This is a word bank of journalistic language that can be used to write a newspaper report. It has a some possible sentence openers and a word bank of other words and phrases that are found in newspapers. Children are not often used to writing journalistic words and phrases like these (or reading them), so this resource definitely supports children to create the correct tone and formal style involved in journalistic writing.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The slides cover three lessons (but they could be extended or shortened). Children examine the setting description of the island and then write their own as a short burst writing task. In these lessons there is a link to an island setting video clip for Madagascar, they get to plan and draft ideas first, there are slides which could be printed off as sheets for planning. There is success criteria and word banks for support. There are also warm up activities. There is a WAGOLL model and another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work at the end.

This resource includes an example of a monologue from the character Bess in Alfred Noyes' poem The Highwayman. It can be studied as an example of what a monologue looks like, or alternatively it could be used as a basic one that requires improving. It also includes success criteria for writing a monologue; some possible sentence starters; and a word bank for of Bess' emotions. All of these can be edited or added to depending on the ability of the children.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The slides cover three lessons (but they could be extended or shortened). Children examine the character description of Kensuke and then choose their own characters to write about on an island. In these lessons they are not doing a character description of Kensuke but creating their own characters they could meet on an island and describing them. They get to plan and draft ideas first and then write. There is a WAGOLL model and another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work at the end.

Language of debate word bank suitable for Lower KS2 or children who are participating in debate/argument/discursive writing for the first time.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. Children have the opportunity to carry out some creative writing based on the story. There is a WAGOLL model of a storm setting description. There is a link to the Moana clip of a storm on youtube and a link to another powerpoint attached with storm inspiration clips. The lesson includes success criteria and word banks for support. There is another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work at the end.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The slides cover approximately two lessons (which could be expanded or shortened). Children examine the dialogue between characters in chapter 1. Then they write their own dialogue between characters. The tasks are differentiated for LA, MA and HA children with differentiated detailed success criteria for dialogue. There are warm up activities too. There is a suggested role play of the dialogue and another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work at the end.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. Children get the opportunity to complete some creative writing as if they were Michael on the boat and writing a ship's log entry. The slides include a WAGOLL model (about a whale breaching with a link to a youtube clip to show children what this is!) to examine for features and success criteria for support. At the end there is another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work.

This notebook is based on the story Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The slides cover three lessons (but they could be extended or shortened). Children examine the action and suspense used in chapters 3 and 4 when Michael falls overboard. The children then carry out their own short burst writing activities. There is a WAGOLL model, success criteria and word banks all included and warm up activities for each lesson. At the end there is another lesson which has editing stations so they can revise and edit their work before publishing.

Key Stage 2 evaluation sheet for performance poetry. Evaluate performances against success criteria. Self assess your own performance with two stars and a wish.

These PDFs are all copies of the smart notebook lessons which are also available. They are all based on Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The lessons all provide creative writing opportunities. The lessons include warm up activities; success criteria and word banks for support; links to visual literacy clips; WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) models and shared writing examples and editing station ideas to revise and improve writing at the end. The lessons would probably span over 2 weeks. They are priced more cheaply as they are not interactive like the smart notebook resources.

This sheet is intended for children who have been reading Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. It will help them branch off to write their own story about being ship wrecked on an island. The invention boxes are an example of another possible story that the teacher could lead on as a modelled example. If you require a modelled example of the story, this is available in my resources as well.

This resource is intended as a model of how to write in the style of Michael Morpurgo. It can be used to help children write an alternative/ similar story to Kensuke's Kingdom. Or it could be used as a basic model that requires improving and up-leveling even further. Please note it only contains an opening, build up and problem section, NOT the whole story. If you need the plan to support this, where you can see the intended ending too, it is also available in my resources.

This is a story extract written in the style of Michael Morpurgo from Kensuke's Kingdom. The material could be used as a model of how to continue in the same style as the author. It could also be used as an example to practise making improvements to, up-levelling even further.

Worksheet for completing a character profile of the Highwayman from Alfred Noyes' poem. I used this for middle ability Year 5 children, but it could be edited and adapted for other year groups and abilities.

Year 5 writing assessment check list. Can be used for display, as a checklist or a reference sheet to stick into books.

Children can use this sheet to investigate fake crime scenes or incidents. It can be used to support stories or non-fiction work such as newspaper reports. We used this sheet as part of our work on Shakespeare's Macbeth. A fake crime scene was set up at the start of the unit and children had to investigate what they thought had happened and predict what they thought the plot was about.

Children can use this sheet to investigate fake crime scenes or incidents. It can be used to support stories or non-fiction work such as newspaper reports. We used this sheet as part of our work on Shakespeare's Macbeth. A fake crime scene was set up at the start of the unit and children had to investigate what they thought had happened and predict what they thought the plot was about.

This sheet has some suggested success criteria that can be used as part of learning to write action and suspense into a story. Children can refer to the success criteria whilst writing and then use it as part of their self evaluation process. There is also a column for peer evaluation and a box for teacher's feedback to move the writing forwards with suggested next steps.

This planning frame can be used to support writing a recount of a school trip. It is aimed at middle ability upper Key Stage 2. It sections the recount into three paragraphs (this could be edited for more or less) and has boxes to plan possible sentence openers such as fronted adverbials, sentence tricks (in the style of Alan Peat to ensure complex sentences- although this could be edited to focus on other types of complex sentences), vocabulary and punctuation.