A collection of discussion-based lessons, each roughly half an hour, used for KS1 English Language learners to practice their spoken English and conversation skills. Topics: Animal groups (mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, birds) Celebrations Creating a story (using picture prompts to devise plots) Describing with compound sentences (using ‘and’ to describe pictures) Discussing pictures (answering questions about images) Endangered animals Hobbies How do you know (making inferences from pictures) Jobs Getting a pet (making decisions about the care of a hamster) Meeting new people (practicing initial conversations) Minecraft adventures (Minecraft-based ‘creative’ lesson) Morning routine Ocean adventures (underwater-based ‘creative’ lesson) Past and present (comparing images from past times to modern day) Pets Shops and restaurants (location-based conversation prompts) Similarities and differences (comparing images) Space adventures (space-based ‘creative’ lesson) Sports Subjects at school Superhero adventures (superhero-based ‘creative’ lesson) Talking about a text (short, easy comprehension) Talking about weather Weather and seasons What happened in the story? (discussing fairytale videos) What I did in the Christmas holidays

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, broken up into manageable sections with discussion questions attached to each question. Also includes a selection of long answer questions at the end of the document.

Pack of six poems with challenging comprehension questions for KS3 or possibly even more able KS2 pupils. Includes: I have been one acquainted with the night - Robert Frost My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) - William Shakespeare Those Sunday Mornings - Robert Hayden I like to see it lap the miles - Emily Dickinson Ozymandias - Percy Shelley The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams

A complete introduction to descriptive writing, spanning three lessons. Lesson 1: Sensory language Lesson 2: Similes and Metaphors Lesson 3: Tone and Sentence Structure Also includes an extension/homework task for each lesson.

Contains example articles from newsround.com. Covers how to write a purely informative article versus a discussion piece.

Basic templates and examples of seven kinds of non-fiction articles for KS2 creative writing lessons. Non-chronological reports about animals (with an example about a gerbil). Writing about food (with an example about a chocolate cake from bakedbyrachel.com) Writing a how-to article (with an example about making fluffy slime from onelittleproject.com) Writing about role models (with an example about Emma Watson from theodysseyonline.com) Personal Anecdotes (with an example about ballet lessons from 625points.com) On This Day in History (with an example from onthisday.com) Historical Fact-Files (with an example about Ancient Rome from ducksters.com) Writing a travel piece (with an example about Pilgrim’s Rest in South Africa) These are not complete lessons but are instead templates to build your lesson around.

Five lesson templates for a unit in which KS2 students create another world and write a story that takes place there. Lesson 1: Descriptive Writing - Students write a description of their world using the five senses and including imagery. Lesson 2: A Guide For Living - Students create a guidebook for living in their world, thinking about the history of the world and the way society functions. Lesson 3: Heroes and Villains - Students create a hero and villain for their story and write diary entries for them. Lesson 4: Planning a story - Students plot a quest story that takes place in their world. Lesson 5: Side characters (optional) - Students create side characters to develop their plot. These templates can be adapted with warm-ups/texts to suit class texts or topics.

Ideal resource for children who struggle to come up with their opening lines and get their pen moving. Works through three ways to begin a story and has many prompts for students give these methods a go.

PowerPoint introducing imaginative writing to KS2 students and giving a basic template. Good supplement/starting point for a creative writing lesson.

PowerPoint containing an extract from The Falcon’s Malteser by Anthony Horowitz, and a prompt/template for students to create their own detective and mystery plot.

PowerPoint walking students through writing their own fairytale. Includes ‘true or false’ warm-up and story template. Suitable for KS1 or early KS2.

Resource to introduce KS1 classes (or early KS2) to the structures of a newspaper article, focusing on finding the ‘5 Ws’.

Two PowerPoint’s worth of mini grammar tests for the upper end of KS1. First PowerPoint: Conjunctions Capitals Punctuation Articles Tenses Adverbs Prepositions Types of sentences Apostrophes Word classes Second PowerPoint: Tenses Articles Clauses Punctuating Speech Noun Phrases Apostrophes

PowerPoint using the opening of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to demonstrate an exciting opening and provide students with a template for creating their own.

Activity to introduce KS1 students to writing descriptively and using sensory language, getting them to look at examples before guiding them through writing their own. Would form part of a lesson on descriptive writing.

A complete starter pack of resources to introduce more able KS1 classes to poetry - mostly used for Year Two students. Includes: PowerPoint with rhyme-finding warm-up and writing prompts to start students on the path to writing their own poems ‘The sausage is a cunning bird’ by Jennifer Curry and Graeme Curry - with comprehension questions ‘There was an old man with a beard’ by Edward Lear - with comprehension questions ‘A Small Dragon’ by Brian Patten - with comprehension questions ‘Firefly’ by Elizabeth Madox Roberts - with comprehension questions ‘Now We Are Six’ by A. A. Milne - with comprehension questions Word Document with tips on memorising poems

Twelve questions in which students have to identify determiners - a useful warm-up.

A complete guide to writing introductions and conclusions for all non-fiction (Paper 2) comprehension question types. Uses ‘A Dairy of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank and ‘My Secret Diary’ by Jacqueline Wilson.

Two lessons walking students through unseen fiction analysis and evaluation questions. Includes: PowerPoint explaining analysis and evaluation questions using an extract from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Attwood. Word document with practice questions from above Powerpoint. PowerPoint explaining evaluation question using a extract from ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier.

PowerPoints teaching analysis, evaluation and comparison for non-fiction GCSE questions (specifically Edexcel Language Paper 2). Includes: Analysis and Evaluation lesson using ‘Women Don’t Owe You Pretty’ by Florence Given Comparison lesson using ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ by Mary Wollstonecraft and ‘Women Don’t Owe You Pretty’ by Florence Given Comparison lesson using ‘Notes From a Small Island’ by Bill Bryson and extracts from the diary of Michael Macdonagh