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These ‘Library Challenge’ cards were made for my class library, but they could be used in a school library as well. The idea was just to get the children excited about reading and properly engaged with the books, and they’ve really enjoyed working through the activities – an added bonus being that I use this work to decorate the walls of our library. There’s a selection of 10 Library Challenge Cards, plus a ‘Library Challenge of the Week’ which just allows for changing things up a little without having to print and laminate more cards.

A planning sheet for writing a diary entry, covering one day (could be edited for any time period). Suitable for KS2.

A generic book review template which can be used for any fiction book. Differentiated twice. Now including editable Word document

Planning sheet for explanation texts. Suitable for KS2.

A planning sheet for writing a persuasive piece of writing or speech. Suitable for KS2.

Planning sheet for balanced arguments, differentiated 2 ways. Suitable for KS2.

A planning sheet for non-chronological reports, differentiated 3 ways. Suitable for KS2.

A poster designed to help children to make sure they have included all of the punctuation necessary for speech. It has been made on an A4 sheet, but with the intention of being blown up to A3!

This worksheet contains questions on the 4 operations (8 questions per operation), differentiated 3 ways. Level 1: Addition 3 digit + 2 digit Subtraction 2 digit - 2 digit Multiplication 2 digit x 1 digit Division 2 digit ÷ 1 digit Level 2: Addition 3 digit + 3 digit (plus some units of measurement + conversion) Subtraction 3 digit - 3 digit (plus some units of measurement + conversion) Multiplication 3 digit x 1 digit Division 2 digit ÷ 1 digit Level 3: Addition 4 digit + 3 digit (plus some units of measurement + conversion) Subtraction 4 digit - 3 digit (plus some units of measurement + conversion) Multiplication 3 digit x 1 digit (plus some units of measurement + conversion) Division 3 digit ÷ 1 digit The units of measurement (plus conversion) questions are extra challenge to provide context for the calculations, but of course could deleted and used just as numerical questions.

Newspaper writing frame for KS2, differentiated twice.

SPAG Powerpoint 2 (of 5) A powerpoint comprising of 59 slides covering aspects of the SPAG curriculum, for example: • Root words • Prefixes • Suffixes • Pronouns • Proper nouns • Abstract nouns • Collective nouns • Commas in a list • Commas to separate clauses • Brackets • Dashes • Subordinating connectives • Verb/subject agreement • Simple sentences • Compound sentences • Complex sentences Each topic includes a slide or two of teaching plus an activity slide based on the learning in that session (some, more complicated topics, run over a few days). The slides and tasks have been created for a short 15 minute SPAG session but could also be used as starters or in literacy lessons. At the end of each block of 4 topics is a quiz slide (which, if covered daily, would be a Friday session) which recaps the previous 4 topics covered. This powerpoint has enough slides for 6 weeks of daily teaching (one topic per day). A further 3 Powerpoints will be available soon covering the other areas in the SPAG curriculum, including a final revision set at the end. PLEASE NOTE: Some slides have been duplicated from Powerpoint 1 for revision purposes and the lower price reflects this.

SPAG Powerpoint 5 (of 5) A powerpoint comprising of 39 slides covering aspects of the SPAG curriculum, for example: • Verb-subject agreement • Antonyms • Past/present/future tense • Prepositions of time and place • Double negatives • Metaphors • Determiners • Diminutives, comparatives and superlatives • 7 x slides of revision Each topic includes a slide or two of teaching plus an activity slide based on the learning in that session (some, more complicated topics, run over a few days). The slides and tasks have been created for a short 15 minute SPAG session but could also be used as starters or in literacy lessons. At the end of each block of 4 topics is a quiz slide (which, if covered daily, would be a Friday session) which recaps the previous 4 topics covered. This Powerpoint has enough slides for 4-5 weeks of daily teaching (one topic per day). One further Powerpoints will be available soon covering the other areas in the SPAG curriculum, including a final revision set at the end.

This is a WAGOLL newspaper article, written using the beginning of the story of Kensuke's Kingdom (by Michael Murpurgo), but could be used as an example for any newspaper writing unit. Possible uses: - to annotate features of a newspaper - as a model for writing own newspaper articles - to critique - what is good and not-so-good about this article? P.s. The family is not called 'Finnegan' in Kensuke's Kingdom - we are not told their surname so I made one up!

SPAG Powerpoint 1 (of 5) A powerpoint comprising of 88 slides covering aspects of the SPAG curriculum, for example: • Nouns, verbs and adjectives • Prepositions • Consonants, vowels and syllables • Dictionary and thesaurus use • Determiners • Capital letters • Full stops • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Sentence types • 1st/2nd/3rd person • Conjunctions • Connectives • Plurals • Tense • Irregular verbs • Sentence structures: simple, compound and complex Each topic includes a slide or two of teaching plus an activity slide based on the learning in that session. The slides and tasks have been created for a short 15 minute SPAG session but could also be used as starters or in literacy lessons. At the end of each block of 4 topics is a quiz slide (which, if covered daily, would be a Friday session) which recaps the previous 4 topics covered. This powerpoint has enough slides for 6 weeks of daily teaching (one topic per day). A further 4 Powerpoints will be available soon covering the other areas in the SPAG curriculum, including a final revision set at the end.

A planning sheet for a 'spy thriller’story. Suitable for KS2.

Chirstmas Around the World assembly and script. Written to be teacher-led but could be adapted to be child-led. The first country is the UK as it was written for an international school, but this could be removed for UK schools. Contains facts about UK, Italy, Mexico and Spain as well as a quiz.

Planning sheet for instruction texts. Suitable for KS2.

SPAG Powerpoint 4 (of 5) A powerpoint comprising of 72 slides covering aspects of the SPAG curriculum, for example: • Sentence types • Subordinating connectives • Non-finite clauses • Noun phrases • Expanded noun phrases • Interesting vocabulary • Adverbial phrase and clauses • Colons and semi-colons • Articles • Speech punctuation • Synonyms for said • Formal/informal language • Apostophes for possession • Apostophes for omission • Homophones Each topic includes a slide or two of teaching plus an activity slide based on the learning in that session (some, more complicated topics, run over a few days). The slides and tasks have been created for a short 15 minute SPAG session but could also be used as starters or in literacy lessons. At the end of each block of 4 topics is a quiz slide (which, if covered daily, would be a Friday session) which recaps the previous 4 topics covered. This Powerpoint has enough slides for 6 weeks of daily teaching (one topic per day). One further Powerpoints will be available soon covering the other areas in the SPAG curriculum, including a final revision set at the end. PLEASE NOTE: Some slides have been duplicated from previous Powerpoints for revision purposes and the lower price reflects this.

Simple planning sheet to help children to structure a story from another culture. Differentiated twice. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

When marking books, I note down all the children into the appropriate columns: Green: if they clearly understood the lesson content Amber: if they mostly understood the lesson, perhaps with a few errors Red: if they struggled with the content This allows for quick intervention the following day for any children who fall into the 'red&' category. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk