A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
Bundle of fun explanatory text resources. They are
fun tasks children will enjoy doing. There is a Powerpoint, scaffold frame, support worksheets, model text and learning mat - everything required to teach the text type thoroughly and enjoyably!
Great fun tasks for the end of term, including a reading challenge homework with certificate to ensure no marking for the last busy weeks of term. There is a fun punctuation worksheet, instructions and persuasive tasks that pupils will really enjoy based on ice creams and a summer holiday task that delivers great writing results!
There are 4 PowerPoints to explain what constitutes a sentence, complex and compound sentences. It also includes how to add and swap clauses around in complex sentences.
Three enjoyable and highly motivating units of work - fun advert for zoo, ice cream instruction and advert and robot explanatory text. There’s lots of resources, including useful model texts, word bank, PowerPoint, worksheets and scaffold frames to offer additional fun. Please review.
This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Emily's Leg's by Dick King Smith.
A bundle of three PowerPoints on complex sentences and a bookmark to reinforce sentence level work by requiring pupils to notice sentence starts in their reading.
This is a bundle of reading mat and bookmarks with questions for highly able readers KS2 on any story. Bookmarks encourage pupils to notice the authors use of sentence starts, speech tags and characterisation.
Three bookmarks to encourage closer reading. One encourages pupils to notice the author's use of sentence starts, another how the author uses speech tags. The third asks children to use text evidence to support their opinions about characters.
A bundle of reading mat and bookmarks with questions for KS2 on any story. Bookmarks encourage pupils to notice the authors use of sentence starts, speech tags and characterisation.
This is a bundle of punctuating speech resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and an investigation using Harry Potter. It also includes two bookmarks. One bookmark requires children to notice how speech tags are used in guided reading and to compare the ways different writers handle speech. The other bookmark recaps the rules of how to punctuate speech.
This is a bundle of punctuating speech resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a punctuating dialogue investigation using the Worst Witch. It also includes two bookmarks - one recapping speech dialogue rules and the other making suggestions for other words for 'said'.
A bundle of SPaG sentences, direct speech and punctuation investigations & PowerPoints (7 items)
The resources cover different types of sentences, how to punctuate direct speech and how to modify sentences. The bundle also includes a punctuation task and a speech punctuation investigation.
This is a bundle of punctuating speech resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a punctuating dialogue investigation using Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. It also includes two bookmarks. One bookmark requires children to notice how speech tags are used in guided reading and to compare the ways different writers handle speech. The other bookmark recaps the rules of how to punctuate speech.
This is a bundle of punctuating speech resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and an investigation using BFG. It also includes two bookmarks - one recapping speech dialogue rules and the other making suggestions for other words for 'said'.
This is a Word a Week to increase pupils’ vocabulary, using relevant pictures, definitions and synonyms.
These are picture words, enough for a Word a Week for a school year!
It is an easy and effective way to boost a school’s vocabulary.
Aimed at KS3, KS4, KS5 or the vocabulary could provide some upper KS2 extension.
This resource could have a powerful impact on an entire school’s vocabulary acquisition, if the word a day pictures are added to newsletters or lessons.
I’ve made two small free word a day resources available to demonstrate how useful the resource can be, so you can try those out in a classroom.
If you like this Word a Week resource, you can buy the complete Word a Day resource for over three years. Alternately, the Word a Day resources can be bought as 3 separate year resources, providing a Word a Day for each of the three years.
