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Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
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Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems using formal written methods in order to crack the Christmas themed codes. This resource includes:
A PPT with a quick warm up, a practise code breaker and a ‘spot the mistakes’ activity.
Code breaker activity with three levels of differentiation.
Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.
Challenges with three levels of differentiation. The challengese include spotting the mistakes, following written clues to fill in a keypad and completing the Christmas maths story with Maths problems within the story.
Answers.
Looking for more Christmas themed activities? Try our KS2 Advent Calendar or our KS2 activity bundle.
A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own explanation text based on a fictional product: telescopic glasses!
Students spend time at the start of the unit designing their own telescopic glasses. This allows them to focus on how to write an explanation text, without becoming bogged down in learning exactly how a specific product works, they can tell us!
This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on Space, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge.
This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their explanation text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about telescopic glasses to supports students’ understanding.
Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs.
Lesson order:
Hook lesson: introducing the telescopic glasses and their purpose. Students design their own telescopic glasses.
Creating diagrams with technical language, students draw and label diagrams of their glasses using technical language.
Identify features of explanation texts, students explore the key features of explanation texts and find examples in the texts provided.
Using parenthesis, students will look at how parenthesis has been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences using parenthesis.
Using relative clauses, students will look at how relative clauses have been used in the sample texts before practising writing their own sentences or paragraphs using relative clauses to describe their glasses.
Writing with conjunctions, students will explore a range of conjunctions and their different purposes in the sample texts. They will then have time to complete sentences or write their own sentences using conjunctions: comparing, contrasting, explaining and describing more than one.
Using cohesive devices, students explore how repeated words/phrases, rhetorical questions and conjunctions are cohesive devices. Activities include highlighting cohesive devices in sample texts and editing paragraphs to make them more cohesive.
Lesson activities will be downloaded as PDF files
Worksheets, comic strips and short passages. Perfect for introducing inverted commas in Y3.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ activity sheet with a range of activities to allow children to add inverted commas, write direct speech with inverted commas and mark sentences. Answers included.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ passage, a short paragraph with direct speech for children to add inverted commas. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with inverted commas. Two versions available – comic strip with complete speech bubbles, blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version.
National Curriculum Links
Year 3 statutory content to be introduced – Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create nouns and understand their meanings. Prefixes: auto, anti, super, fore, mid, sub, tele, mini, micro, multi, semi. Includes definitions of each word for further support or teacher reference.
Matching cards for children to match a prefix to a word and create a new noun, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
National Curriculum Links
Year 3 – formation of nouns using a range of prefixes.
Lower KS2 – use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them.
– apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
A perfect resource to support your teaching of the subjunctive form in Year 6.
Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, allowing children to identify and write sentences in the subjunctive form.
National Curriculum
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing for example the use of subjunctive forms such as If ‘I were’ or ‘were they to come’ in some very formal writing and speech.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon battles and modelling the main activity.
Information text on key Anglo-Saxon battles.
Main activity - students summarise the battles they have read about and create ‘battle cards’ which show the key information about these battles ie. who won, when it took place etc.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons.
This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?*
Clear teaching PPT introducing a range of Anglo-Saxon past times with opportunity to solve some Anglo-Saxon riddles as a whole class.
Carousel of activities: Beowulf storytelling activity, Tafl game and riddle solving.
Whole unit planning.
Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture.
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
A PPT with top tips for learning and recalling times tables, as well as a times tables wheel for students use or display.
The PPT covers:
Times tables wheel, this shows the essential tables that a student needs to learn as times tables questions are commutative. If I know 2 x 3, I also know 3 x 2!
Silly rhymes for remembering times tables facts.
Pattern spotting in the 2, 6, 8 and 10 x tables.
Using your hands to work out the 9 x tables.
Ideal to teach modal verbs Upper KS2 when this objective is first introduced.
‘Modal verbs’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify how modal verbs are used within sentences.
‘Modal verbs’ passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation children to identify the modal verbs used within sentences.
‘Modal verbs’ display cards for your class display.
National Curriculum Links
Statutory content to be introduced in Year 5 – Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must]
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
Differentiation
Modal verbs: should, would, will, may, can, could, might, must and shall.
Modal verbs: includes the above and wouldn’t, shouldn’t, won’t, can’t and mustn’t, in single and some multi-clause sentences.
Modal verbs: includes the above and ought to, in multi-clause sentences. Classifying the modal verbs into
positive and negative as well as by certainty and possibility.
