An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
Download this useful weekly plan template to help you remember everything you need. Each day contains spaces for learning objective, success criteria, sequence of activities, differentiation and much more.
Use the plan with suggestions, notes and ideas to save time when planning. Just choose the key vocabulary, questions, resources etc. that you need and delete the rest. Plan quickly using the teaching and AFL strategies provided.
Spaces provided for all essential information:
- Key Vocabulary
- Key Questions
- Resources
- Cross Curricular Links
- EAL, SEN, PP,
- Lesson Context
- Grouping Opportunities
- AFL Opportunities
Suitable for any year group in primary and adaptable for secondary.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
Bestsellers:
1. For an extensive collection of word banks follow that link to expand the vocabulary of your class.
2. Modal Verb Display - A visual, bright and logical display enhancing the children's understanding of these words and encouraging them to use this word class confidently.
3. Whole School SMART Targets Fine tune and speed up your marking process. Have a vast number of precise and progress focused targets, which your pupils can understand and achieve, at your fingertips.
Download a page of questions for KS1 reading comprehension lessons. Suitable for a middle ability group, text extract also included.
This comprehension focuses on the style of SATs questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text.
Click this link to save even more time!
Roald Dahl Complete Week of Lessons Notebook, Resources and Differentiated Questions
You might also be interested in:
Year 1 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 2 Reading Assessment Questions
Year 1 Reading Corner Display
Year 2 Reading Corner Display
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 -able -ible 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.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 English resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
Why not check out my bundles of spelling lessons, enough for a whole year!:
Whole Term 1 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 2 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 3 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 4 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 5 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
Whole Term 6 Spelling Lessons and Dictations
A lesson plan with 33 sections for all that you will ever need for planning an observation of an outstanding lesson. Complete with useful tips, ideas and examples, plan with confidence, efficiency and success.
Helpful tips and higher level thinking questions are included to help structure the lesson and ensure that everyone makes progress.
Use the extra notes pages as a starting point and to ensure coverage, differentiation and progression for every child.
Suitable for any year group in primary and adaptable for secondary.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in enhancing your Behaviour Management Strategies Follow that link to find new and refreshing ideas.
To further engage your class why not try these fun and educational word searches, handy in English as a starter or plenary. Or they can be used in any other lesson to boost the children's understanding of KS2 grammar terminology: Word Search Bundle
Just what you need to start your report writing - tips, tricks and shortcuts, a tracking sheet and a positive adjective bank to save you time.
Use the pack of strategies to help with the mammoth task of writing reports for your class. Suitable for any school and age group.
Use these tips and techniques to help ease the pain of report writing. Browse through a variety of ideas, which can be inspiring for new or experienced teachers. Reports don’t have to fill you with dread. Try something new and be surprised at how much more enjoyable it can be.
This pack also includes a free report writing tracker - list the children in your class and be motivated by all the ticked or highlighted boxes you complete. Also a bank of positive adjectives to help vary each comment.
All reviews welcome.
To save time further check out my bundle of report comments:
Report Comment Mega Bundle
A complete pack for a Halloween quiz lesson including a 31 slide teaching and quiz PowerPoint, video link, fact card, class quiz, worksheets, answers and extensions.
When finished there are 6 differentiated word searches and 3 extension tasks.
Engage your class with Halloween, expand vocabulary, teach history and improve spelling, all in one mighty pack.
Use the animated, colourful PowerPoint to lead the lesson and ensure understanding and success.
Easily mark the quiz and word searches with the resources provided, through self and peer assessment.
Bright inspirational posters designed to get the children excited and talking about science. A pack of inspirational posters quoting famous scientists from history, from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking. Each quote instigates high quality thought and discussion, perfect for KS2
Every scientist is British so a great resource for British Science Week.
Could be used both as posters or as starters or plenaries in a science lesson. Also handy for science displays throughout the year. Relevant to both KS2 and KS3.
You might also be interested in my other updated British Science Week Resources:
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week LKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
British Science Week UKS2 Mini WOW Investigations
A complete lesson teaching column addition with a Christmas theme. Includes teaching PowerPoint, hinge point, independent tasks, differentiated worksheets, extensions, answers and plenary game.
All you need for a successful Christmas maths lesson. Developing in difficulty, covering carrying into the tens and hundreds.
Highlights:
Differentiated
Ready-to-go
Engaging
Includes a challenge and reasoning and problem solving extension tasks. All answers included on PowerPoint for easy self marking.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Christmas resources:
Christmas Comprehensions
'Twas the night before Christmas 5 Poetry Lessons
Christmas Story Writing Week
One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 37 slide teaching PowerPoint, photographs, videos, higher level questioning, paired and group activities, all resources and differentiation.
Teaching Points
What are human features?
What are physical features?
What is wilderness?
How have these changed over time?
What might the park look like in the future?
