Planning a Play script - template to complete. A useful starting point before writing a play script. 5 sections to complete: Section 1: Which characters will be in your play? Section 2: What entertaining event(s) will happen? Section 3: Where will each scene take place (settings)? Section 4: Describe the opening stage directions. Section 5: How will the play end? Fully editable.

4 persuasive writing frames. Great to use when doing persuasive writing. Fully editable.

Fantastic Mr Fox - DESCRIBING MR FOX! Focus: To describe. Great activity once you’ve read chapter 2 (Mr Fox). Activity description: Write 6 words to describe Mr Fox (e.g. cunning, handsome, clever etc.) then write about him in the space below. Fully editable.

Text: Hansel and Gretel A complete 3 week unit plan for Y3 or Y4 students. All resources attached including PowerPoint, worksheets etc. Unit plan (3 weeks approx.) PowerPoint presentation. Hansel and Gretel pictures. Lost in the Woods Activity. Play script template. Rhyming couplets activity. Sequencing activity. Speech bubbles and 3-page booklet. Spelling activities (optional). Storyboard activity.

Iron Man Poetry Unit of Work + Resources Attached is a fully editable 1-week Iron Man Unit Plan (this can easily be extended to 2 or 3 weeks). Genre: Poetry. Focus Text: The Iron Man by Brenda Williams. A 36-slide PowerPoint complements the unit of work - just click through each slide. All of the activities/resources are in the slide show - just print off the relevant slides. Optional homework task also included. . Objectives for each lesson: LESSON 1: To describe the Iron Man; To perform verses of the Iron Man; To rewrite verses of the original text. LESSON 2: To compose poetry verses describing the ‘Return of the Iron Man’; To perform poetry using a set criterion. LESSON 3: To create a character profile sheet of the Iron Man using rhyming words; To choose and describe a pretend job The Iron Man might do on his ‘home’ planet; To compose and write a poem based on the Iron Man’s pretend job using rhyming couplets. . Please note: Each lesson is designed to last approximately 1 to 2 hours (this all depends on the age and ability of your class).

Paired Reading - PEER ASSESSMENT sheet. A useful peer assessment sheet for assessing reading punctuation, fluency, delivery and accuracy. Fully editable.

A nice introduction to writing a diary. Contents of 8-slide PowerPoint: Slide 3: Sentence starters Slide 4: Past tense verbs Slide 5: Amazing adjectives Slides 6 & 7: Verbs and Adverbs Slide 8: Diary example

Activity: Correct the passage. A passage has been written incorrectly. There are: 9 missing capital letters. 7 missing full stops. 3 missing commas. 4 missing speech marks. 1 missing exclamation mark. Students have to rewrite the passage correctly. Age: 7+ (depending on ability). Answers provided. Also attached are some additional proofreading worksheets and self assessment checklist.

A FANTASTIC WRITING TOPIC TO DO WITH YOUR CLASS! A 57-slide PowerPoint with integrated animations and writing activities. 15 lessons - to be taught over 3 weeks. All activities are fully editable. Learning objectives, story, worksheets, video links and more. Ideal for Year 2 or Year 3. . LEARNING OBJECTIVES COVERED (The children will…) . Describe MR BIG. Describe what makes someone happy and sad. Answer questions about the beginning of MR BIG. Learn more about the word ‘avoid’. Sequence sentences correctly. Correct MR BIG sentences. Describe story settings. Order/sequence settings. Describe mountain gorilla activities. Compare two things. Write comparative sentences using however, but and whereas. Correct comparative sentences. Learn some new words and their meanings. Use a dictionary. Make a story map for one section of a story. Adapt part of a story. Plan a story. Write a story. Read a story aloud.

Attached is fully animated 37-slide PowerPoint that teaches children how to plan and write a non-chronological report. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability). The PowerPoint is divided into 8 parts - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7 and Day 8. Activity sheets complement each day (10 activity sheets in total). Approximately 8 one-hour English lessons. Fully editable. Save yourself 15 hours of planning time!

8 storyboard template. Ideal for planning stories, summarising sections of text or writing about events in chronological order. Ideal for all ages.

Compare and Contrast - Slide Show. 8 slides in total: Slide 3: Comparison words. Slide 5: Comparing apples and oranges. Slide 6: Things to remember when you compare and contrast. Slide 7: Compare and contrast table. Slide 8: Compare and contrast a lion and tiger using a Venn Diagram. Fully editable.

A very useful PowerPoint to introduce, explain and show examples of contractions. Over 80 slides. Fully editable.

Attached are 42 ‘VCOP’ (fully editable) games and activity suggestions. . Resource 1: A 26-page booklet containing 26 VCOP games & activity-suggestions Page 3: VCOP Games (13 games) Page 7: Connectives ‘Quick Fire’ Activities (4 activities) Page 13: Openers Activity (1 activity) Page 15: Punctuation Activity (1 activity) Page 19: Vocabulary Activities (7 activities) . Resource 2: A 16-page booklet containing 16 VCOP games & activity-suggestions. A ‘mixture’ of VCOP activities . Resource 3: Also attached is a an activity for the children to make their own VCOP pyramid.

Creative writing task: A boy finds a mysterious magical object on the beach. Sentence starter: One sunny afternoon, Tom was walking along the beach when … 2 pages. Fully editable.

Making Inferences - worksheet. 1 page - fully editable. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability).

4 storyboards attached. Fully differentiated and fully editable. Storyboard 1: All writing and pictures provided (answers). Storyboard 2: 4 pictures and all writing provided (lower ability). Storyboard 2: 4 pictures but no writing provided (middle ability). Storyboard 3: No pictures or writing provided (higher ability).

TREASURE ISLAND - Take your class on a real pirate adventure! Attached is 56-slide Treasure Island PowerPoint. PowerPoint contents: Characters. Setting. Transport. Tricky words in the story. Treasure Island - the story. Script template. Pirate pictures. Heroes and Heroines. Treasure Maps and Treasure Chests Character profiles. Writing your own pirate story. Also attached is a 3-week unit plan (fully editable), play script templates, Treasure Island - the story (a Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation),a short story example and a writing assessment. Fully editable.

A fully editable non-chronological report booklet and two A3 size non-chronological report templates/writing frames. The booklet contains a title page + 13 pages to write about different headings. You could always add a contents page, glossary and index for more able students. The templates are designed to allow the writer to add a specific subject/title under each relevant heading/subheading (the children just need to fill in the spaces). Fully editable.

A PowerPoint that introduces the long ‘a’ vowel sound. 12 slides. SLIDE 3: ay as in play. SLIDE 5: a_e as in magic ‘e’. SLIDE 8: ai as in rain. SLIDE 11: ei as in eight. Ideal for KS1 or Lower KS2. Please note: When you preview the PowerPoint, the images may appear distorted/squashed BUT the images will be completely normal once purchased. Fully editable.