An engaging week of Christmas story writing for KS2. Includes planning, PPTs, resources and modelled texts, all ready-to-go. Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, designed for a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.
Each day use the structured activities to fine-tune their writing, extend their goals and build their self-esteem. By the end of the week each student will have written, edited and published their own version of this wonderful festive story.
Ensure progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture. Engage your pupils with Christmas and give them freedom and aspirations with their writing using these high quality and thorough PowerPoints.
KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:
- Using other verbs for said,
- Correcting speech punctuation,
- Improving sentence openers,
- Choosing appropriate paragraph openers,
- Comparing extracts of modelled versions,
- Magpie-ing effective words,
- Using a range of relative clauses,
- Writing powerful personification phrases,
- Thinking of unusual similes and metaphors,
- Learning how to create atmosphere.
Hand out the text extracts showing how characters change to capture that tricky KS2 writing skill. Relax while your pupils use peer assessment so your marking will be quick and delightful.
Print out the story included about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Be amazed at how it has been written to include essential writing skills for this age group such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions.
All resources and a detailed plan included so you will have time to go out and enjoy the wonderful feeling of Christmas throughout December.
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