A resource aimed at Year 4 for the new 2014 curriculum. It looks at different types of quadrilaterals and their properties (focusing on angles, parallel sides, perpendicular sides and length of sides). Then there are a couple of sorting activities to help the children to focus on the different properties of each quadrilateral and sort them accordingly.

Here are some differentiated sheets aimed at children Level 2c up to higher level 3. Each group has 2 sheets (couldn't fit them all on one page!). Have left in publisher format, so entirely editable for your class. I&'ve included a scaffolding sheet that I used with my lower groups and also the notebook with an mental starter based around counting money followed by a couple of 2-step problems to introduce.

A resource aimed at Year 5 for the new 2014 curriculum looking at properties of rectangles.

A marking ladder to help with self/peer assessment for writing instructions. There are 2 different versions in the document and I've left it as a word document so that you can personalise it to suit your own class.

This is simply a colour-coded grid to help children to work out which part of the grid to use when. It is great for a Year 3 class who are seeing grid method for the first time. I print them out and laminate them for lesson input and it helps them become more independent with the method.

This is a powerpoint based on the Liverpool Cards for group problem solving. It's a problem with a set of 4 clues, some of which are relevant to the problem and some of which aren&'t. It encourages children to find important information when problem solving and discount irrelevant details. It&';s also great for collaborative work. This was aimed at a low ability Year 3 class.

Initial reading activity for a volcano topic. Visual literacy based and designed to help children with deductive, inferential, authorial and literal questioning.

Reading activity based on Anglo-Saxons with the following questioning structure: Deductive questions, inferential questions, authorial questions, literal questions. Aimed at KS2 (specifically a Year 5 class with mixed ability).

This is an activity that I've used with the top group of my Year 3/4 class to help them to find all possible combinations of given variables. I&'ve left it in publisher format so that you can edit it to suit the needs of your own class.

A resource intended for a Year 4/5 class. Complete 2-d shapes based on knowledge of properties and revise co-ordinates work at the same time. Children need to work with talk partners/in small groups to identify co-ordinates of existing points of polygons and work together, based on their knowledge of shape properties, to work out how to complete the shape.