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A bundle of presentation, activities, worksheets and quiz aimed at learning about singular and plural possession.
Different formats of possessive nouns are given as examples, including:
• Singular possession with one item being possessed
• Singular possession with more than one item being possessed
• Regular plural possession with one item being possessed
• Regular plural possession with more than one item being possessed
• Irregular plural possession with one item being possessed
• Irregular plural possession with more than one item being possessed
All documents available as easily editable Word or Powerpoint documents and as PDFs.
These activities are suitable for years 4, 5 or 6.
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✦ Explanation Text: How Do Bees Make Honey?
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Nuggets with Answers - Term BUNDLE
✦ Ogre 4 Example Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts BUNDLE with Feature Identification & Answers
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A ten-slide presentation explaining how to use possessive apostrophes, including lots of examples and do’s and don’ts.
This presentation comes as an easily editable Powerpoint presentation as well as in PDF format.
The following usages of possessive apostrophes are illustrated:
• To show possession by a singular noun;
• To show possession by a regular plural noun;
• To show possession by an irregular plural noun;
• To show possession by a proper noun;
• To show possession by a proper noun ending in ‘s’.
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✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Activities
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Possessive Apostrophes Differentiated Worksheets Chapters 1, 2 & 3
✦ Explanation Text: How Do Bees Make Honey?
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Nuggets with Answers - Term BUNDLE
✦ Ogre 4 Example Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts BUNDLE with Feature Identification & Answers
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An eight-slide presentation explaining how to use colons, including lots of examples and do’s and don’ts.
This presentation comes as an easily editable Powerpoint presentation as well as in PDF format.
The following usages of colons are included:
• Using a colon to introduce a list;
• Using a colon to separate related main clauses where the second clause explains the first clause;
• Using a colon to emphasise a word or phrase.
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✦ How To Train Your Dragon Possessive Apostrophes Differentiated Worksheets Chapters 1, 2 & 3
✦ Explanation Text: How Do Bees Make Honey?
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Nuggets with Answers - Term BUNDLE
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An example character profile text about Jared from the book The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 1 of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s fantasy novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model character description of Jared Grace and then plan and write their own character profile about Jared, Mallory, Simon or any other character using the differentiated templates.
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
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Other Spiderwick Chronicles themed resources:
✦ WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Diary Entries Example Texts Pack
✦ Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
✦ Instructions Example Text Pack
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✦The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦The Iron Man Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Plus Feature Sheet and Templates
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Text, Feature Find, Planning & Writing Template
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Differentiated Templates
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Two example letters from the point of view of Sam from the children’s novel A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman.
These exemplar informal letters are perfect to use as WAGOLLs after reading Chapter 4 of the text. The letters are written from Sam to two different recipients, Sam’s parents and Sam’s friend, about his trip to Scotland.
The contrasting model letters provide the opportunity for discussion about writing for a particular audience. Pupils can discuss the similarities and differences between the two.
Pupils can identify the features of the model texts, and then plan and write their own informal letter based on the examples.
The following documents are included in this resource pack:
• Informal letter model texts x2
• Differentiated planning sheets x4
• Notes for teaching
The notes for teaching include opportunities for cross-curricular geography and science activities.
The features in the texts include:
• Second person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Thoughts/feelings/opinions
• Co-ordinating & subordinating conjunctions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Rule of three
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Rhetorical questions
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Colons
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Other Dangerous Game themed resources:
✦ Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ Example Character Profile Text Pack
✦ Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Apology Letter Example Text Pack
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✦Character Profile Example: Journey
✦Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example Pack
✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Pack
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Pack
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Example Pack
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example Pack
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Four WAGOLL example text packs based on the novel A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs which each contain a WAGOLL related to a different section of the book.
Diary Entry Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL diary entry text
• Feature Find worksheets differentiated x3
• Feature Find answers differentiated x3
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL character profile text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
Letter Writing Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Informal letter WAGOLL model texts x2
• Differentiated planning sheets x4
• Notes for teaching
Apology Letter Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL apology letter text
• Structure Feature Find worksheet
• Structure Feature Find answers
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find worksheet
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find answers
• Task sheet differentiated 2 ways
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Features Sheet & Answers
✦ The Twits Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Character Profile Example: Journey
✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example Pack
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example Pack
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An example apology letter text from Brandon based on the book A Dangerous Game plus feature find worksheets with answers, differentiated task sheet and differentiated planning templates. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Marlorie Blackman’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar apology letter text
• Structure Feature Find worksheet
• Structure Feature Find answers
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find worksheet
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find answers
• Task sheet differentiated 2 ways
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
How to use this resource pack:
1 Read the WAGOLL
2 Identify the structural features
3 Identify the language and punctuation features
4 Plan an apology letter
5 Write an apology letter
Language, grammar and punctuation features included in the WAGOLL text:
• adverbs of degree
• complex lists
• conjunctions
• expanded noun phrases
• fronted adverbials
• plural possessive apostrophe
• relative clauses
• synonyms
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Other Dangerous Game themed resources:
✦ Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ Example Character Profile Text Pack
✦ Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Informal Letter Examples Text Pack
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✦The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
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✦The Iron Man Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example Text Pack
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A collection of rhetorical question sentence starters to be used as a handout or poster. These sentence stems provide scaffolding to help pupils write rhetorical questions.
A rhetorical question is a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. It is a literary device often used to persuade the audience.
This vocabulary bank is particularly useful for planning and completing persuasive writing texts, such as adverts, debates, speeches and persuasive letters. Rhetorical questions can also be found in other text types such as instructions, diaries and stories.
This document contains examples of rhetorical question sentence stems. The rhetorical question stem list can be used to help to understand this literary device, to identify rhetorical questions within texts and to use rhetorical questions in writing.
Other rhetorical question resources:
Activities
✦ The Iron Man Literary Devices
Letter writing example text packs
✦ Letter to an Ogre
✦ Unicorn Letter
✦ A Dangerous Game Letter
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter Letter
Instructions example text packs
✦ How to Catch an Ogre Instructions
✦ Unicorn Instructions
✦ Stig of the Dump Instructions
Adverts example text packs
✦ Stig of the Dump Advert
Recounts example text packs
✦ Ogre Recount
✦ The Iron Man Hogarth’s Diary
✦ The Hodgeheg Diary
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Diary
✦ The Butterfly Lion Diary
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class Diary
✦ Charlotte’s Web Diary
✦ Harry Potter Diary
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons Diary
✦ Journey Diary
✦ A Dangerous Game Diary
Other popular resources:
✦ The Iron Man Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
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An example non-chronological report text about brownies, a type of faerie, plus two activities with answers, and planning and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about brownies, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report on the sheet provided; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates provided. Pupils can research and create the information text about a brownie or a different mythical creature such as a goblin, boggart, dwarf, griffin, kelpie, unicorn or troll. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar and punctuation features included in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Fast Facts section
• Did you know? section with bullet points
• Paragraphs
• Picture with caption
• Rule of three
• Rhetorical questions
• Present tense
• Modal verbs
• Adverbs of degree
• Conjunctive adverbs
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Question marks
• Commas in lists
• Complex lists
• Commas as parenthesis
• Possessive apostrophes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Plus Feature Sheet and Templates
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Text, Feature Find, Planning & Writing Template
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Differentiated Templates
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A word bank of alternatives to the word ‘said’. This word list is a useful resource for pupils who are learning to write direct speech and as a word mat when writing fiction, especially dialogues.
The synonyms for ‘said’ are grouped into categories to make pupils’ selection of the most appropriate word easier and quicker.
The word bank can be printed back-to-back onto A4 to be used as a handy desk-top resource or enlarged onto A3 paper and displayed on the wall of your classroom.
Other dialogue and direct speech resources:
✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Worksheets Differentiated
✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Quiz & Activities
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land Direct Speech to Reported Speech Differentiated Worksheets With Answers
✦ Street Child Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Dialogue Writing Example Text
✦ The Hodgeheg Dialogue Example Pack
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Boy at the Back of the Class
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Butterfly Lion
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Dialogue Text Examples Differentiated: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦ The Twits Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Christophe’s Story Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Stig of the Dump Dialogue Writing Example with Feature Identification, Answers & Extract
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Dialogue Texts Differentiated, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ The Iron Man Dialogue Writing Example Text, Feature Identification & Answers
Other useful resources:
✦ The Iron Man Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Iron Man Apostrophe Activities Differentiated BUNDLE
✦ Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Punctuation Activities & Quiz
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Activities with Answers – Whole Term BUNDLE
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Three animal-related activities where pupils must add punctuation to information texts about three animals: badgers, hedgehogs and spiders.
Pupils must read the texts and add the missing punctuation, including the following:
• Capital letters for the start of sentences
• Capital letters for proper nouns
• Full stops
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Commas in compound sentences
• Commas after fronted adverbials
• Apostrophes for possession
These tasks are useful when learning about or revising punctuation, including sentence punctuation. The non-chronological report style texts help to familiarise pupils with this non-fiction genre, and the subject matter, animals, is of interest to children.
The three texts are differentiated by type of punctuation used and sentence structure.
Each sheet comes with its own answer key.
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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✦ Animal Non-Chronological Report BUNDLE
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✦ Iron Man 6 Example Texts Plus All Chapter Glossary BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Features Sheet & Answers
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A Powerpoint presentation about suffixes, plus a suffixes worksheet with answers.
The suffixes covered by this presentation and worksheet are -er, -less and -ment.
The presentation is provided as in Powerpoint, Smart Notebook and PDF. The worksheet is provided as Word and PDF.
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✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Activities
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Possessive Apostrophes Differentiated Worksheets Chapters 1, 2 & 3
✦ Explanation Text: How Do Bees Make Honey?
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Nuggets with Answers - Term BUNDLE
✦ Ogre 4 Example Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts BUNDLE with Feature Identification & Answers
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Four WAGOLL example text packs based on the fantasy adventure novel Varjak Paw by S.F. Said.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs which each contain a WAGOLL related to the book.
Diary Entry Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry WAGOLL text
• Planning templates differentiated 3 ways
• Contractions word bank
• Feelings word bank
• Task sheet
Character Profile Example Text & Character Match Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
• Character trait matching activity differentiated 3 ways
• Character trait matching activity answers
Playscript Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Playscript example WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL text
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates differentiated 2 ways
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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✦ Iron Man 6 Example Texts Plus All Chapter Glossary BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Features Sheet & Answers
✦ The Iron Man Literary Devices Differentiated Activities
✦ Oranges in No Man’s Land Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Letter to an Ogre Example Persuasive Text, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ The Twits Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Templates
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Templates
✦ Unicorn Persuasive Letter Example, Feature Identification & Answers
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A template to help pupils to write a profile about a book character.
Use this character profile template to write about a character’s appearance (looks), personality (traits), actions and special skills.
The character description template can be used by pupils to describe characters from books studied in Literacy and English lessons, read as a whole class text or independently, or to plan and create a new character before writing.
The template is ideal to use during World Book Day celebrations.
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✦ Example Character Profiles BUNDLE with Feature Sheets, Answers & Templates
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Hogarth Character Trait Matching
✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦ Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Differentiated Templates
✦ The Twits Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ The Twits FAST Character Analysis Activities Differentiated
✦ Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Plus Feature Sheet and Templates
✦ All Character Profile WAGOLLs
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A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. It is a way of writing that makes something sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc than it actually is. Hyperbole is a type of figurative language. It is a figure of speech and a literary device.
This document contains examples of hyperboles. The hyperbole example list can be used to help to understand this literary device, to identify hyperboles within texts and to use hyperboles in writing.
Example texts and activities featuring hyperboles:
✦ Letter to an Ogre Example Persuasive Text Pack
✦ Diary Example Text Pack: The Butterfly Lion
✦ Diary Example Text: Boy at the Back of the Class
✦ Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone: Harry’s Diary Entry Example Text Pack
✦ Oranges in No Man’s Land Figurative Language & Other Literary Devices Differentiated Worksheets
✦ Example Description: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land Action Writing Example Text Pack
✦ The Iron Man Literary Devices Differentiated Activities
✦ Diary Example Text Pack: The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Unicorn Persuasive Letter Example Pack
✦ Oranges in No Man’s Land Example Diary Text Pack
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Example Diary Text Pack
✦ The Twits Example Diary Text Pack
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Example Texts Bundles:
✦ Ogres
✦ Unicorns
✦ The Butterfly Lion
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land
✦ Journey
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Stone Age Boy
✦ How to Train Your Dragon
✦ The Twits
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An example text demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on the Beowulf retelling by Michael Morpurgo plus accompanying resources.
