Task map with 8 different independent tasks to go along with the novel, The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine. This book is in the grey book band. The task map is based on Bloom’s questions and as such the questions/tasks are split into those six categories. The tasks will usually be enough to cover in a week/2 to 3 reading lessons.

This resource contains 4 different worksheets to support the teaching of the Read Write Inc Orange Band Story 2 book, ‘I think I want to be a bee’. They could be used for independent activities within a reading lesson. The different activities included within the worksheets are: Choose the right word (sentences from the book) Find words with a focus sound from the book Answer comprehension questions (sentences modelled with blanks for answers) Draw a picture relating to a topic from the book Dots and dashes with Green Words Read and draw words/phrases from the book Read and write out Red Words from the book Write own sentences with Green Words from the book Although this is designed to be an independent activity, children may require some support to read some of the instructions on the sheet. This resource is intended to be used by schools who have bought and use the Read Write Inc programme and accompanying resources, and pupils will need the book available whilst working on these tasks. These worksheets are not intended to replace any of the teaching elements of the Read Write Inc programme, but can support pupils who have completed the Read Write Inc lessons on this book, perhaps as part of a whole class reading lesson.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

Task map with 8 different independent tasks to go along with the novel, Mrs Cockle’s Cat by Philippa Pearce. This book is in the grey book band. The task map is based on Bloom’s questions and as such the questions/tasks are split into those six categories. The tasks will usually be enough to cover in a week/2 to 3 reading lessons.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers/images specific to this novel which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This unit of work is for reading lessons to go with the non-fiction book published by Wayland as part of their “Inspirational Lives” series about Malala Yousafzai, written by Claudia Martin. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work is for reading to go with the non-fiction book published by Wayland as part of their “Real-Life Stories” series about David Walliams. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work is for reading lessons to go with the non-fiction book published by Wayland as part of their “Watch this Space!” series, called ‘The Universe, Black Holes and the Big Bang’. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work is for reading to go with the non-fiction book published by Wayland as part of their “Inspirational Lives” series about Stephen Hawking, written by Sonya Newland. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work is for reading to go with the non-fiction book published by Franklin Watts as part of their “Moving Up With Science" series, called Light. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work is for reading to go with the non-fiction book published by Wayland as part of their “Real-Life Stories” series about Malorie Blackman. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers/images specific to this novel which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This unit of work is for reading to go with the non-fiction book published by Franklin Watts as part of their “Moving Up With Science” series, called Habitats. The resource has split the book into 3 sections which is designed to last over 3 weeks, however it can be adapted to suit your learners. It contains 10 reading comprehension questions and a follow-up task for each section of the book. You could use the questions for discussion with a group or use them for written reading comprehension. There is also an answer guide for the comprehension questions.

This unit of work has split up the novel into 7 sections so is designed to last 7 weeks however, this can be adapted to suit your learners. Please see the previews of the files to determine the sections of the book. The resource contains a range of challenging vocabulary, quality discussion questions and a choice of follow-up tasks for each section of the book. I have used it in my classroom following the Highland Literacy Project’s way of organising reading in the upper primary classroom. Children engage in reading 3 times per week: Session 1 - Pupils discuss the text, read the set pages independently and look up the vocabulary from the pages they have read. Session 2 - Pupils discuss the pages read with their group and the teacher. Session 3 - Pupils complete a follow-up task from the choices given to demonstrate further understanding. When I have used this, I have printed a few pages of the document to share between pupils in the reading group, with tasks completed in jotters. For example: For Week 1, Session 1 - pupils use page 1 of the document. For Week 1, Session 2 - pupils use page 2 of the document. For Week 1, Session 3 - pupils use page 2 of the document, and so on. I hope you find this resource useful, however you choose to use it! Free images used except book covers/images specific to this novel which have been used for illustrative purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

This is a card game to help pupils with learning to convert fractions, decimals and percentages. It could be used as a pairs/pelmanism game, snap game or simple matching game. Cards have reverse side (which says “Fractions, Decimals & Percentages”) so can be printed double sided to prevent any cheating!! You need to change printer settings to “Flip on short side” as it is a landscape document. Resource comes as Word document which can be edited and as a PDF which is ready to print.

This resource contains 36 questions about decimals and cover the topics of: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Comparing and Ordering, Rounding and Multiplying/Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. It can be used for practice questions for each area alone or altogether for revision purposes. There are learning intentions throughout as well as a list of what the resource covers at the start, which could be used for pupils to highlight/underline as a brief self-assessment once completed. Can be completed on the worksheet but layout means it might be easier to complete in jotters. Answer document also included.

This resource contains 40 questions about fractions and cover the topics of: Improper and Mixed Numbers, Equivalent Fractions, Simplifying Fractions and Comparing and Ordering Fractions. It can be used for practice questions for each area alone or altogether for revision purposes. There are learning intentions throughout as well as a list of what the resource covers at the start, which could be used for pupils to highlight/underline as a brief self-assessment once completed. Can be completed on the worksheet but layout means it is easier to complete in jotters. Answer document also included.