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This 3 week guided narrative unit of work follows the first six chapters of Pig Heart Boy and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The children work on their comprehension skills through whole class guided reading lessons based on what they have read so far. They learn to develop the characters through dialogue and description in structured lessons and through teacher modelling, they complete a shared write before independently writing the next chapter of the narrative. Lesson 1- ‘Have a go’ independently writing next chapter Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on model chapter Lesson 3- Exploring characters Lesson 4- Characterisation through dialogue Lesson 5- Characterisation through description Lesson 6- Planning shared write Lesson 7, 8 &9- Shared writing Lesson 10- Chapter 5 comprehension Lesson 11-15- Planning, writing and editing independent ‘Show what you know’ This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively describe characters including their appearance, personality/ behaviour and special traits. They will look at a range of book extract describing characters looking at this in practice. They will then look at the character description of Miss Trunchbull and be tasked to identify the different descriptions before writing their own character description using the plan and word banks provided. All plans and word banks are included. This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below: -Introduction to science fiction -Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text -Character development -Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type -Boxing up the model text -Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending -Children independently write their own stories Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more! This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide! The powerpoint covers: Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun) Prepositions Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions Main & subordinate clauses Relative clauses Modal verbs Determiners Prefixes and suffixes Root words Subject-verb agreement Pronouns Active & passive voice Synonyms & antonyms Progressive tense Perfect tense Word classes Hyphens Colons, semi-colons and dashes Apostrophe for contraction and possession

This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment. The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing. Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt. Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based) Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

Water resistance is a force that tries to slow things down that are moving through water. It is a type of friction and sometimes called drag. In this lesson, students will learn what water resistance is and how it affects us. They will learn about streamlining and how we make things streamlined in order to reduce water resistance. They will also learn about upthrust and how this enables boats to float. They will complete a quiz mid-way through to check understanding. They will then carry out an experiment to investigate how the shape of aluminum foil affects how it behaves in water. The experiment worksheet is provided as well as an explanation into the reasons behind this. This lesson is 1/6 lessons on Forces. To view the other lessons, please visit: /teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou/Primary science Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

In this lesson, students will learn about the British Empire before the Victorian era and how is developed throughout the Victorian period due to Britain’s military and industrial dominance. They will learn about the trade and imports from different countries across the empire and will be tasked to label countries on a map from 1920. They will then use research methods to match up the countries with what products were imported. Finally, they will learn why the British Empire came to an end. All resources for this lesson are provided. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part. Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt. The lessons progress as follows: Lesson 1- Show what you know Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit. This lesson looks at describing the character of Bilbo Baggins. It teaches how to describe characters according to their appearance, personality, behaviour and any special traits or interests. Students look at a number of example extracts and are asked to highlight these examples before planning and writing their own character description using the planning frame provided. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

Air resistance is a force that is caused by air. The force acts in the opposite direction to an object moving through the air. It is a type of friction. In this lesson, students will learn what air resistance is and how it affects us. They will learn about Galileo Galilei who first investigated air resistance and how without air, objects with the same mass will fall at the same rate. They will learn about streamlining in order to minimise surface area and they will complete a quiz mid-way to check understanding. They will then carry out two experiments- 1) paper drop test 2) investigating how the size of a canopy affects the rate of a parachute’s decent. Sheets are provided for the experiments along with an interactive presentation and useful knowledge organiser. This lesson is 1/6 lessons on Forces. To view the other lessons, please visit: /teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou/Primary science Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

A help sheet to support children identify and use prepositions in their writing. If you would like to see some of my other resources, please visit: /teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou

This presentation was given as a staff training on the importance of reading. It incorporates my own research on the importance of intrinsic motivation and the benefits reading can bring. This is a FREE resource- enjoy! If you have enjoyed this resource and would like to see more of my resources, please visit: /teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou