Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 fractions statement: round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Explains key vocabulary: rounding up or down, tenths, ones, etc. → Walks through different examples linked to rounding to the nearest whole number, starting with single digits (i.e. 4.6 --> 5) up to three digit (i.e. 593.7 --> 594) → Pictorial examples embedded within the presentation to help children take the step from visual to abstract → Place value charts used throughout to aid children’s understanding of how tenths relate to ones. → Shows how to round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number → AfL built into the lesson at each stage to allow you to assess quickly and effectively who has understood each step. → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Fraction Lessons: Recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths Round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places

A diary entry from the perspective of the last man on Earth written after terrible events have taken place leading to his isolation and lonliness. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Perfect for SATs preparation → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

A short story about an elephant safari, set in India during the 1800s. A pompous and privileged individual sets out to capture a tiger. Little does this individual know but the tiger is stalking him… This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Perfect for SATs preparation → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

A short story about a dragon named Elearion. Sold as an egg, treated unfairly in his youth and seeking revenge in his adulthood. Inspire boys to read with this energetic and descriptive fictional writing. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

A short story about a dragon named Elearion. Sold as an egg, treated unfairly in his youth and seeking revenge in his adulthood. Inspire boys to read with this energetic and descriptive fictional writing. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

A short story about a dragon named Elearion. Sold as an egg, treated unfairly in his youth and seeking revenge in his adulthood. Inspire boys to read with this energetic and descriptive fictional writing. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Perfect for SATs preparation → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

As a royal Norwegian boat sinks, sadly only one man survives. Fortunately, scientists were able to recover his diary to see what happened to both the ship and the man. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 fractions statement: solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division statement: solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy

Dr. Jack and Dr. Rebecca are searching for a lost underwater city, but what they find is far more disturbing and scary... This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Clare had always been the type of girl to behave well. All her life in fact. So imagine her reaction when she woke up early Christmas morning to no presents! Thankfully, there is a happy ending. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

On a remote planet called Dantin 6 the Galactic Order mine the precious Dantin crystals, but the natives are less than pleased with them stripping their planets assets. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 position and direction statement: plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to draw a variety of regular and irregular polygons using co-ordinates on a grid → Clear and precise instructions as to how we plot co-ordinates and then how to join them together using a ruler → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Shows exactly how to meet the statement plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). → Plenary activity to stretch learners knowledge by applying their skills to a more complex problem The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Position & Direction Lessons: Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

A revolutionary new spaceship that allows for faster-than-light travel is about to be used for the first time in the history of humanity - what could possibly go wrong? This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. <em><strong>Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:</strong></em> <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-and-4-guided-reading-text-roaring-rockets-11682006”> Roaring Rockets </a></strong> <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-and-4-guided-reading-text-are-we-alone-11688670”> Are We Alone? </a></strong> <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-and-4-guided-reading-text-night-flight-11758565”> Night Flight </a></strong>

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about 4 beautifully illustrated dog breeds! The Pug, Husky, Labrador and King Charles Cavalier are all explored in detail within this non-fiction reading comprehension. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.

An acrostic poem all about life under the sea featuring detailed comparison and thought provoking meanings about how the sea can be many different things to the different animals that call it home This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3 Fraction Lessons: Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominator Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit