Teaching Ideas for English
Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for English.
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Easter Party
Develop art and design skills and techniques by producing different models and artwork to celebrate Easter with family and friends
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Easter Gospels
Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story
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Lent Temptations
Use the period between Shrove Tuesday and Easter to introduce the class to a range of themes illustrating what happened to Jesus when he was tempted by devil in the desert
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Pancake Party
Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons
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Pancake Recipes
Demonstrate grasp and understanding of different skills cross the curriculum by creating pancake recipes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday
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Class Games
Devise a number of games for the class to play to reinforce their understanding of different skills that are needed when working in a range of curriculum subjects
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Love Hearts
Develop literacy and fine motor skills by baking and decorating biscuits with special messages to give to someone on Valentine’s Day
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Curriculum Catch-up
Identify attainment gaps within the class and plan supporting literacy and numeracy lessons and interventions
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Book Corner
Build a book corner in the classroom to support and encourage reading of different fiction genres and non-fiction texts
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Fresh Start
Settle the class into the new school term by reviewing past achievements and setting behaviour and academic targets
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New Year Targets
Identify different ways of selecting class and individual behaviour and work targets for the remaining two terms of the school year
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Right Angles
Identify, measure and compare some examples of right angles that can be seen in different shapes, objects and locations
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Clock Times
Identify and record different times on analogue clock faces to minutes and use Roman Numerals to show the timing and duration of events
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Contractions Word Sums
Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair
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Fraction Halves
Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations