, starters, inputs, activities, differentiation, answers and plenaries. Covers question words, questioning grids, types of questions, questions linked to the bigger picture (themes). Questioning lesson pack provides texts, questions, think, pair share time, written activities, discussion points and progression. Each lesson builds on the previous to inspire confidence, understanding and success. The week ends with a small assessment style lesson where the children can show off what they have learnt. All reviews welcome.

Over 500 powerful adjectives for creative writing. Grouped into synonyms to aid understanding and save time. Use these 7 A4 page adjective banks to expand the vocabulary of your pupils. A bright and colourful pack of lists of adjectives for KS2. Designed to cover your needs for all your English units. You can use on a display, in a writer's toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary. Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these. Contains: - Persuasive Adjectives - Adjectives to describe monsters - Adjectives to describe a hero - Adjectives for a spooky setting description - Adjectives for a positive setting description - Adjectives to describe different characters -Adjectives to describe different objects All reviews welcome.

A target sheet for a year 4 child, includes all of the objectives for this year group in child speak. Children can track their targets in the table and teachers can tick in the columns when these are evidenced and then achieved. The rocket sheet is an extra fun way for children to remember which target they are working on. Learning Objectives for year 4 in easy to understand short phrases. Can be stuck in the front of English books so children can refer to this in lessons or kept in a teacher’s file. Teacher can choose how much evidence needs to be collected before the children achieve the target. You can show recognition of the target achieved in their work with a sticker/star/symbol. Encourages responsibility for learning and ensures the children know their targets. All reviews welcome. Check out my other resources for teaching and assessing primary English: Year 3 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 3 Reading Assessment Questions Year 4 Writing Assessment Guidance Year 4 Reading Assessment Questions Whole School SMART Target Packs

An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included. Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story. Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints. KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered: Using other verbs for said, Correcting speech punctuation, Improving sentence openers, Choosing appropriate paragraph openers, Comparing extracts of modelled versions, Magpie-ing effective words, Using a range of relative clauses, Writing powerful personification phrases, Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors, Learning how to create atmosphere. Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful. Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December. All reviews welcome. You might also like a week of exploring the Nisse tale activities to boost the children’s confidence and understanding of the story. For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below: Scandinavia Geography Unit Scandinavia Art unit Or browse through my shop to find many more inexpensive, engaging and time saving resources.

6 verb word banks, A4 size, a bright and colourful resource pack. Spooky, positive and victorious verbs. Verb synonyms for 5 words children generally use too much. Designed to cover your needs for all your English units. You can use on a display, in a writer’s toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary. Words are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these. 6 verb word banks included: Spooky verbs for mystery stories, building suspense, spooky stories and for creating a tense atmosphere Positive verbs for happy endings, adventure stories, poetry, setting descriptions and for creating a joyful atmosphere Verb synonyms for ‘went / walked’ Verb synonyms for ‘said’ Verb synonyms for ‘got’, ‘put’ and ‘took’ Victorious verbs - general story verb synonyms High quality presentation and words, designed to expand vocabulary and improve children’s writing. Useful in all KS2 English lessons. All reviews welcome.

98 Videos of every letter of the alphabet as a capital and lowercase in cursive handwriting. Example sentences and words for pupils to copy containing the focus letters. Large selection of phonic digraphs for handwriting practice as well. Have the best handwriting class in school! All reviews welcome. Check out my Teachallenjoy Shop for more amazing resources.

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of prediction. Includes 5 engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All reviews welcome.

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 3 writing targets. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -ant, -ance, -ent, -ence endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

A bright and clear PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging and memorable spelling lessons. All words follow the pattern of doubling the r when adding suffixes onto fer endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 3 thorough spelling lessons to enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.