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KS1 & KS2 Comprehension Activities Huge Booklet Bundle! (aligned with the New Curriculum)
These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 1 through to Year 6 comprehension expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
The Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 Booklets (normally 2 pounds each) are all included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free!
Examples of activities within the booklets include:
- Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’
- Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’
-Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’
Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
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Upper KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklets Bundle! (aligned with the New Curriculum)
These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 5 and Year 6 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Both the Year 5 Booklet and the Year 6 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free!
Examples of activities within the booklets include:
- Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’
- Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’
-Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’
Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
Year 5 Guided Reading Comprehension Activities Booklet! (Aligned with the New Curriculum)
Now with PDF version included! This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 5 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Activities and games within the booklet include:
- Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context'
- Understanding Literary Heritage Fiction - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Read myths, legends, traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions."
- Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.'
- Figurative Language - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, to create an impact on the reader.'
Plus many more activities (the booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
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Descriptive Devices Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their descriptive writing skills, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language techniques.
Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on:
- Varied Verbs and Adverbs;
- Adventurous Adjectives;
- Personification and Oxymorons;
- Alliteration and Assonance;
- Similes and Metaphors.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - there is everything included that you need to teach!
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Animal Farm Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Russian Revolution;
- Old Major’s Dream;
- The Rise of the Pigs;
- Dictatorship;
- Squealer;
- The Ending (Orwell’s Message)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
Stories from Different Cultures: Recreations (Double-Lesson!)
These interesting and stimulating resources enable students to read and understand a number of texts from different cultures. Students learn about different countries and their social and historical traditions. Students also learn to recreate texts, honing their knowledge of text content, language, and structure choices, whilst simultaneously building their imaginative writing skills. There are easily enough resources here for 2 lessons, at the very least.
The visually engaging, comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the following learning journey:
- Learning about the cultures of different countries where the short stories originated;
- Reading and understanding the short stories;
- Collaborating in teams in order to analyse the stories in terms of content, language, and structure;
- Understanding the key term 'recreations' and evaluating two recreations of a famous fable;
- Planning and writing their own recreation of one of the texts from different cultures;
- Peer-assessing the recreation attempts of their partner.
Provided in this resource pack is everything that you need to simply print and teach, including:
- Comprehensive PowerPoint presentation;
- Countries fact-sheets
- 4x short stories (The Island of the Sun - China, Narcissus and Echo - Greece, The Little Beggar - Iraq, and The Princess of Riddles - Portugal.)
- Mind-map activity template;
- Recreations planning template;
- Learning objectives to stick in.
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slide.
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Lower KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklets Bundle! (Aligned with the New Curriculum)
These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 and Year 4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Both the Year 3 Booklet and the Year 4 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free!
Examples of activities within the booklets include:
- Word Boxing - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination’ and ‘Use a dictionary to check the meanings of words that you have read’
- FBI Vocabulary Agent - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Show an understanding of words that capture the readers’ interest and imagination.’
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’
- Organised Ernie - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Say how a text is organised in order to help you understand it, for example using paragraphs, headings, sub-headings, and inverted commas to show speech.’
Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is over 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
Year 3 Guided Reading Comprehension Activities Booklet! (Aligned with the New Curriculum!)
Now with PDF version included! This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Activities and games within the booklet include:
- Mind Reader - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Work out how a character is feeling in a story from their actions, and explain how you know with evidence from the text.'
- Text Inspector - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Use non-fiction texts to find out information on a subject.'
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.'
- Organised Ernie - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Say how a text is organised in order to help you understand it, for example using paragraphs, headings, sub-headings, and inverted commas to show speech.'
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
Animal Farm: Dictatorship
These resources enable students to understand and analyse the characteristics of Napoleon’s dictatorship in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. In addition, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding the events of the chapters 5 and 6, (as Napoleon’s dictatorship begins to emerge) and make appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context. As these chapters signal the end of the animal democracy on the farm, and the start of Napoleon’s totalitarian dictatorship, a heavy emphasis throughout these resources is placed upon the character of Napoleon - particularly with regards to his similarities with Joseph Stalin.
