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4 way differentiated Rainforests of the world atlas/map skills activity sheets
4 world maps with the main Rainforest areas highlighted in Green for children to use their atlas skills to label as follows
SEN Use the Atlas to try and find the names of the 5 countries highlighted where Tropical Rainforests are located!
BA Use the Atlas to try and find the names of the 5 countries highlighted where Tropical Rainforests are located! Also can you name the 6 continents in the circles?
A Use the Atlas to try and find the names of the 5 countries highlighted where Tropical Rainforests are located! Also can you name the 6 continents in the circles? In addition please label the two dotted lines. What do they represent?
AA/G&T Use the Atlas to try and find the names of the 5 countries highlighted where Tropical Rainforests are located! Also can you name the 6 continents in the circles? In addition please label the two dotted lines and the solid line. What do they represent?
Christmas word orienteering cards
3 Sets of orienteering cards spelling out,
Frankincense
Good Tidings we bring
and Happy Christmas
Kept my Year 4 occupied for nearly an hour searching round to find which number leads to the next to spell out different Christmas word.
Each card contains its number, a letter and then the next number to find.
If printed on different coloured paper the three games can run consecutively and children move from one to the other
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapter 1 Comprehension
SAT's style comprehension questions based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapter 1.
Questions ask children to think about word types, punctuation features and effects the writer is trying to create. A great introduction to the book and to check understanding of children's reading so far.
3 way differentiated multiplication worded problems
A set of different multiplication worded problems differentiated 3 ways.
For the BA they are asked to multiply mainly units by units using common multiplication facts with a few TU x U
For the A there questions involve multiplying TU x U
For the HA the questions ask children to multiply HTU by U
Used with year 4, questions and numbers can be edited/adapted
French Alps persuasive poster correct and improve exercise
An advertising poster persuading people to visit the French Alps for a holiday using different persuasive writing techniques.
Trick is there are a lot of Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation mistakes for children to read and correct.
As an extension they are then asked how they can improve the persuasive poster, add in different techniques and write.
Used with Year 4 during a persuasive writing unit, can link in with MFL
Jack and the Beanstalk text and comprehension
A SAT's style comprehension reading activity and questions based around the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk
Questions focus on word classes, authorial intent and ask children to provide evidence, quotes from the text
"The Tin Forest" story innovation table
A three way differentiated document boxing up the key events that happen in "The Tin Forest" story by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson.
The tables allow children to plan how they might innovate the key events in the story and gives space for children to add in a key adjective they might use BA and a key sentence they might use A.
For the HA the table is blank allowing them to 'box up' the stories key events for themselves and plan their innovation to re-write.
A great resource for helping children cover the NC objective of being able to:
plan their writing by:
discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to
understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
discussing and recording ideas
3 way differentiated Christmas themed co-ordinates activities
The BA question asks children to identify the co-ordinates of the location of different Christmas pictures
For the A, a co-ordinate colouring by numbers. Children have to find the co-ordinates, draw the picture then colour .
For the MA they have a series of co-ordinates to plot on squared paper to draw a Christmas tree
Adventure at Sandy Cove SAT's style comprehension questions
14 questions based on Pie Corbett's short story Adventure at Sandy Cove
Questions ask children to think at a word level, sentence level, think about imagery and authorial intent
Some longer questions require children to find evidence from the text to support their answers
2 step addition and subtraction Charlie and the Chocolate factory themed worded problems
4 way differentiated 2 step addition and subtraction Charlie and the Chocolate factory themed worded problems.
The Red set contains questions up to 2 digits
The Yellow set mixture of 2 and 3 digits and some decimal places for money.
The green set 4 digits and some decimal money questions
and the Blue up to 5 and 6 with a mixture of decimal money places.
Also contained is a set of questions with the wording left but all numbers removed for either teachers or pupils once completed to make their own to challenge a partner.
Shakespeare fact file worksheet
A worksheet created to help structure children's research into William Shakespeare.
It asks key questions such as Year of Birth,
Place of Birth,
Year of Death,
Family,
First job,
Number of plays written,
First play.
Time adverbials sorting exercise
A word mat of lots of different adverbials for children to classify into adverbials that state
when something happens
how often something happens
and how long something takes
Non-fiction text feature and purpose matching activity
A 4 way differentiated text feature and purpose matching activity.
For SEN they have a whole list of text features and purpose definitions to cut out and match
The BA have a couple of names of features and purposes missing, so they have to match the rest and work out which are the missing features and what are the missing purposes
For A they have the same activity with a few more blanks to fill
For the HA they have just a blank table with all the features listed and have to come up with a purpose for each.
Features listed include; sub-heading, glossaries, captions, indexes, labels, table of contents, bullet points, photographs and titles
Newspaper Article Features and example matching exercise
A matching exercise asking children to match the newspaper feature, e.g. headline, strapline, caption etc.. with an example.
Used to assess childrens prior knowledge of newspaper articles in Year 4
4 way differentiated division worded problems
4 sets of differentiated division worded problems used with Year 4.
For the BA the questions only ask children to divide by 2, 5 and 10
For the A they have to divide 2 digits by 1
And for the HA 3 digits by 1 digit division
The Blue group questions provided a real challenge asking children to divide 3 digits by 2 and some 4 digits by 2
Children can use their multiplication facts, bus stop division or short division methods to help them
Adventure at Sandy Cove, Pie Corbett, boxing up and innovation tables, 4 way differentiated
A set of 4 worksheets to help children box up and remember the key events from Pie Corbett's short story, The Adventure at Sandy Cove
Worksheet 1, all the key events and characters/setting from the story are already typed up and children just have to plan their own innovations
Worksheet 2, same as above but with an extra column for children to plan a key sentence to use in writing their own story
Worksheet 3, children have to first box up the key events and details from the original story and then plan their own innovations
Worksheet 4, same as above but with a space for children to plan their own key sentence
4 way differentiated Layers of the Rainforest worksheets
4 worksheets for children to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the names of and differences and key facts associated with the different layers of the rainforest
BA a picture of the rainforest layers to colour and cut and stick information cards provided on the next page to the appropriate layer
A a segmented picture of the layers of the Rainforest with space for children to record the name and some key facts about each layer
AA a picture of the layers of the Rainforest in the middle of the page for children to annotate with their knowledge
G&T a table with space to record information from their own research about the 4 layers and the conditions, plants and animals they might find
Missing punctuation activity, based around Ancient Egypt
A Literacy task asking children to add in the missing punctuation to a series of facts about life in Ancient Egypt
Can be used as a lesson starter in Literacy or a Topic lesson with a Literacy link
Please add the . and CL missing from the following sentences.
Extension: are there any other punctuation marks you could add for extra effect?
How many syllables activity? Word list and sorting table
An activity that can be very useful when used alongside a poetry unit where there are rules about number of syllables in lines, i.e. Haiku's
There is a table split into 3 columns for 1, 2 and 3 syllable words with a word list set out on the next page for children to read out, clap out, sound out and sort into the three columns.
Used with Year 4
EDITABLE! Multiplication triangle jigsaw 6's and 9's
Looked around for a long time at these multiplication jigsaws, such a good idea for lesson starters/plenaries but couldn't quite find the one I needed, and one I used had a mistake in!
So I decided to create my own version where all the questions and answers can be edited, the rotation is all set up in a PPT file which took the time to sort
This means that this jigsaw can be used/adapted to suit any maths need, or any other subject for that matter.
At the moment the current version is set up with questions in the 6 and 9 times table