I have worked in both KS2 and KS1 as class teacher and am also English Leader in KS1. For the last 5 years, I have been teaching in Y2, which gave me plenty of ‘SATs experience’. However, I have been trying to ensure that the skills children need to apply in their SATs are linked to everyday life experiences and have applied them as much as I could to our topics, in order to avoid 'teaching to the test'. I really value your feedback on my resources. Happy browsing!
I have worked in both KS2 and KS1 as class teacher and am also English Leader in KS1. For the last 5 years, I have been teaching in Y2, which gave me plenty of ‘SATs experience’. However, I have been trying to ensure that the skills children need to apply in their SATs are linked to everyday life experiences and have applied them as much as I could to our topics, in order to avoid 'teaching to the test'. I really value your feedback on my resources. Happy browsing!
I made these worksheets for my year 2 class. It teaches them the skills of using partitioning with Dienes Cubes/ Base 10 in order to help them double numbers. It is very visual and they really understood it well.
They drew the number that needed to be doubled twice and counted ones and tens to get the answer for its double.
BYG - Below year group - see separate worksheet using Numicon for doubling
WT - Working towards (2 digit numbers)
E - Expected (choice of 2 and 3 digit numbers)
WAGD - Working at greater depth (3 digit numbers)
I made this resource for my year 2 class after teaching the fractions of shapes and to move them on using this model to find fractions of numbers.
There are differentiated worksheets.
This is how we did it:
1. Colour in the fraction that you have to find on the circle eg 1/2.
2. Look at the number you have to share (eg 6) and share it into the fraction shown (on the circle share 6 between the two halves).
3. Count how many each fraction has.
4. Check the amount is equal.
Please see the 2 pictures in preview for more detailed preview :)
Two differentiated sheets for mapping South America.
Children make their own key of countries or fill in the key by colouring in the countries of South America.
The challenges are based on Brazil and mapping cities/rivers.
Works best when copied on/blown up to A3.
Map for both attached in case your school has no atlases or not enough to go round.
Attached as PDF and WORD (same sheets).
Please see the 3 screen shots for detailed preview which can be found in the preview to the right.
This includes:
1. A two pages long information sheet with some facts about the past of the UEFA, this year's tournaments and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc or as introduction for the comprehension.
2. A 4 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer.
It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with retrieval and some inference questions.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for 'UEFA EURO 2016 France Activities' by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
A geography worksheet for mapping countries in Europe that take part. Children can choose 12 countries, find them on the map and make a key. If you wanted to differentiate it, you could print it out twice and fill in the key for one already. I would recommend copying the map on A3 paper to make it easier for children.
I also added a two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year's games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc. or to get the kids 'hooked...
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for 'UEFA EURO 2016 France Activities' by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
Differentiated comprehension for year 2 about a letter from Brazil.
A letter from Max to mum with questions including retrieval and inference questions.
Powerpoint to introduce it with Brazil pictures and a practice comprehension with a few questions to discuss as class in talk partners.
Key:
WAGD = Working at greater depth
E = Expected
WT = Working towards
BYG = Below year group
EAL = English as additional language
Here are 6 differentiated worksheets (2 pages each) that I made for my class to relate maths learning to the UEFA Euro '16 in France.
On each sheet, the letters of the alphabet are printed at the top and each letter has a value. Children then have to work out the total of several names printed on the sheet. The names are those of top Euro '16 footballers with pictures.
There are three sheets designed for applying mental strategies to work out name scores:
-WALT add using mental strategies: Adding single-digit numbers using basic number bonds.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 10.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 100.
There are three more differentiated sheets, where children can apply the column method for addition to work out the score of each name:
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 30).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 50).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 100).
The children then work out their own names' scores and compare them to the footballers :)
Attached as word (editable) and PDF.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 7 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for 'UEFA EURO 2016 France Activities' by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
Apostrophes for Contraction:
Differentiated 3 ways -
Top group has to find words where apostrophes have to be added and re-write sentences using apostrophes in the correct places.
Middle Group has to change underlined words to words with apostrophes.
Bottom group has to match contradicted form to the two words it is made of and work on a few sentences as challenge.
Comprehension. Differentiated 4 ways -
Higher order thinking questions. To go with a printout of the story that YOU have e.g. book, twinkle etc. Text not included just questions.
Retrieval questions
Multiple choice questions
Colouring in Cinderella comprehension with challenge question and sentence to unscramble.
For the top two, part of the sentence is in bold which they have to use as sentence starter for their answer to encourage them to answer in full sentences.