There are easily enough resources for two lessons within this pack. Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating prior knowledge through a discussion-based starter task;
- Gauging their knowledge of key terms such as ‘totalitarian’ and ‘oppression’ through a collaborative card-sorting activity;
- Reading chapters 5 and 6 and demonstrating their understanding through an apt and informative worksheet;
- Developing their understanding of the main character of Snowball, and his allegorical equivalent, Joseph Stalin, through a comparison task;
- Analysing the links between Napoleon and Stalin in chapters 5 and 6, using a templated writing frame;
- Peer assessing their partners’ learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint;
- Cards for card-sorting activity;
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Analytical paragraphs worksheet;
- Pictures for comparison task;
- Copies of Chapters 5 and 6.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
Animal Farm: The Rise of the Pigs!
These resources enable students to understand and analyse the rise of the pigs towards power in chapters 3 and 4 of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations about the emergence of the various characters as leaders on the farm, with appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating prior knowledge through a discussion-based starter task;
- Reading chapters 3 and 4 and demonstrating their understanding through a related group quiz activity;
- Developing their understanding of the changing nature of characters, and their allegorical ties, through a quotation retrieval mind mapping task;
- Analysing the allegorical nature of the pigs, by further exploring their characteristics in relation to those of the communist Russian leaders of the early 20th century;
- Peer assessing their partners’ learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Analytical paragraphs worksheet;
- Mind-mapping activity template;
- Copies of Chapters 3 and 4.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
Year 2 Guided Reading Comprehension Activities Booklet! (Aligned with the New Curriculum)
Now with PDF version included! This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 2 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Activities within the booklet include:
- Word Witch - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Spot when a word has been read wrongly by following the sense of text;'
- Scary Stepping Stones - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Enjoy reading and discussing the order of events in books and how items of information are related;'
- Poets' Got Talent - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Enjoy reading poems and know some by heart. Say what you like or don’t like about a poem;'
- Story Mountain - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Enjoy reading and discussing the order of events in books and how items of information are related.'
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is over 20 pages in length!)
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)
Writing about Emotions!
This highly engaging and informative double lesson (around 1.5 to 2 hours of teaching materials) helps build students’ ability at using varied and imaginative techniques to describe emotions in their creative writing. Specifically, students learn how to create in-depth paragraphs detailing the emotional state of their narrator and characters, both implicitly and explicitly.
I wrote this lesson because I noticed that there are an extremely high volume of students that approach creative writing tasks (even in their GCSEs) offering little depth or detail in terms of their characters emotions. Even though they have clearly learnt a number of writing techniques from their teachers, their emotional writing often merely explicitly states how a character feels, using the same four or five emotions.
In this lesson, students learn:
- To define what emotions are;
- To understand and use the vast range of emotional vocabulary and synonyms available in the English language;
- To investigate different emotions, including how they can manifest themselves;
- To understand how emotions can be communicated utilising a range of descriptive devices;
- To create an imaginative and emotionally-driven piece of creative writing;
- To self-assess their creative writing attempts;
Included are all worksheets, and detailed and visual PowerPoint presentation, which explains each concept clearly, and a lesson plan for teacher guidance.
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War/Conflict Poetry Big Lesson Bundle! (Whole lessons - all PowerPoints, resources, and lesson plans included!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Macbeth: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Plans, Resources, Everything!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Macbeth.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided, in addition to a fun Pointless game!
Macbeth: Act 2 Scene 2 - The Murder of King Duncan!
This lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of one of the key scenes in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth – Act II Scene II. In particular, they learn to make insightful interpretations about Shakespeare’s use of symbolism, and are enabled to understand how this would have affected Shakespearean audiences.
The lesson utilises a range of tasks, that require students to be visual and interactive learners. It follows this learning journey:
- Defining the key term ‘symbolism’ and establishing its importance as a literary technique;
- Understanding the different objects that were used as symbols in Shakesperean times through a multiple choice team game;
- Reading and interpreting Act 2 Scene 2, and establishing how symbolism is utilised throughout;
- Summarising the events of the scene;
- Analysing Shakespeare’s intentions in using literary techniques, and considering the audience reactions to them;
- Peer/self evaluating the learning in the lesson.
Included in this resource pack are:
- A well-presented, thorough, and informative, whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- Resources for the reading and interpreting activity - full scene transcript with space for notes;
- A template to help scaffold the main task, complete with P.E.E instructions;
- A comprehensive teacher guidance form/lesson plan to assist delivery.
All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation.
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Of Mice and Men Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Descriptive Writing Huge Bundle! (All PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Help-Sheets, Games, and More!)
