Leon and the Place Between, written by Angela McAllister and illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith, is a fabulous story book which has the potential to inspire writing. I used it when teaching the Stories set in imaginary world literacy unit. These slides highlight and promote the use of personification in writing.

I gratefully found the resource on TES made by MagisterArtium and have simply added full size A4 posters for the learning muscles/habits/dispositions.

Use this file with the Tarsia Formulator (download from the site below) http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewéid=4éItemid=5 to make practice puzzle cards which reinforce doubling facts for numbers near to multiples of 10.

Learners can practice using doubling and halving facts with this puzzle resource.

Division using a numberline and single jumps. Division using chunking. Division by subtracting multiples of the divisor. Simple slides showing progression of methods from a simple numberline approach to a more efficient vertical method. Includes some word problems, and links to other word problem pages.

High Frequency Word sheet. Add words which child is unable to read. Child then attempts to read and adult records score and time. Repeat as necessary.

Tarsia tiles for children to play to reinforce doubles of numbers to 200. You will need the Tarsia software, available free from this website: http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewéid=4éItemid=5

Triangular Tarsai flashcards which can be used with the Tarsai formulator download: http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewéid=4éItemid=5

My timetable for the best day ever Children choose the activities, start times, end times and calculate the duration for their perfect activities. Differentiated activity with extension task aimed at fractions.