PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) I have delivered this unit to Years 3 and 4, so here are all the resources you will need to teach it. The main focus is to explore the features of an explanation text. We also look at letter writing, the use of onomatopoeia, time conjunctions and technical language. Wallace and Grommit’s Cracking Contraptions is used as a stimulus for the children to write an explanation about how the Snoozatron works. Their final task is to create their own Cracking Contraption and to write an explanation about how it works.

This English unit consists of 12 sessions aimed at years 3 and 4 and culminates in the children planning the next chapter of Edward Tulane’s life/journey. Sessions cover many reading objectives, including predicting what might happen, retrieving details from a text, drawing inferences and sequencing events of a story. Writing tasks include using expanded noun phrases and a range of conjunctions, describing a character’s feelings and retelling the main events of a story. There are differentiated resources corresponding to each session.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This comprehensive English unit (lasting 2/3 weeks), based on Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve, contains everything you will need to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, PowerPoints and differentiated resources to support the learning journey. Each session is focused on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. One PowerPoint focuses on the possessive apostrophe and provides a good opportunity for AFL, whereby I found it useful to have the children initially seated using whiteboards and pens, so they could give an instant response. Other sessions include using a dictionary, comprehension, hot seating and when to use a/an. The final task involves designing and labelling their own Seawig, with the writing activity being to create a set of instructions. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

We begin by exploring prediction skills, questioning and drawing inferences and end with the children writing their own version of Jack and the Beanstalk. This complete unit focuses on a range of objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. The unit lasts approximately three weeks. The children learn how to set out a letter, to identify themes and conventions, to use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences and to use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech, plus more. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This comprehensive English unit (lasting 2/3 weeks), based onThe Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber, contains everything you will need to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, PowerPoints and differentiated resources to support the learning journey. Each session is focused on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. The main areas of focus for this unit are: • Using figurative language to for effect • Using time conjunctions to keep the writing flowing • Using inverted commas to punctuate speech • Organising writing into paragraphs I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This comprehensive English unit (lasting 4/5 weeks), based on Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley, contains everything you will need to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, PowerPoints and differentiated resources to support the learning journey. The unit includes sessions on reading comprehension, fronted adverbials, time and cause conjunctions, spelling plural nouns of words ending in ‘o’, using the present perfect tense and use of the possessive apostrophe. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

This English unit is inspired by The Lighthouse short film, found on The Literacy Shed. Children focus on the difference between simple and compound sentences and using expanded noun phrases. They learn to organise their ideas using a storyboard and to write paragraphs around a theme. The plan gives a day by day guide and resources are included for the seven session. Resources used to explore the use of expanded phrases involve the colour coding of adjectives, nouns, verbs and prepositional phrases to help clarify the pupils’ knowledge of these terms. PowerPoint presentations are included, which carefully go through the process of structuring expanded noun phrases.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This full English unit (lasting about 2 weeks)featuring a story from a different culture, begins by focusing on a mockumentary, which follows the journey of a plastic bag. We then move onto the book, One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul, featuring the recycling by women in the Gambia. The unit contains full resources needed to present the topic of discarded plastic bags and the possibilities of recycling to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, a PowerPoint presenting the book and another which focuses on how to write a balanced argument. Each session is based on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. There is a focus on the use of descriptive language. Children are encouraged to write their own mockumentary and finally they plan, draft, write and edit a balanced argument entitled ’ Should shops sell plastic bags? ’ I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This is a full English unit (lasting 4 weeks), based onThe Firework Maker’s Daughters by Philip Pullman. It contains full resources needed to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, a PowerPoint which introduces each session and differentiated resources to support the learning journey. Each session is focused on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. Aspects included are diary writing, firework and volcanic landscape descriptions, character comparisons and journey mapping. The middle section of the learning journey diverts from the book and changes the focus to non fiction texts. This includes a little science focus on how to make your own volcano and culminates in a geographical focus whereby the children create a factfile based around the formation of volcanoes I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This comprehensive English unit (lasting 3/4 weeks), based on The Snow Dragon by Vivian French, contains everything you will need to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. I have used it several times in school, each time updating, improving the structure and adding more resources. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, a PowerPoint and differentiated resources for every step of the learning journey. The PowerPoint follows the learning journey, with each session focused on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. A chunk of the PowerPoint focuses on the possessive apostrophe and provides a good opportunity for AFL, whereby I found it useful to have the children initially seated using whiteboards and pens, so they could give an instant response. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) This unit encompasses both written and comprehension skills, but particular focus is given to developing children’s descriptive writing. They are encouraged to analyse sections of the book to see how Michael Morpurgo builds tension in his writing. The children have a chance to explore how characters are thinking and feeling with the use of Hot Seating. They study photos and video clips of jungles to inspire their written descriptions. They learn about using ‘show not tell’ to infer how characters are feeling. The unit includes three powerpoints: Modal Verbs, Adding Subordinate Clauses and Descriptive Sentence Making. The culmination of this unit involves planning and writing a ‘hunter’ piece based on the structure of Chapter 10. The children are also given the opportunity to replicate the skills they have developed in this piece of writing in an assessment task based on the short tale ‘Something Fishy’, which can be found on the Literacy Shed. Although my unit contains 8 weekly plans, I was not working a 5 day week. It is, however a fairly extensive unit which has enough material to last 4/5 weeks. It was very worthwhile making it so lengthy, as I found that the children made major progress in their writing. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

The Day the Crayons Quit is a book which children love. It presents a great opportunity for them to learn to write persuasively, as there are lots of persuasive letter examples in this book . Children are encouraged to compare and contrast similarities and differences in characters’ personalities and to analyse how they are persuasive in different ways. They learn to use compound sentences and rhetorical questions for effect. They focus on the structure of letter writing and the culmination of the unit involves them writing persuasive letters to Andy from one of the Toy Story characters. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

PLEASE COULD YOU LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER PURCHASING :-) In this unit , we spend a lot of time focusing on the descriptive writing used by author, Ted Hughes. Discussions on how the descriptions often reflect the characters’ feelings. Big focus on identifying direct speech in a text. A powerpoint introduces each session of the unit and there is a separate powerpoint on how to create expanded noun phrases. The unit culmintes in the children writing a newspaper report describing the Space Creature’s arrival and the Iron Man’s challenge. I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource.

This unit provides an insight to Stories from Different Cultures. It begins with Africa Is Not A Country and comparison with the UK, then explores the tale of Mufaro’s two daughters, who react in different ways to the king’s search for a wife - one is aggressive and selfish, the other kind and dignified. The children are encouraged to understand and interpret common morals/proverbs, write instructions on how to be a good person and gain rewards and write an alternative ending for a story, with a different moral/message. There are opportunities to identify conjunctions, clauses and adverbials in sentences, to convert dialogue into direct speech and and develop their use of the possessive apostrophe. This is a comprehensive unit, lasting approximately 4 weeks. It contains all the resources you will need to teach the unit, including weekly plans. I would be grateful for any positive feedback.

I would be grateful for any positive feedback once you have downloaded and reviewed the resource. This comprehensive English unit (lasting 2 weeks), based on Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura, contains everything you will need to teach this book to children in year 3 and 4. It includes a learning journey, possible weekly lesson plans, PowerPoints and differentiated resources to suppoIrt the learning journey. Each session is focused on learning objectives from the Hampshire reading and writing phase assessments. One PowerPoint focuses on using a variety of sentence structures, including expanded noun phrases, adding relative clauses and fronted adverbials The final task involves writing a non-chronological report on a Stone Age Animal.

In this unit, Stone Age Boy, we begin by making predictions, then move on to focusing on using different sentence structures: simple compound and complex. A guided reading focus is included, with cross curricular (history) links and the children study features of a non-chronological report. The unit culminates in the children writing their own non-chronological reports on a Stone Age Animal.