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Pupils must match up the two parts of sentences from the text that have been cut in two. Five sentence matching activities are provided, one for each chapter of The Iron Man novel by Ted Hughes.
After reading each chapter of the novel, in pairs, pupils match up the beginning of the sentence with the correct ending, reading them aloud to check that they sound complete.
Benefits for this activity:
• Encourages pupils to discuss how they know which parts to put together
• Leads to pupils to spot patterns in sentence structure
• Gives the opportunity for pupils to re-read sentences many times over
• Helps pupils attune their ears to the sound of a sentence
• Helps children recall the events of the story
• Provides the opportunity for children to pay close attention to the grammar of sentences including tense
• Helps pupils recognise sentences in their own writing in order to demarcate them using the correct punctuation
All resources come as easily editable Word documents and as PDFs.
Answers for all 5 sentence matching activities are provided.
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A bundle of activities, worksheets, quiz and presentation aimed at learning how to use colons.
Resources include:
• Powerpoint/PDF presentation describing three main ways to use colons
• A variety of colon worksheets
• A colon sorting activity
• A quiz
The following usages of colons are covered in these resources:
• Using a colon to introduce a list;
• Using a colon to separate related main clauses where the second clause explains the first clause;
• Using a colon to emphasise a word or phrase
All documents available as easily editable Word or Powerpoint documents and as PDFs.
These activities are suitable for years 5 or 6.
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✦ Letter to an Ogre Example Persuasive Text, Feature Identification & Answers
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An example character profile text about Jared from the book The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 1 of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s fantasy novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model character description of Jared Grace and then plan and write their own character profile about Jared, Mallory, Simon or any other character using the differentiated templates.
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
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Two example letters from the point of view of Sam from the children’s novel A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman.
These exemplar informal letters are perfect to use as WAGOLLs after reading Chapter 4 of the text. The letters are written from Sam to two different recipients, Sam’s parents and Sam’s friend, about his trip to Scotland.
The contrasting model letters provide the opportunity for discussion about writing for a particular audience. Pupils can discuss the similarities and differences between the two.
Pupils can identify the features of the model texts, and then plan and write their own informal letter based on the examples.
The following documents are included in this resource pack:
• Informal letter model texts x2
• Differentiated planning sheets x4
• Notes for teaching
The notes for teaching include opportunities for cross-curricular geography and science activities.
The features in the texts include:
• Second person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Thoughts/feelings/opinions
• Co-ordinating & subordinating conjunctions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Rule of three
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Rhetorical questions
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Colons
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✦ Example Diary Text Pack
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Four WAGOLL example text packs based on the novel A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs which each contain a WAGOLL related to a different section of the book.
Diary Entry Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL diary entry text
• Feature Find worksheets differentiated x3
• Feature Find answers differentiated x3
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL character profile text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
Letter Writing Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Informal letter WAGOLL model texts x2
• Differentiated planning sheets x4
• Notes for teaching
Apology Letter Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar WAGOLL apology letter text
• Structure Feature Find worksheet
• Structure Feature Find answers
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find worksheet
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find answers
• Task sheet differentiated 2 ways
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
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✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Character Profile Example: Journey
✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example Pack
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example Pack
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An example apology letter text from Brandon based on the book A Dangerous Game plus feature find worksheets with answers, differentiated task sheet and differentiated planning templates. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Marlorie Blackman’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar apology letter text
• Structure Feature Find worksheet
• Structure Feature Find answers
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find worksheet
• Language, grammar and punctuation Feature Find answers
• Task sheet differentiated 2 ways
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
How to use this resource pack:
1 Read the WAGOLL
2 Identify the structural features
3 Identify the language and punctuation features
4 Plan an apology letter
5 Write an apology letter
Language, grammar and punctuation features included in the WAGOLL text:
• adverbs of degree
• complex lists
• conjunctions
• expanded noun phrases
• fronted adverbials
• plural possessive apostrophe
• relative clauses
• synonyms
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✦ Example Character Profile Text Pack
✦ Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Informal Letter Examples Text Pack
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A collection of rhetorical question sentence starters to be used as a handout or poster. These sentence stems provide scaffolding to help pupils write rhetorical questions.
