Here’s a free Year 2 Narrative Writing WALT and success criteria poster to use with your students! If you’re after more, check out this editable resource with differentiated success criteria and multiple formats for students to stick into their books. 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

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

Blank Venn diagram perfect for illustrating similarities and differences between two things. 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

Get set for a year of Writing units with these KS1 writing success criteria! In this resource, you’ll find child-speak success criteria for 9 genres of writing in a range of formats with two differentiated versions. 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 143-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 9-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) Check out what’s in the bundle here: 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 Success Criteria for Report Writing Each resource in this bundle contains: Child-speak success criteria Differentiated sets of success criteria with 2 levels of challenge for Year 1-2 students (aged 5-7) 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 Child-speak success criteria are a must-have in any classroom. Particularly when teaching Writing, I’ve seen a HUGE improvement in both my teaching and my students’ learning when utilising them. The best thing has been seeing my struggling writers become empowered and motivated through using success criteria. When students know what is expected of them, the mystery of what makes a great piece of writing is uncovered. They really do take ownership of their learning as they play an active role in self-monitoring and assessing their own writng. So let’s make learning as clear as possible for all of our students and set them up for success every Writing lesson. Are you on board? Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. @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

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

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

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!

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

A blank biography writing template for students to record their research information. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to texts or the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic you’re studying! Categories include: Background, key life events, achievements, interesting facts and key quote. NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8! 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

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. Includes lesson aim (WALT select and record facts), Success Criteria and Key Words as well as a Fast Finisher task. 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

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

A printable kids book review template ideal for evaluating fiction texts. With space students to add a picture and fancy title, this makes for a great display on your classroom walls! Prompts include: Setting, characters, favourite part and recommendations. 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

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

Take a drab sentence and add some sparkle! Challenge students to rewrite the given sentences to make them more interesting! Add an adjective, switch up the sentence starter or extend the sentence! Appropriate for Year 2/ 6 year olds. 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

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! 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

A blank printable KWL grid for students to record what they Know (K), Want to know (W) and Learnt (L) about a topic. KWL charts are ideal to use in Reading lessons before and after reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video. You can also use them at the beginning of a Science, Humanities or Topic unit of work to gain insight into your students’ prior knowledge. Not to mention, it’s a fantastic tool for your students! By prompting them to activate their prior knowledge, they’ll be primed to connect existing and new knowledge and actively engage with the information that comes their way! This resource comes in portrait and landscape versions. 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

Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? How about some cross-curricular work instead? Get your students to create their own game - complete with a comprehensive equipment list! 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