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Poetry for Halloween - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare comprehension and guided writing example

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Poetry for Halloween - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare comprehension and guided writing example

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Poetry - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare comprehension and guided writing example aimed at Upper KS2 or lower KS3.

Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney poem comprehension task

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Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney poem comprehension task

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

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Story writing - points for redrafting

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Bullet point advice about how to redraft a story.

Funny grammatical mistakes - dangling modifiers

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Funny grammatical mistakes - dangling modifiers

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Examples of dangling modifiers (found on the internet) for pupils to work out the double meanings.

Setting writing - visual planning scaffold

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Setting writing - visual planning scaffold

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A scaffold visual planner to help children to write creatively and to use the senses, feelings and imagery in their description.

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Writing Story Starts

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Write story starts sentences beginning in each of the following ways. There are some exemplars from books of each technique.

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Punctuation - changes meaning

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Fun examples of how changing punctuation changes meaning

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Funny dangling modifier errors

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Examples of funny dangling modifiers (found on the internet) for children to work out the double meanings.

Poetry - responding to unseen poems using 'SMILE'

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Poetry - responding to unseen poems using 'SMILE'

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Questions to improve the depth and structure of pupils response to poetry

Poetry Guided Reading KS1/KS2 - mat with comprehension questions to use with any poem

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Poetry Guided Reading KS1/KS2 - mat with comprehension questions to use with any poem

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Guided Reading KS1 - mat with poetry questions to use with any poem . This provides a structure to any guided reading discussion of any poem - there are a range of questions, so some offer lots of challenge . It uses the SMILE structure used by older children, but is a simple introduction to discussing a poem.

Reading mat - providing questions on any narrative text KS3/KS4

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Reading mat - providing questions on any narrative text KS3/KS4

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This is a reading mat with questions to prompt quality text discussion of any story. It could be used as a whole class, for individuals or with groups.

Story guided reading mat KS2 - questions for highly able readers on any narrative

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Story guided reading mat KS2 - questions for highly able readers on any narrative

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This mat provides question prompts to use with any reading book. It helps to develop deeper understanding with highly able readers. It uses higher order reading skills and develops the pupils ability to support answers with evidence from the text. It could be used with individuals, or small groups.

Poetry mat - question prompts for KS3/KS4

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Poetry mat - question prompts for KS3/KS4

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This mat provides question prompts to use with any poem. It helps to develop deeper understanding with highly able readers. It uses higher order reading skills and develops the pupils ability to support answers with evidence from the text. It could be used with individuals, or small groups.

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Bundle of poetry guided reading mats - questions on any poem aimed at 3 ability levels

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Poetry guided reading mats - comprehension questions on any poem aimed at 3 ability levels. Can be used for group and individual speaking and listening, guided reading or class discussion.

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Bundle of Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for KS2 on any poem or story

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Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for highly able readers on any poem, or story. There are two poetry questions mat - one aimed at younger and one at older children and a narrative mat. The questions can be selected to suit the ability level of the children. They could be used for book talk speaking and listening or comprehension tasks. It could be used for whole class, group or individual pupil work.

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Bundle of Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for highly able readers

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Poetry and Narrative Guided Reading Mats - questions for highly able readers on any poem or story

Poetry guided reading mat KS2 - questions for highly able readers on any poem

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Poetry guided reading mat KS2 - questions for highly able readers on any poem

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A poetry mat - with question prompts for highly able readers to be able to discuss any poem in guided reading.This mat provides question prompts to use with any poem. It helps to develop deeper understanding with highly able readers. It develops the pupils ability to support answers with evidence from the text. It could be used with individuals, or small groups.

Character - positive character traits vocab building list.

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Character - positive character traits vocab building list.

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Character - positive character traits vocab building list. I cut up the words and pupils sorted the list into words they knew, thought they might know and definitely didn't know. Words could also be used to sort, for example, words with linked meanings and made into Mind Maps. Suited to some pupils in Upper Key Stage 2, but also some pupils in Key Stage 3 and 4.

ICT character description writing tasks, using Boy by Dahl

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ICT character description writing tasks, using Boy by Dahl

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This is a great lesson on character. The modelled writing task makes pupils focus on Dahl's style. There are two word documents for pupils to adapt to create modelled character descriptions. See the two pdfs which show the work produced by the task.

Improve creative writing - differentiated show don't tell worksheets

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Improve creative writing - differentiated show don't tell worksheets

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These worksheets improve creative writing by getting pupils to reveal clues that show how a character feels, rather than through simply telling, for example ' they are angry.' There are two aimed at different ability levels. They can then be used as a resource for their own creative writing.