Year 2 Guided Reading This is a complete 5 week unit of work around the text Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish. It is suited to guided reading taught in a Reciprocal Reading approach. It is also useful to use to practice SATS style questions for Year 2 working at greater depth and within. Also adaptable for year 3. The story is linked to materials, science and rockets, and sustainable environmental issues. It is very suitable for boys because of the dinosaur theme. It is also a good book to use if you are doing a fossils unit or learning about climate change. The questions are written like the Paper SATs method, where there is a short text and then questions to answer below. The other included resources for each week, support additional activities that you may consider doing as a carousel during your guided reading independent work. A character description in week 5 is included to support creative writing opportunities. Definitely a good book to move on reluctant or EAL readers . This is a Tes recommended 5 star resource. Thanks for choosing it.

Ice Palace poetry planning Text PPT to show dialogue between old lady and Ivan Free Verse Example text This resource is for teaching pupils to write poems inspired by characters in a book. This resource helps pupils to write a free verse using inspiration from the old lady that helped Ivan on his quest. It encourages pupils to use personification, patterned text structures, and use their imagination. Resource caters for SEN and EAL pupils with visuals and key vocabulary as well as the extract from the text. Pupils will be able to write other poems as Starjik and Ivan following this experience. See shop for further examples of poetry as other characters in the book. If you would like to see top tips for editing narrative from the Ice Palace- see the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zjh_Svq47I

Year 2 Writing Narrative Where the Wild Things Are Film and Book Exemplar text to introduce children to narrative writing - called Voyage and Return. Both the film and book are used simultaneously to learn about the main character and write a narrative. An excellent powerpoint with more than 15 slides demonstrates how to write descriptive scenes from the story, a narrative, character traits, and a success ladder. The exemplar text meets the requirements of English New Curriculum objectives. Explicit reference has been made to grammatical features including varying sentence types, conjunctions, words with suffixes, and the use of common exception words. Teachers may use the text in the imitation stage, innovate to where the main character meets a new wild thing, and then invent their own voyage and return narrative. An excellent film and text to use to promote boys writing.

Year 2 History Great Fire of London This is an initial lesson where pupils write their predictions and explain their thinking about the object, what material it’s made from and the purpose of its use The emphasis is historical inquiry. Using secondary sources and evidence to make predictions. Research about the past to check answers Pupils will have pictures related to the start of the fire to make predictions about what they are - these include; metal hook leather bucket round cheese wine bottle etc old horse cart Pupils will then have reference to the answers to find out if they are correct. The lesson allows for writing opportunities that can be used for moderation purposes in English if you are in year 2 as well as evidence for historical enquiry and significant events from the past. A fun lesson and most enjoyed by pupils. Follow me for more ideas on instagram to get new updates about primary school resources. @thisisrehanafazil

A set of different instructions for imitation, innovation and invention stages. There are examples of exemplar text with the grammar features to suit the new English Curriculum and meet the required standards for Working At Greater Depth. This unit is suited for Year 2 children. You will find visuals, Powerpoint and excel editable documents created at a high standard to meet all the needs of different learners. There are written instructions for making a jam sandwich, bread and cupcakes with supporting visuals that can be easily modified. There is opportunity for children to apply learnt skills to cross curricular writing e.g write instructions to complete a circuit. The instructions are relevant and purposeful to DT and science links with healthy eating, materials/electricity, designing and general cooking skills. The writing can be used for moderation of grammar skills in cross-curricular work.

Year 2 Guided Reading Comprehension- Information Text All About Foxes. A detailed text all about foxes allows children to read at length for greater depth. Children who are working at the expected have the text broken down into smaller chunks for easier accessibility. This resource can be used in isolation as well as supporting material for the Fox unit by Margaret Wild- if its being taught in English. The guided reading questioning included looking, inference, evaluative, and overall text questions. It is suitable for the New English curriculum and will suit teaching over 2 to 3 weeks or as extensive revision purposes leading up to SATs in year 2. It is recommended that greater depth children move onto reading Fantastic Mr Fox after this unit is completed. An additional Bats comprehension has been included for your use if you are teaching nocturnal animals. Thank you for choosing this resource and I hope you find it valuable.

