I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
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 resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system
A flipchart for use with Promethean whiteboard
Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard.
Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong.
There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct.
NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.
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 identify how the key features of a book can make it distinctive.
To use inference and deduction to understand the point of view of secondary characters.
To explore the relationships in a family.
To draw conclusions about the main character in relationship to the title of the book.
To empathise with the main characters’ feelings in a range of situations.
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 scan and skim pages to find evidence from a text.
To be able to understand the relationship between characters
To infer and interpret information from a text.
To understand how the author shows the similarities between the German and English soldiers.
To understand how and why an author links characters’ fates together.
To respond to a completed text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
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 identify key features of a diary.
To be able to understand how the main characters interact.
To use inference and deduction to understand a character better
To be able to understand how the main characters interact.
To be able to identify features of the (comedy) horror genre
To be able to describe alternatives to a story’s plot
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 introductory chapter often sets the scene,
To understand how an author can use characters to show different viewpoints.
To reflect on a complete text,
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 we can use clues like blurb, contents and covers to decide what a book is about.
To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To understand how words and effects like italics can contribute to a story.
To understand how stories can be written from different viewpoints.
To understand how a writer uses language and punctuation to help convey a character’s feelings.
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 develops sympathy for a character.
To understand why different fonts can be used when a book is typeset.
To understand how a single event can be used to change the narrative of a story.
To understand how an author brings a central character to life.
To understand how an author teaches his readers.
To understand how figurative speech can be used to bring an object to life.
To understand how endings can be used to begin new stories.
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 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.
LO
To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
To compare two simple stories and state preferences.
A four comprehension pack designed to support work on Dinosaurs.
Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, sequencing words within sentences, word recognition sentences, comprehension questions tied to each text.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery.
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery.
• Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery
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.
Resources linked to Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer 4 criteria.
Display includes:
- 33 connectives taught in GH4,
-16 pairs of homophones,
- 44 fronted adverbials sorted into 5 different types, and
- Wordle style word clouds for eight commonly used synonyms.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of nine quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the campaign for votes for women.
Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against allowing women the vote.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of allowing women the vote.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) allowing women the vote.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of allowing women the vote.
• Produce their own written narrative about the campaign for women to be allowed to vote.
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.
