Comprehension aimed at highly able Upper Key Stage 2, or Key Stage 3.

Examples of dangling modifiers (found on the internet) for pupils to work out the double meanings.

Fun examples of how changing punctuation changes meaning

The PowerPoint uses simple animations to ensure pupils are clear about how to write a school trip recount. There is also a Minion learning mat to display for additional support and to ensure children understand the success criteria. There are planning scaffolds to help pupils that need additional support to plan and write a recount. This PowerPoint uses the fishbone method to teach pupils how to write a recount on a school trip.

Questions to improve the depth and structure of pupils response to poetry

Guided Reading KS1 - mat with poetry questions to use with any poem . This provides a structure to any guided reading discussion of any poem - there are a range of questions, so some offer lots of challenge . It uses the SMILE structure used by older children, but is a simple introduction to discussing a poem.

This mat provides question prompts to use with any poem. It helps to develop deeper understanding with highly able readers. It uses higher order reading skills and develops the pupils ability to support answers with evidence from the text. It could be used with individuals, or small groups.

This is a sports car advert written to demonstrate persuasive techniques, such as, blinding with science and deliberate ambiguity. There are detailed teaching notes on the text and on the follow up writing task. There is scaffold frame to support pupils with independent writing and a blank template for pupils to produce their own car advert having discussed the advert provided. There is a connotations worksheet, looking at the use of animal names with powerful connotations used for car names. There is also a list of demonstration slogans from car companies. There are seven resources in all, including the advert written with a white background for improved printing. It is a comprehensive and fun way to teach persuasive writing. theer is also a PowerPoint of persuasive techniques.

This is a sports car advert, aimed at Upper Key Stage 2, written to demonstrate persuasive techniques, such as, imperative verbs and blinding with science. There are detailed teaching notes on the text and follow up writing task and a PowerPoint of persuasive techniques. There is a scaffold frame to support pupils with independent writing and a blank template for pupils to produce their own car advert, having discussed the advert provided. There is a connotations worksheet, looking at the use of animal names with powerful connotations used for car names. There is also a list of demonstration slogans from car companies. There are seven resources in all, including the advert written with a white background for improved printing. It is a comprehensive and fun way to teach persuasive writing.

KS2 Forces - fulcrum levers worksheet

Pulleys worksheet

Year 5 - compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

Writing and responding to the painting ‘Broadway Boogie Woogie’ by Mondrian. It would be useful to look at a version of the image on the whiteboard in class, so that there is better quality of image for discussion, than the image on the worksheet. Visual literacy questions to prompt discussion or writing. There is another TES resource available linked to this, so please check out my other Mondrian resource. There are more resources available at .

This is part of a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on speech tags. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop. The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.