The differentiated WAGOLL contains a conversation between Beowulf, his father, Edgetheow, and his uncle, King Hygelac, when he decides to travel to Denmark to kill Grendel. It is based on a part of the story containing no direct speech. Differentiated feature find sheets with answers and word bank are also included.
This resource contains the following documents:
• Example dialogue texts x3
• Dialogue text feature find sheets x3
• Answer sheets x3
• Contractions word bank
Pupils examine the model text, completing the feature find sheet, before writing their own version or continuing the dialogue.
The resources can be used when studying Morpurgo’s version of the story Beowulf or a different one, such as Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye or Beowulf by Rob Lloyd Jones.
All documents available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
Text contains the following features:
• Actual words spoken, with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause separated from words spoken with comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Contractions within speech
• New paragraph every time the speaker changes
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Two sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Split speech: one sentence spoken but split into two by the reporting clause
• Split speech: two sentences spoken at once and split into two by the reporting clause
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Other Beowulf themed resources:
✦ Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Diary Entries Example Texts Pack
✦ Character Profile Model Text Pack
✦ Fronted Adverbial Differentiated Worksheets
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✦ Iron Man Grammar & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Apostrophe Activities BUNDLE
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A fun Christmas-themed way for children to learn to identify different types of phrases and clauses (noun phrases, adverbial phrases, main clauses and subordinate clauses).
The phrases and clauses all come from popular Christmas carols and songs, including:
• Away in a Manger
• Frosty the Snowman
• Jingle Bells
• Little Donkey
• Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Silent Night
• Twelve Days of Christmas
• We Three Kings
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• While Shepherds Watched
This Christmas carol bingo game can be played with a whole class or in small groups. Pupils can play as individuals, in pairs or in teams.
Included in this resource pack:
• Playing Rules
• Christmas Carol Bingo Scorecards
• Bingo Calling Cards
• Phrase and Clause Class Answers
• Blank Bingo Scorecards
• Christmas Carol Phrase and Clause List
• Interactive Bingo Wheel Powerpoint
Just print and play!
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More Christmas resources:
✦ Christmas Maths and Comprehension BUNDLE UKS2
✦ Christmas Comprehension BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets
✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets
✦ Christmas Word Class Bingo Game
✦ Twas the Night Before Christmas Comprehension
✦ Old Santaclaus With Much Delight Comprehension
✦ Santa and the Reindeer Comprehension
✦ A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Comprehension Part A
✦ Christmas Shape Algebra
✦ Christmas Fraction Word Problems
✦ Christmas Coordinate Pictures
Maths murder mysteries:
✦ Units of Measurement Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
✦ Roman Numerals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
✦ Time Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
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An example mission file text based on Chapter 4 of the action-adventure novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz with planning sheet and writing template.
The model mission file is written using information from Chapter 4, “So What Do You Say?", of the first novel in the Alex Rider series.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL text to examine before pupils plan and write their own mission file based on this chapter or a mission invented by the children themselves.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar mission file text
• Planning sheet
• Writing template
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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A fun speaking and listening team game where pupils give directions in French for their partner to follow to find the pirate treasure chests. The game focusses on direction vocabulary, colours and numbers.
The following resources are provided:
• Pirate treasure map
• French vocabulary & rules sheet
• Treasure cards
This material can be used to teach the following National Curriculum languages attainment targets:
• To listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding;
• To engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help;
• To speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures;
• To present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences.
All documents have been provided as easily editable Word files and as PDFs.
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A French zoo speaking and listening role play pack complete with differentiated script.
The following resources are included:
• French zoo phrase sheet
• French zoo role play script - differentiated x3
• French zoo sign and ticket prices poster - differentiated x2
• French zoo animals information sheet
• French zoo animals glossary
• French zoo animal pictures x20
• French price vocabulary
• Teachers’ guide
Using these resources, pupils can take part in a fun zoo role play as visitors and zookeepers. Resources provided enable pupils with a range of ability levels to participate in the dialogue.
This material can be used to teach the following National Curriculum languages attainment targets:
• To listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding;
• To engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help;
• To speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures;
• To present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences.
All documents have been provided as easily editable Word files and as PDFs.
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