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.
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.
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 understand how a character’s viewpoint affects a story
To understand how two characters show their emotions through their actions.
A series of speaking and listening, role-playing, maths and art lessons linked to the short novel The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. Designed for KS1 for Roald Dahl Day
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 understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction.
A series of questions questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests.
LOs: To relate Roald Dahl’s childhood to their own, To understand the nature of autobiographical writing.
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).
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
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.
This is a first in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand the history of these islands (Great Britain) as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the British Isles including:
Resource 1: Time-line of the British Isles – with dates
Resource 2: Definition cards BC / AD.
Resources 3: Timeline of the British Isles – without dates.
Resource 4: Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Time-line without dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• Understand how the islands of Britain have changed over time.
• Understand the difference between AD and BC
• Understand the difference between BC, First millennium and Second millennium.
• Understand that dates before Christ are older the bigger the number (cf negative numbers)
• Sequence a series of BC and AD dates.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
(Update - corrects 1 incorrect link in Resource 5 - Interactive Timeline of 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 - one week sample
Two dinosaur texts to support less able children.
Comprehensions include text to be read by adult / with children , word search associated with text, word matching to definition, clozed procedure adding vocabulary to create passage about dinosaurs.
Can be used in class along side first two dinosaur comprehensions.
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
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 be able to empathise with a main character.
Set in the Highlands of Scotland around the time of the Battle of Culloden, this short story has a definite twist in its tail. Ideal for any work on historical fiction, this text was written specifically for this purpose.
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 sets a story in the past.
To use inference and deduction to understand the main characters’ feelings.
To reflect on a completed text.
Please note to print the text from Word, select two sided along short edge. This will print the book in A5 book format.
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 deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel.
To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in 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 - one week sample
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 complete set of PowerPoints designed to provide an interactive Revisit / Review for each week’s Phonics lessons. Each PowerPoint typically provides 5 days of starters, including a mixture of Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic activities.
These activities are designed to run in conjunction with a complete programme of work click here including daily distance learning youtube videos click here for these plans. They also form part of weekly premium plans and 6 weekly premium bundles. 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).
Please note some of the phoneme spotters have been sourced from other TES authors and so are not included as anything other than PowerPoint slides. Others are part of the original Letters and Sounds government publication.
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
