Worksheet to find the point of comparison

I find these so useful, because they make children self assess. The work because they make pupils notice the features that will improve their descriptive writing and story writing. I find these a much more effective tool than success criteria. Children don't always take ownership of targets or success criteria, but this encourages them to reflect critically on their writing and make progress. The self assessment worksheets are differentiated.

A reminder of how to round numbers - can be stuck in pupils' books to remind them how to round numbers.

A structured comprehension task grid, for Upper KS2, showing pupils how to find evidence of the character of Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey from Dahl's Matilda. Pupils find quotations from the text to make the character points and then fill in an explanation of how the quote proves the point. There is also an extension task with a different character text, a worksheet recapping how to find evidence of character and a bookmark reminding pupils how to write about characters. There are also images for discussing the similes.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Change the highlighted words to change the person. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Change the tense of the highlighted words. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

It makes use of mental strategies and partial products to learn the 4 times table. This is an effective way of building understanding of the concept of multiplication.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, as well as PDF, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Tasks to write and modify a simple sentence

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Speech tag bookmark to encourage children to notice how writers use speech tags.