Ideal when teaching how to add prefixes to verbs in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6.
Matching cards for children to match prefixes to verbs, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create new verbs and understand their meanings. Prefixes: de, mis, dis, over and re.
National Curriculum
Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced: verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–].
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.
Ideal for introducing prepositions in Year 3 or consolidation in Year 4.
Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children identify prepositions that show the position of a noun in a sentence. Answers included.
Preposition passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the prepositions used to show the position of nouns. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
Preposition matching cards – match the picture to the preposition. Ideal for small group or paired work.
Preposition display cards.
National Curriculum Links
-Statutory content to be introduced in Year 3:
-Expressing place using prepositions.
Differentiation
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside.
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below.
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below, by, between, near, among, around.
A bundle of 34 resources aimed at Year 3 or suitable in Y4 for consolidation. 34 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included
Resources for:
Punctuation
Inverted commas
Possessive apostrophes
Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
Subordinate clauses
Verbs, nouns and adjectives
Statements, questions or commands.
Activities include identifying grammar within sentences/paragraphs, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences/paragraphs and improving sentences/paragraphs.
Initial sounds activity, children can sound out the initial sounds from the pictures and match them to the correct letter. Use the printable letters included or any wooden or magnetic letters you may have in your classroom.
This activity is perfect when teaching Phase 2 phonics and introducing the following letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.
A fun road map activity allowing children to practise counting from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 through play. Using the printed out road map, encourage children to follow the correct path with a toy car counting from 1-10 and 1-20. Once children have mastered this, they can cut out the numbers from 1 - 20 and place them on the blank road map, creating different pathways for themselves or their peers.
Ten lessons containing teaching resources and PPTs on Anglo-Saxons, covering two enquiry questions. Aimed at Year 5 but suitable across Upper KS2.
**Enquiry Question One:Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
**Enquiry Question 2: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?
**
Writing Bites!
Ten writing prompt sheets, perfect for: morning tasks, English lesson starters or even as a stimulus for a piece of writing. Each sheet has a different image and eight prompts for writing including: vocabulary, writing an alliterative sentence, generating questions and more.
PDF document of ten ‘writing bites’ and a PPT with writing bites explained, as well as an example writing bite.
A bundle of 35 resources aimed at Year 6 but suitable across Upper KS2. 35 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. This bundle is also ideal for SATs revision. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included
Resources for:
Correct and incorrect punctuation
Semi-colons and colons
Commas for clarity
Word types including determiners, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, hyphens, punctuation for parenthesis, inverted commas, modal verbs
Using a word as a noun and a verb
Noun phrases
Tense
Prefixes and suffixes and word meanings
Contractions.
Activities include identifying grammar within sentences, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences, matching meanings and improving sentences.
A bundle of activities that are ideal in Upper Key Stage Two to help you teach pupils how to use colons.
Colon activity sheets with three levels of differentiation that have a range of activities allowing children to use colons correctly and correct sentences that haven’t used colons correctly. Answers included.
Colon talk cards, a range of questions including questions about how colons can be used and identifying where they can be used in a sentence. Perfect for use in pairs or small groups to consolidate what children know about how to use colons.
Colon passages. Short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify where the colons need to go. Ideal as a short activity or as part of a grammar session. Answers included.
National Curriculum
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – Use of the semi-colon, colon and dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses [for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up].
Use of the colon to introduce a list and use of semi-colons within lists.
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using using a colon to introduce a list.
Differentiation
Using colons to introduce lists.
Using colons to introduce lists and single words.
Using colons to introduce lists, single words, speech and to separate independent clauses.
A bundle of activities to teach relative clauses in Year 5 and 6.
‘Relative clauses’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation. Includes a range of activities to allow children to identify relative clauses, write their own and think about the purpose within their own writing. Answers included.
‘Relative clauses’ passages. Short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the relative clauses used. Ideal as a short activity or as part of a grammar session. Answers included.
‘Relative clauses’ game cards. A range of questions for children to ask each other as part of paired or group work.
Relative pronouns display cards.
National Curriculum Links
Year 5 statutory content to be introduced – Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun.
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
Differentiation
Relative clauses beginning with who and which, at the end of sentences.
Relative clauses beginning with who, which, that, where, when and whose. Embedded clauses and at the end of sentences.
Relative clauses beginning with who, which, that, where, when and whose. Implied relative pronouns. Embedded clauses and at the end of sentences, as part of multi-clause sentences.