Including excerpts from: The Hobbit Harry Potter The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Covering work on setting description, building tension, using verbs, figurative language.

Many of these questions have been written using this technique: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html and some of them draw on ideas from Rhoda Wilson: https://misswilsonsays.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/moving-beyond-reading-comprehension-sheets/

A couple of texts - one a news report about a Tsunami written informally to be converted into formal language, the other a formal letter (not a complaint, or persuasive) outlining views on a fictional matter.

Each poster has a deal - the children have to work out which sale price is the best price. There is also a differentiated WW1 themed percentages of amounts activity of a similar nature.

To be used with Richard Hickey's 'Francis' short film. http://www.literacyshed.com/the-ghostly-shed.html https://vimeo.com/84786815 The original script is written by novelist & screenwriter Dave Eggers and the original transcript was taken from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/transcript I rewrote the transcript to make it shorter so that it could be used as a Talk 4 Writing text.

These questions are colour-coded and linked to symbols from my Reading Roles and some follow my scaffolding inference technique: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html

Boy-friendly maths activity ordering large numbers, carrying out calculations with large numbers and rounding large numbers. Large numbers are all in the context of money and how much things cost - children's toys and most expensive movie cars.

Reading comprehension questions for various chapters of Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Focussing on character description, retrieval, vocabulary and inference.

Each of the new cognitive domains for reading has been linked to a well-known career/job/role in order to make each of the areas of the content domain easier to remember for both children and teachers. Each area has a symbol and is colour-coded so that there are further ways for the children to remember the areas and what they mean. These could be used to colour-code questions used in class - the symbols could also be assigned to question types so children begin to identify question types.

A range of non-fiction resources to support understanding of key themes and events in Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig. The sets of questions named by the book's chapters are based on the book and not non-fiction texts.

Some Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot themed questions alongside bonfire night themed questions for level 5 division - Carry out short division of numbers involving decimals to two places (5b) Solve problems that involve dividing any 3 digit by any 2 digit number (5b)

http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html

Included in this set of resources are summarised versions of the different parts of the story. These were created so that the children had something of a more realistic length to base their own story writing on. If you have the book you could create PowerPoint presentations combining the text and the images (for copyright reasons I have not included my versions of these). Also included are 'box up' frames (Talk For Writing) and comprehension questions.

As part of the work we are suggesting to our families during the lockdown, we are sending a daily idea for a task that can be completed by children of all ages by family groups. We wanted to reduce the number of different tasks that a family was asked to do and so created these daily ideas for less academic, more creative activities. They are mostly collated from various resources on the web so most of the ideas are nothing new but they are all together, mapped out in one place. They are dated (beginning 23rd March) so you can either amend the dates, or join in at the relevant date.

Differentiated 3 ways. encourages application of mathematical facts and strategies. Build-a-bike from a choice of parts using a budget (costs left blank so can be differentiated for groups). Literacy - write an explanation for why they have chosen the parts. Includes percentages and averages and inference/AF3 work for Literacy/reading. One of the maths resources can be found in this document under Maths B46: http://cycle.yorkshire.com/documents/tdf/legacy/EducationPacks/TDF-EducationResourcePack-SectionB.pdf

One poem per half term for year 5 and 6 children. The poems have been selected to represent a diverse range of poets as well as a range of poetic techniques. Poems could be chosen to link to particular units of work. As such, some of the poems listed here for year 5 might be taught in year 6, and vice versa. Year 5: Caged Bird – Maya Angelou (personification, verses, metaphor, repetition, theme, context, anthropomorphism) Eldorado – Edgar Allan Poe (verses, rhyming couplets, alliteration, structure, archaic language, narrative) From A Railway Carriage – RL Stephenson (narrative, verses, simile, structure rhyming couplets, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition) In Flanders Field – John McCrae (rhyme, alliteration, rhyming couplets, narrative, verses, meter, historic) The Night Is Darkening Round Me – Emily Bronte (rhyme, theme, structure, verses, historic, meter) What is Pink? – Christina Rosetti (rhyme, rhythm, meter, repetition) Year 6: Be Very Afraid! – Carol Ann Duffy (figurative, repetition, free verse, alliteration, punctuation, humour) I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – William Wordsworth (rhyme, verses, historic, simile, metaphor, meter) If – Rudyard Kipling (verses, historic, repletion, rhyme, theme) The British – Benjamin Zephaniah (some rhyme, assonance, repetition) Unfolding Bud – Naoshi Koriyama (verses) Where The Mind Is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore (alliteration, rhythm, some rhyme)

PowerPoint to introduce SPAG/GPS SATs Test on Tuesday 10th May 2016 - run down of the question types.

A reading resource for a David Walliams excerpt made using an EAL reading comprehension structure: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html With its colour-coding and symbols it also links to my Reading Roles: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/reading-roles-cognitive-domains-made.html - a way of making the cognitive domains memorable for staff and children.

Linked to Reading Roles (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-a-way-to-help-children-remember-the-areas-of-the-content-domain-ks1-and-ks2-11416334) Based on the following books/poems: Habitat Survival: Mountains by Melanie Waldron Everest by Sangma Francis Rivers and Mountains by Joanna Brundle Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Unfolding Bud by Naoshi Koriyama

A WAGOLL resource (based on a Talk For Writing piece) for a discussion text. Two different structures are provided.

Print outs of receipts for fast food restaurants - order the receipts based on the amount of money.