LO: Understand how writers portray character personality through writing. This is a lesson based on exploring the techniques a writer uses to show a characters personality and requires pupils to use the evidence from the text extract I have included from the book 'The Hobbit' it is an excellent extract featuring the character 'Gollum.' The Powerpoint I have made goes through the process of... S (speech) A (actions) D (description) Children can then annotate their text accordingly and / or draw the character with annotations. Highly adaptable for many ages. The 1970's version of the hobbit features a similar conversation on YouTube. BONUS I have included a snippet of the text from 'The Hobbit' an activity for children to highlight all the parts of the text that describe the hobbit / wizard and the house. They then draw a picture to match their highlights. The results can be compared to the artists impression I have included.

Newspaper Headlines Homework. Useful activity to set fro homework when doing this topic.

Worksheet where children have to identify what the lancashire dialect phrases mean in standard English.

Blank lesson plan format for both Literacy and Numeracy that you may consider adopting

Worksheet where children have to identify what genre the description is from generalisations. Useful as a starter or part of a main lesson.

A selection of multiple choice questions for selected Chapters from the Charlie and the Chocolate factory books. Great for whole class / guided reading chapter by chapter.

Finding out about volcanoes questions, can be used as research questions for the Internet.

Can be used as a creative writing opportunity.

Weekly Simile Shape Poems Plan Y3

A good notebook file I made to use in a lesson teaching about writing adventure and mystery stories.

A prompt I made than can be used in a variety of ways for children to describe a 'new world&' / alien world.

Can be either used as an eye witness account in Newspaper topic (or) a simple character description.

A nice activity for children to think about designing their own robot.

A homework children could do to raise the profile of reading and then the books discussed in class.

Powerpoint designed to spark discussion around 'famous authors.&'

Smart notebook file aimed at demonstrating how to improve sentences through expansion (can be used as a time filler.)

Simple self assessment for play-script features

What would it be like to live aboard a space station, whiteboard video prompt I made.

A one page version of the 3 little pigs text I have used in year 3.

We gave our classes a homework project based around finding about an animal of their choice. These sheets were given out once a week to help guide them with 'how to write a homework project.&' They can obviously be adapted.\n\nExtract.....\n&';So far you have...\n-Gathered together resources\n-Made a title page\n-Decided on sections to split your project into and made brief notes.\n-Written the introduction and ‘where they live.’\n-Written about what they look like\n-Written about what they eat / how they hunt'\n\nIf you find the resource useful please comment or rate.