A Ready To Teach English unit using the beautifully illustrated story ‘The Great Explorer’ by Chris Judge! This 5-lesson unit covers both reading and writing skills, and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources. Lesson 1: Exploring the story using reading skills. Lesson 2: Making inferences about a character. Lesson 3-5: Writing a letter from the perspective of the main character. All files are completely editable, allowing you to adapt as needed to suit your class!

A Ready To Teach English unit based on the much-loved story “The Way Back Home” by Oliver Jeffers!! This 2-week unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources, as well as a marking ladder to assess children’s independent writing against the End of KS1 TAF. Lesson 1: Exploring the story using reading skills Lesson 2: Sequencing the story Lessons 3-5: Retelling the story Lesson 6: Planning a story Lessons 7-9: Writing a story independently All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children!

A Ready To Teach English unit focusing on developing children’s non-fiction writing skills! This 9-lesson unit introduces the features of non-chronological reports before guiding children through planning and writing their own text about penguins. Complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources, this easy to follow unit produces high-quality writing. Lesson 1 - exploring non-chronological reports Lesson 2 - recognising the features of non-chronological reports Lesson 3 - identifying the features of non-chronological reports Lesson 4 - writing question sentences Lesson 5 - grouping related facts Lesson 6 - writing a title and introduction Lessons 7-9 - writing sections of a non-chronological report All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children or even to an animal better suited for your topic.

A Ready To Teach English unit based on the KS1 favourite “Man on the Moon (A Day in the Life of Bob)” by Simon Bartram!! This 4-lesson unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources. GPS starters help to keep the basics fresh through SATs style questions. Lesson 1 - making inferences and predictions about the story Lesson 2 - SATs style comprehension questions Lesson 3 - commas in a list Lesson 4 - writing a character description All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children.

The perfect resource for children who have difficulty with the sizing and positioning of their letters when writing! These lines are divided into two stripes - yellow and white - as a visual prompt to help children recognise where tall and small letters should be on the line. With 8mm spaced lines and a margin, these lines replicate the pages of many school exercise books. As a digital file, the lines can be adjusted to create wider spaced lines and the margin can be adjusted or even removed.

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension!! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc grey level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-13. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. NTF Print font is used but please do ask if you would like an alternative font!

This 7-week VIPERS planning pack for the Roald Dahl classic George’s Marvellous Medicine is completely ready-to-teach! With 7 teacher-led sessions and follow up independent tasks, all complete with answers, this unit will support your children’s comprehension skills by covering all of the 6 VIPERS skills (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising). This resource is completely editable, meaning you can adjust it as needed to suit the children in your class.

This VIPERS planning for the KS1 exemplification text ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’ is completely ready-to-teach! With 6 teacher-led sessions and follow up independent tasks, all complete with answers, this unit will support your children’s comprehension skills and provide valuable evidence for your teacher judgements. This resource is completely editable, meaning you can adjust it as needed to suit the children in your class.

These colourful and easy-to-use spelling mats contain all of the common exception words for Years 1 and 2. Presented in alphabetical order to make words easier to find, these are the perfect resource to support children in correctly spelling key words in their writing. Completely editable so you can use your preferred font, this file is ready to print, laminate, and put out in your classroom!

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension!! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc blue level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-10. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book.

A Ready-To-Teach unit with not one, but 3 writing units based on the KS1 classic ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. This 4-week unit covers both reading and writing skills in a range of genres: character description, narrative retelling, and instructions. Each genre is complete with a detailed PowerPoint, lesson plans and resources. Unit 1 - Character Description Lesson 1: Exploring the text, focusing on new vocabulary Lesson 2: Generating adjectives to describe a character Lesson 3: Writing a character description Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making inferences Unit 2 - Narrative Retelling Lesson 1: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘but’ Lesson 2: Retelling the story using alliteration and a question Lesson 3: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘and’ Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making predictions Unit 3 - Instructions Lesson 1: Identifying the features of instructions Lesson 2: Sequencing events and planning instructions Lesson 3: Writing instructions Lesson 4: Writing instructions Lesson 5: Designing a disgusting sandwich Lesson 6: Planning instructions Lesson 7: Independently writing instructions Lesson 8: Independently writing instructions All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children!

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc grey level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-4. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. NTF Print font is used but please do ask if you would like an alternative font!** If you like these, why not buy the full set for books 1-13!

The perfect assessment tool for collating and analysing children’s results, identifying strengths and gaps in the KS1 curriculum. This bundle contains individual spreadsheets for the KS1 2018 Maths, Reading and GPS SATs papers. Simply enter the children’s marks per question for each paper, and not only will it calculate the children’s totals and level, but it will also identify which curriculum objectives they have achieved and which ones need further consolidation! New feature - class averages are now also calculated per question and objective to identify strengths and weaknesses across your cohort, informing your future planning and any additional support needed.

The perfect resource to build up your children’s reading independence as they prepare to move from phonics to reading comprehension! Created to align with Read, Write, Inc blue level storybooks, this resource includes an independent phonics task and comprehension task for books 1-4. Phonics tasks require children to find words with the focus sounds for the book before they create their own sentences using the words they found. Comprehension tasks focus primarily on retrieval skills, developing children’s ability to find and copy information from the text in order to answer written questions. These questions are different to the ones found at the end of the storybook. Presented 2-to-a-page, these 9cm x 14cm task sheets will fit in any exercise book. If you like these, why not buy the full set for books 1-10!

A Ready-To-Teach English unit based on the children’s classic ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. This 4-lesson unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint, lesson plan and resources. Lesson 1 - Exploring the beginning of the story, focusing on new vocabulary. Lesson 2 - Generating vocabulary to describe a character. Lesson 3- Writing a character description. Lesson 4 - Exploring the next part of the story, focusing on making inferences. All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children. This unit is the first of three based on ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. Buy the complete bundle to access the next two units which focus on retelling and instructions! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13007965