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Vikings: Trade vs. Plunder Persuasive Text
Children will learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England before writing a persuasive text.
The text can be written from the perspective of a monk or a Viking, and is meant to persuade (or dissuade) their audience - either monks or Vikings - from trading with or plundering a monastery.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
Digital Stickers for Assessment at Christmas
Use a visual form of assessment that the children can see in real time as you comment on their online work using Google Apps.
This resource has been created to use in the assessment of online resources across the curriculum. **24 Christmas themed digital stickers **can be added from the zip file link provided with download.
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Reading Workshop Tracker for Years 3 and 4
This pack is designed to use to track progress in Reading Workshop.
There are pages for tracking spoken language, reading, and writing curriculum objectives taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s English Document.
This pack includes the different objectives for
Year 3 and Year 4 with sheets for real time progress tracking and sheets to send home to parents for follow-up. Evidence can be included on the sheets as QR codes of audio or images for conferencing.
A link is also provided should you want to keep the files on Google Drive or share through a platform such as Google Classroom or Seesaw.
Year 6 Maths: Ratio & Proportion *UPDATED for DEEPER LEARNING
UPDATED with new graphics and HANDS-ON application of ratio for DEEPER LEARNING.
This resource has been made using the ratio and proportion objectives for Year 6 from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Solve problems involving relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts
Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages (of measures, and such as 15% of 360) and the use of percentages for comparison
Solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found
Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
ADDITIONALLY there is a HANDS-ON RATIO & PROPORTION WITH FOOD for children to apply their understanding in context with cookies, pancakes, and pizza dough.
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
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Vikings: Monastery Invasion Narrative Writing
Children will learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England before writing a narrative text.
The text can be written from the perspective of a monk or a Viking during the raid of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in North-East England in 793 CE.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
Vikings: Monastery Invasion BUNDLE
This BUNDLE allows children to learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England - and the 793 CE attack on Lindisfarne in particular.
The persuasive text can be written from the perspective of a Monk or a Viking, and is meant to persuade (or dissuade) their audience - either Monks or Vikings - from trading with or plundering a Monastery.
The narrative text can be written from the perspective of a Monk or a Viking during the raid of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in North East England in 793 CE.
In the past, I have introduced this lesson dressed as a Monk in a Monastery with the lights off and candles lit. I play audio in the background of Monks singing (link provided) before acting frightened at the arrival of Vikings coming ashore (link provided).
An editable digital link for sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
Vikings: History Study
Children will look at the history of Vikings in the UK as well as their importance.
They will look at their impact as well as impressions through different sources before using chronology to analyse changes over time.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
Vikings: Battle Modifications with littleBits
Children will look at the history of Viking warfare and weapons during their invasion of the UK. Children will then design their own defence or weapon modification with littleBits based on a Viking design.
In the past, I have introduced this lesson dressed as a Monk at Lindisfarne with the light off and candles lit. I play audio in the background of Monks singing before acting frightened at the arrival of Vikings coming ashore.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
Vikings: Design a T-Shirt & Explanation Text
Children will look at different symbols significant to the Vikings and will design a tshirt including the symbols. They will then write an explanation text that describes the different symbols included, as well as the reasons for the design choices.
In the past, this unit has worked really well at the end of a Viking study, where the children can show off what they’ve learned.
This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.
A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.
The Lie Tree Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy—a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men—but inside, Faith is full of questions and curiosity, and she cannot resist a mystery: an unattended envelope, an unlocked door. She also knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing. For one, she knows that her family moved to the close-knit island of Vane because her famous scientist father was fleeing a reputation-destroying scandal. And when her father is discovered dead shortly thereafter, she knows that he was murdered.
In pursuit of justice and revenge, Faith hunts through her father’s possessions and discovers a strange tree. The tree bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it, and when that fruit is eaten, it delivers a hidden truth. But while the tree might hold the key to her father’s murder, it could also lure his murderer directly to Faith.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Background information on the historical context (Victorian England), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (fossils, sea caves, The Origin of the Species, mermaids).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge. It bundles A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study with a STEAM pack about designing and making a horror movie trailer using light and shadow.
