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The author of these resources was a primary school teacher for 20 years as well as a Specialist Leader in Education for primary literacy, Year 6 teacher and year group leader, Literacy Leader, outstanding facilitator for the Improving Teachers and Outstanding Teachers Programme. Now the author is a Primary Consultant for Kreative Futures. She runs courses for primary teachers in grammar, reading and writing as well as supporting schools in literacy or teaching and learning.

Games and problem solving

Problem Solving 7 x problem solving activities. 2 x break the code 1 x multiplication (single digit multiplied by a number with one decimal place) 1 x mean, mode and median problem 1 x litres/gallons/mileage and money problem 1 x money problem 1 x challenge to make as many different numbers with a set number of digits Connect 4 in a row The object of the game is to make 4 in a row: horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Player A and B take turns. It is both a strategic game and one which involves many different areas of Numeracy. There are 4 different adaptable sheets: 1. Numbers with 1 decimal place 2. A mixture of 2/3/4/5 digit numbers 3. A mixture of 2 and 3 digit numbers 4. Numbers with 2 decimal places 5. Also included are the ideas to support the resource Ideas 1. Rounding up or down 2. Multiply by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 3. Divide by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of 10, 100 and 1000. 4. Work out the percentage of the number. 5. What needs to be added to the number in the box to make a specified number? 6. Keep a running total of the numbers chosen so there can be two aims to the game – 4 in a row and the highest/lowest total 7. With the number in the box, they can add 1 more or less. The number added can change such as 0.1 or 0.01. 8. Write the whole numbers in roman numerals 9. You could give them 10 answers that have been totaled from numbers taken from the table, such as 141, 773 and so on. The pupils have to find the two numbers that make those totals. This is not necessarily playing connect 4 (four in a row) but it could be but you must make sure that they are in pairs and there are no overlaps. 10. Player A chooses 2 numbers, Player B chooses 2 numbers, whoever has the biggest difference wins the squares. This could be applied to the smallest difference or any other rule. 11. Another game is that a player chooses 2 numbers and multiplies them together. They could either win both squares or just the one. 12. If you are multiplying by 1 digit, then that digit could be multiplied by each square to win it. Pocket Money challenge This activity could last possibly two lessons. It is a great activity to exemplify the importance of maths in the real world. It shows how they can use maths to be aware of their finances and make good choices. Resources 1. Excel spreadsheet with 3 possible pocket money suggestions and graphs 2. Excel spreadsheet with 6 possible pocket money suggestions and graphs 3. Pocket money question sheet for the pupils For each activity you are given options (3 or 6, depending on ability) to choose which pocket money option they would have. They are given a starting point such as £10 and each week there is an increment. It includes percentages, compound interest, line graphs, spreadsheet calculations (if computers are available for the lesson).

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Cross-curricular writing - PSHE

Three planned and resourced units of work to cover cross-curricular writing with PSHE.

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Non-fiction Writing

Six units of work which include the planning, resources and hyperlinks. This will save you hours of planning, creating the resources and searching for relevant clips and pictures to support learning.

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Cross-curricular writing - History

Two Egyptian planned and resourced units of work, one Grace Darling and one Vikings planned and resourced unit of work. They all give the overview followed by individual lessons.

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Three INSET session in teaching and learning

Three valuable INSET sessions which can be used for all members of staff and for pupils as well. The neuroscience and questioning skills can also be used personally in your own life to understand how you learn and how to ask really good quality questions: a skill underestimated and not developed. When I trained, I was taught that if I wanted to ask an open question I should ask a why question. I didn't realise how naive I was being. This was a long way away from the truth. Having trained as a performance coach and Master NLP practitioner I have a very different perspective.

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Guided Reading

This bundle includes activities for the 2016 SATs reading paper plus two outstanding lessons with all the resources. One reading session is around themes of stories and the other outlines and teaches the strategies to work out the meaning of a word without a dictionary.

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INSET - Questioning Skills

This INSET could last between 1/2 hour to 1 hour. It is also something you could apply in class to teach pupils how to ask good quality questions. My other hat is a performance coach, which specialises in questioning skills, and a Neuro Linguistic Programming Master practitioner, which also relies on open, clean questions to avoid influencing the answer. The power of asking the right question accelerates learning and development, whilst the problem with asking the wrong question can create barriers and close the pupil down. I wish I had learnt this technique at the beginning of my career.

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Past SATs paper Activities

Teaching past SATs papers can be a little tedious both for teacher and student, these activities make it much more interesting and the pupils have a chance to understand the text at a deeper level through meaningful discussion. One teaching assistant raised the point score of her group by 10 marks in 6 weeks using this method. The pupils loved it and pestered her for more guided reading sessions.

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Challenge and Problem Solving

Algebraic, fraction, percentages, compound interest and other problem solving activities

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Guided Reading using past SATs papers

Seven planned and resourced ways to teach past SATs papers which allow the pupils to enjoy reading.

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Problem Solving - Which pocket money would you choose?

