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.
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 complete half term’s resources (Y1 Autumn 1 or Autumn 2) allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of a class, school or local closure.
The resource consists of:
a youtube version of each class based lesson for use when your pupils are learning at home.
planning, resources, interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean and Smartboard, a PowerPoint starter and all additional resources required to deliver the same lesson yourself.
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 talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information
To understand more challenging vocabulary
To be able to explain the differences in settings
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
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 identify key features of a diary.
To be able to understand how the main characters interact.
To use inference and deduction to understand a character better
To be able to understand how the main characters interact.
To be able to identify features of the (comedy) horror genre
To be able to describe alternatives to a story’s plot
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 we can use clues like blurb, contents and covers to decide what a book is about.
To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To understand how words and effects like italics can contribute to a story.
To understand how stories can be written from different viewpoints.
To understand how a writer uses language and punctuation to help convey a character’s feelings.
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 a character
To understand how an author chooses names to help develop characters.
To make predictions about a story.
To be able to make predictions based on knowledge of the stories an author tells.
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 uses flashbacks to tell a story.
To understand what life was like a hundred years ago.
To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative.
To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully.
To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War.
To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.
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, inference and deduction to form opinions about a central character.
To empathise with a central character and his problems.
To be able to make predictions based on your understanding of the main character.
To use skimming and scanning to find information from a text.
To be able to use recall, deduction and inference to form opinions about a text
To make predictions based on what has happened in a story to date.
To reflect on a completed text.
Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of:
The birth of Zeus
Theseus and the Minotaur
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Perseus and the Gorgon
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 identify how the key features of a book can make it distinctive.
To use inference and deduction to understand the point of view of secondary characters.
To explore the relationships in a family.
To draw conclusions about the main character in relationship to the title of the book.
To empathise with the main characters’ feelings in a range of situations.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading.
NB this resource includes each story in Word Format.
Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions
LOs
To be able to explain the moral of a story.
To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences
To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language.
To discuss creation myths
To use context and verbal clues to decode a 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 make predictions based on information provided in the cover, blurb and introduction.
To use inference and deduction to explain the main character’s current circumstances.
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand what life was like in Victorian London.
To empathise with the main character at the lowest point of the novel.
To make predictions based on inference and deduction.
To reflect on a completed story.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven 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 education
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 the difference between fact and opinion
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of education
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life at school
A complete Programme of work for teaching the Victorians in either Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. The pack includes Summary Planning providing a suggested sequence of teaching which includes Time-line work and a series of Historical Investigation and debate activities based using quotes from people alive in the Victorian times and Victorian novels.
The pack also includes planning for five groups of Guided reading, drawing on a combination of Victorian and contemporary novelists.
Additionally, there are ten comprehensions included that could be used as additional whole class activities or as homework.
A complete Programme of work for teaching the Victorians in either Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. The pack includes Summary Planning providing a suggested sequence of teaching which includes Time-line work and a series of Historical Investigation and debate activities based using quotes from people alive in the Victorian times and Victorian novels.
Additionally, there are ten comprehensions included that could be used as additional whole class activities or as homework.
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
The Silver Sword- HA
Flour Babies / Diary of a Wimpy Kid - MA
Charlotte's Web / James and the Giant Peach- LA
A complete set of 26 weekly plans. Each day’s learning is supported by a* youtube video* ideal for either distance learning in the event of a local lockdown or for teachers new to phonics to familiarise themselves with the Phase 5 Graphemes and Phonemes, their pronunciation and the best order in which to teach them.
The scheme of work can be used in conjunction with the Phonics Bug reading scheme, with each week linked to the appropriate set of books to allow support of the new GPCs through Guided Reading.
Also available from this author are completely resourced weekly plans, bundles of six-week blocks of learning (suitable for each half term) and free PowerPoint starters for each week as described in these plans.
Each week’s complete teaching resources cost £1 (click here for week 1), with six-week bundles costing £2.50 (click here for week 1 to 6).
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.
