5 complete lessons on the Ancient Greek civilization. 1. Locate Greece 2. Understand and order dates 3. City states and democracy 4. City state research 5. Retelling myths Lessons include: detailed lesson plan (introduction, activity, plenary, learning expectations, key vocabulary and questions, skills being taught and learning objectives) a PowerPoint presentation, activity resources, Greek myths. This unit of work was made to be taught following the guidelines of the UK National Curriculum for Geography and History. It can also be modified to suit other learning outcomes.

Fantastic Mr Fox book study - great for whole class guided reading, small group guided reading, book studies and for framing numerous activities including visible thinking and thinking keys. Book study comes as both PowerPoint and PDF. This Fantastic Mr Fox book study has been designed with learners in mind. Learning is engaging, fun and varied. Following best practice, this book study contains: Listening frames for each of the chapters Visible Thinking routines - including See, Think, Wonder, Four Perspectives and Colour, Symbol, Image and many more… Thinking Keys - including BAR (Bigger Add Remove), Variations and What If? Drama Activities Creative Writing/ Drawing VIPERS - comprehension is framed around Vocabulary, Infer, Predictions, Explanations, Retrieval and Summarising Infer-cabulary - encourage students to infer the meaning of new and unknown words Author is a Deputy Head with 12+ years of National Curriculum experience.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Betsy Byars’ Midnight Fox Book Study is ideal as a unit of work when the students are reading the fantastic book and as a Book Week case study. The pages of this presentation are dedicated to chapters of the book so you can have visuals on the board as the students read along, followed by clear thinking exercises and instructions for writing, drawing and group work activities. The download includes both Active Inspire and PDF versions. Each version contains 15 activities over 29 pages. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. An excellent multi-skilled approached to studying a classic children’s text, this book study provides activities for the exploration and development of key and supplementary reading skills: Predicting Comprehending Inferring Summarising Creative Writing Drawing Drama Ideal as a book week book study. Slides can be followed as a book study lesson plan. This book study contains over 30 activities in pdf and Powerpoint formats - allowing for easy amendment to the activities. Ideal as a Iron Man Key Stage 2 book study - I have used this resource with Year 3, 4 and 5 students/ 7, 8, 9 and 10-year olds. Similar book study resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Billionaire Boy Book Study This David Walliams’ book is great to use for group reading, guided reading, book study sessions. 124 pages of almost 100 reading comprehension activities. Inspired in the classroom, I created this PowerPoint to provide my students with opportunities to explore every chapter. Each chapter’s activities includes vocabulary and summarising activities, as well as a range of predicting, inferring, retrieving, creative writing and short drama activities. I have also updated a PDF version of the slides in this file.

This comprehensive 5-week unit of study focuses on the Tudor monarchy’s reign of England. Each lesson follows the criteria set out by the UK National Curriculum. Students generate and ask questions, this forms a part of the opportunities for assessment that each lesson provides. PPT slideshows become animated to stimulate the students and work is respectfully challenging and target-achieving. All the resources required to teach these lessons are included in the download. Each lesson plan states the UK National Curriculum learning objectives covered, the learning outcomes, skills being taught, and learning attributes that the students will take from each lesson (e.g. risk-taking, confidence, collaborators). Lesson plans also include teaching activity, key questions that the teacher should try to elicit from the students, key vocabulary that may need introducing to the students beforehand and criteria for assessing student attainment (can be adopted as either AfL or AoL depending on your policy towards assessing in Humanities/ History) Lesson 1 (ppt, lesson plan, activity worksheet): Tudor Introduction. Students are encouraged to think about what they know about history. They are shown how events can be illustrated on visual representations and this allows them to see how one event is often the starter for another event. At this point a class timeline can be displayed. Students are introduced to the Tudor’s history with the story of the battle of Bosworth and are set an activity to visually log the key dates and events of the Tudor family. Lesson 2 (ppt, lesson plan, wives portraits): Wives and family. The second lesson begins with a reminder about the previous lesson. Students are encouraged to think about marriage and how Henry VIII is famous for his wives. An animated family tree is shown and the students are challenged to independently research a character from the studied timeline. Extension material is provided for this lesson. Lesson 3 (ppt, lesson plan, Henry VIII profile, website list): Compare Henrys. Starts with a review of the previous lesson and the students are reminded about Henry VII and Henry VIII. From there the students are required to research Henry VIII using a variety of resources and present their findings to the class. The plenary exercise explores the differences between some aspects that the students would have discovered. Finally a link is provided to a well-known television rendition of Henry VIII’s life. Lesson 4 (ppt, lesson plan, Mary facts): Queen Mary I. From the previous lesson ‘refresher’ the students are reminded about the Tudor timeline and family tree and find the place of Mary I. Students are encouraged to generate and record questions as part of this fun, student-led lesson’s activity. Lesson 5 (ppt, lesson plan): Tudor Exploration. Review of previous lesson.