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A collection of model texts based on The Nowhere Emporium a fantasy novel by Ross MacKenzie plus character overview templates.
The following WAGOLL texts are included in this resource bundle:
• Diary example text (based on Chapter 1)
• Dialogue example text (based on Chaper 1)
• Character profile example text (based on Chapter 4)
• Biography example text (based on the whole novel)
Bonus character overview templates with example answers have also been included.
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✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦Example Character Profiles BUNDLE with Feature Sheets, Answers & Templates
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✦The Iron Man Character Profile BUNDLE
✦Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Plus Feature Sheet and Templates
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Text, Feature Find, Planning & Writing Template
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Differentiated Templates
✦Oranges In No Man’s Land Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
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Example newspaper report based on the children’s novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying The Iron Man. The example text reports on the events in Chapter 3 of the book when the Iron Man digs himself out of the hill.
The model newspaper report comes with two feature identification worksheets for children to fill in, one for layout features and one of language and grammar features, plus answer sheets.
Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text. Pupils’ reports can be about the events in Chapter 3 or a different event from later on in the novel.
This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report
• Feature find sheets, x2
• Feature find answers, x2
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2
The features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Byline
• Date
• Introductory paragraph containing the 4 Ws
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Alliteration
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Fronted adverbials
• Possessive nouns
All resources come as both easily editable Word documents and PDFs.
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✦ The Iron Man Dialogue Writing - Example Text & Feature Identification Sheet
✦ The Iron Man - Example Apology Letter from Hogarth & Feature Identification
✦ Iron Man 6 Example Texts Plus Glossary BUNDLE
✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Features Sheet & Answers
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A character sort activity involving the main characters in the book The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.
Pupils must sort the cards to match the name of the character, a brief description, a picture of the character and a quote about the character from the text.
The activity can be made less challenging by removing one of the categories, such as the quotations, from the sort. The number of characters can also be altered to suit the needs of the pupils. The activity can be carried out in small groups, pairs or individually.
This resource is a useful reminder to pupils about the names and roles of the characters in the story to help pupils to understand the novel as they read.
The characters are listed in order of appearance in the novel and split onto three separate groups, so that teachers can choose which characters to include in the sorting activity, avoiding spoilers.
• Group A: Chapters 1 and 2
• Group B: Chapters 3 and 5
• Group C: Chapter 7
This resource comes as a PDF and as an easily editable Word document.
Other Butterfly Lion themed resources:
✦ Example Text BUNDLE
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
✦ Timeline Activity Pack
✦ Dialogue Example Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Pack
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✦ Moon Landing Diary Complete Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ The Twits Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Hodgeheg Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Flat Stanley WAGOLL Writing & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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A list of the main characters in the book The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo with brief descriptions, illustrations from the book and chapter information.
This resource is a useful reminder to pupils about the names and roles of the characters in the story. It can be used as a reference sheet or displayed in the classroom to help pupils to understand the novel as they read.
The characters are listed in order of appearance in the novel and split onto three separate pages, so that each page can be introduced to pupils after reading, avoiding spoilers.
• Page 1: Chapters 1 and 2
• Page 2: Chapters 3 and 5
• Page 3: Chapter 7
This resource comes as a PDF.
Other Butterfly Lion themed resources:
✦ Example Text BUNDLE
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
✦ Timeline Activity Pack
✦ Dialogue Example Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Character Sort Activity
Other popular resources:
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Moon Landing Diary Complete Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ The Twits Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Hodgeheg Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Flat Stanley WAGOLL Writing & Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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An example diary entry text written from the point of view of Fern from Charlotte’s Web plus feature find worksheets and answers, and differentiated planning templates. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 1 of E. B. White’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the model diary entry, examine its features using the Feature Find worksheets and then plan and write their own diary entry using the differentiated templates.
The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLL:
• Similes
• Idioms
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Thoughts/Feelings
• Rhetorical questions
• Fronted adverbials (and other introductory words, phrases and clauses) followed by a comma
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Question marks
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Hyphens
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Other Charlotte’s Web themed resources:
✦ WAGOLL Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
✦ Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
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✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ The Twits Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
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An example non-chronological report text about barn spiders, the same species of spider as the character Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, plus three activities with answers, planning and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about barn spiders, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report; sort the sentences about pigs into sections; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about one of the animals from the book, such as a spider, pig, goose or sheep. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar and punctuation features included in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Fast Facts section
• Did you know? section with bullet points
• Glossary section
• Paragraphs
• Pictures/diagrams with captions
• Rule of three
• Alliteration
• Present tense
• Questions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Dashes
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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Other Charlotte’s Web themed resources:
✦ WAGOLL Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
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✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work
✦ Moon Landing Diary Complete Unit of Work
✦ The Butterfly Lion: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Texts BUNDLE
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Four WAGOLL example text packs based on the novel Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs which each contain a WAGOLL related to a different section of the book.
