5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 4. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3 to do at home. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehension and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

In just ten minutes per day, this resource is proven to improve a child’s speed and accuracy with multiplication facts to support all areas of calculation in mathematics. In order to access the Year 5 and 6 maths curricula, children benefit greatly from the ability to rapidly recall their times tables facts. Without this skill, children spend valuable time having to ‘work out’ their times tables facts and this has a negative impact on accuracy, efficiency and most importantly confidence, in mathematics. This Resource contains… Five sheets of multiplication questions. Five sheets of division questions. Three recording charts to monitor progress. How this resource works The Question Sheets. Each times-table sheet contains seventy-five questions arranged in three columns. The aim is to complete as many of these questions as possible in ten minutes without missing any of the questions out! For younger children, or children who are less confident with their times tables, the sheets could be divided into three separate columns so that they are only faced with twenty-five questions at a time! How to record progress Which Recording Chart to use. At the end of the ten-minute session, choose one of the Recording Charts included in the pack. • If a child is not confident with their tables and is only working on one column, use Recording Chart 1. This will record a maximum of 18 questions so will build confidence in the early stages of proficiency. • If the children are moving onto the second column , choose the Recording Chart 2 • If the children are completing over 36 questions in 10 minutes, choose Recording Chart 3. Completing the Recording Chart. It is recommended that the children complete the Recording Chart of their scores so that they can see how they improve over time. The Recording Chart is divided into columns. Complete one column on the Recording Chart for each ten-minute session. Record the number of questions answered in one colour. Use the answer sheet to mark the questions. Criss cross over the column already completed to show the number of questions that were correctly answered. (This will help the child see how accurate they are as well as how speedy they are. If a child is getting all their questions right, their challenge is to do more in the time available. If a child is completing many more questions than they are answering correctly, the next challenge is to slow down and aim for greater accuracy.) Challenge and Extension. Use the Division Sheets in place of the multiplication questions. Reduce the time limit allowed to complete the questions. Focus on the time taken to complete the whole sheet. How quickly can you complete the seventy-five questions?

This is a set of tips for teachers and parents to help develop a good, strong pencil grip in their pupils and children. Unless children learn how to hold a pencil correctly, it is difficult to develop a clear, fluent and legible style of handwriting. Children with poor pencil grips tend to have greater problems writing neatly at speed and may end up with wrist pain.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

A set of 10 literacy and maths activities to help children keep their basic skills active during the school Christmas holidays. Designed to take only fifteen minutes a day, this pack of activities covers reading, vocabulary development, word puzzles, calculation, times-tables and word problems complete with answer sheets and a self assessment tracking grid. All the activities are written by an experienced primary school teacher.

A set of 10, maths and literacy activities to support and maintain children’s maths and literacy skills during the school holidays. These 10 , festive themed activities are designed to take 15 minutes per day and cover areas such as: reading comprehension and cloze procedure, basic calculation and timestables, vocabulary development and word puzzles, and worded maths problems and investigations. A full set of answers is provided and each activity is designed to be completed independently to reduce the amount of adult intervention needed. The author, Jan Mace, is an experienced primary school teacher and has over 30 years experience as a teacher, school leader, local authority advisor and initial teacher trainer.

A comprehensive set of teaching slides with voice over on powerpoint and related teaching resource masters for six cross curricular, creative, dinosaur themed activities for children aged 7 - 11. Designed to creatively develop skills in reading and research, art and design, maths and creative writing, each activity takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete. There are lots of resources available to develop a child’s maths and English skills but very little with a focus on develop creativity across the curriculum. As an experienced primary school teacher, the author knows the power and positive impact gained through harnessing a child’s innate creativity on both their their engagement and learning potential. All the activities have been tried and tested with primary school children across the country. Dinosaurs have long been a source of great inspiration and fascination to children so these activities encourage them to find out more and use what they have learned to create their very own, unique, but totally believable dinosaur. The material is presented on a powerpoint presentation to help children learn the skills needed, provides clear self assessment criteria to enable them to evaluate their work and identifying areas for celebration and further development. Each activity is designed to take between 2 and 3 hours and to be a fun, as well as an educational, learning experience.

A comprehensive set of teaching notes and related resource sheets for six cross curricular, creative, dinosaur themed activities for children aged 7 - 11. Designed to creatively develop skills in reading and research, art and design, maths and creative writing, each activity takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete. There are lots of resources available to develop a child’s maths and English skills but very little with a focus on develop creativity across the curriculum. As an experienced primary school teacher, the author knows the power and positive impact gained through harnessing a child’s innate creativity on both their their engagement and learning potential. All the activities have been tried and tested with primary school children across the country. Dinosaurs have long been a source of great inspiration and fascination to children so these activities encourage them to find out more and use what they have learned to create their very own, unique, but totally believable dinosaur. The material is presented on a downloadable PDF document to help children learn the skills needed, provides clear self assessment criteria to enable them to evaluate their work and identifying areas for celebration and further development. Each activity is designed to take between 2 and 3 hours and to be a fun, as well as an educational, learning experience.

This is a complete literacy unit of 15 lessons aimed at children aged 9 - 12 based on the poem The Listeners by Walter de la Mare. This is an amazingly rich piece of poetry and lends itself to some fantastic thinking, discussion, drama activities and creative writing. The resource contains a three week set of outline lessons plans learning objectives success criteria key teaching points to establish. lesson resources additional suggestions for cross curricular working. This will be of interest to you if you are working with children aged 9 - 12.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 6 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y6 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from E4MC on TES Resources.