The Gruffalo is a great resource for exploring children's feelings and emotions. These three Red Hat Thinking worksheets help to guide their reading and their emotional learning skills. The worksheets are easy to differentiate and will help develop a deeper understanding of the characters. I would love to have teachers comment on these worksheets after they have used them in the classroom.

FREE White Hat Reading Questions For The Gruffalo - Fact Finding Has Never Been So Much Fun! The Gruffalo is a book ideal for exploring the different Thinking Hats. The White Thinking hat focuses on the information and the facts you can find in the book. This is the normal starting point for a reader. Thinking Hats build up from this fact. I would love to have some feedback from anyone who has used this material in their classroom.

This resource has been seen over 10,000 times and is one of my most popular teaching resources. The images are not from the book, and you will still need to use the book to complete the reading tasks. I was surprised at how few reading resources were available for Room on the broom, and I am keen to promote Thinking Hat Reading skills in the classroom and so I have spent a week developing a set of worksheets which teachers can download and use in the classroom. Please leave a comment after using them in the classroom.

FREE Room on Broom Creative Thinking (Green Hat ) Worksheets Make Guided Reading Fun! I love Room on the broom and I was amazed that this best selling childrens book did not have a lot more more teaching materials attached to it, and so I decided I would spend a week focusing on developing a set of Thinking Hat Reading resources to go with this book. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I have creating it. I would love to have some feedback from people after they have used it.

FREE Black Hat Reading Questions For Room On The Broom Makes Problem Solving Fun! Room On The Broom is a wonderfully funny book. I have focused on all the problems I could see in this book to try and get the children to explore the book more deeply and to discover them. This is a part of a set of worksheets and so it is also worth exploring the other worksheets I have also made on this book. I would really love some feedback as to how you found this material and what you would like to see more of.

FREE Room On The Broom Yellow Hat Reading Questions Makes Positive Thinking Fun! I noticed that despite this book being a best seller, the schools had very few resources for it and so I decided to focus on providing a set of Thinking Hat reading questions for anyone wanting to complete guided reading on this fabulous book. Today I have focused on pulling out all the positives from this book. This set of worksheets is easy to differentiate and every child will gain something from it. Please leave a comment when you have downloaded this set of files.

FREE Room On The Broom White Hat Reading Questions - Fact Finding Can Be Fun To Do! Room on the Broom is a great book. I noticed a lack of really fun online Thinking Hat worksheets for this book and I thought I would try to resolve this. It focuses on different aspects of characterisation. I would love to have some feedback about these worksheets.

FREE - Room On A Broom Red Thinking Hat Reading Questions - Thinking About Feelings Is Fun! Room on a broom is one of the best selling children's books on Amazon and yet it has hardly any resources listed on the TES. As obviously lots of teachers and students love this book, I thought I would make it into a series of worksheets. I would love some feedback about what you think about this set of worksheets.

FREE Magic Train Workbook - 16 Thinking Hat Worksheets - Makes Guided Reading A Lot More Fun For All I have decided to build as many Thinking Hat resources as I can for TES readers. I have started by making resources for the fabulous Magic Train book (Published by Barefoot books). I took into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and public domain resources, I have not used images from the books. I have organised them into sets of three - 3 Red Hat, 3 Yellow Hat, 3 Black Hat, 3 White Hat, 3 Green Hat and 1 Blue Hat. Comments for future improvements welcome.

FREE The Magic Train Green Hat Thinking And Reading Worksheets For Creative Classroom Thinking. Green Hat Thinking Activities are a lot of fun. It is the part of the reading scheme which lets the children to go a little wild and to extend, stretch and manipulate the story into a better fit. It is chance for them to add the missing details which make the whole book a lot more fun. I have imagined what happens if they miss the Magic Train Home, the train stops working and also where does the train go after dropping off everyone at the end of the story? I really would appreciate your input into how I could make these worksheets better.

Want some fun fun White Hat Thinking Worksheets for your class? This set of worksheets is designed to be used with the book 'The Magic Train' (Barefoot Publishers) though they could be used with the Barefoot YouTube videos if you don't have the books or access to them. I would really love feedback on these worksheets as I am still in the process of perfecting them. I offer them in .pub as this is the best way for teachers to be able to modify them for their own use.

FREE The Magic Train Black Hat Thinking Activities - Problem Solving Has Never Been So Fun! Every day I am trying to add some more thinking hat resources I am making for my class to TES. It has been shown that Thinking Hat Questions promote higher thinking and reading skills in children and yet when it came to actually finding lots of these resources on this website, I could not find any and so I am planning to write worksheets each night and share them with everyone. I would love a review of my work and also any suggestions on what other children's books people would like me to add to this collection.

FREE The Magic Train Yellow Thinking Hat Worksheets Make Looking On The Bright Side More Fun! These worksheets were originally written for 'The Magic Train' (Published by Barefoot books). However some of them could easily be used for absolutely any other book. I am building up this collection of Thinking Hat Reading Questions as I want to encourage higher thinking skills in every primary school child but I could not find any instant thinking hat worksheets for books on the Internet. Please comment on these and tell me what other picture books you would like me to write about.

FREE The Magic Train Red Hat Thinking Questions - Helps Put Some Feeling Into Guided Reading I have read everywhere how important Thinking Hat Questions are when it comes to reading. However, when I looked on the TES for lots of examples of other teachers work, I could not find a lot. I have now set myself the task of creating as many Thinking Hat Guided Reading Questions as possible for all the best selling picture books. It is a long term plan and you will need to be patient if this is not the book you were wanting. If you tell me which book you want, I will complete is as my next book. Please review these Red Hat Feeling worksheets and tell me how to improve them.

