Activities for every chapter of David Walliam’s Ratburger. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension activities. The Ratburger book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for Philip Pullman’s Clockwork or All Wound Up. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Clockwork/ All Wound Up book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter - no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

This comprehensive 5-week unit of study focuses on the Tudor monarchy’s reign of England. Each lesson follows the criteria set out by the UK National Curriculum. Students generate and ask questions, this forms a part of the opportunities for assessment that each lesson provides. PPT slideshows become animated to stimulate the students and work is respectfully challenging and target-achieving. All the resources required to teach these lessons are included in the download. Each lesson plan states the UK National Curriculum learning objectives covered, the learning outcomes, skills being taught, and learning attributes that the students will take from each lesson (e.g. risk-taking, confidence, collaborators). Lesson plans also include teaching activity, key questions that the teacher should try to elicit from the students, key vocabulary that may need introducing to the students beforehand and criteria for assessing student attainment (can be adopted as either AfL or AoL depending on your policy towards assessing in Humanities/ History) Lesson 1 (ppt, lesson plan, activity worksheet): Tudor Introduction. Students are encouraged to think about what they know about history. They are shown how events can be illustrated on visual representations and this allows them to see how one event is often the starter for another event. At this point a class timeline can be displayed. Students are introduced to the Tudor’s history with the story of the battle of Bosworth and are set an activity to visually log the key dates and events of the Tudor family. Lesson 2 (ppt, lesson plan, wives portraits): Wives and family. The second lesson begins with a reminder about the previous lesson. Students are encouraged to think about marriage and how Henry VIII is famous for his wives. An animated family tree is shown and the students are challenged to independently research a character from the studied timeline. Extension material is provided for this lesson. Lesson 3 (ppt, lesson plan, Henry VIII profile, website list): Compare Henrys. Starts with a review of the previous lesson and the students are reminded about Henry VII and Henry VIII. From there the students are required to research Henry VIII using a variety of resources and present their findings to the class. The plenary exercise explores the differences between some aspects that the students would have discovered. Finally a link is provided to a well-known television rendition of Henry VIII’s life. Lesson 4 (ppt, lesson plan, Mary facts): Queen Mary I. From the previous lesson ‘refresher’ the students are reminded about the Tudor timeline and family tree and find the place of Mary I. Students are encouraged to generate and record questions as part of this fun, student-led lesson’s activity. Lesson 5 (ppt, lesson plan): Tudor Exploration. Review of previous lesson.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Betsy Byars’ Midnight Fox Book Study is ideal as a unit of work when the students are reading the fantastic book and as a Book Week case study. The pages of this presentation are dedicated to chapters of the book so you can have visuals on the board as the students read along, followed by clear thinking exercises and instructions for writing, drawing and group work activities. The download includes both Active Inspire and PDF versions. Each version contains 15 activities over 29 pages. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. An excellent multi-skilled approached to studying a classic children’s text, this book study provides activities for the exploration and development of key and supplementary reading skills: Predicting Comprehending Inferring Summarising Creative Writing Drawing Drama Ideal as a book week book study. Slides can be followed as a book study lesson plan. This book study contains over 30 activities in pdf and Powerpoint formats - allowing for easy amendment to the activities. Ideal as a Iron Man Key Stage 2 book study - I have used this resource with Year 3, 4 and 5 students/ 7, 8, 9 and 10-year olds. Similar book study resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

I created this worksheet/ homework when teaching the unit: Child evacuees during World War 2. This can be used during, or as a follow-up to a lesson about World War 2 era posters. After having a discussion about how important information was shared with the population, and how propaganda was used, the students can use this activity to engage their thinking skills. These sheets show 12 wartime posters with the headings/ slogans blanked. The students are required to study the remaining image and suggest an appropriate title and theme for the poster's message.

Ideal when studying: skeletons, animal skeletons, animal biology and the body. Use this worksheet in the classroom or as homework to get your students thinking about science keywords and making visual observations. I created this worksheet for use during UK National Curriculum Science Units in Key Stage Two, Animal Skeletons. I used this as a homework to extend students' learning after lessons on the function and appearance of the human skeleton. This download contains 3 variants to provide suitable differentiation across the class. File exists in Word format so can also be easily altered to suit your teaching needs and expectations.

