These ‘Library Challenge’ cards were made for my class library, but they could be used in a school library as well. The idea was just to get the children excited about reading and properly engaged with the books, and they’ve really enjoyed working through the activities – an added bonus being that I use this work to decorate the walls of our library. There’s a selection of 10 Library Challenge Cards, plus a ‘Library Challenge of the Week’ which just allows for changing things up a little without having to print and laminate more cards.

SPAG Powerpoint 1 (of 5) A powerpoint comprising of 88 slides covering aspects of the SPAG curriculum, for example: • Nouns, verbs and adjectives • Prepositions • Consonants, vowels and syllables • Dictionary and thesaurus use • Determiners • Capital letters • Full stops • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Sentence types • 1st/2nd/3rd person • Conjunctions • Connectives • Plurals • Tense • Irregular verbs • Sentence structures: simple, compound and complex Each topic includes a slide or two of teaching plus an activity slide based on the learning in that session. The slides and tasks have been created for a short 15 minute SPAG session but could also be used as starters or in literacy lessons. At the end of each block of 4 topics is a quiz slide (which, if covered daily, would be a Friday session) which recaps the previous 4 topics covered. This powerpoint has enough slides for 6 weeks of daily teaching (one topic per day). A further 4 Powerpoints will be available soon covering the other areas in the SPAG curriculum, including a final revision set at the end.

A WAGOLL diary entry of a good day. The purpose of this was for the children to write their own diary entry, but of a bad day, using this example as a prompt. A differentiated planning sheet (HA/MA/LA) for planning a bad day diary entry based on style of the good day WAGOLL diary entry.

This is a WAGOLL newspaper article, written using the beginning of the story of Kensuke's Kingdom (by Michael Murpurgo), but could be used as an example for any newspaper writing unit. Possible uses: - to annotate features of a newspaper - as a model for writing own newspaper articles - to critique - what is good and not-so-good about this article? P.s. The family is not called 'Finnegan' in Kensuke's Kingdom - we are not told their surname so I made one up!

A generic book review template which can be used for any fiction book. Differentiated twice. Now including editable Word document

Comprehension questions for the poem ‘Where Do All The Teachers Go’ by Peter Dixon. Simple retrieval and inference questions, suitable for UKS1/KS2. Poem not included.

A poster designed to help children to make sure they have included all of the punctuation necessary for speech. It has been made on an A4 sheet, but with the intention of being blown up to A3!

Display cards for a '100 Book Challenge' - where children race to be the first to have read 100 books! Each level could have a prize (for example, a bookmark/pencil/magazine/book token etc.) The books are for the names of the children in the class; I printed them on coloured card and then wrote on them.

Simple planning sheet to help children to structure a story from another culture. Differentiated twice. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

A peer assessment sheet for narrative writing, suitable for KS2. Children rate different elements of their partners work between 1 and 4 stars, with space to provide feedback comments.

Comprehension Questions suitable for UKS2. Questions on selected extracts (not included) for pages: 14 - 22 64 - 70 98- 108

Comprehension Questions for The Shoemaker’s Boy by Joan Aiken Questions on selected extracts (not included) for pages: 5 -13 15 - 24 38 - end

Comprehension Questions suitable for UKS2. Questions on selected extracts (not included) for pages: 89 - 95 96 - 108 126 - 139 157 - 165

Comprehension Questions on page 1 - 20 of ‘How to Upset a Victorian’ by Simon Chesire. Suitable for KS2

A simple fractions of a number worksheet with 10 questions per differentiated level. 1st level: 1/2 and 1/4 2nd level:1/2, 1/4, non-unitary fractions 3rd level: non-unitary fractions involving units of measurement Suitable for KS2/LKS3

A planning sheet for a 'spy thriller’story. Suitable for KS2.

A set of 40 slides containing short activities to practise grammar. Activities include: ‘But’ or ‘so’ Varying sentence openers Don’t say ‘said’ Time challenges ‘Otherwise’ or ‘although’ Adjectives All change Varying sentence structures Tasks should take 3-4 minutes so are perfect for the start of English lessons. Suitable for KS2.

Newspaper writing frame for KS2, differentiated twice.

'Writing like a writer' is a set of Powerpoint slides, each featuring a new word of the day. The purpose of this resource is to broaden the children's vocabulary and is aimed at KS2/lower KS3. The document displays the word, definition and example as well as a short writing task and there are 30 slides (enough for 6 weeks if used daily). The tasks are designed to be creative writing opportunities and so are very varied in theme! The word of the day does not necessarily 'fit' with the writing task, but as the children build up their vocabulary bank they should be able to use previous words to enhance their short piece of writing. This activity is designed to take about 10 minutes, and so can be used as a starter or daily activity during an allocated slot, e.g. register time. The way I have used this in the past is: - introduce the word, children repeat it aloud a few times - explain the definition and read through the example - children write down the word and the meaning in a vocabulary book - children complete the writing task, trying to use the new word or one of the previous words.