I am currently Head of Literacy at a Secondary school.
I teach English, as well as Literacy lessons to children with SEN. I carry out Literacy/Phonics interventions.
Before that, I was a primary school teacher for 6 years (a year in year 3, a year in year 5 and the rest of my time was in year 6!).
All resources have been taught and planned by me.
I am leader of literacy at my school so all planning is high quality.
I am currently Head of Literacy at a Secondary school.
I teach English, as well as Literacy lessons to children with SEN. I carry out Literacy/Phonics interventions.
Before that, I was a primary school teacher for 6 years (a year in year 3, a year in year 5 and the rest of my time was in year 6!).
All resources have been taught and planned by me.
I am leader of literacy at my school so all planning is high quality.
Engaging and high-quality planning!
Upper Key Stage 2/ Year 6 Literacy planning for the diary of Anne Frank.
Planning leads to the final outcome of writing a diary entry.
*Can be taught without having access to the text
Perfect for teaching alongside a World War 2 topic.
The planning contains 3 weeks worth of daily lessons (Lesson 5 of each week is left for a reading comprehension)
Contains resources, engaging videos, pictures and extracts from the book.
All planning has been taught in a year 5/6 class and planned by the literacy leader of a primary school.
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Literacy planning for ‘There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom’ by Louis Sachar.
Planning was originally created for a lower ability/SEN year 8 class.
Level would suit Key Stage 2 classes and SEN or low ability Key Stage 3.
Lessons are designed to be taught alongside the book.
All lessons include grammar based starter. Lessons are engaging and varied. They focus on improving vocabulary, reading and writing skills.
Lessons build up to a longer written assessment/task at the end.
15, hour long, lessons.
Planning overview included.
Planning was completed by the Head of Literacy for a secondary school with previously 6 years of Primary school experience.
17 LESSONS (ONE HOUR LESSON PER CHAPTER OF BOOK)
*resources for lessons included
Engaging lessons based on ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J K Rowling.
Lessons lead to a final assessment point where the children write their own descriptive story.
Each lesson begins with key vocabulary for each chapter
Originally created for a SEN Year 7 literacy class. Would work for Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 literacy lessons.
Planning is high-quality from Head of Literacy at a secondary school and previous Year 6 teacher.
The planning follows structure of practising skills in the following areas:
Improving Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Writing techniques
Applying skills
POWERPOINT OF 107 SLIDES INCLUDED
Literacy lessons based on Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
Originally planned for a low ability, SEN year 7 and 8 class
Would still work brilliantly for a Key Stage 2 class or any lower ability Key Stage 3 set
Can be taught as an intervention
Lessons are designed to be an hour long. You will need a copy of the book.
The lessons incorporate pictures and videos to appeal to visual learners and to keep students engaged.
They are designed to improve literacy skills, particularly comprehension skills.
Planning was done by the Head of Literacy in a Secondary School who was previously a Primary School teacher (year 6 predominantly)
Resources included
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Year 6 Whole Class Guided Reading Planning for ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’
Currently using as an intervention for SEN year 8/9 students so would work for secondary too!
4 x 30 minute lessons designed to be taught over 7 weeks
Follows the VIPERS scheme
Retrieval questions and SATs style questions included
Designed to be taught alongside the whole text
You will need a copy of the text
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Key Stage 2 Literacy Planning based on ‘The Snowman’ by Raymond Briggs.
3 weeks worth of lessons! (4 lessons per week) Leading to a final write of creating a fiction story based on the illustrations and animation.
High quality planning created by English lead
Originally taught in a year 6 class though can be easily adapted to suit a younger year group.
Lots of videos, visuals and engaging lessons! #
*Smartnote, PDF and Powerpoint all included. Perfect for online learning as well as face to face teaching
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High quality guided reading planning to be taught alongside the novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond.
Perfect for a year 5/6 class.
Amazing value with 9 weeks worth of 45minute lessons (3 per week).
The planning uses the VIPER scheme, giving children plenty of opportunity to answer Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation and Retrieval.
Lessons are available as a SMART notebook and as a Powerpoint. PDF of the lessons are also included which are great for online learning.
*SATS style questions included
Planning is high-quality and engaging.
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High quality, engaging literacy planning!
3 weeks worth of literacy planning based on the story Tuesday by David Wiesner. This planning is suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils or SEN Key Stage 3 pupils. It was original successfully delivered to a Year 6 class.
It could potentially be adapted for Key Stage 1.
Each week has 4 lessons planned and includes all resources. End of unit outcome would be the children writing a fictional story.
Planning overview, Smartnotes, PDFs and Powerpoints included.
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Whole Class Guided Reading Planning for ‘The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips’ by Michael Morpurgo
Previously taught to a year 6 class but would work for any KS2 class. can also be used as an intervention or extra literacy lessons for KS3.
4 x 30 minute lessons designed to be taught over 7 weeks
Smart notebook and Powerpoints included
Follows the VIPERS scheme
Retrieval questions and SATs style questions included
Designed to be taught alongside the whole text
You will need a copy of the text
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Year 6 literacy planning for ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson.
Really high-quality, engaging planning. Planning completed by a Head of Literacy.
Originally created for year 6 but could work for year 4/5/7/8.
The planning contains 3 weeks worth of daily lessons (with one lesson left free for comprehension tasks)
The lessons lead to the end of unit outcome of the children writing a discussion text.
