Determine the Theme of a Poem
This download is a determine the theme of a poem set of two poems with accompanying task cards. The two poems each have four task cards with accompanying answer cards related to determining the themes.
Included in this resource:
2 poems
8 task cards
6 answer cards (2 activities do not need answer cards)
Y6 SATS Reading Poetry Practice
This download is a Year 6 SATS poetry sample questions resource. There are two sample poems, each with 10 questions. The SATS style questions range from 1-3 marks, and I have provided answer sheets for each text.
Included in this resource is an editable version and non-editable PDF.
The types of questions covered in this resource include:
Retrieval
Inference
Author’s intent
Vocabulary (which word is closest in meaning…?)
Find and copy
3 mark questions (use evidence to support answers)*
Included:
2 poems (editable)
20 editable questions (10 for each poem)
Answers for all questions
SATS Reading Year 6 3 Mark Question Lesson
This download is a 3 mark question Year 6 SATS practice PowerPoint. It has been designed to be used by Year 6 teachers to help prepare for the reading SATS test by giving the pupils the opportunity to practise answering three mark questions.
There are three sample texts in this 28-slide resource. For each text, there is a walk-through, step-by-step guide to answering a three mark question. There is then a new question for pupils to try independently. The answer is then given for the teacher to reveal so that pupils can check against this.
Covered in this resource is:
*Finding two completely separate points
*Finding the supporting evidence
*Structuring your answer
*Explaining your answer
Y6 SATs SPAG Revision Quiz
This download is a Year 6 SPaG SATs revision SPaGbot Quiz. Help your Year 6 class revise for their SPaG SATs paper with a fun, interactive quiz!
On the menu page, pupils can choose to answer a SPaGbot question (SPaG revision focused), a Funbot question (a fun, pop-culture or sports question) or a lucky dip question (mix of SPaG and fun questions).
There are:
15 SPaGbot questions
15 Funbot questions
10 lucky dip questons
Are you looking for Christmas worksheets for reading for your class? This set of Christmas reading comprehension questions focuses on the Christmas story, with a Christmas reading passage and 12 task cards, plus KS2 reading challenge cards. The story, Starbright’s Important Mission, tells the Christmas story through the eyes of the star. There are then 12 task cards requiring the children to reflect on their understanding of the story.
The task cards focus on skills such as:
Be an emotion detective: describe the emotion of the characters at specific points of the story
Draw ‘mood journeys’ for three of the main characters
Find the evidence to support key information
Longer answers, requiring students to quote accurately from the text
There are answers provided for each of the reading comprehension task cards. The answers are detailed and thorough, with sample answers where necessary.
After the main task cards, there is also an example card, so that the children know what the ‘mood journeys’ should look like. There are also three challenge cards, to extend pupils’ learning if needed.
The passages and activities could be printed out and given to students as a pack. This would make it perfect for a Christmas supply teacher lesson.
There’s not much to prepare… All you need to do is print the sheets out and hand to your class.
Abstract Nouns Lesson Bundle
The perfect bundle for teaching your students about abstract nouns! First, use the fun, informative and clear lesson presentation to give pupils an in-depth understanding of abstract nouns. Next, test their knowledge in the interactive quiz!
Includes:
1 x lesson presentation
1 x interactive 20 question quiz
Fronted Adverbials Lesson Presentation
This download is a fronted adverbials lesson presentation. It is designed to be clear, fun and informative. There are pupil tasks related to their learning about fronted adverbials throughout, as well as extra challenges. This fronted adverbials lesson will be both engaging and informative for your class.
Students learn:
What adverbials are
What fronted adverbials are
How to recognise fronted adverbials
How to use fronted adverbials
About appropriate use of fronted adverbials
Included: 1 x teacher PowerPoint
Abstract Nouns Lesson Presentation
This download is an abstract nouns lesson presentation. It is designed to be clear, fun and informative. There are pupil tasks related to their learning about abstract nouns throughout, as well as extra challenges. This abstract nouns lesson will be both engaging and informative for your class.
Students learn:
What is a noun?
What is an abstract noun?
What is a concrete noun?
How to identify abstract nouns
About appropriate use of abstract nouns
Included: 1 x teacher PowerPoint
Abstract Nouns Quiz
This download is an abstract nouns quiz. There are 20 multiple choice questions with different levels of difficulty, all focused on abstract nouns. The answers are interactive and there are buttons to take students back to the question if they are incorrect, or forward to the next question if they get an answer right. This fun and challenging abstract nouns quiz will consolidate your pupils’ knowledge.
Included:20 question quiz (PowerPoint)
Fronted Adverbials Quiz
This download is a fronted adverbials quiz. This 30 question quiz is the perfect way to consolidate your students’ understanding of fronted adverbials. The multiple choice questions, all focused on fronted adverbials, are interactive; there are also buttons to move back to a question if an answer is incorrect, or forward to the next question for correct answers.
Included: 1 x fronted adverbials quiz PowerPoint
Abstract Nouns Game
This game is an abstract nouns starter activity. The students are tasked with finding the abstract nouns before the teacher. This fun and engaging activity is an exciting way for pupils to consolidate their grammar knowledge.
The teacher must click on all the abstract nouns on their interactive grid on the board. Meanwhile the pupils are finding the abstract nouns on their identical grid. Who will find them all first?
Included is:
An interactive teacher PowerPoint (editable) with a 30 second timer included
A pupil activity sheet (not editable)
End of YearWriting Lesson
This PowerPoint is an end of year report for my teacher writing lesson. It is a fun writing lesson with sentence starters and modelled paragraphs to help students to structure their writing.
During report writing season, why not ask your pupils to write a report on you? Care is taken to ensure that pupils are reminded to be respectful and modelled paragraphs help tailor students’ comments so they are appopriate. The activity is designed to be fun and engaging whilst also creating valuable teaching opportunities.
Pupils learn:
to use varied sentence openers
to give examples to illustrate points
to structure their writing using themed paragraphs
There is opportunity for peer assessment at the end.
Inference Reading Lesson / Whole Class Reading
This PowerPoint is an inference reading comprehension lesson for Key Stage 2. It includes a teacher presentation and pupil tasks. There are three differentiated challenges for each extract so that pupils can apply their inference skills.
Pupils learn:
what is inference?
clues that they need to use inference skills
how to answer inference questions
Included: Editable PowerPoint (tasks included on PowerPoint) and PDF version to print the tasks.
Father’s Day Writing Lesson Emotive Language
This download is a Father’s Day writing lesson to teach Key Stage 2 pupils how to improve their use of emotive language. Pupils can choose to write the emotive letter to their father (for Father’s Day) or a special person in their lives. Although their is a mention to Father’s Day at the beginning, the lesson is designed to be inclusive of all family types.
Pupils learn to elicit emotion through:
Using the power of three
Using superlative adjectives
Using abstract nouns
Using examples to illustrate points
Pupils are tasked with writing the letter to a special person in their lives (which could be their father) to tell them why they are special to them. There are three differentiated challenges to allow pupils to stretch themselves.
The lesson guides pupils through the planning and writing process, with teacher examples and tasks given along the way.
Included: PowerPoint teacher’s presentation and PDF version of the same presentation.
A whole unit of work with all resources included. It consists of six presentations (one is an introduction and the other five are complete lessons) and four worksheets with opportunities for extra challenges to stretch more able pupils where appropriate. Pupils are tasked with coming up with a vegan dish which will compete with meat-based dishes on the school lunch menu.
The lesson teaches pupils to:
*Use internet search terms correctly
*Know the important components of a vegan diet
*Carry out market research to decide on final dish
*Cost a dish (for the whole school) and ensure good value for money
*Advertise the dish to fellow pupils
*Use persuasive language to encourage the catering manager to make the dish and fellow pupils to buy it
A variety of subjects are covered: DT, business studies, English and maths. The slides could be easily edited to suit the school and the desired outcome.
Could be used as a Year 6 enterprise project.
SPaG / GPaS Lesson Starters Mystery Name
These downloads are SPaG starters. There are 15 grammar starters. Each with a theme e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, synonyms and antonyms . Each activity reveals one letter of the bear’s name. By the end of the week, the bear’s name is revealed. Answers for each day and the end of the week are included.
Could be done as a whole class activity, or the slides could be printed so that pupils can complete individually or in pairs.