A whole weeks worth of planning for the innovation phase of a suspense story. Used with yr 6. Based on the Talk for Writing scheme, the lessons have grammar games and short burst writes. The lessons practise the toolkit techniques and leads up to the children planning their own suspense stories. Comes with the box up plan used for the children to innovate on. The other text stories that you look at in lesson 1 can just be found online. They are not mine so cannot be uploaded with this.

Sentence openers for a suspense story/paragraph. Good resource to set your children off on their writing without them ‘not knowing how to start’.

Yr 5/6 suspense story based on Talk for Writing’s Clockwork modelled text.

3 day poetry - perfect for the start of a term. Focuses on language and vocabulary. Children gather vocabulary, look at example poems and then create their own poem.

Resources for a formal complaint letter. Model formal complaint letters with a Y5/6 formal writing knowledge organiser to be used as a prompt or checklist. Boxing up grid.