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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.

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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.
Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox - a complete half term's guided reading
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Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox - a complete half term's guided reading

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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 use recall and retrieve evidence to describe the main characters in a short novel. To be able to emphasis with the main characters of a story. To be use information within a text to predict what will happen in a story. To use inference and deduction to explain the different characters’ behaviour. To consider whether or not it is ever acceptable to steal To explore how the layout and language of a book contributes to its meaning.
Roald Dahl - the Twits - half term's guided reading
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Roald Dahl - the Twits - half term's guided reading

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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 read a book for simple information, events and ideas To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers To understand how the author implies things by his use of language. To understand the moral of Roald’s story. To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.
Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Old School - half term's guided reading
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Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Old School - half term's guided reading

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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
Anne Fine - Guided reading pack
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Anne Fine - Guided reading pack

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A pack of guided reading resources and questions that are ideal for Year 3 and 4 all abilities and Year 5 and 6 lower to middle abilities. Updated to include The Angel of Nitshill Road and Effective Guided Reading guide. Updated 11/2/17 to include Flour Babies
Anne Fine - The Country Pancake - 5 weeks guided reading.
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Anne Fine - The Country Pancake - 5 weeks guided reading.

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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.
Anne Fine - The chicken gave it to me - 5 weeks guided reading
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Anne Fine - The chicken gave it to me - 5 weeks guided reading

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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 Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story. To identify how an author can write a story within a story. To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.
Dick King Smith  - Guided Reading Bundle
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Dick King Smith - Guided Reading Bundle

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Ideal for Year 2, 3 and 4 a series of questions and activities linked to six of Dick King Smith's easier texts: Connie and Rollo - simplest Omnibombulator The Guard Dog All about Jackson Sophie's Snail ESP - hardest
Grammar Hammer 4 Teaching pack
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Grammar Hammer 4 Teaching pack

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Grammar Hammer 4 Display package. Weekly Grammar Hammer Response / Fix it Time Presentation - Smart Notebook format. Weekly Grammar Hammer Response / Fix it Time Presentation - Promethean flipchart format.
Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Smartboard
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Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Smartboard

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A 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.
Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - sample Smartboard
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Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - sample Smartboard

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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.
Gillian Cross - The Demon Headmaster - complete half term guided reading
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Gillian Cross - The Demon Headmaster - complete half term guided reading

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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 story start of a new novel. To look at the way that the author use language to create a sense of tension. To look at the way that the author uses language to develop characters To understand how an author builds suspense by slowly revealing a plan. To draw conclusions based on a completed text.
Dick King Smith - Sophie's Snail - complete half term's guided reading
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Dick King Smith - Sophie's Snail - complete half term's guided reading

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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.