A rhetorical question is a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. It is a literary device often used to persuade the audience.
This vocabulary bank is particularly useful for planning and completing persuasive writing texts, such as adverts, debates, speeches and persuasive letters. Rhetorical questions can also be found in other text types such as instructions, diaries and stories.
This document contains examples of rhetorical question sentence stems. The rhetorical question stem list can be used to help to understand this literary device, to identify rhetorical questions within texts and to use rhetorical questions in writing.
Other rhetorical question resources:
Activities
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Letter writing example text packs
✦ Letter to an Ogre
✦ Unicorn Letter
✦ A Dangerous Game Letter
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter Letter
Instructions example text packs
✦ How to Catch an Ogre Instructions
✦ Unicorn Instructions
✦ Stig of the Dump Instructions
Adverts example text packs
✦ Stig of the Dump Advert
Recounts example text packs
✦ Ogre Recount
✦ The Iron Man Hogarth’s Diary
✦ The Hodgeheg Diary
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Diary
✦ The Butterfly Lion Diary
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class Diary
✦ Charlotte’s Web Diary
✦ Harry Potter Diary
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons Diary
✦ Journey Diary
✦ A Dangerous Game Diary
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An example non-chronological report text about brownies, a type of faerie, plus two activities with answers, and planning and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about brownies, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report on the sheet provided; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates provided. Pupils can research and create the information text about a brownie or a different mythical creature such as a goblin, boggart, dwarf, griffin, kelpie, unicorn or troll. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar and punctuation features included in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Fast Facts section
• Did you know? section with bullet points
• Paragraphs
• Picture with caption
• Rule of three
• Rhetorical questions
• Present tense
• Modal verbs
• Adverbs of degree
• Conjunctive adverbs
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Question marks
• Commas in lists
• Complex lists
• Commas as parenthesis
• Possessive apostrophes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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A word bank of alternatives to the word ‘said’. This word list is a useful resource for pupils who are learning to write direct speech and as a word mat when writing fiction, especially dialogues.
The synonyms for ‘said’ are grouped into categories to make pupils’ selection of the most appropriate word easier and quicker.
The word bank can be printed back-to-back onto A4 to be used as a handy desk-top resource or enlarged onto A3 paper and displayed on the wall of your classroom.
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✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Quiz & Activities
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land Direct Speech to Reported Speech Differentiated Worksheets With Answers
✦ Street Child Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Dialogue Writing Example Text
✦ The Hodgeheg Dialogue Example Pack
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Boy at the Back of the Class
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Butterfly Lion
✦ Dialogue Example Pack: The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Dialogue Text Examples Differentiated: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦ The Twits Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Christophe’s Story Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Stig of the Dump Dialogue Writing Example with Feature Identification, Answers & Extract
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Dialogue Texts Differentiated, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ The Iron Man Dialogue Writing Example Text, Feature Identification & Answers
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✦ The Iron Man Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Iron Man Apostrophe Activities Differentiated BUNDLE
✦ Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Punctuation Activities & Quiz
✦ Daily Grammar & Writing Activities with Answers – Whole Term BUNDLE
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Three animal-related activities where pupils must add punctuation to information texts about three animals: badgers, hedgehogs and spiders.
Pupils must read the texts and add the missing punctuation, including the following:
• Capital letters for the start of sentences
• Capital letters for proper nouns
• Full stops
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Commas in compound sentences
• Commas after fronted adverbials
• Apostrophes for possession
These tasks are useful when learning about or revising punctuation, including sentence punctuation. The non-chronological report style texts help to familiarise pupils with this non-fiction genre, and the subject matter, animals, is of interest to children.
The three texts are differentiated by type of punctuation used and sentence structure.
Each sheet comes with its own answer key.
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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A Powerpoint presentation about suffixes, plus a suffixes worksheet with answers.
The suffixes covered by this presentation and worksheet are -er, -less and -ment.
The presentation is provided as in Powerpoint, Smart Notebook and PDF. The worksheet is provided as Word and PDF.
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An example text demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on the Beowulf retelling by Michael Morpurgo plus accompanying resources.
The differentiated WAGOLL contains a conversation between Beowulf, his father, Edgetheow, and his uncle, King Hygelac, when he decides to travel to Denmark to kill Grendel. It is based on a part of the story containing no direct speech. Differentiated feature find sheets with answers and word bank are also included.
This resource contains the following documents:
• Example dialogue texts x3
• Dialogue text feature find sheets x3
• Answer sheets x3
• Contractions word bank
Pupils examine the model text, completing the feature find sheet, before writing their own version or continuing the dialogue.
The resources can be used when studying Morpurgo’s version of the story Beowulf or a different one, such as Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye or Beowulf by Rob Lloyd Jones.
All documents available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
Text contains the following features:
• Actual words spoken, with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause separated from words spoken with comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Contractions within speech
• New paragraph every time the speaker changes
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Two sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Split speech: one sentence spoken but split into two by the reporting clause
• Split speech: two sentences spoken at once and split into two by the reporting clause
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A fun Christmas-themed way for children to learn to identify different types of phrases and clauses (noun phrases, adverbial phrases, main clauses and subordinate clauses).
The phrases and clauses all come from popular Christmas carols and songs, including:
• Away in a Manger
• Frosty the Snowman
• Jingle Bells
• Little Donkey
• Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Silent Night
• Twelve Days of Christmas
• We Three Kings
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• While Shepherds Watched
This Christmas carol bingo game can be played with a whole class or in small groups. Pupils can play as individuals, in pairs or in teams.
Included in this resource pack:
• Playing Rules
• Christmas Carol Bingo Scorecards
• Bingo Calling Cards
• Phrase and Clause Class Answers
• Blank Bingo Scorecards
• Christmas Carol Phrase and Clause List
• Interactive Bingo Wheel Powerpoint
Just print and play!
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✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets
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✦ Old Santaclaus With Much Delight Comprehension
✦ Santa and the Reindeer Comprehension
✦ A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Comprehension Part A
✦ Christmas Shape Algebra
✦ Christmas Fraction Word Problems
✦ Christmas Coordinate Pictures
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✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
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An example mission file text based on Chapter 4 of the action-adventure novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz with planning sheet and writing template.
The model mission file is written using information from Chapter 4, “So What Do You Say?", of the first novel in the Alex Rider series.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL text to examine before pupils plan and write their own mission file based on this chapter or a mission invented by the children themselves.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar mission file text
• Planning sheet
• Writing template
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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✦ Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Stormbreaker: Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Stormbreaker: Example Diary Text Pack With Feature Find & Templates
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Teach pupils about the use of literary devices and figurative language in the novel Stormbreaker using these four differentiated activities.
The first novel in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz is full of literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification. Examples of these and more are explored to give pupils a deeper understanding of the text and enable them to create their own to enhance their writing.
Literary devices and figurative language examples from chapters 1 to 8 are explored in the following activities:
• Literary Device Match (differentiated x3): pupils match the literary devices with their definitions and examples (ideal as a paired or small group activity)
• Completing Similes (differentiated x2): complete the similes using the appropriate noun phrase and then complete an extension activity
• Completing Personification (differentiated x2): pupils complete the personifications using the appropriate verb/noun and then complete an extension activity
• Identifying Literary Devices (differentiated x3): pupils find and underline listed literary devices used in extracts from the novel
The following literary devices are covered by these activities:
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Repetition for effect
• Rule of three
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhetorical questions
Full answers to all activities are included.
Each activity comes as an easily editable word document and in PDF format.
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✦ Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Example Diary Text Pack With Feature Find & Templates
✦ Example Mission File Text Pack With Templates
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A pack of 50 differentiated grammar and punctuation worksheets linked to the book The Ship of Shadows by Maria Kuzniar. Answers are provided.
In this Year 5 and 6 pack, the following topics are covered:
• Various comma usage
• Speech punctuation
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Apostrophes: contractions and possession
• Dashes
• Relative clauses
• Changing tenses
• Modal verbs
• Active and passive voice
This pack is ideal for classes studying the exciting pirate-themed fantasy fiction story during English or guided reading lessons. Each set of differentiated worksheets complements a different chapter or set of chapters from the book.
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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Pupils examine the personality of Ada and other characters in this differentiated character trait matching exercise.
Pupils match the main characters from Children of the Benin Kingdom by Dinah Orji with character traits and evidence from the text.
The quotes from the text have been provided, alongside the character traits and definitions.
This resource has been differentiated three ways:
• Higher ability: 10 characters, quotes and character traits have been provided.
• Middle ability: 10 characters, quotes and character traits with their definitions have been provided.
• Lower ability: 7 characters, quotes and character traits with their definitions have been provided.
This activity is a great way for pupils to think carefully about how a character’s personality is revealed by what they do and how they react in a story. This gives pupils an opportunity to use their inference skills.
An answer sheet has been included.
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In this week-long unit of work about the first Moon landing, pupils examine an example diary text written from Neil Armstrong’s point of view recounting the Moon landing; they take part in a role play and learn about the Moon landing; and then plan, write and edit their own diary entries.
This resource contains 5 lessons with full lesson plans, differentiation, all required worksheets and handouts (x23), and lesson presentations (x5).
Example of resources included:
• Lesson presentations x5 (Smart Notebook, Powerpoint & PDF)
• WAGOLL diary text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning templates
• Diary success criteria
• Moon landing timeline
• Moon landing vocabulary
• Detailed plans for each lesson with differentiation, starters, main teaching and tasks, and plenaries
All resources and lesson plans come as both Word documents and in PDF format. All lesson presentations come as Smart Notebook, Powerpoint and PDF files.
Suitable for Lower Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
Learning objectives
Main objectives:
• To identify features from a diary text
• To explore the feelings of a character
• To plan a diary entry
• To write a first draft of a diary entry
• To edit a diary entry
Year 3/4 English Curriculum objectives:
• To plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
• To participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/ improvisations and debates
• To plan their writing by discussing and recording ideas
• To draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme
• To evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• To evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency
• To proofread for spelling and punctuation errors
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An nineteen-slide presentation explaining how to punctuate direct speech, including lots of examples and do’s and don’ts.
This presentation comes as an easily editable Powerpoint presentation as well as in PDF format.
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• The difference between direct and indirect speech;
• The parts of direct speech;
• How different sentence types in speech are punctuated, including inverted commas (speech marks);
• The punctuation of several speech sentences;
• The punctuation of embedded reporting clauses.
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A fun model instructional text about defeating a dragon, plus feature find worksheet with answers.
Based on the Polish legend of the Wawel Dragon from Kraków, these instructions tell the reader how to defeat the dragon without the use of weapons.
Use this exemplar text as a WAGOLL to examine its features before pupils write their own instructional text. This resource is a perfect model for instructions about mythical creatures such as dragons, ogres or unicorns, but would work well as a WAGOLL before writing instructions about any topic.
The following language, grammar and punctuation features are included in the WAGOLL:
• Rhetorical questions
• Alliteration
• Fronted time adverbials followed by a comma
• Expanded noun phrases
• Commands beginning with imperative verbs
• Exclamation marks
• Question marks
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Hyphens
The following resources are provided in this pack:
• Instructions WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
Documents available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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