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This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the second in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Kate Cunningham’s 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London.’ This lesson covers the middle section of the text (from the moment the fire starts, up to the point at which Vlad sees the soldiers blowing up buildings). The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving key information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings; -Linking the story to its historical context. The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (19 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. The lesson has a particular focus upon the historical context of The Great Fire of London. For the deeper thinking task, children use the resources available to them, in addition to the research template (provided in both Word and PDF) to find out additional information about the fire. They then link this information to what they read in the story. There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in upper KS1 (I originally used these resources with a year 2 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the first in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Kate Cunningham’s 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London.’ This lesson covers the opening section of the text (up to 'SMOKE!’). The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Making predictions; -Retrieving key information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings. The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (16 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. For the deeper thinking task, children use their skills of retrieval and inference to create a character profile for Vlad, based on the information provided in the story opening. A clear and well-structured template is provided to aid the completion of this activity (in both Word and PDF). There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in upper KS1 (I originally used these resources with a year 2 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Satoshi Kitamura’s 'Stone Age Boy.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: ‘Katamura’s Language Techniques’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Explain meanings of words that they know and ask the meaning of new words. Link the meaning of new words to words that they already know;’ ‘Om’ and 'The Stone Age People’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’ ‘An Interview with Satoshi Kitamura’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’ ‘Storyboarders’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read books that are structured in different ways and for a range of purposes.’ Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 20 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.

This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the third in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Satoshi Kitamura’s 'Stone Age Boy.’ This lesson covers the final section of the text (from the point at which the boy and Om enter the cave, to the end). The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving key information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings; -Summarising text events. The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (16 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. The lesson has a particular focus upon children’s interpretations of the story’s ending, and using summarising skills to outline the main events of the text. For the deeper thinking task, children use the storyboard template (provided in both Word and PDF) to break down and summarise the main events of the text. There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in lower KS2 (I originally used these resources with a year 3 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This engaging and thought-provoking double lesson is designed to accompany class reading of the James Carter poem 'Once Upon A Raindrop.’ By the end of the double lesson, children develop a secure understanding of the key meanings of the poem and enhanced contextual knowledge about water and the water cycle. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Making predictions; -Retrieving information and explaining key ideas; -Ordering and sequencing information. The lesson breaks the poem down into two halves, with a range of retrieval/explanation questions following each reading. Two deeper thinking activities are also included - one requires children to rank/ order the key facts that they have learnt about water using a ‘Diamond 9’ activity - for this activity the fact cards are included (in both Word and PDF). The other deeper thinking activity requires children to summarise and sequence the main events of the water cycle, based on the information provided in the poem - again, the template for this is provided in both Word and PDF. There is a lot of content here (the PowerPoint presentation is 20 slides long, in addition to templates/helpsheets), so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two or even three lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in lower KS2 (I originally used these resources with a year 3 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of 'There’s A Rang-Tan in My Bedroom.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the poem, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: ‘Language Techniques’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Explain meanings of words that they know and ask the meaning of new words. Link the meaning of new words to words that they already know;’ ‘Orangutans’ and 'Deforestion’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’ ‘Storyboarders’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read books that are structured in different ways and for a range of purposes.’ Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 18 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.

This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the last lesson in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Lynne Cherry’s 'The Kapok Tree.’ This lesson covers the final section of the text (from ‘several anteaters climbed down’ to the end of the text.) The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving key information; -Summarising key events; -Understanding the writer’s intentions. The lesson particularly focuses on the summarising the key events of the text and understanding what the writer’s intentions were in writing the story. The PowerPoint presentation (18 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. For the deeper thinking task, children create their own storyboard which sums up the main events of the story - a template is provided to guide this activity (in both Word and PDF). There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in lower KS2 (I originally used these resources with a year 3 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: ‘Gleitzman’s Language Techniques’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Explain meanings of words that they know and ask the meaning of new words. Link the meaning of new words to words that they already know;’ ‘Character Analysis of Felix and Zelda’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’ ‘An Interview with Morris Gleitzman’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Understand what is read by drawing on information from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas, and using quotations for illustration;’ ‘Storyboarders’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read books that are structured in different ways and for a range of purposes.’ Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is over 20 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. The resource is suitable for home/ remote learning.

This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Morris Gleitzman’s ‘Once.’ It contains comprehensive sections on: Context; Chapter by Chapter Summary; Main Characters; Themes; Gleitzman’s Language Devices; Words from the Author. Key words and ideas are underlined, and key quotes are included, for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A4 or A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the final chapters (15 to 17) of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ In this section of the text, Felix, Barney and all of the children from the cellar are boarded onto the train towards the death camp, and Felix and Zelda make their miraculous escape. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving information; -Analysing the writer’s use of language; -Summarising text events. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. This lesson has a particular focus on summarising the events of the text. Students create a storyboard of the text, breaking the story up into six main stages and concisely summing up the main events in each section. A storyboard template is provided (in both Word and PDF) to support this task. There’s a lot in the session (21 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for students in upper KS2, but may be adapted for other year groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 13 and 14 of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ In this section of the text, Felix and Barney go out in search of water, and the cellar is discovered by the Nazi soldiers. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving information; -Analysing the writer’s use of language; -Making informed predictions. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. This lesson has a particular focus on the writer’s use of language - in creating a sense of horror in Chapter 13 and in creating a sense of action and danger in Chapter 14. There’s a lot in the session (19 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for students in upper KS2, but may be adapted for other year groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 11 and 12 of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ In this section of the text, Felix accompanies Barney on his dentist rounds, and the children look out of the cellar into the horrors of the Jewish ghetto. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings; -Linking the text to its historical context. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. This lesson has a particular focus on children linking the events of the text to the historical context of the Jewish ghettos. Children use a research template (provided in both Word and PDF) and the resources available to them to find out more about the Jewish ghettos, and connect this information to the events and details provided in chapters 11 and 12 of the text. There’s a lot in the session (20 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for students in upper KS2, but may be adapted for other year groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the chapters 9 to 10 of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ In this section of the text, Felix and Zelda are saved by Barney and live in a cellar in hiding from the Nazis. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving information; -Inferring and deducing hidden meanings; -Empathising with characters. The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning. This lesson has a particular focus on empathising with characters. Students explore this firstly through a ‘hot-seating’ activity, and then through plotting Felix’s feelings and emotions on a ‘Morale Graph’ (the worksheet/template for which is provided in both Word and PDF). There’s a lot in the session (20 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for students in upper KS2, but may be adapted for other year groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.