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Tag Archives: year 4
Idea 289: FREE Class Set, 4-Way Differentiated Place Value Quiz-Quiz-Trade Cards for Year 3 and 4
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE I put a fair bit of time into making a whole-class set of 30 quiz-quiz-trade cards for place value, using a wide range of images and representations, so I thought I’d share it here. With the … Continue reading
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Tagged fluency, LKS2, mathematics, maths, qqt, quiz quiz trade, recap, spacing effect, white rose, white rose maths, year 3, year 4
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Idea 249: Writing a Narrative with ‘The Pixar Formula’ including FREE RESOURCES!
Have you heard of the Pixar formula? Apparently, any story that is to be developed by the massively successful movie studio Pixar must follow a simple but incredibly effective formula. The formula is just six sentence starters: 1. Once upon … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, english, key stage 2, key stage one, ks1, ks2, literacy, primary, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Idea 248: SPaG Lesson on Capital Letters, FREE 4-way Differentiated Worksheets
These resources are great for a standalone ‘review’ lesson to reinforce the need to ABC: ‘Always Be Checking’! It seems that right the way through primary school, even the most capable of writers will continue to forget to put in … Continue reading
Posted in English, Resources Included
Tagged capital letters, elementary, handwriting, key stage one, ks1, ks2, primary, SPaG, worksheets, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Idea 238: Quickfire Dice!
A very simple and very enjoyable activity with a wide range of uses. Teach this near the beginning of the school year and it can be used as a warmer throughout. One die needed between each pair of children. Let’s … Continue reading
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Tagged addition, elementary, first grade, mental maths, number bonds, primary, quickfire dice, second grade, subtraction, year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Idea 216: ‘Number Elimination’. Problem Solving Lesson With Place Value, Activity for All Primary Ages
Sometimes (rarely!) I get a bit of a creative spark for a lesson which actually works out, and that’s exactly what happened here! I made grids of numbers for my children along with a list of instructions for how to … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, first grade, fourth grade, grid elimination, mathematics, maths, place value, problem solving, second grade, thrid grade, year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4, year 5, year 6
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