This is a word document all about general garden snails. It includes many subheadings including why are snails pests? Life cycles? How does it eat? Why are they in danger? Pond Snails. What is the largest African Snail? This information text is suitable for research purposes in science to answer questions that have been generated by the children. It can also support writing own information about an other animals such as owls because children apply the skills of features they have learnt.

The former AST title has been replaced by the new SLE- Specialist Leader in Education. You may be endorsed by your headteacher to apply for any specialism e.g. a core subject English, Maths, Science, Assessment or NQT mentor, EYFS specialist. It could also be a foundation subject you specialise in. You will already be an outstanding practitioner and supporting colleagues in your own school or have had experience in supporting other schools in your chosen area of expertise. If you are passionate about being a leader of education and supporting other managers to lead then you need to prepare for a group discussion and an interview. See the attached PowerPoint for guidance of questions and supporting materials in how to prepare. Be an outstanding role model in your subject, be a good listener and inspirational, be confident and be the next specialist leader of education. Good Luck.

Stone Age Boy Year 3 - English Tier 2 vocabulary for working walls to build pupils rich language acquisition. Exemplar text to teach from the book and non-fiction writing. Visuals to support tiered vocabulary rehearsal and aid memory. Games to rehearse language and memorize such as match the word to the meaning. Supports pedagogy of closing the vocabulary gap research. This model can be used and applied for all English units as the resource is easily edited and adaptable. Aimed at the new national curriculum for lower Key Stage 2 (year 3/4). Supporting planning available in the shop for a complete unit of work to match Stone Age Boy Text.

Writing a riddle in year 2 is fun. This resource teaches children how to write riddles about snails and whales. It is linked to the story The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson. This resource is fun and flexible to use. The supporting materials can easily be adapted to write a riddle about any creature. Linked to the Information Text Unit All About Whales- also available in the shop. HAPS children are challenged with high expectations by using coordinating conjunction ‘but’ when writing a clue - e.g I have a foot but I don’t have any legs. I’m a good swimmer but I’m not a fish. Suitable for boys and interesting to get quality writing. Linked to the new English TAF 2018

KS1 Narrative Unit on Pirates and Mermaids. Year 2 and Year 1 English Curriculum. This has been adapted to suit year 1 children or year 2 children who are working below the expected standard (SEN or EAL). The unit is designed to help children repeat, pre-teach vocabulary, over teach sentence structure, match words, sort sentences into order and sequence, play vocabulary games, and much more. It should allow children for improved independence by the end of the unit. There are a list of ideas to support sen e.g parental involvement, speaking and listening strategies, imitating games, role play etc. It is ideal to use alongside a more rich and developed text -which can also be found in the shop called - Pirate Adventure Story. Please see link below and please leave a review. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pirate-adventure-story-narrative-bundle-year-2-taf-11792146 Written by SLE in English.

Africa Topic Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters- A play script about an African Tale. Are you learning about Africa? Have you focused on learning a text in a different cultural setting? If so, this is the perfect and inspirational play script for you. It includes parts for 120 (a four form entry school), although this can be easily adapted, altered and edited. The resource includes relevant songs within an African setting including popular and contemporary songs that will add and enliven the show. These have been carefully selected according to the theme in each scene e.g envy, jealousy, beauty, king’s procession etc. There are clear guidance for props, staging and costumes that may be suitable for parents/carers or teachers to provide. These include pots, masks, drapes, spears, shields, plants and thrones. Hope this is useful and many thanks for purchasing this resource. Was used for end of key stage 1. However, it can also be used for any other year groups studying Africa.

English writing unit for year 2 and year 3 This resources supports independent writing of a narrative unit. Children read the book and plan how the main character returns home after learning her lesson about friendship and disloyalty. Children plan, invent and edit in this unit of work. there are lots on visuals and grammar features included to ensure that the Year 2 ITAFS are met. It can be easily adapted for year 3 also. A very entertaining book that will engage all readers. Grammar features include - practicing speech and alternative verbs for said. Practicing using suffix endings -ment, -less, -ness, -er, -est. Pupils write at length and improve stamina for writing. They develop characters and settings through description and dialogue. The story supports pupils to show good v evil characters in their writing.