This activity could last possibly two lessons. It is a great activity to exemplify the importance of maths in the real world. It shows how they can use maths to be aware of their finances and make good choices. Resources 1. Excel spreadsheet with 3 possible pocket money suggestions and graphs 2. Excel spreadsheet with 6 possible pocket money suggestions and graphs 3. Pocket money question sheet for the pupils For each activity you are given options (3 or 6, depending on ability) to choose which pocket money option they would have. They are given a starting point such as £10 and each week there is an increment. It includes percentages, compound interest, line graphs, spreadsheet calculations (if computers are available for the lesson).

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Suspense story with a cliff hanger ending using Le Chaperon Rouge

This planning has achieved a very high level quality piece of writing from Year 6 pupils. The planning took 3 days to plan, resource and write a part modelled example so will save you many hours, which can be better spent elsewhere. Progression of lessons lasting over at least 14 sessions: 1. Listen to the video, without watching it, and decide what is happening. 2. Watch the video – use verbs to tick when they see an action 3. Compound sentences 4. Soundscapes – identify the sounds 5. What is the indefinite pronoun? 6. Starting a sentence with a progressive 7. Word collection – including Onomatopoeia 8. Personification poetry 9. Similes – choose some and make some up of their own. 10. Short sentences 11. Plan – choosing vocabulary 12. Model write and analyse 13. Children write and edit each section of the story Resources included: 1. Suspense adjectives 2. Suspense adverbs 3. Abstract nouns list – to create personification 4. Sound and movement verbs 5. Similes list 6. Planning sheet 7. PowerPoint of the story in pictures 8. PowerPoint on starting with the progressive 9. PowerPoint on the length of sentences 10. Model writing 11. Vocabulary sheet 12. Key features sheet 13. Onomatopoeia List 14. PowerPoint Indefinite pronoun 15. Indefinite pronoun meanings – answers 16. HA and MA Indefinite pronoun meanings 17. LA Indefinite pronoun meanings 18. PowerPoint on Personification, similes and abstract noun 19. PowerPoint of Compound Sentences

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Problem Solving

7 x problem solving activities. 2 x break the code 1 x multiplication (single digit multiplied by a number with one decimal place) 1 x mean, mode and median problem 1 x litres/gallons/mileage and money problem 1 x money problem 1 x challenge to make as many different numbers with a set number of digits

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Planned and full resourced writing of an Egyptian myth - Osiris and Isis

This is a planned unit of writing for a myth. 1. Analyse different myth texts and pull out the features 2. Collect language in a grid. Children have to identify similar features. 3. Can they create a myth orally using the pictures. Let them hear the story and see if they can order the pictures and then retell it. 4. Simples sentences and different ways to open them using adjectives or an emotion. 5. Drop in phrases and clauses to explain who someone is. 6. Watch the story of the Egyptian creation story - up-level a text 7. Nouns (pronouns, concrete nouns, proper nouns and abstract nouns) 8. Using the story of Osiris and Isis children box up a story for chronological events. 9. Re write the story and edit as they go along. 10. Metaphors for children to insert into their rewrite. 11. Continue writing and editing each paragraph.

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Vikings (Lindisfarne Raid) - historical story and newspaper report

There are video and picture resources to accompany the lessons. This was a series of lessons for Year 3 but could be used for Year 4 as well. Included: 1. A brief plan of progression 2. Planning sheet for the pupils 3. Vocabulary sheet for pupils to add to (some words already included) 4. Story to introduce the topic - written from the perspective of a boy who witnessed the raid. 5. Model example of a newspaper report on the Viking Raid. 6. How to teach quotes 7. PPT to deliver the material with hyperlinks 8. PPT for pupils which include pictures and brief lists to support writing.

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Explanation text planning - full resourced (How to mummify a body)

More than 15 planned lessons for pupils to write an explanation text. The resources are hyperlinked to the planning for ease. Modelled example included. Progression of lessons: 1. Present tense verbs – including to be, to do and to have. 2. Causal conjunctions – because and so 3. Analyse the Dishwasher explanation text and 2 others 4. Learn the Dishwasher text 5. Collect information from videos, pictures and texts for their planning. 6. Time preposition and time adverbs and subordinate conjunctions denoting time. 7. If + modal verb 8. Write own explanation text 9. Edit writing 10. Glossary – children write a glossary for technical vocabulary Grammar included: 1. Present tense verbs including to be, to do and to have 2. Conditional -If with a modal verb (could, should and would) 3. Complex sentences using because, as, before, after and after that 4. Compound sentence using so

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Games to support number work in primary

