A pack of 4 chapter-based projects based on JK Rowling’s new book, The Ickabog. 20 activities (each with multiple tasks) that are grammar, punctuation, reading and creative themed. ~ This resource can be used in the classroom or electronically! ~ JK Rowling has published her new children’s book, The Ickabog, online for everybody to enjoy whilst at home. She is also hosting an illustration competition for children to design her characters and setting- the winners will be published with the book in November 2020! Links to this competition and how to enter are included in the ‘introduction’ pages. With each project file, you will receive: PDF version of the Home Learning project Editable .docx Word document version of the project 2 fonts to edit resources with Chapter 1 Project: With 4 jam-packed tasks (each with multiple activities), children will work through the first chapter: drawing the main characters & settings, designing the famous Cornucopia pastries, finding definitions for tricky words and creating a fantasy map for the country. Chapter 2 Project 5 tasks, made to be set daily, see children work through the second chapter of The Ickabog by JK Rowling: recapping what happened in the first chapter (setting, character, plot), making predictions for the future, identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in context. Chapter 3 & 4 Project Set across 5 tasks, children work through the 3rd and 4th chapters and are introduced to five key reading skills: inference, summary, questioning, comprehension and synthesis. Each task dives deep into each skill allowing children to access the text on a continually higher level. Chapter 5 & 6 Project Set across another 5, jam-packed tasks, children dive deep into understanding, recognizing and using apostrophes for both contraction and possession whilst working through chapters 5 & 6. The activities include conversion tables, spotting apostrophe errors in Chouxville shop signs and placing apostrophes before or after the ‘s’ depending on singular or plural possession.

Mega Teaching Pack for the Past, Present & Future Tenses in the Simple, Progressive & Perfect forms. This resource includes: Past tense worksheets in all 3 forms Past tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms Present tense worksheets in all 3 forms Present tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms Future tense worksheets in all 3 forms Future tense wordsearch conversion challenge for all 3 forms All answer sheets All Word document versions to assist with editing to your students’ needs 2 fonts to assist with editing in the same style Teaching tenses can be frustrating for many reasons- we were never taught grammar to this extent before, making resources can be tedious and it can be difficult to make them entertaining! For that reason, and to help out other teachers who are DONE making tenses worksheets time and time again, I thought I’d upload the unit I created and teach with year in and year out! Miss Austin