Diary Entry Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
• Text extract
Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning template
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Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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✦ Iron Man Example Texts BUNDLE: Diary, Dialogue & Non-Chronological Report with Features Sheet & Answers
✦ The Iron Man Literary Devices Differentiated Activities
✦ Oranges in No Man’s Land Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Letter to an Ogre Example Persuasive Text, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Answers
✦ The Twits Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Templates
✦ How To Train Your Dragon Example Diary Text with Feature Identification & Templates
✦ Unicorn Persuasive Letter Example, Feature Identification & Answers
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An example character profile text about the character Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web plus feature find worksheet with answers, differentiated planning and writing templates, word bank and text extract. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading chapters 4 and 5 of E. B. White’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
• Text extract
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Pupils read the extract and model character description, examine the features and then plan and write their own character profile using the differentiated templates.
Features included in the text:
• Key information
• Picture of character
• Subheadings
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Commas in a list
• Colons
• Brackets
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Other Charlotte’s Web themed resources:
✦ WAGOLL Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
✦ Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
✦ Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
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✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ How to Train Your Dragon BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Hodgeheg Example Text Packs BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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An example non-chronological text about barn spiders, plus three activities with answers, planning and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about barn spiders, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report on the sheet; sort the sentences about another animal into sections; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about the same or different type of spider, or an animal of their choice. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar & punctuation features in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Bullet points
• Glossary section
• Paragraphs
• Pictures/diagrams with captions
• Rule of three
• Alliteration
• Present tense
• Questions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating & subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Dashes
This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the science curriculum:
✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
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A pack of twelve non-chronological report resources, including vocabulary, features, planning and writing sheets and activities, themed around humpback whales.
The following resources are included:
Humpback Whales Vocabulary
Vocabulary about humpback whales. This resource can be used in two ways to familiarise pupils with the subject specific vocabulary: 1) cut out and match the words, definitions and images; 2) use as a word mat during the planning and writing process.
Humpback Whales Vocabulary Wall Display
Display the key words and matching images around the classroom with this resource.
Identify Features: Tense and Sentence Types
Pupils identify different sentence types and tenses from an example introduction and Did you know? section from a non-chronological report about giant pandas. With answers.
Humpback Whales Matching Sentences
Match the beginning and ends of sentences about whales. This activity makes pupils familiar with the sentence structure of a non-chronological report and facts associated with whales. They then order the sentences, identify the relative clauses and finally write about humpback whales. With answers.
Re-Order Sentences Elephants
Organise the sentences about elephants into the appropriate section. Then order the sentences to make a paragraph. With answers.
Humpback Whales Organising Information Into Paragraphs
Three paragraphing activities: firstly, identify which section each fact about whales belongs in; secondly, write a paragraph using the facts provided; lastly, draw a diagram using information provided. With answers.
Humpback Whales Notes to Plan
Pupils organise notes about whales and into a planning grid. The answers are provided. A larger planning grid is also provided to add additional notes from pupils’ own research.
Non-Chronological Report Planning Sheet 4 Sections
A planning sheet for a non-chronological report with title, introduction and four additional paragraphs.
Non-Chronological Report Planning Sheet 5 Sections
See above, with five additional paragraphs.
Non-Chronological Report Writing Template
A template to use to write a non-chronological report. It includes sections for the title, introduction, four sections with subheadings, diagram and picture.
Non-Chronological Report Sentence Starters
A handout to use when writing a non-chronological report containing useful sentence starters.
Non-Chronological Report Checklist
A checklist to use when writing a non-chronological report.
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A bundle of Ancient Egypt-themed writing packs.
The following resources are included:
• Howard Carter’s diary example text
• Mummification explanation example text
• Mummy embalmer’s diary example text
• Mummification glossary
• Ancient Egyptian boy’s diary example text
Also included:
• Planning template
• Additional glossaries
• Information sheet
• Timeline
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Other history resources:
Stone Age Boy:
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text
✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Dialogue Texts Differentiated, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Stone Age Boy 3 Example Instruction and Recipe Texts Plus Templates
Stig of the Dump:
✦ Stig of the Dump Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Pack
✦ Stig of the Dump Example Diary Entries Pack
✦ Stig of the Dump Informal Letter Example Pack
Moon Landing:
✦ Moon Landing Diary Unit of Work Bundle
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✦Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker
✦Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦How To Train Your Dragon Character Profile Example Plus Feature Sheet and Templates
✦The Twits Character Profile Example Text, Feature Find, Planning & Writing Template
✦Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦Christophe’s Story Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Differentiated Templates
✦Oranges In No Man’s Land Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
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An example text explaining the mummification process.
This text can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own explanation text.
This is particularly useful for cross-curricular writing when studying the ancient Egyptians in history.
This resource comes as an easily editable Word document and in PDF format.
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Ancient Egypt:
✦ Ancient Egypt | Example Writing Bundle
✦ Ancient Egypt | Howard Carter’s Diary Pack
✦ Ancient Egypt | Mummy Embalmer’s Diary Example
✦ Ancient Egypt | Boy’s Diary Example Text Pack
Stone Age Boy:
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Diary Text
✦ Stone Age Boy Character Profile Examples and Differentiated Templates
✦ Stone Age Boy Example Dialogue Texts Differentiated, Feature Identification & Answers
Stig of the Dump:
✦ Stig of the Dump Example Texts BUNDLE
Moon Landing:
✦ Moon Landing Diary Unit of Work Bundle
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✦ The Twits Example Texts BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Firework-Maker’s Daughter: Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Charlotte’s Web: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Beowulf: Example Texts & Grammar BUNDLE
✦ Varjak Paw WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
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An example diary text based on Chapter 1 of The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie with Feature Find sheet and answers.
The diary entry is written from Daniel Holmes’ point of view after his first visit to the emporium.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own diary entry based on Chapter 1 or based on events that occur later on in the novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text with glossary
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
The diary text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Repetition for effect
• Slang
• Feelings
• Expanded noun phrases
• Subordinate clauses
• Rhetorical questions
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Apostrophes for contractions
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Dashes
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Other Nowhere Emporium themed resources:
✦ Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ Biography Example Text Pack
✦ Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Character Overview Template and Example
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✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
✦ Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Street Child WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Stormbreaker: Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land BUNDLE
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
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Character overview template for the fantasy novel The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie. As pupils read the novel, they take notes about the characters using this character overview template.
This helps pupils to notice the details that are important for making predictions and understanding the story. The summaries that they create can be used to help with writing about characters and from the point of view of different characters.
A model template filled out after reading Chapter 1 has been included to show pupils how to use the resource to write summaries about each character using the information revealed in the book. Pupils should continue to take notes about each character after reading each chapter.
Resources included:
• Character Overviews Template
• Model template filled out after reading Chapter 1 with information about Daniel, Spud and Mr Silver
Each resource comes as an editable Word document and as a PDF.
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Other Nowhere Emporium themed resources:
✦ Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ Biography Example Text Pack
✦ Dialogue Writing Example Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
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✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
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✦ Street Child WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
✦ Stormbreaker: Example Text & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land BUNDLE
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Two example diary texts from the point of view of Theseus and Ariadne from the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
This diary writing pack comes with the following resources:
• Model diary text from Theseus’ point of view
• Model diary text from Ariadne’s point of view
• Feature Find worksheets for both diary entries
• Answers to the Feature Find worksheets
Read both exemplar diary entries. Examine the language, grammar and punctuation features found in the texts by completing the feature find worksheets. Finally write your own diary entries from the point of view of any characters from the myth, such as Theseus, Ariadne, King Minos, King Aegeus or even the Minotaur!
The following writing features, amongst others, are included in the diary entries:
• rule of three
• alliteration
• repetition for effect
• modal clauses
• synonyms to avoid repetition
• conjunctive adverbs
• ‘that’ omitted
• possessive noun phrases
• colons to replace ‘because’
• colons before a list
• semi-colons for clarity
• contractions
• coordinating conjunctions
• fronted adverbials
• relative clauses
• subordinate clauses
• expanded noun phrases
All resources come as both easily editable Word documents and PDF files.
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An example character profile text about Vindictus Sharpe from the book The Nowhere Emporium plus differentiated planning and writing templates, and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 4 of Ross MacKenzie’s novel.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile 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 and then plan and write their own character profile about Vindictus, Daniel, Mr Silver 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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A bundle of 4 different non-fiction text types WAGOLLs based on ancient Greek myths and monsters.
Each example text comes with a various different resources such as feature find worksheets, planning grids and writing templates to support children in writing their own versions of each text.
The resources focus on the fascinating ancient Greek myths of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Prometheus and the theft of fire; and a selection of terrifying ancient Greek monsters, including Medusa, the Hound of Hades, the Chimera and the Hydra.
Children will love learning about the exciting stories and creatures of ancient Greece while creating interesting cross-curricular writing.
The following resource packs are included in this bundle:
Theseus and the Minotaur Diary Entries WAGOLL Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Model diary text WAGOLL from Theseus’ point of view
• Model diary text WAGOLL from Ariadne’s point of view
• Feature find worksheets for both diary entries
• Answers to the Feature find worksheets
Prometheus Newspaper Report WAGOLL Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Model newspaper report WAGOLL
• Feature find sheets, x2
• Feature find answers, x2
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates, x2
Ancient Greek Monsters Example Instructional Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Model instructional text WAGOLL
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Writing template differentiated, x2
Ancient Greek Monsters Example Non-Chronological Report Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Model non-chronological report WAGOLLs, x4
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x3
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A set of 9 reading comprehension tests with answers for the book Stig of the Dump by Clive King.
These nine SATs style assessments are ideal to use after reading each of the nine chapters of the book in guided reading or English.
The questions cover the eight reading content domains (2a vocabulary, 2b retrieval, 2c summary, 2d inference, 2e prediction, 2f comment, 2g author choice, 2h comparison) and the six reading VIPERS domains (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Sequence/Summarise).
Each test has a range of question types including:
• write on the line
• tick one or tick multiple
• give an answer with evidence
• draw lines to show
• number the order
• true or false
• find and copy
• impression with evidence
These are ideal to confidently assess your pupils’ understanding of Stig of the Dump as well as familiarise your pupils with SATs style questioning.
An answer sheet for each test is supplied.
All documents are provided as both editable Word files and as PDFs.
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✦ Example Texts BUNDLE
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✦ Chapter 3: Character Profile
✦ Chapter 4: Informal Letter
✦ Chapter 5: Dialogue
✦ Chapter 6: Playscript
✦ Chapter 7: Newspaper Report
✦ Chapter 8: Interview Article
✦ Chapter 9: Persuasive Advert
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A bundle of mummification-themed resources for pupils learning about the history topic of ancient Egypt.
A mixture of fun activities and writing WAGOLLs all about ancient Egyptian mummies and mummification.
The following resources are included in this bundle:
Mummification Explanation Text Example
The following resources are included:
• WAGOLL Mummification Explanation text
• Glossary
Mummify a Tomato Activity Pack
The pack contains the following resources:
• How to Use this Resource teacher sheet
• Mummification Method worksheets
• Mummification Method worksheet answers
• How to Mummify a Tomato instructions
• Coffin Template
• Anubis Mask Template
Mummy Embalmer’s Diary Text Example
The following resource is included:
• WAGOLL Embalmer’s Diary text
Howard Carter’s Diary Pack
The pack contains the following resources:
• Model diary text from the archeologist’s point of view
• Timeline of the discovery of the King Tut’s tomb
• Artefact information sheets detailing some of the discoveries, with pictures
Mummification Vocabulary Matching Activity
The following resources are included:
• Mummification Word, Image and Definition Cards
• Answers
Mummification Glossary
The following resource is included:
• Mummification Glossary sheet
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Example newspaper report based on the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus and the theft of fire.
This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying the ancient Greeks. The example text reports on the sentencing of the god Prometheus to an eternity of torment on a rock as punishment for defying Zeus.
The model newspaper report comes with two feature identification worksheets for children to fill in, one for layout features and one for language and grammar features, plus answer sheets.
Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text. Pupils’ reports could be about the events in the Prometheus story or any other story from ancient Greece such as Pandora’s Box, Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, or Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa.
This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report
• Feature find sheets, x2
• Feature find answers, x2
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2
The features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Byline
• Date
• Introductory paragraph containing the 4 Ws
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Alliteration in the headline
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Fronted adverbials
• Possessive nouns
• Expanded noun phrases
• Prepositional phrases
• Subordinate clauses
• Omission of ‘that’
• Modal verbs
• Passive voice
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