A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To find evidence that shows that a story has been written in the past. To explore how an author uses language to bring a story alive. To understand how an author uses contrast to describe two major characters. To be able to make informed predictions using clues like Chapter titles and knowledge of preceding story. To understand how an author can use secondary characters to develop a primary character. To recognise the climax of a novel. To understand how an author can relate a story within a 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 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 the purpose of an opening chapter To understand how an author develops relationships between characters. To understand how characters can be introduced using the viewpoint of the main character. To understand how secondary characters help develop a primary character To show how an author uses an address to the reader to provide additional information. To use inference and deduction to understand how the people of America feel when they see the giant peach. To form and share opinions about a completed novel.

A revision or assessment tool for the use of all the verb tenses covered in Year 6 Grammar test. Verbs include: simple past, simple present, present perfect, past perfect, past progressive (or past continuous), present progressive (or present continuous, passive voice, active voice and subjunctive. Can also be used with Assertive Mentoring's Grammar Hammer 4.

A revision or assessment tool for the use of punctuation that will be encountered in Year 6 Grammar test. Punctuation included: inverted commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, colon, dash, ellipse, use of commas in subordinate clauses. Can also be used with Assertive Mentoring's Grammar Hammer 4.

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 characters. To understand how an author develops the central character. To understand how secondary characters are introduced. To use deduction and inference to understand a character’s feelings and opinions To understand how different stories about the same character help develop that character. To make predictions about a character based on what’s been read.

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 reflect on the opening of a story. To understand how an author develops the central idea of his book. To understand how an author contrasts feelings between two main characters. To understand how an author builds suspense To reflect on a completed text.

A great introductory activity or mini topic on the way that Victorian society changed during Victorian times. This mini topic uses the Market Place PowerPoint to present to your whole class a series round robin / market place / carousel activities. Each of six groups will have skim and scan, research and present information on one of the six following areas of interest: The Abolition of Slavery Child Labour The changing role of education in the lives of children The industrial revolution and its impact on Victorian life. The changing role of Women Workhouses and the Poor Law They will then gather information from the other five groups before answering a quiz based on this information. In addition to meeting the learning objectives, children will also develop turn taking, team work, collaborative research and effective presentation strategies. Learning Objectives: To organise and select relevant historical information from a range of sources. To devise and answer questions about the changes to society during the Victorian period. Learning Outcomes: To have researched and recalled this historical time period. To have explained to others and understood for themselves the impact of change on life in Britain.

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 develop a feeling of empathy with the main character of a book. To use recall, skimming and scanning to find out information about the story. To use your own experiences to comment on what’s happening in a story. To use inference and deduction to understand the behaviour of the main characters of a Chapter. To use recall and references to answer questions on the text. To recognise how an author starts to bring a story to its conclusion. To reflect upon a completed text.

LOs: Starter: To read and write numbers up to 1,000,000 (Y5) To read and write numbers up to 10,000,000 (Y6) Main Lesson: To write in words the sum of numbers up to 1,000,000. (Y5) To write in words the sum of numbers up to 10,000,000. (Y6) This lesson consists of: A connect / starter PowerPoint where children write numbers up to 1,000,000 / 10,000,000 as digits and in words. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire teaching the conventions of writing numbers up to 10,000,000 An independent task where children use mental addition to generate numbers up to 10,000,000 (Challenge - including up to 3dps) An AFL / Next Steps task where children apply their knowledge to real life population problems. A homework option linked to real life where children use research skills to find out local populations and write these out in words. Also included for SEN / EAL children Spelling vocabulary for the number values.

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.