Hi! I am a teacher with over 20 years' experience at Primary level. I try to make my resources as challenging as possible with a slice of fun, while cramming in as much detail as possible into the guided reading / writing activities, plays, worksheets and comprehension exercises that I produce. I also create and publish a range of free worksheets and resources, which now account for over 40% of my published resources. Any feedback and suggestions welcome!
Hi! I am a teacher with over 20 years' experience at Primary level. I try to make my resources as challenging as possible with a slice of fun, while cramming in as much detail as possible into the guided reading / writing activities, plays, worksheets and comprehension exercises that I produce. I also create and publish a range of free worksheets and resources, which now account for over 40% of my published resources. Any feedback and suggestions welcome!
Comprehension exercises based on modern and classic fiction such as the Harry Potter series, Roald Dahl’s stories etc. together with non - fiction and poetry - based resources.
Some are self contained resources, containing the comprehension text, questions and answer sheet.
Some comprehension exercises require the book or excerpts from the book, such as a particular chapter. There are nineteen resources in all!
Seven resources in all, to help teach poetry to years 5/6:
Owl and the Pussycat modelling
Allan Ahlberg collection of activities
Examples of Similes and Personification
Original acrostic Poem and Comprehension
Where do all the teachers go? poem and resource
Nothing to do? poem and resource
This resource consists of :
1 - an original acrostic poem which could be used as a stand alone example of this form of poetry, to be read aloud or used in guided reading.
2 - an A4 sheet with 10 questions which concentrate on the figurative language used in the poem. This could be used as a whole class reading activity or an independent task.
3 - an answer sheet, with marks awarded up to 12 marks.
4 - In addition to the main comprehension, there is a challenge task and extra challenge task!
This resource will help children to write their own rhyming, nonsense poems modelled on the Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear.
There sre 2 basic resources to use:
An exemplar of a poem written in the style of The Owl and the Pussycat, called The Dog and the Budgie. It could be displayed on the whiteboard alongside the original or printed out for discussion.
A cloze procedure activity to help lower attaining pupils to succeed in the activity.
I have also included a Twinkl PP of the original poem, to use or delete as necessary.
Eight poems which contain the use of personification and could be used in the classroom in discussion and teaching.
City Jungle - Pie Corbett
Daffydowndilly - A.A. Milne
Tractor - Valerie Worth
The Great Water Giant - Ian Souter
Jack Frost - C.E. Pike
Fog - Carl Sandburg
The Windmill - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Snow and Snow - Ted Hughes
Four poems to discus and use when teaching similes and poetry.
In Word so can be easily adapted and printed for use in the classroom.
The Warm and the Cold - Ted Hughes
Ages of Man - traditional
The Fisherman’s Wife - Amy Lowell
Windigo - Sylvia Mark
A drama resource which could be used to explore several ideas including:
Dilemma - A boy (Tom) is accused of shoplifting and must decide whether to tell the truth or protect his friend (Katie)
Improvising and continuing a scenario.
Writing dialogue into a story.
Writing a playscript.
A resource to support a lesson on persuasive writing techniques.
Pupils are asked to write a persuasive argument which either supports zoos or is against zoos. I have included a series of bullet - pointed techniques which can be used as criteria for success and to help the pupils with their writing.
Also included are a series of free images / posters about zoos.
A comprehension exercises based on chapter five, with an extension challenge based on vibrant verbs
There are 20 comprehension questions with 25 marks available, allowing for an easy percentage score to be found!
Can be used in guided reading, independent work, whole class teaching, homework or assessment.
Answer sheets included for the comprehension and challenge.
A comprehension exercises based on chapter four, with an extension challenge based on spelling / editing.
There are 21 comprehension questions with 25 marks available, allowing for an easy percentage score to be found!
Can be used as guided reading, independent work, whole class teaching, homework or assessment.
Answer sheets included for the comprehension and challenge.
A comprehension exercise based on chapter three, with an extension challenge based on the use of a dictionary.
There are 20 comprehension questions with 25 marks available, allowing for an easy percentage score to be found!
Could be used in independent work, guided reading sessions, whole class teaching, homework or an assessment activity.
Answer sheets included.
This is a literacy pack based on the first 5 chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
For each chapter, there is a comprehension worksheet containing a range of around 20 questions, based on the text, producing 25 marks in total. The questions are written on one size of A4 and include an extension activity. The worksheets could be used as independent reading tasks, homework activities or as a tool for guided reading groups. Also included with each comprehension task is an A4 answer sheet. Just for for chapter one, there are two comprehension activities, one based on pages 7 - 13 and the next on pages 13 - 18.
The extension activities attached to each comprehension task are listed below:
Chapter one, pages 7 - 13: Dictionary Challenge
Chapter One, pages 13 - 18: Astounding Alliteration
Chapter Two: Compound Words
Chapter Three: Dictionary Challenge
Chapter Four: Spelling Challenge
Chapter Five: Vibrant Verbs
The literacy pack also includes nine writing resources as follows:
Chapter Two - Dear Diary ( Harry’s point of view)
Chapter Two - Writing activity based on Harry and Dudley’s differing viewpoints
Chapter Four - Mysterious character descriptive writing task
Chapter Four - Letter writing task: Hagrid writing to Dumbledore
Chapter Five - Recount based on the visit to the Leaky Cauldron (Harry’s POV)
Chapters 1 to 5 - Book review
Spooky Picture for use in creative writing
Spelling task - ‘soft c’
Awesome Adjectives Wordsearch
A comprehension exercises based on chapter two, with an extension challenge based on compound words,
There are 21 comprehension questions with 25 marks available, allowing for an easy percentage score to be found!
Can be used in independent work, whole class teaching, homework or an assessment activity.
Answer sheets included for the comprehension and challenge.
The worksheet asks pupils to listen and appraise different genres of music, writing their thoughts using a table provided.
The teacher would need to prepare a range of short and varied pieces of music, according to their curriculum requirements.
A short practice sheet where pupils are tasked with finding 25 %, 50 % and 75 % of a range of numbers. (Two pupil sheets to an A4 sheet so needs to be trimmed in half.)
Could be a whole class activity, independent work or a homework activity.
There are 23 questions in all.
The challenge task asks pupils to describe - to an alien - two ways to find 25% of a number…
