KS2 Year 6 World War 2 Guided Reading Activities Three texts linked to WW2 with comprehension questions. I have also included the sheet I used to encourage the children to make up their own questions, considering what type of question they’re asking. Anne Frank Background Blitz Report The Lion and the Unicorn(scanned book with questions on most pages) I used these in whole class reading sessions where children took it in turns to read the text to the class before we discussed the questions. They were then given time to record their own answers.

KS2 SAT Buster Reading CGP ‘walkthroughs’ PowerPoints to accompany the CGP Reading workbook for the following texts Non-Fiction: Dare to Dance; 1950’s Drive In; Inside the World of Jam Fiction: Underground City; The Old Photograph; A Visit to Baba Yaga Poetry: Lost Dog; The Gentlemen in Grey; Kite Flight I used these to support my less able and on track children to prepare for their reading SATs. These power point breaks down the texts into paragraphs, challenges them to develop their vocabulary and dictionary skills and goes through each question one at a time, highlighting where the answer is taken from. Best used in a whole class setting where every child has their own SAT buster book to write their answers in. Each of these PowerPoints was used for a guided reading session of 30 minutes and took two or three days to complete.

After discovering my new class had poor investigation skills, I set up an investigation to do every week. You'll need to do your own risk assessment (especially for the slime - I got in a science PGCE student to help!) but mostly is silly fun with science to get them excited and making predictions. There's also an assessment sheet which I gave to all the adult helpers to mark when any child used any of the skills. (I would recommend a ratio of 1:5 for the gathering of evidence and supporting the overall process)

12 weeks worth of graduated HFW spellings and handwriting patterns. Each document has four pages for differentiated homework. I used these for a year 2/3 class who covered P6 - L4. I have used a font that I paid for at home, you may need to change it to your school font.

A plan for making shadow puppets with a powerpoint to project onto a screen, also link to where you can find a video (which I just used the audio from) to give you sound if you don't want to write your own script. Plus 2 evaluation sheets, one for those with more precice handwriting and another for the more sprawling style!

Ducks with numbers on their tummies telling you how many eggs to put in their nests. Two pages (1-5) (6-10) and a page of eggs to cut out :-)

Template for stickers (Avery L7163 14 stickers on a page) with the date and WALT with a circle for children to traffic light at the end of the lesson. Saves on writing time and reminds children to traffic light.

A chart to laminate showing the rules for multiplying and dividing with labelled boxes for Th, Hun, T, U, decimal place 10th, 100th etc.

Each label has a picture, lesson it's for, name, year group, class.

Only appropriate to use if your school uses the Rising Stars comprehension books for year 6. I have scanned in each of the texts and questions to guide the children through the comprehension. Each text has a thesaurus challenge which supports children’s vocabulary aquisition. All PowerPoints have the answers on the last slide so the work can be marked. I anticipate each Powerpoint will take approximately half an hour to run through.

Template spreadsheet for tracking achievement, green for acheived, orange for partly, red for not, grey for absent. you can see at a glance which groups or idividuals are managing or need pushing by their overall achievement in the subject. It's labelled as maths but can be used for any subject.

Little cards to put on the desk to remind children of their writing and calculating targets.

A sheet to cut and laminate - the top two rows have five little ducks and the numbers below them, then you have a row of ducks to cut out individually and stick on top of the first lot so you can see how many ducks you have left when you remove one as you sing :-)

This contains an A4 page with 3 or 4 questions for every chapter of 'The Secret Mountain&' By Enid Blyton, except for the last four chapters that have blank pages for the children to use their own ideas and prove they have developed an understanding of different ways of showing you&';ve read a text! The book I used is a dual edition 'Secrets: The Secret Mountain & The Secret of Kilimooin&'. If you use a different version of the book you may need to change the page numbers in the headings. Good for more able younger readers. All the questions are linked to AFs.

Supported by circles to colour in, 6 levels of differentiated fractions to order. The first 2 levels as with the same denominator, the second 2 levels are 2 different denominators in the same multiple and the third 2 levels are 3 different denominators in the same multiple. These were made for my year 5's - the Lower ability set are working from year 3 objectives while the middle ability and higher are working from year five objectives.

I used word art to write a list of the beatitudes for display

One week of guided reading activities for year 3 with two set leaflet texts and a Read Write Inc text for the least able. Also accompanied by the spellings associated with the RWI text.

A poem to help children remember what area and perimeter are and how to calculate them.

I have put a screen shot of each question from the 2015 sample reasoning paper into a Notebook file to use with a Smart Board so the questions can be written on, on the board. I will be using it to go through strategies and misconceptions from when the children took this paper last week. I have included the individual screen shots saved as picture files for if you wish to print them individually for practice or if you wish to make your own presentation file in a different format.