This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to practise their counting and numeral recognition in an independent context. Children can subitise the small amounts, or count using one-to-one correspondence, and then select the corresponding numeral by placing a clothes peg in the correct place. Alternatively, the cards showing number pieces can be provided which will support children’s quick recognition of the maths manipulative.

This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to practise their counting and numeral recognition in an independent context. Children can subitise the small amounts, or count using one-to-one correspondence, and then select the corresponding numeral by placing a clothes peg in the correct place. Alternatively, the cards showing number pieces can be provided which will support children’s quick recognition of the maths manipulative.

This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to make and compare different amounts. The child is given an instruction, for example: ‘Find an amount that is greater than this one’ and the supporting adult places a card in one of the circles. The child then chooses a card to place in the other circle. The adult encourages the child to talk about the different quantities and prompt appropriate language.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 4 Reading Skills - The Vegetable Killer resource contains a narrative about Dimitri and his attempts to remove vegetables from his farm, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to compare amounts of objects and develop the skill of subitising. Each card has two sets of objects; these may be different or equal amounts. Children are encouraged to identify which group has more, less, the same and so on. Children can count the amounts to make the comparisons but subitising is encouraged where possible.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 4 Reading Skills - A Sloth’s Guide to the Amazon resource contains an information text in the form of a survival guide for sloths in the Amazon, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 5 Reading Skills - Shang Dynasty contains a non-chronological report about one of China’s earliest dynasties including information about its society, rulers and beliefs along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 4 Reading Skills - The Odyssey: A Long Way Home resource contains a poem recalling the life of Odysseus and his attempts to return home, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 2 Reading Skills - A Poet resource contains an information text all about the life of Edward Lear and his work as a nonsense poet, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 1 Reading Skills - Spring is in the Air resource contains a poem about the changes that occur in the season of spring, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice. This text is intended to be used collaboratively. An adult reads the text, but it includes blue text on each page that should be appropriate for children to join in with during the spring and summer terms.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 6 Reading Skills - Poem resource contains a poem about poems and their purpose, and the variety of interpretations, thoughts and ideas they can lead to, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 6 Reading Skills - Shackleton’s Endurance resource contains a text detailing the events of Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica on his ship Endurance along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 5 Reading Skills - Spring Cub resource contains an exciting story about a young girl who finds an abandoned bear cub in her local woodland and has to make an important decision along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 4 Reading Skills - The Story of Saint Patrick resource contains a narrative about the story of Saint Patrick and how he came to Ireland along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 6 Reading Skills - Dressing the Victorian resource contains a first-person narrative from the point of view of a young deaf girl helping a Victorian lady to dress in the fashionable formal clothing of the time along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 1 Reading Skills - Falling Apples resource contains a newspaper report about Isaac Newton and his theory of gravity, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice. This text is intended to be used collaboratively. An adult reads the text, but it includes blue text on each page that should be appropriate for children to join in with during the spring and summer terms.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 6 Reading Skills - The Climate Crisis resource contains a non-chronological report on climate change, its effects on wildlife and what actions humans are taking to reduce its impact along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets Year 2 Reading Skills - A Book to Challenge resource contains a newspaper report about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to develop their understanding of estimating. Practitioners should discuss how to make ‘sensible estimates’ by using their knowledge of quantities. If required, supporting adults may need to write the numerals for the children or small number cards could be used. Children then identify how many objects there are by counting. Please be aware that if children are able to subitise the amount to 5 this should be encouraged.

This Classroom Secrets resource learning activity enables children to explore combining small amounts. The small image cards can be cut out by an adult or the child could do this as part of the activity. Children are asked to place two cards in the circles, add the quantities together to work out the total. Encourage subitising where possible. Children could be given a target number, e.g. ‘Find all the ways to make 4.’