These newspaper tasks teach pupils to notice all the features of a newspapers article . The worksheet includes funny headlines where the meaning can be misinterpreted, but also shows pupils advice on how to write headlines and includes a headlines activity for them to do. The newspaper article has been written to demonstrate the text features of a newspaper. There are comprehensive teaching notes, suggesting extension activities and advice to support pupils to write effective lead lines. There are tasks suggested to teach the use of parenthetic commas as part of the work on the newspaper genre. news article written to demonstrate text features &teaching notes

A structured comprehension on 'The Sea' by James Reeve and a word mat to prompt discussion of any poem. Suitable for upper KS2 and KS3. For differentiation, you can select which questions children complete, or for group discussion you can use the poetry word mat. The session started by discussing the poem and finding examples of poetic techniques, such as rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance and sibilant sounds. We discussed the change in the three verses. For extension, pupils could either write a river metaphor (see river metaphor poem ), or alternatively find points of comparison between the river and a different things (see worksheet).

This is a persuasive brochure for Hogwarts Castle Theme Park, written to demonstrate persuasive techniques. There are detailed teaching notes and a scaffold frame for children to write their own theme park brochure: a blank brochure with theme park pictures is also provided, if required. There is also an extension task to develop further ideas for the theme park website, which could be done as an individual, or group, speaking and listening or writing task. There are support planning worksheets, if required, to help pupils requiring more support.

Guided Reading Poetry Mat - questions for guided reading with any poem, aimed at all of Key Stage 2.

There is an example of a holiday brochure tour of Egypt to demonstrate persuasive techniques, including the use of Imperative verbs and adjectives. Children then use the text and the planning worksheet to write their own holiday tour of Egypt. Pupils can use their own knowledge of places from their work on Ancient Egypt, but they don't need to, because places are mentioned in the example holiday brochure for them to use. Extension task - there is an example of an Egyptian holiday brochure, again written to demonstrate genre features and persuasive techniques. There is a scaffold frame, so pupils can produce their own realistic hotel brochures. There are also images included for pupils to add images to make their persuasive holiday work look authentic.

An activity to encourage a clear definition of what constitutes a sentence.

Learning outcomes - children learn about global warming and by using the model text, teaching notes and scaffold are able to write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming. A model global warming persuasive information text provides lots of information, so children will learn about global warming. Teaching notes provide guidance on the features of the text type. Teaching notes also guide discussion of how the writer manages to persuade and inform. This builds the children’s understanding of the text type in order to help pupils write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming. There is a scaffold frame that can also be used to support independent writing on global warming.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, as well as PDF, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

This is a sports car advert written to demonstrate persuasive techniques, such as, blinding with science and deliberate ambiguity. There are detailed teaching notes on the text and on the follow up writing task. There is scaffold frame to support pupils with independent writing and a blank template for pupils to produce their own car advert having discussed the advert provided. There is a connotations worksheet, looking at the use of animal names with powerful connotations used for car names. There is also a list of demonstration slogans from car companies. There are seven resources in all, including the advert written with a white background for improved printing. It is a comprehensive and fun way to teach persuasive writing. theer is also a PowerPoint of persuasive techniques.

There is an example text from Oliver Moon as the starter task to show pupils how text changes to playscript. There are differentiated worksheets ( the BFG is the easiest) for pupils to have a go for themselves at converting a short text extract into a play script. There is also a sheet explaining the rules for writing a play script.

321 Reading Strategy Worksheet for use with any non fiction text.

Year 5 - compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

Comprehension aimed at highly able Upper Key Stage 2, or Key Stage 3.

Funny examples of how punctuation changes meaning. I've used examples found on the internet of meaning changes caused by missing commas and full stops to create a worksheet. The worksheet helps pupils understand why punctuation is crucial to meaning in written texts. Also available at 65% reduction as a bundle.

Children will be excited by designing their dream beach hotel advert, with features like scuba diving and pools. There is a model text of a beach holiday brochure advert for a hotel, written to demonstrate genre features and to highlight the use of persuasive techniques. The comprehensive teaching notes explain the genre features to inform and to persuade. The notes draw attention to features of the model text, like fact and opinion and the use of a variety of sentence starts. The notes make suggestions for guided and independent writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils get a clear understanding of the features of the text type.

"We must prepare young people for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds." —UNESCO, 1982 These are guided reading learning mats for getting quality discussion and reading of any persuasive texts, specifically forms of advertising. They enable structured discussion by pupils about advertising to make them wiser as consumers and aware that adverts are carefully constructed texts. It also informs them to produce their own persuasive texts. There is a KS3 and a KS2 learning mat .

This is part of a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on speech tags. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop. The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.