An explanation text explaning the process of making a mummy to support Ancient Egypt topic. Included are various activities relating to the one text: cloze procedure, identifying key features, putting it in the right area, a text with no causal conjunctions. Some sheets are differentiated mild and medium.

A simple introduction to causal conjunctions and their purpose, aimed at a year 3 class. The supporting notebook explains what they are/do and gives some examples. It also has an explanation text about mummification to highlight the causal conjunctions and input them later in the lesson to show progression. Worksheets are also provided (differentiated 3 ways) for children to demonstrate their understanding of causal conjunctions through some sentence work.

6 week reading comprehension unit based on Philip Pullman’s Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. Aimed at year 3 reading skills. Supporting notebook with colour coded slides to fit with each session.

A set of loop cards for adding and subtracting fractions when the denominator is the same. Cut along the red and blue lines. Suitable for one each in a class of 30.

Labelling activity differentiated 3 ways (mild, medium, spicy) using a real picture of a plant not a drawing (more realstic to children!). Extension questions for early finishers, lesson plan with link to useful video and a 'concept cartoon'. Concept cartoons are discussion areas for the beginning and end of lessons. They are a simple idea where pupils can imagine themselves being someone in the picture, asking questions, to make it more meaningful for them.

3 worksheets to practice measuring in cm and mm. Helps children see that cm are bigger than mm. Also is a good activity to gauge how children will cope with full conversions - it flagged up lots of misconceptions! 3 Worksheets to consolidate measurement conversions. Differentiated 3 ways (Mild, Medium, Spicy). True or false 'prove it' challenge cards as an extension using greater than and less than symbols. Initially designed for Year 3

Designed for Year 3 students. A series of documents (5) including questions for repeated practice and activities to deepen understanding and show mastery of column addition, for example spotting errors in calculations. Also included: a notebook with some examples of wrong calculations to discuss as a whole class.

A notebook giving a clear explanation and examples of statement, question, command and exclamation and opportunity to practice writing them. The document with lists of sentences was used in a group sorting activity where they sorted them in to the 4 groups. Also included is an individual task differentiated 3 ways: mild = ticking the sentence type, medium = colour coding the sentences and spicy = writing examples of each.

Medium term plan and weekly lesson resources for reading comprehension sessions based around The Mousehole Cat. Each session is differentiated 3 ways: mild, medium, spicy.

Lesson plan with supporting resources for a Year 3 lesson for skeletons covering labelling bones. Also included is a picture of the skeleton my class labelled that was then printed and stuck in their books as evidence.

Based on Philip Pullman's Aladdin version, a series of 6 lessons looking at different extracts (in chronological order) and answering a series of comprehension questions focusing on clarification, inference, author's choice and providing evidence with answers. The lessons follow a structure (outlined in the document) that encourages more discussion around answers rather than just giving children a text and them answering questions independently. There is a document with suggested answers though you may be surprised some of the things the children come up with for 'what do you think' questions. Supporting notebook with coloured slides separating the different sessions. Hope this is of use to you!

Supports children exploring an Ancient Egypt topic. Notebook looks at understanding the numbers get bigger the further away from 0 (Jesus' Birth) because they were longer ago. Worksheet is differentiated 3 ways with an extension activity.

Differentiated three ways, a series of questions to help children apply the inverse to worded problems for adding 1, 10, 100. Used as a stepping stone towards longer, multistep word problems expected in Year 3 Mastery of adding 1, 10, 100 with reasoning.

An introduction to adding fractions using physical apparatus and pictoral representations. There are worksheets differentiated 3 ways (mild, medium and spicy) and a notebook to guide you through the initial lesson. It includes discussion points, key questions and visual aids. Loop cards for adding AND subtracting fractions with the same denominator. Cut along the red and the blue lines. Enough for 1 card each in a class of 30. Fractions board game, themed around star wars. Roll the dice, move on that number, the star you land on you have to say what you would need to reach one whole e.g. if you land on three quarters, say one quarter. If you get it wrong you miss a turn next time.

Children use their knowledge of Ancient Egypt to answer quiz questions which will help them crack the code for the Ancient Egyptian alphabet.

Investigating words that are linked through a root word and the addition of suffixes and prefixes. A series of activities to be delivered over a few days in short 10-15 minute sessions (Teach, Practice, Apply - coloured backgrounds on the notebook). There is also a word bank of prefixes and suffixes pupils should know by the end of year 4

Clearly structured cards that explain spelling rules including suffixes, prefixes, exceptions and curriculum spellings. Covers a large range of spelling rules such as ed, ing, er/est, y as I, ou as an u, ly, able or ible. Though a comprehensive set, more will come over the year as we cover more rules. They are great to chop up and laminate and have on the tables for children to check and correct their spellings against.

Resources to support learning 4s and 8s times tables using doubling/halving flowcharts and techniques. A notebook to model the flow chart and support progression.

Notebook progression of skills of written multiplication revisiting partitioning skills then using grid method and long multiplication. The notebook includes a dice game which can be presented either in their books or on a sheet of blank grids (also provided). For grid method, we did lots of practical examples using dienes and whiteboards and then moved on to pre-drawn grids which they drew the dienes in the right boxes. There are two maths investigations included for extending and deepening understanding.

Problem solving and code-cracking worksheet to show mastery of counting in 50s and 100s forwards and backwards. The children really enjoyed it and it helped link maths to our topic by using Ancient Egyptian numerals!