In the scary village of Tangford, as the full moon threatens to rise into the night's sky, an evil witch is ready to exact her revenge on some pesky villagers... This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Have you ever wondered what happens in a school at night? Where do the teachers go? What do they do? Three friends are convinced something is amiss and decide to take matters into their own hands... This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Far out at sea, a decaying pirate ship bobs through the waves. It's dastardly crew go about their duties whilst is hideous pirate captain is at the helm of the most feared pirate ship in the Caribbean. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Deep in the jungle, under a blanket of stars a tiger lurks within the shadows searching for her next meal. The moonlight bounces from streams, whilst the stars twinkle overhead, but the jungle isn't a safe place to be... This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

A sleepy village in the heart of the countryside settles down to sleep for the night when a beautiful owl wakes up to begin her fruitful night's flight and adventure! This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

An elderly doctor finally cracks how to build a spaceship engine that can reduce flights from planet to planet down to days, not years! His friend, Captain Koop of Earth's Navy, finally is able to use the engine for the good of Earth, but the doctor can't wait to explore the stars... ​ This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). ​ The Word Document has the following features: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). ​ The Word Document has the following features: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Properties of Shape objective: complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to draw shapes both using a mirror and counting towards a line of symmetry. → A variety of different examples are used to show children how to do the associated activities → Clear and precise instructions as to how we reflect shapes and lines symmetrically → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Shows how to complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria → Animated count-down timers → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Properties of Shapes Lessons: Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 position and direction statement: describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Discusses key vocabulary with children before learning commences → Walks through pictorial examples of dots moving using common language, i.e. two left, four down. → Each step is carefully animated to specifically draw out learning and make each step memorable. → Shows clearly how translations can occur with specific ‘points’/co-ordinates and shapes → Moves from the ‘point’ translating to a co-ordinate translating → Explains how shapes can translate using co-ordinates → Shows exactly how to describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Many opportunities for AfL embedded within the lesson → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity to stretch learners knowledge The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Position & Direction Lessons: Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 fractions statement: recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations → Shows how fractions are equivalent to one another → Explains how to solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity to finish the session The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 addition and subtraction statement: add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to change a question of 3419 + 2139 = into a correctly set out column addition problem. → Clearly explains each stage of adding four digit numbers to one another. → Shows how to solve problems linked to the statement: add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson → AfL built into the lesson through careful example questions. → Plenary activity to assess the progress they have made throughout the lesson The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Addition and Subtraction Lessons: Add numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition Subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar subtraction Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which methods to use and why

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Place Value statement: count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to use physical number lines to count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers → The number lines are not just limited to starting at 0, but give examples of starting at numbers other than 0, for example 2 or -250. → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Place Value Lessons: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 Find 1,000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Place Value statement: read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of 0 and place value. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples → Shows how Roman Numerals began, their origin and how we now use the Arabic Number system → Explains how we can convert between the two different number systems → Clearly identifies three rules to remember when converting between the two systems → Shows how to solve problems linked to the objective: read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of 0 and place value → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity to assess progress The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Place Value Lessons: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 Find 1,000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Measurement statement: estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations → Discusses key vocabulary related to the learning objective → Shows how to solve estimation problems, comparison problems and calculations → Shows how to estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Measurement Lessons: [Convert between different units of measure for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days

Please find within this download: Detailed and engaging PowerPoints, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Greather Depth) Worksheets with Answer Sheets for complete and full lessons on ALL of the Year 4 Maths National Curriculum Objectives & Statemennts - a whole year of Maths! Saving you over £130 when purchasing this bundle, rather than individually. Save yourself months of work with this perfect solution to meeting the needs of all children within your Year 4 Maths class! The PowerPoints have the following features: → Differentiated starter activities → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A variety of different examples which explain each statement carefully and in a considered manner → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Many opportunities for AfL embedded within the lessons → Animated countdown timers and 4-level differentiated success critera for all lessons → Plenary activity to finish every lesson The Word documents have the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Greater Depth Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheets included for every lesson Explore some of the Year 4 Bundles which this resource is made up of: Year 4 Place Value Bundle Year 4 Addition & Subtraction Bundle Year 4 Multiplication & Division

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division statement: use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 fractions statement: multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form (for example, 1/4 × 1/2 = 1/8). The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form (for example, 1/4 × 1/2 = 1/8) → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 fraction lessons: Coming soon!

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 fractions statement: compare and order fractions, including fractions >1. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to compare and order fractions, including fractions >1 → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 fraction lessons: Coming soon!

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 fractions statement: divide proper fractions by whole numbers (for example, 1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6 ). The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to divide proper fractions by whole numbers (for example, 1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6) → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 fraction lessons: Coming soon!