Here you will find high quality resources that can be used in Mathematics and English lessons together with worksheets, presentations and lesson ideas.
Here you will find high quality resources that can be used in Mathematics and English lessons together with worksheets, presentations and lesson ideas.
Two tests of 12 questions which give pupils practice in unscrambling anagrams in a grid puzzle for verbal reasoning. Multiple choice. Words contain 3, 4 or 5 letters.
Answers provided, instructions and example included.
Instructions: In each question there is a grid containing 9 letters.
Underneath there are five more grids with some of the cells shaded.
If you place the letters from the top grid on top of the shaded cells, one of those options will spell out a word when the letters are re-arranged.
Choose the grid where the letters in the shaded cells make a word when the letters are re-arranged.
Long multiplication word problems; differentiated problem solving involving 2 digits multiplied by 2 digits and 3 digits multiplied by 2 digits with answers and extension task for mastery. Word file for editing yourself and PDF.
These word problems will help your pupils master converting between fractions and decimals through reasoning and problem solving.
Suitable for Y6 and above.
Answers supplied.
This resource will teach your Year 6 pupils about multiplying decimals by integers. It is differentiated three ways and is also editable. My maths resources closely mirror the White Rose planning.
Resources for the rest of this decimals unit and for the rest of the year can be found in my shop:
/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts
These word problems will help your pupils with mastery of long division through reasoning and problem solving. Suitable for Y6 and above.
Answers provided.
These multi-step addition and subtraction word problems are differentiated three ways, include an extension task for mastery, and answers.
None of these problems contain decimals. The most challenging sheet contains problems in the tens of thousands.
These problems are most suited to Year 5 pupils.
My pupils loved innovating with this text and altering the instructions for how how to care for dragon eggs.
Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL).
Download includes:
- the text of a set of instructions with a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features
- a PowerPoint presentation of the text
- 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week
This example text can be used by pupils to:
- observe the features of instruction writing
- rewrite the instructions using their own language or by borrowing phrases
- write a set of instructions in the style of the author
This text will be enjoyed by fans of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, ‘Eragon’, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘Dragon Rider’.
This resource will help your Year 6 pupils to reason and solve problems that involve the multiplication and division of decimals by integers. It is differentiated three ways and is also editable. My maths resources closely mirror the White Rose planning.
Resources for the rest of this decimals unit and for the rest of the year can be found in my shop:
/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts
Clearly every school should have one! Text exemplar with worksheets, a presentation and lesson ideas. This original and exciting text encourages pupils to talk, innovate and then write. The 4 resources can be used for Big Writing. The exemplar text is ideal for when pupils are imitating, innovating or inventing. What a good one looks like (WAGOLL).
Download includes:
- the text of a persuasive argument
- a pupil worksheet containing an analysis of the language features
- a PowerPoint presentation of the text
- 8 ideas for how to use the text in lessons that will easily last a week
This example text can be used by pupils to:
- observe the features of persuasive arguments
- rewrite the text using their own language or by borrowing phrases
- write a persuasive argument in the style of the author
This text will be enjoyed by fans of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, ‘Eragon’, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘Dragon Rider’.
These word problems will help your pupils with mastery of the equivalency of fractions, decimals and percentages through problem solving and reasoning - suitable for Year 6 and above.
Answers supplied.
A set of 20 questions providing practice in counting blocks or cubes or cuboids in diagrams where each individual block is the same size and shape, although some blocks may be rotated. This will help pupils prepare for the spatial reasoning aspect of the eleven plus test.
It also helps pupils understand the concept of volume.
Answers and instructions supplied.
These word problems will provide your pupils with mastery of equivalent fractions and simplification through problem solving and reasoning.
Suitable for Y6 and above.
Answers supplied.
Over 40 pages containing more than 300 reasoning and problem solving activities for Year 6 with answers - enough to last an entire year.
The activities can be downloaded as PDFs or as editable Word documents.
Free samples of three of these resources are available from my shop:
/teaching-resource/decimals-reasoning-and-problem-solving-12201156
/teaching-resource/solving-length-problems-year-6-12201157
/teaching-resource/comparing-fractions-reasoning-and-problem-solving-12201154
These resources have been tried and tested with Year 6 pupils.
Problems often mirror SATs style questionning or else require pupils to explain their reasoning. These resources can be used in conjunction with White Rose schemes.
Topics covered:
Long multiplication
Short division
Long division
Factors and multiples
Order of operations
Reason from known facts
Equivalent fractions and simplification
Improper fractions and mixed numbers
Comparing fractions using a common denominator
Addition and subtraction of fractions
Addition and subtraction of fractions
Multiplication of fractions
Division of fractions
Position and direction
Decimals with 3 decimal places
Multiplication and division of decimals by integers
Converting between fractions and decimals
Equivalence of fractions, decimals and percentages
Finding percentages of amounts
Algebraic expressions and substitutions
Solving algebraic word problems
Solving equations
Enumerating possibilities
Reasoning and problem solving with measures
Solving length problems
Solving measurement problems
Problem solving with area and perimeter
Reasoning with area and perimeter
Area of triangles
Volume
The language of ratio
Recipe problems
Scale factors
Proportion problems
Angles
These SATs style word problems will help your pupils with mastery of algebra through problem solving and reasoning - suitable for Year 6 and above.
Answers supplied.
This is a sample resource containing reasoning and problem solving when comparing fractions in Year 6.
For a full year’s worth of reasoning and problem solving for Year 6 please see:
/teaching-resource/reasoning-and-problem-solving-for-year-6-12201133
Division using factors for Year 6 from Block 2 - Week 4
Differentiated worksheets with reasoning and problem solving for the rest of this week can be found here:
/teaching-resource/number-year-6-block-2-week-4-short-and-long-division-12181726
In this lesson, pupils will gain fluency practice when dividing using factors.
The resources are differentiated.
Answers are provided.
All lessons will fit in with White Rose planning.
Feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
Many more maths resources coming soon!
This resource will give your Year 6 pupils practice in converting decimals to fractions. It is differentiated three ways and is also editable. My maths resources closely mirror the White Rose planning.
Resources for the rest of this decimals unit and for the rest of the year can be found in my shop:
/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts
This resource will teach your Year 6 pupils about multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. It is differentiated three ways. It contains a PowerPoint to demonstrate and is also editable. My maths resources closely mirror the White Rose planning.
Resources for the rest of this decimals unit and for the rest of the year can be found in my shop:
/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts
Hopefully, your pupils will find this useful when writing diaries and including thoughts, feelings and informal phrases.
If you need some diary examples then have a look in my shop:
/teaching-resources/shop/egtexts
You'll find: A Diary from Mars and The Diary of a Superhero.
Both texts come with presentations, lesson ideas and text analyses.