Seven ‘Whole Class Reading’ (or could be used for Guided Reading) lessons and activities linked to the book, ‘Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Rauf. These plans could be used for either Year 4, 5 or 6. Each lesson includes: 7 x PowerPoint Lesson Plans (this includes a Learning Objective linked to a specific reading skill, warm-up, questions linked to the text (with page numbers, quotes or snipped extracts, examples of model answers and a task for the lesson) and a teaching input which leads to the main task activity (which is differentiated). Each lesson requires some reading of the text before the lesson - this is specified on the first slide which chapters will need to be read. 7 x Main Task for each lesson. This includes questions based on a ‘bronze, silver and gold’ differentiation by challenge and choice. Lessons provide children with a range of reading skill opportunities: Retrieval Inference Summarising Language for effect Non-fiction based on the text (linked to refugees) Within lessons, a range of model answers are given to be used as critical thinking activities for children to ensure they use ‘inference + evidence = effective answer’. My children in Year 5 absolutely loved this book and it links so fittingly to what is going on in the world at the moment. We completed one session per week, which took us to half term.

A Gingerbread Man ‘Crime Scene’ report writing lesson, rated Outstanding during a lesson observation. What’s included: PowerPoint Lesson slides Differentiated Writing template x 3 Lesson support plan (including support for each slide). Lesson support plan includes a range of ideas for how to enhance the lesson, including apps to use to fully engage all learners. This lesson includes images from my classroom; however, you could easily set up a similar crime scene in your own classroom and replace the images if you so wish. The children were very engaged in this lesson and produced some incredible writing - especially as they thought the police were going to read their work

Year 4 / 5 / 6 – A full week of engaging Diary Entry writing planning based on the Halloween scene from the book and film, ‘Wonder’ by R.J. Palacio. Included are daily PowerPoints, resources to print, and a planning explanation. The diary entry is told from Auggie’s perspective as he deals with the excitement of coming to school for Halloween only to face his friend’s talking about him in class. This highly exciting, emotive, and engaging writing planning could be used and adapted for either Year 4, 5 or 6. This could be used as a week’s English unit, with children publishing their writing in lesson 5. The planning would work alongside children reading the text; however, children would not need to have read the whole book to be able to access the planning. There is an accompanying YouTube clip from the film, Wonder (included in the planning), which can be used for a standalone diary entry unit. All resources are made in PowerPoint so are easily editable. Included in the download: There are 4 complete lessons included in the pack. (Please note, all printed resources have been duplicated for planning ease.) 4 x PowerPoint Lesson Plans (this includes a Learning Objective, starter activity, slide to model writing, extension / challenge task). 4 x Starter Tasks – all starter tasks are used to develop higher order critical thinking skills. 4 x Main Tasks + Success Criteria / Structure Strips to support Writing 1 x high quality Diary Entry WAGOLL 2 x Word Banks 1 x Diary Entry Features Poster 4 x Challenge / Extension Tasks 1 x Planning proforma to support the use of PowerPoints This planning was used as part of an inspection and was graded, ‘Outstanding’ when lessons were observed. All children produced high quality writing by the end of the week. Further ideas As the children have ‘imitated’ the WAGOLL, creating their own version, they could now ‘innovate’ their own diary entry based on how another character felt during the scene.

WAGOLL Diary Entry from the perspective of an evacuee child in World War 2. Created on Word - fully editable.

Year 4 / 5 / 6 – Addition and Subtraction Fraction Word Problems and answer sheet. Differentiated 3 ways, these fraction word problems can be edited and used to support Fractions learning in Maths lessons. Resources have been designed in a vertical and horizontal format to suit however you present children’s learning in books. Please note, that all vertical resources have been duplicated for planning ease. Bronze, Silver & Gold resources are progressively more challenging (Gold being the most challenging). WHAT’S INCLUDED: 1 x ‘Bronze’ level +/- fractions. Denominators are the same digit. Addition and subtraction within 1. 1 x ‘Silver’ level +/- fractions. Denominators share low common multiples. Addition and subtraction within 1. 1 x ‘Gold’ level +/- fractions. Denominators need to be multiplied. Addition and subtraction within 1. 1 x Answer sheet

A simple 10 question multiple choice quiz about the Roald Dahl book, Matilda. The quiz covers simple retrieval questions about the main characters. Each slide contains one question with 4 multiple choice answers. On the following slide, the correct answer is highlighted in red. WHAT’S INCLUDED: 1 x PowerPoint Quiz with answers Created on PowerPoint for easy editing.

Place Value Grid with 4 different layout options available. Layout 1 - Ones to Millions, including 3 decimal places (no border) Layout 2 - Ones to Millions, including 3 decimal places (border) Layout 3 - Ones to millions - no decimal places (no border) Layout 4 - Ones to millions - no decimal places (border) A fantastic resource that can be printed and laminated on A4 or A3 and used in any KS2 class to support number work. The PDF can also be uploaded to online learning platforms (e.g. Seesaw) to be used electronically.