3 differentiated brochure writing templates: Easy: Red background - much less writing + large spaces for pictures. Medium: White background - less writing + small spaces for pictures. Hard: Grey background - writing sections only. Also attached are 2 completed brochures (to use as shared texts). The themes of the brochures are ‘Holiday’ themes (England and Thailand). Appropriate and adaptable for all age groups. Fully editable.

3 bookmark templates. Fully editable. Ideal for 5 - 11 years. Bookmark 1: A simple bookmark to print off. On the bookmark it says: Don’t you just hate it when your teacher says, “I want more details!” How can there be more details? Or when the teacher says, “Be more descriptive!” What can you do to put more description and details into your work? Be a Camera! Not just any camera, mind you, but a magic camera that lets you zoom in and out of settings, seeing and capturing not only the scenes, but the smells, tastes, sounds, and things you can feel (textures) in your story. Bookmark 2: Another simple bookmark to print off. Bookmark 3: Design your own bookmark. I always laminate the bookmarks so that they last the entire year. Fully editable.

A simple template to use when planning your weekly English lessons. Fully editable.

Summary of resource: A simple way to introduce your class to non-chronological reports. 24 easy-to-teach slides. Planning templates and examples provided. . Contents of PowerPoint: . What are non-chronological reports? How to start and plan your report Layout and Features Examples to look at …

A 3-page booklet to help children learn and practice the rules for adding er and est. Simple to follow and fully editable. Ideal for 7+

A useful booklet to practise note taking skills. 4 pages. Fully editable.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - 29 SLIDES A great way to introduce your class to ‘Myths and Legends’ and to get them to write their own Myth or Legend. Slide 3: What is Myth and Legend? Slides 4 - 5: Theseus and The Minotaur and Odysseus and Polyphemus texts. Slides 6 – 10: Examples of mythical creatures. Slide 11: The Minotaur character profile sheet. Slide 12: 6 mythical creatures/monsters to cut out and use for a character profile. Slide 13: A blank creature/monster character profile template. Slides 14 – 20: Examples of Heroes and Heroines. Slide 21: How to incorporate a Hero or Heroine into a story. Slide 22: Theseus character profile sheet. Slide 23: 6 mythical heroes /heroines to cut out and use for a character profile. Slide 24: A blank hero/heroine character profile template. Slides 25 – 29: Writing templates to plan and write a Myth or Legend.

A simple poster to display in your classroom or refer to when doing handwriting.

Possessive Apostrophes - Words and Pictures Matching Activity. Activity: Cut out the cards and shuffle them. Place the cards face down and take turns to turn 2 cards over (1 picture card and 1 sentence card). Read the cards aloud. If 2 cards match, you get to keep them. The person with the most pairs at the end WINS! 5-page booklet. Ideal for younger learners. Fully editable.

If you’ve been teaching your class about ‘The Stone Age’, then this BIG WRITE will complement your unit of work perfectly. Attached is a complete story plan and 2 sets of writing sheets (one with an opener and one without) for a story called ‘THE HUNT’. Story outline: You are a Stone Age hunter and your family rely on you for food. You set off on a hunt! Just follow the plan and you can’t go wrong! Fully editable!

A great game to use when teaching nouns, adjectives and verbs. Activity: Sort the 30 words (in the grid) into 3 groups (10 nouns, 10 adjectives, 10 verbs) Independent or paired-based activity. Fully editable (so you can change the words). Answers provided.

Activities: Complete the table by filling in the missing past, present and future tense verbs. Select an appropriate verb (from the completed table) to complete the 7 sentences. Answer sheet provided and fully editable.

A great worksheet to use when teaching verbs. Ideal for 5+ Fully editable. Answer sheet provided.

Prepositions Game How to win: The aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards. Instructions to play the game: 1. Shuffle the cards and deal out 7 cards per player. Maximum: 4 players (per set of cards). 3. Place one card (not a penalty card) face up and put the remainder of the cards (the pack) face down beside it. 3. You can discard a card onto the face up pile if it is the same animal or the same preposition as the current card showing. E.g. if the card showing is, ‘The rabbit is in the toilet’ then you can throw down any ‘Rabbit’ or ‘Toilet’ card. 4. The penalty cards are: ‘Skip’ - the next player skips one turn ‘Reverse’ - the order of play reverses (the previous student throws next) ‘Draw Two’ - the next player takes two from the pack unless they can put any ‘Draw Two’ card down. In the latter case, the next player who can’t throw a ‘Draw Two’ card has to pick up the total number of cards from the pack. 5. The ‘Wild’ card can be played at any time and the thrower has to call out the new animal. The ‘Draw 4’ card is similarly wild, but the next player has to draw 4 from the pack, unless they can play another ‘Draw 4’. 6. When a player throws down their penultimate card, they must shout ‘UNO’ before the next player takes their turn. Failure to do so results in a penalty of two cards from the pack. 7. Children should read the text as they throw down each card.

Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability). Fully editable. PowerPoint - 6 slides showing examples of speech written in speech bubbles and in sentences. Also attached is a 4-page activity booklet: Activity 1: Students must write down something each character might say in the speech bubble provided. Then they must write out the speech in a full sentence (using speech marks). The first is done for them. Activity 2: Students must give each character a name. Then they must write something the characters are saying to each other in the speech bubbles. Finally, they must write the conversation on the lines. The first one has been done for them. Activity 3: Same as activity 2 but this time the conversation must be BIGGER. Activity 4: A character called ‘Amelia’ must ask Tom a question then respond to his reply. Students must copy out the conversation on the lines provided.

3 fully editable attachments: Planning a Playscript writing template. Playscript writing templates (x2).

Play Script Template. A simple Play Script template. 1 page. Fully editable.

A full story of Hansel and Gretel on a 14-slide PowerPoint. Text and pictures included. Ideal for 5 - 9 years. The last slide contains an alternative ending to the story. Also attached is a differentiated sequencing activity and 6-part storyboard activity. Answers provided. Fully editable.

Activity: Correct the passage. A passage has been written incorrectly. There are: 9 missing capital letters. 7 missing full stops. 3 missing commas. 4 missing speech marks. 1 missing exclamation mark. Students have to rewrite the passage correctly. Age: 7+ (depending on ability). Answers provided. Also attached are some additional proofreading worksheets and self assessment checklist.

A FANTASTIC WRITING TOPIC TO DO WITH YOUR CLASS! A 57-slide PowerPoint with integrated animations and writing activities. 15 lessons - to be taught over 3 weeks. All activities are fully editable. Learning objectives, story, worksheets, video links and more. Ideal for Year 2 or Year 3. . LEARNING OBJECTIVES COVERED (The children will…) . Describe MR BIG. Describe what makes someone happy and sad. Answer questions about the beginning of MR BIG. Learn more about the word ‘avoid’. Sequence sentences correctly. Correct MR BIG sentences. Describe story settings. Order/sequence settings. Describe mountain gorilla activities. Compare two things. Write comparative sentences using however, but and whereas. Correct comparative sentences. Learn some new words and their meanings. Use a dictionary. Make a story map for one section of a story. Adapt part of a story. Plan a story. Write a story. Read a story aloud.