A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The BFGby Roald Dahl. (Suitable for Year 3 or Year 4). Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached.

A thinking skills activity to encourage students to consider why the Romans were such successful invaders. All discussion points are true, students need to order them in a diamond ranking, there are no wrong answers so all students can safely enjoy discussing their ideas, without fear of failure. As a further challenge I asked students to design one more battle tactic to add to the Roman arsenal. Learning Objective is from the new 2014 Curriculum.

Two activities for students to practice representations of tenths as fractions, pictures, decimals and in words. Covers LO: LO: Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts

I collected these prompts as a way to promote class discussion around e-safety. After discussion students debated the safest thing to do in each situation, and recorded their ideas, which then went into an interactive display. SMSC Learning Objectives Yr 3. Can identify and explain how to manage the risks in different familiar situations. Can identify how to ask for help. Can explain how my actions have consequences for myself and others. Can describe the nature and consequences of bullying and express some ways of responding to it. Yr 4. Can take responsibility for my own behaviour and safety and realise that actions have consequences. Can have some strategies to cope with peer influence and peer pressure. Can identify some factors that affect emotional health and wellbeing e.g. relationships with family and friends, stress levels, physical activity, diet, self-image, media. ICT Learning Objectives KS1 use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies. KS2 use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact

16 activities to help your class count on in tenths, and recognize and use fractions on a number-line. This includes 15 exercises investigating fractions on a number-line, including some concept cartoons to encourage student reasoning. Plus an additional snap/matching game, matching fractions to number-lines to diagrams.

10 fraction activities focusing on reasoning and mastery of basic concepts. Suitable for Year 2 and Year 3. Perfect for lesson starters or to collect written evidence of student reasoning about fraction concepts. Activities include fractional parts, fractions on a number line and concept cartoons.

A bundle of 10 Multiplication and Place Value talk time activities inspired by NCETM Maths Fluency and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them means you always have written evidence of students reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page (sometimes 6 to a page). Learning Objectives included: LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 50. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 4. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 8. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO - Find 10 more or 10 less than a given number. (Fluency Yr. 3) LO - Compare and order numbers up to 1000. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts and place value. (Reasoning Yr. 3)

A differentiated activity using Cuisenaire rods to help students visualize fractions of a whole. A great resource for stimulating discussion about fractions. Learning Objective covered: LO: Visualize, recognise, find, name and write fractions as ½, ¼, ⅓ and ¾ of a given length.

A bundle of 10 Fraction activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. I have included some Year 2 objectives to allow for quick assessment of previous objectives taught. Perfect for lesson starters to encourage discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 activities to a page.

This is a week of planning and resources - all tasks are pre-assessments of LO`s covered in Year 2 to be sure all gaps are covered before you move onto the Year 3 objectives. Task inspired by NCETM mastery materials. Learning Objectives covered: LO: To add fractions with the same denominator. (Yr. 3) LO: To count in fractions up to 10, starting from any number and using the ½ and 2/4 equivalence. (Yr. 2) LO: Recognise, find, name and write fractions as 1/3, ¼, 2/4 and ¾ of a length, shape or set of objects or quantity. (Yr. 2) LO: recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity (Yr. 1)

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane`by Kate DiCamillo. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. A week of planning, the text extract and all resources are attached.

A set of 10 Time related problems. Great for starters, to prompt reasoning and discussion, and also gather evidence of fluency skills. Includes concept cartoons and Roman Numerals Learning objectives covered: LO: To tell the time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: Convert between analogue and 12-hour digital clocks (Fluency – Yr. 3) LO: To know the number of seconds in a minute. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: To know the number of days in the month and months in a year. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)

I have used these resources this week to introduce grid method of multiplication and build on advice from White Rose Hub resources. Pack includes initial discussion prompt, 5 days of talk-time activities (or 2 lessons worth of questions), and a matching activity to assess pupil understanding and reasoning skills.

Inspired by Nrich & White Rose hub materials this is a bundle of 11 different problem solving activities, to practice working systematically. I have been using them as starters to get discussion and reasoning flowing, and to collect and share different ways of setting out problems.

A week of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Terrible Tiger - An Indian Folk Tale`. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the 2014 Year 3 & 4 spelling list, and spelling homework.

A bundle of resources to help with reasoning and visual representations of fractions. Learning Objectives covered: Show using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators. Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator up to one whole. Find pairs of fractions that add up to a whole. Solve fraction problems using what I know so far about fractions.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `Beaky`by Jez Alborough. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Firework Makers Daughter`by Philip Pullman. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Iron Man`by Ted Hughes. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached. Preview Files included (7)

My mixed year 3/4 loved these activities. A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Twits`by Roald Dahl. Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached. Preview Files included (7)