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.
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.
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 be able to emphasise with a character from the past.
To use contextual clues to date a book.
To think about how one piece of new can change the tone of a story.
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 activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story.
To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale.
To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas.
To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text.
To be able to reflect on a completed 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 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.
To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book.
To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words.
To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters.
To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world.
To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward.
To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends
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 Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To identify how an author can write a story within a story.
To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning
To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.
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 evaluate how effectively an author writes a sequel to the first book in a series.
To understand the characters of the two main people in the story.
To understand how a new major character can be introduced.
To understand how an author chooses words to make a setting seem more authentic.
To make predictions at the low point / dilemma of a story.
To reflect on a completed text.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
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 form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter.
To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time.
To understand how an author builds a sense of tension.
To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters.
To empathise with the main character.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news.
To reflect upon a completed story.
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 reflect on the opening of a story
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story.
To consider the main purpose of the text
To reflect on a completed text
A set of resources to enable you to bring the Anglo Saxon period to life.
This includes a choice of two different sets of comprehension questions (the latter differentiated) , as well as two investigation type activities and a time line which can be used for display as well as at the start and end of the topic for assessment.
Also inow ncluding a Time-line of British history to allow you to provide a context of where Anglo Saxon Britain fits in the larger history of the British Isles.
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 be able to recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter.
To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character.
To understand how characters are developed.
To be able to understand what can motivate characters.
To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.
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 series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
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.
