Take three hands-up answers, not open call-outs. Give five seconds of quiet think-time first. Don't confirm the order yet — that lands in Watch and Notice. Listen for pupils who reach for one half as their anchor; you'll revoice that later.

Work each line live, left to right. For the first, read the three points off the marks and agree the order aloud.

• Second line: the fifths are new bottom numbers — ask which of these is nearest to the middle before you name the order.
• Third line: one half sits between one third and two thirds — this is the one that shows why one half is such a handy marker. Hold out for it.

Say the point of ordering plainly: find the smallest first, then the next, then the next. Do not read out the answer to the hook — let the class settle it here.

Talk this one through together — pupils take turns at the board and the class agrees or corrects out loud.

Individual pupils come up and drag one marker at a time; the rest of the class predicts where it lands before it snaps. Push the one-half question every set: is this fraction to the left or the right of one half?

• The last set (quarter, third, half) is the hard one — all three sit below one half, so pupils must compare quarter against third carefully. Slow right down here.

This is the practice round — pupils take turns at the board, check each answer, and the class confirms before moving on. Keep the board work brisk rather than over-explaining.

For every placement ask the class to compare against one half first — left of the middle or right of it? The five-sixths one is the key one: it sits well to the right, further than anything the class has placed yet. The final mixed set brings quarters, thirds and fifths together, so agree each smallest-first before the next marker goes down.