This giant bundle pack offers a comprehensive range of descriptive writing lessons, (everything that you will need for them - whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, lesson plans - everything) help-sheets, writing templates, and activities.
Included are whole lesson resources for:
-Amazing verbs and adverbs
-Adventurous adjectives
-Astonishing alliteration
-Capturing the readers’ attention
-Exceptional expanded noun phrases
-Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons
-Structuring and organising creative writing
-Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors
-Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world
-Writing about Emotions
-VCOP - vocabulary
-VCOP - openers
-VCOP - connectives
-VCOP - punctuation
All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.
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Writing Mats Big Bundle! (World Landscapes and Imagination Landscapes)
These original writing mats offer a varied and visually engaging way for students to independently increase the depth and breadth of their imaginative writing. Designed on A3, they simply need to printed and given to students before they begin creative writing tasks. They could also be used as colourful word posters to brighten up your classroom and familiarise children with new vocabulary.
The benefits of using these resources as writing mats is twofold: Firstly, the vibrant, wide-ranging, and student-friendly landscapes offer students a wealth of new writing stimuli. Secondly, the simple concrete noun labels save substantial learning time, as the effort that students may have previously exerted deliberating over the spellings of the common nouns is vastly reduced. Instead, students have the time to focus upon the teacher's intended key writing focus areas.
This bundle pack contains 12 'World Landscapes' writing mats, which draw on engaging images and key vocabulary from the following terrains:
-Rainforest
-Desert
-Under the Sea
-Safari
-Beach
-Farm
-Space
-Forest
-Town
-The Poles
-Park
-Mountain
In addition to this, there are 10 different imagination landscapes in this pack, many of which fit in with Primary/Early Secondary topics:
-Nightmare World
-Ancient Egypt
-Christmas
-Medieval Times
-The Future
-Pirates
-Olympics
-Romans
-The Circus
-Fairy Tales
Every image used in this resource pack is licensed for commercial use, and all are cited on separate documents within the pack.
Alternatively, the 'World Landscapes' and 'Imagination Landscapes' packs can be purchased separately for 2 pounds each.
Writing Mats - Imagination Landscapes!
These original writing mats offer a varied and visually engaging way for students to independently increase the depth and breadth of their imaginative writing. Designed on A3, they simply need to printed and given to students before they begin creative writing tasks. They could also be used as colourful word posters to brighten up your classroom and familiarise children with new vocabulary.
The benefits of using these resources as writing mats is twofold: Firstly, the vibrant, wide-ranging, and student-friendly landscapes offer students a wealth of new writing stimuli. Secondly, the simple concrete noun labels save substantial learning time, as the effort that students may have previously exerted deliberating over the spellings of the common nouns is vastly reduced. Instead, students have the time to focus upon the teacher's intended key writing focus areas.
This resource pack aids children in visualising imaginary settings, many of which fit in with Primary/ early Secondary topics. There are 10 different imagination landscapes in this pack:
-Nightmare World
-Ancient Egypt
-Christmas
-Medieval Times
-The Future
-Pirates
-Olympics
-Romans
-The Circus
-Fairy Tales
Every image used in this resource pack is licensed for commercial use, and all are cited on a separate document within the pack.
This pack can either be purchased alone, or as a bundle alongside the 'World Landscapes' writing mats for just 1 pound more.
Writing Mats - World Landscapes!
These original writing mats offer a varied and visually engaging way for students to independently increase the depth and breadth of their imaginative writing. Designed on A3, they simply need to printed and given to students before they begin creative writing tasks. They could also be used as colourful word posters to brighten up your classroom and familiarise children with new vocabulary.
The benefits of using these resources as writing mats is twofold: Firstly, the vibrant, wide-ranging, and student-friendly landscapes offer students a wealth of new writing stimuli. Secondly, the simple concrete noun labels save substantial learning time, as the effort that students may have previously exerted deliberating over the spellings of the common nouns is vastly reduced. Instead, students have the time to focus upon the teacher's intended key writing focus areas.
This resource pack contains 12 completely original, comprehensive landscapes from around the world, including:
-The Rainforest
-Space
-Under the Sea
-The Poles
-Mountain
-Forest
-Safari
-Desert
-Farm
-Beach
-Park
-Town
Every image used in this resource pack is licensed for commercial use, and all are cited on a separate document within the pack.
This pack can either be purchased alone, or alongside the 'Imaginations Landscapes' writing mats for just 1 pound more.