Are you looking for fresh opinion writing activities and lessons that are fun, engaging, and no-prep? This huge 200+ slide resource is packed full of sequenced persuasive writing activities covering persuasive structure, and the language features of persuasive texts. You’ll also save time with our 25-lesson teaching sequence, hyperlinked menu, and guided writing slides to help students through every step of their persuasive writing. Topics covered in persuasive writing (also known as opinion writing): forming opinions, supporting with evidence, counter-arguments, persuasive structure, language features of persuasive texts and more! Your students will love the different opinion writing activities included. These slides even include learning intentions, success criteria checklists, and step-by-step guided writing slides to help students boost their opinion writing! You will get: 205 colourful and engaging persuasive writing slides in PowerPoint and Google (PDF link included) - see the contents below! Hyperlinked menu so you can find concepts easily 25-lesson opinion writing teaching sequence with hyperlinks to suggested slides Student checklists at different levels Step-by-step writing slides - scaffold your students with these guided writing slides. Your students will love the simplicity of the structured persuasive writing lesson slides and see real improvement in their persuasive writing. You will love having everything in one place! Opinion Writing Lesson slides contents include: How to use Teaching Sequence Learning Intention and Success Criteria Student Checklists What is a Persuasive Text? Types of Persuasive Texts Why do we write Persuasive Texts? Examples of Persuasive Texts

Give all of your fairy tales a ‘happily ever after’ with these fairy tale writing prompts, perfect for fairy tale writing. Five sentence fairy tales are a powerful way to teach students how to construct a fairy tale. Writing five descriptive sentences to outline each stage of the fairy tale, helps your students to successfully complete their stories. No more unfinished stories! The ‘five sentence fairy tale’ scaffold includes opener/hook, orientation, complication, solution & resolution. There are also fractured fairy tale slides with different ideas for fracturing a fairy tale/ Here’s what is included in this resource: PowerPoint slideshow with eleven different fairy tale-themed prompts for displaying on your whiteboard: Traditional fairy tale prompts - focussing on characters, settings etc. Prompts for fractured fairy tales - different prompts including how students can fracture their tales. Blank slide to add your own prompts Use on your whiteboard or for distance learning. Easy to differentiate! You will find your lower writers will finally give you complete stories, while your talented writers will fill a page with just five sentences! When students nail this process, they are ready to use these sentences as topic sentences for narrative paragraphs. How can you develop this idea? Once students have nailed writing five sentences, they can extend the sentences to become topic sentences for paragraphs. I like to tell my students they now have to write two sentences, then three etc. Before you (or they) know it, they have written a complete story! Finally, all of my students edit for language features, structure, grammar, punctuation and spelling. This is when they check they have included direct speech, descriptive language, figurative language and more, depending on their age. I have used Five Sentence Stories (and the planning and brainstorming processes) to ‘bump up’ my students to the next level -there is nothing better than reading complete and detailed stories!

Make teaching phonics fun with these engaging, hands-on chatterboxes! Also known as fortune tellers and cootie catchers, these fun paper toys will have your students engaged and ready to learn. This set includes 40 low-prep chatterbox templates perfect for reviewing phonics skills such as phoneme-grapheme correspondences, split digraphs and vowel digraphs. There are 40 phonics chatterboxes - so you could introduce one per week. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these fortune tellers perfect for centers or substitute days, too! Your students will love colouring, cutting and folding their own phonics chatterboxes, and then playing the game with their friends. They won’t even realise they’re learning! Here’s what you’ll get: 40 blackline phonics chatterboxes, perfect for centers or stations (see list of sounds below) Teacher guide including instructions for play Picture instructions for folding List of sounds covered Checklist of sounds for teacher records. Each chatterbox includes: Student instructions for play Phonics concept heading Words/images that correspond with concept taught Your students will love practicing basic phoneme-grapheme correspondences with these fun paper toys. They will look forward to phonics time, literacy centers and even homework! These chatterboxes have been a childhood favourite for decades, but I’ve included picture instructions just in case you need them.

Make teaching phonics fun with these engaging, color by code activities! This summer set includes 34 no-prep color by code phonics activities perfect for exploring and consolidating encoding and decoding skills using the 42 basic sounds. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too! Aligned with the Science of Reading and perfect for students who are learning to read and write various phonics patterns, each summer color by code worksheet includes decodable words, and builds on student learning within a recognisable phonics hierarchy. Each activity, students are exposed to an additional sound, AND reinforcement of previously learned sounds. Here’s what you’ll get: 34 color by code phonics activities perfect for centers or stations. Each image is summer themed. Teaching notes Sequence used in the color by code activities: s a t p i n, c, k, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, y, l, f, b, ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, ng, v, oo, y, x, ch, sh, th, ou, oi, ue, er, ar. Each sound covers itself AND previously taught sounds. Both ‘color’ and ‘colour’ spellings are included

Make teaching phonics fun with these engaging, colour by code activities! This spring set includes 34 no-prep color by code phonics activities perfect for exploring and consolidating encoding and decoding skills using the 42 basic sounds. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too! Aligned with the Science of Reading and perfect for students who are learning to read and write various phonics patterns, each spring color by code worksheet includes decodable words, and builds on student learning within a recognisable phonics hierarchy. Each activity, students are exposed to an additional sound, AND reinforcement of previously learned sounds. Here’s what you’ll get: 34 colour by code phonics activities perfect for centers or stations. Each image is spring themed and there are some St. Patrick’s Day and Easter images included. -Teaching notes Sequence used in the colour by code activities: s a t p i n, c, k, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, y, l, f, b, ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, ng, v, oo, y, x, ch, sh, th, ou, oi, ue, er, ar. Each sound covers itself AND previously taught sounds. Both ‘color’ and ‘colour’ spellings are included

This gorgeous Sound Wall with Mouth Pictures comes with a range of phoneme/grapheme posters, mouth pictures for articulation, and a comprehensive range of sound wall headings. It will help you to focus on letter/sounds, common graphemes and mouth articulation as you deliver your phonics program.

