Reading comprehension for the the French fairy tale, “Diamonds and Toads” by Charles Perrault. In this anti-fairytale, a widow has two daughters. The older daughter, Fanny, resembles her mother and is favored despite being disagreeable. The younger daughter is kind and beautiful like her late father. The younger girl helps a disguised fairy and is blessed with jewels and flowers falling from her mouth when she speaks. The widow wants the same for Fanny, but Fanny insults the fairy and is cursed, causing toads and snakes to fall from her mouth. When Fanny arrives home, she tells her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fall from her mouth The widow, furious, drives her younger daughter out of the house. In the woods, the younger daughter meets a king’s son, who falls in love with her and marries her. In time, the widow is sickened by her older daughter’s vile mouth, and drives her out too. Fanny dies alone and miserable in the woods. This reading activity resource includes: A reading passage at a 9-12 year old reading level A 15-question comprehension sheet (basic factual questions) A 14-question comprehension sheet (literary analysis questions) An 8-question comprehension sheet (mix of essential questions) A 31-question SAT-style multiple choice quiz (2 pages) A 58-question SAT-style multiple choice quiz (4 pages) A sequencing and story summary cloze activity sheet Two crossword versions using 26 key vocabulary words Answer sheets are also provided.

An introduction of the ‘think multiplication strategy’ to help with division. An animated, interactive PowerPoint presentation with arrays of dots to help students visualize related multiplication and division facts. A partially covered array showing only the number of rows in an array, but not the number of dots in each row is shown, along with a matching fact statement (e.g. “Altogether there are 40 dots”) Students are encouraged to give the multiplication sentence AND related division sentence using the information shown (total number of dots & number of rows/groups) that helps work out the array proportions. e.g. 5 x ? = 40 and 40 ÷ 5= ?. 14 example arrays. Includes 3 level differentiated division / multiplication worksheet in same style, plus colour matching facts for all tables x2-x10

Think Addition Strategy to do Subtraction mental math 2 Presentations & 8 Worksheets - Think-addition-to-do-subtraction is a mental math strategy that introduces students to the concept that there is an inverse relationship between addition and subtraction. You think of an addition fact in the same fact family. For example, you can solve 10 - 4 = ? by thinking 4 + ? = 10 and knowing that 4 + 6 = 10. I made these two PowerPoints to help my grade 3 class (ages 8 & 9) with the think-addition strategy. Many of my students this year are slow to recall number-bond facts, and therefore this has hopefully helped them to see the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction. Could well be used in earlier grades. 1 PowerPoint of 25 sums with matching circles being added and taken away: mainly for subtraction sums between 10-20, but also has 4 slides for facts to 10. Slides can of course be hidden and order rearranged. 2nd PowerPoint of 20 larger sums with no circles: variety of examples within 100. Comes with seven subtraction think addition worksheets in PDF format of increasing difficulty, and 1 editable microsoft word worksheet.

Alternative pronunciation of A worksheet and sorting cards. To support teaching during phase 5 of Letters and Sounds. 39 cards with images useful for practicing reading and sorting into groups of different pronunciation. (also uploaded 16 smaller cards (4 cards for each pronunciation) which students could use for a cut and stick in book activity or similar. Read, sort and write worksheet. a = ‘a’ (as in cat) a = ‘ai’ (as in alien) a = ‘ar’ (as in class) a = ‘o’ (as in wash)

Food word glossary with 77 carefully selected academic vocabulary words for the IPC unit ‘What’s on the Menu’ (could be used with any food unit of study in any curriculum) Each word has a definition and a clear picture. 9 A4 pages. Also included are 54 word wall cards with word and image to use as flashcards or word wall cards. Both resources designed to support EAL learners grasp essential vocabulary.

/igh/ trigraph labeling worksheets. Using 12 extra clear, black and white, clip-art images. Differentiated​ with and without workbank, and wordbank with and without sound buttons.

114 Opposites (antonyms) flashcards (57 pairs of opposites). Designed so that the opposites cards can be printed back to back and flipped over to reveal the opposite. Perfect for use as antonym flashcards, and as quiz-quiz-trade cards. Could also be used for find the matching opposite in the classroom game and concentration memory game and for opposites display.

Inverse multiplication division for fours facts and eights facts. Division as inverse of double-double (dividing by 4) and halve, halve, halve (dividing by eight). Also with input-output table worksheet to use with ones blocks for 3’s and 4’s facts. Plus multiplication - division colour matching for all facts. Differentiated worksheets (LA/MA/HA)

Magic E split digraph a_e labeling worksheet. 33 clear clip-art images to label. Can your learners figure out, read and spell each word? Word box on separate sheet to cross out words