Pick a moot and challenge your students to come up with reasons for and against the statement. Don’t let them get away with a one-sided argument! After your students have come up with reasons for each side, they need to use these to make an informed decision on whether they support the statement or not. This resource has now been updated. Check out Writing Graphic Organisers for a range of planning templates for writing. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Give me 3 good reasons! A graphic organiser to help your students plan their persuasive writing arguments. Sections are: Introduction, Body Paragraphs and Conclusion. Looking for more persuasive writing resources? Check these out: Writing Graphic Organisers Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing [editable] Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Year 1 - Free! Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Year 2 - Free! Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing KS2 - Free! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Includes a definition, WALT, success criteria, key words and space to record three text-to-self connections. Each A4 page includes two copies so you can save on your printing budget! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

We want to promote curiosity in our learners right? Where better to start than by constructing questions! Instead of writing 10 questions starting with ‘What’, get students to use the sentence starters on this grid - easy! Comes with 2 copies per page. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

A story mountain template for narrative writing. Includes space for recording main character, setting, beginning, problem, rising action, climax, resolution and ending. Includes version without WALT and Challenge boxes. If you’re after more graphic organisers for Writing, check out this new resource! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Prompts to scaffold students with practising the reading skill of synthesising. Includes WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Say goodbye to constant reminders about full stops and capital letters and say hello to student-led improvements with these proofreading and editing cards! These differentiated cards are carefully crafted to suit various writing genres, ensuring that while success criteria may change, the core elements of effective writing remain consistent. With this resource, students can take charge of their own writing by engaging in the essential steps of proofreading and editing (aka “re-crafting”). Encouraging independent checking and enhancing their written work not only cultivates valuable skills but also saves us precious time and preserves our teacher sanity during lessons! Check out the different versions available within this resource to discover the perfect fit for each of your learners. You’ll find: 6x versions of proofreading cards 6x versions of editing/re-crafting cards (choose your preferred option) These versatile cards transcend specific genres, making them ideal for narratives, descriptions, recounts, and beyond! All that’s left to do now is print, cut and laminate. Bring on those literary masterpieces! 18 pages, pdf Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Templates and graphic organizers to use in your next Reading lesson! This pack includes: Book Review Template Forgot to get some new reading books for today’s lesson? Use what you’ve already got at hand and smash out some book reviews! Fact File Template After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words. Extend out the activity by adding pictures and getting students to present their learnings. Identifying Features of Non-Fiction Texts Worksheet After you’ve looked at non-fiction text features, see if your students can identify examples of the text features independently. Grab an appropriate level non-fiction text and get started! KWL Chart (landscape, portrait) Before reading a non-fiction text or starting a new topic, find out what students already know (K) and want to know (W). The bang for your buck doesn’t stop there though as your students later need to add what they learnt (L). 3 activities in 1! Making Connections (Text-to-Self) Worksheet Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Each page includes 2 copies so you can save on your printing budget! Synthesising Chart Teaching synthesising always sounds like a bit of a challenge but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s a synthesising chart which keeps it reeeeaaal simple. Venn Diagram A blank Venn diagram worksheet. Simple but always handy. Use to compare characters or texts. Word Bank Chart Build your students’ vocabulary by creating their own word bank. Make sure that you have a dictionary - oh sorry ipad - at hand for them to find the actual definition. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Take a seat Hamburger Planners…say hello to a new range of graphic organizers! These printable planning templates are perfect for both teacher modelling and student recording in the pre-writing stage of the writing process! Not to mention, each design is different because no writing genre is the same, right? So why wouldn’t we reflect that in our planning? This 64-page resource contains a range of single page planning sheets with prompts and recording space. The planning sheets are designed to be used for students in Year 3-6 but knowing my past students, these would still be great fits for both my Year 2 and Year 7 students and I would just alter my expectation around detail, vocabulary, number of paragraphs etc to suit varying abilities. This resource comes in both colour and grayscale versions for the following Writing genres: Narrative (1) Recount (1) Information Report (1) Explanation (3) Biography (1) Letter (1) Persuasive (2) Descriptive (3 - Character, Setting, Object) Instructions (1) It is part of a new line of teaching resources I’m working on called PLAN IT WRITE IT IMPROVE IT and for a limited time, ALSO includes the writing frames which correspond with each of the planning sheets! Planning a piece of writing is one of my favourite things to do - generating ideas and vocabulary…seeing the seeds of a great piece of writing sprouting in front of my eyes…ooh it gets me excited! But I know that it is the stage of the writing process that a lot of students struggle with so I want to do the best I can to make it as easy and inspiring as I can. 64 pages, printable PDF Happy planning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

A must-have for teaching Recount Writing! Make learning easy with child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recount writing. Save time on your planning with these ready-to-go success criteria. Watch your students take ownership of their learning as they use success criteria checklists to self-monitor and assess their own writing. This resource contains: Child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recounts Differentiated sets of success criteria with 3 levels of challenge Display posters with WALT and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the challenge level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

What makes a great story? We all have our favourite stories that we could read over and over. Equip your students with the tools to create their own stellar narrative stories too! Whether your students are retelling a fairytale or writing an action-packed adventure story, these success criteria will support them with following a narrative structure and developing their plot and characters. This resource includes: Child-speak success criteria for narrative writing, including sets of success criteria for character development, beginning, middle, and endings of narrative stories Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Happy writing! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Studying famous figures or incredible people in the community? Get your students writing biographies full of facts and anecdotes! Want to get to know your students that much better? Get them to craft autobiographies all about them! NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for biography and autobiography writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 26-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of biography and autobiography writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 2 students (age 6), the mid level is suitable for Year 3-4 (aged 7-8), and the high level is suitable for Year 5-6 (ages 8-10+). Ready to start teaching biography writing? Here’s a helpful planning template for your students to record their information on: Biography Template Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Simply overloading a sentence with adjectives doesn’t make it a quality piece of descriptive writing, right? Help your students to craft amazing descriptions in your next Writing lesson with these child-speak success criteria! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for setting, character and object descriptions Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALT and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 40-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of descriptive writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for descriptive writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Oh the warm fuzzies of receiving a thoughtful note! Oh the struggle of carefully wording a formal complaint! Letter writing is an important skill for our students to learn so let’s give them the tools to do it well! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for formal, informal and persuasive letter writing +BONUS: How to compose an email! Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 51-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 4-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of letter writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for letter writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Are your students ready to share all of the interesting facts they’ve learnt? Step right up and roll out the non-chronological reports! Take a fascinating topic, a handful of categorised information and a diagram or two, then you’re on the road to success! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for non-chronological report writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALT and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 16-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 1-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)** This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of report writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for descriptive writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 4/5/6 (ages 8-10). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy writing! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Step 1: Check out this handy instruction writing resource. Step 2: Download and nail your next lesson! Whether you’re writing recipes for budding Master chefs, going through rules for a sport, or even just the steps for washing your hands correctly (yes, that is mightily important!), this is the resource for you! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for instruction writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 15-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 1-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)** This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of instruction writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for instruction writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1 students (age 5), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (ages 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9). Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Convince me why. Give me a reason. Learning to write persuasively is an important skill for our students to acquire. How else are they going to convince their parents to let them get a pet or their school to host a non-uniform day? Get equipped for your next Writing lesson with these sets of child-speak persuasive writing success criteria! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for persuasive text and persuasive letter writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 31-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource is appropriate for students who are just learning to write about their opinions through to those who are working towards utilising rhetorical questions and emotive language for effect. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9). After more persuasive writing resources? Here are some other products you might like: Persuasive Writing Planner Persuasive Writing For & Against Chart Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Templates, graphic organisers and resources to use in your next Writing lesson! This pack contains: Biography Template So tell me about yourself. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic you’re studying! Blank Writing Frame Here you have it…a blank writing frame! Use it for publishing, assessment work or fast-finishers! Includes picture box version and wide and narrow lines. Comic Strip Template WHOOSH! WHIZ! BANG! What’s more fun than creating your own superheroes to fight evil and save the world?! Includes 3 different templates - choose your preferred weapon! Diary Entry Template Dear Diary, What a day it has been! Students can write about their own experiences or put themselves in the shoes of a character from a book or person from the past! Fact File Template After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words. Extend out the activity by adding pictures and getting students to present their learnings. Improving Sentences Task Take a drab sentence and add some sparkle! Challenge students to rewrite the given sentences to make them more interesting! Persuasive Writing For/Against Chart Pick a moot and challenge your students to come up with reasons for and against the statement. Don’t let them get away with a one-sided argument! Persuasive Writing Planner Give me 3 good reasons! A graphic organizer to help your students plan their persuasive writing arguments. Proofreading Practice Task You can never do enough proofreading practice; no matter how many times you remind your students to use a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, they ALWAYS seem to forget! Practise practise practise! Storyboard Template Once upon a time they lived happily ever after. Use this for retelling stories, sequencing events and creating original narrative stories! Comes in 2 versions. Story Mountain Been learning about narrative stories? Use this template to sequence events from a known story or let your students get creative and plan their own stories! Using the Senses Recording Chart Get your students generating ideas before a piece of writing! Comes in present tense (I can see…) and past tense (I saw…) versions so you can use it for both those descriptive moment-in-time and recount pieces of writing! Writing Instructions Template - Recipe Scaffold your students with this recipe writing frame! Already followed a recipe to make something in class - super! If not, let your students pick something to create and hope it sounds at least somewhat appetizing… Writing Instructions Template - Game Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? Get your students to create their own game!

