There are 16 activities that children can use to aid their home reading, or their reading in school. It has a range of skills included such as prediction, summarising and inference.

An introduction to Native American life - used when looking at a Wild West History topic. LA group would have a large piece of sugar paper with a picture of a Buffalo on. They then label this with important parts of the Buffalo. MA label the buffalo and state which part they think is most important. HA label what parts of the buffalo are being used in the pictures - using inferencing and enquiry skills.

In the middle of the room was a Pandora's Box with a label on it saying &'Do Not Open&';. The children discussed what might be inside. Then we listened to the story until Pandora had to make the decision to open it or not. The children discussed the moral dilemma - what would they do? Then, when the story continued and she opened it, all the evils were taken out of the box, and finally 'hope&' which was then stuck to the top of the box. The children then wrote an apology letter from Pandora to the world for opening the box, which we put into the box at the end to go onto display.

To help Year 6 revise for SATs, these mini-revision slides allow short, snappy input on SPAG based around SATs questions, encouraging them to apply the knowledge they have into both questions and sentences.

These are (hopefully!) easy to follow instructions to create Bitmoji class photos! I saw loads of people create these ‘class photos’ online and thought it was a brilliant thing to create for the class! We are printing ours onto photo paper and giving one to each child along with their leavers’ hoody delivery! *This was not my original idea - unsure who created this first! - but these are my own instructions :)

This is a reading lesson created to allow children to use inference without books - to begin to see what making an inference means. First, the children are given the shoes. What do they think the person wearing them is like? Why? This is followed by the picture. Is this different to what they thought? What new inferences could they now make about the character? Finally, the children are given pieces of text written about the characters. Again, is there anything different to what they thought? Are there any new clues about the characters? The children then wrote either a character description of the person based on all the information they’ve gathered, or they will write a diary entry of a ‘day in the life’ of the character. (I let the children choose!)

This sheet has 16 spelling activities included on it to help children learn their words at home (but can also be used in school!). There are a wide range which should be able to be used across different year groups, as well as (hopefully!) being fun. This was adapted from a ‘Spelling Menu’ resource on TES. All activities are from this, but cut down and presented on just one sheet. Thank you whatmissdiamonddid for your original idea!

Here are some instructions, and the template, for the circle books we made about volcanoes. They would work for nearly any topic!

These are daily challenges I am setting my class on Seesaw (cut the slide and attach to a notification!) so that, alongside their school work, they have something fun they have as an option to keep them entertained. I’ve tried to make it with limited equipment so as many children as possible could take part! I encourage them to share what they’ve done so they can keep in touch with the teacher and each other. Feel free to adapt to suit your class and I hope they help.

This presentation contains the chapter 'Funny Walking Stick&', which was used to look at text. Children used the text to notice features of speech marks, which we wrote as success criteria for the Working Wall. They then split into two groups while on the carpet - one side reading only speech, and the other side reading the narrative; this helped the children to understand how to recognise when speech starts and ends.

This is a powerpoint which includes activities to create a ‘transition pack’ for Year 6 students to send on to their new secondary school. It aims to give them an insight into the children they are receiving, as well as quell some of the anxiety the class might be feeling. It has helped my class feel prepared, and know something is being done for them in place of transition days. This can be done alongside the activities passed over from the secondaries too!

Looking at Outlaws and making Wanted posters. This includes a good and bad example to model ideas of what needs to go onto a Wanted Poster.

To help our children read more books and widen their book choices, we have created ‘20 books in 2020’. Each child reads a book from each box and writes their choice underneath - we are giving a certificate for each completed sheet! Feel free to adapt for your own use - but please credit the original :)

This is a reading session and intervention to go alongside the Where’s Wally books. It includes a range of different skills which children can use to assist with reading. Ideally, you do need to have the books in order to work on them well. Included - Fantastic Journeys

This is a staff meeting we had on Whole Class Reading this term. It begins by explaining how we are doing WCR in our school (this will obviously be different from school to school), and also has a selection of activities that we might use in lessons.

A step-by-step walk through of the 2019 Reading SATs paper. Each question is explained to the class with some top tips how to answer the question effectively.

Mr Men and Little Miss Sheets for Inheritance lesson - Science.

For next term (and, potentially the one after!) I have created weekly projects for the children to complete. These would probably work with any year group though as they are very open and adaptable for children to respond how works best for them. They are PDFs, so can’t be adapted but hopefully - even if you don’t want to use them as they are - they will have some useful ideas on! I’ll add the new ones as myself & my TA create them. Sport, Science and Literature to come!

Introduction to Australia - the country, the flag and the national anthem. Leads into making a leaflet about the country.

These resources are to help teach skills to Year 6 classes getting ready to make the transition to secondary education. These were produced with guidance from our local school as to what they notice some Year 6 students don’t always have when they arrive in Year 7! It includes: Dear Deidre - Self-sufficiency The Cube - Resilience Timetabled - Organisation Letter to an MP - Responsible Citizenship Fairy Tales - Independence

This has been created for Year 5 (to Year 6) Moving Up Day. It contains: Golden Letter Bookmarks Who Am I? Eye Poetry Each activity is designed to help the teacher know more about the children as a class and as individuals. NB: These activities might be really useful for Year 6 to complete when they’re back in school, or to be set as virtual move up days for other year groups.