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.
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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.
Lower Ability - Cool
Middle Ability - Wreck of Zanzibar, the Last Wolf
Higher Ability - Kensuke's Kingdom, Private Peaceful.
Ideal for use with Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3
A differentiated set of guided reading for a half term
Private Peaceful - HA
Carrie's War / Stig of the Dump - MA
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / Street Child - LA
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.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven 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 Workhouses
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 role of Workhouses.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of Workhouse.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of Workhouses.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Workhouses.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a Workhouse
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 develop a feeling of empathy with the main character of a book.
To use recall, skimming and scanning to find out information about the story.
To use your own experiences to comment on what’s happening in a story.
To use inference and deduction to understand the behaviour of the main characters of a Chapter.
To use recall and references to answer questions on the text.
To recognise how an author starts to bring a story to its conclusion.
To reflect upon a completed text.
A collection of resources to prove a background to life in Roman Britain including two investigative activities and a collection of comprehensions which could be used for homework.
A collection of resources to get you started teaching about Roman Britain, including three sets of Guided Reading activities based around the hugely popular Horrible History series and the children's classic, the Eagle of the Ninth
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 be able to empathise with a main character.
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 be able to empathise with a character in a difficult situation.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
A sample resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system
An Interactive Whiteboard file for use with Smart's notebook.
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 - one week sample
A sample 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 - one week sample
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
This Unit is ideal for providing evidence of English across the curriculum.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of nine extended quotes (with summary information) 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 Workhouses
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 the difference between fact and opinion.
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against education.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of universal education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of universal education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a school.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
An explanation of how to make best use of the Guided Reading resources provided by MikeRichards in his shop. Includes
- 3 different strategies for managing guided reading in your classroom
- planning grids for delivering Guided Reading
- additional links to Deduction, Inference, Authorial and Literal (DIAL) activities.