This pack includes: What's in the teacher's bag? Mystery neighbours - collect a bin bag full of clues to share with the class and see if they can solve the mystery - commented on as 'an exciting and engaging' lesson in a recent Ofsted (images of ideas for clues included). A mystery letter - can the children use the clues to infer who the sender might be? (Example included) Using movie trailers for children to make inferences before they see the film is a great way to promote inference skills - editable template provided! Watch the movie trailers and see if the children's inferences remain the same. The Perfect Gift - using inference skills to determine a suitable gift for fairytale characters based on evidence from the stories. Cause and effect sheet with example. For more practical resources visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01 Please leave a review.

A PowerPoint on how to write instructions used during a Talk 4 Writing lesson focussing on 'boxing up' ideas - template for children to use included.

A PowerPoint used during a creative writing lesson to stimulate narrative writing with an example story and planning templates for children.

Can you complete the similies? More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint with activities linked to Fairytale characters to introduce using commas in lists. A range of 20 sentence starters for children to use on individual task to reinforce using commas when writing lists. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

PowerPoint lesson starter - can you describe the alien using an exclamatory sentence starting with a What or a How and containing a verb (and an adjective or suffix word!) e.g. What a lot of eyes you have! or How brilliantly green you are! or How friendly you look! Photo borders included for children to then draw their own aliens and describe using exclamatory sentences. A really fab and effective lesson! Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

PowerPoint containing postcard from Zap the alien with missing punctuation and activity sheet for children to find and correct the missing capital letters. Postcard template also included for children to then write their own messages. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

Can you make a verb alaphabet? Editable activity sheet which could be used for any word groups. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

'Y Spy' activity - find and write words that end in an /i/ sound made by a y. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Read the poem, draw the picture of the poem, pick out the VIP words and now tell the story.

Reinforce dictionary skills with this word definition challenge. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Find the matching pairs activity. Find more resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Ideas sheet to make spelling more fun! More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Guess the fairy tale from the clues - a great topic starter.

Roll and write suffixes game. Please leave a review. For more practical activities visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

What is a dragon? A PowerPoint all about dragons to stimulate writing with dragon images for ‘Quickwrite’ adjective activity. After sharing this introduction the children designed their own dragons, named them and then we watched ‘How to train a dragon featurette’. The children then wrote instructions on how to train their own dragons and we ended the unit of work by writing acrostic dragon poems. For more practical activities and resources visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A range of activities for children to complete linked to reading or library skills including book detectives, find a fact and 'Short and Tweet!' adaptable for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Who lives in a fantasy world like this? A series of PowerPoints introducing and exploring Fantasy Lands including the story 'Knock, Knock' exploring fantasy characters and activity sheets. Suitable for KS1 or KS2. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01