I have worked in both KS2 and KS1 as class teacher and am also English Leader in KS1. For the last 5 years, I have been teaching in Y2, which gave me plenty of ‘SATs experience’. However, I have been trying to ensure that the skills children need to apply in their SATs are linked to everyday life experiences and have applied them as much as I could to our topics, in order to avoid 'teaching to the test'. I really value your feedback on my resources. Happy browsing!
I have worked in both KS2 and KS1 as class teacher and am also English Leader in KS1. For the last 5 years, I have been teaching in Y2, which gave me plenty of ‘SATs experience’. However, I have been trying to ensure that the skills children need to apply in their SATs are linked to everyday life experiences and have applied them as much as I could to our topics, in order to avoid 'teaching to the test'. I really value your feedback on my resources. Happy browsing!
Use the map in the powerpoint for children to find the castles pictured in the word document. They then use the map they have to mark on their own blank map where the castles are.
This is a little comprehension I made for my year 4 when we discussed time travel and whether it was possible. It is not very long and not differentiated but they got a lot out of it and really enjoyed it. Plus there are a couple of follow up sheets attached for their science following the comprehension.
Originally designed for lower primary (Year 1-3), this resource is a great way to get children to think about what they want to do in the holidays. They have 9 sentence starters eg On a rainy day I want to… On a hot day I want to … To keep learning I want to… and they have to make their own bucket list for the holidays. It could be adapted for higher year groups.
Also a little pattern puzzle activity whereby each child gets to design a tile and it can be put together as a class piece of art work.
Apostrophes for Contraction:
Differentiated 3 ways -
Top group has to find words where apostrophes have to be added and re-write sentences using apostrophes in the correct places.
Middle Group has to change underlined words to words with apostrophes.
Bottom group has to match contradicted form to the two words it is made of and work on a few sentences as challenge.
Comprehension. Differentiated 4 ways -
Higher order thinking questions. To go with a printout of the story that YOU have e.g. book, twinkle etc. Text not included just questions.
Retrieval questions
Multiple choice questions
Colouring in Cinderella comprehension with challenge question and sentence to unscramble.
For the top two, part of the sentence is in bold which they have to use as sentence starter for their answer to encourage them to answer in full sentences.
VERY BASIC SLIDE ON NOTEBOOK TO INTRODUCE
Speech/Thought bubble activity
Children work in mixed ability on these four scenarios again to fill in thought and speech bubbles. Could be acted out in partners too. Not differentiated.
Up-leveling
Short activity - improving 6 sentences. Differentiated by outcome - children follow the steps to the step they can get to.
Correcting mistakes
Children proofread sentences where is/are and him/her are not correct and edit them. For children who cannot access this there is a second activity about unscrambling sentences about Cinderella.
Sequencing Pictures Activity
Not differentiated. Children can cut and stick pictures in the correct order and label/annotate/write sentences.Great for EAL.
Grammatically correct sentences.
This activity is based on a Pie Corbett game. You start with challenge 1 and make a sentence with just one word. Then move on to challenge 2 and add a second word, so now you have to use both words in a sentence. Then you add a third, non-related word and children have to come up with a grammatically correct sentence and use their imagination to add write a new sentence this time using all three words.
Identifying speech and adding speech marks.
In a small group or in partners children read following Cinderella text. They work out together which bits are spoken by the characters, then underline what is spoken. Next they re-write in their book and put the spoken sentence which they underlined inside speech marks “_____”.
Lesson 1:
Features of a report. Show children a report on the board. Talk about its features eg headings, subheadings, paragraphs and their jobs. Then give children a cut up report and ask them to put it back together and label the features. Challenge is answering questions about it. Eg What do I find in the third paragraph? (see notebook)
Lesson 2:
Vocabulary used in a report. Show children the report from yesterday. Go through what adjectives, connectives and openers are and ask children to investigate the report for VCOP. Record on sheet in mixed ability partners. Then write down one opener, adjective etc and make sentences about nocturnal animals orally.
