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Perfect for Year 3&4, How Fossils Are Made takes students on a time-travel journey to discover how evidence of ancient life is preserved and what fossils can tell us about the past.

This engaging reading pack explores how living things become fossils, from buried bones and shells to preserved footprints and impressions. Students learn about different types of fossils and the conditions needed for fossilisation, helping them understand how scientists study life from long ago.

Designed to support classroom learning, the pack includes activities that build vocabulary, strengthen retrieval and inference skills, and develop understanding of nonfiction texts.

This Learning Journal shows pupils how to capture ideas, vocabulary, questions and reflections across reading, listening and discussion — built over time and owned by pupils.

This Learning Journal resource is designed to help pupils build a visible record of thinking across lessons, rather than completing one-off tasks.

Pupils create a two-page spread in their books that is added to gradually after different learning inputs, such as:

  • assemblies
  • reading texts
  • listening comprehension
  • short videos
  • reflection or discussion tasks
  • Instead of filling in a worksheet, pupils choose thinking structures, organise ideas with purpose, and explain their understanding using sentence starters and prompts.

What this Learning Journal supports:

  • deeper comprehension and reflection
  • vocabulary development in context
  • pupil ownership and choice
  • flexible outcomes at different depths
  • inclusive access for EAL, SEND and reluctant writers

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How Are Fossils Made? | Explanation Writing

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Free Supporting Video
A short, child-friendly video is available to support this lesson and reinforce key ideas. Bitesize Education on YouTube

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Fossils Mega Bundle | Science + ELA Reading, Writing, Journal & Bulletin Board +

Make your fossils unit more engaging with this cross-curricular Science + ELA bundle packed with reading, writing, vocabulary, comprehension, and hands-on learning activities. This Fossils Mega Bundle helps children build scientific knowledge while also developing key literacy skills through meaningful topic-based tasks. Perfect for Year 3&4, this resource is designed to support reading comprehension, nonfiction reading, explanation writing, vocabulary development, discussion, and independent learning. Children can explore what fossils are, how fossils are formed, what they tell us about the past, and why fossils are important to scientists. At the same time, they will strengthen their ELA skills through reading, responding to texts, recording ideas, and completing engaging follow-up activities. This fossils bundle is ideal for science lessons, ELA integration, morning work, small groups, independent practice, whole-class teaching, early finishers, homework, and extension tasks. It is a great way to bring together science content and literacy learning in one easy-to-use resource. Teachers will love the strong Science + ELA focus, the variety of learning opportunities, and the flexible ways the materials can be used across a fossils topic. Students will love the mix of reading, writing, discussion, and creative activities that help bring prehistoric learning to life. This bundle combines your Reading & Writing pack, Learning Journal, Bulletin Board Pack, and Puzzles & Posters into one topic-based resource set for Year 3&4. * The reading and writing materials include differentiated questions and answers, teacher presentations, printable worksheets, lesson plans, model texts, and assessment support. * The learning journal adds printable templates, sentence starters, thinking prompts, assembly slides, a reading text, listening comprehension, an explainer video, and teacher guidance. * The bulletin board pack includes banners, borders, posters, vocabulary, definitions, a fact file, research sheets, learning objectives, and question prompts. * The puzzles and posters pack adds a word search, crossword, coloring pages, display posters, and answer keys. * Click on the preview or files to find out more about the resources. * Free Supporting Video A short, child-friendly video is available to support this lesson and reinforce key ideas. Bitesize Education on YouTube If you have questions, do not hesitate to email me at: bitesizeeducation01@gmail.com Thank you for visiting The Bitesize Education Shop – I would love for you to become a follower. Followers receive new product alerts and discounts on new releases!

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