Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at information texts. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 14-15 lessons that focus on key features of information texts and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7. Skills include: researching and planning, reading comprehension, using generalisers, creating a glossary and structuring a text with sub-headings and a topic phrase.

Complete set of planning, slides and worksheets to provide 10 lessons on place value. This has been written with Year 6 in mind but the resources are easily adaptable for other year groups. The worksheets have written with mastery in mind and so follow the following structure: Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving Lessons that spread over two lessons also have Worksheet Four. N.B - Edited to include Roman Numeral worksheet as noticed it was missing. Worksheet Four - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (This is a spare worksheet should children finish problem solving on worksheet three) Differentiation is achieved through self-assessment of own abilities to choose which worksheet they do. The worksheets will be clear in which is LA, MA and HA. Lesson 1 and 2 - Understanding place value, reading numbers, comparing numbers etc. Lesson 3 and 4 - Same as Lesson 1 and 2 but with decimal numbers Lesson 5 and 6 - Rounding Lesson 7 and 8 - Rounding decimal numbers Lesson 9 - Roman Numerals Lesson 10 - Indices (particular focus on square and cube numbers) These have had great success in previous lessons and challenge and stretch children of all abilities.

Complete set of planning, slides and worksheets to provide 6 lessons on measurements. This has been written with Year 6 in mind but the resources are easily adaptable for other year groups. The worksheets have written with mastery in mind and so follow the following structure: Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving Worksheet Four - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (This is a spare worksheet should children finish problem solving on worksheet three) Differentiation is achieved through self-assessment of own abilities to choose which worksheet they do. The worksheets will be clear in which is LA, MA and HA. Lesson 1 and 2 - Converting standard units of measurement/ multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 Lesson 3 and 4 - Converting between miles and kilometres Lesson 5 and 6 - Converting between units of time These have had great success in previous lessons and challenge and stretch children of all abilities.

Teach children all about Evolution and Inheritance with this block of differentiated lesson plans and resources. These six lessons take children on a journey developing their understanding of Evolution and famous scientists work. N.B. These lessons are planned for 1 and a half - 2 hour lessons so if you teach Science for one hour a week then you will get more than six lessons from them. Lesson One - Offspring variation Lesson Two and Three - Climate adaptations Lesson Four - Fossils Lesson Five - Evolution/ adaptations Lesson Six - Famous Scientists Also included is a fun Who Wants to be a Millionaire style assessment.

A fully resourced two week unit on diary writing, linked to the book The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. Included are two weeks worth of lesson PowerPoints, activities and sheets as well as support sheets where required and model extracts that can be used. Answer sheets are also included for any tasks that require them. The ten lesson sequence follows the order as below: Lesson 1 - Features of a diary Lesson 2 and 3 - Past tense Lesson 4 - Writing a diary extract Lesson 5 - Commas in a list Lesson 6 - Writing a diary extract Lesson 7 - Time adverbials Lesson 8, 9 and 10 - Writing diary extracts Each grammar focus lesson ties in to the lesson that follows where the skill will then be applied as part of the diary extract written that day. A link is also included to a version of the story being read aloud. All components of the resource are uploaded as PowerPoints so that any subtle changes that need to be made for your class can be done. Images are courtesy of Pixabay