Poetry theme: JOBS Poetry focus: Onomatopoeia 1-week unit plan and all resources attached. Fully editable. Ideal for 6+

Comic Strips! Why not ask your student’s to create their very own comic strips/books Attached are 3 comic strip writing templates plus a selection of cartoon strips to refer to. Suggested activities: Cut and paste comic strips in the correct sequence; add speech bubbles to character pictures or create comic strips.

Clarify the meaning of new words with this clarification worksheet. Just write down (no more than 4) unfamiliar/new words on the worksheet then ask your student’s to predict what they mean. Then, ask your student’s to find the actual definition of each word using a dictionary. Finally, ask your student’s to create their own sentence with the word. Fully editable. Suitable for all ages.

2 imaginary world homework projects to choose from. Project task 1: Create your imaginary world through an artistic medium and write a paragraph describing your imaginary world. Project task 2: Design and make an imaginary world with an imaginary creature inside! The third attachment is an oral presentation task sheet. Your students have to present their imaginary world to an audience (their class or set of parents) using the criteria on the sheet. Finally, the last attachment is an oral presentation assessment rubric - a lovely resource to assess your student’s presentations. 4 attachments in total - all fully editable. Ideal for 7+ Parents really get involved with these projects!

2 imaginary world homework projects to choose from. Project task 1: Create your imaginary world through an artistic medium and write a paragraph describing your imaginary world. Project task 2: Design and make an imaginary world with an imaginary creature inside! The third attachment is an oral presentation task sheet. Your students have to present their imaginary world to an audience (their class or set of parents) using the criteria on the sheet. Finally, the last attachment is an oral presentation assessment rubric - a lovely resource to assess your student’s presentations. 4 attachments in total - all fully editable. Ideal for 7+ Parents really get involved with these projects!

Imaginary World - Story Planning Sheet. A versatile planning sheet for writing imaginary world stories. 2 attachments: 1 colour and 1 black and white. Fully editable.

2 imaginary world homework projects to choose from. Project task 1: Create your imaginary world through an artistic medium and write a paragraph describing your imaginary world. Project task 2: Design and make an imaginary world with an imaginary creature inside! The third attachment is an oral presentation task sheet. Your students have to present their imaginary world to an audience (their class or set of parents) using the criteria on the sheet. Finally, the last attachment is an oral presentation assessment rubric - a lovely resource to assess your student’s presentations. 4 attachments in total - all fully editable. Ideal for 7+ Parents really get involved with these projects!

Activity: Go on a journey from beginning to end with this versatile story planning sheet. My student’s enjoyed this alternative approach to planning a story. There are 2 attachments to choose from … 1 colour and 1 black and white. Fully editable.

The Quest for the Magic Crystal - A story set in an Imaginary World. Enter the enchanted forest, gain help from the Golden Griffin, travel to the Creepy Castle, find the Magic Crystal (in the caves of the Murderous Mountains) and defeat the Ice Dragon! I used this story with my Year 5 class … they loved it! After reading it, they couldn’t wait to write their own quest story set in an imaginary world. 8 pages long. Appropriate for 7+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.

Imaginary World - PLACE MATS 3 differentiated PLACE MATS with words, phrases and key points for stories set in an imaginary worlds. Great for students to refer to when planning and writing their stories. Fully editable.

This bundle of 6 resources includes: A PowerPoint showing examples of what it means to explain. An explanation rubric. A ‘What is it?’ activity. A writing to explain 4-page activity booklet. A Cause and Effect PowerPoint. A 36-slide PowerPoint containing the following information: What are explanation texts? Identifying the subject in an explanation text. 6 Explanation texts: 1. Water pollution 2. The production of paper 3. Health and Beauty 4. How do volcanoes erupt? 5. What would happen if humans didn’t have bones? 6. What do muscles do? Layout of an explanation text. Cause and effect – connectives, examples and activities. More explanation activities.

This 53-slide PowerPoint covers the following: What are instructions? Verbal instructions. Time connectives. Written Instructions. Imperative (Bossy) Verbs. Instructional Writing Examples. Instructional Writing Task. Writing Frames. Editing Instructions. Ideal for 6+ and fully editable.

3 fully editable antonyms resources. Ideal for 6 - 11 years. Resource 1: Worksheet. Resource 2: Mobile. Resource 3: Display material.

3 lovely (and fully editable) stories to share with your class: The Rainbow Fish’ (adaptation). ‘Jack Frost and the Snow. The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Where does snow come from? A lovely poem + activities provided. Suitable for 4 - 8 years.

Hundreds of frequently used words - ideal for spelling lists. 5 - 11 years. Fully editable.

This 53-slide PowerPoint covers the following: What are instructions? Verbal instructions. Time connectives. Written Instructions. Imperative (Bossy) Verbs. Instructional Writing Examples. Instructional Writing Task. Writing Frames. Editing Instructions. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.

This resource is ideal if you want to set up your own KS1 school library. Attached are 17 sets of “recommended” library books - for children aged 4 to 8 years. Box labels and notes home (reminding students to return their books) included. 25 pages in total. Fully editable.

A complete overview of learning for English. Years 1 to 6. Fully editable.

My university dissertation. Topic: The National Literacy Strategy. A Literacy Task Force in January 1997 (chaired by Michael Barber and set up by the Labour Party shadow education minister David Blunkett) published its interim report - A reading revolution: How we can teach every child to read well. In the report, one of the recommendations was that the National Literacy Project (NLP) should be evaluated. The conservative government had previously established the NLP as a pilot scheme in thirteen Local Education Authorities. The aim of the evaluation was to determine whether the NLP should form the basis for a wider national literacy programme for all schools should Labour win the election. The major features of the NLP were: the introduction of a carefully structured literacy hour; a three strand programme of work at text, sentence and word level; a framework of teaching objectives indicating what should be taught during each term. Grade awarded: 82% - 1st Degree. 9 pages. 3707 words. Fully editable.