VERY BASIC SLIDE ON NOTEBOOK TO INTRODUCE
Speech/Thought bubble activity
Children work in mixed ability on these four scenarios again to fill in thought and speech bubbles. Could be acted out in partners too. Not differentiated.
Up-leveling
Short activity - improving 6 sentences. Differentiated by outcome - children follow the steps to the step they can get to.
Correcting mistakes
Children proofread sentences where is/are and him/her are not correct and edit them. For children who cannot access this there is a second activity about unscrambling sentences about Cinderella.
Sequencing Pictures Activity
Not differentiated. Children can cut and stick pictures in the correct order and label/annotate/write sentences.Great for EAL.
Grammatically correct sentences.
This activity is based on a Pie Corbett game. You start with challenge 1 and make a sentence with just one word. Then move on to challenge 2 and add a second word, so now you have to use both words in a sentence. Then you add a third, non-related word and children have to come up with a grammatically correct sentence and use their imagination to add write a new sentence this time using all three words.
Identifying speech and adding speech marks.
In a small group or in partners children read following Cinderella text. They work out together which bits are spoken by the characters, then underline what is spoken. Next they re-write in their book and put the spoken sentence which they underlined inside speech marks “_____”.
1. Maths sheet on bar charts: Children read the table of who was in the final in the past and what their results were and make a bar chart of how many goals were scored in each final throughout the years and answer some challenge questions about it. Differentiated - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart.
There is also another sheet where children choose 5 countries and represent in a bar chart how many times each country has participated in the final.
2. Maths activity on finding all possibilities: Differentiated three ways. Children have the task of designing a new football kit for their favourite country and have to choose three (four) colours. They then find all possible ways of putting a new kit consisting of either shorts and t-shirt or shorts, t-shirt and socks together for their chosen colours. This activity comes with a notebook file to model.
3. A two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year's games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc. Or maybe just to get the kids hooked on the UEFA...
PLEASE NOTE:
This is only one resource. I also sell a pack of 6 UEFA resources (this one included) for £3.99 - search for 'UEFA EURO 2016 France Activities' by JennyGodfrey. THANK YOU.
Here some resources I made for my class for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany. This pack includes:
A two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year’s games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc.
A 4 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer. It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with retrieval and some inference questions.
A geography worksheet for mapping countries in Europe that take part. Children can choose 12 countries, find them on the map and make a key. If you wanted to differentiate it, you could print it out twice and fill in the key for one already. I would recommend copying the map on A3 paper to make it easier for children.
Maths sheet on bar charts: Children read the table of who was in the final in the past and what their results were and make a bar chart of how many goals were scored in each final throughout the years and answer some challenge questions about it. Differentiated - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart (differentiated in bar charts going up in 1s, 2s, 5s).
There is also another sheet where children choose 5 countries and represent in a bar chart how many times each country has participated in the final.
Maths activity on finding all possibilities: Differentiated three ways. Children have the task of designing a new football kit for their favourite country and have to choose three (four) colours. They then find all possible ways of putting a new kit consisting of either shorts and t-shirt or shorts, t-shirt and socks together for their chosen colours. This activity comes with a notebook file to model.
This is an activity based on the flags of the participating countries in the EURO 2024 in Germany. There is one sheet with all the names of the countries and their flags which is followed by 4 activity sheets:
Comparing two flags. Children choose two flags, draw them and compare them - what is the same and what is different.
Sorting the flags into symmetrical and non-symmetrical.
A blank Venn diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the flags into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
A blank Carroll diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the shapes into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
Maths - Adding several numbers (single digit, multiples of 10/100 and adding several two-digit numbers - differentiated) using several top UEFA EURO ‘24 footballers’ names printed on the sheet.
Enjoy!
This includes:
1. A five pages long information sheet with some facts about the Olympic and Paralympic Games including their mascots. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc or as introduction for the comprehension.
2. An 11 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer. This can be split up into two different comprehension activities if 11 pages is too much.
It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with reasoning and some inference questions.
There is also a reading comprehension for lower ability children or children with EAL with very basic facts and instructions to draw and some early writing.
3. A starter activity to get them thinking about question words and what each means. Also matching questions to answers.
COMPREHENSION
This is a comprehension I made for my year 4 class. There are three different sets:
one that can be used like a booklet, where the text and questions are on the same page with mostly retrieval questions
one where the text is separate to the questions and questions are a mix of retrieval and more higher order including vocabulary
one where the text is separate to the questions and questions are varied from giving evidence from the text to vocabulary questions etc.
I think it can be used with high year 2 as well as KS2.