This comprehension is all about Valentine's Day. It is not differentiated this time but three pages long with 13 questions which could be answered in mixed ability partners. It is NOT based on an information text but rather on three text message exchanges of which there are mobile phone screenshots on there.
1) One between mummy and child wishing Happy Valentine's and saying I love you and the child thanking mummy for all she does. The questions are some retrieval and some higher order thinking questions.
2) One exchange between two best friends, one of them saying she feels lonely and depressed for not having a Valentine. The other friend cheers her up saying it's about having loving people and they swear by 'best friends forever'.
We again have some retrieval question and some higher level thinking questions. There i also one about the convention of putting 'xxx' at the end of messages.
3. A message exchange between husband and wife wishing each other happy Valentine's. Husband says he has a surprise, the wife should have a vase at the ready and not eat too much during the day so she is hungry tonight. Children have to use inference to work out what the surprise is and there is a language based question as well.
So the whole comprehension covers a lot of skill, hence it is thought for mixed ability pairs - recommended for KS2.
Comprehension included as PDF and Word, plus pictures of the text message exchanges.
Two differentiated sheets for mapping South America.
Children make their own key of countries or fill in the key by colouring in the countries of South America.
The challenges are based on Brazil and mapping cities/rivers.
Works best when copied on/blown up to A3.
Map for both attached in case your school has no atlases or not enough to go round.
Attached as PDF and WORD (same sheets).
Please see the 3 screen shots for detailed preview which can be found in the preview to the right.
Maths sheet on bar charts: Children read the table of who was in the final in the past and what their results were and make a bar chart of how many goals were scored in each final throughout the years and answer some questions about it. Differentiated - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart. 6 sheets - counting in 1s, 2s, 5s always with chart labelled and without.
There is also another sheet where children choose 5 countries and represent in a bar chart how many times each country has participated in the final.
Maths activity on finding all possibilities: Differentiated three ways. Children have the task of designing a new football kit for their favourite country and have to choose three (four) colours. They then find all possible ways of putting a new kit consisting of either shorts and t-shirt or shorts, t-shirt (and socks) tgether for their chosen colours. usong colouring.
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for ‘UEFA EURO 2024 Germany Activities’ by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
Here some resources I made for my class for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany. This pack includes:
A two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year’s games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc.
A 4 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer. It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with retrieval and some inference questions.
A geography worksheet for mapping countries in Europe that take part. Children can choose 12 countries, find them on the map and make a key. If you wanted to differentiate it, you could print it out twice and fill in the key for one already. I would recommend copying the map on A3 paper to make it easier for children.
Maths sheet on bar charts: Children read the table of who was in the final in the past and what their results were and make a bar chart of how many goals were scored in each final throughout the years and answer some challenge questions about it. Differentiated - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart (differentiated in bar charts going up in 1s, 2s, 5s).
There is also another sheet where children choose 5 countries and represent in a bar chart how many times each country has participated in the final.
Maths activity on finding all possibilities: Differentiated three ways. Children have the task of designing a new football kit for their favourite country and have to choose three (four) colours. They then find all possible ways of putting a new kit consisting of either shorts and t-shirt or shorts, t-shirt and socks together for their chosen colours. This activity comes with a notebook file to model.
This is an activity based on the flags of the participating countries in the EURO 2024 in Germany. There is one sheet with all the names of the countries and their flags which is followed by 4 activity sheets:
Comparing two flags. Children choose two flags, draw them and compare them - what is the same and what is different.
Sorting the flags into symmetrical and non-symmetrical.
A blank Venn diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the flags into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
A blank Carroll diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the shapes into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
Maths - Adding several numbers (single digit, multiples of 10/100 and adding several two-digit numbers - differentiated) using several top UEFA EURO ‘24 footballers’ names printed on the sheet.
Enjoy!
A two pages long information sheet with some facts about the past of the UEFA, this year’s tournaments and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc or as introduction for the comprehension.
A 4 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer.