Get ready for the start of term with this reading resources pack! This is designed to get you all set for planning and teaching beginning readers from Magenta to Gold (Levels 1-21) on the Reading Colour Wheel. This resource includes: > A Colour Wheel Reading Groups Template > For each of the Reading Levels (Magenta - Gold): Learning intentions with checkboxes written as ‘I can…’ statements Lists of high frequency words for students to learn at each of the colour levels. I would send these lists home with my students so they could practise reading and spelling them for homework. I would also have a booklet for each of my students at school which they would use for independent spelling practice and I would use for assessment to tick off what words they’d shown me they could read/spell. My students loved taking ownership of their learning this way and I’d often see them taking the initiative to get their high frequency word booklet during Writing lessons to check their spelling! Ready-to-go unit planning documents with sections for targeted skills An action plan template to support learners through deliberate acts of teaching > A generic list of Guided Reading prompts to use before, during and after reading These are all resources that I found invaluable when teaching my Year 2s. I had readers all the way through from Level 1 to Level 20 so I really just needed to create an easy solution for myself to keep up with differentiated planning at each of the reading levels. I hope you also find them helpful! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Ready to dive into Biography Writing with your students? My students LOVE making little books (often for comics) so I figured why not turn Biography Writing into booklet form too?! I’ve created several versions to help you differentiate for students of varying writing abilities. When you download this, have a scroll through to pick out what’ll work best for your students! This resource contains 97 pages with multiple versions: Year 1-2 booklet (8 pages x4 versions with sentence starter prompts) Year 3-4 booklet (8 pages x2 versions) Year 5-6 booklet (10 pages x1 version) Year 7-8 booklet (12 pages x2 versions) *Product last updated 27/06/23 (removal of square bordering and update of some fonts) Biography Writing is great fun in that students get the opportunity to research a significant person of interest or influence. The trouble is that Biography Writing tends to get quite research-heavy. That’s why it’s important to make the recording of facts and writing up of information fun and achievable! Using booklets gives students ownership of their writing and chunks the task into manageable bite-sized sections. And of course, the chance to colour in and add illustrations! You can even turn it into a group project by divvying up the pages amongst group members before securing them together into a full booklet! I recommend printing out two pages per A4 sheet to make A5-sized booklets. Trim off any excess paper around the border before stapling or hole-punching and securing the pages together. Let me know how your students get on with it! Happy writing! If you’re after a biography planning template, check this out or if you’re looking for success criteria for biography writing have a look at this! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough ❤ If you found this resource helpful, leave a review and star rating on the product page!