A collection of travel guide research sheets that can be used as differentiated sheets. One is completed as an example, the Australia travel guide. This could also be used for children to use to write up the research into a detailed guide. There are example places given which can be changed to fit the country/area you are studying.

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for Answering questions in character. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for using inverted commas. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for how to make inferences when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for making predictions when reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for retrieving and recording in reading. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

An A4 sheet full of facts about Martin Luther King Junior that can be used for a unit of work or a report/biography writing activity based on figures in history

Success criteria for adding tension to a story

A full piece of writing using the 5Ps of place, people, problem, panic and peace. This is a shared piece of writing and can be used to demonstrate how each section has been written or ahred as a whole story

The PowerPoint is a guide to how to write a People paragraph or character description for a story with the outcome being that the children can introduce characters to my writing through description of looks, personality and actions.

The PowerPoint is a guide to how to write a Place or setting for a story with the outcome being that the children can describe settings understanding how small details can be included to evoke time, place and mood.

An extension to previous resources where both are combined but with different activities to consolidate their understanding including planning, PowerPoints and activity resources

Questions and activities for each chapter of The Iron Man collected and put together as one bundle. I have used them with Year 3 up to Year 6. The questions can be used in guided reading or as a unit of work based on the book. Each sheet can be cut up so the questions and activity can be stuck in their book and their work can then go below

Unit cover with suggested books, purpose for writing and objectives for reading, writing and spag

A complete lesson including PowerPoint, video clip and thought bubbles to create a freeze frame of the moment Veruca Salt gets her Golden ticket. It asks children to think about whether she really deserved the ticket and what the worker who found it would have thought, felt and said.

Planning for a week of writing looking at stories with a historical settings. Included are planned lessons on planning a story, check and editing our writing and then the first three paragraphs of Place, Person and Problem

A whole lesson looking at planning a story with a historical setting. It includes a PowerPoint, success criteria and differentiated planning sheets

A PowerPoint based lesson guiding the children through a shared writing for the place paragraph in their story with a historical setting

A lesson on writing a character evaluation of Villains in stories linked to Superheroes