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This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the final lesson 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 final section of the text (from the point at which the soldiers are creating firebreaks to the end of the text). 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 (18 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 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 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 lesson is the second in a series of three lessons designed to accompany class reading of Satoshi Kitamura’s 'Stone Age Boy.’ This lesson covers the middle section of the text (from the section outlining Stone Age life to the section in which Om and the boy enter the cave). 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 (21 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. The lesson has a particular focus upon the historical context of the Stone Age, and contains information about when it was and the different periods. 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 life in the Stone Age. 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 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 lesson is the first in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Satoshi Kitamura’s 'Stone Age Boy.’ This lesson covers the opening section of the text (up to the words ‘I saw them…’). 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 inference and empathy to write a diary entry from the perspective of the narrator. In addition to the instructions in the slideshow, a helpsheet/ success criteria is provided to guide the children’s creative compositions (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 James Carter’s poem 'Once Upon A Raindrop.’ 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: ‘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;’ ‘The Water Cycle’ - 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 16 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.

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 double lesson is designed to accompany class reading of the poem 'There’s a Rang-tan in My Bedroom.’ By the end of the double lesson, children develop a secure understanding of the key meanings of the poem and enhanced contextual knowledge about the plight of orangutans in south-east Asia. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Making predictions; -Understanding the key features of context; -Retrieving key information and inferring hidden meanings. The lesson includes key contextual information about orangutans and their habitat, plus their critically endangered status and reasons why. A research template is also provided (in both Word and PDF) to support a task which allows them to develop further contextual understanding. A link is provided to a video animation of the poem being read aloud, to support the children’s reading of the poem. Once they are familiar with the poem, the lesson includes a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper discussion activites. For the main creative activity, children produce a persuasive poster encouraging others to act, in line with the main messages of the poem. Helpful examples of persuasive devices, in addition to a ‘Writing to Persuade’ helpsheet (in Word and PDF) are also provided. There is a lot of content here (the PowerPoint presentation is 22 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 Lynne Cherry’s ‘The Great Kapok Tree.’ (Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions). They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS1 expectations within the National Curriculum framework - 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: ‘Feed Jaguar!’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘talk about their favourite words and phrases in the story;’ ‘Cherry’s Description’ - 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;’ ‘The Blurb’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Say what might happen next in a story based on what has happened so far;’ ‘Story Mountain’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Enjoy reading and discussing the order of events in books and how items of information are related.’ 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. All images are licensed for commercial use.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Lynne Cherry’s 'The Great Kapok Tree.’ 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: ‘Cherry’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;’ ‘The Jaguar’ and 'The Birds of the Amazon’ - 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 Lynne Cherry’ - 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 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 engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the second in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Lynne Cherry’s 'The Kapok Tree.’ This lesson covers the middle section of the text (from ‘a troupe of monkeys’ to ‘destroy that which gives us all life.’) The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through: -Retrieving key information; -Inferring hidden meanings; -Explaining important ideas. The lesson focuses on the techniques used by the animals in the story to persuade the man not to cut down the tree - considering the reasons that they give and the persuasive techniques that they use. The PowerPoint presentation (17 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. For the deeper thinking task, children create their own persuasive poster, including some of the reasons and persuasive techniques - a helpsheet is provided to guide the children’s thinking (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.