A poem about a dormant volcano suddenly and furiously bursting into life using descriptive language and many questions regarding authorial technique. 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. 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

In a scientific laboratory a young and eager scientist is developing a threatening virus for the army, but what happens if the virus escapes before it is ready? 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. 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

In the scary village of Tangford, as the full moon threatens to rise into the night's sky, an evil witch is ready to exact her revenge on some pesky villagers... 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. 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

Have you ever wondered what happens in a school at night? Where do the teachers go? What do they do? Three friends are convinced something is amiss and decide to take matters into their own hands... 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, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → 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: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → 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: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian

Please find within this download: A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint → 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: → A variety of different activities over two sheets → Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed → Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling → Identify spelling errors in a text → And may more! → Answer sheet included for all questions Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons: Adding the prefix dis- Adding the suffix -tion Adding the suffix -cian

Far out at sea, a decaying pirate ship bobs through the waves. It's dastardly crew go about their duties whilst is hideous pirate captain is at the helm of the most feared pirate ship in the Caribbean. 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

Deep in the jungle, under a blanket of stars a tiger lurks within the shadows searching for her next meal. The moonlight bounces from streams, whilst the stars twinkle overhead, but the jungle isn't a safe place to be... 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

A sleepy village in the heart of the countryside settles down to sleep for the night when a beautiful owl wakes up to begin her fruitful night's flight and adventure! 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. 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) Worksheet with Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement: Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Clearly explains and works through examples of how to read and write numbers up to 1000 → Explains what numerals are, providing a variety of simple examples → Careful step by step guidance that can be moved forwards and backwards through easily → Many opportunities for AfL embedded within the lesson → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children → Plenary activity to stretch learners knowledge by applying their skills to a more complex problem 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 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

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: Compare and Order numbers up to 1000. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Explains thoroughly what ordering and comparing means → Shows how we can order and compare numbers through visual explanations and examples → AfL (Assessment for learning) embedded throughout the presentation → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective & 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). → Plenary activity to assess children’s progress throughout the lesson 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 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

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 the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (100s, 10s, 1s). The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Explains thoroughly what Place Value is → Shows how numbers are composed of digits through visual explanations → Shows how we can partition numbers, providing visual examples → AfL (Assessment for learning) embedded throughout the presentation → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective & 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 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

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: Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to use physical number line to count in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → 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 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

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: Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning → Shows how to use both mental and written methods to solve problems involving finding 10 or 100 more or less than a given number → The examples of written method are animated on graph paper, similar to children’s exercise books with the different columns labeled, i.e. hundreds, thousands, etc. → Helpful animations rather than obtrusive and/or pointless ‘gimmicky’ animations. → Learning Objective & 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 Place Value Lessons: Compare and order numbers up to 1000 Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number Identify, Represent and Estimate numbers using different representations Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

A famous astronaut from humble beginnings is chosen for a special mission to the Moon to investigate a glowing metallic object near Ice Field 9. What begins as a simple, even routine, mission rapidly descends into something that will change the shape of humankind's destiny forever more... ​ 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 4 Place Value statement: solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers. The PowerPoint has the following features: → Differentiated starter activity (plus extension) → Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples → Shows how to solve the objective: solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers → Many opportunities for AfL → Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria → Animated count-down timer → Plenary activity applying their skills to more complex problems 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 Place Value Lessons: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 Find 1,000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

An elderly doctor finally cracks how to build a spaceship engine that can reduce flights from planet to planet down to days, not years! His friend, Captain Koop of Earth's Navy, finally is able to use the engine for the good of Earth, but the doctor can't wait to explore the stars... ​ 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