A Who Wants to be a Millionaire style quiz including converting between hours and minutes, writing times in different ways and solving problems involving counting forward and backward in time. Useful for assessment and contains answers.
A Powerpoint with example timetables and questions to teaching children how to read from a timetable. Using previous SATs examples but different questions to give children the chance to embed the skill.
A Powerpoint with lots of slides for teaching the expected level objectives in Year 6. Revises lots of arithmetic paper style questions and some word problems. Lots of slides testing different skills.
A whiteboard introduction Powerpoint and activity for spotting modal verbs in sentences and recognising whether modal verbs show certainty or possibility.
A set of problems involving using and applying knowledge of square numbers and testing trial and methods. Can be used as a worksheet with room for answers or made into feely box games or a hunt.
A set of sentences for children to punctuate involving using commas for lists. Can be read aloud, shrunk into a worksheet or made into a hunt/feely box game.
A set of sentences which can be used as a hunt, read aloud or made into a worksheet. Teaches children when subordinating conjunctions are used to start a sentence that a comma is needed in the sentence. Children have to mark where the comma should go.
A set of sentence with missing pronouns. Also a set of pronouns. Can be used as a spinner, dice or feely box matching game and extended by allowing the children to choose more than one suitable pronoun to go into the gap in the sentence.
A set of colour-coded sentences to teach statements, questions or commands. Can be used as a run-around game to run to the correct hoop to match the sentence type or change the colour-coding to make into a worksheet for children to identify the type of sentence. 25 sentences listed, including some questions that don't begin with question words and some polite commands, which don't start with imperative verbs.
A set of simple sentences (with no punctuation included) for children to uplevel by adding a clause. Also useful for recapping basic punctuation as well as teaching children to focus on commas for subordination.
A set of sentences for children to read and identify whether they are statements, questions or commands. Also the punctuation is missing, so it can be used as an assessment tool for children to rewrite the sentences with correct punctuation and identify the type of sentence. Include polite commands and commands which do not start with imperative verbs. Alongside this there are also sentences which are questions that don't start with question words. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards.
A set of sentences with either whose or who's missing for children to identify which homophone is correct. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards for a spinner/dice activity. Can also be used as a whole class activity form an interactive whiteboard.
A worksheet where children have to decide whether it is more appropriate to use a semi colon to separate the items in a listed sentence or whether a comma is needed.
A set of sentences on a worksheet to reinforce how to use semi-colons in place of conjunctions. Can be used as a worksheet in class or a homework/assessment activity. Teaches children to recognise conjunctions and replace them with semi-colons when the 2 parts of the sentence are both main clauses.