Children given piles of story books. In small groups read the books and pick out any exciting words. Write the words in the treasure box.

Powerpoint with various ideas linked to book and some worksheets. Was used for book week. Also a homework sheet linked to Roald Dahl and directional language. Please do review or rate my resources. Thank you :)

Simple plan template for children to plan a story before writing it.

Draw and label two monsters. I then used this to write a character description used for fictional writing assessment.

Read 'Flat Stanley Actvities&' which gives you 20 ideas of activities you may like to do related to the story of Flat Stanley. If you have other ideas please do leave them as a comment so other users can build up a bank of activities.

A start to comparing language style. Children given Donaldson books and fill in table group or individual work. Differentiated 3 ways: repetition, repetition and rhyme and various languages. Can obviously change the photos by copying and pasting different pictures in.

Stories by the same author. Different sentences/phrases typed up from Julia Donaldson books: A squash and a squeeze, Sharing a shell and Follow the Swallow. My class really enjoyed spliting them into groups. SOme chose 'people, animal, object&' others chose to group sentences according to punctuation or language. They were allowed to chose whether to use a venn diagram (hoops on floor) or large carroll diagrams I made up. I used this as a start for thinking about similarities and differences in books by the same author.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAoCUN4toE for revolting rhymes clip or read book. My class who then cut the small images out, stuck them into their books and retold the story next to it with a focus on punctuation. They really enjoyed it because the story is so silly! Pictures can be used for many different activities but will hopefully save you some time!

A silly story captured in screen shots. Watch the film at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csdZQZmgKfQ I watched this short cartoon with my class who then cut the small images out, stuck them into their books and retold the story next to it with a focus on punctuation. They really enjoyed it because the story is so silly! Pictures can be used for many different activities but will hopefully save you some time!

Here are some normal and some silly sentences. Children work together to sort them into silly and non-silly.

Homework - answering questions about a simple shark report.

Crack my code! Children to use simple format to create their own code and use it to write a secret messge to someone else. I used this to start a Year 2 topic on Media Magic, thinking and learning about language and communication. My children really enjoyed being secret agents.

A format for children to use with a range of story books. Children read and select exciting words that they find in books. They can later use these words in their own writing.

A very simple template to support children to start laying a report out correctly with sub-headings and pictures related to each paragraph.

Just to save you time. I am using this to create playscripts but could be used for a number of things, including: highlighting adjectives, retelling the story etc. World Map - link to geography look at different climates and decide where the forest would grow, colour these areas. Small pictures

Using to recap with Year 2 but can be used for Year 1.

Headings, sub-headings, picture captions highlighted on example leaflets

Linked to our topic on Bob Marley, children to fill in speech bubbles of something he may have said at that time. If you're looking at someone else, just change the pictures.

See 1 and 2 for more info.

I have created another mock phonics screening test, in the format used with a tick sheet (front cover) Thank you to all those who left nice comments on the last one I uploaded...it does motivate me to upload more so please if you use my resources, leve feedback!