An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
A complete geography lesson comparing two cities in Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, word bank, extensions, videos and plenary.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about the human and physical features of Bristol and Berlin.
Compare:
Population
City layout
Climate
Landscape
Landmarks
Art and culture
Planned for years 3 or 4, easily adaptable for years 5 and 6.
Differentiated recording tasks provided with an extension.
Highlights:
Photo analysis starter activity
Activities for all styles of learners
Scaffolded learning
Check out my other popular Geography lessons on Europe from the unit:
Where is Europe?
Label Countries of Europe Lesson
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
A complete display pack for a KS2 unit on The Piano. Includes title, review of the movie, images, key vocabulary, features, interactive activities, modelled texts and higher level thinking questions.
An enticing KS2 display for an English unit studying ‘The Piano’ a short movie clip by Aidan Gibbons, found on literacy shed.
Excite your pupils about learning from this evocative clip with effective images, modelled texts and thoughtful questions.
Enhance your pupils writing, expand their vocabulary and improve their memory of this clip using this brilliant display.
Includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
All ready to download, print and whip up onto your display board so you have more time to do the many other jobs of teaching and living.
Click here to use alongside 5 English lessons planning, resources and PowerPoint for The Piano
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Useful to teach alongside a WW2 topic or on its own.
Five complete lessons teaching KS2 children how to ask questions when reading. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, weekly plan, starters, inputs, activities, differentiation, answers and plenaries. Covers question words, questioning grids, types of questions, questions linked to the bigger picture (themes).
Questioning lesson pack provides texts, questions, think, pair share time, written activities, discussion points and progression.
Each lesson builds on the previous to inspire confidence, understanding and success. The week ends with a small assessment style lesson where the children can show off what they have learnt.
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A lesson pack teaching the physical features of Russia. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, photo analysis, paired and group activities, differentiated written work, all printables and a plenary.
Highlights:
Starter activity
Odd one out photo analysis
Videos and information on each biome
Varied outcomes
The Powerpoint takes you through photo and map analysis of Russia and a range of activities to give the children a deep and rounded understanding of this place.
A reasoning plenary brings the lesson together.
Resources
Maps, videos, images and fact slides show the various biomes, animals, landscapes and weather of Russia. All printable resources included and ready-to-go.
Activities
Differentiated activities cover three ability groups with a reasoning challenge activity.
All reviews welcome.
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Tour Breathtaking Scandinavia
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An essential resource for teaching expanded noun phrases. Includes an engaging PowerPoint and complete word bank kits.
This pack teaches how to construct expanded noun phrases. Grouped word banks scaffold the learning.
It teaches children how to start with a simple noun phrase such as 'the dog' or 'the lady' and add in 8 new elements to the phrase.
3 simple noun phrases are modelled with the 'machine'.
Used in year 5, also appropriate for all other KS2 classes.
A|l reviews welcome.
7 Quality lessons covering all aspects of life in Scandinavia and National Curriculum Geography learning objectives.
Powerful images, video links, resources, detailed plans and no preparation needed.
Enjoy my other Scandinavian Units:
Scandinavian Art Unit
Writing Scandinavian Christmas Stories
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Yosemite
Europe
A complete geography lesson teaching the countries of Europe. Includes a thorough teaching PowerPoint, interactive activities, worksheets, answers, extensions and videos.
Follow the ready-to-go PowerPoint to teach about using an atlas, Europe, European languages and flags.
Use the differentiated map worksheets to enable success for every child. Extensions are provided for fast finishers and those hungry for even more.
Highlights:
Interactive
Ready-to-go
Answers on PPT
Editable
Teach as part of a geography unit on Europe. Check out the other lessons:
Where is Europe?
Compare Cities of Europe
Climate of Europe
Mountains of Europe
Rivers of Europe
An engaging and effective game enabling children to add and subtract fractions with a purpose. Includes a game board, mice game pieces, differentiated question and word problem cards and all answers.
Use to structure a maths lesson on fractions for KS2 children. Differentiated through output, children can move onto the extensions when they are ready.
