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.
This is a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue and a speech punctuation investigation task using The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson. The presentation also shows how to punctuate and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. This task gets children to discover the rules of punctuating direct speech for themselves without being told, and thus leads to deeper understanding.
There are teaching notes showing the grammar essentials children need to understand to be able to use direct speech accurately.
The work can be linked to class study of The Lightning Thief:Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or used as a stand alone grammar group, or individual activity. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
These worksheets teach children to use partial products to give them effective strategies to learn their times tables. It shows how to use grouping strategies to find their number facts quickly.
One worksheet is designed to teach the strategies and to teach understanding of the concept of multiplication. One worksheet is designed to assess pupils understanding of the strategies and their number sense. By completing the assessment sheet, children show if they understand the concept of multiplication and if they can apply flexible strategies. The assessments offer more challenge than conventional times table tests.
Check out the free 4x sheets also available on the TES to see if the resources will be useful. There are many more tables available including two pages of worksheets for each of the times tables 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 11x, 12x, 13x, 14x and 15x as a premium resource.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
These worksheets teach children to use partial products to give them effective strategies to learn their times tables. It shows how to use grouping strategies to find their number facts quickly.
One worksheet is designed to teach the strategies and to teach understanding of the concept of multiplication. One worksheet is designed to assess pupils understanding of the strategies and their number sense. By completing the assessment sheet, children show if they understand the concept of multiplication and if they can apply flexible strategies. The assessments offer more challenge than conventional times table tests.
The same sheets are printed with arrays to allow children to circle the groupings, if they need more support.
Check out the free 12x sheets also available on the TES to see if the resources will be useful. There are many more tables available including two pages of worksheets for each of the times tables 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 11x, 12x, 13x, 14x and 15x as a premium resource.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
These worksheets teach children to use partial products to give them effective strategies to learn their times tables. It shows how to use grouping strategies to find their number facts quickly.
Check out the free 12x and free 4x table sheets available on the TES to see if the resources will be useful.
There are two pages of worksheets for each of the times tables 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 11x, 12x, 13x, 14x and 15x. One worksheet is designed to teach the strategies and to teach understanding of the concept of multiplication. One worksheet is designed to assess pupils understanding of the strategies and their number sense. By completing the assessment sheet, children show if they understand the concept of multiplication and if they can apply flexible strategies. The assessments offer more challenge than conventional times table tests.
The same sheets are printed with arrays to allow children to circle the groupings, if they need more support for the 3x, 4x, 6x, 7x and 8x tables. There is no 0, 1, 2 or 10x table sheet, because grouping strategies are not as useful.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
A simple PowerPoint introducing the idea of nouns and proper nouns for Key Stage1. There is an activity to test whether children can recognise nouns from verbs (not in sentences). It is simple, because it doesn't introduce the idea that the same word can act as either a noun, or verb depending on the sentence. It just talks about nouns in very basic terms with simple examples.
The resource is adapted from a US resource on a different part of speech.
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
A PowerPoint explaining and testing knowledge of modal verbs.
It is adapted from a US resource about a different part of speech.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
The worksheet shows common ways that the body responds to fear. Children are then asked to write descriptive sentences, using the ideas to show rather than tell that a character is scared.
For example, 'His colour was ashen.'
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
The worksheet shows how to describe setting by describing weather and emotions.
The task requires children to write descriptive sentences to show how different weather affects people, places or things. For example, the task requires children to change statements that tell the weather, e.g. 'it is foggy,' to statements that show the affect of the weather, e.g. 'As the fog wrapped itself around her like a scarf, Amy shivered.' It also requires children to show rather than tell emotions in a similar way.
There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
I’ve chosen word problems and fraction percentages from old Key Stage 2 Sat papers (that Paul Urry published on the TES) and have made worksheets to show how bar modelling can be used to help pupils to visualise and solve the problems.
There are two resources, one offering more scaffolding and support. The questions are probably level 3 into level 4, so could be suited to some KS2 pupils and also for able children in year 2.
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
A book list to make reading irresistible to bridge children from the end of Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3.
More free resources and book lists are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
These are adverb synonym matching, cut up and do, activities for Key Stage 2, with different degrees of challenge. They are good for building vocabulary. The harder activity may also be suitable for some groups in KS3 and the easier for some children during Key Stage 1.
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
This is a book list for Year 4 into Year 5. I've posted more free reading lists for Key Stage 1, 2 & 3.
More free resources and book lists are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
This is a descriptive vocabulary building worksheet task. It matches 'very' words, e.g. 'very exciting' to more precise synonyms, 'exhilarating' . This is a written task and includes some words to offer challenge, so is aimed at able children in Year 3 & 4, Upper Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3.
Download my other 'very' words cut up and do task, if you wish to select words to suit a wider ability range.
Examples of words include - 'very clean' - 'spotless', 'very smelly' - 'pungent.'
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
This is a cut up and do task for children to complete in groups. It matches 'very' words, e.g. 'very exciting' to more precise synonyms, 'exhilarating' . Words can be selected to suit the ability of the children. It includes some words to offer challenge.
Examples of words include - 'very clean' - 'spotless', 'very smelly' - 'pungent.'
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
Check out my other book lists (including Key Stage 2 & 3 recommended reading book lists) on TES.
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
An irregular verbs PowerPoint activity for Key Stage 1 (or may be useful for Key Stage 2 SEN).
More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
