A very boy-friendly compare and contrast text about supercars which can be used in a transition unit at the end of year 6. An HMI inspector was very impressed that children were being taught how to compare and contrast as this is the basis of many secondary school and university essays. The structure of this one is simple: intro, similarities, differences, conclusion.

Find different combinations of numbers (weights for a strong man's weight bar) which add up to a certain amount. Differentiated three ways.

Cross Curricular Maths/History activity. Word problems involving the four operations.

A couple of texts - one a news report about a Tsunami written informally to be converted into formal language, the other a formal letter (not a complaint, or persuasive) outlining views on a fictional matter.

Short sentences are used to build tension and describe fast action sequences. This short piece of text would be better written in short sentences and can be used in various ways to encourage children to use this technique. Feel free to use in as creative a way as you can!

A informal, 'chatty' eyewitness account of the Peloponnesian War. Suitable to use during a topic on The Ancient Greeks. We used this as a Talk 4 Writing Text.

To be used with Richard Hickey's 'Francis' short film. http://www.literacyshed.com/the-ghostly-shed.html https://vimeo.com/84786815 The original script is written by novelist & screenwriter Dave Eggers and the original transcript was taken from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/transcript I rewrote the transcript to make it shorter so that it could be used as a Talk 4 Writing text.

This spy report is a fictional report based on the short film Birthday Boy which can be found on youtube.

A cross-curricular resource using real Victorian criminals based on their crime and their time! Children have to use written methods of division to answer the questions ' Which criminal got the hardest sentence?' -Or- 'How many days punishment did each crook get per shilling they stole?' Formatted as posters to go up in the classroom so it can be quite an active activity.

These questions are colour-coded and linked to symbols from my Reading Roles and some follow my scaffolding inference technique: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html

A reading resource for a David Walliams excerpt made using an EAL reading comprehension structure: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html With its colour-coding and symbols it also links to my Reading Roles: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/reading-roles-cognitive-domains-made.html - a way of making the cognitive domains memorable for staff and children.

Each poster has a deal - the children have to work out which sale price is the best price. There is also a differentiated WW1 themed percentages of amounts activity of a similar nature.

Included in this set of resources are summarised versions of the different parts of the story. These were created so that the children had something of a more realistic length to base their own story writing on. If you have the book you could create PowerPoint presentations combining the text and the images (for copyright reasons I have not included my versions of these). Also included are 'box up' frames (Talk For Writing) and comprehension questions.

Focused on vocabulary and summarising texts Linked to my Reading Roles (see my other TES resources) Includes 4 different activities in a sequence Questions are based on this text from The British Museum: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/war/story/sto_set.html

A quick reading comprehension in response to Donald Trump's 'Muslim Ban' in the US centred around Mo Farah's initial statement outlining his concerns about not being allowed back to the US. This reading comprehension has colour-coded questions using my 'Reading Roles' which are based on the content domain areas for reading (download them here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11416334).

Each of the new cognitive domains for reading has been linked to a well-known career/job/role in order to make each of the areas of the content domain easier to remember for both children and teachers. Each area has a symbol and is colour-coded so that there are further ways for the children to remember the areas and what they mean. These could be used to colour-code questions used in class - the symbols could also be assigned to question types so children begin to identify question types.

A slimmed down version of Reading Roles PLUS which focuses only on reading comprehension strategies.

Includes a sequence for teaching subtraction using numberlines and a sequence for teaching addition using column addition.

A set of questions for converting mixed number fractions to improper fractions and vice versa. Also includes a scaffolded version with area models for shading.

A simple document to guide the thinking process behind planning a learning sequence. One of the Word documents included in the download features comments on each part of the planning proforma which can act as a guide to use. Included also is an exemplified version based on a year 3 reading/poetry objective.