This resource provides a focused set of retrieval questions and model answers based on Chapter 3 of Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The questions are designed to help students locate and recall key details from the opening chapter, encouraging close reading and solid comprehension. 1. Supports Core Comprehension Skills: Retrieval practice helps students develop the ability to identify key details, understand narrative events, and track characters - essential groundwork before deeper analysis. 2. Saves Planning Time: The ready-to-use questions and answers allow teachers to focus on delivery and discussion, not resource creation. 3. Enhances Reading Focus: The resource encourages pupils to read the chapter attentively and with purpose, boosting engagement and understanding. 4. Perfect for Formative Assessment: Ideal for checking comprehension before moving to analysis or for identifying areas where students may need support. 5. Encourages Classroom Discussion: Use the questions as a springboard for paired or group conversations about setting, characters, and the challenges Jim faces in the opening scene. 6. Flexible Use Across the Curriculum: Suitable for guided reading, independent tasks, homework, or revision, and easily adaptable for different year groups and abilities.

This resource provides a focused set of retrieval questions and model answers based on Chapter 1 of Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The questions are designed to help students locate and recall key details from the opening chapter, encouraging close reading and solid comprehension. Supports Core Comprehension Skills: Retrieval practice helps students develop the ability to identify key details, understand narrative events, and track characters - essential groundwork before deeper analysis. Saves Planning Time: The ready-to-use questions and answers allow teachers to focus on delivery and discussion, not resource creation. Enhances Reading Focus: The resource encourages pupils to read the chapter attentively and with purpose, boosting engagement and understanding. Perfect for Formative Assessment: Ideal for checking comprehension before moving to analysis or for identifying areas where students may need support. Encourages Classroom Discussion: Use the questions as a springboard for paired or group conversations about setting, characters, and the challenges Jim faces in the opening scene. Flexible Use Across the Curriculum: Suitable for guided reading, independent tasks, homework, or revision, and easily adaptable for different year groups and abilities.

Label and Identify: Countries That Border China – Geography Map Activity This hands-on geography resource helps pupils learn about the countries that share a border with China. Pupils are given a map of Asia and tasked with identifying and labelling the 14 countries that border China. The activity builds locational knowledge, map skills, and geopolitical awareness, making it perfect for KS2 and lower KS3 learners studying continents, countries, or Asia-specific units. 1. Builds Geographical Knowledge: Students learn to locate China and its neighbouring countries on a map—reinforcing spatial awareness and world geography. 2. Supports Map Skills Development: The activity encourages use of atlases or digital maps, helping pupils practise locating, identifying, and labelling physical and political features. 3. Enhances Global Awareness: Understanding China’s borders offers a gateway into discussions about trade, travel, climate, and international relations. 4. Versatile and Easy to Use: Suitable for individual, paired, or group work, this resource can be used for classwork, homework, or as part of a larger geography project. 5. Promotes Cross-Curricular Links: Supports discussions in history, current events, or cultural studies by highlighting China’s geopolitical importance. 6. Differentiated Options Available: Includes both blank and partially labelled maps to support a range of learners, including EAL or those needing extra scaffolding.

This engaging and informative World War I quiz is designed for Key Stage 2 learners, providing a fun and educational way to consolidate learning about the First World War. The quiz covers key facts, significant events, people, vocabulary, and causes and consequences of the war. With multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, and short answer challenges, this resource makes assessment feel like a game while reinforcing essential historical knowledge. 1. Reinforces Key Curriculum Knowledge: The quiz helps pupils recall core facts about WWI, including dates, alliances, life in the trenches, and the war’s impact—perfect for end-of-unit revision. 2. Engaging and Interactive: A mix of question types keeps learners engaged and caters to different learning styles, making it ideal for classroom competitions, team games, or interactive whiteboard use. 3. Great for Formative Assessment: Use the quiz to quickly check understanding and identify any gaps in pupils’ knowledge before moving on to deeper historical enquiry. 4. Saves Planning Time: With ready-made questions and an answer key included, this resource is ideal for busy teachers needing a quick, quality history lesson activity. 5. Encourages Discussion and Curiosity: The quiz can spark discussion, lead to deeper questions, and support children in making connections between past events and the world today. 6. Versatile Use: Suitable for independent work, group activities, plenaries, or homework, and easily adaptable for different ability levels.

This interactive science resource helps pupils classify living things based on their diets: herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. It includes a variety of engaging activities such as sorting cards, matching tasks, and short-answer questions, all designed to reinforce pupils’ understanding of how animals are grouped by what they eat. 1. Supports the Science Curriculum: The pack aligns with key objectives in the primary science curriculum, helping pupils learn how to identify and group animals according to observable features and diet. 2. Encourages Active Learning: Hands-on classification tasks and visual materials make the learning process memorable, especially for younger or visual learners. 3. Promotes Scientific Vocabulary: Children learn and apply key terms like herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore, improving their use of accurate and subject-specific language. 4. Facilitates Differentiation: With a mix of activities, the resource can be adapted for different abilities, including EAL learners and those who need visual or practical support. 5. Ideal for Assessment or Review: Teachers can use it as a formative assessment tool to check understanding after a science unit, or as a fun review before a test.

