Lesson Plans for teaching the area of Calligrams / Shape poetry. Ideal for year 3/4. I have also included a set of resources for use in the genre. Reduced price.

Worksheet where children have to identify what genre the description is from generalisations. Useful as a starter or part of a main lesson.

If you are teaching settings this is bound to interest boys and improve their writing. This topic has produced some outstanding work from pupils in classes I have taught myself and assist others in an advisory capacity. UPDATE to one of my best selling resources with more! Suitable for years 3-6. Powerpoint Worksheets Extensive word banks (differentiated abilities.) Initial texts to discuss Plenary text PLUS! -Worksheets and word banks (differentiated.) -Phrases for display -Examples to read -Examples of children writing -Story Starters (Please note full DAILY plans are not included, this is designed simply as a bank of resources to dip into.)

LO: Understand how writers portray character personality through writing. This is a lesson based on exploring the techniques a writer uses to show a characters personality and requires pupils to use the evidence from the text extract I have included from the book 'The Hobbit' it is an excellent extract featuring the character 'Gollum.' The Powerpoint I have made goes through the process of... S (speech) A (actions) D (description) Children can then annotate their text accordingly and / or draw the character with annotations. Highly adaptable for many ages. The 1970's version of the hobbit features a similar conversation on YouTube. BONUS I have included a snippet of the text from 'The Hobbit' an activity for children to highlight all the parts of the text that describe the hobbit / wizard and the house. They then draw a picture to match their highlights. The results can be compared to the artists impression I have included.

A good notebook file I made to use in a lesson teaching about writing adventure and mystery stories.

Simple self assessment for play-script features

Personally made Powerpoint. Points out the features of play scripts

A set of worksheets I designed to help children practice using a dictionary. The first few letters are correct and children have to find the words in the dictionary, listing the page number at which they find them and correcting their spelling. (Tip, make sure you have a set of the same dictionary types for this!) Also… -KS2 Scheme. -A list of the ‘100 most common mis-spelt words’ that I found and edited from the internet. UPDATE: Lots of other worksheets to use for example using a thesaurus and homophones

Two texts based around Halloween AND comprehension questions suitable for years 3-5. 1. Where 'Jack O Lanterns' came from and questions 2. A story 'Croglin Grange' with questions related (year 4-5.)

Background facts and myths about dragons

Suitable for lower KS2. Ideas for a pirate topic, ideas and worksheet to make your own pirate flag, pictures to help plan a character description and a storyboard template.

Newspaper Article and comprehension, Donald Trump. Covering the recent appointment. Suitable for Year 3-5 with a challenge activity included.

How did Lego begin? Watch the video 'The Lego Story' on YouTube and then complete these activities with the children.

A basic Apple Keynote giving tips on how to edit stories. This will also work on iPad. This was originally made for a year 3/4 class but can easily be adapted for different age groups. Eg. Check it makes sense Check the spelling Check the punctuation Minimise repeated words Improve words where you can (have you used all senses?)

A full set of cursive handwriting worksheets from A-Z - Easily used as a whole school scheme The sheets can be used stand alone or as a template for children to use in their handwriting books, I have especially found the words after the letters helpful. I have also included a few extras that can be used to test children's 'best handwriting'

A collection of some of my best bookmarked sites. These have been collected by me over MANY years and some are literally GEMS! I hope this helps some people out. Please comment if you find useful!

Resources to support the teaching of commas. Notebook, Powerpoint and a couple of worksheets I made.

2018 Update. These resources were originally based on a specific lesson observation, I have since included a massive amount of extras. I have included a presentation file in BOTH Mac (Keynote) and Windows (Powerpoints) formats, this particular lesson was used in an observation highly sucessfully (outstanding) during my performance management 2 years ago. UPDATE: I have re-uploaded the ‘mummification pictures’ in pdf format as well as the original microsoft word format due to review comments, photos are now viewable in several formats.

Completely ORIGINAL and works fantastically. Developed in collaboration with an esteemed colleague. These are some of the resources I used and created when the children were doing fantasy stories, we linked it to the Thundercat cartoon, did character descriptions and settings. I always do this topic with the children in year 3/4, the short episodes of the series all offer a clear beginning, middle and end which lends itself very well to some excellent short stories by the children. The ‘cave of time’ is an especially good episode with a clear problem, build up and solution etc Included a weekly plan and a map that can be printed over 2 pieces of paper for display. I have also included a set of Top Trump example attributes for this resource which really gets the boys extremely motivated and could be used as an additional activity to be played later on in Golden Time. This is very comprehensive and I have used this many times successfully with years 3-5. The boys especially don’t stop talking about it!

Powerpoint used to illustrate what powerful verbs and adverbs are. Extremely effective for years 3-5. Due to the popularity of this resource I have included a word bank I have made of adverbs that are very effective in writing.