"We must prepare young people for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds." —UNESCO, 1982 These are guided reading learning mats for getting quality discussion and reading of any persuasive texts, specifically forms of advertising. They enable structured discussion by pupils about advertising to make them wiser as consumers and aware that adverts are carefully constructed texts. It also informs them to produce their own persuasive texts. There is a KS3 and a KS2 learning mat .

Guided Reading KS1 - mat with poetry questions to use with any poem . This provides a structure to any guided reading discussion of any poem - there are a range of questions, so some offer lots of challenge . It uses the SMILE structure used by older children, but is a simple introduction to discussing a poem.

These worksheets improve creative writing by getting pupils to reveal clues that show how a character feels, rather than through simply telling, for example ' they are angry.' There are two aimed at different ability levels. They can then be used as a resource for their own creative writing.

This activity gives pupils a clear structure for writing a newspaper about Mrs Pretty’s donation of the Sutton Hoo finds to the British Museum. It also provides all the facts they need to write a really good newspaper article. A task for able upperKS2, and KS3 historians.

KS2 Forces - fulcrum levers worksheet

There is a list of ultimate spy vehicle features for discussion. There are teaching notes and a scaffold frame to ensure you get good explanation text writing results. There is also an Alex Rider jet pack task, if required.

This is a fun family car advert for the X1 Super Penguin written to demonstrate persuasive techniques, such as, rhetorical questions. There are detailed teaching notes on the text and a follow up writing task. There is scaffold frame to support pupils with independent writing and a blank template for pupils to produce their own car advert, having discussed the advert provided. There is also a list of demonstration slogans from car companies. There are five resources in all. The car advert text is written to teach advertising techniques in persuasive writing.

A Powerpoint showing how to move a subordinate clause in a sentence.

The Homeworkabot should appeal! A simple explanatory text and support worksheets, frames, teaching notes and templates to ensure children produce good explanatory texts themselves. The task is a fun one and should motivate whilst making pupils aware of the features of the text type.

How to punctuate speech PowerPoint.

A brief sheet with fun examples of how punctuation changes meaning. I've used examples found on the internet of meaning changes caused by punctuation changes. This is available at 65% discount as part of a bundle.

A complex sentences PowerPoint

This could be homework tasks. This is a reading challenge homework for KS1 and Lower KS2. There are 3 bookmarks - one on unfamiliar words, one on other words for said and one on powerful verbs for children to fill in from their independent reading. You could choose to use just one bookmark, or all three over a number of weeks. There is a certificate that can be used as a reward for completing the bookmark.

Questions to improve the depth and structure of pupils response to poetry

This is a free extract from a Premium PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on alternative words for said. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop. The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.

Finding the main idea - pupils find headings for paragraphs in a desert information text.

This is a free sample of a Word a Day resource that I have made with over 600 words. The bought resource provides a big enough word a day collection for 3 and a half school years. There is a related picture and synonym to aid comprehension. I hope it will be a way for whole schools to increase the vocabulary of their pupils, through use in lessons, newsletters or assemblies. Aimed at KS3, KS4 and KS5 but the word a day may also have some application with able pupils in upper KS2.