This resource provides a focused set of retrieval questions and model answers based on Chapter 5 of Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The questions are designed to help students locate and recall key details from the opening chapter, encouraging close reading and solid comprehension.

This resource contains a carefully designed set of inference questions and model answers based on Chapter 2 of Street Child by Berlie Doherty. These questions encourage students to look beyond what is explicitly stated in the text, drawing conclusions about character emotions, motivations, relationships, and the atmosphere of the setting. Each question is supported by a model answer to demonstrate how to infer meaning using textual evidence. 1. Promotes Higher-Order Thinking: Inference questions help pupils dig deeper into the story, encouraging them to interpret subtle clues and read between the lines. 2. Builds Empathy and Emotional Literacy: By exploring how characters feel and why they act as they do, students develop a greater understanding of human behaviour and emotional nuance. 3. Supports Quality Reading Responses: Model answers guide pupils in how to support their ideas with evidence, helping them write more thoughtful and textually rooted answers. 4. Prepares for Analytical Tasks: These questions lay the groundwork for literary analysis by focusing on character development, tone, and subtext - skills essential for higher-level reading and writing. 5. Ideal for Discussion-Based Learning: Open-ended questions provide great opportunities for paired talk, group work, or whole-class discussions that explore different interpretations. 6. Adaptable and Time-Saving: The pack is ready to use for lessons, guided reading, homework, or interventions, and can be easily adapted to suit different year groups and ability levels.

This creative and accessible reflection resource is designed for use at the end of an art project. It guides children through a structured evaluation of their own artwork using a range of open-ended and scaffolded questions. Pupils are encouraged to think critically and personally about the creative process, their artistic choices, and their final piece. Reflection questions help children think about how they worked, what they learned, and how they feel about their finished piece - essential skills in developing independent learners. Prompts guide children to describe materials, techniques, and intentions, reinforcing subject-specific language in a meaningful context. Teachers gain a deeper understanding of each child’s creative thinking and progression, which supports both formative assessment and report writing. Giving pupils the space to reflect helps them take pride in their work, appreciate the creative journey, and feel more connected to their art.

This resource offers a set of thoughtful inference questions and model answers based on a non-fiction text that explains the causes behind the end of World War I. The questions are designed to help students go beyond surface-level reading, encouraging them to interpret the writer’s intent, evaluate the impact of key decisions, and understand implied meanings and consequences. Inference questions help students uncover the “why” and “how” behind historical events, improving their ability to analyze cause and effect, motivations, and consequences. These tasks teach students to interpret tone, bias, and perspective—key elements in both English and history curricula. The resource encourages cross-curricular skills by combining historical knowledge with reading comprehension strategies, enriching students’ understanding of content and context. Students learn to justify their inferences using evidence from the text, a skill that supports stronger writing and academic argumentation. Perfect for comprehension checks, group work, or preparation for exam-style questions that require inference and interpretation.

This resource contains a set of structured retrieval questions and answers based on an accessible non-fiction text explaining the reasons behind the end of World War I. Covering political, military, and social factors such as the Allied advances, internal unrest in Germany, and the role of the armistice, the pack focuses on ensuring students can recall and understand the key factual content. Retrieval questions help students retain core factual information about a key historical event, which is vital for building broader historical knowledge. This pack encourages students to engage closely with non-fiction texts, improving their ability to identify key ideas, extract relevant details, and summarise complex information. Perfectly suited for history or English lessons focusing on war, conflict, or non-fiction reading comprehension, this resource aligns with both literacy and humanities objectives. Teachers can use this as a quick formative tool to assess understanding of a topic without formal testing. With questions and model answers ready to use, this resource reduces preparation time for busy educators.

This resource provides a carefully designed set of inference-based questions and model answers focused on Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est. These questions go beyond surface-level recall, encouraging students to read between the lines, interpret language, and understand the poem’s deeper meanings, tones, and implications. Inference questions push students to interpret the text rather than just recall it, building analytical and evaluative skills essential for success in literature exams. Inference tasks serve as a natural progression from basic retrieval, helping students move toward higher-order responses with greater depth and insight. Many of the questions are open-ended, making them ideal for prompting group discussion and debate, allowing students to explore multiple interpretations.

This resource contains a comprehensive set of retrieval questions and model answers based on Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est. Retrieval practice helps students cement their understanding of the poem by actively recalling specific details. This strengthens memory and aids long-term retention. Ready-made, high-quality questions and answers mean educators can use the resource immediately without needing to create materials from scratch. This resource can be used as a formative assessment tool or as a focused revision activity in the lead-up to exams.