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.

  • Reading Recovery

    Reading Recovery

    Support, promote and develop good reading habits and skills progression for all pupils in the class

  • Whole Class Guided Reading

    Whole Class Guided Reading

    Develop and promote literacy skills when reading texts with the whole class using a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres

  • Prayers for Peace

    Prayers for Peace

    Compose individual and group prayers to reflect on different ways of resolving conflicts relating to either personal or global issues

  • World Worries

    World Worries

    Develop and implement a number of techniques to understand and react to unsettling and troubling events in the world

  • Lesson Puzzles

    Lesson Puzzles

    Create engaging and exciting lessons by devising a series of puzzles to match different learning objectives for a range of curriculum subjects

  • Current Events

    Current Events

    Develop skills in all curriculum areas by harnessing interest in events currently happening around the world

  • School Adventures

    School Adventures

    Develop practical, social and physical skills across the curriculum by completing a range of activities in the school grounds

  • Royal Banquet

    Royal Banquet

    Practise literacy, numeracy and creative skills by planning and pricing foods and drink to serve at a banquet for a special royal occasion

  • Developing Reading

    Developing Reading

    Support and develop reading skills to enable access to a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts across all curriculum subjects

  • Community Links

    Community Links

    Explore how to establish and build strong links in the local community to support learning across the curriculum

  • Listening Skills

    Listening Skills

    Develop and refine listening skills to enable pupils to participate effectively in classroom discussions and presentations

  • Spelling Support

    Spelling Support

    Support progress and development in spelling to enable pupils to become fluent and proficient writers across a range of writing genres

  • Money Division Eights

    Money Division Eights

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by eight with matching remainders in the number quotients

  • Money Division Fives

    Money Division Fives

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by five with matching remainders in the number quotients

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen