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England

Explore teaching ideas for the National Curriculum in England, from key stage 1 to key stage 4.

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Explore primary and secondary tasks that make room for explanation, practice and independent thinking.

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Connect a learning-area focus with your year level and the curriculum your school follows.

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The Keeper’s Lantern2-page pupil PDF · ages 8 to 10Explore this template

Find a clue. Explain an inference.

Read The Keeper’s Lantern and ask for one inference supported by words from the story. Use the pupils’ reasons to choose the next teaching step.

  1. Read togetherMeet the story and check any unfamiliar words.
  2. Find a clueChoose words that support an inference.
  3. Explain whyAsk pupils how their quotation supports their answer.
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Paragraph planning frame2-page pupil PDF · ages 11 to 14Explore this template

Build the reasoning before the paragraph.

Read the opinion model, identify Point, Evidence, Explain and Link, then use the planning page before writing independently.

  1. Read the modelSpot Point, Evidence, Explain and Link.
  2. Plan both sidesChoose reasons and evidence for the question.
  3. Write independentlyLeave pupils to shape their own paragraph.
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Fractions three ways: show, compare and share2-page pupil PDF · ages 8 to 10Explore this template

Give a first step. Leave the explanation.

Keep the whole equal and compare the fraction representations. Offer one first-step cue, then ask pupils to justify a new comparison without it.

  1. Keep the whole equalCompare the bar, circle and number-line models.
  2. Offer one cueShow a first step where a pupil needs support.
  3. Try without itAsk pupils to justify a new comparison independently.
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