Direct speech activity - adding in all the missing punctuation. year 5/6

High level figurative language. Based on characters from Two Sisters: A story of freedom.

This is a PowerPoint presentation to introduce poetry to year 6. It includes a video link to a Benjamin Zephaniah example and is designed to inspire year 6 pupils. Includes multiple poetry based activities.

Themes of slavery and black history. A very powerful poem. 5 lesson in depth sequence.

Character description - high level model for year 5/6 character description planning template year 5/6 based on the text Bronze and Sunflower

Themes of slavery. Full sequence including model text and glossary.

A sequence of writing planning for year 5/6. Based on the book ‘Rain before Rainbows’, this is a poetry writing sequences where children will produce their own poems at the end.

A sequence of writing planning for year 5/6 based on the text ‘FaRther’. Produces a narrative piece of writing.

A literacy unit based on the poem The Undefeated.

Based on the video clip Frances on literacy shed. A full writing sequence focusing on figurative language and creating suspense.

Based on the video clip Alma from literacy shed. Full writing sequence focusing on suspense writing. Ofsted observed lesson - outstanding.

This pack contains LA/MA/HA model texts for writing a character description. It contains 3 planning sheets for children to plan their descriptions (LA/MA/HA). It contains a LA template for writing their character description. IT contains a very in depth lesson plan for writing a character description. This is a full lesson resource pack to stretch over a few lessons and to complete the whole process and writing a character description. Used for year 6 writing.

There is 3 character descriptions to suit different abilities. They are designed to showcase descriptive writing. They work perfectly as model texts and make a good starter to allow children to annotate and pick out the grammatical features.

Based on the book The Haunting of Avaline Jones. A full literacy sequence including reading skills (vipers) and moving onto writing skills.