A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To evaluate the opening of a story. To understand how an author develops the relationship between his main characters To understand how an author reflects on larger events beyond the story through the eyes of his characters To draw comparisons between the behaviour of two main characters in a story To make predictions based on what you know of the characters in the story. To reflect on a completed text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests. LOs: To make deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel. To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in a text. To be able to understand how dialogue can be used to describe something or someone To understand how an author can reveal his personal opinions and experiences through the way he portrays his characters. To consider how the author can make us understand that Witches are not like real people.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use skimming and scanning to answer questions about the opening section of a story. To emphasise with the children in the story. To use skimming and scanning to make sense of a text. To understand how an author can use a letter to summarise a story. To make predictions based on what you have read to date. To be able to empathise with the main characters as they reach the end of their journey. To reflect upon a completed novel / to produce a piece of biographical writing.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author sells his story to his reader. To understand how an author introduces his main characters. To understand how an author creates a story within a story. To understand how different characters behave when faced with their own dilemmas. To understand how a master story teller weaves different elements of a story together. To understand how an ending of a story links back to its beginning.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To understand how non fiction books differ from fiction books, to be able to scan non fiction books for information. To understand the way that non fiction books follow certain conventions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to use clues to decide what a new book will be about. To understand that stories can be told from different points of view. To form opinions about characters and justify these. To understand how an author can describe feelings using a character’s actions. To understand how an author builds tension. To reflect on the whole story.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story. To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter. To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character. To understand how characters are developed. To be able to understand what can motivate characters. To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author introduces principle characters To understand how change affects people in different ways. To understand relationships in a new family unit To try to emphasize with how change affects individuals To understand how different children react in different situations. To reflect on a whole story

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO: To answer simple questions based on the text

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story. To identify how an author can write a story within a story. To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.

Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes: A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources, An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery. Learning Objectives • To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, • To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses • To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed. Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to: • recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery. • draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery. • produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery. • produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery. • Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book. To reflect on the opening of a story To emphasise with the main character. To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story. To consider the main purpose of the text To reflect on a completed text

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall and retrieval to answer factual questions about the Giraffe, Pelly and Me To use inference and deduction to understand how characters act and feel. To use recall and retrieval to follow the plot of a story. To see how an accomplished author brings a story to a close.

Learning Objectives: Starter: - To recognise when to use short or long division methods. Main Lesson: -To apply short division to integers and decimals (Year 5 & Year 6) - To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers, (KS3) This lesson consists of: A starter focusing on revising the differences between short and long divisions using the context of Word Problems. A connect to get the children explaining what a remainder is. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to show remainders in short and long division and to explain just why there is a remainder in certain calculations. A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long division problems which give remainders, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking. An AFL / Next Steps task encouraging children to be able to rapidly predict the remainder in a given calculation.

LOs: Starter: To add and subtract large numbers Main Lesson: To solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts (Year 5 and Year 6) To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3) This lesson consists of: A starter recapping on subtraction and addition of large numbers and 2 connect activities recapping on the different ways that addition and subtraction can be written, plus a set of differentiated word problems to allow children to work in pairs to decode, allowing you to establish children’s understanding of Word problems. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to establish an effective way to lay-out calculations and to test the children’s ability to apply column subtraction and addition to work problems. A 4 way differentiated series of Word problems (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of multi-step (developing single step) addition and subtraction problems. An AFL / Next Steps task based on a 2014 SATs question, which requires simple division in addition to subtraction.

This Collective Worship resource includes: a full PowerPoint of the text John 20. Questions linked to the text differentiated by Year group. A prayer linked to the story of Doubting Thomas and 3 suggested hymns complete with YouTube links to enable them to run directly from the PowerPoint. Ideal for the start of the Summer term both in Church schools and non-denominational schools. Alternatively could be used as a starter for RE lesson linked to the period between Easter and Ascension.

This Collective Worship resource includes: a full PowerPoint of the text Matthew 2. Questions linked to the text differentiated by Year group. A prayer linked to the story of Epiphany 3 suggested hymns complete with YouTube links to enable them to run directly from the PowerPoint. Ideal for the start of the Spring term both in Church schools and non-denominational schools. Alternatively could be used as a starter for RE lesson linked to the Epiphany at the start of January.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To interpret remainders as fractions - To revise common metric conversions Main Lesson: - To use formal short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 5) - To use formal long division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 6) - To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder division problems giving remainders to convert to fractions and their answers. A connect activity getting children to revise the metric conversions they will need in the independent task. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short and long division when answering word problems and to test the children’s ability to understand how context determine whether to round an answer up or down. A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of short and long division Word problems and round the answer according to context. More Able children will have to complete multistep problems. Answers are supplied to ease marking. An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous a SATs question, to allow to introduce the fact that most problems aren’t simply one operation but usually are a combination of different operations.

Sample Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity.