This is a persuasive writing graphic organiser on a single A3 sheet, aimed at KS3 and KS4. Print on a large sheet of paper for planning and creative thinking, or on a smaller letter-size or A4 sheet if needed. This organiser prompts your students to plan for writing about: Main opinion Situation, action, outcome 3 reasons or arguments Tripling, similes, alliteration and exaggeration Rhetorical questions and repetition Emotive language Facts and statistics Punctuation checklist …and available with both UK and US spellings.

This is a descriptive writing graphic organiser on a single A3 sheet, aimed at KS3 and KS4. Print on a large sheet of paper for planning and creative thinking, or on a smaller A4 sheet if needed. This organiser prompts your students to plan for writing about: 5 senses Thoughts and emotions Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs Textures and patterns Similes and personification Colours and synonyms Varied punctuation …and includes a selection of scenes to choose from and describe if writer’s block hits. Available with both UK and US spellings.

A full main task for a lesson on extract responses using Nigel Hinton’s Buddy. Aimed at Year 9, this resource includes: A close reading and highlighting task with a single-page extract A differentiated challenge grid for structuring an extract response to the question The grid supports pupils to four levels of difficulty, and encourages contextual, social and personal responses as well as the initial PEE format. Great for mixed ability classes with both ALN and MAT students present. Models included. An editable version of the differentiated challenge grid can be found here. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Literary Symbols Mat | Motifs Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Poetry Analysis Mat | Content and Structure Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure

18 posters featuring six different figurative language and writing devices. Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples. The posters demonstrate: Alliteration Imagery Metaphors Oxymoron Personification Similes Use as classroom posters or print as smaller handouts. Includes both UK and US document sizes, and colour, low ink, and black and white styles.

Four workshop tasks in worksheet format to explore the context of Of Mice and Men from a slightly more unusual angle. Set the worksheets up at stations around the room, or print them as packs and move students on at their own tables. The tasks are: Inference and Deep thinking Themes and connections Experience and Empathy Food and Diet All sheets come in both UK and US document sizes and with respective spelling and terminology. You might like… Character Revision Placemats | Of Mice & Men Theme Revision Placemats | Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | Character Sketch Bundle | GCSE Study Of Mice and Men | Light Symbolism | Post-Reading | GCSE Close Study

Punctuation feedback stickers in a pastel background design! 15 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to grammar improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper. The stickers come as one sheet with all grammar stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out. The 11 different stickers are… I is your name for yourself and needs a capital letter. All sentences must start with a capital letter. All names of people, places and companies need a capital letter. Sentences must not ‘run on’ from each other. Use a full stop. Make sure you stay in the same tense when writing. Is this past, present or future tense? Stay consistent! Check you are using there, their and they’re correctly. Check you are using here and hear correctly. Check you are using your and you’re correctly. Check you are using where, were, we’re and wear correctly. Check you are using to, too, and two correctly. Plurals do not need an apostrophe. Apostrophes must be added to show possession. Use names instead of vague pronouns. could have, should have, might have …not ‘of’. If you like this, you might also like… Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Printable Punctuation Feedback Stickers | Marking | Literacy | Wild Design

Punctuation feedback stickers in a denim background design! 15 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to grammar improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper. The stickers come as one sheet with all grammar stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out. The 11 different stickers are… I is your name for yourself and needs a capital letter. All sentences must start with a capital letter. All names of people, places and companies need a capital letter. Sentences must not ‘run on’ from each other. Use a full stop. Make sure you stay in the same tense when writing. Is this past, present or future tense? Stay consistent! Check you are using there, their and they’re correctly. Check you are using here and hear correctly. Check you are using your and you’re correctly. Check you are using where, were, we’re and wear correctly. Check you are using to, too, and two correctly. Plurals do not need an apostrophe. Apostrophes must be added to show possession. Use names instead of vague pronouns. could have, should have, might have …not ‘of’. This set features two sizes - a sheet of 70, and a sheet of 117 in a smaller size, both in UK A4 format. That’s 32 printable sheets. If you like this, you might also like… Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Printable Punctuation Feedback Stickers | Marking | Literacy | Wild Design

Aimed at KS4 More Able and Talented students, this is a full lesson guide for comparing several areas of poetry for two or more poems chosen by the teacher. Use this PowerPoint and set of modelling sentence sheets with any poems! Includes challenging concepts such as semantic fields and forms of poetry. The slideshow includes built-in discussion prompts and a quick ‘language of comparison’ starter task to draw students in. The sheets can be used as a cloze activity with students’ own ideas, or to be completed as the class discusses and shares suggestions. Includes both UK and US spellings and document sizes.

Punctuation feedback stickers in a wild background design! 11 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to punctuation improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper. The stickers come as one sheet with all punctuation stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out. The 11 different stickers are… Don’t forget your capital letters Don’t forget your full stops Don’t forget your commas Don’t forget your apostrophes Don’t forget your question marks Don’t forget your speech marks Don’t forget your colon for a list You could use a colon You could use an ellipsis You could use a semi colon You could use a dash If you like this, you might also like… Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy

**Punctuation feedback stickers in a watercolour background design! ** 11 types of printable stickers for drawing attention to punctuation improvement areas. The larger stickers fit nicely at the bottom of pages, and the smaller stickers can be perfectly placed in the margin of an exercise book or sheet of paper. The stickers come as one sheet with all punctuation stickers in one print, or as full sheets of each individual punctuation focus for you to top up when you run out. The 11 different stickers are… Don’t forget your capital letters Don’t forget your full stops Don’t forget your commas Don’t forget your apostrophes Don’t forget your question marks Don’t forget your speech marks Don’t forget your colon for a list You could use a colon You could use an ellipsis You could use a semi colon You could use a dash If you like this, you might also like… Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Question Cards | Promote Independence and Problem Solving Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy

This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of onomatopoeia for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a highlighting task, a categorising task, and a set of practice tasks. Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. Answer key included for the highlighting task. If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

This worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides an annotation task and two sets of practice tasks. Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back.

This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a sheet of practice tasks. Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of similes for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also demonstrates a range of sentence structures for similes, and provides ten practice tasks. Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification

Support your students in structuring a story with this pre-made editable frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in A4 size format. It can also be given to older students for them to plan their own stories. The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation. Want some pre-populated, ready to go frames? Check out the pre-filled versions: Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing Secondary | The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Guided Writing If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

Support your Primary level students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both colour and black and white, and in A4 size format. The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation. Looking for a similar mat aimed at older or more able students? Check out the version for Secondary level. Secondary | The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Guided Writing Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable version: The Perfect Narrative | Editable Story Frame | KS2, 3 and 4

Support your Secondary level students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both colour and black and white, and in A4 size format. The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation. Looking for a similar mat aimed at younger or less able students? Check out the version for Primary level. Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable version. The Perfect Narrative | Editable Story Frame | KS2, 3 and 4 If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes