This is a simple activity, which involves children rolling a dice to create fantastic sentences.

Provided in this publisher document are 8 pieces of figurative language based on the novel ‘Trash’. The children are to order these in effectiveness in the diamon 9, from most effective at the top, to least effective at the bottom. There is the opportunity for them to write their own fantastic piece of figurative language, as there are only 8. They then can explain their reasoning and justify their choices.

Included in this activity is a zone of relevance and 6 banks of adjectives to describe characteristics. Children are to look at the words and rate their effectiveness of description. This may be a character in a novel they’re reading. They can make up their own, I usually give the word banks to the basic domain children. They are to place the most effective words in the centre of the circle and the least effective on the outside. Higher domain children can usually explain why they have chosen the words and why they have put them in the place that they have. I have found this a really effective lesson and promotes higher level language use.

This is a year 6 series of lessons involving multiplication and division, following the national curriculum. The activities are colour coordinated for basic, advancing and deep domain activities. I personally printed them, chopped them and then placed them in baskets for the children to take as needed. This promoted ownership over children’s learning.

Lesson plan included in this resource.

Included are two different activities. The first two pages are the first activity. They will need chopping and mixing up. The children need to match the sentences and join them together appropriately with a colon. The coloured resources are for more basic domain children, to match them and place the colons in the correct place. They are coloured so that they know which one must come first. These will also need chopping and mixing up. My deep domain children, I just gave them either the first or second page and asked them to create new sentences with colons to seperate clauses.

This is a complete set of activities for a Year 6 place value topic. I personally printed them all off, chopped them and placed in baskets, so that the children could move on and take charge of their own learning. It is colour coded for basic, advancing and deep domains, including mastery activities.

This is a year 6 series of lessons involving addition and subtraction, following the national curriculum. The activities are colour coordinated for basic, advancing and deep domain activities. I personally printed them, chopped them and then placed them in baskets for the children to take as needed. This promoted ownership over children’s learning.

Three seperate activities on simple, compound and complex sentences designed to use with the book ‘Trash’, but can be used for any novel if adapted.

World Cup 2018 booklet which includes Maths, English and Geography activities. Designed for Entry 3 Level learners in the offender learning arena, but would be great for end of year activities at primary level. These include: Retrieving information from tables Retrieving information from a text Using geometric shapes to create a football kit Writing a newspaper article Using maps Calculating area and perimeter Labelling a world map

A worksheet asking for different examples of proper nouns, giving a common noun theme eg. days of the week.

This is a booklet that I start before reading the book. It includes comparing and contrasting front covers and blurbs and making predictions. I then complete the last page on the costumes when I have started reading.

Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 set of powerpoint activities, increasing in difficulty. Ranges from basic skills, to word problems and mastery.

These resources are based on the book ‘Trash’. The children have a copy of the table, then I chopped the phrases and clauses up and stuck them in the playground. They had to find them and decide whether they were phrases or clauses. Extension: The children can explain how they know.

This is a table including all vocabulary associated with the four operations and the equals sign. This can be used in many ways: It could be chopped up for the children to sort and stick down. They could create a key and colour the different boxes. It could be displayed on the board and they could create their own table or posters.