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!

Just what you need for your next Science experiment! On this worksheet, students will need to record the equipment and ingredients required to make salt crystals, the method they used to make them and observational drawings recorded once per week. I created this worksheet to use with my Year 2 students during our Science unit on Rocks. My students loved this activity and especially liked how they could add food colouring to get different coloured salt crystals! Just a word of warning to ensure that all of your students create a super-saturated solution (to the point where no more salt can dissolve in the water), otherwise you’re at risk of getting some very disappointed little faces! I also included a WALT (We Are Learning To) and Success Criteria at the top of the worksheet. Hope you find it helpful! 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

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

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 write a recipe for and hope it sounds at least somewhat appetizing… This worksheet contains the following sections: Description, Ingredients, Method, and Picture. 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

Here’s a blank 12x12 times tables worksheet for your students to fill in to create their very own cheat sheet or should I say reference chart ;) If your students have already started learning their times tables up to 12, check out this set of ready-to-go times table test grids: Times Tables Blank Grids Enjoy! 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

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

In this worksheet, students will calculate fractions of an amount using division. All of the questions are with unit fractions e.g. 1/4 of 12 with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 12. A WALT and success criteria/key mathematical knowledge are included at the top of the worksheet. There are 12 practise questions and 4 word problems which students need to write out a matching equation for before solving. Answers are included as well as grayscale versions of the question and answer sheets. Ready for the next step? Move onto finding non-unit fractions of an amount with this activity! 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

Sick of wonky lines and missing axis labels on your students’ graphs? Get them on track with this blank bar graph template! This worksheet includes a WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words for presenting data in a bar graph. 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

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

Worried that your students are living increasingly sedentary lives? Encourage them to get moving - whether that’s through organised sport, dance, running, jumping or climbing! 60 minutes of physical activity is a must for children - let’s make it happen! 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

Ready-to-go editable slides for your students to See Think Feel & Wonder about the topic of Climate Change! The prep is all done for you - simply assign the Google Slides to your students on Google Classroom and your students will be all set to go with thought-provoking picture prompts and tables to record their responses. Easy! If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! It’s a way to spark discussions and unearth students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them. The pictures in this resource include: Transport, deforestation, farming, bush fires, glacier melting, factory pollution and protest for climate change. Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot How I recommend using these Google Slides: Complete the Bus Stop activity outlined in the printable version with students either just discussing their ideas or recording their responses on post-it notes. Show students the Google Slides and model how to fill in the ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ charts, ensuring that you are specific about your personal expectations of length/quality of responses. Make the slides available for students to complete independently through the ‘Create an Assignment’ function on Google Classroom (explained below). Look at the assignments once they have been submitted by your students and use this information to identify prior knowledge, misconceptions and possible areas to explore further in following lessons. If you haven’t used the ‘Create an Assignment’ function in Google Classroom before, you can check out instructions on Google support. There are also a bunch of videos out there you can watch on Youtube if that’s easier for you! The most important thing is that when you first create the assignment, you select ‘Make a copy for each student’. This means that your students will all get their own copy of the slides with their name added to the document title. You and the student will be able to edit their copy of the document and, importantly, your students will not be able to edit your original copy of the slides (yes, I have made this mistake before!). Please note: When you purchase this resource, you will download a PDF which gives you access to the Editable Google Slides. After clicking the link, you will be prompted to ‘Make a Copy’ of the resource which will automatically save to your personal Google Drive. Please ensure that you are signed into your Google account to enable this. Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. @atm.teaching

Get your students subtracting fractions in no time! This resource contains a subtracting fractions cheat sheet and a worksheet with 22 questions for students to practise subtracting fractions with unlike (different) denominators. This also includes an answer key for quick marking and a challenge for your speedy students! Check out these other fractions resources: Adding & Subtracting Fractions Worksheets Multiplying & Dividing Fractions Worksheets Fractions of an Amount Worksheets Mixed Numbers & Improper Fractions Worksheets** 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

In this worksheet, students will calculate fractions of an amount by dividing by the denominator and multiplying by the numerator. Students need to know multiplication and corresponding division facts up to 10x10. A WALT and success criteria/key mathematical knowledge are included at the top of the worksheet. There are 10 practice questions and 3 word problems which students need to write out a matching equation for before solving. Answers are included as well as grayscale versions of the question and answer sheets. Check out these other Fractions resources: Fractions of an amount (unit fractions) Fractions worksheet bundle 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

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

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

We’ve got to build positive school cultures if we want teachers to be able to thrive. If you’re looking to boost morale, promote well-being and increase motivation, here are some ideas you can use yourself, with your team or for the whole staff body. I’m out to help teachers feel good and teach at their best. I believe that we can achieve this through four key areas: Being purposeful - Having intent behind our actions and connecting with what’s important with us to stay motivated Being in control - Focusing on what’s within our locus of control and building helpful habits into our daily routines Being inspired - Being a learner at heart, open to new ways of doing things, taking opportunities to grow and keeping our teaching ‘fresh’ Knowing we’ve done enough - Valuing ourselves and fostering a school culture of positivity and celebration where we are all happy and proud to call ourselves teachers. It’s a shame that ‘well-being’ initiatives and activities have a reputation for ‘missing the mark’ or feeling tokenistic because we have an undeniable need to see more of them in our schools. We’ve got to get the talk going, engage in authentic experiences and really build well-being into our school cultures so it’s a given - not a bonus. I hope you find this resource helpful and that, at the very least, it sets the wheels in motion for building a community of happy and supportive teachers at your school. Together let’s make schools the positive environments they should be and make teaching the uplifting experience we all want it to be. Go well, team! ☺ 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 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