Reading challenge homework to find similes, good description and unfamiliar words from pupil's independent reading. There is also a certificate for pupils that complete both sides of their bookmark. You could choose the bookmark from the selection, or pupils could complete all three over a number of weeks homework.

This could be homework tasks. This is a reading challenge homework for KS1 and Lower KS2. There are 3 bookmarks - one on unfamiliar words, one on other words for said and one on powerful verbs for children to fill in from their independent reading. You could choose to use just one bookmark, or all three over a number of weeks. There is a certificate that can be used as a reward for completing the bookmark.

This is an 'other words' for said bookmark, with ideas for creative writing.

These give pupils a structured support for talking and writing about characters from their reading.

These are place adverbial bookmarks for independent reading (a KS1 and a KS2)

A bookmark for independent reading finding little time beginnings for KS1 and time adverbials for KS2 . It is an extra large bookmark to fit more words on.

This is a bookmark for independent reading, recording other words for 'said' from reading

A conjunctions bookmark for independent reading, where pupils find and record conjunctions from their reading.

This is a bookmark for independent reading, finding powerful verbs.

This is an excellent way to build children's vocabulary in a personalised way. These are three bookmarks aimed at different ability ranges. They are designed for independent reading and are an activity of finding and recording unfamiliar words.

Children will be excited by designing their dream beach hotel advert, with features like scuba diving and pools. There is a model text of a beach holiday brochure advert for a hotel, written to demonstrate genre features and to highlight the use of persuasive techniques. The comprehensive teaching notes explain the genre features to inform and to persuade. The notes draw attention to features of the model text, like fact and opinion and the use of a variety of sentence starts. The notes make suggestions for guided and independent writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils get a clear understanding of the features of the text type.

Children will be excited by designing their dream hotel advert, with features like free ice creams, Lego play rooms and water slides. There is a model text of a family fun holiday brochure advert for a hotel near Disney World, written to demonstrate genre features and to highlight the use of persuasive techniques. The comprehensive teaching notes explain the genre features to inform and to persuade. The notes make suggestions for guided and independent writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils get a clear understanding of the features of the text type.

There are certificates, graded like belts in Kung Fu, for pupils that have completed more reading bookmarks

These newspaper tasks teach pupils to notice all the features of a newspapers article . The worksheet includes funny headlines where the meaning can be misinterpreted, but also shows pupils advice on how to write headlines and includes a headlines activity for them to do. The newspaper article has been written to demonstrate the text features of a newspaper. There are comprehensive teaching notes, suggesting extension activities and advice to support pupils to write effective lead lines. There are tasks suggested to teach the use of parenthetic commas as part of the work on the newspaper genre. news article written to demonstrate text features &teaching notes

This task delivers great writing results with KS1 and KS2 pupils, because there is a model text of a zoo brochure advert, written specifically to demonstrate simple genre features, worksheets to aid writing and simple teaching notes to make a zoo brochure. There's a brochure for pupils to fill in their own zoo advert with pictures of animals. There is also worksheets offering additional support.The notes make suggestions for how to do zoo brochure writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils enjoy the reason to write.

Planets worksheets for pupils to write their facts and research about planets.