3 styles of questions are included to ensure mastery in this skill. Children will become confident at adding fractions, subtracting fractions and solving fraction word problems.
Adding Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with the same denominator.
Subtracting Fractions cards: A mixture of calculations involving fractions with the same denominator.
Lucky Dip cards: Mixture of word problems, ordering and comparing fractions, equivalent fractions and converting decimals to fractions questions.
Challenge
5 extensions are included to challenge the children once they are confident with playing the game. Including the children writing their own cards on the blank cards supplied.
This game has a fun cat and mouse theme. All you need is one dice. The children can also choose and cut out one of 6 mice to be their game piece. Each go they can choose a card and answer the questions. All answers provided so pupils can work independently on this game.
For many more popular maths resources click here
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators Game
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions Differentiated Word Problems
10 complex word searches focusing on mental health. Covering emotion words and synonyms to enhance children’s vocbaulary. Deepen understanding and familiarity with key emotions. Includes colourful images and all answers.
Use these high quality emotion word searches for any lesson to encourage them to think deeper about their emotions.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools and PSHE lessons throughout the year.
Enhance your pupil’s understanding of their emotions and how to deal with them. Engage your pupil’s in this important and relevant dialogue. Enable your students to have a positive mental health.
10 word searches each focusing on one emotion and the linked synonyms. Images and colours reinforce the feeling of each emotion. Words are carefully hidden. All answers included.
Why not check out my circle time activities for years 3 and 4?
Or download a complete lesson on Dreams and Aspirations here.
You can find more high quality KS2 resources at my shop.
A complete lesson teaching factors, multiples, squares and cubes. Includes animated PowerPoint, worksheets, challenges and all answers. Ideal for UKS2, will engage and extend all the pupils in your class.
Download this lesson to teach these important concepts:
Factors
Multiples
Square numbers
Cube numbers
Use the colourful and animated PowerPoint to develop your pupil’s problem solving skills using RUCSAC and trial and error.
Print out the colourful worksheets provided with engaging word problems set in realistic contexts.
Hand out the reasoning challenges to extend your high achievers and challenge everyone else.
Share out the calculations for fast finishers to consolidate their learning so they develop mastery for these mathematical concepts.
Use all the answers provided for quick and easy marking.
Designed for the national curriculum objective:
Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using your knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular maths word problems:
Adding &Subtracting Fractions
Area and Perimeter
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
Three essential resources for improving your own and your school’s behaviour management:
1. Noise Meter - Keep the level of classroom chat at the most appropriate for outstanding learning. Use this bright and clear tool with the children to save your voice.
2. Behaviour Management CPD Pack - An inspiring CPD pack for refreshing and updating your behaviour management.
A 29 slide PowerPoint takes you through key techniques and strategies to update your teaching. Within this there are moments to discuss, reflect and evaluate your practice.
Alongside this a 10 page document explain in more detail these key aspects:
How to lay the foundations for outstanding behaviour
How to explain your expectations and consequences
The 4 behaviour management essentials
The 10 strategies you need in your toolkit
How to teach for engagement and excellent behaviour management
Walking around school and behaviour
Table Plans
Playground behaviour management
Practical subjects, rewards and tidying up a classroom
How to evaluate and change your practice
Also included is an optional anonymous survey you can give your class to find out what they think about your strengths and weaknesses - a daring but effective way to move your skills forward.
This would be helpful for any NQTs and other teachers looking to refresh and update their pedagogy.
You could use it for your own personal CPD or provide it as a whole school CPD.
3. Seating Plan Pack: A bright and clear seating plan useful for teachers and your students.
Five seating plans that work for different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year.
Two sets of colour coding:
1. Colour coded for ability
2. Colour coded for groups
Labelled for subjects. Lots of spare tables and chairs so can edit each plan. Start the term with a focused, organised and refreshed classroom.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more free and inexpensive resources at my shop Teachallenjoy
A visual and easy to use PowerPoint leading you through a week of spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in the dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words are homophones from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my other year 5/6 spelling lessons on homophones:
Guessed/guest, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, ate/eight
Draft/draught, farther/father, heard/herd, led/lead, aren’t/aunt
advice/advise, device/devise, licence/license, practice/practise, prophecy/prophesy
Aisle/isle, aloud/allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent
You can find many more high quality resources made by an English specialist here: Teachallenjoy
10 experiments for years 5 and 6, includes instruction task cards, extensions, challenges and a scientific explanation. Inspire your pupils with a mini investigation for every day of British Science Week. 5 easy to set up and manage science activities for year 5. Plus 5 more simple but effective science activities for year 6.
