Literacy and topic resources for students from Year 3 to Year 6. Resources are either free or value for money as I believe that every £ spent should relieve stress, lessen your workload and advance your students' experiences in school.
Literacy and topic resources for students from Year 3 to Year 6. Resources are either free or value for money as I believe that every £ spent should relieve stress, lessen your workload and advance your students' experiences in school.
Eight individual Black History Escape Room activities about the following famous figures from history:
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Katherine Johnson
Nelson Mandela
Mae Jemison
Mahatma Gandhi
Muhammed Ali
Ideal for upper key stage 2, the activities are perfect for group work, Black History Month, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Studies.
Each activity has been split into four different tasks; your students will need to complete each of the tasks to reveal a word. Together the four words make a phrase for them to escape the room.
Included in each of the four resources:
Student guidelines for completing the tasks meaning no teacher prep
A student answer key to complete as they work through the tasks
An informational text or reading comprehension passage
A true or false fact sheet & maze
A crossword puzzle
A timeline activity & answer key
A wordsearch puzzle
Teacher answer sheets for each task
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In Task 1 of each activity students will read an informational text and then find their way through a maze by answering true or false comprehension questions. If they answer the questions correctly they will reveal their first word.
In Task 2 students will use the same informational text to complete a crossword puzzle. Within the puzzle there are several hidden letters which will need to be unscrambled on the completion of the puzzle to reveal the second word.
In Task 3 students will have to cut out 27 timeline task cards before putting them in order from the earliest date to the most recent. When they have finished their task they can glue them onto the answer key which will reveal their third word.
In Task 4 students will have to find the missing words in a wordsearch puzzle before finding a hidden word from the letters that are left over in the puzzle. This hidden word is their fourth and final word.
Students can then complete their student answer key with the four words they revealed before checking with the teacher to see if they have escaped successfully.
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This resource is great for:
Team-building activities
Group work
Research projects
Reading comprehension
Emergency sub plans
Independent work
Introducing a new topic
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This bundle contains four play scripts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III. It also contains six reading comprehension activities; a biography writing unit about William Shakespeare and a discussion based writing unit about which play was his greatest.
The six close reading activities, or informational texts, are about:
The Life of William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
Richard III
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
These activities require NO PREP and have a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity for those fast finishers. Answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of each document.
Secondly, there is a biography writing unit about Shakespeare. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Finally, there is a discussion based writing unit discussing which play is his greatest - Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth or Hamlet. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Good luck, I hope you get some great results!
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This bundle contains four play scripts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III. It also contains six reading comprehension activities; a biography writing unit about William Shakespeare and a discussion based writing unit about which play was his greatest.
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The six reading comprehension activities, or reading comprehension activities, are about:
The Life of William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
Richard III
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
These activities require NO PREP and have a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity, crossword puzzle and wordsearch for those fast finishers. Answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of each document.
Secondly, there is a biography writing unit about William Shakespeare. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Finally, there is a discussion based writing unit discussing which play is his greatest - Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth or Hamlet. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
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The bundle looks at some of the most influential U.S. Presidents throughout American history. The bundle contains nine reading comprehension activities; eight biography writing units; an opinion writing unit; a timeline activity and display; and an interactive card game your students will love. The activities are perfect for students in Year 3 or Year 4.
48 Lessons, or 48 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!
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Firstly, there are nine reading comprehension activities, or informational texts, about:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
These activities require NO PREP and have a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity, crossword puzzle and wordsearch for those fast finishers. Answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of each document.
Secondly, there are eight biography writing units about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson. The units have been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Then, there is a discussion based writing unit discussing who is the most influential U.S. president of all time. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
After, there is a great classroom display and sorting activity that is perfect for introducing students to all of the U.S Presidents throughout history. Great for class work, distance learning and home schooling. There are 46 posters or cards of all of the U.S Presidents, starting with the very first, George Washington, up until present day president, Joe Biden.
Finally, there is a ‘top trumps’ style supercards card game that enables your students to learn about all of the American presidents. Your class will love the trading cards which they can play with in an interactive and engaging way!
Good luck, I hope you get some great results!
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The bundle focuses on some of the most influential U.S. Presidents throughout American history. The bundle contains nine reading comprehension activities; eight biography writing units; two opinion writing units; a timeline activity and display; and an interactive card game your students will love. The activities are perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6.
50 Lessons, or 50 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!
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Firstly, there are nine close reading activities, or informational texts, about:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
These activities require NO PREP and have a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity, crossword puzzle and wordsearch for those fast finishers. Answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of each document.
Secondly, there are eight biography writing units about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson. The units have been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Then, there is two opinion writing units discussing who is the most influential U.S. president of all time. The units have been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
After, there is a great classroom display and sorting activity that is perfect for introducing students to all of the U.S Presidents throughout history. Great for class work, distance learning and home schooling. There are 46 posters or cards of all of the U.S Presidents, starting with the very first, George Washington, up until present day president, Joe Biden.
Finally, there is a ‘top trumps’ style supercards card game that enables your students to learn about all of the American presidents. Your class will love the trading cards which they can play with in an interactive and engaging way!
