4 levels of worksheets, sentences using expanded form, match to contracted form and substitute it.

4 levels, starting at Building Skills, Confident 1 and Confident 2 then Challenge. Word so you can adapt them. I get the children to choose the problems they want to solve, cut out the problem and stick into their book, then solve it underneath. This way there is clear evidence in their books of problem solving.

Two levels, calculating the perimeter of regular shapes (1) and using the perimeter to work out missing sides of rectangles (2).

PPT is the introduction to a lesson on exchanging money - Wizard money for Muggle money. Using division in introduction to work out exchange rate, then multiplication and addition to change money.

After exploring light beams from torches, the children can apply their understanding to draw the light beams in a straight line from the torches in the boxes.

Travel guide to a city in China, used as a model text for children's independent writing about &'things to see and do in Beijing&';.

An A4 writing mat to help your children add ‘Show Not Tell’ details to describe feelings/reactions and bring their story writing to life. Feelings include: Fear, Anger, Worried, Nervous, Hot, Cold, Tired, Frustrated, Mischievous, Disgust, Shocked, Sad, Happy, Excited, Shy, Embarrassed and Proud. Comprehensive and supportive list of suggested ways to show these emotions in characters’ behaviour. In word format so you may edit it to suit your own needs.

Sophisticated language and punctuation, for year 6 and above. This text is designed as an example text for pupils to read and identify features, language and punctuation.

A simple matching exercise: name, picture and description. The pictures and descriptions may be easy to match up if the children read the descriptions carefully and look for the clues, but they will need some additional information (e.g. web research) to match the names. Designed as a cut-and-stick activity. I did this with my Year 6s and some shared ipads (we used this weblink: http://www.hindugallery.com/ ) and they loved it. Extension is then easy: select a Hindu god or goddess you especially like and create a fact file/ draw a picture etc.

Three levels of questions, working through to challenging, levelled questions (taken from Optional SAT papers) for assessment.

Fun if you're running a Harry Potter Day or if you're reading the books with the children and just want to immerse the children further.

This resources includes a 2-page short story to go with Harris Burdick’s ‘Mr Linden’s Library’ picture and the phrase descriptor: ‘He had warned her about the book. It was too late…’ . The story is designed to meet writing objectives for Year 6, including semi-colons for lists and semi-colons to separate main clauses, dashes for parenthesis and ‘dialogue to move a story forward’ . The story has lots of use for inference and prediction; children could write an epilogue showing what happened to the main character. The boxed-up plan is a good prompt for children to plan their own chilling mystery story, where the main character disappears and is never seen again.

Designed so the problems can be cut and stuck into books with calculation and answer underneath the problem (good for evidence of problem solving!)

Designed for Year 5/6 SAT preparation. Children identify the main and subordinate clauses in 10 sentences, then in 7 with fronted subordinate clauses, they complete the with a main. In the third task, children have a subordinate clause for the end of a sentence, and they have to create a main clause to open the sentence. Finally, an extension challenge.

Bible story of Zacchaeus used to show Jesus' teachings' on forgiveness. Used in a Catholic school. Includes lyrics to a song (first verse I found elsewhere, all other verses written by me), sung to the tune of &'If You&';re Happy and You Know It' .

This is a personality quiz to find out your Patronus animal. Could be used as part of a Harry Potter day as a bit of fun. 31 possible animals - all lovely, nothing horrid! The additional file is one you can use to print their answer. I used this as a ‘transition day’ task for new class too. They drew their animal on a shield and wrote a little about themselves to explain why this animal was linked to them.

Aimed at Year 6 ES/GD, though with support, may be used with a Year 5 class. The questions have been designed to feature different reading skills, as explained by the 'thinking hats'. From lowest order reading skills to highest: Red - feelings White - facts Blue - analysis & inference Black/Yellow - evaluation/justifying opinion Green - creative The questions are just for the first chapter of Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, which I can highly recommend as a superbly written, exciting and engaging text for Year 5/6 pupils, especially boys.

Give children maps and ask them to find villages/towns and determine from their name which group of people settled the place and what the name means. This leads to discussions about why some places were settled or how they began as settlements.

Example text titled: Should we lengthen the school day? This goes with some resources from teachit primary which cover the same topic for balanced argument. My example text is in Word, so you may edit it, but I have tried to ensure there is plenty for your Year 6 class to get to grips with including: phrases to introduce arguments; adverbs to emphasise; use of facts to back up points; paragraphing structure so that each paragraph has a topic which is argued from both sides; opinion offered in the concluding paragraph; dashes for parenthesis; use of colons and semi-colons; use of commas for clauses; use of modal verbs to express conditionals. I have included two planning sheets, one which follows the pattern of the example text, and one which organises the arguments more simply, with one paragraph for, and one against. I have also included the assessment sheets. One was designed to be linked to Target Tracker and the Year 6 ARE statements.

An example letter for children to read and discuss, then to use as inspiration for their own writing. The task is to introduce themselves to their new Year 7 form tutor. Envisaged to be used after SATs :) High level language and punctuation, using a mixture of formality and informality appropriate to the task. Editable format.

A newspaper report, supplied in Word so you may edit, including a Newspaper Title, Headline, strapline, columns, picture and caption, witness quotes and the key info in the first paragraph. The theme is Dragons being sighted by Anglo-Saxons off the coast of Northumbria shortly before the Vikings attack Lindisfarne (this links with historical fact: people reported seeing dragons off the coast of Northumbria leading up to the Lindisfarne raid). Inference skills are therefore tested here too! I have included some questions (differentiated - 2 levels) for your children to respond to.