I created these tasks mainly to hit the NC statement, “increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including…modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage…” after realising that many of my pupils had never even heard of (let alone read) many of the classic stories from our heritage. These tasks provide samples and accompanying tasks from 15 classics (both older and modern.) Please note: the 75 files were too large for one listing on TES, so I’ve compressed them into a zip file. I’ve also uploaded one lesson separately (Hound of the Baskervilles) so you can see the resource. What’s Included: *15 complete reading comprehension lessons, made up of: -The extract in Microsoft Word format -The extract in Notebook format (for Whiteboard projection) -Questions with response spaces (plus points per question, like SATs papers) -Just Questions (for higher ability pupils or just to save on photocopying!) -Suggested answers (my TA does these tasks with small groups, so the answer sheet comes in handy) Useful for: -Whole-class comprehension lessons -Small group work (E.g. Round Robin Reading Groups) -Boosting / extra support for poor readers Titles: -Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) -Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) -Northern Lights (Phillip Pullman) -Stardust (Neil Gaiman) -Stig of the Dump (Clive King) -The Butterfly Lion (Michael Morpurgo) -The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) -The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis) -The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgeson-Burnett) -The Star of Kazan (Eva Ibbotson) -The White Giraffe (Lauren St John) -The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Graham) -The Wizard of Oz (Frank Baum) -Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) -Wonder (R.J.Palacio)

11 Fully resourced maths lessons, including a variety of investigations, tasks and games. -Can be one-off lessons, or stretched over multiple lessons -11 lessons -Ideal for Years 5, 6 and 7 -(Used by creator for Y6 post-SATs - very useful) What’s included? Missing Angles (masking tape on tables to create unknown angles for the children to investigate - a personal favourite!) Figure Me Out Gem Challenge - Nets (another favourite - using pre-printed nets to create gems. Children have to manage a budget, buy resources, sell their product and earn a profit) Tesselation: Design a kitchen floor Pie Charts (data collection, class surveys, using Microsoft Excel to create pie charts) Perimeter, Area and Volume around School and grounds Algebraic brain teasers (much better than it sounds!) Creating a scale-map of the school Ratio and Proportion (hands-on using manipulatives like denes) Paper Village - Nets Important moments in UK History in Roman Numerals …Plus planning for all lessons. ALSO AVAILABLE: SET B

What’s included? -Blockbusters (notebook document based on the TV show) -Code Breakers (adult / child creates a coded message - children to quickly crack the code to reveal message) -Countdown (notebook document based on the TV show) -Ultimate Countdown (similar to Countdown, but designed to be more challenging / a bit different) -If this is the answer, what is the question? (notebook document, open-ended, very popular with creator’s class) -Wheel of Fortune (notebook document based on the TV show) -Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Number Edition (PowerPoint presentation based on the TV show) -Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Fractions Edition (PowerPoint presentation based on the TV show) -Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Blank version (so you can create your own / allow pupils to create their own) -Maths Revision card game (I have this set printed in four different-coloured sets - pupils enjoy playing this at wet breaktimes / spare 10 minute slots, and as an activity for those who’ve finished their task in lesson)

4 Complete Comprehension Lessons (Note: DVD of the film or access to Youtube needed) What’s included? Lesson 1: What’s This? +Lesson plan +Blank lyric page +Annotated lyric page (handy for showing children, so they know what is expected) Lesson 2: Town Meeting +Lesson plan +Blank lyric page +Annotated lyric page Lesson 3: Kidnap the Sandy Claws +Lesson plan +Blank lyric page +Annotated lyric page Lesson 4: Oogie-Boogie Song +Lesson plan +Blank lyric page +Annotated lyric page *(I’ve personally taught these four lessons to Y5/6 for a number of years, and they absolutely love them - boys with usually poor engagement respond particularly well to them)

Details -30 multi-page word documents -Past paper questions -Organised into areas of learning linked to Y5/6 National Curriculum -Answers included -Excellent for pre-SATs revision -Great for Homework -Tried and Tested in my own classroom - used every year to help my pupils prepare for SATs Also Available: KS2 SATs Revision Booklets - SPAG (Visit my Shop for more details) What’s included? Arithmetic Set: Arithmetic: Subtracting fractions Arithmetic: BODMAS Arithmetic: FDP (Fractions, Decimals, Percentage) Arithmetic: Multiply and Divide by 10 100 1000 Arithmetic: Mutliply and Divide fractions Arithmetic: Rounding Data Handling Set Multistep problems: Algebra Multistep problems: Angles, Area, Perimeter, Volume Multistep problems: Measurement, Scales, Conversion Multistep problems: Number and Money Multistep problems: Percentages Multistep problems: Ratio Geometry Set Geometry: Coordinates Geometry: Missing Angles Geometry: Nets Geometry: Properties of Shapes Geometry: Reflection and Symmetry Geometry: Translation Number Set Number: Doubling and Halving Number: Explain why correct / wrong Number: FDP (reasoning) Number: Inverse Operations Number: Number Sequences Number: Roman Numerals Reasoning ( Multistep problems) Set Multistep Problems: Algebra Multistep Problems: Angles, Area, Perimeter, Volume Multistep Problems: Measurement, Scales, Conversion Multistep Problems: Number and Money Multistep Problems: Percentages Multistep Problems: Ratio

-8 ‘Genre Towers’ (Word banks to be printed and turned into a stand-up ‘tower’) -A4 size -Ideal for supporting KS2 and KS3 pupils in genre-specific writing Included: -1 x play script -1 x newspaper article -1 x narrative -1 x instructions -1 x formal letter -1 x discussions / debate -1 x diary entry -1 x biography and autobiography

-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension -every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc -every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question -every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers -these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog Reading / Observation materials including: -poetry -story extracts -infographics -fact text extracts -photographs -book covers -book illustrations -comic book front covers

What’s included? 10 complete comprehension resources themed on great Britons, both modern and historical. Each resource includes a short biography, a series of questions and a mark scheme. Who’s included? -Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit creator) -Bushra Nasir (UK’s first Muslim Head Teacher) -Charles Dickens (author) -Florence Nightingale (Revolutionised nursing) -Freddie Mercury (of Queen fame) -Helen Sharman (UKs first astronaut) -Jane Goodall (conservationist) -Paul Stephenson (Racial Equality activist) -Sadiq Khan (politician) -William Shakespeare (poet, playwright) Great for: -Year groups 4-8 -homework -revision -home-learning -links with PSCHE and British Values -Booster groups

A fantastic resource (based off an original idea by Chris Quigley) that specifically develops: -creativity -writing speed -enjoying writing -enjoying stories -just writing, rather than overthinking / worrying about grammar, vocab choice etc Recommended for: -reluctant writers (My Y5/Y6 boys love doing 200 Words each week) -slow writers -‘can’t get started’ writers -children who don’t read very much at home / have limited experience of stories How does it work? There are 4 Story Coordinate cards in each set: Character, Situation, Object and Place. Pupils randomly choose a coordinate from each card, giving you four very random story elements (E.g. a mysterious shadow, a hilarious accident, a tiny sword, behind a waterfall.) Set a time limit (my Y5/6 like to be given 10 minutes for this.) Within that time limit, pupils write a short story (or a part of a story) which includes as many of the 4 items as possible. It is important to stress to your pupils that, unlike writing lessons, this task is not about using amazing vocabulary/ broad range of punctuation / your neatest handwriting; it is about being creative, letting go and having fun. What’s incuded? -Notebook document (with an example-page to get you started) -4 x Character cards -4 x Situation cards -4 x Object cards -4 x Place cards

Why I made this resource Every maths lesson you teach, you give a clear learning outcome (or TBAT or WALT or Success Criteria - whatever it’s called in each school.) Your class follow your carefully planned steps, and succeed. However, in my experience, children then struggle when faced with: -multi-step problems -multi-operation problems -questions without a clear method to use -changes in maths skill required (E.g. suddenly needing to write an answer as a fraction) How to Use These lessons are designed to have limiting teaching beforehand, if at all. Instead, children tackle the real-life situation using a broad range of skills (money, decimals, written methods, mental strategies, converting between fractions and % etc) and get used to: -thinking independently -being less reliant on adults (“learned helplessness”) -using a blend of skills at once What’s included? -20 real-life contexts (whole lessons) which each include: >printable data pages (price lists, menus, information pages, league tables, timetables, fact files, recipes) >15 differentiated questions (Band A = easiest, Band E = hardest. Harder Qs can be trimmed off the page, depending on your maths groups) >Answer sheet

