Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for highly able readers on any poem, or story. There are two poetry questions mat - one aimed at younger and one at older children and a narrative mat. The questions can be selected to suit the ability level of the children. They could be used for book talk speaking and listening or comprehension tasks. It could be used for whole class, group or individual pupil work.

Great character tasks - reading comprehension and creative writing for upper Key Stage 2

KS3 Great character tasks - writing and comprehension

A Star Wars persuasive writing task, with differentiated planners, teaching notes and model text. Also learning mat offering questions for any persuasive text and a PowerPoint using animation to teach persuasive techniques.

These are tasks where the focus is on highly motivating pupils. There are funny punctuation worksheets, a minion vehicle literacy task and a fun persuasive task that delivers great writing. Please review

Bundle of Powerpoints on complex sentences and swapping subordinate clauses.

Bundle of fun explanatory text resources. They are fun tasks children will enjoy doing. There is a Powerpoint, scaffold frame, support worksheets, model text and learning mat - everything required to teach the text type thoroughly and enjoyably!

Great fun tasks for the end of term, including a reading challenge homework with certificate to ensure no marking for the last busy weeks of term. There is a fun punctuation worksheet, instructions and persuasive tasks that pupils will really enjoy based on ice creams and a summer holiday task that delivers great writing results!

This is a fun resource pack will deliver great writing and make children able to read adverts. There is a car advert purposely written to show persuasive techniques with a writing scaffold & upper for KS1/ KS2 to get great writing results. There are worksheets on car names and slogans. There is also a fun adverts PowerPoint that uses animation, so pupils remember persuasive techniques. In addition, there are guided reading learning mats for persuasive texts to structure discussion to de-construct adverts and brochures. Pupils learn adverts are constructed and they build the skills and strategies to de-construct them and to write persuasively themselves.

There are 4 PowerPoints to explain what constitutes a sentence, complex and compound sentences. It also includes how to add and swap clauses around in complex sentences.

Three enjoyable and highly motivating units of work - fun advert for zoo, ice cream instruction and advert and robot explanatory text. There’s lots of resources, including useful model texts, word bank, PowerPoint, worksheets and scaffold frames to offer additional fun. Please review.

This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

There are KS2 Mats with questions for guided reading and poetry. There is also a character bookmark.

This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Sheep Pig by Dick King Smith.

This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Emily's Leg's by Dick King Smith.

A bundle of three PowerPoints on complex sentences and a bookmark to reinforce sentence level work by requiring pupils to notice sentence starts in their reading.

This is a bundle of reading mat and bookmarks with questions for highly able readers KS2 on any story. Bookmarks encourage pupils to notice the authors use of sentence starts, speech tags and characterisation.

Three bookmarks to encourage closer reading. One encourages pupils to notice the author's use of sentence starts, another how the author uses speech tags. The third asks children to use text evidence to support their opinions about characters.

A bundle of reading mat and bookmarks with questions for KS2 on any story. Bookmarks encourage pupils to notice the authors use of sentence starts, speech tags and characterisation.

Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for highly able readers on any poem or story