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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Christmas Celebrations
Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season
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Nativity Play
Organise and rehearse a performance of the nativity story from the Bible for a special Christmas assembly
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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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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School Energy
Create posters to display around the school illustrating instructions to follow when conserving energy usage
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Story Jigsaws
Practise combining and sequencing narrative events from different story genres to invent and share new stories
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Story Plays
Develop and strengthen drama and oral skills by performing plays to illustrate the narrative sequence in favourite stories
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Local History
Develop cross-curricular skills by exploring the history and location of different buildings found in the local area
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Lesson Differentiation
Plan how to use lesson differentiation to support and promote educational progress for different ability levels
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Homework
Select and plan a range of homework activities to develop and refine skills in all curriculum subject areas
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Life Skills
Learn and develop essential skills that the pupils can use in all aspects of their lives now and in the future
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Early Morning Work
Develop and practise a range of skills in all curriculum areas as preparation for the start of each school day
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Money Division
Model and record how to divide a selection of money amounts by different numbers with quotients using remainders
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Money Division Tens
Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by ten with matching remainders in the number quotients
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Traditional Fables
Explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson
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The Dove and the Ant
Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life