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Helen-Teach's Shop provides high quality, great value English and maths resources designed to save teachers' precious time. All materials are created by a teacher with over 20 years of experience.
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An example non-chronological text about Sri Lankan green vine snakes, plus planning and writing templates, and task sheet.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
Pupils read the model information text about green vine snakes, and then examine its features; and then research, plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about the same or a different type of snake, or an animal of their choice. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar & punctuation features in the model text:
• Heading
• Introduction
• Subheadings
• Bullet-pointed list
• Picture/diagram with caption
• Glossary
• Present tense
• Adverbs of degree
• Alliteration
• Brackets to add a definition
• Complex list with semi-colons
• Embedded relative clauses
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Modal verbs
• Passive voice
• Relative clauses
• Subordinate clauses
• List introduced with a colon
• Singular possessive nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the science curriculum:
✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
The resources are PDFs and editable Word files.
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An example non-chronological text about Gila monster lizards, plus planning and writing templates, and task sheet.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
Pupils read the model information text about Gila monsters, and then examine its features; and then research, plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about the same or a different type of lizard, or an animal of their choice. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar & punctuation features in the model text:
• Heading
• Introduction
• Subheadings
• Bullet-pointed list
• Picture/diagram with caption
• Present tense
• Adverbs of degree
• Alliteration
• Brackets to add a definition
• Complex list with semi-colons
• Embedded relative clauses
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Modal verbs
• Passive voice
• Relative clauses
• Subordinate clauses
• List introduced with a colon
• Singular possessive nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the science curriculum:
✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
The resources are PDFs and editable Word files.
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A non-chronological text pack including model text, feature find worksheets, and planning and writing templates to write an information text about the yellow-spotted lizard from the novel Holes by Louis Sachar.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
Structural, grammar, punctuation and language features included in the model information text:
• Heading
• Introduction
• Subheadings
• Bullet-pointed list
• Picture/diagram with caption
• Present tense
• Adverbs of degree
• Alliteration
• Brackets to add a definition
• Complex list with semi-colons
• Embedded relative clauses
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Modal verbs
• Passive voice
• Relative clauses
• Subordinate clauses
• List introduced with a colon
• Singular possessive nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
Pupils read the model non-chronological report, identify the features, and then plan and write their own non-chronological report about the yellow-spotted lizard using the templates provided.
The resources are provided in both PDF and editable Word format.
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More Holes themed resources:
✦ Holes: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Holes: Description Example Text Pack
✦ Holes: Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Holes: Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
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Four example text packs based on the novel Holes by Louis Sachar.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs.
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile text
• Planning template differentiated x2
• Writing template differentiated x3
• Personality traits word bank
Description Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Description WAGOLL model text
• Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Feature Find answers
• Description planning sheet differentiated x3
• Desert vocabulary bank
• Task sheet
Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL text
• Feature find worksheets, differentiated x 3
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning templates
• Newspaper report writing templates, differentiated x2
• Labelled writing templates
Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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Book & Poetry Bundles
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✦ How to Train Your Dragon: BUNDLE
✦ Ice Palace WAGOLL Writing, Apostrophe & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Lila and the Secret of Rain Example Text and Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land: BUNDLE
✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief: Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
✦ Stone Age Boy: Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Stormbreaker: Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Street Child: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Butterfly Lion: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Girl Who Stole an Elephant Model Text BUNDLE
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✦ The Hodgeheg: Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Nowhere Emporium: Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ The Silver Sword: Model Text Pack WAGOLL Writing BUNDLE
✦ The Twits: Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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✦ Unicorn Example Text BUNDLE: Non-Chronological Report, Instructions & Persuasive Letter with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Dragon 3 Example Texts BUNDLE with Feature Identification & Answers
Punctuation & Grammar Bundles
✦ Semi-Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Daily Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Activities with Answers - WholeTerm BUNDLE
✦ Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Singular & Plural Possessive Apostrophes Activities, Quiz & Worksheets BUNDLE
History & Science Bundles
✦ Ancient Egypt Example Text Bundle
✦ Mummification Bundle
✦ Ancient Greece Myths & Monsters WAGOLL Writing Bundle
✦ Animal Non-Chronological Report Bundle
Maths Bundles
✦ Valentine’s Day Maths BUNDLE
✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets
✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE
✦ 2D & 3D Shapes Games Maths BUNDLE
✦ 2D Shapes Polygons Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
✦ 3D Shapes Solids Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
English & Maths Games
✦ Fun English Writing Games
✦ 10 Fun Times Tables Games
✦ 15 Fun Maths Arithmetic Games
French Bundles
✦ 10 French Role Play Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Animals Role Plays & Games Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Animal Games Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Games Guess Who the Character Is BUNDLE
✦ French Battleships BUNDLE
✦ French Shape Vocabulary Games BUNDLE
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Various non-chronological report WAGOLLs, activities, handouts and displays, themed around animals. Perfect for a non-chronological report writing unit in KS2.
Spider Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Gila Monster Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
Animal Non-Chronological Report Punctuating Sentences Tasks
Resources provided:
• Badger information text punctuation task with answers
• Hedgehogs information text punctuation task with answers
• Spiders information text punctuation task with answers
Humpback Whale Non-Chronological Report Pack
Resources provided:
• Humpback whales vocabulary sheet
• Humpback whales vocabulary wall display
• Identify features: tense and sentence types with answers
• Humpback whales matching sentences sheet with answers
• Re-order sentences: elephants, with answers
• Humpback whales organising information into paragraphs with answers
• Humpback whales planning notes
• Non-chronological report planning sheet 4 sections
• Non-chronological report planning sheet 5 sections
• Non-chronological report writing template
• Non-chronological report sentence starters
• Non-chronological report checklist
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Units of Work
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Moon Landing Diary Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4
Book & Poetry Bundles
✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Butterfly Lion: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Christophe’s Story 4 Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ A Dangerous Game WAGOLL Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Flat Stanley: WAGOLL Writing & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ The Girl Who Stole an Elephant Model Text BUNDLE
✦ Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Hodgeheg: Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Highwayman: WAGOLL Writing, Literary Device & Poetry Pack BUNDLE
✦ Holes: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ How to Train Your Dragon: BUNDLE
✦ Ice Palace WAGOLL Writing, Apostrophe & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man 10 Example Texts BUNDLE with Feature Find Sheets
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Lila and the Secret of Rain Example Text and Grammar BUNDLE
✦ The Nowhere Emporium: Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land: BUNDLE
✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief: Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Silver Sword: Model Text Pack WAGOLL Writing BUNDLE
✦ The Spiderwick Chronicles WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Stig of the Dump Example Texts BUNDLE with Feature Identification and Answers
✦ Stone Age Boy: Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Stormbreaker: Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Street Child: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Twits: Example Texts BUNDLE
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✦ Direct Speech Punctuation Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Daily Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Activities with Answers - WholeTerm BUNDLE
✦ Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
✦ Singular & Plural Possessive Apostrophes Activities, Quiz & Worksheets BUNDLE
History Bundles
✦ Ancient Egypt Example Text Bundle
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✦ Ancient Greece Myths & Monsters WAGOLL Writing Bundle
Maths Bundles
✦ Valentine’s Day Maths BUNDLE
✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets
✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE
✦ 2D & 3D Shapes Games Maths BUNDLE
✦ 2D Shapes Polygons Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
✦ 3D Shapes Solids Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
English & Maths Games
✦ Fun English Writing Games
✦ 10 Fun Times Tables Games
✦ 15 Fun Maths Arithmetic Games
French Bundles
✦ 10 French Role Play Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Animals Role Plays & Games Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Animal Games Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Games Guess Who the Character Is BUNDLE
✦ French Battleships BUNDLE
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