A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests. LOs: To make deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel. To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in a text. To be able to understand how dialogue can be used to describe something or someone To understand how an author can reveal his personal opinions and experiences through the way he portrays his characters. To consider how the author can make us understand that Witches are not like real people.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story. To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale. To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas. To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text. To be able to reflect on a completed text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To be able to compare your own experience with those of a character in a book. To understand how setting and characters are developed. To understand how dilemmas are introduced into short novels. To understand how heroes triumph against the odds.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book. To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words. To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters. To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world. To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward. To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author can introduce a story / to comment on the specific effects of words and phrases. To be able to empathise with a family faced with bad news. To understand how an author creates a low point in a story. To understand how one event changes the relationship between characters. To use contextual clues to understand archaic language. To understand how a story within a story is linked back to the first story.

A five comprehension pack designed to support work on the Tudors. There are two comprehensions per topic, one for Higher and Middle Ability children, a second for those of lower ability. The comprehensions can be used as stand-alone lessons or set as homework. Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, comprehension questions tied to each text, and either an imaginative piece of writing (HA/MA) or a summary and matching activity (LA). Comprehensions cover: Life in Tudor Times Law and Order The Break with Rome The Spanish Armada Tudor Childhood.

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter. To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time. To understand how an author builds a sense of tension. To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters. To empathise with the main character. To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news. To reflect upon a completed story.

LOs: Starter: To add and subtract numbers Main Lesson: to add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits (Year 5) to solve problems involving addition and subtraction (Year 6) This lesson consists of: A connect PowerPoint to establish children’s understanding of addition and subtraction methods. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to model various methods that can be used to solve addition and subtraction and demonstrating why, for larger numbers, formal methods are best. A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of addition and subtraction problems including one Word Problem for each ability group. . An AFL / Next Steps task challenging children to identify common calculation errors that are often made with addition and subtraction.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To perform (mental) calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers. Main Lesson: - To use rounding to check answers to calculations (Year 5 Year 6) - To use the 4 operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers and decimals, (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations. A connect activity getting children to consider how they might check answers using estimation. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to use estimation in order to check calculations. It also includes a Knowledge check to ensure that your class are familiar with rounding. A 4 way differentiated series of calculations where children first estimate, and then solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems including decimals (for MA and HA). An AFL / Next Steps task reviewing when to use estimation and when to use inverse operations to accurately check calculations.

A differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity. Also included is a youtube video and resources for distance learning. Learning Objectives:: To identify 2d shapes This lesson consists of: A starter revising 2d shapes taught in Reception using the Singing Walrus 2d Shape song An Interactive Whiteboard introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart (including an outdoor learning shape safari) teaching how to recognise different 2d shapes and sorting them by their properties i.e number of sides, straight or curved sides. A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary. A 3-way differentiated set of independent tasks where the children identify different 2d shapes and sorting them by their properties i.e number of sides, straight or curved sides A Next steps / AFL Challenge plenary where children identify common 2d shapes based on a description of their properties.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To look at the way that letters differ by author and purpose. To understand how an author drops hints into early chapters to reveal what will happen in the book. To understand how an author makes a dilemma truly difficult to overcome. To understand how an author develops character relationships. To understand how an author brings a story to a climax.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To be able to emphasise with a character from the past. To use contextual clues to date a book. To think about how one piece of new can change the tone of a story.

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To perform (mental) calculations. - To revise factors, multiples and prime factors. Main Lesson: - To recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (²) and cubed (³) (Year 5) - To use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations (Year 6) - To use conventional notation for the priority of operations, including brackets, powers and roots (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder, multiplication and division calculations and revision of highest common factors, lowest common multiples and prime factors. A connect activity getting children to begin to understand the effect of brackets in calcualations. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach how to apply BODMAS to brackets and orders / powers. Also includes a revision of how to find square numbers (if required). A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to find square numbers, to carry out multi step calculations with brackets, squared and cube numbers and how to use brackets to solve calculations and balance equations. A stretch challenge introducing square roots. Answer sheet provided to support marking. A final AFL / Next Steps task, making use of BODMAS calculations from the 2016 and 2017 arithmetic SATs papers.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To simplify fractions Main Lesson: - To identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths (Year 5) - To use common multiples to simplify fractions (Year 6) This lesson consists of: A connect activity challenging children to explain what fractions are and how they can be written – allowing you assess prior learning. A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder, visual representations of fractions for the children to identify. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children to allow children to understanding both visually and mathematically equivalence in fractions. A second teaching activity allowing the children how to use cancelling to simplify fractions. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to simplify fractions. A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge to a SATs question, where they can demonstrate their understanding of equivalence and simplification of fractions.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To simplify fractions Main Lesson: To identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths (Year 5) - To recall and use equivalences between simple fractions (Year 6) - To use the concepts and vocabulary of factors (or divisors), multiples, common factors and common multiples (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder fractions which require simplifying. A connect activity challenging children to explain and identify equivalent fractions– allowing you assess prior learning. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children to allow children to understanding both visually and mathematically equivalence in fractions. A second teaching activity allowing the children to understand how to use common factors and multiples to produce equivalent fractions. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to find equivalent fractions. A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge to two old SATs questions, where they can demonstrate their understanding of equivalence of fractions.

Learning Objectives Starter: To compare and order fractions Main Lesson: To subtract fractions with the same denominator, and denominators that are multiples of the same number (Year 5) To subtract fractions with different denominators, using the concept of equivalent fractions (Year 6) To use the 4 operations applied to proper and improper fractions(KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder problems where the children have to compare mixed numbers with improper fractions and use <> sign to show which are larger. A connect activity challenging children to identify and explain the nature of common errors when subtracting fractions. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children to understanding how to subtract fractions, improper fractions and mixed numbers with common denominators, with denominators where one is a multiple of the other and where two fractions have different denominators, and changing fractions to have the same denominator in order to add these fractions. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to subtract fractions. Answers included to ease marking A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to work out what final step has been missed off by a fictional student Sam.