I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities to last a week and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. Please leave a review :) Thank you :)

Year 2/3 Hodgeheg Planning, Questions & Activities At the start of each block of sessions, is a brief overview of what each session is about and what the reading focus skill is. Sessions contain copies of the text (which can also be found for free online). Each session works on developing a particular skill from the reading curriculum: understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by: drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done, answering and asking questions predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far participate in discussion about books, poems and other works that are read to them and those that they can read for themselves taking turns and listening to what others say, explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves. There are also a couple of sessions based on non-fiction texts to do with hedgehogs so a variety of text types are looked at across the term. Other sessions include ordering events in the text. Some of the sessions also include answers and for the ones that don’t they can easily be found in the included text. Hope you enjoy and the planning saves you heaps of time! Please leave a review if it does :)

Designed for my Year 5 class. The aim of the lesson is to help children with their understanding of number and to recognise the link between numbers in the place value chart i.e knowing that you need 10 tens to make 100, 10 one hundreds to make one thousand etc. This resource comes with the lesson plan and also the sheets that children will complete as they complete the activity. My class have access to dienes and they are something I will be using at the start of the lesson to model what they will be doing. The sheets are differentiated. The first sheet features pictures of the number in question. Children are expected to label the number shown in words. The second sheet is for higher achievers to write the numbers in words and to recall the place value chart as they go and label the table in ascending order as they go.

I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities to last a week and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. Chapters planned for this week are: Chapter 4 - The Quiet House Chapter 5 - Daisy Dovetail Chapter 6- The Fight in the Courtyard Chapter 7 - Lord Spittleworth Tells Tales Chapter 8- The Day of Petition Chapter 9 - The Shepherd’s Story This week the activities support the development of the child’s understanding of what atmosphere it and how the author can create it, there are some questions for the children to answer (using the text to support them), an activity on building an understanding of impressions we get of characters (supported by evidence) and a series of points to pause at to discuss as a class. Thanks for looking. Please leave a review :)

I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. This week, the chapters planned for are chapter 28 through to chapter 49. The SATS style activities planned this week are focused on answering questions, using their inference skills to break down the meaning of a word in a specific context and chronologically ordering events in the chapter studied. All answers are provided. Hope you enjoy them! :)

I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. This week, the chapters planned for are: Chapter 20 - Medals for Beamish and Buttons Chapter 21 - Professor Fraudysham Chapter 22 - The House with No Flags Chapter 23 - The Trial Chapter 24 - The Bandalore Chapter 25 - Lord Spittleworth’s problem Chapter 26 - A job for Mr Dovetail Chapter 27 - Kidnapped The activities planned this week are focused on answering questions and using inferences. Hope you enjoy them! :)

Agents of Understanding ( © Catherine Evans 2019) is a child-friendly resource that I have created to be used to support the use of metacognition in school. I researched metacognition and found that many of the skills it discusses are skills we already use in the classroom, particularly through the teaching of Guided Reading. The Agents of Understanding has taken eight metacognition skills such as scanning for clues and using background information and turned them into a child-friendly resource. This pack consists of a teacher tool, which explains how each skill can be used in the classroom with teacher stem sentences; a children’s poster pack, which contains an individual poster for each skill with child-friendly stem sentences to support their thinking and an Agents of Understanding poster which can go on display in classrooms, corridors or exercise books. These skills can be used across the curriculum and go particularly well with Bloom’s activities. I hope you find it useful in your classrooms! If your school would like any training in how to use this document, please don’t hesitate to get in touch or leave your school’s email in the comments. Thank you :)

I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. This week, the chapters that have been planned for are: Chapter 10 - King Fred’s Quest Chapter 11- The Journey North Chapter 12 -The King’s Lost Sword Chapter 12 - The accident Chapter 14- Lord Spittleworth’s plan Skills planned for this week are: developing an understanding impressions and the evidence to support them (in the typical SATS format), revision of how the author creates an atmosphere and making justified predictions. Please leave a review :) Thank you :)

I have planned a series of reading lessons to go alongside J.K Rowling’s The Ickabog. This is primarily planned for Y6 but could be used in Y5. There are a variety of question types and reading activities and all come with answers. You have a brief overview of the week at the start and then, if you follow the slides with your class, there will be a series of discussion points to pause at or an activity at the end. New reading comprehension packs will be added each week. It also develops individual metacognition/comprehension skills and can be used alongside my Agents of Understanding skills. This week, the chapters planned for are: Chapter 16 - Bert Says Goodbye Chapter 17 - Goodfellow makes a stand Chapter 18 - End of an advisor Chapter 19 - Lady Eslanda The activities planned this week are to help children to write longer answers, using the skimming and scanning skills (while using the text to help them) and predictions based on their prior knowledge of the story and its characters.

I couldn’t find any reasoning style questions relating to equivalent fractions/simplifying fractions questions online so I created this one. Children have to answer a variety of questions and use their reasoning skills to justify their answers. There are true or false questions, spot the mistake questions and missing number questions (10 in total). The children are to cut out the questions and glue them into their books and then answer the question underneath. I have designed these questions for my Year 5 class. I would say that it is accessible to all and my differentiation would be through adult support. I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you and hope this saves you some time :)