Covers key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go.
Resources Included
Starter
Teaching input
Photos to analyse in pairs and groups
Integrated video link
Differentiated activities
Sorting worksheet
Challenge
Plenary
Lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Human and Physical Geography National Curriculum Learning Objectives
understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of …a region within North or South America
describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: … rivers, mountains
describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use,
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular geography lessons on this topic:
Scandinavia Physical Features
Russia Physical Features
UK Coast Physical Features
The last of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video link, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches why people go to the park, what they can see and do there and why this can be a problem.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography lessons:
Journey through Russia
Human Impact on Coasts
Geography Report Comments
The seventh of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 39 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the 2 biomes that Yosemite is in and the 5 vegetation zones found in the park.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular lesson on this topic:
Scandinavia Biomes
One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 41 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
This lesson teaches important map skills and an understanding of the world, including hemispheres, key continents, countries, states, climate, land formation and oceans.
All resources are included, so just print the map templates, check out the detailed lesson plan and your lesson is ready.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new curriculum:
Human and physical geography
describe and understand key aspects of:
physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers
mountain ranges
Understand technical vocabulary:
latitude, longitude, Equator,
hemispheres, tropics, polar circles & time zones
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units and lessons:
Scandinavia
Russia
Europe
The third of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 27 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches how the physical features of Yosemite were formed, covering volcanoes, glaciers, ice age, dams, rivers and more.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia Unit
Europe Unit
The fifth of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 36 slide teaching PowerPoint, starter activity, video links, scaffolded worksheets and extensions.
This lesson teaches the water features found in the park, including waterfalls, rivers and streams. How humans use the water in park and the water cycle within Yosemite.
Highlights:
Covers KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives.
No preparation necessary, ready-to-go.
Engage, challenge and inspire!
Discover interesting information, amazing videos and differentiated activities while covering key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re all set.
All lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations.
This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3.
Focused on learning objectives from the new Geography curriculum:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular Yosemite lessons:
Yosemite Biomes
Where is Yosemite?
Erosion in Yosemite
A complete geography unit teaching about the wonders of Yosemite National Park in America. Includes 8 compelte lessons, 8 PowerPoints, 8 resource packs, 8 plans, 8 starters, 8 inputs and 8 plenaries.
Highlights
Nationals Curriculum learning objectives
Quality Teaching Inputs
Geography skill focused
Real life images
Video links
Differentiated
Resources all included
High quality outcomes
Cross Curricular links
Easy to use
Save time, reduce stress and enjoy teaching with this unit. No preparation needed.
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Scandinavia
Europe
A complete set of 5 English lessons for National Storytelling Week written for KS2. Includes a 53 slide PowerPoint for the week, differentiated worksheets, starter and challenge activities, word banks and modelled sentences.
Enjoy a sequenced week of teaching which develops language, confidence and understanding of story. Each lesson takes about an hour to teach, including the input, interactive elements, written tasks and plenary.
Highlights:
Ready-to-go
Differentiated
Scaffolded
Higher level questions
Challenge
Written for year 3/4, easily adaptable for yrs 5/6 classes.
Explore, imitates and adapts the story of the ‘Lion and The Mouse’, at a deeper level, prepares the children for performing the story at the end of the week.
Covers these English teaching points:
Synonyms
Adjectives
Sentence openers
Place prepositions
Adverbs
Emotions
Develop reading and writing skills and enjoy a week of storytelling.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my popular assembly on National Storytelling Week
This is a complete set of medium term plan templates for every subject for each primary year group. All ready-to-go complete with questions, vocabulary and objectives, designed for every teacher.
Each section contains the important headings that you will need, including a large set of key questions, key vocabulary and the relevant learning objectives for each year group and subject.
Download these to save yourself time setting up medium term plans.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
For ready-to-go finished medium term plans follow the links below:
- KS2 Science Forces Unit
- KS2 Scandinavia Geography Unit
- KS2 Scandinavia Art Unit
A word search pack for 3 abilities on Yosemite National Park. Written for KS2 Geography lessons, can be used alongside my 8 lesson unit pack, link below. Useful for filling in time, could take children between 30-50 minutes to complete.
Differentiated for 3 ability levels:
LA - 16 words to find, small images to colour to support reading.
MA -18 words to find, some complex spellings. Colouring border to complete once finished.
HA - 42 words to find, with complex spellings and technical geographical vocabulary.
All key vocabulary for KS2 children learning about this beautiful place.
All answers provided.
Check out my popular geography unit on Yosemite:
RESOURCE BUNDLE
Includes 30 lessons, displays, engaging activities, dictations, all answers and all resources needed.
Save time and download these six detailed and useful PowerPoints leading you through a term of daily spelling lessons.
All words are from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling list.
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.
A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of exciting and memorable spelling lessons.
All words are homophones 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.