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Full time primary teacher and self-taught digital creator, creating resources for my classroom since 2016.
Don't forget to rate / review anything you download or purchase.
PRINTABLE word mat to accompany teaching on Superworm by Julia Donaldson.
Used with Reception children to write sentences containing adjectives to describe a worm.
2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Dark by Lemony Snicket. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks
1 document containing written tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks
Individual documents containing the written tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Week 1:
Monday - Prediction
Tuesday & Wednesday - Retrieval based on Voice 1
Thursday & Friday - Vocabulary based on Voice 2
Week 2:
Monday & Tuesday - Inference based on Voice 3
Wednesday & Thursday - Explaining based on Voice 4
Friday - Summarising
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference (including 1 x linked image lesson)
Week 3: Retrieval
Week 4: Explaining
Tasks include:
Finding definitions of words in the text
Inferring characters feelings
Creating comic strips to summarise the text so far
and MORE
Print and laminate this resource to use with LKS2 children to accompany teaching Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit. Sentence starters are separated into the five senses.
This is a PDF printable Self Regulation board to use in your classroom.
Children can attach their names to check in to the different coloured boards depending on how they are feeling (name cards not attached)
The PDF contains the following:
Display title
4 printable coloured boards - Red, Yellow, Green and Blue
This file is an independent product and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Think Social Publishing, Inc. or by Leah Kuypers, author of The Zones of Regulation.
Contents of the bundle include:
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Sentence Starter Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Word Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
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Resources accompany teaching on Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Word mats require printing for use.
PDF downloads.
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks
20 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Thursday – Summarising
Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED)
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Explaining
Week 4: Retrieval
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Griffin Gate by Vashti Hardy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes who had never done whole class guided reading before.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 4 weeks
1 document containing tasks for each of the lessons.
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
Week 3: Retrieval (linked text)
Week 4: Explaining (linked text)
Tasks include:
Using dictionaries to find definitions of words in the text
Ordering vocabulary by its ‘shade of meaning’
Writing questions to characters
Thinking of new names for the chapters
Creating story maps
and MORE
Contents of the bundle include:
FORCES AND MAGNETS Printable display title bunting (katie_wlknsn)
Key Vocabulary PRINTABLE cards for Magnets topic (SCIENCE) (katie_wlknsn)
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Resources accompany teaching the Forces and Magnets topic (ideally to LKS2)
Word cards and display bunting require printing for use.
PDF downloads.
PRINTABLE Number posters. Could be used as a number line or display materials in the classroom. Each poster shows the number as digits, in words, as a tens frame, tally and on fingers.
PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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5 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 5 weeks
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
Linked texts
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference (including linked text ‘How Far I’ll Go’ from Disney’s Moana)
Week 3: Explaining (including linked text ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ by Dr Seuss)
Week 4: Retrieval (including linked text on Grace Darling from Twinkl)
Week 5: Mixture of VIPERS skills (including linked text ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ by Michelle Robinson)
Tasks include:
Drawing story maps
Writing diary entries in role
Sort vocabulary from the text by its intensity
and MORE
4 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 4 lessons a week for 4 weeks
16 documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Thursday – Summarising
Friday – 60 second read (Twinkl) (NOT INCLUDED)
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Explaining
Week 2: Retrieval
Week 3: Inference
Week 4: Vocabulary
Tasks include:
Giving advice to the characters
Writing letters in role
Creating Instagram posts for characters using summarising skills
and MORE