What’s included? 10 complete comprehension resources themed on great Britons, both modern and historical. Each resource includes a short biography, a series of questions and a mark scheme. Who’s included? -C.S Lewis (author) -Doreen Lawrence (modern-day racial equality activist) -Emmeline Pankhurst (historical gender equality activist) -Isambard Kingdom-Brunel (historical engineer) -J.K Rowling (author) -J.R.R Tolkien (author) -Princess Diana (philanthropist and ex-Royal) -Roald Dahl (author) -Shami Chakrabarti (politician, political activist) -Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) Great for: -Year groups 4-8 -homework -revision -home-learning -links with PSCHE and British Values -Booster groups

-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension -every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc -every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question -every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers -these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog Reading / Observation materials including: -poetry -story extracts -infographics -fact text extracts -photographs -book covers -book illustrations -comic book front covers

Complete unit for Upper Key Stage 2 Maths lessons Includes: -Equivalent fractions -COnverting between mixed numbers and improper fractions -Ordering fractions -Finding fractions of numbers -Adding fractions -Subtracting fractions -Multiplying fractions -Dividing fractions -Additional activity for extending the more able / quick-working children Includes: -Lesson input (introduction / starter / teaching input) -Non-contextual task (‘Practise’) -Contextual / word-problem task (‘Apply’) -Deepening / broadening task (‘Deepen’) -Full planning for all activities *-many tasks differentiated 2 or 3 ways *-tried and tested resources (I have taught fractions using these resources for a number of years) *-answer sheets provided where appropriate (to encourage self-marking) *-most tasks in an adaptable format (I.e. you can make changes to most of the documents to, for example, change names in word problems to those of children in your class)

10 Tarsia Puzzles covering a range of Upper KS2 and lower KS3 subject areas. (As a current upper KS2 teacher myself, I use Tarsia regularly as my pupils really enjoy these puzzles - great for Deepening / Mastery) Includes: -Dividing Fractions (Standard) -Dividing Fractions (Tricky) -Equivalent Fractions -Finding Fractions of Numbers (Standard) -Finding Fractions of Numbers (Tricky) -Fraction Conversions -Multiplying Fractions (Standard) -Multiplying Fractions (Tricky) -Roman Numerals (Standard) -Roman Numerals (Tricky) -Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Standard) -Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Tricky) What is a Tarsia? Tarsias are puzzles (a bit like dominoes or triominoes) where each piece contains a mix of questions and answers. Questions and answers have to be matched up, creating a finished puzzle. What file-types are included? TES doesn’t support Tarsia files, so these can’t be uploaded directly. Instead, you’ll be accessing PNG files (images) of the original puzzles. These are fully printable and playable. What software is required if I want to make my own Tarsia? Tarsias are created in a piece of free software by Hermitech Labs (no affiliation.) I’ve been making Tarsia for years - it’s a genuinely fantastic free resource, which you should consider downloading for yourself. It allows you to choose a blank puzzle-type, then input your own questions and answers. It then turns those into a puzzle for you. (To find the page with the download on, Google ‘Hermitch Labs Tarsia’)

Details -25 multi-page word documents -Past paper questions -Organised into areas of learning -National Curriclum, Year 5/6 -Answers included -Excellent for SATs revision -Great for homework -This resource is used annually to support Y6 SAT prep in my own classroom! Also Available: KS2 SATs Revision Booklets: Maths (Visit my Shop for more details) What’s Included? Punctuation Set Apostrophes Colons and Semi Colons Commas for Clarity Commas in lists Full Stops, Capitals, Exclamation Marks and Question Marks Inverted Commas Parenthesis Prefixes and Suffixes Synonyms and Antonyms Sentences Set Active and Passive Voice Clauses Phrases Sentence Types Standard English and Formality Verb Forms Word Classes Set Adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions Determiners Nouns Prepositions Pronouns Subject and Object Verbs Word Classes, Mixed

’SAT Skill Booster’ Mini-Tests Details: -15 booklets (each document fits onto a double-sided A4 sheet, folded) -Answers included -All questions are past-paper KS2 SATs questions Perfect for: -SATs revision -Booster groups -Extension Activity -Homework Includes: -Adding Fractions 1 and 2 -Subtracting Fractions 1 and 2 -Multipying Fractions 1 and 2 -Multiplying Decimals 1 and 2 -Dividing Fractions -Fractions of Numbers 1 and 2 -Fractions - 4 Operations Mixed 1 and 2 -Percentages -Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Also available: Arithmetic Number, Reasoning Number, Reasoning Measure, Reasoning Fractions Decimals %ages