Activities for every chapter of David Walliam’s Ratburger. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension activities. The Ratburger book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for every chapter of Louis Sachar’s Holes. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Holes book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for Philip Pullman’s Clockwork or All Wound Up. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Clockwork/ All Wound Up book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter - no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Christmas I Spy as part of your Christmas week activity/ activities. Differentiated into 4 sheets to be placed on desks, enlarged to A3 or projected on board. For younger learners, foundation stage, Kindergarden (Kindergarten), elementary, (UK) KS1, KS2, KS3, Middle School, High School and above. Levels are designed to be: simple yet fun for young children; the challenge develops at each new level, introducing the need for more Christmas critical thinking to decipher the verbal clues. Young learners: Play Christmas I Spy to introduce your young children and students to Christmas vocabulary. Encourages speaking and listening skills. Children: Can also be played as a Christmas vocabulary test or game – students have set time to list the images they see! Set them a time limit to make the game harder. Play as a Christmas memory game by showing to students for a limited time then have them list as many items as they saw – points for each correct answer. Older students: Play Christmas I Spy with your older, teenage, KS3, Middle School, High School students in teams or as individuals. The highest-level game sheet contains both high and low frequency words making the Christmas “I Spy something beginning with…” harder to determine and locate as the game continues.

Colour bookmarks based on the theme of sustainability. *Please print these bookmarks onto re-used scrap paper or recycled paper. Each bookmark contains a colourful character from the Sustainable Student collection, a slot for writing the student's name and a polite reminder about reading a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. These bookmarks remind the children that we need to be sustainable and that even the smallest actions matter. Ideal for library time and to focus learning on Earth Day or during Earth Week.

Fantastic Mr Fox book study - great for whole class guided reading, small group guided reading, book studies and for framing numerous activities including visible thinking and thinking keys. Book study comes as both PowerPoint and PDF. This Fantastic Mr Fox book study has been designed with learners in mind. Learning is engaging, fun and varied. Following best practice, this book study contains: Listening frames for each of the chapters Visible Thinking routines - including See, Think, Wonder, Four Perspectives and Colour, Symbol, Image and many more… Thinking Keys - including BAR (Bigger Add Remove), Variations and What If? Drama Activities Creative Writing/ Drawing VIPERS - comprehension is framed around Vocabulary, Infer, Predictions, Explanations, Retrieval and Summarising Infer-cabulary - encourage students to infer the meaning of new and unknown words Author is a Deputy Head with 12+ years of National Curriculum experience.