What’s included on each poster?
-Birth / death
-Occupation
-List of works
-Short biography
-Quote
Who’s included?
-A.A.Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
-Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit)
-C.S.Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia)
-Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
-David Walliams (Demon Dentist)
-J.K.Rowling (Harry Potter)
-J.R.R Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
-Jacqueline Wilson (Tracy Beaker)
-Julia Donaldson (The Gruffallo)
-Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
-Malorie Blackman (Pig heart Boy)
-Onjali Rauf (The Boy at the back of the Class)
-Roald Dahl (The Twits)
-Rudyard Kipling (Jungle Book)
-William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Also Available
-Great British STEM Innovators
Why I made this resource
Every maths lesson you teach, you give a clear learning outcome (or TBAT or WALT or Success Criteria - whatever it’s called in each school.) Your class follow your carefully planned steps, and succeed. However, in my experience, children then struggle when faced with:
-multi-step problems
-multi-operation problems
-questions without a clear method to use
-changes in maths skill required (E.g. suddenly needing to write an answer as a fraction)
How to Use
These lessons are designed to have limiting teaching beforehand, if at all. Instead, children tackle the real-life situation using a broad range of skills (money, decimals, written methods, mental strategies, converting between fractions and % etc) and get used to:
-thinking independently
-being less reliant on adults (“learned helplessness”)
-using a blend of skills at once
What’s included?
-20 real-life contexts (whole lessons) which each include:
>printable data pages (price lists, menus, information pages, league tables, timetables, fact files, recipes)
>15 differentiated questions (Band A = easiest, Band E = hardest. Harder Qs can be trimmed off the page, depending on your maths groups)
>Answer sheet
Extensive Notebook document, introducing the subject of ‘mindfulness’ (aimed at Y5/6/7)
-22 slides
-hyperlinks to two YouTube videos
-highly successful and enjoyable (from personal experience)
-NOT saved as ‘read-only’, to allow you to make changes as necessary. As a TES author and teacher, I have used this lesson as a precursor to making Mindfulness Jars (see photograph) but the outcome can be adapted to suit your children’s needs.
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(Mindfulness Jars not included)*
Complete unit for Upper Key Stage 2 Maths lessons
Includes:
-Equivalent fractions
-COnverting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
-Ordering fractions
-Finding fractions of numbers
-Adding fractions
-Subtracting fractions
-Multiplying fractions
-Dividing fractions
-Additional activity for extending the more able / quick-working children
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 (I have taught fractions using these resources 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 to, for example, change names in word problems to those of children in your class)
24 documents created from actual Y6 SAT questions, to aid preparation for KS2 SATs.
Ideal for:
-homework (answers provided at bottom of 2nd page, however answers can be removed from document)
-booster groups
-after-school revision clubs
Tried and tested in my own classroom - 2 pages is just right for sending home as homework, or for TA interventions
-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
-book illustrations
-comic book front covers
-A collection of highly useful learning aids, prompts and supports for the teaching and learning of maths
-All items regularly used by creator (particularly for struggling Y4, Y5 and Y6 pupils)
Included:
-‘Four Operations Vocabulary’ card
-Number lines (3 different scales)
-Filled-in times table grid
-Blank times table grid
-Digit cards (units, tens, hundreds, thousands)
-Place Value Grid A
-Place Value Grid B
-Traffic lights (used for quiet / reluctant learners who don’t like to raise their hand for help)
-Times Table Rainbow (full set included, x2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
-8 ‘Genre Towers’ (Word banks to be printed and turned into a stand-up ‘tower’)
-A4 size
-Ideal for supporting KS2 and KS3 pupils in genre-specific writing
Included:
-1 x play script
-1 x newspaper article
-1 x narrative
-1 x instructions
-1 x formal letter
-1 x discussions / debate
-1 x diary entry
-1 x biography and autobiography
Set of images linked to Pokemon, which I’ve used in various years to support the teaching of Maths.
This resource has proved particularly useful with:
-reluctant Year 3/4 boys
-children with learning difficulties (in particular, a group of Y5 boys with Autism used this resource for all manner of work, particularly Number. It engaged them on an unexpectedly high level in comparison to their previous engagement with Maths)
(Photo shows how this resource has been prepared and organised in my own classroom)
’Question Clues’ Set
What’s included?
-Microsoft Word Document (All clues on one card)
-PDF File (All clues on one card)
-Microsoft Word Document (Clues on individual flash cards)
-Notebook Document (All clues on one slide, for displaying on an interactive board)
Particularly useful for:
-KS1 (early comprehension skills)
-KS2 (children with difficulties around reading and comprehension)
-TA use, supporting children with additional needs
-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
-book illustrations
-comic book front covers
Bundle of 6 documents:
-Pictograms
-Bar graphs
-Bar-line graphs
-Line graphs
-Pie charts (using fractions)
-Pie charts (using percentages)
Each card has a graph to read, and a series of questions answerable using the graph’s data.
As you can see from the photo, I use these resources every year with my Y5/6 children (which explains why they are covered in whiteboard pen!)
-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
-book illustrations
-comic book front covers
Whole Class Comprehension Lesson x5
*Fully resourced
*Not read-only (so you can tweak / alter as needed)
*Range of genres
-Poetry (Travel)
-Instructions (Custard Vs Chocolate Muffins)
-Non-fiction(Water Safety)
-Infographic (8 Great Ways to be Thankful)
-Stage Show (Wicked - The Musical)
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All of the lessons in this pack are lessons I’ve taught myself. Allow between 30 and 60 minutes per lesson, depending on your teaching style and class.
Three other sets available separately. All four sets also available as a 'Bundle’
Whole Class Comprehension Lesson x5
*Fully resourced
*Not read-only (so you can tweak / alter as needed)
*Range of genres
-Poetry (Fantastic Beasts)
-Non-fiction (Natural Disasters)
-Non-fiction (Introduction to Music)
-Biography (The World of Shakespeare)
-Stage Show (The Lion King- The Musical)
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All of the lessons in this pack are lessons I’ve taught myself. Allow between 30 and 60 minutes per lesson, depending on your teaching style and class.
Three other sets available separately. All four sets also available as a 'Bundle’