FREE The Stick Man Story Workbook - 16 Thinking Hat Worksheets For Fun Creative Reading In Class. The Stick Man is all about a piece of wood which gets taken away by a dog, picked up by a girl and thrown in the river... where he is found by a swan. At each point he is further and further from home and less likely to make it back... this set of worksheets looks at the different Thinking Hat approaches to this book. They will consider facts, feelings, positives, negatives, creative approaches and finally make a mind map. This book does not contain any of the original drawings or text. You still need to find a copy of the book to complete this workbook. I would love feedback on this work.

Mental arithmetic tests for Y4 designed to be done fortnightly.

FREE The Gruffalo Workbook - 16 Thinking Hat Questions For More Creative Classroom Thinking This is part of a weekly series of worksheets I am developing for teaching thinking hat questions during your guided reading lessons. They would also make excellent homework sheets. There are 3 white hat worksheets (facts), 3 Yellow hat (positives) 3 Black hat (negatives), 3 Green Hat (creative), 3 Red hat (feelings) and 1 Blue hat (Mind map). There are none of the original images in this workbook - and you will still need the book to complete the tasks. I would love some feedback of what you think of this work.

These have now been upgraded to include an interactive, dynamic YouTube movie in each PowerPoint. This is because I know teachers are moving away from PowerPoint to YouTube and I thought it would be fun to give them the option of being able to use and share this work directly on YouTube. Here is a list of the different lessons in this FREE Year 1 Maths Lessons Pack Lesson 1: Addition and Subtraction Lesson 2: Splitting Numbers Lesson 3: Using Number Lines To ‘Count On’ Lesson 4: Pairs and Doubling Lesson 5: Taking Away Lesson 6: Adding and Taking Away Pairs of Numbers Lesson 7: Numbers to 20 in Order Lesson 8: Writing numbers to 20 Lesson 9: Ordering Numbers Lesson 10: Money Problems Lesson 11: More Money Problems I produced a wide range of different maths PowerPoint lessons at the start of my career. These would make perfect supply teacher lessons or where you need a quick lesson to cover a topic. I uploaded them due to popular demand.

3 FREE YouTube Year 7 Booster Maths PowerPoint Lessons - Spring Term I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Maths PowerPoint Year 7 Booster Maths Lessons - Spring Term Lesson 1: Who gets the most? Lesson 2: Fractions on a number line. Lesson 3: Which fraction is bigger? This is a few of the resources I made to help Year 7 students with numeracy. I made them about a decade ago from UK government advice about how to approach different KS3 maths topics. I am sure they still could be useful for covering lessons and passing to a supply teacher.

These tests are set to change every 5 seconds, letting you test either individual children or a whole class at once. You might like to also look at my matching mini origami books which go with this series (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mini-book-x2-to-x12-multiplication-times-table-tests-4-per-table-11198350) which are designed to make learning time tables more fun. There are 4 tests per times table, so the children do not know what test you will give them. They are written in PowerPoint so you can easily edit them or change the speed of the tests.

Mental arithmetic tests for Y3 designed to be done fortnightly.

I have spent the summer upgrading and improving all my free teaching resources. I have now added a YouTube video presentation to my well known PowerPoint presentations. This is a great money problem and money solving presentation, with plenty for everyone to do! FREE Year 3 Maths Lesson - Adding and Subtracting Money (Autumn Term). Perfect for revision, homework, an extension lesson or just for fun.

My first reading pack (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/10-free-reading-posters-for-every-key-stage-2-or-key-stage-3-classroom-download-and-share-today-11173701) has proved to be very popular. I thought I would extend it to also include the Keystage 1 classes. You can also click on the on the little heart on this page to say you like it. Also please leave me a nice comment - it is the nice comments which fuel my motivation to create even more of these fun FREE posters. These posters would be perfect for book week, English Literacy Week, Poetry day or simply as a way of getting children to read more. Look at the posters and get the children to vote on which posters they find effective. Which were less effective? How could they be improved? I would love to know the students feedback below please! *Spelling mistake corrected - thanks for the comment below!

FREE YouTube Year 6 Ratio and proportion Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Autumn Term I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework. FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Ratio and proportion - Autumn Term Learning Objective: Solve simple problems using ratio and proportion. Identify and use appropriate operations to solve word problems. Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers by finding examples that satisfy it. If you like this FREE Year 6 Maths lesson, you should also look at my FREE Year 6 Math pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056

Since I first wrote this lesson, teachers have moved from using PowerPoints to Youtube and I have spent the summer upgrading all my resources to directly reflect this new style of teaching. Please leave me a comment if you like this new style of teaching. FREE Year 1 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Ordering Numbers - Spring Term Lesson Objectives: I can count in fives I can put numbers into order. I can copy out numbers in order. I can use mental images to find the differences. If you like this lesson, you will really like my complete (11 lesson) FREE Year 1 Maths pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-maths-powerpoint-lessons-6167046

I’m upgrading all my free teaching resources to YouTube Maths PowerPoint Presentations. I feel modern teachers are moving away from PowerPoints and I want something they can share with the class and easily set as support at home. This FREE Year 1 Maths Youtube PowerPoint Presentation - Addition and Subtraction - Autumn Term is a great introduction to Addition and Subtraction. It would also be useful for anyone revising for the KS1 SATs tests. If you like this lesson, check out my FREE Year 1 Maths Lesson pack (11 lessons) at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-maths-powerpoint-lessons-6167046.

Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course - Public Domain Book A Great New Way to Learn Spoken English Elementary Handbook • General Information about Talk a Lot Courses • How to Use Talk a Lot Resources • Focus on Connected Speech • Focus on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) • 100% Photocopiable This handbook shows you how to use Talk a Lot materials to learn or teach spoken English, as well as providing background information and practice worksheets on related topics, such as connected speech, sentence and word stress, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The Talk a Lot course objectives are very simple: • Every student talking in English • Every student listening to and understanding English • Every student thinking in English, and • Every student taking part in class Talk a Lot is structured so that every student can practise and improve English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, word and sentence stress, and interpersonal skills, by working in pairs, groups and one to one with the teacher. The main benefits of Talk a Lot are: • Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way • Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons • Students learn how to construct eight different common verb forms, using positive, negative and question forms, as well as embedded grammar appropriate to their level. The verb forms studied are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Modal Verbs, Future Forms, and First Conditional • Students learn many essential vocabulary words by heart, including word stress and the sounds of English • Students learn how to become more fluent when speaking in English, by joining together words in a sentence using the techniques of connected speech • Students enjoy following a simple and effective method that produces results quickly. This handbook is not intended to be an exhaustive academic work. The aim was to write a brief, helpful guide and pack of resources that would provide a way into practise and language work in the classroom, rather than a dry, analytical manual. For example, I have deliberately avoided confusing jargon when writing about connected speech. Phrases like “bilabial plosive” and “palato-alveolar approximate” – though fun to say – can be studied later, or at the student’s leisure.

I love writing for the TES and it does make up a substantial part of my monthly salary. I originally write a book to help people get started. I have now written a second short book to help people take their original TES teaching resources and make them sparkle a little bit more to help them get better sales. I consider myself a successful TES Gold Author and I am now wanting to share my wealth of ideas, resources and links for FREE with other TES users to help them to become a successful TES author and also to help guide them on the first steps towards success... This book tells them why they should become a TES author, where to find ideas to turn into presentations, where to find the free images which will help them to make their presentations a success and how to promote their work so that it becomes a highly sought after resource. Try it today. I love being a TES author and it is certainly a passion for me. I want others to now also follow in my footsteps and also become successful and happy TES authors, the easy way!

FREE Jack and the FlumFlum Tree worksheets - Black Thinking hat - Let's Find Problems! Jack and the FlumFlum Tree is perfect for the Black Thinking hats reading strategy. The Thinking Hats strategy is a great way for a student to explore the same book in 6 different ways. Black hat thinking encourages finding the negatives and the problems - in this case sending a boy to find the FlumFlum tree on his own, with just a bag of household items to help him. I would appreciate comments from anyone who has tried this out in their classroom.

Mental arithmetic tests for Y2 designed to be done fortnightly.

FREE Maths PowerPoint Presentations for DFES SpringBoard 5 (Also Use As Year 4 Booster Lessons) FREE Maths Lessons Content: Lesson 1: Developing your preferred ways of doing multiplication. Lesson 2: The area method of doing multiplication Lesson 3: The idea of 'carrying' when doing multiplication Lesson 4: Developing the area method for doing multiplication. Lesson 5: Using doubling in multiplication Lesson 6: Developing a doubling - and - addition method of doing multiplication Lesson 7: Finding pairs of factors Lesson 8: Division of larger numbers Lesson 9: Division as repeated subtraction Lesson 10: Developing a standard method Lesson 11: Flexible approaches to division. Years ago I wrote series of numeracy lessons which converted all the DFES Numeracy SpringBoard 5 lessons into interactive PowerPoint lessons. I think these will still be great for optional SATS revision also also for covering lessons, or for giving to supply teachers. Please leave a comment.

FREE Reception Maths PowerPoint Lesson - ‘More’ and ‘Fewer’- Spring Term Learning Objectives: Counting and writing numbers. Comparing and matching numbers of things. Counting and writing numbers. Comparing and matching numbers of things. If you like this teaching resource, you will really like my FREE Maths Reception teaching pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-reception-students-6167058

I have been a keen fan of this book for a long time. I was really excited to see as part of the Open Government scheme, I was able to take this book and make it into something I believe is much more user friendly. When I used the original book with an interactive whiteboard, I was always annoyed at having to skim to the end of the book to show an answer. I wanted it on the next page. In addition, I have now replaced all the pictured with much more stimulating colourful pictures. I have also taken the time to follow the advice of Dudley council and sorted the different problems into age groups and blocks. You will notice there is some repetition of problems both between blocks and in different year groups. The students can try the same problem twice at different times, as this is excellent consolidation. It is also an excellent time to suggest students think about how they could change the problem. How can this be used in the classroom? This could be used as an assessment at the start or the end of a unit. It also could be used as an emergency set of lessons for any teacher while covering another teacher’s maths classes. In addition, it is also an excellent set of resources to prepare for different exams. Look at how the students resolve a problem and identify the different ways different students attempt to answer the same problem. In addition to answering the problems, this is also an excellent time to look into inverse operations. How do we know we have found all the answers? How do we know we have found the correct answer? I have really enjoyed making these mental maths problems a lot more accessible. I have enjoyed teaching them in a wide range of different classes and I hope that you too will enjoy making maths fun.

FREE Magic Train Workbook - 16 Thinking Hat Worksheets - Makes Guided Reading A Lot More Fun For All I have decided to build as many Thinking Hat resources as I can for TES readers. I have started by making resources for the fabulous Magic Train book (Published by Barefoot books). I took into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and public domain resources, I have not used images from the books. I have organised them into sets of three - 3 Red Hat, 3 Yellow Hat, 3 Black Hat, 3 White Hat, 3 Green Hat and 1 Blue Hat. Comments for future improvements welcome.