Details
-25 multi-page word documents
-Past paper questions
-Organised into areas of learning
-National Curriclum, Year 5/6
-Answers included
-Excellent for SATs revision
-Great for homework
-This resource is used annually to support Y6 SAT prep in my own classroom!
Also Available: KS2 SATs Revision Booklets: Maths (Visit my Shop for more details)
What’s Included?
Punctuation Set
Apostrophes
Colons and Semi Colons
Commas for Clarity
Commas in lists
Full Stops, Capitals, Exclamation Marks and Question Marks
Inverted Commas
Parenthesis
Prefixes and Suffixes
Synonyms and Antonyms
Sentences Set
Active and Passive Voice
Clauses
Phrases
Sentence Types
Standard English and Formality
Verb Forms
Word Classes Set
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Determiners
Nouns
Prepositions
Pronouns
Subject and Object
Verbs
Word Classes, Mixed
What is VIPERS?
VIPERS (which stands for Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Sequencing) is a way of teaching reading comprehension. It uses short extracts and poems, and is taught in short lessons (15-20 minutes each.)
What’s Included?
-10 PowerPoint documents
-Each PowerPoint document contains 3 slides (Day 1: Vocabulary and Inference. Day 2: Prediction and Explanation. Day 3: Retrieval and Sequencing).
Which texts are covered?
-Matilda
-Postcard from a School Camp
-Autumn Leaves
-Back to School
-Shakespeare
-Beadle the Bard
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-Stig of the Dump
-Truth
-Hagbane’s Doom
This resource is designed for Year 6s preparing for their SATs.
Both the revision sheet (2-sided) and the flashcards contain the entire KS2 Grammar / Punctuation curriculum (except capital letters and full stops.)
Perfect for:
-giving out at parents evening, to help Mum and Dad help with their child’s learning
-sticking in pupils’ Grammar / Literacy / Writing books
-giving to children to revise from
-using as an intervention (my Y6s enjoy using the flashcards as a match-up game)
What’s included?
-2 sided revision document
-14 pages of flashcards / playing cards / sorting cards
Details
-30 multi-page word documents
-Past paper questions
-Organised into areas of learning linked to Y5/6 National Curriculum
-Answers included
-Excellent for pre-SATs revision
-Great for Homework
-Tried and Tested in my own classroom - used every year to help my pupils prepare for SATs
Also Available: KS2 SATs Revision Booklets - SPAG (Visit my Shop for more details)
What’s included?
Arithmetic Set:
Arithmetic: Subtracting fractions
Arithmetic: BODMAS
Arithmetic: FDP (Fractions, Decimals, Percentage)
Arithmetic: Multiply and Divide by 10 100 1000
Arithmetic: Mutliply and Divide fractions
Arithmetic: Rounding
Data Handling Set
Multistep problems: Algebra
Multistep problems: Angles, Area, Perimeter, Volume
Multistep problems: Measurement, Scales, Conversion
Multistep problems: Number and Money
Multistep problems: Percentages
Multistep problems: Ratio
Geometry Set
Geometry: Coordinates
Geometry: Missing Angles
Geometry: Nets
Geometry: Properties of Shapes
Geometry: Reflection and Symmetry
Geometry: Translation
Number Set
Number: Doubling and Halving
Number: Explain why correct / wrong
Number: FDP (reasoning)
Number: Inverse Operations
Number: Number Sequences
Number: Roman Numerals
Reasoning ( Multistep problems) Set
Multistep Problems: Algebra
Multistep Problems: Angles, Area, Perimeter, Volume
Multistep Problems: Measurement, Scales, Conversion
Multistep Problems: Number and Money
Multistep Problems: Percentages
Multistep Problems: Ratio
I created these tasks mainly to hit the NC statement, “increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including…modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage…” after realising that many of my pupils had never even heard of (let alone read) many of the classic stories from our heritage. These tasks provide samples and accompanying tasks from 15 classics (both older and modern.)
