I used this as an example WAGOLL wanted poster at the beginning of my lesson. The children were using this as inspiration before writing a Wanter poster about Miss Trunchbull from Matilda. Red words are taken from Matilda - for children working at greater depth to ‘magpie’ and use in own writing.

Week 1 plan - 3 lessons (short week). My class LOVED this book and our activities surrounding it! Includes wordbank, expanded noun phrase sentences, extracts to edit (lesson 3). Please note: Lesson 2 - children wrote in books and did not complete on sheet.

Two Data Handling lessons. Outdoor, human bar chart activity. Throughout the lesson, pupils create a checklist for a successful bar chart (x and y axis, bars, categories, numbers/scale etc) Cross curricular main activity (Harry Potter Theme - English) - pupils are sent a letter from Hermione complaining about her imbalance of Bertie Bott's every flavour beans! Practical activity whereby children collect their own data to create bar chart. I gave children jelly beans (cheap ones and printed off a posh label!) and required them to count them. Magic beans used as a reward for hard workers! Lesson plan, letter from Hermione and Harry Potter story extract, successful bar chart checklist, colour of beans table all included. Formative assessment (Starter/Plenary) - Children add to what they have learned in different coloured pen on spider diagram. I used this lesson with years 3, 4 and 5 - can be differentiated for all . They LOVED it. Lesson 2 - children created 3D Bar Charts.

Words in red are taken from the book and are included for children working at greater depth to include in their writing.

Includes different contexts to challenge children, e.g. numerals and words, money, tens and ones. Section for children to be mini teachers and check the mistakes!!

Prior Learning Assessment - to be completed before the teaching of Place Value to assess children’s prior knowledge. Includes Year 1 and 2 objectives.

Our lesson objective was to use conjunctions and our class book was Matilda. I introduced my higher ability children to the words in red from the story, ‘remain’ ‘aura’ ‘menace’ and ‘astounding’. Their challenge was to decide whether Matilda was a hero or villian for acting back to her parents, and they had to include these words in their sentences!! They wrote their own definitions and came up with their own sentences. Please see examples on sheet that we came up with together.

Differentiated addition worksheets - adding on a number line Starts with scaffold and ends with a challenge where the children have to complete the whole number line independently.

WAGOLL of chapter, rewritten from Matilda’s perspective. Read through with children and ‘tickle pink’ the good features. Underlined words are for children working at greater depth to ‘magpie’ in their own writing. Also includes list of adjectives that we discussed together in the previous lesson. Includes elements of Year 2 curriclum requirements, e.g. expanded noun phrases, exclamation sentence, etc.