Everyday a range of questions are provided to stimulate scientific thought and discussion. Children are also encouraged to think of their own questions to spark that scientific curiosity which this week is all about.
The extension activities and challenges further enrich the learning and engage every child.
A short equipment list is provided for each year group so you can quickly collect the things you need for the week.
Each activity is time flexible, they could take 10 minutes or easily extend to an hours lesson.
The science behind every activity is quickly and clearly explained with helpful images and diagrams.
Check out my other updated resources for British Science Week:
British Science Week KS2 Posters
British Science Week KS2 Homework Tasks
British Science Week KS2 Assembly
An engaging display pack for KS2-3 on persuasive writing. Complete with titles, posters, modelled sentences, word banks, process stars, writing strategies and more.
Includes bright colourful posters useful for display or a writer’s toolkit. Eye catching resources designed to engage, support and enhance.
Download and quickly pop up on your English display board. Enjoy the examples of language, writing features, modelled paragraphs and key ideas.
Focuses on persuading someone to visit somewhere. Easily adaptable to other types of persuasion.
All reviews welcome.
An engaging assembly about public speaking and debating. 18 Interactive slides lead you through 6 key areas in this topic. Includes aspirational role models, ideas and stories. This animated presentation will explain, inspire and motivate children to try out this essential life skill.
Areas covered
How to debate
The purposes of public speaking
Famous speeches
Famous speakers
Famous debaters
Famous debates.
Highlights of this colourful resource:
Each section contains an equal balance of role models, including gender, race and era.
Top quality open questions are provided throughout to encourage higher level thinking and discussion.
It includes a model showing the essential cycle needed for debating.
A copy of a speaking and listening success criteria for speaking and debating.
A video link to a famous debate.
Ideas for celebrating debating.
You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy Shop
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Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Imitate
Discussion Text Week of English Planning and Resources Invent
A set of 10 original poems written for children about India, describing its culture, landscape, physical and human features. Perfect for a KS2 geography topic on India. All the poems are written in different styles; to engage, inspire and teach about this fascinating country whilst developing key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
India Geography Topic
Each poem could spark a whole lesson enabling children to learn, discuss and write about the culture of India. They cover these geographical aspects of India:
Indian culture
Mumbai
Western Ghats
Thar dessert
Taj Mahal
Goa Beaches
Himalayas
Kerala
River Ganges
Collection of Poems
These poems are written to describe India whilst modeling essential writing skills such as: alliteration, rhyming, rhythm, personification and similes. Presented as word documents and all together on one PowerPoint with some higher-order questions to consider.
This pack includes 10 poems using these different styles:
Kennings
Haiku
Diamente
Repeated starting words
Kyrielle
Shape Poem
All the poems are written by me and all images used are copyright free.
All reviews welcome.
You can find many more engaging and useful resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy
You might also be interested in my Arctic Poem collection
A complete lesson pack on UK coastal areas and change over time. Includes lesson plan, starter activity, 34 slide PowerPoint, photo analysis, written activity, plenary and challenge.
Download this detailed and engaging lesson covering the physical and human features in UK coastal areas and how they change over time.
Whole Lesson
Teach KS2 with this easy-to-use lesson containing a thought provoking starter and an interesting input full of images to prompt high quality dialogue about geographical features.
Use the mixture of independent, paired and group work to provide opportunities for discussion, in depth reflection and evidence for assessment.
Enjoy some free time while the children enthusiastically get on with the written activity and question each other when completing the challenge activity.
Finish the lesson with an effortless plenary for children to share their learning and present the challenge work, this lesson is all ready to go to enthuse your pupils about UK coasts.
Resources
Find all the physical and human features of coasts explained clearly and reinforced with images and diagrams. Read and print a detailed lesson plan and all the resources needed.
Activities
Consolidate the children’s learning using ICT. Offer two reasoning extension activities to challenge the children and deepen their understanding of Geography.
National Curriculum Objectives:
Learn about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments,
Learn about the interaction between physical and human processes, formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments.
All reviews welcome.
A logical follow up lesson would be here covering human impact on coasts.
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Journey Through Surprising Russia
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10 engaging and ready-to-go English lessons responding to and exploring the powerful video clip ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons found on the Literacy Shed.
Lots of high level questioning to probe deeper into this interesting clip and opportunities for paired, individual and group work.
Week 1 - Explore and respond to the story whilst developing writing skills (Talk for Writing -Imitate and Innovate).
Written for KS2 it covers many relevant teaching points:
relative clauses,
expanded noun phrases,
editing and improving language,
parenthesis,
creating an atmosphere,
showing change within characters,
describing settings,
building suspense,
summarising,
identifying word classes,
complex sentences.
Week 2 - Children write their own version of this story using and building on the writing skills learnt in the first week (Talk for Writing - Invent).
The week takes the children through writing the opening, middle and end of their memory story, then editing and publishing it.
Starters include: spellings, adding description, handwriting, editing punctuation and improving words.
Many more teaching points covered:
types of sentence openers,
how to start a story,
building suspense,
writing effective phrases to show change,
using synonyms
using a thesaurus
peer assessment
editing punctuation
editing for sense
editing to improve
Mixture of starters covering key SPAG elements from the New Curriculum.
There are resources to support the lower ability and daily challenges for the higher ability.
Ability groups in plan:
Green - Low ability
Yellow - Mid/low ability
Blue - Mid ability
Red - High ability.
All reviews welcome.
All resources, plans, PowerPoints and display included.
Display includes:
Title
Short explanation of the movie
Images from the movie
Powerful descriptive vocabulary cards
Features list of this genre
Sentence Opener ideas
Paragraph Opener ideas
Key events of movie on arrows for ordering
Modelled examples of creating an atmosphere
Modelled examples of expanded noun phrases
Modelled examples of relative clauses
Higher level thinking questions
An engaging KS1 assembly on Charles Darwin’s life and achievements. Includes the complete PowerPoint assembly, reasoning questions, differentiated follow up writing resources and opportunities for discussion.
Involve the students with the interactive questions and inspire them to become scientists. Includes differentiated follow up writing activities with all the necessary resources.
Can be used on Darwin’s birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers.
Key teaching points covered:
Darwin’s beliefs
Darwin’s early life and careers
His big break at 22
Adventures around the world
Darwin’s theories and the public’s views
His characteristics for success
Impact on the world
Darwin’s family life
Celebrating Darwin
Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly.
3 differentiated writing resources included to extend the assembly/input into a full lesson. Give your pupils opportunities to imaginatively respond to his amazing life.
Perfect for year 1 and year 2.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular KS1 science resources:
Science Week Assembly
Science Week Posters
Science Week Investigations
An engaging KS2 assembly to celebrate World Poetry Day in your school.
Includes a 36 slide PowerPoint, 8 famous poets from around the world, 8 poems, map skills, higher level thinking questions and role models.
This assembly teaches the children about 8 famous poets from around the world introduced with a short biography and a famous poem they have written. All the poems are short, relevant for KS2 and inspiring. Includes map skills, higher level thinking questions and inspirational writing role models.
Each country has a map, flag and landscape picture to develop geographical understanding as well.
Reasoning questions and answers about each poem are provided and time at the end of the assembly to reflect and look forwards.
Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity, a shared understanding and endangered languages around the world.
Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers whilst developing their understanding of how everyone in the world has the same questions and feelings. Show them how poetry can capture the creative spirit of the human mind.
All reviews welcome.
You might also be interested in my packs of poems and lessons:
India Culture Poem Collection
Arctic Tundra Poem Collection
5 Reading Lessons on Writing Poetry
5 Reading Lessons on Performing Poetry
