A helpful sheet / success criteria for children use to self or peer assess their own diary writing. Used with a Year 4 and 5 class for them to self assess, then peer assess their own independent writing at the end of the unit. The sheet is a word document so can be easily edited and adapted.

A drama lesson based around Kensuke’s Kingdom by Micheal Morpurgo. My Year 5 class loved this lesson. The children are asked out 2 scenes from the story with the stimulus provided. I used this as part of a diary writing unit for character development so one of the stimulus is a diary entry and the other a video of sailing across the open ocean. Includes powerpoint and resources. Children are to devise/rough plan their scenes first before creating them. One of the planning sheets is more structured to support some children - although I have found using mixed ability groups works well. Children could also use the unstructured support sheet as some groups preferred to mind map, bullet point or write keywords down.