Connect 4 in a Row The object of the game is to make 4 in a row: horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Player A and B take turns. It is both a strategic game and one which involves many different areas of Numeracy. There are 4 different adaptable sheets: 1. Numbers with 1 decimal place 2. A mixture of 2/3/4/5 digit numbers 3. A mixture of 2 and 3 digit numbers 4. Numbers with 2 decimal places 5. Also included are the ideas to support the resource Ideas 1. Rounding up or down 2. Multiply by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 3. Divide by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of 10, 100 and 1000. 4. Work out the percentage of the number. 5. What needs to be added to the number in the box to make a specified number? 6. Keep a running total of the numbers chosen so there can be two aims to the game – 4 in a row and the highest/lowest total 7. With the number in the box, they can add 1 more or less. The number added can change such as 0.1 or 0.01. 8. Write the whole numbers in roman numerals 9. You could give them 10 answers that have been totaled from numbers taken from the table, such as 141, 773 and so on. The pupils have to find the two numbers that make those totals. This is not necessarily playing connect 4 (four in a row) but it could be but you must make sure that they are in pairs and there are no overlaps. 10. Player A chooses 2 numbers, Player B chooses 2 numbers, whoever has the biggest difference wins the squares. This could be applied to the smallest difference or any other rule. 11. Another game is that a player chooses 2 numbers and multiplies them together. They could either win both squares or just the one. 12. If you are multiplying by 1 digit, then that digit could be multiplied by each square to win it.

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Planned and resourced Just So Story – to rewrite the story of The Elephant Child

This easy to use planning reduces the hours spent planning a unit. It follows the Pie Corbett premise of imitate but leaps to the innovate stage to expedite the process whilst still creating excellent writing. This was planned for a Year 3 but can be adapted and applied to a Year 4 or 5 class. The Elephant Child transforms from boring grey to being very colourful just like Elmer. This leads into the story of Elmer the Elephant. Teachers, who have used this resource, have reported how easy it was to follow and the excellent quality of writing achieved by all the pupils including the EAL pupils. All the resources or hyperlinks to websites are given. The progression of lessons is: 1. Who was Rudyard Kipling? 2. What was the purpose of the Just So Stories – History (words made up, to retell to his daughter who died in 1899 at a very young age which is why he uses Best Beloved) 3. Creating new words – One Glitful Day and Gobblefunk 4. How the Camel Got its Hump (read, watch, retell, look at the language, match the glossary, world is being made in 7 days, repetition) 5. Possessive apostrophes 6. The Elephant Child (compare with How the Camel got its Hump, read, watch, match the glossary, act out, language, sentences, repetition) 7. Plan their story – show them how you can take an idea and magpie other ideas to use as a story. 8. Write and edit their story 9. Embedded clauses/phrases 10. Write their version of How the Elephant became Colourful in about 200 words. 11. Read Elmer’s stories 12. Could link with http://www.jainworld.com/literature/story25.htm - The parable of the Elephant and the Blind Men Resources: • Children’s planning sheet - how Baby Elephant Got its Colour • Vocabulary sheet • How the Camel Got its Hump • The Elephant Child Story • The Elephant Child Story – Teacher’s version – divided up into 17 sections for acting out • Glossary to match the vocabulary with meanings and pictures for the Camel story • Glossary to match the vocabulary with meanings and pictures for the Elephant story • PowerPoint on possessive apostrophes (file available) • PowerPoint on embedded clauses/phrases • PowerPoint on the Just So Stories • Pictures of Africa and its animals and Map of Africa • PowerPoint – pictures of How the Camel Got its Hump • Gobblefunk worksheet • Success Criteria/key features

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Book talk and Writer's Talk - Pie Corbett style

If you know book talk and writer's talk then this PowerPoint will give you examples that you can model and then some more for pupils to practice. When I planned these lessons, it took me a long time trawling through books and stories to find appropriate texts for them to practise. Book talk and writer's talk supports guided reading, grammar skills and improved writing skills. It is an excellent strategy to also help them edit their own writing, or others, which can be a challenge to get pupils to do effectively.

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Show Don't Tell

This supports both guided reading and writing. Instead of pupils just telling their audience what the character feels this PowerPoint gives a progression of stages to teach how to move from telling to showing their reader. There are examples and ideas on how to further develop the idea and activities to support the process. It is an easy step-by-step process, which has been used successfully to produce more detailed descriptive writing. The pupils loved the process as they understood how to do it.

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Ban illegal tiger hunting - Planned and resourced literacy unit

This unit of work has over 29 resources to support writing an argument text. There are 25 lessons comprehensively planned and resourced with an overview at the beginning followed by the individual lessons. They are proven lessons which have produced a high level of writing in Year 6. Kreative Futures' planning, in this format, takes at least 3 full days to produce, which means it saves very busy and overwhelmed teachers many hours, which could be spent enjoying themselves. The resources are hyperlinked to make access easy (although sometimes the hyperlinks can be lost through uploading and then downloading). The progression of lessons is: 1. Collect information – facts and statistics and opinion 2. Complex sentences 3. Point Evidence Explain 4. Introduce persuasive starter sentences with a range of arguments 5. Collect more information 6. Complex sentences 7. Opinion and fact 8. Exaggeration – anecdotes 9. Collect more information 10. Verbs – present tense 11. Rhetorical questions 12. Matching task – words with definitions 13. Key features of a text 14. Write the introduction 15. Write second paragraph 16. Complex sentences 17. Could should would 18. Write the third paragraph 19. Second person and first person singular 20. Difference between question, statement and exclamation 21.Complete persuasive text with editing 22. Bias

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