This unit forms the first part of the Year 3 block work on poetry. In this unit, children will read and make comparisons between poems. Compose calligrams using word processing programs and explore the effects created. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) With the children, read a selection of poems on the same theme. Discuss vocabulary and capture ideas, for example through response to visual imagery, reflection on first-hand experience, etc. Through modelled and shared composition, children compose shape poems using language effects and making decisions about form. Children work collaboratively to edit and redraft poetry. Grammar Starters are also included with each lesson. Please leave a review! Thanks

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (15 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) Most lessons also include a GRAMMAR STARTER. This a great story to enable teaching of many of the Year 3 Writing and Reading objectives. As a class, children will read and examine the novel ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman. They will discuss the author and create predications as to what they think the story will be about. Children will examine the main characters in the story and use drama techniques to empathise with the characters. They will have the opportunity to deduce and infer information based on what they have read and give their own opinions about the text. They will develop their knowledge of grammatical terms such as; nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, identify them within shared and guided reading. They will have the opportunity to develop their writing through different genres of writing such as letters, written in roles as the characters Lila and Lalchand. Please note it is highly advised to purchase a hard/ e copy of this book. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (8 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts,resources and grammar starters. This resource is useful for year 3 children and will teach a host of Writing objectives. Children are to research the features of persuasive writing, looking in detail at persuasive letters. Children are to examine ‘causal conjunctions’ to extend sentences and give greater persuasion. Children to write their own persuasive letter to a company that wants to buy the school field to build a pickled onion factory on the grounds of ??? Primary School. Children to persuade company why they should not do this and how it will negatively affect the school. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (10 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) The unit uses the short but interesting book of The Unforgotten Coat to teach many Year 5 Reading skills and presents ample opportunities for children to develop writing skills too. This could also be used in Year 6. Please note the book does tackle some sensitive issues on immigration. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) Identify significant ideas, events and characters and discuss their significance. Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. Justify inferences with evidence from the text. Present the author’s viewpoint of a text. Summarise the main ideas drawn from a text. Identify the effect of the context on a text. for example, historical or other cultures. Express a personal point of view about a text, giving reasons. Present a personal point of view based on what has been read. ARE (Writing) Develop characters through action and dialogue Establish viewpoint as the writer through commenting on characters or events Please note it is highly advised to buy the hard / e copy of the book but it is well worth it! Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (10 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources to teach a host of Year 3 Reading and Writing skills. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) Children to explore recounts in the form of diary entries. Children will have the opportunity to read a range of extracts from texts as well as a longer story ‘The Diary of a Killer Cat’. They will examine the key layout and linguistic features and consider the purpose of a diary. They will have the opportunity to study in greater detail the way that authors use descriptive words and detail and the effect that this has on a diary. They will finally have the opportunity to practise their writing by creating their own diary entry in role as an eye-witness to a Volcanic eruption. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (15 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. (make sure your PC can open .FLIPCHART files) GRAMMAR starters are also included. This unit teaches a host of Year 3 Reading and Writing objectives. Children are to read and discuss stories, identifying the different characters and voices by using dramatised reading and puppets. Identify the features and conventions of written dialogue, demonstrate and then write dialogue. Compare this with a play based on the same story. Write and perform play scripts based on familiar stories. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (20 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts, resources and 20 spelling starters. This resource is useful for year 3 children but could be adapted for Year 4. The units teaches a host of reading and writing objectives. As a class, children will read and examine the novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. Children will examine the main characters in the story and use drama techniques to empathise with the characters. They will have the opportunity to deduce and infer information based on what they have read and give their own opinions about the text. They will develop their knowledge of grammatical terms such as; nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, identify them within shared and guided reading. They will have the opportunity to develop their writing through use of inverted commas and varied sentence starts. Please leave a review!

A fully resourced Literacy Unit (7 lessons) with detailed plan, daily Promethean (ActivInspire) flip charts and resources. The unit focuses on drawing inferences from characters actions and dialogue, introducing and teaching modal verbs and adverbs and applying this add well chosen detail to writing. This resource is useful for year 5 and 6. Danny Champion of the World is used throughout these lessons. These session have been planned to meet the following Year 5 curriculum objectives: ARE (Reading) To draw inferences from characters’ actions. ARE (Writing) To develop characters through action and dialogue To add well-chosen detail to interest the reader ARE Grammar To use modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility. Please leave a review!