It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with retrieval and some inference questions.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for ‘UEFA EURO 2024 Germany Activities’ by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
This is an activity based on the flags of the participating countries in the EURO 2016 in France. There is one sheet with all the names of the countries and their flags which is followed by 4 activity sheets:
Comparing two flags. Children choose two flags, draw them and compare them - what is the same and what is different.
Sorting the flags into symmetrical and non-symmetrical flags.
A blank Venn diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the flags into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories). For best outcome blow up to A3.
A blank Carroll diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the shapes into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories). For best outcome blow up to A3.
Enjoy!
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for ‘UEFA EURO 2024 Germany Activities’ by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
Here are 6 differentiated worksheets (2 pages each) that I made for my class to relate maths learning to the UEFA Euro 24 in France.
On each sheet, the letters of the alphabet are printed at the top and each letter has a value. Then there are pictures of important players and children then have to work out the total of the names of the footballers.
There are three sheets designed for applying mental strategies to work out name scores:
-WALT add using mental strategies: Adding single-digit numbers using basic number bonds.
WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 10.
WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 100.
There are three more differentiated sheets, where children can apply the column method( ie on a mini whiteboard) for addition to work out the score of each name:
WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 30).
WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 50).
WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 100).
The children then work out their own names’ scores and compare them to the footballers :)
Attached as word (editable) and PDF.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 7 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for ‘UEFA EURO 2024 Germany Activities’ by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
A geography worksheet for mapping countries in Europe that take part. Children can choose 12 countries from the list provided, find them on the map and make a key. If you wanted to differentiate it, you could print it out twice and fill in the key for one already. I would recommend copying the map on A3 paper to make it easier for children.
I also added a two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year’s games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc. or to get the kids 'hooked…
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for ‘UEFA EURO 2024 Germany Activities’ by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
COMPREHENSION
This is a brilliant comprehension to use in English when talking about harvest as it links to RE. I would recommend it for year 2 and up. It is based on the song Cauliflowers Fluffy which you can find here on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRQEQgyGAGA
Here are four differentiated sheets with the lyrics of the songs and questions underneath.
Extended level: Retrieval and higher order thinking questions (Why, What does it mean..., Which word tells you that...)
Core: Focused more on simple retrieval from the text.
Lower Core: Simple retrieval from the text but scaffolded multiple choice for half of the questions.
Nurture, SEN, EAL: Using the song and text children read for mening and find colour and adjective used to describe the fruit/veg and draw the harvest basket.
BAR CHARTS
These differentiated maths sheets are about on bar charts: Children read the table of how many children like which fruit and make a bar chart of it plus they answer questions about it. It is differentiated into bar charts that go up in 1s, 2s and 5s. It is further differentiated for each (1s, 2s or 5s) - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart.
Furthermore the same activity again but with a blank table for children to investigate in their own class and create a car chart from there.
ADDING SEVERAL NUMBERS
Here are 6 differentiated worksheets (2 pages each) that I made for my class to relate maths learning to Harvest.
On each sheet, the letters of the alphabet are printed at the top and each letter has a value. Children then have to work out the total of several harvest words printed on the sheet.
1. There are three sheets designed for applying mental strategies to work out name scores:
-WALT add using mental strategies: Adding single-digit numbers using basic number bonds.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 10.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 100.
2. There are three more differentiated sheets, where children can apply the column method or a calculator for addition to work out the score of each name:
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 30).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 50).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 100).
The children then work out their own word's score and compare them to the other words :) Can easily be edited for your own classes.
This is a comprehension to use in English to jazz up your lessons when approaching Christmas.
I would recommend it for (a high) year 2 and higher.
It is based on the song 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day' by Wizzard which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4Cyhf_neU
There are four differentiated sheets with the lyrics of the songs and questions underneath.
-Extended level: Retrieval and higher order thinking questions (Why, What does it mean..., Which word tells you that...)
- Core: Focused more on simple retrieval from the text.
- Lower Core/Nurture: Simple retrieval from the text but scaffolded multiple choice for half of the questions.
- Nurture, SEN, EAL: Using the song and text children write words to match picture (vocab), find adjectives used to describe things and draw scenes from the song/label them.