Primary Pros is a small team that creates high quality Key Stage 2 resources for all teachers, new and old. We strive to create work that is of outstanding quality, exceptionally intuitive and of immense help to children.
Within our resources, we always include differentiated success criteria, learning objectives and animated countdown timers so that your children know the skill they are trying to learn, how they know they are achieving it and how long they have left to do so.
Primary Pros is a small team that creates high quality Key Stage 2 resources for all teachers, new and old. We strive to create work that is of outstanding quality, exceptionally intuitive and of immense help to children.
Within our resources, we always include differentiated success criteria, learning objectives and animated countdown timers so that your children know the skill they are trying to learn, how they know they are achieving it and how long they have left to do so.
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 algebra statement: generate and describe linear number sequences
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how to generate and describe linear number sequences
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 6 Algebra lessons:
Coming soon!
A play script all about flying pirate ships! Two fearsome pirate captains face off against one another in a climactic story. Perfect for children with limited exposure to play scripts and reluctant boy readers.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA & Mastery) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity (plus extension)
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children
→ Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc).
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities on one sheet from SEN, LA, MA, HA and Mastery Challenge
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date (which automatically updates to the day you open the document)
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 3 Fraction Lessons:
Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts
Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominator
Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole
Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 fractions statement: recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how decimals are linked to fractions through the use of bar models
→ A variety of different examples of decimals/fractions visually displayed using a variety of images and pictures
→ Clear and precise instructions as to how we recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 4 Fraction Lessons:
Recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4
Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
Round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number
Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places
Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places
All Year 6 Algebra Objectives Covered:
→ All Algebra National Curriculum statements covered through detailed PowerPoints, Worksheets and Answer Sheets for all questions.
→ All PowerPoints are highly differentiated, animated and highly thought through to ensure a smooth and logical explanation of the key information.
→ All PowerPoints contain clear learning objectives, differentiated success criteria, animated count-down timers along with engaging starter activities and differentiated plenary activities.
→ All Worksheets perfectly tie into the associated PowerPoints with 5 levels of differentiation challenge.
→ All success criteria and learning objectives from the PowerPoints are visible on the worksheets, providing a unified and consistent lesson structure
→ Use simple formulae
→ Generate and describe linear number sequences
→ Express missing number problems algebraically
→ Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns
→ Enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables
All Year 6 Properties of Shapes Objectives Covered:
→ All Properties of Shapes National Curriculum statements covered through detailed PowerPoints, Worksheets and Answer Sheets for all questions.
→ All PowerPoints are highly differentiated, animated and highly thought through to ensure a smooth and logical explanation of the key information.
→ All PowerPoints contain clear learning objectives, differentiated success criteria, animated count-down timers along with engaging starter activities and differentiated plenary activities.
→ All Worksheets perfectly tie into the associated PowerPoints with 5 levels of differentiation challenge.
→ All success criteria and learning objectives from the PowerPoints are visible on the worksheets, providing a unified and consistent lesson structure
→ Draw 2-D shapes using given dimensions and angles
→ Recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes, including making nets
→ Compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons
→ Illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius
→ Recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles
A fictional tale about a scientist travelling to another planet and writing a report about a beautifully cute animal that is native to it. The plight of these cute animals and the dangers they face provides an intriguing text for children to read.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
Ever been interested in a trip to Mars? Well, this handy guide (published in the mid 2030s) is here to help make that decision easier for you! A lovely fictional information text which will draw in your reluctant boy readers!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 4 Properties of Shape objective: Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how we can find lines of symmetry and what they are
→ Explains clearly how shapes can be presented in different orientations but the lines of symmetry are still there
→ Clear and precise instructions as to how we identify lines of symmetry
→ Shows how to identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria
→ Animated count-down timer
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 4 Properties of Shapes Lessons:
Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size
Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 Geometry Position and Direction statement: draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how to draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 6 Geometry Position and Direction lessons:
Coming soon!
All Year 6 Statistics Objectives Covered:
→ All Properties of Shapes National Curriculum statements covered through detailed PowerPoints, Worksheets and Answer Sheets for all questions.
→ All PowerPoints are highly differentiated, animated and highly thought through to ensure a smooth and logical explanation of the key information.
→ All PowerPoints contain clear learning objectives, differentiated success criteria, animated count-down timers along with engaging starter activities and differentiated plenary activities.
→ All Worksheets perfectly tie into the associated PowerPoints with 5 levels of differentiation challenge.
→ All success criteria and learning objectives from the PowerPoints are visible on the worksheets, providing a unified and consistent lesson structure
→ interpret and construct pie charts and use these to solve problems
→ interpret and construct line graphs and use these to solve problems
→ calculate and interpret the mean as an average.
A poem about the individual beauty of each season within a year. The poem explores all aspects of the seasons and transitions between them using evocative and complex language, perfect for inference and vocabulary deepening!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A heartwarming story about one penguin's love for her mother, growing up and wanting to explore the wider world. Sadly for this little penguin, she gets a little more than she bargained for when deciding to venture off away from her nest!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
Shiver Me Timbers
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 measurement statement: recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes and calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles.
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how to use recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes and calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles.
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 6 Measurement lessons:
Coming soon!
A beautifully created fact sheet that spans five pages with outstanding presentation. The engaging pictures and information along with question and answer sheets will engage even the most reluctant of readers!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 fractions statement: recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts.
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how to recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 6 fraction lessons:
Coming soon!
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, Differentiated (SEN, LA, MA, HA, Mastery and Greater Depth) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this Year 6 algebra statement: find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns and enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Differentiated starter activity
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ Shows how to find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns and enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables
→ Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through
→ Many opportunities for AfL
→ Plenary activity
The Word Document has the following features:
→ Differentiated activities from SEN to greater depth
→ Coloured activity boxes to help you quickly assign tasks to children
→ Learning objective and short date which automatically show the correct date
→ Differentiated success criteria that link with the PowerPoint
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 6 Algebra lessons:
Coming soon!
An intriguing short story about a spy who travels around the galaxy to take care of… undesireables. On this particular mission however, this spy gets a little more than he bargained for. A story that is perfect for reluctant boy readers.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A collection of beautifully written and illustrated short stories, poems, play scripts and information texts, with questions and answers included, tailored perfectly to meet the requirements of the curriculum’s content domains for year 5 and 6 students.
This document has the following features:
→ Individually, purpose written texts, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
A selection of fantastic back to school activities for 2019 that are perfectly prepared - simply download, print and teach - no preparation required!
A PowerPoint to show the whole class what to do with beautiful animations and easy explanations to follow that links in with the following five activities!
Self portraits
Autobiography
Persoanl Timelines
Google Questions
Camera Roll
The PowerPoint can be navigated through by using clickable hyperlinks so you can explore any activity in any order! Perfect for those of you after a few hours of ‘getting to know you’ style lessons that your new class will love and that’ll give you a series of easy win lessons!
Please explore our premium resources for maths for years 3, 4 and 6 below ready for a September start:
Year 3 Place Value - Unit of Work
Year 4 Place Value - Unit of Work
Year 6 Place Value - Unit of Work
Please explore our premium resources for reading comprehension for years 3 and 4:
Year 3 & 4 Reading Comprehensions