The actual information text is attached as reading sheet. Both in word and PDF
MATHS
This resource consists of the following five mostly differentiated activities related to the World Cup:
Problem-solving lesson with notebook and 3 differentiated sheets. Children design new football kit for their favourite national team consisting of tshirts, shorts (and socks) and find all possibilities of combining them when using 2 (3) colours.
Bar chart lesson. Children use data from a Workd Cup table and put it into a bar chart. Differentiated. First bar chart in ones up to 6 and children enter amount of world cups won by different nations. Second bar chart in twos up to 6 and children enter amount of world cups won by different nations. Third bar chart in tens up to 230 where children enter amount of goals scored in world cups for several nations.
All bar charts have at least 5 follow-up questions. First two probably more suited to KS1, last one to KS2.
Symmetry activity. Children use pictures of flags of all participating teams which are included and sort them into symmetrical and not symmetrical. Included is another sheet on explaining our reasoning - choose two non-symmetrical flags - what would need to be changed so they are symmetrical, explain.
Sorting Activity: Children use pictures of flags of all participating teams which are included and sort them using their own criteria into a Venn or Carroll diagram.
A quick activity on comparing two flags - how are they the same and how are they different.
One activity where children use information on who won the world cup when and put the countries in chronological order by year. One scaffolded sheet and one not scaffolded.
All activities attached as word and pdf files in case the word files don’t open properly.
I SELL BOTH SEPARATELY AS WELL IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAVE MONEY.
COMPREHENSION
This is a brilliant comprehension to use in English when talking about harvest as it links to RE. I would recommend it for year 2 and up. It is based on the song Cauliflowers Fluffy which you can find here on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRQEQgyGAGA
Here are four differentiated sheets with the lyrics of the songs and questions underneath.
Extended level: Retrieval and higher order thinking questions (Why, What does it mean..., Which word tells you that...)
Core: Focused more on simple retrieval from the text.
Lower Core: Simple retrieval from the text but scaffolded multiple choice for half of the questions.
Nurture, SEN, EAL: Using the song and text children read for mening and find colour and adjective used to describe the fruit/veg and draw the harvest basket.
BAR CHARTS
These differentiated maths sheets are about on bar charts: Children read the table of how many children like which fruit and make a bar chart of it plus they answer questions about it. It is differentiated into bar charts that go up in 1s, 2s and 5s. It is further differentiated for each (1s, 2s or 5s) - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart.
Furthermore the same activity again but with a blank table for children to investigate in their own class and create a car chart from there.
ADDING SEVERAL NUMBERS
Here are 6 differentiated worksheets (2 pages each) that I made for my class to relate maths learning to Harvest.
On each sheet, the letters of the alphabet are printed at the top and each letter has a value. Children then have to work out the total of several harvest words printed on the sheet.
1. There are three sheets designed for applying mental strategies to work out name scores:
-WALT add using mental strategies: Adding single-digit numbers using basic number bonds.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 10.
- WALT add using mental strategies: Adding several multiples of 100.
2. There are three more differentiated sheets, where children can apply the column method or a calculator for addition to work out the score of each name:
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 30).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 50).
- WALT add several two-digit numbers (each individual number below 100).
The children then work out their own word's score and compare them to the other words :) Can easily be edited for your own classes.
This resource was made with year 2 in mind but is really suitable for infants and lower juniors. It consists of four parts:
INFORMATION BOOK
Children can do their own research using this 16 page long information book that I created about Brazil. It is attached in two formats: pdf and word doc so it can be edited. The contents of the book are as follows:
1. Country
- Where is it?
- What is the land like?
- Rivers and Waterfalls
- Cities
- Weather
2. Sports
- Football
- Formula 1
- Volleyball
- Pele
3. Olympic Games Rio 2016
- Olympic Games
- Paralympic Games
4. Carnival
5. The Rainforest
- What is the Rainforest
- What do we get from the Rainforest?
- Sad Fact!
- What are the layers of the Rainforest?
6. Glossary
COMPREHENSION
SATs style comprehension based on the information book. It is differentiated for WT (Working towards), E (expected) and WAGD (Working at greater depth).
BOARD GAME
A board game where children can play in partners. It helps them recall facts learnt from the booklet about Brazil eg about the rainforest, weather, Olympics etc.
POSTER ACTIVITY
Children work in groups of three and create a poster about Brazil using the information book as starting point. They have the attached sheet as their success criteria which reinforces what needs to go on a poster (heading, sub-heading, facts, pictures, etc). They work together as team (criteria for that on sheet as well) and present the information using their neatest presentation skills. Can be differentiated by giving different children different roles eg scribe, researcher, illustrator...
Teacher can then go around and in good old competition style give children stickers/points for each bit of the success criteria they have met. Winning team is the team that has the most stichers/points. I gave out stickers/points for each sub-heading and paragraph of information. My class loved it. Took them all morning and they were so engaged they wouldn't even want to go out for play! :)
Here some resources I made for my class for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2016 in France. This pack includes:
1. A two pages long information sheet with facts about the past, this year's games and the mascot. This could be used for research (individually or whole class) when making posters/leaflets etc.
2. A 4 pages long comprehension based on the fact sheet. The text is on the top half of the sheet and questions are below for children to answer. It is differentiated in a higher and a lower comprehension - one with mostly retrieval and one with retrieval and some inference questions.
3. A geography worksheet for mapping countries in Europe that take part. Children can choose 12 countries, find them on the map and make a key. If you wanted to differentiate it, you could print it out twice and fill in the key for one already. I would recommend copying the map on A3 paper to make it easier for children.
4. Maths sheet on bar charts: Children read the table of who was in the final in the past and what their results were and make a bar chart of how many goals were scored in each final throughout the years and answer some challenge questions about it. Differentiated - one is more scaffolded and the bar chart has been prepared, the other needs children to label their own bar chart (differentiated in bar charts going up in 1s, 2s, 5s).
There is also another sheet where children choose 5 countries and represent in a bar chart how many times each country has participated in the final.
5. Maths activity on finding all possibilities: Differentiated three ways. Children have the task of designing a new football kit for their favourite country and have to choose three (four) colours. They then find all possible ways of putting a new kit consisting of either shorts and t-shirt or shorts, t-shirt and socks together for their chosen colours. This activity comes with a notebook file to model.
6. This is an activity based on the flags of the participating countries in the EURO 2016 in France. There is one sheet with all the names of the countries and their flags which is followed by 4 activity sheets:
1. Comparing two flags. Children choose two flags, draw them and compare them - what is the same and what is different.
2. Sorting the flags into symmetrical and non-symmetrical.
3. A blank Venn diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the flags into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
4. A blank Carroll diagram for children to make up their own categories to sort the shapes into (if you want to differentiate you could give them the categories).
7. Maths - Adding several numbers (single digit, multiples of 10/100 and adding several two-digit numbers - differentiated) using several top UEFA EURO '16 footballers' names printed on the sheet.
Enjoy!
A whole load of SPAG activities, mostly differentiated, which I made for my year 2 class.
Includes:
1. Plurals: Notebook and one plural sheet based on Gruffalo.
2. Homophones: Powerpoint and two differentiated sheets with pictures.
3. Past Tense: Quick team work activity with regular and irregular verbs then differentiated worksheet where children decide which past tense word is correct/find the correct past tense word.
4. General SPAG activity for 2 lesson starters.
5. Form sentences using different words: Children make up (funny) sentences with the words given.
6. Word groups: Children have a picture (can easily be changed to fit in with your topic) and find nouns, verbs and adjectives that they can see/describe the picture with. Recorded in table below picture. They then make sentences with their words.
7. One dictation with many year 2 spellings.
8. Sentence forms: Children work in pairs and sort the sentences into statements, questions, exclamations and commands.
9. Full stop activity: What are sentences? Worksheet to add full stops.
10. Choosing the correct tense for each sentence from present, past and future tense.
11. Suffixes: Differentiated worksheets for suffixes -ly, -er and -est.
12. Apostrophes for possession - differentiated sheets.
13. Apostrophes for contractions. Differentiated worksheets for contractions.
Differentiation Abbreviations:
N - Nurture or BYG - Below year group
WT - Working towards
C - Core or E - Expected
E - Extended WAGD-Working at greater depth
This includes mostly differentiated resources, most often 3 or 4 ways.
18 comprehensions and 4 activities.
The comprehensions included are:
Bear Under The Stairs (based on book)
Brazil Letter (letter and powerpoint to practise)
Brazil Opener Activity, retrieval
Chinese New Year Comprehension 2017
Cinderella Comprehension and Notebook with basic model
3 activity sheets to work on Individual Skills - Brazil based
Desert Island Diary Comprehension
Engaging with a picture mixed ability activity - inference based
2 Fire of London comprehensions plus two powerpoint to practice
George’s Marvellous Medicine Comprehension (based on book)
Harvest Comprehension (based on Song Paintbox)
Making A Sandwich Comprehension about Instruction text
Not Now Bernhard (based on book)
Red Riding Hood (based on story extract)
Seaside Comprehension with Text
Types of Bears
Valentine’s Day
Where the Wild Things are (based on book)
Xmas Comprehension (based on song Wish It would Be Christmas Every Day)