3 FREE YouTube Year 7 Booster Maths PowerPoint Lessons - Spring Term I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Maths PowerPoint Year 7 Booster Maths Lessons - Spring Term Lesson 1: Who gets the most? Lesson 2: Fractions on a number line. Lesson 3: Which fraction is bigger? This is a few of the resources I made to help Year 7 students with numeracy. I made them about a decade ago from UK government advice about how to approach different KS3 maths topics. I am sure they still could be useful for covering lessons and passing to a supply teacher.

I have recreated all these videos as both updated PowerPoint presentations and also as YouTube videos for people who don’t like using PowerPoint and are looking for a much more fun, interactive experience in the classroom. Try them today! Here are the details for each lesson: Lesson 1: Making labels for Classroom Equipment Lesson 2: Keeping Score Lesson 3: Scales and Stamps Lesson 4: ‘More’ and ‘Fewer’ Lesson 5: Mental Maths Lesson 6: Simple Addition Lesson 7: Counting Lesson 8: Solving Counting Problems Lesson 9: Beginning Addition Lesson 10: Counting Objects Into Groups Lesson 11: Putting Numbers In Order This resource was made by converting UK governmental advice from around 2000. It will make excellent revision lessons, supply and cover lessons Please leave a comment.

11 FREE YouTube Year 6 Maths Lessons! Perfect for Revision And Consolidation. I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Year 6 Maths Pack (Spring and Autumn Terms) - Booster and Revision Course. Here are the titles of the FREE Year 6 lessons: Lesson 1: The idea of percentage reductions in shop prices. Lesson 2: Putting percentages in context by looking at special offers on household packages. Lesson 3: Using percentages as a way of comparing different fractions. Lesson 4: The importance of knowing the size of the wholes when comparing percentages. Lesson 5: Giving practice in equivalent decimals, fractions and percentages. Lesson 6: How to convert any percentage to a fraction or decimal. Lesson 7: Number problems using ratio Lesson 8: Ratio and proportion Lesson 9: Find the maximum sum Lesson 10: Investigating Calendars Lesson 11: Examining statistics Years ago I wrote a series of numeracy lessons, based on the SpringBoard 6 materials, but I converted them into PowerPoint. Recently I got an email from a teacher requesting that I share these resources with the world and so here they are! There are perfect for revision, for SATs preparation, supply and cover lessons.

FREE Maths PowerPoint Presentations for DFES SpringBoard 5 (Also Use As Year 4 Booster Lessons) FREE Maths Lessons Content: Lesson 1: Developing your preferred ways of doing multiplication. Lesson 2: The area method of doing multiplication Lesson 3: The idea of 'carrying' when doing multiplication Lesson 4: Developing the area method for doing multiplication. Lesson 5: Using doubling in multiplication Lesson 6: Developing a doubling - and - addition method of doing multiplication Lesson 7: Finding pairs of factors Lesson 8: Division of larger numbers Lesson 9: Division as repeated subtraction Lesson 10: Developing a standard method Lesson 11: Flexible approaches to division. Years ago I wrote series of numeracy lessons which converted all the DFES Numeracy SpringBoard 5 lessons into interactive PowerPoint lessons. I think these will still be great for optional SATS revision also also for covering lessons, or for giving to supply teachers. Please leave a comment.

YouTube Maths PowerPoint Lessons for Year 4 for Spring & Summer Term (SpringBoard 4 Material) I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. This teaching pack includes: Lesson 1: Multiplication facts that link trios of numbers. Lesson 2: Number patterns in multiplication tables. Lesson 3: Partitioning large number to make multiplying easier. Lesson 4: Dividing various numbers by ten. Lesson 5: Using an abacus with decimal numbers. Lesson 6: A mental model of decimal numbers by working with number lines. Lesson 7: Multiplying by 9 Lesson 8: Division by 10 and 100 Lesson 9: Division with remainders Lesson 10: Towards a Standard Multiplication Method Lesson 11: Money Problems This is a PowerPoint representation of the SpringBoard 4 Material the DFES produced a long time ago. I wrote it so that teachers could use it directly on the Projector. These days, I think most teachers will find these resources, as well as excellent optional SATS revision, will also make good supply and cover lessons. Please leave a comment.

Here is a great set of Year 3 Maths teaching resources. I have recently upgraded them to include links to the YouTube Version of each lesson. These could be used to help revise for the KS1 or KS2 SATs tests, as a resource for a supply teacher or simply as something to do at home. Years ago I wrote a wide range of different Year 3 Maths PowerPoint lessons which followed the Governmental guidelines of the time. Free Year 3 Lessons: The topics covered are… Lesson 1: Y3 1 Autumn Place Values Lesson 2: Y3 2 Autumn Ordering Lesson 3: Y3 3 Autumn Add Subtract Multiples Lesson 4: Y3 4 Autumn Mental Calculations Lesson 5: Y3 5 Autumn Mental Models Lesson 6: Y3 6 Autumn Money Lesson 7: Y3 7 Autumn Adding several numbers Lesson 8: Y3 8 Autumn Add subtract 11 or 9 Lesson 9: Y3 9 Autumn Subtraction Bonds Lesson 10: Y3 10 Autumn Addition on empty line Lesson 11: Y3 11 Autumn Solving Word Problems I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. Originally, I was asked to send them to some friends, and so I thought I would share them with all the world via TES. Since then they have been viewed over 40,000 times! This is my most downloaded set of presentations I have ever made on TES.