Contains a planning overview
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9 weeks worth of HIGH-QUALITY topic planning for World War 2!
Successfully taught to a year 6 class but would easily work for children from year 5 to year 9.
2 lessons per week (lasting at least an hour each- perfect to fill an afternoon session)
Lessons include/ topic covered:
What do they already know?
How did the war start?
Key figures in WW2
Timeline of key events
Countires involved (map reading etc)
Local History (based around Devon)
D-Day
Evacuation
The Blitz
Women in War
Propaganda
Alan Turing/Code Breaking
Vera Lynn
How did the war end?
National curriculum coverage includes: History, Geography, Art, PSHE and ICT objectives.
The lessons come as Smartnotes and Powerpoints, along with a range of engaging resources.
Excellent value.
PLANNING DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED
4 weeks worth of high quality literacy planning!
Plans created by literacy lead and year 6 teacher based on ‘Fox’ by Margaret Wild.
Easy to follow SmartNotes leading to children independently creating an epilogue and a prologue for the story.
Lessons were originally created and taught to a year 6 class but can be easily adapted to suit a younger year group.
All lessons are engaging, easy to follow and informative. Plenty of grammar starters, videos/photos and opportunities for independent writing.
*All plans are included as Powerpoints and PDFs as well. Perfect for online learning.
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The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
These lessons were created for a low ability/ SEND Year 11 class.
High-quality and engaging! Created by Head of Literacy at a secondary school (formally a primary school Teacher).
17 one hour lessons included!
Literacy lessons- Focus on vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing quality and applyings skills. Assessment task included.
These lessons are perfect for students receiving additional Literacy support or interventions.
First 12 are high quality, with varying activities. The last 5 focus on finishing reading the book and group questioning.
Please ensure you are happy with the content of the book before teaching it to certain year groups!
Schemes of learning for SEN/ lower sets for year 7,8,9,10 and 11.
These schemes are designed to support literacy skills with a focus on vocabulary, reading and writing.
They have been created by a Head of Literacy at a secondary school with previous primary school experience.
All schemes were taught to classes and are designed to be engaging and supportive.
They centre around a novel which is read to the class at the beginning of the session followed by activities.
The schemes are based on the following texts:
Year 7- Ghost Boys
Year 8- There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Year 9- Brock
Year 10- The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Year 11- The Bunker Diary
Each scheme contains 12-18 hour long lessons. They are designed to be taught over a half term/term (depending on how often you see your class).
They are progressive. They can be taught as additional English lessons, as interventions or discrete literacy lessons.
KS3 Literacy planning based on the text ‘Brock’ by Anthony McGowan
Brock is suitable for children 13+ and is a short, dyslexia friendly text.
ENGAGING PLANNING FOR RELUCTANT READERS AND WRITERS
Planning was originally created for a low ability year 8/9 class.
It focuses on improving skills in vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing techniques.
Ends with extended write assessment opportunity
11 hour long lessons plus resources all included!
Planning made by Head of Literacy at a secondary school with 6 years of primary school experience.
Perfect for interventions, SEN groups, low ability English groups, dyslexia support.
Scheme of work for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Planning is high quality and engaging. Originally taught to a SEN/lower set year 8/9 class. Can be easily adapted to any other year group.
Great for primary and secondary!
Lessons focus on developing vocabulary, reading skills and writing skills. Opportunity for an assessment task to be carried out at the end of the unit.
Powerpoint, resources and unit overview included
These lessons were created for a low ability/ SEND Year 11 class.
High-quality and engaging! Created by Head of Literacy at a secondary school (formally a primary school Teacher).
17 one hour lessons included!
Literacy lessons- Focus on vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing quality and applyings skills. Assessment task included.
These lessons are perfect for students receiving additional Literacy support or interventions.
First lessons are high quality, with varying activities. The lessons are designed to be taught alongside listening to the book being read aloud.
Makes references to AQA English Language Questions 5 throughout
Intervention designed for the teaching and improving of vocabulary.
Designed by a Head of Literacy at a secondary school.
Previously worked really well in improving vocabulary.
Focus on a range of Tier 2 words.
The intervention is designed to be repetitive and thorough in the teaching of the new words. It can be used to support Key stage 2, 3 or 4 students.
Structure:
-Introduce new word
Learn definition
Create flash card for the new word
Go through flashcards of all known words with new word added in
Fill out Frayer model to support vocabulary consolidation
Synonym challenge game
Provided will be a Powerpoint with all new words (over 40), their definitions, synonyms.
The first 2 lessons have notes attached to really easy to follow and plan from. The other lessons provide a blank canvas so students can fill in the Frayer model and make the flashcard as part of the learning process.
Powerpoint and Excel spreadsheet of all the words are included.
Sentence construction scaffold.
Used with my year 11s to support with varying sentence structures and starter sentences.
Useful for GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 5
Best printed in A3. Great revision tool. Space for students to construct generic sentence styles to then use in their exam or other creative writing opportunities.
Hopefully it is useful!
Notebook: Activities based around a ‘Rainbow theme’
6 activities looking at the following topics:
Red- We are Respectful
Orange- We are Kind
Yellow-We are Thinkers
Green- We are Unique
Blue- We are Ambitious
Purple-We are Proud
These would fit at the beginning of the year when a teacher is getting to know their class.
Previously used for a year 6 class.
Also included…
Powerpoint: Similar activities but pitched for Year 7s transitioning into a secondary school. Focuses on literacy
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