Punctuation signs with corresponding bands for each band. Includes supporting vocabulary e.g when each punctuation should be used e.g commas in a list or apostrophe for possession or apostrophe for words with contracted form. This is an excellent visual and reminder for students and will support children to work at the expected band and at greater depth in KS1 and above. Excellent way of children self assessing and or editing. Can be easily adapted to suit all key stages. Very bright and engaging resource. Useful to be laminated and arranged to look like a pyramid. Band 2 Working below: full stop at the top of pyramid. Band 2 Working At: full stop, question mark, exclamation mark and apostrophe for contraction. Band 2 Greater Depth: as above including apostrophe for possession and commas in a list.

Remote Learning English Writing Tasks This resource has been designed to support parents and teachers because it sets the same task for all pupils for their writing. It is suitable for all pupils across the school and the teachers can vary the success criteria for them. The outcomes will vary according to the age and ability of the child. Pupils can even work together with siblings and share ideas during this difficult times. Each writing unit has been pitched to Year 3 and the grammar features will need to be adjusted for each year group. You will find; A high quality teacher example of each type of genre/text type has been included for pupils as a good model of writing. The genres covered are Book review, Poetry, Diary, Letter, Narrative, Non fiction, Recound based on short film Best suited for remote learning and home school learning during Lockdown or if pupils are self isolating at home. Excellent feedback has been received by parents who found this way more accessible. Keep safe and visit my instagram for more suggested ideas for reading and writing in year 2 and year 3. Thank you for visiting my shop and I hope it saves you hours of planning time.

Year 2 English Writing with focus on Traditional stories with a twist. to support reading and writing at the expected level. Can be used as part of the LRRH unit available in the shop or as stand alone with the exemplar provided. Traditional Story with a twist Developing vocabulary in year 2 with the following grammar features; synonyms homophones description expanded noun phrases thoughts, feelings, speech Exemplar text with a traditional story (LRRH), but re-written with a twist is provided. This resources is to be used to encourage development (of good wolf) and develop pupil’s language using a variety of games.

Year 1 and 2 SPAG. The all important suffix endings display for the grammar washing line in the classroom. This is a very eye-catching and visual way to display all the suffixes that the children need to be able to spell and use accurately in their writing to secure working at the expected standard. The suffixes are written in bubble writing and have the common suffix ending words written inside them. They will make an excellent and immediate display. It is suitable for classes from year 1 to year 3. It currently stands proudly on display in all our KS1 class rooms. The bubble writing suffix’s available are - ment, -ed, -ly, -ing, ness, -er, est, er, less. Please leave a review as you will find this resource a must in your classroom to support spelling and meet the expected standard on the interim framework! ENJOY and thanks for downloading

New assessment guidelines for writing 2018 English Curriculum at end of KS1 Working at Working towards Working at Greater depth Suitable for all teachers moderating English writing and making teacher judgements. Suitable to benchmark across classes and across phases. Also a suitable checklist to match against borough expectations and exemplifications. A must for moderated schools to keep evidence.

The Tunnel Year 2 Guided Reading Preview If you have used the Into The Forest Guided Reading Pack - Then this is the resource for you to compare stories by the same author. See Full weeks planning available in the shop. Week 1 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-by-anthony-browne-guided-reading-week-1-12050423 Week 2 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-guided-reading-anthony-browne-week-2-12052381 Suitable for year 2 for children working at the expected level and beyond. You can find further inspiration on my insta page as below. @thisisrehanafazil See you there.

Traditional Story with a twist Front Cover Developing vocabulary in year 2 with the following grammar features; synonyms homophones idioms thoughts, feelings, speech and dialogue Exemplar text with a traditional story (LRRH), but re-written with a twist. This resources is to be used to encourage development of language using a variety of games, such as imitation, role play, over the fence etc. See the complete resources available in the shop. Follow the author for more updates on instagram @thisisrehanafazil