Stanley's Stick Y1 Planning, Slides and ResourcesQuick View
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Stanley's Stick Y1 Planning, Slides and Resources

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2 weeks worth of planning on interactive SMART whiteboard AND PowerPoint Slides, 2 weeks lessons planning and resources. 2 x 1 week word documents step by step planning 2 x 1 week interactive smartboard presentation slides - 20 Per Week Resources includes: Predict outcomes in a story. Using pictures to write main events in the story Acting out the story. Planning to write an alternative story based on Stanley’s Stick Learning about possessive apostrophe Learning to use adjectives / expanded noun phrases in stories Writing in past tense using ‘ed’ suffix Writing a character description.
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Volcanoes & Earthquakes - KS2

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Volcanoes & Earthquakes is an exciting extended Geography unit designed for students in KS2. The planning overview, topic title page and vocabulary page can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include: L1 – Understanding the structure of the Earth L2 – Investigating the structure of a volcano (FREE) L3 – Locating the world’s famous volcanoes L4 – Investigating the five deadly features of a volcanic eruption L5 – Understanding tectonic plates L6 – Exploring the effects of volcanic eruptions on Montserrat L7 – Why do people live near volcanoes? L8 – Understanding the causes of earthquakes L9 – Investigating the five deadly features of an earthquake L10 – Researching earthquakes using Wikipedia L11 – Locating the world’s biggest earthquakes using latitude & longitude L12 – Writing a fact file about a famous earthquake Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets. A FREE newspaper report template is also included in this unit. If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.
Year 2/3 Talk For Writing Persuasive Letter - The Day The Crayons QuitQuick View
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Year 2/3 Talk For Writing Persuasive Letter - The Day The Crayons Quit

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A complete 3/4 week unit on persuasive letter writing using the Day The Crayons Quit as inspiration! A creative and engaging Talk For Writing unit that produces fantastic innovated letters as the end point! Includes planning lesson slides (Active Inspire and Powerpoint) model text and picture map, lesson resources and comprehension questions. Children will learn the features of persuasive writing, vocabulary for emotions, rhetorical questions, the effect of short sentences, apostrophes for contraction, connective sentence starters. They will then adapt the model text to write a letter from an alternative classroom object that has an issue with something! Enjoy!
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Cave Baby year 1 planning and resources

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SMART notebook Slides (50 + slides) and PowerPoint Slides (50 + slides) With 10 Step by Step lessons incl learning intention and Success Criteria: 7 x Word Activity Documents 1 x story map writing and drawing a picture 1 x sequencing pictures from story 1 x labelling animals in story 1 x Cave Baby word mat 1 x Retelling the story using images 1 x Rhyming Word sheet 1 x Writing adjectives of characters in the story Lessons L1 - writing a short sentence of a time when they were naughty, what happened? L2 - writing labels of animals in story under picture. L3 - Sequencing pictures of story and acting out story. L4 - Drawing pictures of story on a story map and writing sentence underneath. L5 - I can sequence a story. L6 - I can use adjectives to describe nouns. L7 - I can use the conjunction ‘and’ to extend sentences. L8 - I can write a list of rhyming words. L9 - Using expanded noun phrases. L10 - I can use contractions in a letter. L11 - I can name proper and common nouns.
Talk for Writing UNIT - 'The Teacher Pleaser' - Explanation Text - Y1-2Quick View
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Talk for Writing UNIT - 'The Teacher Pleaser' - Explanation Text - Y1-2

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Talk for Writing - The Teacher Pleaser Machine by Pie Corbett (adapted for a Grade 1/2 class) This resources includes PPTs of lesson ideas and story map It goes through the different stages of Talk for Writing: Imitation (including story map), Innovation and Independent application. Language focus: causal conjunctions (lots of tuning in games which can be played as lesson starters) There are also some slides explaining how to use rhetorical questions and the importance of chronological order (using sentence signposts).
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Ticking Texts Series

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The 3 Ticking Texts books encourage early readers to understand texts. Book 1 is aimed at KS1 plus older pupils with literacy problems, whilst books 2 and 3 are more suitable for KS2 plus KS3 pupils struggling with literacy. Each book includes various types of short texts with a low reading level and a high interest level, and the format allows children with poor coordination/writing ability to concentrate solely on text comprehension skills. The sheets are useful for shared and guided reading and for homework and are also suitable for speaking and listening work. Discussion points and extension activities are included for each text. This is a useful resource for children who have ‘learnt to read’ and are now ‘reading to learn.’ Previously available through Easylearn.
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Writing Emails!

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This stimulating and informative lesson develops students’ skill in creating emails that precisely meet the needs of their audience and purpose. In particular, they gain an in-depth understanding of how emails should be structured, what information should be included within them, and what style they should be written in, in order to meet their audience and purpose. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Understand when and where emails are an appropriate form of communication; -Establish the structural features of emails; -Work collaboratively to identify and analyse the content and language features in further model examples of emails; -Understand how email features are influenced by the purpose and audience of the email; -Create a success criteria for writing emails (although a ready-made success criteria is included); -Write their own emails, using a helpsheet (if needed) and the techniques that they have learnt; -Peer/self-assess their writing attempts. There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -Email examples x 3 -Email purpose and audience sorting cards; -Writing emails helpsheet; -Structure of emails worksheet; -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
Dragons' Den Persuasive Project! (Building Speaking & Listening and Persuasive Writing Skills!)Quick View
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Dragons' Den Persuasive Project! (Building Speaking & Listening and Persuasive Writing Skills!)