Updated for deeper learning with additional tasks for character analysis, literary motifs, themes, and extracts from the text.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Background information on the historical context (English Civil War), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Puritans, King Charles, Lambeth Palace, Traitor’s Gate, witchcraft), and a STEAM enrichment activity where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own books according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology and Science objectives.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Beyond the Bright Sea Novel Study *Updated
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk.
Updated to include additional activities for deeper learning
ABOUT THE NOVEL: The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family.
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger.
Vivid and heart-wrenching, Lauren Wolk’s Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (tides, crows, Captain Kidd, starfish, dolphins, clams, leprosy, nor’easter).
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Survival Invention BUNDLE (STEAM with Explanation Text)
This 66-page resource has been designed to use alongside Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but can also be done independently of the novel study.
Children will read about different survival inventions before building one and writing an explanation text about how they work. Alternatively, children can design, make, and evaluate their own survival invention before explaining how it works.
The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics.
Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and has links to the Common Core.
Digital copies of the files for editing and sharing on digital platforms are available with download.
Beyond the Bright Sea Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk. It bundles Beyond the Bright Sea Novel Study with a STEAM pack where children create the foods mentioned in the novel.
Updated to include additional activities for the literature portion of the novel study
ABOUT THE NOVEL: The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family.
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger.
Vivid and heart-wrenching, Lauren Wolk’s Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes:** Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities** (includes character studies and plot studies), **Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks **related to content of the novel (tides, crows, Captain Kidd, starfish, dolphins, clams, leprosy, nor’easter), and a STEAM Extension with food technology (vegetable soup, rabbit stew, breads (plain, molasses, cornbread), butter (plain, apple), beef jerky, clam chowder, gingersnaps, mussels, tea biscuits, lobster cakes, spice cake, flapjacks).
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
Year 4 Maths: Measurement
This resource has been made using the measurement objectives for Year 4 from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Convert between different units of measure (kilometre to metre; hour to minute)
Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks
Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days
ADDITIONALLY there is HANDS-ON MEASURES PRACTICE WITH PAPER AIRPLANES for children to apply their understanding in context.
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
Year 4 Maths: Fractions & Decimals
This resource has been made using the** fractions & decimals objectives for Year 4** from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten
Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
Recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼, ½, ¾
Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
Compare number with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places
Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places
ADDITIONALLY there is HANDS-ON FRACTION AND DECIMAL PRACTICE WITH PIZZA for children to apply their understanding in context with calculating costs and measuring ingredients…
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
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Year 4 Maths BUNDLE
This resource is a BUNDLE of all of the different strands of the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s Maths objectives for Year 4 in NUMBER & PLACE VALUE; OPERATIONS; FRACTIONS & DECIMALS; MEASUREMENT; AND PROPERTIES OF SHAPE.
ADDITIONALLY there are HANDS-ON FRACTION & DECIMAL AND MEASUREMENT PRACTICE WITH FOOD AND PAPER AIRPLANES for children to apply their understanding in context with donuts and lemonade.
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
Year 4 Maths: Properties of Shape
This resource has been made using the properties of shape objectives for Year 4 from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size
Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations
Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry
The pack can be used for reinforcement, in Maths centres for review, Morning Maths work, as well as for home learning tasks.
Year 4 Maths: Operations
This resource has been made using the operations objectives for Year 4 from the 2014 National Curriculum of England:
Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 x 12
Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers
Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects
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Book Tasting Activity for Introducing Novel Studies
Introduce children to different novels by copying segments of different novels and offering them on tables (like food on a table) without any information about authors, titles, or context.
Give children time to read different texts before they use the templates included in this pack to decide which “tasting” is the most delicious (best fit).
In my own classroom, I choose different novels with similar themes and then use this to differentiate the reading that the children will read concurrently based on their preferences during the tasting.
An editable and digital copy is provided with download.