A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A brief sheet with fun examples of how punctuation changes meaning. I've used examples found on the internet of meaning changes caused by punctuation changes.
This is available at 65% discount as part of a bundle.
There are 4 PowerPoints to explain what constitutes a sentence, complex and compound sentences. It also includes how to add and swap clauses around in complex sentences.
This activity is inspired by Dru’s spy vehicle in Despicable Me 3. There is an example of an explanation text written about Dru’s vehicle to show to class and to discuss features of an explanatory text. Children draw and write an explanation of how their minion vehicle works supported by an ideas bank, scaffold frame and teaching notes. There is a list of ultimate spy vehicle features for discussion and teaching notes and scaffold frame to ensure you get good explanation text writing results. There are examples of a Year 4s work to give an idea of the end product. There is also an optional extension task included.
Three enjoyable and highly motivating units of work - fun advert for zoo, ice cream instruction and advert and robot explanatory text. There’s lots of resources, including useful model texts, word bank, PowerPoint, worksheets and scaffold frames to offer additional fun. Please review.
This delivers great short story writing results for upper KS2, because this photo story includes a scaffold frame to support weaker writers to get good story writing results. It also includes a popular visual stimulus and a story start. It also includes a vocabulary building sheet to develop the vocabulary of the most able.
I started the task by watching Steve Backshall's Shark Bites - very short CBBC programmes on sharks, including the Great White.
Next, I read the extract from Anthony Horowitz's Skeleton Key where Alex Rider came in contact with a shark and discussed how the writer uses description of the character's feelings as well as description of the shark to build suspense.
The worksheet of vocabulary can be used to model an effective noun phrase and sentence to describe the shark as a speaking and listening, or guided writing task.
The story starts with a diver swimming next to a tiger shark and everything is calm. Next, he notices the shadow of a great white approaching. The pupils need to finish this story start. I suggested that the story ends with the diver getting away from the shark.
The children that need more support could work with the scaffold frame for guided story writing to structure their work and show how feelings and description are required to build suspense.
We also listened to 'Jaws' music from John Williams.
I find these so useful, because they make children self assess. The work because they make pupils notice the features that will improve their descriptive writing and story writing.
I find these a much more effective tool than success criteria.
Children don't always take ownership of targets or success criteria, but this encourages them to reflect critically on their writing and make progress.
The self assessment worksheets are differentiated.
Change the highlighted words to change the person. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.
This builds understanding of the concept of multiplication by using mental methods. The 12 x times table is taught by using partial products and clever grouping.
It makes use of mental strategies and partial products to learn the 4 times table. This is an effective way of building understanding of the concept of multiplication.
This builds understanding of the concept of multiplication by using mental methods. The 6 x times table is taught by using partial products and clever grouping.
If you like it, please check out my other similar maths resources and please review.
This is a bundle of punctuating resources. It includes a PowerPoint explaining the rules of punctuating speech and a Powerpoint on complex sentences. There is also a punctuation challenge to fill in the missing punctuation in an extract from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
