A sorting activity to help and challenge children to identify the features of newspapers. Children to correctly match the definition to a series of different features found within newspapers.

Created for a Year Five year class. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 6 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text. There is a lower ability version which includes sentence starters/key information for support.

Created for a Year Five year class. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 7 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text. There is a lower ability version which includes sentence starters/key information for support.

Created for a Year Five year class. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 11 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text. There is a lower ability version which includes sentence starters/key information for support.

Created for a Year Five year class. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 4 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text. There is a lower ability version which includes sentence starters/key information for support.

Created for a Year Five Literacy middle/higher set. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 2 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text.

Created for a Year Five year class. A set of comprehension questions based on Chapter 3 of SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting. There are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on this text. There is a lower ability version which includes sentence starters/key information for support.

Created for a mixed ability Year Five class (two sets of questions) there are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on Chapters 1 and 2 of this text. This novel has good links with a Victorian Topic.

Used as an introduction to a Year Five class who were going to create their own Groovy Greeks information texts. (linked to Horrible Histories) A PowerPoint and sorting activity which investigates the features of information texts based on the Ancient Greeks. These challenge children to identify and explain the different features within information texts/non-fiction texts. Print off examples and invite children to highlight the different features they have found before they go onto to designing, planning and writing their own Groovy Greeks Information Texts.

Used as an introduction to a Year Five class who were going to create their own Groovy Greeks - Greek Myth. (linked to Horrible Histories) A PowerPoint and sorting activity which investigates the features of Play Scripts based on the Greek Myths. These challenge children to identify and explain the different features within Play Script. Print off examples and invite children to highlight the different features they have found before they go onto to designing, planning and writing their own Greeks Myths.

A PowerPoint which discusses who was to blame for the Titanic disaster which includes interactive hyperlinks in which you click on photos/pictures for reasons why people were blamed. Reasons are given for Captain Smith, Captain Lord, The Shipbuilders, Thomas Andrews, Frederick Fleet and Bruce Ismay. Children can then discuss and share their ideas on who they think should be blamed as part of a unit on arguments/ and persuasive writing.

Used as an introduction to newspaper report writing based on the Titanic. A PowerPoint and sorting activity which investigates the features of newspaper reports based on the Titanic disaster. These challenge children to identify and explain the different features within newspapers. Print off examples and invite children to highlight the different features they have found before they go onto to designing, planning and writing their own newspaper reports.

An activity linked to Titanic newspaper report writing in which children change a series of direct speech sentences into reported speech sentences for their newspaper reports. Within the PowerPoint are some recorded direct speech sentences for the children to listen to and change into a reported speech sentence before they complete their activities.

Created for a mixed ability Year Five class (two sets of questions) there are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on Chapter 12 of this text. This novel has good links with a Victorian Topic.

Created for a mixed ability Year Five class (two sets of questions) there are a range of different questions which asks children to retrieve and answer a range of questions based on Chapters 14 and 15 of this text. This novel has good links with a Victorian Topic.

Used as an introduction to writing a series of Information Texts based on The Victorians. A PowerPoint which investigates the features of Information Texts based on The Victorians. This challenges children to identify and explain the different features within Information Texts. Print off examples and invite children to highlight the different features they have found before they go onto to designing, planning and writing their own Victorian Information Texts.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the opening two chapters of The Sheep Pig. There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the fourth chapter of Grandpa’s Indian Summer. Chapter 4 (The Cricket Match). There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.