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.
Learning Objectives
Starter:
- To order multistep calculations.
- To multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000.
Main Lesson:
- To multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000 (Year 5)
- To multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000 giving answers up to 3 decimal places (Year 6)
- To understand and use place value for decimals (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder, multi-step calculations and revision of properties of numbers. A connect activity getting children to remember how they multiply and divide integers (whole numbers) by 10, 100, 1000.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach how to multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to multiply and divide increasingly more challenging integers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. A Place Value grid is provided as additional support for those struggling. Answer sheet provided to support marking.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge of multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100, and 1000 to find as many possible ways to make a specific number based on old SATs paper.
This set also includes a PDF of A Christmas Carol
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 use cover, contents and preface to make predictions.
To read and understand a classic text.
To understand how memories can help change a person.
To understand how an author can have a character changed by what he experiences first hand.
To understand how knowledge of the future can help change a person.
To understand the many different ways an author can show a character has changed.
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 skimming and scanning to answer questions about the opening section of a story.
To emphasise with the children in the story.
To use skimming and scanning to make sense of a text.
To understand how an author can use a letter to summarise a story.
To make predictions based on what you have read to date.
To be able to empathise with the main characters as they reach the end of their journey.
To reflect upon a completed novel / to produce a piece of biographical writing.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading.
NB this resource includes each story in Word Format.
Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions
LOs
To be able to explain the moral of a story.
To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences
To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language.
To discuss creation myths
To use context and verbal clues to decode a text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests.
LOs:
To make deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel.
To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in a text.
To be able to understand how dialogue can be used to describe something or someone
To understand how an author can reveal his personal opinions and experiences through the way he portrays his characters.
To consider how the author can make us understand that Witches are not like real people.
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.
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 can introduce a story / to comment on the specific effects of words and phrases.
To be able to empathise with a family faced with bad news.
To understand how an author creates a low point in a story.
To understand how one event changes the relationship between characters.
To use contextual clues to understand archaic language.
To understand how a story within a story is linked back to the first 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 understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To identify how an author can write a story within a story.
To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning
To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.
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 look at the way that letters differ by author and purpose.
To understand how an author drops hints into early chapters to reveal what will happen in the book.
To understand how an author makes a dilemma truly difficult to overcome.
To understand how an author develops character relationships.
To understand how an author brings a story to a climax.
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 predictions based on what can be learned from a book before reading it.
To reflect on how a historical novel begins.
To reflect upon a key turning point the novel.
To understand how an author drops hints about the importance of certain characters.
To understand how one event changes that whole focus of a narrative.
To understand how an author uses book conventions to bring tension to a narrative.
To reflect on 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.
LOs
To understand how an author reintroduces characters.
To use recall to find facts and make deductions about the main characters.
To form opinions about characters and justify them using quotes from the text.
To understand how additional main characters can be reintroduced in a sequel
To empathise with the main character when he is placed in a difficult situation.
To use inference and deduction to understand character motives.
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 opinions about a text based on its opening chapter.
To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time.
To understand how an author builds a sense of tension.
To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters.
To empathise with the main character.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news.
To reflect upon a completed 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 read a book for simple information, events and ideas
To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers
To understand how the author implies things by his use of language.
To understand the moral of Roald’s story.
To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.
Learning Objectives
Starter:
- To order multistep calculations.
- To identify four operations.
Main Lesson:
- To solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these (Year 5)
- To solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (Year 6)
- To use the 4 operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers and decimals, (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder, multi-step calculations and revision of properties of numbers. A connect activity challenging children to identify which range of operations they require to solve a differentiated Word problem.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children how to lay out multi operation Word problems and how to allowing you to group children according to ability.
A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to solve multi-step word problems relating to measures, time and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. A challenge activity where children have to apply this knowledge and draw conclusion in order to answer two Mastery style questions. Answer sheet provided to support marking.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge to a multistep SATs question, requiring the use of brackets to organise their calculation.
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 provides background to his characters and plot.
To make predictions based on what has happened so far in a text.
To be able to draw conclusions about a character’s plan.
To trace ideas throughout a whole 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.
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 predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book
To make predictions based on what has been read already.
To understand how an author can convey impatience in a character.
To understand how an author interweaves real life with fantasy
To identify key turning points in a story.
To understand how an author uses language to convey hidden meanings.
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 predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book.
To reflect on the opening of a story
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story.
To consider the main purpose of the text
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 use recall, inference and deduction to find out about two characters.
To be able to empathise with characters from the past
To use inference and deduction to understand a character’s actions
To understand how authors use chance encounters to shape their stories.
To understand how an author can choose archaic words and expressions when writing a story set in the past.
To understand how historical research is used to write a historical novel.
Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of:
The birth of Zeus
Theseus and the Minotaur
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Perseus and the Gorgon