Whether you use these reading texts and questions as homework, during class work, for guided reading activities or before SATs tests, this book will provide you with a wealth of resources to help prepare your students for the demands of the reading paper. Learn More

With writing levels being at the top of most Key Stage 2 teachers’ agenda, we often hear Literacy Co-ordinators asking how they can boost their writing levels and ensure quality coverage of the curriculum for the Grammar tests. After many years of working with schools, our answer is always clear: get the Year 5 and 6 teachers to work closely together to plan how they will teach sentences. It’s all about the sentences. Students must understand how their sentences are grammatically constructed if they are to hit the high marks in their writing.
We have looked closely at the new curriculum and compiled a term by term progression plan for how to teach sentences in Upper Key Stage 2. This free sentence progression plan is available for free on our website. By following such a plan, you will have covered all of the punctuation requirements for Years 5/6 in the new curriculum as well as a lot of the writing and grammar objectives.
To complement the progression plan we have devised a photocopiable booklet for Year 6 teachers, The book is divided into three terms and is full of homeworks, sheets, theory, activities and resources for teachers to use throughout the year to teach great sentence level work. The resources can underpin any existing schemes of work and will ensure children are taught all of the national curriculum requirements for sentence, writing and punctuation. Not only will this help boost writing levels, but it will ensure curriculum coverage and progression across Year 5 and Year 6 and extend grammar knowledge. Learn More

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When Vicky's father is arrested, accused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works, she is determined to prove his innocence. But how? There's only one way - to attempt to break into the bank's computer files.

Even if Vicky is the best hacker in the world, will she find the real thief before they find her? Learn More

"Great idea! I now have my entire year of spelling homeworks covered for my Year 5 class! And with the free personalised covers, they look so professional and organised! It's a great way of ensuring that I'm covering all of the spelling lists and the statutory spelling patterns. I'm going to make sure the Year 6 teachers use the Year 6 equivalent books to ensure we have covered all of the statutory requirements. Thanks again, this has saved me so much time and means I no longer have to cut out spelling lists and stick them in books! It's all done for me!" Year 5 teacher. Learn More

"Great idea! I now have my entire year of spelling homeworks covered for my Year 5 class! And with the free personalised covers, they look so professional and organised! It's a great way of ensuring that I'm covering all of the spelling lists and the statutory spelling patterns. I'm going to make sure the Year 6 teachers use the Year 6 equivalent books to ensure we have covered all of the statutory requirements. Thanks again, this has saved me so much time and means I no longer have to cut out spelling lists and stick them in books! It's all done for me!" Year 5 teacher. Learn More

Don't take our word for it:
"A superb teaching book....full of teaching ideas, handouts, homework sheets, grammar exercises and even reading comprehensions. It takes the subjunctive form as a starting point, but it moves well beyond this, covering all the complex grammar requirements of the new curriculum. I can't tell you how much planning and time this will save me. Before looking at this, I hadn't a clue about how to teach subjunctives, but this has given me so many ideas and instant resources. I loved the way that it shows how, by teaching subjunctives, you can then branch off into looking at other aspects such as finite and non-finite, infinitives, conjugating verbs, impersonal etc. All things I really didn't have a clue how I'd teach! Thank you." Year 6 teacher, Liverpool. Learn More

A pack of six A2 colour posters which will enable you to display all of the statutory words on the Yr5 and 6 word list from the new curriculum. Learn More