Ever been interested in a trip to Mars? Well, this handy guide (published in the mid 2030s) is here to help make that decision easier for you! A lovely fictional information text which will draw in your reluctant boy readers! This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 statistics statement: solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to answer questions from graphs and tables, showing children precisely where they need to look to obtain different types of answers/data → A variety of different examples of graphs and tables are shown and worked through using teacher led and child led questions → Clear and precise instructions as to how we actually gain information from graphs and tables → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Shows exactly how to solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity to stretch learners knowledge by applying their skills to a more complex problem The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Place Value Lessons: Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs

An acrostic poem all about life under the sea featuring detailed comparison and thought provoking meanings about how the sea can be many different things to the different animals that call it home This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Solve one-step and two-step questions [for example ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Variety of examples of one and two step problems with links to bar charts, pictograms and tables → Beautifully created tables and graphs along with accompanying questions and ‘work throughs’ to do with the children → Opportunity built in for children to apply their knowledge throughout, allowing you to do AfL with ease → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3 Statistics Lessons: Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables Solve one-step and two-step questions (for example ‘How many more’ and ‘How many fewer?’) using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Clear, detailed and engaging activities built into the PowerPoint to aid your AfL as you teach → Tasks linked to and based around identifying information from bar charts, pictograms and tables → Beautiful animations, images and graphs used to draw children’s attention to the key messages of the PowerPoint → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3 Statistics Lessons: Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables Solve one-step and two-step questions (for example ‘How many more’ and ‘How many fewer?’) using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division statement: use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division statement: perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division, and interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the formal written method of short division where appropriate, interpreting remainders according to the context Perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 Place Value statement: Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Differentiated tasks throughout the PowerPoint showing how to round a variety of different numbers → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Many opportunities for AfL embedded within the lesson → Plenary activity to finish the session The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Place Value Lessons: Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above

Please find within this download: Five detailed and engaging PowerPoints, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheets with Answer Sheets for a complete series of lessons on this Year 4 measurement statement: Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activities → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures → Complete coverage of the statement: solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, week → Each part of the statement is broken into a lesson (i.e. weeks to days) → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria → Animated count-down timers The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Measurement Lessons: [Convert between different units of measure for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division statement: multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through → Many opportunities for AfL → Plenary activity The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 6 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons: Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division, and interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the formal written method of short division where appropriate, interpreting remainders according to the context Perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Place Value statement: order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples to aid learning → Explains thoroughly what ordering and comparing means when we order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 → Shows how we can order and compare numbers through visual explanations and examples → AfL embedded throughout the presentation → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson → Plenary activity to assess children’s progress throughout the lesson The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Place Value Lessons: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 Find 1,000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 multiplication and division statement: solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two-digit numbers by 1 digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures → Uses diagrams to visually represent problems → Step-by-step approach to setting out and solving distributive law problems → Provides examples for you to explain to the class → Provides opportunity for AfL → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson → Plenary to assess children’s understanding The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Multiplication & Division Lessons: Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law Multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers by a 1 digit number Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations Use place value known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 fractions statement: count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10 The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity → Shows how to meet the objective: count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10 → Uses count along and animated number lines to bring counting in tenths and hundredths to life → Explains how we divide by ten to get tenths and hundred to get hundredths using pictorial examples → Plenary activity to finish the session The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Fraction Lessons: Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10 Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundreds

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Place Value statement: recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how numbers are composed of digits through visual explanations showing how we recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) → Shows how we can partition numbers, providing visual examples → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 4 Place Value Lessons: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 Find 1,000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Compare and Order numbers up to 1000. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Explains thoroughly what ordering and comparing means → Shows how we can order and compare numbers through visual explanations and examples → AfL (Assessment for learning) embedded throughout the presentation → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective & differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). → Plenary activity to assess children’s progress throughout the lesson The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and 1s. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson The Word Document has the following features: → Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge → Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children → Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document) → Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3 Addition & Subtraction Lessons: Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three digit number and 1s Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three digit number and 10s Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three digit number and 100s Add numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction Subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction Estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction

A poem about a dormant volcano suddenly and furiously bursting into life using descriptive language and many questions regarding authorial technique. This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4 → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements → Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Requires children to summarise information from the text → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life ​ We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. ​ All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts: Anxious In Antarctica Roaring Rockets Are We Alone? Night Flight Tiger Stripes Shiver Me Timbers The School Cauldron Bubble Infection

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc). ​ The Word Document has the following features: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian