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This resource uses screen shots from The Piano by Aidan Gibbons (Literacy Shed for free). It is designed to support children in analysing and/or retelling what is happening during each scene in the video. A fantastic video and produces amazing writing at the end of the unit. The children really develop a sense of empathy as the video is unpicked. This resource can be used in a number of ways to discuss characters feelings at each stage, what happens to the music, what the characters are thinking, why those particular memories stand out etc.

A selection of twenty SPAG questions all themed around the topic of Easter. A great revision tool for lessons on the run up to Easter. It covers topics such as punctuation, word class, suffixes and spellings.

A fantastic resource to go alongside the youtube video. I have included screenshots from the video to retell the story as well as a word bank including characters, quotes from the poem, setting descriptions and descriptive phrases. A fantastic lesson to introduce and clarify the story of The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

I have created a bank of 15 different items that can be purchased from different supermarkets. Underneath is a price which is differentiated three ways (red is lower ability, yellow is middle ability and green is higher ability). These can be easily edited to suit the needs of your children. They can be used for addition, subtraction, worded problems and open ended real world challenges.

This is a great resource I have used with my Year 5 group, but would work well as SAT’s revision or as individual teaching elements in LKS2 or as a recap of skills in KS3. The Murder Mystery consists of five challenges based on five different SPAG areas. The children must follow the instructions on each challenge to find a clue. Each clue helps to eliminate people from the suspect list. A notebook file is included with examples of each style of challenge in order to check understanding before the children begin each task. The task begins with a story about a murder in a sleepy village and asks the children to help solve the case. Included in this set of resources is: Instructions for the teacher. A story introducing the event. The suspect list. Five clues** (with all of the answers). ** A self-assessment tool to use at the end of the unit of work. A bright, colourful Notebook file which guides through each challenge and includes examples. A lesson plan. SPAG skills covered by this resource include: Clue 1: Full stops and Capital Letters. Clue 2: Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs. Clue 2: Commas Clue 4: Subordinating and Co-ordinating conjunctions. Clue 5: Speech Punctuation. This works brilliantly in mixed ability groups or by individual groups of pupils. Higher ability pupils relish the challenge of investigating for themselves whereas some lower ability or SEN children will need support. It can be used across one (or a series of) lessons or as a weekly starter/plenary/SPAG task which can extend the ‘whodunit’ tension across an entire half term.

This is an extract from the cat in the hat with 7 comprehension questions including literal retrieval, inference, multiple choice and reasoning. I am using this for a lower ability intervention group, however it would suit any KS1 group or lower ability KS2 group. I have included a title and image too.

A handy resource with a checklist for the features (including examples) and word banks to support with sentence openers, time conjunctions and cause and effect conjunctions. A very hand little resource.

This resource helps children understand the different symbols and objects of 6 different religions (buddhism, hinduism, islam, christianity, sikhism, judaism). The idea is to sort the objects into the different religions by cutting them out and creating 6 posters - one for each religion. It is a great activity for children to work together in groups or can be done independently. Children will have 6 objects from each religion and each object contains a brief, child friendly description to explain what the item is (without giving away which religion it belongs to!) A perfect activity for all of Key Stage 2 although would also be great for upper KS1 or Lower KS3 depending on the children. **ANSWERS INCLUDED ** *This would also be perfect for a comprehension activity in shared reading or literacy lessons as the children would have to read each sentence and using inference to decide where it belongs. *

This resource would be ideal for an assembly or lesson all about how to manage emotions by using self regulation strategies. It provides children with 15 different strategies to manage their own emotions. At the end, the task asks children to draw a toolbox and fill it with tools to fill their toolkit. For example: a saw saying ‘take deep breaths’ etc. You could delete the activity and plenary slide to use as a fantastic assembly. Each slide has information on how to do each regulation step as well as a picture.

A sheet based on the video The Piano by Aidan Gibbons (for free on the Literacy Shed). This resource enables the children to generate words they can use in their writing based on scenes from the video. Can be easily differentiated by moving or removing columns.

This is a set of 20 SATs style questions which are all Christmas themed. Perfect for a Literacy lesson in the last week of term. Each question tackles a common misconception, such as commas or word classes.

This is a blank, lined template for writing an email.

This is a board game to help the children practice the mental math skill of adding and subtracting near amounts. For example 23+29 = 23 + 30 - 1. Children can play in pairs or groups using a counter and dice to move around the board. If a question is correctly answered, they can remain on that square. If it is incorrect, they must go back to their current square. Other players in the group are responsible for checking each players answer.

These are fantastic resources to teach maths in a real life way. Each page has five different shopping items from three different supermarkets. They can be used to compare the cost of items at different shops, find out how much more shopping would cost at one supermarket than another, calculate percentages or fractions if there were discounts at each shop etc. I have used these for many different lessons and the children always love it. It is even better if you can stick them on the walls and allow the children to walk around and find different items. I have left them blank so that differentiated prices can be added to suit the needs of your children.

This is a set of five texts which can be used during shared/guided reading sessions. Each text includes literal retrieval as well as ‘find and copy’ style questions and interpretation questions. The children should be given between 20 and 30 minutes to complete the questions therefore meaning their is time left to review the answers as a group/class. Within a whole class, the higher ability children can be given an initial task to complete, such as dictionary work, while the remainder of the class begin their text. After ten minutes the higher ability children then begin their text. This means all children should complete their work at the same time. All texts are aimed at Upper Key Stage 2, however could be accessible by confident Year 4 children or some Key Stage 3 children. Please note: I do not own the copyright to any of the texts used within these worksheets. 51ºÚÁÏ for the original texts remains with the individual authors.

The story of Romeo and Juliet written in note form as story mountain. A great resource for children to turn into their own story. I have used this with gifted and talented intervention groups and whole classes and it is always a hit.

This resource contains a beautiful copy of Maggie and the Dinosaur (a poem) and three differentiated comprehension question sets along with answers. The LA questions has a question underneath a specific line of text to make answering simple and show clear differentiation.

Comprehension designed to be used with a lower ability year 5 class, but could easily be adapted for all of KS2. Made to raise awareness of nits as an issue and how to get rid of them properly. Updated edition. Image is taken from Google and I do not own copyright. Resource and questions written by myself.

This resource folds into a double flap booklet. It can be used for any topic and can be easily adapted. Lines can be increased in size to accommodate younger children or picture boxes can be added, removed etc.

Practical lesson for multiplication. Children will work in mixed ability pairs to calculate the answers. They must then move around the playground/hall/classroom to locate the answer on a poster and record the letter shown. Once they have gathered all of the letters, they must unscramble them to find the hidden code. An excellent lesson which engages all children. Also included is the lesson plan, posters for around the room and the sheet the children will write on. Has received excellent feedback in lesson observations and with Ofsted.