When planning a character description use these word banks to the support the children to give them more vocabulary.

A lot of children say ’ I’ve finished my work’ but have they actually really gone through, edited and really evaluated their work? I have designed and made these cards which the children can use to help give them a starting point to try and edit their work. It involves, word to include, Literacy techniques and lots of other stuff. There is 28 cards broken down into 7 sets, each with 4 cards. You could give each child who is done a set or let them choose between them all.

Giant A4 Upper and Lowercase letters to be printed, laminated and then the middle cut out to create a stencil. Can be used for lessons or presentations and posters.

A selection of cards for children to use in Literacy to develop their language and vocabulary used.

Homophone display cards which can be on display or on their tables. I adapted this idea from some where else - the original idea/creation is not mine. I just changed the colours, size and layout.

Small A5 book reviews which can complete. Our school do reading journals so I am going to keep some spare for the children who want to use a template for a book review to stick in their reading journal.

I created Literacy Finished Cards and this can be used alongside those for children to check their work. I would get the children to flick through the finished fan first and then the last one says to look at the activity card which have different challenges for the children to do.

Getting children to use different words when describing the colour of something.

As children are not at home, encouraging reading is so important. I have seen so many teachers make and create one of these that I had to make one for my class! All you will need to do is the change the bitmoji to your character, the information on the chalkboard and the reviews area to your own or you can get rid of it. To remove the link, highlight the word ‘here’, right click and then the options come up to edit, open, copy or delete. To add any link, highlight the word ‘here’, right click and press ‘link’. Then copy the URL (web link) for whatever it is and copy this into the box where it says ‘address’ at the bottom and click ok. To upload it to Google Classroom, Teams or anything like that, make sure when you save it, save a copy in PowerPoint and then save another copy in a PDF. You can save it in a PDF by when clicking ‘Save As’, underneath where you give it a title there is drop down box and there PDF will be an option there. Then when uploading it, upload the PDF Version!

When child review a book, they often say ’ it was boring’ and then don’t give a reason why or say ‘I liked it because it was good’. Children sometime don’t have the vocabulary to express their views. After watching Jane Considine’s Hooked on Books Sessions, I fell in love with her idea of having set words available to the children to use. Hopefully this will allow them to develop their language and thinking skills.

This is a vocabulary book to be used alongside the reading of the story to help with definitions. This is for the retold version by James Mayhew.