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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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/

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.

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.

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).

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.

Reading comprehension questions for various chapters of Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Focussing on character description, retrieval, vocabulary and inference.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.