PowerPoint and challenge sheet

Three differentiated challenges

Edit in child’s face and name and this can be used as a finger spacer to help them space out their words. Children have really enjoyed using these as it is personal to them.

Fill in book recommendation and this can be displayed or used during reading/English lessons.

Questions that can be displayed and discussed

Reading quotes to inspire

Children will be reading fictional diary extracts and using the skill of inference over four days.

Four days of reading sessions can be found on the PowerPoint. Each day a section of the video is watched and children will answer the questions, focusing on retrieval. Modelled answers can also be found. Last session on the Friday, children will record their answers in their book which has been included.

A plan and two PowerPoints are included (depending on group’s ability). Children will watch a section of the video and answer questions. Modelled answers have been included in the PowerPoint for the 4 days.

-ly suffix worksheet

PowerPoint displaying words with the: ea, ew, oe, ie, au, wh, ey, ir and ph sounds.

This pre-made checklist can be used for when children complete an independent fairytale writing piece.

Sentences based on the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ that need editing and improving.

Children to read, edit and improve sentences.

Children to finish off the sentence. Answers at the bottom can be trimmed to give children more of a challenge.

Present and past tense activity

Children will use the picture of the character to write a character description . There are 3 challenges (dependent on child’s ability).

Children will learn about who Christopher Wren was and why we remember him today. They will write a letter to King Charles II pretending to be Christopher Wren telling him the plans of how London should be rebuilt.

Fill in the blanks activity

To find the verbs, nouns and adjectives from the passage.