These picture based activities are an amazing way to start your lesson. Not only will these pictures spark amazing conversations the children will have the opportunity to develop key history skills such as chronology, using inference skills and knowledge of people and places. I use these at the start of my history lessons and they always get the children’s brains warmed. Not only this but the children’s understanding of the skills needed to be a good history will develop. All activities are ready to print in a publisher document.

These are amazing guided reading starter tasks that I have used with my year 5 class. There are 13 different activities which will spark amazing conversation and get children understanding the reading skills needed in a different context. The questions come from images and videos which will really get children thinking. In this publisher document all resources are set out ready to print saving any teachers such precious time. In this pack you will find starter activities around; Football (Marcus Rashford Tweet, Roblox, Fortnite, War, John Lennon, the impact social media has had on the modern world and book front covers. These activities improve the class’s understanding on retrieval, inference and authors choice skills. I use these types of activities all the time and it has made a huge difference to the reading scores in my class.

This activity is differentiated 3 ways. Children will use the information in the tables regarding football attendances to answers reasoning and problem solving questions. This publisher document is ready to print saving valuable time.

This folder is a collection of Year 5 self made resources. The worksheets follow the national curriculum and planning from White Rose Hub. They can be adapted accordingly but are so handy to have. The resources cover most topics through the year and have added to throughout my 6 years working with year 5. Most resources are differentiated 3 times (we use mild, spicy and hot) but this can be amended.