A FANTASTIC WRITING TOPIC TO DO WITH YOUR CLASS! A 57-slide PowerPoint with integrated animations and writing activities. 15 lessons - to be taught over 3 weeks. All activities are fully editable. Learning objectives, story, worksheets, video links and more. Ideal for Year 2 or Year 3. . LEARNING OBJECTIVES COVERED (The children will…) . Describe MR BIG. Describe what makes someone happy and sad. Answer questions about the beginning of MR BIG. Learn more about the word ‘avoid’. Sequence sentences correctly. Correct MR BIG sentences. Describe story settings. Order/sequence settings. Describe mountain gorilla activities. Compare two things. Write comparative sentences using however, but and whereas. Correct comparative sentences. Learn some new words and their meanings. Use a dictionary. Make a story map for one section of a story. Adapt part of a story. Plan a story. Write a story. Read a story aloud.

A fully editable rainbow writing poster. Great for reference and display.

A simple poster to display in your classroom or refer to when doing handwriting.

Focus text: ‘The Iron Man’ (by Ted Hughes). 4 resources attached. The first resource is a simple 1-page storyboard divided into 5 chapters. Students need to summarise each chapter by writing a sentence and drawing a picture. Ideal for younger learners. The second resource is a 12-page booklet that summarises the story in 24 small sections of text. Great for creating play scripts, acting out, group work, sequencing or just illustrating. The third resource is a 6-page Iron Man booklet - similar to resource number 1 but in booklet form. The final set of resources are 5 worksheets (1 for each chapter) for your student’s to write their own summary (and picture). Ideal to use when reading this wonderful story with your class. All resources are fully editable.

Focus text: ‘The Iron Man’ (by Ted Hughes). 4 resources attached. The first resource is a simple 1-page storyboard divided into 5 chapters. Students need to summarise each chapter by writing a sentence and drawing a picture. Ideal for younger learners. The second resource is a 12-page booklet that summarises the story in 24 small sections of text. Great for creating play scripts, acting out, group work, sequencing or just illustrating. The third resource is a 6-page Iron Man booklet - similar to resource number 1 but in booklet form. The final set of resources are 5 worksheets (1 for each chapter) for your student’s to write their own summary (and picture). Ideal to use when reading this wonderful story with your class. All resources are fully editable.

Title: One Winter’s Day Stimulus: Little Hedgehog. Plot: Little Hedgehog is going to stay with a friend (Badger) for Christmas. On the way he meets 3 characters who all need help. Sentence starter: Little Hedgehog set off in the deep snow towards Badger’s house. To keep him warm, he wore a scarf, woollen mittens and a hat. On the way … 2 pages. Fully editable.

Attached is a 1-page worksheet to complete before you start reading Kensuke’s Kingdom. Ideal for whole class, group work or one-to-one teaching. I will keep adding activities in the coming weeks. Fully editable and ideal for 9+

2 story path templates provided. Fully editable.

Every week, I have children in my class who love to write their own stories. At the moment, it’s mainly the girls BUT the boys are starting too! To promote and celebrate the love of story writing, I’ve created a blank story book template for children to complete. I always leave around 20 of these blank book templates in my ‘Author’s lounge’ so that they are readily available for all budding story writers. Just print off the relevant template (KS1 or KS2) and staple the books together. The KS1 book template contains 10 writing pages plus a front and back cover. On each writing page, there is space to draw a picture too. The KS2 book template contains 16 writing pages and a front and back cover. On every other page, there is space to draw a picture. It’s amazing to see the children’s faces light up every time someone mentions their book being displayed in the ‘Author’s lounge’. I use the KS1 book template with my current Year 2 class and they love it. They write stories about unicorns, princesses, frogs, heroes etc. The KS2 book template is adapted to attract older writers and is currently being trialled with a Year 5 class. 2 book templates attached - fully editable.

Synonyms - Worksheet and Posters 6 attachments: Synonyms of said. Synonyms of ran. Synonyms of walk. Synonyms of ate. Synonyms of look. Synonyms Worksheet.

A 3-page activity booklet to help your student’s use a thesaurus and expand their vocabulary. Ideal for 6+ Fully editable.

Enhance your student’s vocabulary with this semantic gradient. Task: Grade the 7 words from freezing to boiling on the scale. 1 worksheet. Ideal for 7+ Fully editable.

Enhance your student’s vocabulary with this semantic gradient. Task: Grade the 7 words from silent to noisy on the scale. 1 worksheet. Ideal for 7+ Fully editable.

Ideal for younger learners. 1 worksheet. Answers provided. Fully editable.

20 sentences to complete using the correct preposition ‘on’ phrase. All answers provided and fully editable. Ideal for 7+

8 slides. Get your class to read through the selection of story openings and decide if they could be from a traditional story or not. Fully editable. Ideal for 7 to 11 years.

Why not run an exciting 500-word writing competition at your school? Just edit the poster and send it out. Fully editable. Good luck!

Title: Hostile Territory Plot: You are in the US special forces and you have been given a dangerous mission to complete. Sentence starter: ‘Okay lads, we’re flying over the drop zone now … move into position!’ Planning and writing template attached. 7+ Fully editable.

Ideal for 5 to 9 years. Task: Cut out the cards (30 in total). Match three cards together to make 10 grammatically correct sentences. Finally, copy out the sentences on the sheet provided. 4 pages. Fully editable.