Please note: the 75 files were too large for one listing on TES, so I’ve compressed them into a zip file. I’ve also uploaded one lesson separately (Hound of the Baskervilles) so you can see the resource.
What’s Included:
*15 complete reading comprehension lessons, made up of:
-The extract in Microsoft Word format
-The extract in Notebook format (for Whiteboard projection)
-Questions with response spaces (plus points per question, like SATs papers)
-Just Questions (for higher ability pupils or just to save on photocopying!)
-Suggested answers (my TA does these tasks with small groups, so the answer sheet comes in handy)
Useful for:
-Whole-class comprehension lessons
-Small group work (E.g. Round Robin Reading Groups)
-Boosting / extra support for poor readers
Titles:
-Alice in Wonderland
-Great Expectations
-Northern Lights
-Stardust
-Stig of the Dump
-The Butterfly Lion
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-The Secret Garden
-The Star of Kazan
-The White Giraffe
-The Wind in the Willows
-The Wizard of Oz
-Treasure Island
-Wonder
What is VIPERS?
VIPERS (which stands for Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Sequencing) is a way of teaching reading comprehension. It uses short extracts and poems, and is taught in short lessons (15-20 minutes each.)
What’s Included?
-10 PowerPoint documents
-Each PowerPoint document contains 3 slides (Day 1: Vocabulary and Inference. Day 2: Prediction and Explanation. Day 3: Retrieval and Sequencing).
Which texts are covered?
-Cake
-The Dancing Bear
-The Enormous Crocodile
-Smasher
-Diamond
-The Blob that Ate Everyone
-Diary of a Killer Cat
-Lady Lollipop
-Polar Bear
-The Mystery Creatures
10 Tarsia Puzzles covering a range of Upper KS2 and lower KS3 subject areas.
(As a current upper KS2 teacher myself, I use Tarsia regularly as my pupils really enjoy these puzzles - great for Deepening / Mastery)
Includes:
-Dividing Fractions (Standard)
-Dividing Fractions (Tricky)
-Equivalent Fractions
-Finding Fractions of Numbers (Standard)
-Finding Fractions of Numbers (Tricky)
-Fraction Conversions
-Multiplying Fractions (Standard)
-Multiplying Fractions (Tricky)
-Roman Numerals (Standard)
-Roman Numerals (Tricky)
-Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Standard)
-Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Tricky)
What is a Tarsia?
Tarsias are puzzles (a bit like dominoes or triominoes) where each piece contains a mix of questions and answers. Questions and answers have to be matched up, creating a finished puzzle.
What file-types are included?
TES doesn’t support Tarsia files, so these can’t be uploaded directly. Instead, you’ll be accessing PNG files (images) of the original puzzles. These are fully printable and playable.
What software is required if I want to make my own Tarsia?
Tarsias are created in a piece of free software by Hermitech Labs (no affiliation.) I’ve been making Tarsia for years - it’s a genuinely fantastic free resource, which you should consider downloading for yourself. It allows you to choose a blank puzzle-type, then input your own questions and answers. It then turns those into a puzzle for you.
(To find the page with the download on, Google ‘Hermitch Labs Tarsia’)
What is VIPERS?
VIPERS (which stands for Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Sequencing) is a way of teaching reading comprehension. It uses short extracts and poems, and is taught in short lessons (15-20 minutes each.)
What’s Included?
-10 PowerPoint documents
-Each PowerPoint document contains 3 slides (Day 1: Vocabulary and Inference. Day 2: Prediction and Explanation. Day 3: Retrieval and Sequencing).
Which texts are covered?
-Tracy Beaker
-Ghosts
-Ghost Hunt
-Tom’s Midnight Garden
-The Sword in the Stone
-Watership Down
-The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
-The Moon of Gomrath
-Kaspar, King of Cats
-The Phantom of Billy Bantam
11 Fully resourced maths lessons, including a variety of investigations, tasks and games.
-Can be one-off lessons, or stretched over multiple lessons
-11 lessons
-Ideal for Years 5, 6 and 7
-(Used by creator for Y6 post-SATs - very useful)
What’s included?
Missing Angles (masking tape on tables to create unknown angles for the children to investigate - a personal favourite!)
Figure Me Out
Gem Challenge - Nets (another favourite - using pre-printed nets to create gems. Children have to manage a budget, buy resources, sell their product and earn a profit)
Tesselation: Design a kitchen floor
Pie Charts (data collection, class surveys, using Microsoft Excel to create pie charts)
Perimeter, Area and Volume around School and grounds
Algebraic brain teasers (much better than it sounds!)
Creating a scale-map of the school
Ratio and Proportion (hands-on using manipulatives like denes)
Paper Village - Nets
Important moments in UK History in Roman Numerals
…Plus planning for all lessons.
ALSO AVAILABLE: SET B
What’s included?
-Blockbusters (notebook document based on the TV show)
-Code Breakers (adult / child creates a coded message - children to quickly crack the code to reveal message)
-Countdown (notebook document based on the TV show)
-Ultimate Countdown (similar to Countdown, but designed to be more challenging / a bit different)
-If this is the answer, what is the question? (notebook document, open-ended, very popular with creator’s class)
-Wheel of Fortune (notebook document based on the TV show)
-Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Number Edition (PowerPoint presentation based on the TV show)
-Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Fractions Edition (PowerPoint presentation based on the TV show)
-Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Blank version (so you can create your own / allow pupils to create their own)
-Maths Revision card game (I have this set printed in four different-coloured sets - pupils enjoy playing this at wet breaktimes / spare 10 minute slots, and as an activity for those who’ve finished their task in lesson)
4 Complete Comprehension Lessons
(Note: DVD of the film or access to Youtube needed)
What’s included?
Lesson 1: What’s This?
+Lesson plan
+Blank lyric page
+Annotated lyric page (handy for showing children, so they know what is expected)
Lesson 2: Town Meeting
+Lesson plan
+Blank lyric page
+Annotated lyric page
Lesson 3: Kidnap the Sandy Claws
+Lesson plan
+Blank lyric page
+Annotated lyric page
Lesson 4: Oogie-Boogie Song
+Lesson plan
+Blank lyric page
+Annotated lyric page
*(I’ve personally taught these four lessons to Y5/6 for a number of years, and they absolutely love them - boys with usually poor engagement respond particularly well to them)
9 Word documents linked to Year 5/6 Shape NC.
Questions are taken from past SATs papers, but ‘dressed up’ to be used in normal lessons. I’ve found them particularly useful, as they prepare Y6 for SAT questions gradually without them realising!
Included:
-2D Features
-3D Shapes
-Angles
-Unknown Angles
-Area
-Perimeter
-Volume
-Measurement Conversions
-Time
-(answers to all questions are at the end of each document)
(photo included is of these tasks used by my own class)
What is VIPERS?
VIPERS (which stands for Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Sequencing) is a way of teaching reading comprehension. It uses short extracts and poems, and is taught in short lessons (15-20 minutes each.)
What’s Included?
-10 PowerPoint documents
-Each PowerPoint document contains 3 slides (Day 1: Vocabulary and Inference. Day 2: Prediction and Explanation. Day 3: Retrieval and Sequencing).
Which texts are covered?
-Woodlouse
-Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-Malala Yusufsai
-The Mouse and his Child
-Winnie the Pooh
-Shopping List for a Firework Display
-Secret Garden
-Year 6 Residential
-The Bogeyman
-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension
-every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc
-every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question
-every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers
-these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog
Reading / Observation materials including:
-poetry
-story extracts
-infographics
-fact text extracts
-photographs
-book covers
This is the second set of 11 activities that I’ve uploaded. The first set is also available in my TES Shop - I hope you find them useful!
