Each fruit relates to an activity to do for homework. (e.g. make a hut from items in your garden and take a photo of it, taste several of the fruits in Handa's basket and write down how it tastes etc.) You can organise if the children do one, a few or all of the activities but it is designed to last across a half term. We used it as points, with each activity having a point total allocated to it. The children got certificates for their point total at the end of the term.

A grid of 4 comprehension questions to be used with The Train Ride, by June Crebbin. Designed to be used either as whole class discussion, or as individual work. Can be answered with pictures or sentences.

A mat that goes on the table under the childs sheet/book. Visual and listening prompts, and if you laminate it you can draw/write lesson specofic prompts and words around the sheet/book to further support learning. Can be used for SaLT and EAL.

A visual ladder that can be used as a visual indicator of desired behaviour. Move a token/face/name up and down the ladder to indicate to the child behaviour that is not appropriate. Ideally used in parallel with a reward scheme to encourage appropriate/desired behaviour. A chart for home is also offered so that management is consistent across environments.

After reading A Bad Case of Stripes you can use these question grids to think about as a class, in small groups, pairs or individually. They can be used as discussion or share points, or just to think deeper around the text that has been read.

To be able to think about alliteration for a poem about winter. LA has visual and word prompts, MA has visualprompts. HA has visual promtps. A sheet to support thinking about winter words and alliteration, and to lead onto planning a poem.

After reading Room on the Broom you can use these question grids to think about as a class, in small groups, pairs or individually. They can be used as discussion or share points, or just to think deeper around the text that has been read.

A questionnaire to prompt research in the internet following or to accompany a lesson on searching information on the internet safely.