A simple sheet for adding a character to their writing through description. The passage has words missing and they should choose the appropriate from the word box to help them complete the task

Success criteria for adding tension to a story

Planning for week 1 covering the objectives: Can I listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books and read books that are structured in different ways? (Ongoing) Can I discuss ideas and outcomes for our new literacy unit, and link these with our new topic? Can I retrieve and record information from non-fiction? Can I draw inference about characters feelings, thoughts and motives for their actions? Can I justify these with evidence? (HA) Can I predict what might happen from details implied?

A complete lesson including all resources needed to introduce the unit of work Stories with historical settings

A complete lesson for stories with historical settings looking at making predictions

A complete lesson for teaching stories with historical settings looking at inference skills

A complete lesson on Stories with historical settings looking at text interrogation where the children search for the features of historical settings

Four days planning for the SPAG part of the Stories with historical settings unit. It covers time and cause conjunctions, inverted commas, past tense and Topic vocabulary linked to the book Cuda of the Celts

A PowerPoint teaching Imperative verbs using Little Miss Bossy

A simple sheet and activity based on Little Miss Bossy and imperative verbs

A simple word mat using Little Miss Bossy to show different imperative verbs that can be used while teaching instructions

A PowerPoint based lesson guiding the children through a shared writing for the place paragraph in their story with a historical setting

Planning for a week of writing looking at stories with a historical settings. Included are planned lessons on planning a story, check and editing our writing and then the first three paragraphs of Place, Person and Problem

A whole lesson looking at planning a story with a historical setting. It includes a PowerPoint, success criteria and differentiated planning sheets

A unit front cover for Historical settings - writing objectives

A set of example recounts written about events occurring during WW2

An activity writing descriptive words and sentences about fruit that can bee linked to the book Handa's Surprise

A set of differentiated comprehension sheets based on a game board layout - HA Venice, MA Aliens, LA Wolves