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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful! All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country. I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.

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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful! All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country. I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
Phonics Phase 5 Week 6  – alternative graphemes for /igh/
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Phonics Phase 5 Week 6 – alternative graphemes for /igh/

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A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of closure. Please note all the youtube video clips can be accessed separately for free, which constitutes the home learning element of these lessons. The week’s lessons cover: Revisit / Review Read and write and spell alternative spellings /ee/ ea, ee, ie, ey, y split digraph e-e (Week 06 ee sound less common.pptx) Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative /igh/ - y, ie and split digraph i-e Teach / Practice spelling the phase 4 tricky words words eyes, my, by, people Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes Apply reading sentences p142 (Letters and Sounds) Apply writing sentences p149 (Letters and Sounds)
Phonics Phase 5 Weeks 1 - 4 - school and distance learning pack
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Phonics Phase 5 Weeks 1 - 4 - school and distance learning pack

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A month’s resources allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of a class, school or local closure. The resource consists of: a youtube version of each class based lesson for use when your pupils are learning at home. planning, resources, interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean and Smartboard, a PowerPoint starter and all additional resources required to deliver the same lesson yourself.
J R R Tolkien -  The Hobbit - complete half term's Guided Reading programme
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J R R Tolkien - The Hobbit - complete half term's Guided Reading programme

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story. To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale. To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas. To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text. To be able to reflect on a completed text.
Cressida Cowell - How to train your Viking - complete half term's Guided Reading
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Cressida Cowell - How to train your Viking - complete half term's Guided Reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to use clues to decide what a new book will be about. To understand that stories can be told from different points of view. To form opinions about characters and justify these. To understand how an author can describe feelings using a character’s actions. To understand how an author builds tension. To reflect on the whole story.
JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Philospoher’s Stone - a half term’s whole class / guided reading
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JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Philospoher’s Stone - a half term’s whole class / guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. This resources covers 9 selected chapters. LOs: To understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction To emphasize with the main character and understand how an author tantalises with hints To understand how the author uses italics and capitals for different purposes in her writing. To understand how the author develops the relationship between key characters into a novel. To reflect on the whole story.
Anne Fine - A sudden puff of glittery smoke - three weeks of  guided reading activities
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Anne Fine - A sudden puff of glittery smoke - three weeks of guided reading activities

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how we can use clues like blurb, contents and covers to decide what a book is about To understand how an author can update a traditional theme or idea. understand how an author can communicate character’s feelings and opinions
A complete half term's  guided reading bundle for Y5 or Y6
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A complete half term's guided reading bundle for Y5 or Y6

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A collection of 5 differentiated books suitable for a typical Year 5 or Year 6 Class. Sherlock Holmes- Above Expectations (text included) Harry Potter - At Expectations - higher Double Act - At Expectations - middle The Witches - At Y5 expectations Cool! - Working towards expectations.
Anne Fine - Bill's new frock - 4 weeks guided reading
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Anne Fine - Bill's new frock - 4 weeks guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To emphasis with a central character placed in a strange situation. To understand how an author develops her characters through their interaction. To understand how a character reacts to a dilemma. To be able to predict the outcome of a short story.
Ted Hughes - The Iron Man - 3 weeks guided reading
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Ted Hughes - The Iron Man - 3 weeks guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an introductory chapter often sets the scene, To understand how an author can use characters to show different viewpoints. To reflect on a complete text,
Grammar Hammer 4 - Display package
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Grammar Hammer 4 - Display package

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Resources linked to Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer 4 criteria. Display includes: - 33 connectives taught in GH4, -16 pairs of homophones, - 44 fronted adverbials sorted into 5 different types, and - Wordle style word clouds for eight commonly used synonyms.
Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Promethean flipchart
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Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Promethean flipchart

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A resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system A flipchart for use with Promethean whiteboard Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard. Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong. There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct. NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.
Terry Deary - The Terrible Tudors - four weeks Guided reading
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Terry Deary - The Terrible Tudors - four weeks Guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To make comparisons between similar experiences today and those in the past. To be able to understand the conventions of a non-fiction text. To be able to skim and scan for information in a whole text
Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Smartboard
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Grammar Hammer 4 - Response work to Grammar Hammer weekly test - Smartboard

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A resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system An Interactive Whiteboard file for use with Smart's notebook. Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard. Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong. There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct. NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.
Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Old School - half term's guided reading
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Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Old School - half term's guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to identify key features of a diary. To be able to understand how the main characters interact. To use inference and deduction to understand a character better To be able to understand how the main characters interact. To be able to identify features of the (comedy) horror genre To be able to describe alternatives to a story’s plot
Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox - a complete half term's guided reading
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Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox - a complete half term's guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall and retrieve evidence to describe the main characters in a short novel. To be able to emphasis with the main characters of a story. To be use information within a text to predict what will happen in a story. To use inference and deduction to explain the different characters’ behaviour. To consider whether or not it is ever acceptable to steal To explore how the layout and language of a book contributes to its meaning.
Anne Fine - The Country Pancake - 5 weeks guided reading.
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Anne Fine - The Country Pancake - 5 weeks guided reading.

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how we can use clues like blurb, contents and covers to decide what a book is about. To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story. To understand how words and effects like italics can contribute to a story. To understand how stories can be written from different viewpoints. To understand how a writer uses language and punctuation to help convey a character’s feelings.
Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine - complete half term's guided reading.
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Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine - complete half term's guided reading.

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To understand how Roald Dahl creates truly loathsome characters To see how an author builds suspense. To understand how an author can use poetry features to make his book more enjoyable. To empathise with the main characters of a novel. To make predictions based on the text. To understand how an author brings a story to a close.