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A set of fun Valentine-themed shape algebra worksheets, differentiated three ways, with answers.
Pupils use algebra to crack the code to find the value of the Valentine’s Day objects.
Each document comes as a PDF with answer sheets included.
Differentiated three ways:
• Bronze: simple additions and subtractions
• Silver: additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions; multi-step problem solving
• Gold: more complex problem solving involving multiple steps; square numbers and cubes included
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Reference sheet showing the main punctuation marks used in writing.
Print onto A4 for a reference sheet which can be used as a handout or stuck into writing books. Can also be printed onto A3 as a display poster.
Each punctuation mark is shown, named and has an example of use.
Punctuation marks displayed:
• Capital letters
• Full stop
• Question mark
• Exclamation mark
• Comma
• Inverted commas
• Apostrophe
• Brackets
• Dashes
• Hyphen
• Colon
• Semi-colon
• Ellipses
Punctuation resources:
✦ Semi-Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
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✦ Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Direct Speech Punctuation, Quiz & Activities
✦Contractions: Apostrophes for Omission Activities & Quiz
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Nuggets with Answers - Term BUNDLE
✦ Punctuation Mark Matching Activity
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A list of coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions.
Encourage pupils to identify and write compound and complex sentences using this word mat containing lists of conjunctions.
Useful for identifying features of texts and for writing different fiction and non-fiction text types such as stories, letters, diary entries, explanations, discussions etc.
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A list of causal conjunctions and adverbials to help pupils with writing texts such as explanations and discussion texts.
Use the word sheet to help pupils identify these connectives when reading texts and then use in their own writing.
This vocabulary sheet of causal conjunctions and adverbials is useful for all pupils, particularly those with SEN or EAL.
Explanation texts:
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Non-chronological reports:
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A template to help pupils to write a profile about a book character.
Use this character profile template to write about a character’s appearance (looks), personality (traits), actions and special skills.
The character description template can be used by pupils to describe characters from books studied in Literacy and English lessons, read as a whole class text or independently, or to plan and create a new character before writing.
The template is ideal to use during World Book Day celebrations.
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Two activities involving identifying correctly and incorrectly punctuated possessive nouns. Pupils must look carefully at the sentences to check if the apostrophes have been put in the correct place for a variety of possessive nouns.
There are two activities provided:
✽ Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Cards/Quiz: pupils sort the cards into correct and incorrect piles. Great for paired or small group work. Large and small cards are provided, plus a presentation to use to go through the answers or to use as a whole class quiz.
✽ Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Worksheet: pupils identify whether the apostrophes are correctly punctuating the possessive nouns, and then make any necessary corrections; identify possession as singular, regular plural and irregular plural; add missing apostrophes to sentences and write a paragraph including their own possessive nouns. Great as an independent task. This worksheet uses different examples to the cards/quiz.
Different formats of possessive nouns are given as examples, including:
• Singular possession with one item being possessed
• Singular possession with more than one item being possessed
• Regular plural possession with one item being possessed
• Regular plural possession with more than one item being possessed
• Irregular plural possession with one item being possessed
• Irregular plural possession with more than one item being possessed
Answers to all tasks are included.
All documents available as easily editable Word or Powerpoint documents and as PDFs.
These activities are suitable for years 4, 5 or 6.
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Three fun Valentine’s Day maths activities each differentiated three ways.
♥ Valentine’s co-ordinates pictures
♥ Valentine’s fraction pixel art
♥ Valentine’s shape algebra
These resources are suitable for years 4, 5 or 6.
Each resource comes differentiated three ways and with answers.
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A fun Valentine’s Day themed fraction activity. Pupils identify equivalent fractions and colour in the squares to create a Valentine themed pixel picture.
These worksheets are differentiated three ways:
• Lower ability: Identify equivalent unit fractions
• Middle ability: Identify equivalent fractions with a wider range of equivalencies
• Higher ability: Add and subtract fractions, then simplify to identify equivalencies
Each PDF worksheet comes with full answers.
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The Iron Man themed differentiated worksheets containing a variety of apostrophe activities.
The apostrophe worksheets are differentiated three ways. They contain a variety of apostrophe activities to develop pupils’ knowledge of the punctuation mark and improve their skills in using apostrophes in their writing.
Different types of apostrophes are covered by the worksheets:
• Apostrophes for omission (contractions)
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
The worksheets are themed around Ted Hughes’s popular novel, The Iron Man (also known as The Iron Giant).
Each worksheet comes with an answer sheet.
Every resource comes as an easily editable Word document and in PDF format.
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A set of 6 The Twits themed example texts.
Each model text includes a wide range of writing features for pupils to identify, plus feature find sheet with full answers, enabling children to make a close reading of the text before planning and writing their own versions using the planning and writing templates also provided.
The following example texts are included in this bundle:
• Character profile
• Diary entry
• Newspaper report
• Informal letter
• Instructions
• Dialogue (differentiated dialogue-writing activities instead of planning and writing templates)
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Deepen your pupils’ understanding of the text and get them practising their writing with this The Iron Man themed resource.
Pupils read two example texts based on the children’s science fiction novel The Iron Man (also known as The Iron Giant) by Ted Hughes. One text is written from the point of view of Hogarth and the other from the perspective of Hogarth’s mother.
After reading relevant section of Chapter 2 (extract included), pupils examine the features of Hogarth’s first person account (answer key included) and then continue either of the example texts or write their own from the point of view of a different character, such as Hogarth’s father, either of the farmers or even the Iron Man himself!
The following resources are included in this product:
• Example text from Hogarth’s perspective
• Example text from Hogarth’s mother’s perspective
• First person point of view Feature Find
• Feature Find answer key
• Extract from Chapter 2 of The Iron Man
All resources come as easily editable Word document and as PDFs.
The extract from The Iron Man has been included. Therefore the resource can be used while studying the novel or as a standalone lesson / group of lessons.
To enhance writing, pupils can role play / hot seat characters to explore their feelings, actions, sayings (what they say) and thoughts prior to writing.
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A fun, engaging decimal themed maths murder mystery for students to solve.
Pupils complete the decimal questions to solve the murder.
The following objectives are covered:
• convert decimals to fractions and percentages
• compare decimals
• add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals with different decimal places
• complete a decimal sequence
Complete answers are provided for all questions.
This resource is suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils.
The question and answer sheets both come as PDFs.
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An example action text inspired by the novel Oranges in No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Laird, plus feature find with answers and novel extract.
Pupils will examine the exciting text extract from the refugee novel, looking for features of an action sequence. After highlighting features and noting examples of those features in a table, pupils will be introduced to an example text written from the point of view of a different character from the book. They can then write their own action text.
The action sequence extract is taken from chapters 13 and 14, when Ayesha is taken back across Beirut’s Green Line by Abu Bashir in a United Nations’ ambulance.
The model text is written from Abu Bashir’s perspective instead of Ayesha’s. This text can be used as a WAGOLL for writing.
The following documents are provided in easily editable Word format and as PDF:
• Extract feature find
• Extract feature find answers
• Feature table
• Action text order of events
• Example text from Abu Bashir’s point of view
The following action text features are identified:
• Verbs to show danger or speed
• Noun phrases to show danger or speed
• Adverbials to show speed
• Short sentences
• Thoughts and feelings
• Show not tell feelings
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
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A word bank of 35 common contractions and their full forms. This word list is a useful resource for pupils who are learning about apostrophes and as a word mat when writing non-fiction genres such as diary entries, informal letters and other informal texts, as well as fiction writing, especially dialogue.
Contractions are words that are made by combining two words together but omitting some letters and replacing these with apostrophes.
Each set of words is presented above the shortened form with its apostrophe for omission.
The word bank can be printed onto A4 to be used as a handy desk-top resource or enlarged onto A3 paper and displayed on the wall of your classroom.
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Informal example WAGOLL texts:
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A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. It is a way of writing that makes something sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc than it actually is. Hyperbole is a type of figurative language. It is a figure of speech and a literary device.
This document contains examples of hyperboles. The hyperbole example list can be used to help to understand this literary device, to identify hyperboles within texts and to use hyperboles in writing.
Example texts and activities featuring hyperboles:
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✦ Example Description: Journey by Aaron Becker
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✦ Diary Example Text Pack: The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Unicorn Persuasive Letter Example Pack
✦ Oranges in No Man’s Land Example Diary Text Pack
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✦ The Twits Example Diary Text Pack
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Example letter text for Oranges in No Man’s Land written from Doctor Leila to Granny, plus writing feature identification worksheet. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading about Ayesha’s return from her dangerous journey crossing the Green Line in Elizabeth Laird’s refugee novel * Oranges in No Man’s Land *.
The model letter contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Metaphors
• Alliteration
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Thoughts and feelings
• Present tense
• Past tense
• Future tense
• Past perfect tense
• Second person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Relative pronouns
• Exclamations
• Commands
• Interjections
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Brackets
• Dashes
Pupils can read the example informal letter, identify the features and then write one of the following, including the features in their own writing:
• Their own version of the letter from Dr Leila to Granny
• A return letter from Granny to Dr Leila
• A return letter from Ayesha to Dr Leila
The following documents are included in this resource:
• Example informal letter
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning templates x3
All resources are available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
Answers for the feature identification worksheet are included.
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✦ Diary Example Text Pack
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Pupils practise changing direct speech to reported speech using these differentiated worksheets based on events from the refugee novel Oranges in No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Laird.
A conversation from Chapter 8 of the novel, when Ayesha escapes from the militiamen with the help of the mysterious old man Abu Boutros, must be changed from direct to reported speech.
Direct speech is speech which is reported by using the exact words that the speaker used and includes the use of inverted commas (otherwise known as speech marks or quotation marks). Reported speech (otherwise known as indirect speech) tells you what someone said but does not use the person’s actual words.
This activity has been differentiated three ways to cater to a range of ability levels in the classroom.
Answers have been provided.
The resources come as PDF documents.
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A list of the main events that occur in the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
This resource can be used by pupils when creating descriptions, diary entries, character profiles and other writing based on the book.
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✦ Christophe’s Story Dialogue Writing Example with Feature Identification, Answers & Extract
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A card sort to match the six main non-fiction text types with text examples, features and purpose of the non-fiction text genres.
Suitable as a paired or small group activity to be completed as a lesson starter or plenary.
Non-fiction example WAGOLL texts:
✦ Instructional texts: instructions, recipes
✦ Recount texts: diaries, newspaper reports, biographies
✦ Information texts: non-chronological reports
✦ Explanation texts: explanations
✦ Persuasive texts: persuasive letters, adverts
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✦ The Iron Man Literary Devices Differentiated Activities
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✦ The Twits Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Templates
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A set of test style comprehension questions based on Chapter 3 of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
This assessment contains a range of SATs style reading questions with a maximum of 18 marks.
All aspects of reading VIPERS have been covered: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation and summary/sequence.
Perfect to assess pupils’ understanding of the chapter in guided reading or English/literacy lessons.
The test comes with answers.
Other comprehension resources:
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Bundle
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Question Booklet Whole Novel
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Questions Chapter 1
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Questions Chapter 2
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Questions Chapter 4
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension Questions Chapter 5
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✦ Example Non-Chronological Report About The Iron Man, Plus Feature Identification Sheet with Answers
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✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
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