Here is a planning sheet and activity sheet for creating a new room for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This activity is to encourage children's writing to become more descriptive especially with the setting. It can also be taught alongside the dvd for inspiration. Complete with success criteria sheet.

A scary story planning frame to help children work on characters and setting. Also to help structure a story with a beginning, middle, build up and change in atmosphere and conclusion.

Writing frame for planning a letter of complaint featuring success criteria.

Writing frame for a message in a bottle letter. Sea and Seashore, pirates, letters

This is a planning sheet I created to help children to consider their ideas for a comic strip. It looks at characters and events.

Story beginning for children to continue about a haunted house. Writer's craft actvity for children to complete story ending, continuing setting and character.

A writing frame for children to invent their own superhero and write a descriptive piece about the character. There is also an accompanying planning sheet to get children thinking about ideas for their superhero.

This is a writing frame for a missing person poster. It can be used to encourage character description using adjectives and similes. Could be used as a first day activity or a getting to know you activity - children could write a poster for themselves or a friend in class.

This is a powerpoint to accompany the novel, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. It has several pictures of different settings and leads to a discussion on why setting is important to a story. You can either give the children a copy of a chapter describing setting or get them to take notes of words and phrases relating to setting as you read aloud.

This is a great getting to know you activitiy for a class or first day. Children create a recipe based on themselves, ingredients could be personality traits, looks, hobbies, family members etc. They write a method and produce a picture of themselves at the bottom. Just a bit of fun to help you get to know them!

Powerpoint using pictures to inspire creative writing. setting, visual, space, planets, description, senses.

Planning sheet for writing a letter to a child in Europe, penpals, letters, Europe,

Planning frame to go with Journey to another Planet Powerpoint. Creative writing, setting, space.

Simple character wheel for younger children.

Questioning template for before, during and after story in shape of thinking head.

Active Literacy stations for Middle/Upper stages practising speech marks, spelling, contractions and dictionary skills.

Four activities which can be used and adapted for any stage to enhance newspaper writing skills. I used these in carousel format with my class but could be used as individual teaching activities for a lesson. The four activities are: Questioning Headlines Note-taking Fact versus Opinion (Cards to accompany from Twinkl or own can be made up)

Five carousel activity cards for practising connectives! Connective chains Connective butterflies Connective board game (twinkl linked) Connective construction Connective wheel of fortune (twinkl linked)