I combine my time between writing ( children's author ) and teaching. In my shop you will find a range of worksheets that I have successfully used in the classroom with Key Stage 2 pupils. My passions are writing and history and you will find plenty of resources for these subjects in my shop.
I combine my time between writing ( children's author ) and teaching. In my shop you will find a range of worksheets that I have successfully used in the classroom with Key Stage 2 pupils. My passions are writing and history and you will find plenty of resources for these subjects in my shop.
A selection of 19 PDF worksheets covering many aspects of the Year 5 and 6 English curriculum written by an experienced Literacy specialist and published children’s author.
Using annotated extracts from the ever popular ‘Spartapuss’ series, your children are shown first how to recognise the key features of different texts and then provided with a ‘Flash Task’ in which they can put into practice what they have learnt.
Once the children have covered the aspects of story writing, they can then create their own story, using one of the planning sheets and writing onto the roman themed bordered sheet.
Activities include:
character description
story writing
writing dialogue
writing action scenes
writing a fight scene
writing a chase scene
newspaper reports
writing flashbacks
describing a setting
story planning frame
story writing border to colour in
What you have here is a huge bundle of roman themed writing resources, enough to keep a learner busy for weeks. Ideal for any child in Year 5 and Year 6 who is studying, or was due to study the romans at school.
Pupils have to work out what the artefact is and whether is was used by the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons or both. Question sheet and answer sheet provided.
A planning sheet to help pupils quickly plan their own D-Day adventure story. Pupils simply circle their own characters, settings and actions from the illustrated planning frame, to help them create their own D-Day story. A really efficient and pupil-friendly planning sheet to allow for a quick start into writing. Ideal for Year 5 and Year 6.
A rip-roaring, fun-filled Easter Play that will have your audience in stitches.
When a small village discovers that Henry VIII is to visit them for the Easter celebrations, chaos ensues. Can the mayor galvanise his people and ensure that they put on a show 'fit for a king' or will he lose his head altogether?
Written by a published children's author and teacher, this play will inform your pupils and audience as to the origins of our Easter traditions in a fun and friendly manner.
A Tudor Family tree with coloured images for each member. Begins with the roses of Lancaster and Yorkshire.
A great resource to help pupils understand the Tudor family and the relationships between them.
Pupils need to add in connective/connective phrase into the text - 'Was Henry VIII' a good king?
Text can also be used as an exemplar of Discursive writing.
Ideal for Year 6+
This resource is a teaching and learning pack, to be used in its entirety for a Book Week, based around the best-selling children’s book Agent Two Face. The pack, written by the author who is an English and History specialist, includes a whole week of activities based around the book, as well as a comprehension pack, which has questions in the style of SATS. Answers are also included. The resources are ideal for Year 5 to Year 8. An ideal resource for 2018, to commemorate the centenary of the end of WW1.
A set of comprehension questions, written by the author himself, ideal for Years 5-6. The questions imitate the style and standard of SATS/QCA’s papers, and will serve as ideal preparation for children taking their Year 6 SATs papers. A set of answers is also provided. The Book, Agent Two Face, is a best-selling novel, aimed at ages 10+, charting the dramatic adventures of a German Teenager, through the Years 1914-1918. The story follows Bertie’s adventures from Berlin in 1914, to war-torn London, to the Western Front, and back to London. An ideal book to study to commemorate the centenary of the end of the ‘Great War’.
A selection of fun puzzles aimed at Year 4+ that accompany the popular Viking Book ‘BEOWUFF’.
Puzzles include: a maze, cryptograms, a criss cross and word search. Ideal for children studying or with an interest in the Vikings.
Ideal for Years 3-4, a selection of fun puzzles, including cross words, word searches and cryptograms, inspired by the popular book ‘Son of Spartapuss’ . A perfect accompaniment for Roman studies in Key Stage 2.
A selection of fun and challenging puzzles, including a cross word, word search, and maze, to accompany the ever popular book ‘BOUDIACT’. Ideal for Upper Key Stage 2 and children studying Roman Britain.