http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html

A comprehension activity based on a picture by Nuccio DiNuzzo taken at a US airport where protesters are protesting against Trump's Muslim ban. The questions focus on inference and do depend on children having some background knowledge, i.e. of the Holocaust.

Boy-friendly maths activity ordering large numbers, carrying out calculations with large numbers and rounding large numbers. Large numbers are all in the context of money and how much things cost - children's toys and most expensive movie cars.

Condensed from http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html This is an explanation of on easy questioning technique to build children's understanding of what they are reading, focusing particularly on inference and how inference can be supported by vocabulary knowledge and information retrieval skills. The symbols/colours are linked to: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-a-way-to-help-children-remember-the-cognitive-domains-ks1-and-ks2-11416334

One poem per half term for year 5 and 6 children. The poems have been selected to represent a diverse range of poets as well as a range of poetic techniques. Poems could be chosen to link to particular units of work. As such, some of the poems listed here for year 5 might be taught in year 6, and vice versa. Year 5: Caged Bird – Maya Angelou (personification, verses, metaphor, repetition, theme, context, anthropomorphism) Eldorado – Edgar Allan Poe (verses, rhyming couplets, alliteration, structure, archaic language, narrative) From A Railway Carriage – RL Stephenson (narrative, verses, simile, structure rhyming couplets, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition) In Flanders Field – John McCrae (rhyme, alliteration, rhyming couplets, narrative, verses, meter, historic) The Night Is Darkening Round Me – Emily Bronte (rhyme, theme, structure, verses, historic, meter) What is Pink? – Christina Rosetti (rhyme, rhythm, meter, repetition) Year 6: Be Very Afraid! – Carol Ann Duffy (figurative, repetition, free verse, alliteration, punctuation, humour) I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – William Wordsworth (rhyme, verses, historic, simile, metaphor, meter) If – Rudyard Kipling (verses, historic, repletion, rhyme, theme) The British – Benjamin Zephaniah (some rhyme, assonance, repetition) Unfolding Bud – Naoshi Koriyama (verses) Where The Mind Is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore (alliteration, rhythm, some rhyme)

Print outs of receipts for fast food restaurants - order the receipts based on the amount of money.

Many of these questions have been written using this technique: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html and some of them draw on ideas from Rhoda Wilson: https://misswilsonsays.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/moving-beyond-reading-comprehension-sheets/

A range of non-fiction resources to support understanding of key themes and events in Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig. The sets of questions named by the book's chapters are based on the book and not non-fiction texts.

Including excerpts from: The Hobbit Harry Potter The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Covering work on setting description, building tension, using verbs, figurative language.

Linked to Reading Roles (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-a-way-to-help-children-remember-the-areas-of-the-content-domain-ks1-and-ks2-11416334) Based on the following books/poems: Habitat Survival: Mountains by Melanie Waldron Everest by Sangma Francis Rivers and Mountains by Joanna Brundle Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Unfolding Bud by Naoshi Koriyama

As part of the work we are suggesting to our families during the lockdown, we are sending a daily idea for a task that can be completed by children of all ages by family groups. We wanted to reduce the number of different tasks that a family was asked to do and so created these daily ideas for less academic, more creative activities. They are mostly collated from various resources on the web so most of the ideas are nothing new but they are all together, mapped out in one place. They are dated (beginning 23rd March) so you can either amend the dates, or join in at the relevant date.

2 simple grids with 20 different things per grid to find in picture books 2 more simple grids containing alphabet challenges

We used this as a Talk 4 Writing text.

PowerPoint to introduce SPAG/GPS SATs Test on Tuesday 10th May 2016 - run down of the question types.

Some Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot themed questions alongside bonfire night themed questions for level 5 division - Carry out short division of numbers involving decimals to two places (5b) Solve problems that involve dividing any 3 digit by any 2 digit number (5b)

A variety of maths resources linked to the City of Bradford based on percentages and data handling.

Ordering tenths and hundredths.

Word problems (mostly 2 step) linked to the National Curriculum objectives (for the four operations) for year 4 and year 5. 10 questions for each year group. Have included some opportunities for written reasoning. There are also opportunities to promote fluency i.e. questions about ml, children could convert to l. Please feel free to amend and use in whichever way you wish!!

A WAGOLL resource (based on a Talk For Writing piece) for a discussion text. Two different structures are provided.

Differentiated 3 ways. encourages application of mathematical facts and strategies. Build-a-bike from a choice of parts using a budget (costs left blank so can be differentiated for groups). Literacy - write an explanation for why they have chosen the parts. Includes percentages and averages and inference/AF3 work for Literacy/reading. One of the maths resources can be found in this document under Maths B46: http://cycle.yorkshire.com/documents/tdf/legacy/EducationPacks/TDF-EducationResourcePack-SectionB.pdf