Using language, symbols, and texts resources

As students listen to the teacher read an adapted version of 'The Three Little Pigs' they construct a line graph showing how frightened the third little pig was feeling.

Students carry out an investigation to determine the frequency and percentage of different numbers resulting from 100 dice throws. They construct a table to record the results.

Students interpret information presented in a bar graph to answer questions.

Students estimate a division problem, share their methods, discuss the nice numbers and factors method, and then do more problems using nice numbers and factors.

Students identify qualities of structure, voice, body language, and rapport for a speech.

The language of debating is assessed as students provide explanations of emotional argument, limited example, empathy, empty argument, rebuttal, refutation, and irrelevant conclusion.

For this NEMP task students look at an humorous image of Santa and complete a thought bubble.

This punctuation resource is on the use of brackets. Students explain when brackets are used, then insert them into four sentences.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a bookshop requesting information about a book.

Students explore multiplicative relationships by completing multiplication equations.

Students explore multiplicative relationships by completing multiplication equations using a restricted range of numbers.

Students express interest in a job by writing a letter and a message to leave on an answer phone.

Task: Students draw a picture of a burning candle to show changes that occur. Assessment focus: representing the way particles behave when material undergoes temporary and permanent changes.

Students identify different speech techniques in a range of extracts of motivational talking from a coach.

Students create and solve number sentences that represent story problems.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

Students design an advertisement to sell a bike.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.

Students write both open and closed questions about the importance of smartphones to students their age.

For this NEMP task students are required to fill out a form to join a Fun Club.

For this NEMP task students fill out an application form for an after school job.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing that is brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.