A fact file about Nelson Mandela that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 16 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Nelson Mandela at the same time.

An information text about Wollaton Hall that also includes comprehension activities with a summarising task and a sheet of comprehension questions that also includes answers. Can be used for learning about Wollaton Hall or simply as part of reading lessons to support the ability to summarise or retrieve information from a text.

A comprehensive pack that includes planning for 10/11 lessons working on the Maya. Planning includes cross-curricular links with writing, art and researching using I.C.T about Maya. In addition to differentiated planning, attached are the resources required for this topic as well as all the IWB slides required for the topic. This should save any teacher planning to teach this topic a huge amount of time, whilst providing the opportunity to make slight adjustments where required/ add any extra information you may wish to.

Two worksheets that focus on being able to identify which sentence is grammatically correct. Each worksheet includes 12 multiple choice questions. Each question includes 4 options where 1 sentence is grammatically correct and 3 are incorrect, with children needing to identify the correct option for each question. Answer sheets are also provided for both worksheets.

A lesson that focuses on active and passive. Included is the PowerPoint with some key recap elements before working on active and passive. This will include identifying the difference, identifying subject, object and verb and changing sentences into active or passive. Also included are green challenge bubbles for children who finish the tasks whilst others are working on them. There is then an activity for children to work through and an exit question taken from a KS2 GPS test.

Three differentiated worksheets that focus on being able to use semi-colons, particularly between two independent clauses. These then move on to checking children's understanding through questions before the HA activity gets children to write their own sentences with semi-colons. Written with Year 5/6 children in mind but can be easily used in other year groups.

A fact file and three differentiated reading comprehension activities related to it that focus on Christmas around the world, looking at different traditions whilst testing children's comprehension skills.

A lesson on being able to paragraph accurately that has been created for Year 5 children but is easily adaptable to other age groups. Included is a presentation looking at TiP ToP paragraphs, identifying what these are with children and then looking at examples and deciding how paragraphs are being changed. Also included are three differentiated activities and a writing help mat that includes TiP ToP paragraphs. N.B The activity one for LA is the first page from the lesson 3 and 4 LA sheet as this came from a different unit of work originally.

Four different worksheets that focus on parenthesis and being able to use the different sets of punctuation for this. Included are three differentiated worksheets as well as a mastery style worksheet that gets children to think deeper and justify responses.

Questions related to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion. So far, the first twenty chapters are included.