This slideshow presentation details the life of famous British explorer Percy Fawcett. This can be used when teaching historical figures, explorers, rainforests and how real figures become the inspiration for fictional characters. I created this presentation for Book Week, Earth Day and Environment Week and taught about the adventurer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon jungle after reading the book The Great Kapook Tree. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960

Billionaire Boy Book Study This David Walliams’ book is great to use for group reading, guided reading, book study sessions. 124 pages of almost 100 reading comprehension activities. Inspired in the classroom, I created this PowerPoint to provide my students with opportunities to explore every chapter. Each chapter’s activities includes vocabulary and summarising activities, as well as a range of predicting, inferring, retrieving, creative writing and short drama activities. I have also updated a PDF version of the slides in this file.

Book study activities for ‘Toro! Toro!’ by Michael Morpurgo. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, visible thinking and discussion activities. Ideal for an English class book study or Book Week activities. This book study has also been delivered during online learning as guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. The book study comes in both ppt and pdf files. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for students who are studying Aesop's fables or animals in fables (The Dog and the Bone, The Ant and the Grasshopper, the Hare and the Tortoise). Students are encouraged to think about animals' characteristics in stories, legends and fables and develop critical thinking skills by applying their own understanding and ideas.

Fantastic Mr Fox book study - great for whole class guided reading, small group guided reading, book studies and for framing numerous activities including visible thinking and thinking keys. Book study comes as both PowerPoint and PDF. This Fantastic Mr Fox book study has been designed with learners in mind. Learning is engaging, fun and varied. Following best practice, this book study contains: Listening frames for each of the chapters Visible Thinking routines - including See, Think, Wonder, Four Perspectives and Colour, Symbol, Image and many more… Thinking Keys - including BAR (Bigger Add Remove), Variations and What If? Drama Activities Creative Writing/ Drawing VIPERS - comprehension is framed around Vocabulary, Infer, Predictions, Explanations, Retrieval and Summarising Infer-cabulary - encourage students to infer the meaning of new and unknown words Author is a Deputy Head with 12+ years of National Curriculum experience.

Your Earth Day/ Earth Week celebrations can be made more fun for your pupils with a game of Earth Day Bingo! This Earth Day activity is ideal for introducing, reinforcing or assessing your students’ knowledge of age appropriate geography and sustainability key words and concepts. 5 differentiated Earth Day bingo game activities for 5-18 years old. The difficulty of the games ranges from: the reading of key words and showing of flash card illustrations (KS1) through to the reading of scientific and geographic terminology and definitions (KS2 - KS3). Bingo game cards range for 9 boxes to 16 boxes. For the older students to requirements of the game can be: recognition of key words from definition (easier game) or recognition of definitions from key words (harder game)

Reflections and Translations assessment is ideal for Key Stage 2 assessment of learning or reflection and translation SATS practise. Can also be used as an assessment for learning/ pre-assessment reflections and translations tool. This reflections and translations test paper comes with marking scheme and question objectives: Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down (+/- y/x) Identify and solve problems involving rotations, reflections and translations Identify the position of a shape following a reflection or translation Describe position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed Describe position using coordinates in all four quadrants Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes Predict missing coordinates of quadrilaterals by using the properties of shapes You may also like: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/numbers-colours-shapes-classroom-objects-flashcards-11477401 Key Stage 2 reflections and translations

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Ideal for Book Week or when reading Kensuke’s Kingdom as a class. Resource is provided in 3 file types: Word, PDF and flipchart. This comprehensive book study contains more than 15 activities and dozens of comprehension questions. Also provides students with the opportunity to stop at intervals to discuss and think about the text so far. Activities include: newspaper article writing, poetry, group discussion, illustration work, persuasive writing and information writing among many others. This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand alone book study. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430 Book Week lesson plan. Book Week activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom lesson plan.

Students respond to the Dog and the Bone fable with an independently written character sketch. Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.

Nice and simple 4-page dot to dots Christmas themed activities. Two differentiated Christmas trees, a reindeer and Christmas stocking. Ideal quick and easy Christmas festive filler for the students on the build-up to the holidays.

I created this worksheet/ homework when teaching about Ancient Rome and the Roman army. After a discussion of the good and bad factors about being in the Roman army, the children are then required to log their understanding. The character is contemplating joining the army, the students must complete his thoughts.

This worksheet fits into Geography units of work about rivers and water. This river Yangtze worksheet allows the student to investigate one of the world's biggest and most important rivers. Use Google Earth or a similar interactive map to trace the river to its source and locate areas of interest such as the Three Gorges Dam, Tibetan Plateau and Shanghai. Excellent activity for a river case study.

Creative thinking and character assessment of Robin Hood worksheet. User is required to complete speech for Robin Hood and Prince John. Ideal if studying Robin Hood or different perspectives. Can be used as Robin Hood activity or Robin Hood homework.