Kites, Stars and Rockets | Hamilton Brookes

The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.

Recognising, naming and expressing feelings (suggested as 5 days)

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Lesson Planning

You Will Need

Essential Text
How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffer

Essential Poems
Kite (in resources)
Star Light, Star Bright (in resources)

Phonics: Code-Breakers

Code-Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion.

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SPaG Presentations

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Alternatively, these presentations can be used as stand-alone whiteboard sessions. Try your year group below.

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Group Readers

Group Readers are charmingly illustrated short books written to facilitate reading and comprehension progression from Reception right through to Year 6.

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