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A model character profile text about the Norse hero of the story Beowulf based on Michael Morpurgo’s retelling, plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank.
This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading up to page 37 of Morpurgo’s version of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the example character description of Beowulf and then plan and write their own character profile about Beowulf, Grendel or King Hrothgar using the differentiated templates and word bank.
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
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✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Beowulf Diary Entries Example Texts Pack
✦ Beowulf Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Beowulf Fronted Adverbial Differentiated Worksheets
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Two activities involving identifying correctly and incorrectly punctuated direct speech. Pupils must look carefully at the direct speech to check if the correct punctuation has been used and if it is all in the correct place.
There are two activities provided:
• Direct Speech Punctuation Cards: pupils sort the cards into correct and incorrect piles. Great for paired or small group work. Large and small cards are provided, plus a presentation to use to go through the answers or to use as a whole class quiz.
• Direct Speech Punctuation Worksheet: pupils identify whether the speech has been correctly or incorrectly punctuated and then make any necessary corrections. Great as an independent task. This worksheet uses different examples to the cards/quiz.
The speech punctuation used includes inverted commas (speech marks), capital letters, commas and end of sentence punctuation (full stops, exclamation marks or question marks).
Different formats of direct speech are given as examples with the reporting clause in different positions, including:
• The reporting clause before the direct speech
• The reporting clause after the direct speech
• Two or more sentences of direct speech together
• The reporting clause separating one sentence of direct speech
• The reporting clause separating two sentences of direct speech
A variety of verbs are used in the reporting clauses instead of ‘said’.
Answers to all tasks are included.
All documents available as easily editable Word or Powerpoint documents and as PDFs.
These activities are suitable for years 4, 5 or 6.
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A playscript example text based on the events of Chapter 3 from the children’s fantasy adventure book Varjak Paw by S.F. Said.
The two pages of script provided in this resource are the beginning of a scene where Varjak’s grandfather, Elder Paw, calls a Family Council.
The WAGOLL playscript comes with a Feature Find worksheet and answers so that pupils can look for features of this text type before continuing the scene or writing their own version.
The following files are included:
• Example Playscript (Word and PDF)
• Feature Find worksheet (Word and PDF)
• Feature Find answers (Word and PDF)
The following features can be found in the playscript model text:
• Play title
• Scene number
• Scene title
• List of character names
• Stage directions to describe the setting
• Character names followed by colons
• Words spoken by actors
• Character direction within speech inside brackets
• Contractions within speech
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✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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✦ Varjak Paw Diary Entry Example Text Pack
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An example diary text based on Chapter 1 of the fantasy novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan with differentiated planning sheets and word banks.
The model diary entry is written from Percy’s point of view on the day he visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL diary text to examine before pupils plan and write their own diary entry based on his chapter or the next few chapters.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text
• Differentiated planning templates
• Contractions word bank
• Feelings word bank
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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An example diary text based on chapters 1 and 2 of the fantasy adventure novelVarjak Paw by S.F. Said with differentiated planning sheets, task sheet and word banks.
The diary entry is written from Varjak’s point of view on the day he leaves the Contessa’s house.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL diary text to examine before pupils plan and write their own diary entry based on this chapter or the next few chapters.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text
• Differentiated planning templates
• Contractions word bank
• Feelings word bank
• Task sheet
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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An activity, quiz and worksheets to help pupils learn to identify and punctuate the four sentence types: statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
Resources include:
✽ Four Sentence Type Card Sort: pupils sort the sentences into statements, exclamations, questions and commands and identify the punctuation to end each sentence. Great for paired or small group work.
✽ Four Sentence Type Quiz: pupils identify which sentence type is displayed on the screen and which punctuation mark is required at the end of each sentence. Each answer is revealed on the next slide. Can be used to share the answers for the card sort.
✽ Question or Exclamation Worksheet: pupils identify the questions and exclamations. Great as an independent assessment task.
✽ Statement to Question Worksheet: pupils change statements to questions and vice versa. Great as an independent assessment task.
✽ Four Sentence Types Writing Worksheet: pupils are prompted to write four types of sentences about different images.
All documents available as easily editable Word or Powerpoint documents and as PDFs.
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Example diary entry text for The Iron Man written from the point of view of a fisherman seeing the Iron Man for the first time, plus writing feature identification worksheet. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 1 of Ted Hughes’ novel The Iron Man.
The diary recount text contains the following features: language features such as similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition for effect and rule of three; grammar features such as fronted adverbials followed by commas, exclamatory sentences, noun phrases and a variety of nouns to avoid repetition; and punctuation such as exclamation marks, apostrophes for contractions, apostrophes for possession, colons and dashes.
Documents available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Answers for the feature identification worksheet included.
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An example diary entry text for The Butterfly Lion written from the point of view of the character Michael, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL whilst studying Michael Morpurgo’s prize-winning novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answer sheet
• Text extract from Chapter 1
The diary text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Similes
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Alliteration
• Metaphors
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Emotions
• Show not tell emotions
• Rhetorical questions
• Variety of sentence openers
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Noun phrases
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Hyphens
• Dashes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
The diary text recounts the events from Chapter 1, Chilblains and Semolina Pudding, from the character Michael’s point of view.
Pupils can read the model diary text, identify the features and then write their own diary entry from the point of view of Michael, Bertie, Millie or any other character from the story.
All resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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✦ Example Text BUNDLE
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An example character profile text for The Butterfly Lion about Millie, the old lady, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers, and differentiated writing templates. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 2, Strange Meeting, of Michael Morpurgo’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answer sheet
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
The character profile text contains the following layout, language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Key informations
• Picture of character
• Subheadings
• Metaphors
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Apostrophes for possession
• Apostrophes for omission
• Commas in lists
• Colons
• Hyphens
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model character profile text, identify the features, and then write their own character profile using the differentiated templates.
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An example character profile text about Jim from the book Street Child plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading chapters 1 and 2 of Berlie Doherty’s Victorian-themed historical fiction novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model character description of Jim Jarvis and then plan and write their own character profile about Jim, Emily, Lizzie, Ma, Mr Spink or any other character using the differentiated templates.
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
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An example diary text based on Chapter 7 of the Victorian novelStreet Child by Berlie Doherty with Feature Find sheet and answers, and word bank.
The diary entry is written from Jim’s point of view on the day he decides to run away from the workhouse.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL. Use the feature find worksheets to examine the diary text before pupils plan and write their own diary entry based on Chapter 7 or their predictions of what will happen next in the text.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning templates
• Contractions word bank
The diary text contains the following features:
• Adverbs of degree
• Alliteration
• Contractions
• Idioms
• Metaphors
• Possessive nouns
• Repetition for effect
• Rhetorical questions
• Rule of three
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Fronted adverbials
• Expanded noun phrases
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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Example texts demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on the book The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.
The 3 differentiated example texts contain conversations between Bertie, his dad and his mum after Bertie sees the white lion cub for the first time.
Differentiated feature find worksheets with answers are included for easy marking and instant feedback.
All resources are differentiated three ways.
Resources provided:
• Example dialogue texts x3
• Feature find worksheets x3
• Answers x3
The model texts are useful as WAGOLLs to examine before children attempt their own dialogue writing based on the book.
All documents are provided in PDF and editable Word format.
The following features of dialogue and speech can be found in the example dialogues (depending on level of difficulty):
• Actual words spoken, with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause after speech, separated from words spoken with a comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Reporting clause before speech, separated from words spoken with a comma
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Actions of the characters
• New paragraph every time the speaker/character changes.
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Two or more sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Two sentences spoken at once with the reporting clause in the middle
• One sentence spoken but split in half by the reporting clause
• Contractions used in speech
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✦ Timeline Activity Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Pack
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Example apology letter text for The Iron Man (also known as The Iron Giant) written from the point of view of Hogarth in Chapter 3 of the book, plus writing feature find worksheet, with answers.
The example letter of apology contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Subordinate clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Adverbs
• Expanded noun phrases
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Hyphens
• Colons
This exemplar letter is perfect to show to pupils as a WAGOLL. Children can read the text, identify the features and then write their own letters of apology using the planning grid included. The answers for the feature find worksheet have been included so that they can be easily shared with pupils.
All documents are supplied as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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An example text demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on The Iron Man novel by Ted Hughes plus accompanying resources.
The WAGOLL contains a conversation between Hogarth and his parents after he first sees the Iron Man. It is based on a part of the story containing no direct speech. A feature find sheet and an extract from The Iron Man are also included.
This resource contains the following documents:
• Missing speech punctuation starter activity
• Answer sheet
• Example dialogue text
• Dialogue feature find sheet
• Answer sheet
• The Iron Man extract text
Pupils examine the model text using the feature find sheet before writing their own version or completing the dialogue.
The resources can be used when studying the novel The Iron Man or during one or more stand-alone lessons.
All documents available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
Text contains the following features:
• Actual words spoken with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause separated from words spoken with comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Actions of the characters
• New paragraph every time the speaker changes
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Sentence spoken but split into two by the reporting clause
• Two or more sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Two sentences spoken at once split into two by the reporting clause
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✦ Example Non-Chronological Report
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Two-page example non-chronological report entitled “All About Knucker Dragons”, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers.
