Chapter library

Chapter 1: Weather and climate: what is a climate zone?

• Can explain that weather is what happens day to day, and climate is the usual weather over many years

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Climate zones: tropical, temperate and polar

• Can explain why the Equator is hottest: sunlight hits it straight on, so its heat is squeezed into a small area
• Can find the tropical, temperate and polar zones on a map or globe

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Biomes: rainforest, desert, grassland, forests and tundra

• Can name the main biomes and say what climate, plants and animals each one has

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Vegetation belts: from the Equator to the poles

• Can describe how vegetation belts change from the Equator to the poles, and as you climb up a mountain

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Vegetation belts on mountains: higher means colder

• Can describe how vegetation belts change from the Equator to the poles, and as you climb up a mountain

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: The North and South Poles: the coldest places

• Can find the North Pole at the top of the Earth and the South Pole at the bottom, and knows they are the coldest places

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 2: The Equator: the hot middle of the Earth

• Can find the Equator, the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 3: Hot and cold areas of the world: near the Equator or near the Poles

• Can say that places near the Equator are hot and places near the North and South Poles are cold

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 4: UK weather: seasonal and daily weather patterns

• Can say the UK is between the Equator and the North Pole, and describe how its weather changes with the seasons and through the day

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 1: What is weather? Sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy and foggy

• Can say what the word weather means and name sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy and foggy weather

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 2: Daily weather in the UK: how the weather changes in a day

• Can describe how the weather often changes from morning to evening in the UK and choose clothes to suit it

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 3: The four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter weather in the UK

• Can name the four seasons in order and describe the weather each one usually brings in the UK

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 4: Hot and cold places: the Equator and the North and South Poles

• Can find the hot and cold places of the world using the Equator and the North and South Poles

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 5: Land and water words: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley and vegetation

• Can name and find land and water features such as hill, mountain, valley, river, forest, soil, vegetation, coast, beach, cliff, sea and ocean

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 1: Adding stories: how many altogether?

• Can solve adding stories by putting groups together, using objects and pictures

Year 1 maths

Chapter 2: Take-away stories: how many are left?

• Can solve take-away stories and find how many are left

Year 1 maths

Chapter 3: Comparing stories: how many more or fewer?

• Can compare two groups and find how many more or fewer

Year 1 maths

Chapter 4: Add or subtract: choosing the right one

• Can decide whether a story needs adding or subtracting

Year 1 maths

Chapter 5: Missing numbers: problems like 7 = ? − 9

• Can find the missing number in number sentences like 7 = ? − 9

Year 1 maths

Chapter 1: Adding stories: putting together and adding more

• Can solve word problems where amounts are put together or more are added, using objects, pictures and mental methods

Year 2 maths

Chapter 2: Take-away stories: finding how many are left and the missing part

• Can solve word problems that take some away or ask for a missing part, and say how many are left

Year 2 maths

Chapter 3: Comparing stories: how many more and how many fewer (the difference)

• Can solve 'how many more' and 'how many fewer' problems by finding the difference between two amounts

Year 2 maths

Chapter 4: Measure stories: adding and subtracting lengths, masses and capacities

• Can add and subtract lengths, masses and capacities in word problems, and give the answer with the right unit

Year 2 maths

Chapter 5: Checking answers with the inverse: add to check take-away, take away to check adding

• Can check a take-away answer by adding, and an adding answer by taking away or adding in a different order

Year 2 maths

Chapter 6: Missing number problems: finding the hidden number with the inverse

• Can find a missing number in a number sentence or a story by using the inverse, like ? + 6 = 14

Year 2 maths Year 2 maths

Chapter 1: Equal groups stories: find how many altogether

• Can solve stories about equal groups and find how many altogether

Year 1 maths

Chapter 2: Sharing stories: find how many each one gets

• Can share things equally in a story and find how many each one gets

Year 1 maths

Chapter 3: Grouping stories: find how many equal groups

• Can put things into equal groups and find how many groups there are

Year 1 maths

Chapter 4: Array stories: count rows to find how many

• Can use rows in an array to solve story problems

Year 1 maths

Chapter 5: Match a story to a picture, then solve it

• Can choose a picture that matches a story, then solve it
• Can put things into equal groups and find how many groups there are
• Can share things equally in a story and find how many each one gets

Year 1 maths

Chapter 1: Spot equal groups in a story

• Can spot equal groups in a story, find how many groups and how many in each, and write a times sentence

Year 2 maths

Chapter 2: Solve times stories by adding equal jumps

• Can solve 'how many altogether?' stories by adding equal jumps, using arrays and the 2, 5 and 10 times tables

Year 2 maths

Chapter 3: Solve times stories with arrays

• Can solve 'how many altogether?' stories by adding equal jumps, using arrays and the 2, 5 and 10 times tables

Year 2 maths

Chapter 4: Solve sharing stories: how many each?

• Can solve sharing stories by sharing equally to find how many each, for example 15 grapes shared between 5 plates

Year 2 maths

Chapter 5: Solve grouping stories: how many groups?

• Can solve grouping stories by making equal groups to find how many groups, for example 20 crayons in boxes of 5

Year 2 maths

Chapter 6: Choose multiply or divide to solve a story

• Can read a story and choose whether to multiply or divide to solve it

Year 2 maths

Chapter 1: Where and when: the early Islamic empire and Baghdad

• Can say where and when Baghdad was built, and place it on a timeline alongside Anglo-Saxon Britain

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Baghdad c. AD 900: the Round City and how it grew

• Can describe how Baghdad's Round City was planned, what was inside it and how the city grew

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Trade and daily life in Baghdad c. AD 900

• Can explain how trade brought goods, paper and ideas to Baghdad, and describe daily life there

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: The House of Wisdom: scholars and their discoveries

• Can describe the House of Wisdom and match its scholars to their discoveries

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Contrasts with British history: Baghdad and Anglo-Saxon Britain c. AD 900

• Can describe similarities and differences between Baghdad and Anglo-Saxon Britain around AD 900

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Where and when: the first civilizations

• Can find Sumer, Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley and the Shang Dynasty on a map and match each one to its river
• Can put the first civilizations in time order and read BC dates, knowing that a bigger BC number means longer ago

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: The River Indus: floods, farming and growing cities

• Can explain how the River Indus flooded and left rich silt for crops, and how spare food let villages grow into cities
• Can find Sumer, Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley and the Shang Dynasty on a map and match each one to its river

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Planned cities: grid streets, baked bricks and drains

• Can describe how Indus cities were planned, with grid streets, same-sized baked bricks, wells and covered drains

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Trade: seals, weights, boats and carts

• Can explain how Indus traders used seals to label goods, stone weights to weigh them fairly, and boats and ox-carts to carry them as far as Sumer

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Daily life: homes, jobs, toys and writing

• Can describe Indus homes, jobs and toys, and explain that we know about them from objects archaeologists dig up because nobody can read Indus writing yet

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Audience and purpose: choosing a formal or informal tone

• Can work out who will read a piece of writing and why, and choose a formal or informal tone and the right form

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: Formal vocabulary: ask for → request, find out → discover

• Can swap chatty everyday words for formal ones, like 'ask for' into 'request', and use full forms like 'I am'

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 3: Speech or writing? Question tags, slang and filler words

• Can spot chatty speech in writing, such as question tags, slang and filler words, and change it into formal writing

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Subject and verb agreement: singular and plural

• Can make the subject and verb agree, singular with singular and plural with plural

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 5: The subjunctive: If I were… and I request that…

• Can recognise and use subjunctive forms, like 'If I were' and 'I request that he be'

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 6: Setting out formal letters and emails: Dear… to Yours sincerely

• Can set out a formal letter and email, and choose 'Yours sincerely' or 'Yours faithfully' correctly

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 7: Writing letters of request, complaint and thanks

• Can write letters of request, complaint and thanks in the right formal register

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Wow Words

• Can choose the best word for the job, like 'crept' instead of 'went', so readers can picture exactly what happens

Chapter 2: Super Starts

• Can start sentences in different ways, using when, where and how openers like 'After lunch,', 'Under the bridge,' and 'Slowly,'

Chapter 3: Short and Long

• Can mix short sentences for drama with longer ones joined by words like because, but, so and when

Chapter 4: Paint a Picture

• Can add describing details, sense words and 'show, don't tell' clues so readers can picture a story

Chapter 5: Super Checker

• Can check writing for capital letters, punctuation, 'a' or 'an', and sound-alike words like here and hear

Chapter 1: Linking sentences in order: firstly, then, after that

• Can link sentences in order inside a paragraph using firstly, then and after that

Year 5 english

Chapter 2: Linking back inside a paragraph with 'this' and pronouns

• Can use this, and pronouns like it and they, to link back to an earlier idea

Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Linking paragraphs with adverbials of time and place: later, nearby

• Can start a new paragraph with an adverbial of time, like later, or place, like nearby

Year 5 english

Chapter 4: Linking paragraphs with adverbials of number: firstly, secondly, finally

• Can put points in order across paragraphs with number adverbials, like firstly, secondly and finally

Year 5 english

Chapter 5: Linking paragraphs with tense choices: he had seen her before

• Can link paragraphs with tense choices, using had, as in he had seen her before

Year 5 english

Chapter 6: Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs

• Can choose a mix of linking words and phrases so writing flows within and across paragraphs

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