-Can be one-off lessons, or stretched over multiple lessons
-11 lessons
-Ideal for Years 5, 6 and 7
-(Used by creator for Y6 post-SATs - very useful)
What’s included?
Name Angles
Domination (Strategic maths game)
Area - Hands and Feet
Symmetry around Us (Outdoor photography)
Area and Perimeter: Dream House
Rainbow Stars (mathematical art)
Percent off Tickets (for UK family attractions)
Area - Floor plan of houses
Pie charts - My Perfect Day
M&M Fractions
Guess Who
…Plus planning for all lessons.
What’s included?
-10 complete comprehension resources themed around a poem.
-Each resource includes the poem itself, a series of questions and a mark scheme.
What’s included?
-Entering a Castle
-Fire burn and Cauldron Bubble
-Important Notice
-It’s a Wonderful World but they Made a Few Mistakes
-Jabberwocky
-Mother to Son
-Names
-Superman’s Dog
-Two Witches Discuss Good Grooming
-Winter Time
Great for:
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-SATs prep
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
-Past-paper KS2 SAT questions, grouped by topic.
-I have used these for a number of years in standard maths lessons as Apply / Real life tasks. When pupils learn they’ve been doing SAT questions all along, it increases their confidence, ready for their May tests.
-All answers included as ‘Answer Sheets’ (so pupils can self-mark)
What’s included:
-2D shapes
-3D shapes
-Angles
-Area
-Coordinates and Translation
-Measurement
-Perimeter
-Tables and Timetables
-Time
-Unknown angles
-Volume
What’s included?
-10 complete comprehension resources themed around a poem.
-Each resource includes the poem itself, a series of questions and a mark scheme.
What’s included?
-A Liking for a Viking
-Bonfire
-Eletephony
-History
-Ice Cream Shop
-Ogre My Dead Body
-Seal Lullaby
-Song of the Engine
-Transylvania Dreaming
-Windy Nights
Great for:
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-SATs prep
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
What’s included?
-20 comprehension lessons. Each lesson includes a poem, questions (retrieval, inference, authorial intent, word meaning and opinion) and a mark scheme.
-a mixture of traditional and modern
-a mixture of serious and funny
Poems in the Bundle
SET 1
-A Liking for a Viking (Celia Warren)
-Bonfire (Jean Kenward)
-Eletephony (Laura E.Richards)
-History (John Kitching)
-Ice Cream Shop (Shel Silverstein)
-Ogre My Dead Body (Colin McNaughton)
-Seal Lullaby (Rudyard Kipling)
-Song of the Engine (Worsley Benison)
-Transylvania Dreaming (Colin McNaughton)
-Windy Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson)
SET 2
-Entering a Castle (Brian Moses)
-Fire burn and Cauldron Bubble (William Shakespeare)
-Important Notice (Phillip Waddell)
-It’s a Wonderful World but they Made a Few Mistakes (Judith Viorst)
-Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
-Mother to Son (Langston Hughes)
-Names (Brian Moses)
-Superman’s Dog (Paul Cookson)
-Two Witches Discuss Good Grooming (John Caldwell)
-Winter Time (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Great for
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-SATs prep
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
Complete unit for Upper Key Stage 2 Maths lessons
Includes:
-Ratio
-Proportion
-Ratio and Proportion investigation
-Scaling up / down (shapes)
-Scaling up / down (number)
-Percentages
Includes:
-Lesson input (introduction / starter / teaching input)
-Non-contextual task (‘Practise’)
-Contextual / word-problem task (‘Apply’)
-Deepening / broadening task (‘Deepen’)
-Full planning for all activities
*-many tasks differentiated 2 or 3 ways
*-tried and tested resources (that I’ve personally used to teach Y5/6 for a number of years)
*-answer sheets provided where appropriate (to encourage self-marking)
*-most tasks in an adaptable format (I.e. you can make changes to most of the documents)
*-Practise / Apply / Deepen can be changed - each full learning outcome could be taught across one, two or three lessons, depending on how you use / adapt the resources.