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This resource is perfect for enabling students to build both their persuasive writing and their speaking and listening skills. Based upon the popular BBC series 'Dragons' Den', students have the opportunity to research, design, pitch, and evaluate arguments for their own inventions, whilst simultaneously analysing persuasive pitches, revising persuasive techniques, structuring arguments and articulating convincingly. Included is a 16 page booklet (I would say at least 4-5 hour lessons of tasks) that lead students to: - Introduce themselves and their interests; - Watch persuasive pitches (links included) and identify persuasive devices; - Analyse why persuasive devices are effective; - Structure an analysis appropriately; - Brainstorm ideas for an invention using imagination and helpful aiding questions; - Formulate an argument by considering key questions and counter arguments; - Write and present a persuasive pitch; - Peer-evaluate and self-evaluate persuasive pitches. I have also provided some examples of news stories featuring the worst and best pitches from the den, in order to provoke discussion about what makes a strong pitch. All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited throughout.
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Non-Chronological Reports!

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This stimulating and informative lesson develops students’ skill in creating non-chronological reports that precisely meet the content, language and structural features of the form. In particular, they gain an in-depth understanding of how non-chronological reports are ordinarily set out on the page, what information should be included within them, and what style they should be written in, in order to meet form and purpose. These resources contain 3 example non-chronological reports, differentiated by the accessibility of their language. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Define what non-chronological letters are and clarify their purpose; Establish the structural features of non-chronological letters; -Work collaboratively to identify and analyse the content and language features in further model examples of non-chronological reports; -Create a success criteria for effective non-chronological reports; -Write their own non-chronological reports, using a planning sheet (if needed) and the techniques that they have learnt; -Peer/self-assess their writing attempts. There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -Non-chronological reports x 3 (based on tennis, great white sharks, and Dubai) -Non-chronological reports structure worksheet; -Non chronological reports planning sheet; -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Informal Letter Writing!

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This stimulating and informative lesson develops students’ skill in creating informal letters that precisely meet the content, language and structural features of the form. In particular, they gain an in-depth understanding of how informal letters should be set out on the page, what information should be included within them, and what style they should be written in, in order to meet form, audience and purpose. Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: -Understand why letter writing is still important in the present day; -Unjumble a model example of an informal letter in order to establish its structure; -Work collaboratively to identify and analyse the content and language features in further model examples of informal letters; -Create a success criteria for effective informal letters (although a ready-made success criteria is included); -Write their own informal letters, using a structure strip and helpsheet (if needed) and the techniques that they have learnt; -Peer/self-assess their writing attempts. There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including: -Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -Informal letters x 3 (based on The Simpsons, Batman, and Harry Potter characters) -Informal letters structure strip; -Informal letters helpsheet; -Step-by-step lesson plan. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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The Hunger Games Huge Bundle!

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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HUNGE GAMES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO BOTH OF THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Suzanne Collins’ ‘The Hunger Games.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
Year 3 Reading Comprehension Pack x 2Quick View
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Year 3 Reading Comprehension Pack x 2

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These reading comprehension packs contain five pages each of engaging, colour-illustrated fiction and non-fiction texts. Each page of text has a corresponding page of questions, specifically designed to encourage your child to retrieve information and also develop their skills of inference. The packs include example answers for marking.
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Fantastic Fronted Adverbials!

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This engaging and detailed resource pack has been designed to make the learning of fronted adverbials (particularly prominent in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout the lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise fronted adverbials within their own writing compositions. In addition to the comprehensive lesson, resources, and plan, it also includes a fronted adverbials writing mat to assist students in building their extended writing skills. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define what fronted adverbials are; - Identify fronted adverbials in sentences; - Analyse and evaluate what it is that makes some fronted adverbials more effective than others; - Write an extended piece with the employment of fronted adverbials; -Peer/self-assess learning attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - A clear and interesting worksheet for the development task; - An interesting short story for students to analyse; - A hyperlink to an engaging and heart-warming video through a hyperlink in the presentation; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.
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Features of a Postcard KS1/LKS2

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A worksheet to be used after exploring the key features of a postcard. Children will read an example postcard and annotate the features they find to demonstrate their understanding. I used these differentiated worksheets with a Year 2 class, but they could very easily be adapted to suit LKS2. This activity is part of a unit of work around Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram. Please see my other resources for more!
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Read a Rainbow Book Covers

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Over 200 book cover images in all the colours of the rainbow for display. Makes a lovely display for classroom or library. Save time trawling Google!
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Book Review

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A detailed book review template for KS2 or low ability KS3. This particular one is for Stormbreaker, but feel free to edit the title etc to make it your own! I have successfully used this with a low set Year 7.
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Analysing speeches

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Key Stage 3 or 4 resource using AFOREST (listed in worksheet) works well with youtube clips of relevant speeches. Takes a good 45 minutes.