A week’s worth of planning and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master the order of operations and how to reason from known facts from Block 2 - Week 6. Pupils will learn how to use the order of operations with brackets; they will use known division and multiplication facts to solve related problems; they will solve reasoning and mastery problems based on all these skills for a varying range of abilities. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and problem solving. Answers are provided. All lessons will fit in with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

A week’s worth of planning, presentations and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master the simplification of fractions, equivalent fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions, and ordering fractions on a number line. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. All lessons are compatible with White Rose planning. My own Year 6 class really benefited from these resources. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

A week’s worth of planning, presentations and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master the multiplication and division of fractions. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. Editable versions of each PDF are included, created in Microsoft Word 2010. All lessons will fit in with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

A bit grisly, admittedly, but my pupils relished the task of inventing methods for their dragons to catch prey! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of an explanation with a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of explanation writing - rewrite the explanation using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write an explanation in the style of the author This text will be enjoyed by fans of 'How To Train Your Dragon', 'Eragon', 'The Hobbit' and 'Dragon Rider'. Ideal for use in upper KS2 or lower KS3. I've used this resource successfully in Year 6.

A week’s worth of planning and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master algebra. They will learn how to solve and create one and two-step function machines; they will learn to use algebraic expressions and substitution; they will learn how to use formulae. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. Editable versions of each PDF are included, created in Microsoft Word 2010. All lessons will fit in with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

A week’s worth of planning and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master algebra. They will learn how to use and solve one and two-step equations; they will learn how to enumerate possibilities of combinations of two variables. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. Editable versions of each PDF are included, created in Microsoft Word 2010. All lessons will fit in with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

A week’s worth of planning, presentations and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master comparing fractions by using a common denominator or a common numerator, as well as a lesson on finding fractions of quantities. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. All lessons are compatible with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon…

A week’s worth of planning, presentations and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master addition and subtraction of fractions. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. All lessons are compatible with White Rose planning. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon…

Travel into the future with this imaginative and quirky explanation exemplar! My pupils really enjoyed creating their own versions! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of an explanation with a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of explanation writing - rewrite the explanation using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write an explanation in the style of the author

Uh oh! You’ve finally got your place at Wizard School and then you discover you’re about to be expelled! My pupils relished innovating with this text and inventing new ways to justify the expulsion! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Pupils will love the similarity to Harry Potter and Hogwarts. Download includes: - the text of a formal letter - a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of formal letters - rewrite the letter using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write a formal letter in the style of the author

Who would have thought that invisibility could be so troublesome! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of a set of instructions with a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of instruction writing - rewrite the instructions using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write a set of instructions in the style of the author These texts are probably most suited to pupils in years 5 or above.

My pupils loved innovating with this exemplar text by changing all the wacky inventions of this bizarre family. Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of a non-chronological report - a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of non-chronological reports - rewrite the text using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write a non-chronological report in the style of the author These texts are probably most suited to pupils in years 5 or above.

An example of a newspaper article - UFO lands in Yorkshire. My pupils had great fun with this! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of a newspaper article - a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of newspaper articles - rewrite the text using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write a newspaper article in the style of the author

An example of an informal letter from a pupil who is about to be expelled from a school of magic (Harry Potter/Hogwarts). My pupils had great fun with this! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Download includes: - the text of an informal letter - a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features - a PowerPoint presentation of the text - 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week This example text can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of informal letters - rewrite the letter using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write an informal letter in the style of the author

My pupils adored the lessons based on this informal letter idea: what a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing.

Diary from Mars - KS2 example text and lesson ideas

Two examples of explanations for lower KS2 English lessons. WAGOLL These texts can also be used for creative writing purposes. The first text explains how giants became extinct. The second text explains how young fairies develop the ability to fly. Both explanations contain an analysis of the language features to include in the pupils' own explanations. These example texts can be used by pupils to: - observe the features of explanations - rewrite the explanations using their own language or by borrowing phrases - write other explanations in the style of the author These explanations are probably most suited to pupils in years 3 and 4.

A week’s worth of planning, presentations and worksheets to teach your Year 6 pupils how to master place value to tens of millions, rounding and negative numbers. The resources are differentiated. They include plenty of fluency practice as well as reasoning and mastery. Answers are provided. All lessons are compatible with White Rose planning. My own Year 6 class really benefited from these resources. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Many more maths resources coming soon!

Three newspaper templates. The children can write directly onto the PDF version - this has a second page. Or - they can edit directly into the Word document. The Word template contains columns rather than text boxes so the text and pictures should not leap around all over the place as the pupils edit it. Examples of newspaper stories with presentations, language analyses and lesson ideas can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts

These problems will give your Year 6 pupils the opportunity to reason and solve problems with decimals. This is a sample resource. For a full year’s worth of reasoning and problem solving for Year 6 please see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reasoning-and-problem-solving-for-year-6-12201133