A series of sentences what can be shrunk to make a worksheet or printed to make a hunt/feely box game. Children have to read the sentences and work out which word/s are adjectives or whether the sentence has an adjectival phrase. Can be used as a sorting game and developed for children to think of sentences which adjectival phrases themselves.
A hunt/feely box activity involving multiplying and dividing decimals by 10 and 100. extends into using the concept to solve problems involving inverse with missing numbers in the middle and at the start of the calculations.
An investigation looking at using trial and error to find all possible solutions. Suitable for Year 5 and 6 and great fun. Children can be encouraged to draw out different solutions to the problem. Several slides with extension activities on. Slides can be printed to allow children who work at a faster pace to progress.
A worksheet/hunt/oral game for identifying how many missing capitals there are in a sentence. Can be used in a number of ways. A separate answer sheet with how many capitals are missing for each sentence that children can use to self-check their work.
A Powerpoint to teach children how to work systematically and use jottings to investigate square numbers in a practical context. Can be extended beyond 12 x 12 for more able learners and can lead to basic algebra writing rules for the next numbers in the sequence.
A list of different conjunctions and the category they come in. Can be made into a classroom display (I have mine on pieces of paper that are shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Covers time, location, summing up and comping and contrasting conjunctions.
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 both simple and complex. Can be used as a sorting activity or to look at punctuation using commas. I have used it as both and then asked children to simplify the complex sentences and add a clause to the simple sentences to make them complex. Can be shrunk easily to make a worksheet or made into cards or used on an interactive whiteboard.
A set of sentences and labels for a die/spinner or can be used as a matching activity. Children to read the sentences and decide on a suitable possessive pronoun to go in the gap.
A set of sentences, phrases and clauses for children to sort. Can be read aloud, made into cards or shrunk to make a worksheet. Can also be used on an interactive whiteboard to teach the difference between a sentence, phrase and a clause.
14 worksheet activities, using previous SAT's questions, which I use as homework, but could easily be used as worksheets to show problem solving across a range of curriculum areas. Mostly at the expected level for Year 6.
A Powerpoint linked to recapping on proper nouns and then using that knowledge to up level and improve sentences about Queen Victoria for a biography. Teaches children to apply their knowledge. Sentences can be easily adapted to suit teaching proper nouns for any biography.
3 resources: a set of game rules, labels for dice or a spinner and a set of sentences which can be made into cards or read aloud. Children to identify which conjunction they would use to make the sentence make sense.
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.