Pupils will love reading about the knucker dragon, and be inspired to use this exemplar to write their own non-chronological report about a dragon or other mythical creature. This 550 word example non-chronological report can be used to examine the features of non-chronological report writing before pupils embark on writing their own non-chronological report with similar features.
Non-chronological report example text contains the following features: language features such as rule of three, technical vocabulary and facts; grammar features such as commands, questions, relative clauses, synonyms to avoid repetition and noun phrases; and punctuation such as question marks, apostrophe for singular possession, apostrophes for plural possession, brackets, semi-colons and hyphens.
Documents available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Answers for the feature identification worksheet included.
This resource works well with the Chinese dragon facts and category sheet, to categorise notes about the Chinese lung dragon and then write their own report. Both of these resources are available in a money-saving bundle.
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Example instructional text for The Iron Man (also known as The Iron Giant), particularly suitable for use when reading Chapter 3 of Ted Hughes’ novel, plus a writing feature identification worksheet with answer sheet.
The model instructional text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Commands
• Questions
• Imperative verbs
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Expanded noun phrases
• Variety of nouns/verbs to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Brackets
• Hyphens
• Colons
These exemplar instructions are perfect to show to pupils as a WAGOLL. Pupils read the model text, identify the features and then independently write instructions for their own plan to stop the Iron Man. The answers for the feature identification worksheet have been included so they can be shared easily in class or remotely.
All documents are supplied in PDF and editable Word documents.
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✦ The Iron Man | Complete Unit of Work | Plus Grammar & Comprehension | BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man 10 Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Grammar & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Example Diary Texts BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Apostrophe Activities Differentiated BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Fronted Adverbial Differentiated Worksheets BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man 7 Example Texts & Glossary BUNDLE
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✦ Example Non-Chronological Report About The Iron Man
✦ The Iron Man Glossary for the Whole Novel
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An example character profile text about Jared from the book The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 1 of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s fantasy novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model character description of Jared Grace and then plan and write their own character profile about Jared, Mallory, Simon or any other character using the differentiated templates.
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
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✦ Instructions Example Text Pack
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Four worksheets aimed at learning how to accurately punctuate direct speech.
The worksheets are differentiated to cover a range of difficulty levels.
The speech punctuation used includes inverted commas (speech marks), capital letters, commas and end of sentence punctuation (full stops, exclamation marks or question marks).
Different formats of direct speech are given as examples with the reporting clause in different positions, including:
• The reporting clause before the direct speech
• The reporting clause after the direct speech
• Two or more sentences of direct speech together
• The reporting clause separating one sentence of direct speech
• The reporting clause separating two sentences of direct speech
A variety of verbs are used in the reporting clauses instead of ‘said’.
The worksheets can be completed independently or in pairs.
The worksheets are themed around a variety of traditional tales, but knowledge of the stories is not necessary to complete the activities.
Answers to all tasks are included.
All documents are provided as easily editable Word documents and as PDFs.
These activities are particularly suitable for years 4, 5 and 6.
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✦ Daily Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Activities with Answers - WholeTerm BUNDLE
✦ Colon Activities, Quiz & Presentation BUNDLE
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A three-page example non-chronological report based on The Iron Man novel (also known as The Iron Giant) entitled “All About the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon” plus a feature find worksheet with answer sheet.
This fun non-chronological report is about the character of the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon from the novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Use the exemplar as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own non-chronological report about one of the novel’s characters such as the Iron Man, Hogarth or the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon. Perfect for the study of chapters 4 and 5.
This fun, engaging non-chronological report exemplar text contains the following genre-specific features:
• Introduction
• Sub-headings as questions
• Facts
• Technical vocabulary
• Images with captions
The feature find worksheet looks at the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Rule of three
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Facts
• Commands
• Questions
• Exclamations
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Relative clauses
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Dashes
• Hyphens
Documents available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
Save money with these Iron Man themed resource bundles:
✦ The Iron Man | Complete Unit of Work | Plus Grammar & Comprehension | BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man 10 Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Grammar & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Comprehension BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Example Diary Texts BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Apostrophe Activities Differentiated BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Fronted Adverbial Differentiated Worksheets BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man 7 Example Texts & Glossary BUNDLE
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An example character profile text about the female protagonist from the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The model character profile can be used as a WAGOLL for pupils to read before planning and writing their own versions of the profile.
Differentiated planning and writing templates have been included in this pack as well as a character trait word bank to prompt ideas.
The following documents are included in this resource package:
• Example character profile text
• Character profile planning template, differentiated x3
• Character trait word bank
• Character profile writing template, differentiated x3
The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.
All resources come as easily editable Word documents and as PDFs.
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✦ Dialogue Text Examples Pack
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