To be used with Richard Hickey's 'Francis' short film. http://www.literacyshed.com/the-ghostly-shed.html https://vimeo.com/84786815 The original script is written by novelist & screenwriter Dave Eggers and the original transcript was taken from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/transcript I rewrote the transcript to make it shorter so that it could be used as a Talk 4 Writing text.

A informal, 'chatty' eyewitness account of the Peloponnesian War. Suitable to use during a topic on The Ancient Greeks. We used this as a Talk 4 Writing Text.

PowerPoint to introduce SPAG/GPS SATs Test on Tuesday 10th May 2016 - run down of the question types.

A WAGOLL resource (based on a Talk For Writing piece) for a discussion text. Two different structures are provided.

Included in this set of resources are summarised versions of the different parts of the story. These were created so that the children had something of a more realistic length to base their own story writing on. If you have the book you could create PowerPoint presentations combining the text and the images (for copyright reasons I have not included my versions of these). Also included are 'box up' frames (Talk For Writing) and comprehension questions.

A very boy-friendly compare and contrast text about supercars which can be used in a transition unit at the end of year 6. An HMI inspector was very impressed that children were being taught how to compare and contrast as this is the basis of many secondary school and university essays. The structure of this one is simple: intro, similarities, differences, conclusion.

Short sentences are used to build tension and describe fast action sequences. This short piece of text would be better written in short sentences and can be used in various ways to encourage children to use this technique. Feel free to use in as creative a way as you can!

Differentiated 3 ways. encourages application of mathematical facts and strategies. Build-a-bike from a choice of parts using a budget (costs left blank so can be differentiated for groups). Literacy - write an explanation for why they have chosen the parts. Includes percentages and averages and inference/AF3 work for Literacy/reading. One of the maths resources can be found in this document under Maths B46: http://cycle.yorkshire.com/documents/tdf/legacy/EducationPacks/TDF-EducationResourcePack-SectionB.pdf

This spy report is a fictional report based on the short film Birthday Boy which can be found on youtube.

A couple of texts - one a news report about a Tsunami written informally to be converted into formal language, the other a formal letter (not a complaint, or persuasive) outlining views on a fictional matter.

Including excerpts from: The Hobbit Harry Potter The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Covering work on setting description, building tension, using verbs, figurative language.