A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
The wavy line worksheets are a useful resource for children to visualise rounding numbers easier, by picturing a marble rolling backwards (rounding off) or rolling forwards (rounding up). For example, ask the pupils to find the biggest number possible that would roll back to 100, or to find the first number that would roll forwards to 200.
There are wavy lines with different numbers from 100 to 10 million to allow for differentiation.
There is also a task where pupils find the population of some British cities rounded to the thousand's number place. The task can be done by asking the pupils to estimate the size of the city first and then using this website to found the populations http://www.citypopulation.de/UK-Cities.html, or alternatively there is a worksheet with the populations written, if you do not want to use the website. As an additional geography task pupils could locate the cities on a map.
There is also a 'How to round numbers' advice sheet. This can be printed and put in pupils' books to remind them of how to round numbers.
It gives the rounding maths task a real context and links to geography.
Learning outcomes - children learn about global warming and by using the model text, teaching notes and scaffold are able to write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming.
A model global warming persuasive information text provides lots of information, so children will learn about global warming. Teaching notes provide guidance on the features of the text type. Teaching notes also guide discussion of how the writer manages to persuade and inform. This builds the children’s understanding of the text type in order to help pupils write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming. There is a scaffold frame that can also be used to support independent writing on global warming.
Sorting task for parts of rivers a course.
1. Pupils sort words into Upper, Middle and Lower Course of a river
2. Pupils sort words into sequence to support their writing of a paragraph about each of the stages of a river.
