2 activities to use the vocabulary of properties of 2D shapes, may be useful as a class starter or plenary - or as a paired activity. Revision for KS2 SATs.

Class starter/plenary to discover key features of great headlines by moving the 'magic magnifying glass'. Then an activity to explain the puns in the headlines given and a set of headlines to rate for effectiveness. Can be done by whole class or printed out to be done as individuals/in pairs. Bermuda Triangle mysteries: template for a newspaper article to write about a new one, practising journalistic writing skills.

A set of three worksheets exploring the effect of rearranging sentences using different words/phrases as openers. A set of cards to print out and cut up with a range of words annotated as either O- openers, C -connectives or O C - both opener and connective.

Complex reading and instructional writing activity; muddled piece of informal narrative text to comprehend, sort out and re-write as formal instructions/recipe.

Higher KS2 class introduction to recap knowledge on 2D shape.

Venn Diagrams 1 has 2D shapes and integers below 20 to sort into 2 sets. Venn diagrams 2 has 2D shapes and numbers to sort within 3 intersecting sets.

Notebook: Success criteria to match to given examples of useful words and phrases - whole class starter/plenary or can be printed out as individual/paired activity. Publisher document: 4 debate cards with some ideas given as starting point for oral/written arguments.

Y7 KS3 Step-by step guide to solving equations by using inverse operations.