Good luck, I hope you get some great results!
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A First World War & World War 2 mega bundle of activities featuring 22 reading comprehension activities, 4 biography writing units, 4 informational writing units, 2 timeline activities and 1 opinion writing unit. These easy to use, no prep, resources are perfect for students in Upper Key Stage 2.
60 Lessons, or 60 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!
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Firstly, there are two timeline activities that make great classroom displays, and are also sorting activities that are perfect for introducing students to the key events of World War 1 and World War 2. In the two resources there are 72 posters or cards that include many of the key events from both wars.
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Secondly, there are twenty-two reading comprehension activities, or informational texts, about:
An Overview of World War I
The Outbreak of World War I
Trench Warfare in World War I
The Battle of the Somme
The United States Enters World War I
The Treaty of Versailles
The Outbreak of World War II
An Overview of the War
Dunkirk & The Battle of Britain
The Blitz
The Eastern Front
Pearl Harbour
The Battle of Midway
The Holocaust
VE Day
VJ Day
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Hirohito
These activities require NO PREP and have a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity for those fast finishers. Answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of each document.
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Then, there are nine writing units which include:
Four biography writing units about Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Alan Turing and Franklin Roosevelt. These units cover four lessons each and require students to cut out, read and sort facts before writing these up into paragraphs.
Four informational writing units about an World War I, The Treaty of Versailles, World War II and the Holocaust, . The units have been split into three or four separate lessons which will take students approximately an hour each.
And one opinion writing unit discussing who was the most influential allied leader between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt.
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This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or on Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive. It contains a digital timeline research and sorting activity, fifteen digital reading comprehension activities that timeline World War II and look at the key leaders; two digital biography writing units about both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler; a digital discussion based writing activity about who was the most influential Allied leader from the war; and a digital informational text writing unit about World War II.
34 Online Lessons, or 34 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!
The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6 learning about World War 2.
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This bundle contains the following sixteen digital close reading activities:
The Outbreak of War in Europe
World War II (Overview)
Dunkirk and The Battle of Britain
The Blitz of Britain
The Eastern Front
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Battle of Midway
The Holocaust
The Surrender of the Axis Powers in Europe / VE Day
The Atomic Bombs and Japan’s Surrender / VJ Day
Winston Churchill
Adolf HItler
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
The activities are online resources, that use Google Forms, and are linked to your Google Drive. They can be completed by students online using tablets, phones or computers, and are easily assessed by teachers as all the answers are provided in a quick and easy format.
Then, there is a great World War II Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key events of World War 2. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. There are 42 posters or task cards that include many of the key events and periods from the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany to the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There is also a World War II Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into three separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
Also included is the Most Influential Allied Leader - Discussion Based Writing Distance Learning Unit. This resource is a discussion based writing unit discussing who was the most influential Allied leader of World War II: Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin or Franklin Roosevelt. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
And finally there is the Adolf Hitler Biography Writing Unit, and the Winston Churchill Biography Writing Unit. These units have been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.
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This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:
Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment
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Twelve reading comprehension books with 120 reading comprehension passages focused on key events and figures from each month throughout history. Each of the 120 year-long activities has an informational text with comprehension and grammar questions followed by an extension task, crossword puzzle and wordsearch activity. The NO PREP reading comprehension activities are perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE INDIVIDUAL BOOKS FOR A FULL LIST OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED FOR EACH MONTH.
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Included in this PDF printable bundle:
120 informational texts
Each with a comprehension activity with ten questions
Each with grammar questions about the text
Each with an extension writing activity
Answer sheets for self-assessment or teacher use
Each with a crossword puzzle & wordsearch activity
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This resource is great for:
In class learning
Independent work
Homework
Guided reading sessions
Assessment practice
Reading interventions
Emergency sub plans
The activity requires NO PREP; it has a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity for those fast finishers and answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of the document.
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Time allowance for each activity:
5 minutes - read through the text individually.
40 minutes - answer questions using the text as guidance (including extension activity)
15 minutes - Teacher and students go through the text and answers.
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Twelve reading comprehension books with 120 reading comprehension passages focused on key events and figures from each month throughout history. Each of the 120 year-long activities has an informational text with comprehension and grammar questions followed by an extension task, crossword puzzle and wordsearch activity. The NO PREP reading comprehension activities are perfect for students in Year 3 or Year 4.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE INDIVIDUAL BOOKS FOR A FULL LIST OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED FOR EACH MONTH.
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Included in this PDF printable bundle:
120 informational texts
Each with a comprehension activity with ten questions
Each with grammar questions about the text
Each with an extension writing activity
Answer sheets for self-assessment or teacher use
Each with a crossword puzzle & wordsearch activity
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This resource is great for:
In class learning
Independent work
Homework
Guided reading sessions
Assessment practice
Reading interventions
Emergency sub plans
The activity requires NO PREP; it has a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity for those fast finishers and answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of the document.
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Time allowance for each activity:
5 minutes - read through the text individually.
40 minutes - answer questions using the text as guidance (including extension activity)
15 minutes - Teacher and students go through the text and answers.
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