A wide variety of resources based on my 30 years teaching in primary and secondary schools, as well as home education too.
My passion is writing and encouraging youngsters to experiment with a wide variety of tools in order to develop their written work.
If you like my work, please leave some feedback - I'm alway looking to improve what I have to offer and this is only possible if people tell me what they want!
A wide variety of resources based on my 30 years teaching in primary and secondary schools, as well as home education too.
My passion is writing and encouraging youngsters to experiment with a wide variety of tools in order to develop their written work.
If you like my work, please leave some feedback - I'm alway looking to improve what I have to offer and this is only possible if people tell me what they want!
A whole week's worth of writing activities based around the theme of 'Autumn'.
Vivid images to stimulate children's' thinking and develop their vocabularies.
Specifically created for shorter writing tasks, each sheet is aimed at a 20-minute writing session, giving time to discuss the task, time for teacher modelling on board/visualiser and time to create a word bank to refer to AND time for children to write.
Included in the pack is a planning sheet for the children to use, along with a choice of three different sheets for the children to write up their completed, redrafted work.
These may also be used on the computer to type on.
An essential wall display/resource for any classroom, showing ten different genres - Action & Adventure, Myths, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Real-Life, Historical, Sci-Fi, Thriller and Folk Tales.
Each A4 poster describes the necessary requirements for each of the headings, but more importantly, each has top tips for developing writing in each of the genres.
A superbly colourful resource that children will refer to each time they write.
Suitable for upper KS2 and KS3.
Six story starters for KS2/3.
Detention, isolation, UFO's, strange gifts....and more!
Stimulating images and thought provoking settings will engage children, producing some excellent written work.
A series of 18 hi-res images with a mixture of inspirational and motivational quotes from leading figures in society, past and present - Abraham Lincoln, Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela etc.
Superb 'instant' wall display, with pictures based around the natural environment, these images can be used as a discussion starter, or as the basis for a lesson.
Aimed mainly at KS3/KS4, there is no reason why more able KS2 children could not gain valuable insight from these photographs and their wordings.
A comprehensive writing resource for children to engage in Haiku poetry using 'Autumn' as their starting point.
Included in the pack -
- Examples of Haiku poetry;
- Glorious photographs of different woodland scenes in the autumn;
- Children's planning sheet;
- Differentiated methods for achieving success with less able children
There are 8 sheets included in the Haiku pack, along with a PDF border which can be typed onto via word-processor for wall display.
A huge resource of over ten different regular shapes - differentiated for two levels, so over twenty worksheets in all.
Comes complete with guidance from the National Curriculum Programme of Study.
Aimed at getting children to discuss different properties of shape, these resources lend themselves equally well to a 'chalk & talk' session using a board/visualiser or can be used individually with children.
The worksheets also encourage children to look at shape in their environment, prompting further talk.
Plenty of options for discussing the merits of each shape and enhancing mathematical vocabulary.
Whole-class activity plus instant display!
These sheets, printed out, would fill a wall in seconds - with children's input, they provide a go-to resource on your classroom wall - one that can be used again and again and again.
OR... print out double-sided for each student so they have their own 'go-to' resource for improving their own writing!
29 A4 sheets, each with a central word such as 'Said' - and room for children to add their own synonyms to build up an extensive vocabulary. Brilliant for stimulating discussion as a whole class lesson or in pairs.
Sheets include - Said, Amazing, Bad, Beautiful, Big, Bright, Dark, Delicious and more.
As and when you take down the display - put these sheets in alphabetical order in a folder for a go-to resource for children.
Included is a Microsoft Word file with associated synonyms for teacher and/or student use.
Great for developing research skills, using a thesaurus, in order to add quality and variety to sentence construction.
Four writing resources based around the theme of a funfair.
Includes -
- Planning page which covers synonyms, onomatopoeia, adjectives and similes;
- Photographs to stimulate imagination;
- Sheet to encourage children to think of multisensory experiences;
- 'Big Write' sheet for story draft
A selection of four creative writing resources with powerful images that will produce quality discussion. Each is supplied with a prompt sheet to push students' writing skills to the next level.
Provided with an extra prompt sheet that can be used with all four pictures, to encourage students to consider the importance of their senses in writing.
Aimed at upper KS2 and lower KS3, these photographs will create a superb wall display, with some excellent writing from the children.
Creative writing task with three levels of differentiation.
Aimed at upper KS2, this could easily be used by more able Yr 4 children and also lower KS3 as well.
Support sheets designed to engage children's thinking, utilising sentence structure, writing techniques - such as building tension - using synonyms and much, much more.
Writing stimulation contains writing checklist for children to mark off as they complete.
Aimed at upper KS2 and lower KS3, this resource contains a whole week's worth of creative writing, covering the use of similes, rhetorical questions, adjectives and synonyms, while at the same time concentrating on verbal language development.
Included in the resource pack are full hi-res images for display use, along with semi-translucent images that can be loaded into a Word document and used as a background for the completed writing.
As well as a differentiated worksheet for less able writers and a comprehensive writers' support sheet for children to record their work on, this resource builds each day to the climax of writing the finished article by the end of the week.
Throughout, children are encouraged to co-operate, talk and work with partners, sharing their work and their learning as they go.
A selection of stimulating images with corresponding activities to develop quality sentences.
Areas covered - adjectives, synonyms, personification, rhetorical questions, similies and adverbs.
Aimed at upper KS2 or lower KS3, there are four separate activities to support class teaching, along with an additional 'Senses' sheet which can be used with all four writing sheets.
A colourful picture that most children will identify with - the task, to write a description of the flavours, textures and feelings created when visiting a fun fair.
This is aimed at supporting writing at mid to upper KS2 and is to be used as a scaffold for children to add their own adjectives, verbs and adverbs to.
The primary aim here is to develop a breadth of writing using our senses as a focus tool.
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Please contact me if you'd like an editable version of this.
N.B - Photograph is strictly copyright
Some basic ideas for opening writing in different ways - a worksheet to engage the children and help them to consider options when first putting pen to paper!
Assorted sheets to prompt reluctant writers with powerful imagery and hopefully inspire them to put pen to paper!
Comes complete with lined paper - ideal for homework!
