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.
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.
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, inference and deduction to form opinions about a central character.
To empathise with a central character and his problems.
To be able to make predictions based on your understanding of the main character.
To use skimming and scanning to find information from a text.
To be able to use recall, deduction and inference to form opinions about a text
To make predictions based on what has happened in a story to date.
To reflect on a completed text.
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 author creates a sense of mystery.
To understand how Michael Morpurgo uses stories within stories
To be able to empathise with the central character of a novel.
To understand how two stories can have parallels with each other.
To understand how a significant event affects characters in different ways.
To retrieve information from the text to answer questions and form opinions.
To respond to the twist in the tail of the story
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about Workhouses
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of Workhouses.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of Workhouse.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of Workhouses.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Workhouses.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a Workhouse
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 evaluate how effectively an author writes a sequel to the first book in a series.
To understand the characters of the two main people in the story.
To understand how a new major character can be introduced.
To understand how an author chooses words to make a setting seem more authentic.
To make predictions at the low point / dilemma of a story.
To reflect on a completed text.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about education
Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• Recognise the difference between fact and opinion
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of education
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life at school
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO:
To be able to empathise with the main character.
To understand different layout forms and how they can be used in narration.
To be able to use contextual clues to understand unfamiliar and foreign language.
To understand how an author uses language to reveal things.
To be able to comment on the whole story
To be able to recognise the purpose of a glossary, its layout and organisation.
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 the purpose of an opening chapter
To understand how an author develops relationships between characters.
To understand how characters can be introduced using the viewpoint of the main character.
To understand how secondary characters help develop a primary character
To show how an author uses an address to the reader to provide additional information.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the people of America feel when they see the giant peach.
To form and share opinions about a completed novel.
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.
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.
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 form and revise opinions about the Romans
To make comparisons between past and contemporary entertainment.
To make comparisons between today and the past.
To use skimming and scanning to find information for research.
To gather information in order to write persuasively.
To reflect on a completed text
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 form and revise opinions about the Victorians
To make comparisons between past and contemporary entertainment.
To make comparisons between today and the past.
To use skimming and scanning to find information for research.
To gather information in order to write persuasively.
To reflect on a completed text
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 talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information
To understand more challenging vocabulary
To be able to explain the differences in settings
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 author introduces principle characters
To understand how change affects people in different ways.
To understand relationships in a new family unit
To try to emphasize with how change affects individuals
To understand how different children react in different situations.
To reflect on a whole story
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To answer simple questions based on the text
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 author introduces a character
To understand how an author chooses names to help develop characters.
To make predictions about a story.
To be able to make predictions based on knowledge of the stories an author tells.
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 author uses everyday objects as a portal to a fantasy world.
To understand how an author uses familiar and unfamiliar words to create a fantasy setting.
To understand how an author builds a sense of wonder.
To draw conclusions based on what has been read to date.
To skim and scan a text to find evidence to support opinions and answer questions.
To understand how an author draws on his own life, his beliefs and his experiences.
To reflect on a completed text.
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 develop an understanding of the genre – real life stories
To be able to empathise with a character in a difficult situation.
To draw conclusions about a whole text.
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 read a classic text.
To be able to explain the meaning of archaic language.
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a short story.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
To find evidence that shows that a story has been written in the past.
To explore how an author uses language to bring a story alive.
To understand how an author uses contrast to describe two major characters.
To be able to make informed predictions using clues like Chapter titles and knowledge of preceding story.
To understand how an author can use secondary characters to develop a primary character.
To recognise the climax of a novel.
To understand how an author can relate a story within a story.