Bump It Up Wall Displays are an effective teaching and learning tool to help your students know how to IMPROVE. This fun Bump It Up Wall, in an ice-cream theme, shows students how they can ‘bump up’ their level of achievement and gets them excited about learning. Here’s what is included: Bump It Up Wall Display - Ice-cream Display Kit Includes: ✔Bright ice-cream images for each level (D-A) ✔Numbers for each level (1-4) ✔Arrows in all colours ✔Round labels in all colours ✔Rectangle labels in all colours ✔Bunting letters (SWEET TREATS!, BUMP IT UP) ✔Level labels ✔PLUS FRESH 2021 UPDATE! Includes pastel colours, and new ice-cream options! Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: ✿ include in your learning walls ✿ use for different subjects or skill areas ✿ bump up any area you would like your students to improve; handwriting, friendship, spelling

What educators are saying: The perfect resource for teaching informative writing. I used this during our literacy groups. The kids were so engaged! — Michelle B. Great supporting resource to teach information text types. I used these as individual activities and in small teaching groups. — Rowena S.

This Rainbow Learning Wall Kit supports the creation of a learning wall in your classroom. A learning wall is more than a bump it up wall – it is an evolving space that guides AND documents your students’ learning journey. Learning Walls are an interactive teaching and learning tool for your students to refer to during the learning cycle. They become working displays that your students can refer back to, and learn from, even if you aren’t available to them. This kit includes: 46 pages of Learning Wall display elements in a rainbow theme: Learning Intention poster Success Criteria Poster and labels ‘I Can’ labels Mini-rainbow student name labels Word Wall Header Text type headers Additional headings for language features, text structure and grammar/punctuation Blank labels to add own headings ‘Bump It Up Wall’ & ‘Learning Wall’ buntings Various ‘inky’ arrows to make your wall flow and have cohesion Large A4/letter-size rainbow posters (you can blow these up, shrink them down ect.) *does not include work samples

Bump It Up Wall display to make learning visible in the classroom. What better way to get your students involved than by using a hook they love? CUTE CACTI! Display Kit Includes: Cacti images for each level (D-A) Numbers for each level (1-4) Arrows in all colours Cactus name labels Plain labels in all colours Rectangle labels in all colours Bunting letters (WATCH US BLOOM) Level labels (cactus theme and GOOD, GREAT, AMAZING, WOW!) *does not include work samples

re you looking for a new and exciting bump it up wall display for your classroom? This fairy tale castle Bump It Up Wall display is sure to create some buzz! Simply print, trim, and display! You can display horizontally or vertically, depending on your wall space. Here’s what is included: Fairy Tale Castle Bump It Up Wall Display Kit Includes: ✔Castle images for FIVE levels ✔ Success criteria statements for a RETELL ✔BLANK success criteria template so you can add your own success criteria for ANY subject. ✔Arrows in four colours ✔Castle-level labels ✔Bunting letters (BUMP IT UP!) in castle colours, pastel rainbow colours, boho pink and fresh 2022 colours. ✔Level labels (GOOD, GREAT, AMAZING, FANTASTIC) ✔Learning Intention and Success Criteria Posters ✔Blank castle labels for writing ‘I can’ statements *does not include work samples October 2021 Update! ✔Posters for four levels ✔Bump It Up banner All versions are included and are marked by year. You will need PowerPoint and Adobe to view and use these resources. Want to know how to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides? Read here ◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈ This resource would work for students from K-2 ! ◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈ Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: ✿ include an engaging Bump It Up Wall in your learning wall ✿ use to complement a fairytale/creative writing unit of work ✿ use for different subjects or skill areas ✿ bump up any area you would like your students to improve; handwriting, friendship, spelling

Learning Walls and Bump It Up Walls are a fantastic way to make learning visible in your classroom and to track student learning. Writing your own ‘bump it up’ samples and creating your own Learning Wall headings can be really time consuming! Save time with this toolkit of resources! What’s included: Six-week teaching sequence including formative check-in tasks, with a Learning Wall focus. A-D Information Report writing samples (Lake Mungo, Australia), with annotations aligned with the Australian Curriculum. An ‘I Can statement’ student/peer/teacher checklist 70+ page Learning Wall kit with Information Report specific headings Show your students HOW to improve their work by deconstructing each text, and then use the annotations to guide them to the next level. Provide feedback on student writing using the checklist - a powerful tool to show students exactly what they need to do to improve. Then help them to set goals and improve from week to week! You will effectively teach Information Report structure and features, while using a Learning Wall AND using student/peer feedback and goal-setting. The plan also leaves room to address your students’ learning needs and add your own lessons.