5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school.
Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 3.
These worksheets include:
Instructions and templates to make a cardboard contours island (2 sheets)
River bend investigation
River speed investigation
Understanding Cities in the UK.
5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school.
Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 4.
These worksheets include:
Mapping Puddles Invesitagion
Soaking up Water Investigation
Regional Study: East Anglia
The Water Cycle
Rainfall in the UK
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Our Mathematics Homework Activities provide you with a set of challenging and engaging Maths homework activities for every week of the school year.
Each maths activity addresses a whole or part of a learning objective and all the homework sheets are in Microsoft® Word format.
Includes:
– Introduction
– Objectives
– Homework Answer Sheets
Block A Counting, partitioning and calculating
In My Head 1 / Use the Rule / Paper and Pencil 1 / Calculating 1 / Bigger or Smaller
What’s It Made Up Of? / Using a Calculator / Decimals 1
Block B Securing number facts, understanding shape
Polygons / Solid Shapes / RoundAbout / Puzzle Time / Times Tables 1
Adding Up / What’s the Link? / Twice or Half? / Problem Solving 1
Block C Handling data and measures
The Right Unit 1 / What’s the Question? / How Does It Compare? / Reading Scales 1
Block D Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Angles, Angles! / Calculating 2 / In My Head 2 / The Right Unit 2 / A Telling Time
Decimals 2 / Move It! / Problem Solving 2 / Rectangles / Reading Scales 2
Block E Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Both the Same / Exactly the Same / Fractions / One Whole / Paper and Pencil 2
Bracelets / Times Tables 2 / Wholes and Bits / Right or Wrong?
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Encourage your child’s natural curiosity with this River Investigation.
Links to measure in Maths
Taken from the KS2 Geography Resources File. Available in PDF
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It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills.
Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1.
The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it.
Unit 1 available free on our both our website and TES shop.
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6 worksheets taken from our much love resource: Building Blocks- Themed Activities for the EYFS- Age 4 to 5 (48-60 months).
Activity 1: Spotty Blobster Poem
Activity 2: Draw the Spotty Blobster monster from the poem
Activity 3: How to make chocolate crispy cakes
Activity 4: Naming the foods I eat
Activity 5: What’s in the treasure box
Activity 6: Plan a surprise for someone you know
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This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past.
Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person?
Lesson 2: The story of Mary Seacole.
Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person.
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It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills. This resource contains 3 units of work.
Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1.
The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it.
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This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past.
Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person?
Lesson 2: The story of Florence Nightingale.
Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?
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5 sheets with Answers
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Root Words – to extend my vocabulary using root words.
Homophones – to investigate homophones.
Noun Phrases – to expand single nouns to noun phrases.
Adjectives – to identify adjectives not placed next to a noun.
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Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 5
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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Grammar and Creativity for Year 5
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them
The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section.
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5 worksheets:
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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15 sheets with Answers
Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns.
Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns.
Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns.
Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families.
Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases.
Pronouns – to use personal pronouns correctly as subject and object.
Verbs – to recognise the infinitive of a verb.
Verbs Challenge – to ensure that the subject of a sentence and the verb agree.
Verbs – to use auxiliary verbs correctly.
Verbs Challenge – to explore the subtle changes in meaning when using modal verbs.
Verbs Challenge – to change verbs from one tense to another.
Adjectives – to revise adjectives.
Adjectives Challenge – to explore synonyms and antonyms of adjectives. Adverbs – to revise adverbs of manner.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy Resources File
Horror stories have common features, such as: – a setting that is uncomfortable, creepy or scary. Often these are unusual places; – use of darkness and cold to unsettle the reader; – use descriptive words to create an atmosphere – appealing to all the reader’s senses; – create suspense through building up tension and sudden action; – suspense is built through long compound sentences and action is sudden and ‘jumpy’ conveyed through short, dramatic sentences; – dramatic endings and use of cliffhangers. - there will usually be a sinister, evil villain There is often an element of guesswork through clues given in the text. Who is bad – or carried out an evil deed – can be hidden and concludes with a moment of revelation; – include simplistic themes of right and wrong, and good over evil.
This sheet is designed to prompt discussions on the features of a specific genre.
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Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File
The sheet gets the children to recount the scene where Beowulf slaughters Fiend. Encourages children’s word choice.
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This is the full book : Grammar and Creativity for Year 3
It includes 71 worksheets with answers.
Blurb: Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
The guide comprises three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text.
This guide is organised in an incremental way, earlier tasks acting as the foundation for later ones. Step by step, each exercise follows on from previous or earlier work. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them.
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What? This assessment has been devised to assess children’s ability to segment words and spell them using the Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) introduced in Phase 5 Letters and Sounds.
Unlike the Phase 2 and Phase 3–4 Fun Friendly Phonics assessments this Phase 5 assessment includes elements of the preceding phases to ensure that children have a good overall awareness of the phonetic code and have not forgotten any prior learning. Therefore, within this assessment children will be expected to write tricky words, polysyllabic words and words containing Phase 3 graphemes.
Who? This assessment is designed for use with children who are being taught
Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write using Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with accuracy in their independent writing and be beginning to select and use the appropriate alternative spellings to these where appropriate.
Includes- Story, assessment guidance and assessment grid
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What? This assessment has been devised to assess children’s ability to segment words and spell them using the Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) introduced in Phase 5 Letters and Sounds.
Unlike the Phase 2 and Phase 3–4 Fun Friendly Phonics assessments this Phase 5 assessment includes elements of the preceding phases to ensure that children have a good overall awareness of the phonetic code and have not forgotten any prior learning. Therefore, within this assessment children will be expected to write tricky words, polysyllabic words and words containing Phase 3 graphemes.
Who? This assessment is designed for use with children who are being taught
Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write using Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with accuracy in their independent writing and be beginning to select and use the appropriate alternative spellings to these where appropriate.
Includes- Instructions, story, and assessment guidance
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Links to the objective: Making decisions
• Choose and use appropriate operations (including multiplication and division) to solve word problems,and appropriate ways of calculating: mental,mental with jottings,pencil and paper.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems titles:
1: On Target
2. Domino Spots
3. Dice Game
4. Netball Results
5. Target Golf
Taken from Problem Solving Years Year 3&4
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Links to the objective: Read and write numerals from 0 to at least 20.
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise simple patterns and relationships,generalise and predict.Suggest extensions by asking ‘What if…?’
Explain methods and reasoning orally and,where appropriate, in writing.
5 Sheets with Answers and example strategies to solve the problem.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems included:
1: Trucks and Trailers
2. Truck Driver
3. Clown Masks
4. Party Masks
5. Target Game
Taken from Problem Solving Years KS1