I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use clues to decide what a new book will be about.
To understand that stories can be told from different points of view.
To form opinions about characters and justify these.
To understand how an author can describe feelings using a character’s actions.
To understand how an author builds tension.
To reflect on the whole story.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter.
To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character.
To understand how characters are developed.
To be able to understand what can motivate characters.
To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author introduces principle characters
To understand how change affects people in different ways.
To understand relationships in a new family unit
To try to emphasize with how change affects individuals
To understand how different children react in different situations.
To reflect on a whole story
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To identify how an author can write a story within a story.
To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning
To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery.
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery.
• Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book.
To reflect on the opening of a story
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story.
To consider the main purpose of the text
To reflect on a completed text
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To use recall and retrieval to answer factual questions about the Giraffe, Pelly and Me
To use inference and deduction to understand how characters act and feel.
To use recall and retrieval to follow the plot of a story.
To see how an accomplished author brings a story to a close.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on what can be learned from a book before reading it.
To reflect on how a historical novel begins.
To reflect upon a key turning point the novel.
To understand how an author drops hints about the importance of certain characters.
To understand how one event changes that whole focus of a narrative.
To understand how an author uses book conventions to bring tension to a narrative.
To reflect on a completed novel.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story.
To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale.
To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas.
To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text.
To be able to reflect on a completed text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs:
To be able to compare your own experience with those of a character in a book.
To understand how setting and characters are developed.
To understand how dilemmas are introduced into short novels.
To understand how heroes triumph against the odds.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book.
To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words.
To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters.
To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world.
To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward.
To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author can introduce a story / to comment on the specific effects of words and phrases.
To be able to empathise with a family faced with bad news.
To understand how an author creates a low point in a story.
To understand how one event changes the relationship between characters.
To use contextual clues to understand archaic language.
To understand how a story within a story is linked back to the first story.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter.
To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time.
To understand how an author builds a sense of tension.
To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters.
To empathise with the main character.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news.
To reflect upon a completed story.
A set of resources to enable you to bring the Anglo Saxon period to life.
This includes a choice of two different sets of comprehension questions (the latter differentiated) , as well as two investigation type activities and a time line which can be used for display as well as at the start and end of the topic for assessment.
Also inow ncluding a Time-line of British history to allow you to provide a context of where Anglo Saxon Britain fits in the larger history of the British Isles.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs:
To look at the way that letters differ by author and purpose.
To understand how an author drops hints into early chapters to reveal what will happen in the book.
To understand how an author makes a dilemma truly difficult to overcome.
To understand how an author develops character relationships.
To understand how an author brings a story to a climax.
Sample Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity.
An explanation of how to make best use of the Guided Reading resources provided by MikeRichards in his shop. Includes
- 3 different strategies for managing guided reading in your classroom
- planning grids for delivering Guided Reading
- additional links to Deduction, Inference, Authorial and Literal (DIAL) activities.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
