I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs:
To understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story.
To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader
To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how we can reach our own conclusions based on the information contained in a text
To be able to use deduction and inference to help predict what’s going to happen in a story.
To understand the way an author ends a story by drawing ideas together.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author sells his story to his reader.
To understand how an author introduces his main characters.
To understand how an author creates a story within a story.
To understand how different characters behave when faced with their own dilemmas.
To understand how a master story teller weaves different elements of a story together.
To understand how an ending of a story links back to its beginning.
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review Read and write alternative spellings / ai/ ey, ea, eigh and aigh (Week 04 ai sound.pptx)
Teach reading, writing and spelling words with /ee/, ea, split digraph e-e
Teach / Practice spelling the phase 4 tricky words any, many, please, people
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142 (Letters and Sounds)
Apply writing sentences p149 (Letters and Sounds)
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/oo/ (short – u)
Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /or/ au, aw
Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words thought, some, because, when
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142
Apply writing sentences p149
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information
To understand more challenging vocabulary
To be able to explain the differences in settings
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To answer simple questions based on the text
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
The Giraffe Pelly and Me / Magic Finger - LA
George Marvellous Medicine - LA / MA
The Twits - MA
James and the Giant Peach - MA / HA
Fantastic Mr Fox - HA
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers
To understand how the author implies things by his use of language.
To understand the moral of Roald’s story.
To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author uses flashbacks to tell a story.
To understand what life was like a hundred years ago.
To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative.
To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully.
To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War.
To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.
Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of:
The birth of Zeus
Theseus and the Minotaur
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Perseus and the Gorgon
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book
To make predictions based on what has been read already.
To understand how an author can convey impatience in a character.
To understand how an author interweaves real life with fantasy
To identify key turning points in a story.
To understand how an author uses language to convey hidden meanings.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading.
NB this resource includes each story in Word Format.
Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions
LOs
To be able to explain the moral of a story.
To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences
To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language.
To discuss creation myths
To use context and verbal clues to decode a text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on information provided in the cover, blurb and introduction.
To use inference and deduction to explain the main character’s current circumstances.
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand what life was like in Victorian London.
To empathise with the main character at the lowest point of the novel.
To make predictions based on inference and deduction.
To reflect on a completed story.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery.
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery.
• Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO To understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.
