A useful tool to accompany the breakdown of national writing standards and expectations document. The document breaks down the more general term 'cohesive devices' and gives pupils examples to use in their work in order to meet this part of the criteria.

Level descriptors for national expectations in writing (working towards the expected standard and working at the expected level) written in pupil friendly language with examples of how to demonstrate each skill included. A very useful resource which has enabled a number of pupils to successfully meet national expectations.

Elevate Resources presents, perfect for Black History Month, an English/Geography cross-curricular persuasive writing unit. Students research African nations tourists would love, revise the features of persuasive writing, read example persuasive tourism brochures, have the process of planning their own brochure modelled for them & draft a brochure of their own.

In celebration of Black History Month, Elevate Resources present an article about footballer Troy Deeney’s campaign for a more diverse curriculum accompanied by 17 SATs style reading comprehension questions for non-fiction text from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction & Comparisons + corresponding answers!

An Elevate Resources English/History cross-curricular Biography writing unit to celebrate Black History Month. The unit takes students through the process of gleaning biography features from biographies, researching historical black figures, supported note taking and organization of notes leading to the writing of a biography. Bullet point notes included for Alexandre Dumas, Octavia E Butler, Jack Johnson and Rebecca Lee Crumpler.

Reading comprehension questions on ‘Town is by the Sea’ by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation. 27 questions in all, easily differentiated with accompanying answers!

Outstanding lesson sequence with overview, smart-board and accompanying resources. Children revise a wide range of punctuation rules, apply this knowledge in an engaging and fun punctuation symbol puzzle, then complete a writing task based on David Wiesner's 'Tuesday' with the aim of accurately using a full range of punctuation marks.

SATs style comprehension questions for each chapter of David Almond's 'Skellig'. Accompany the use of the novel as an independent or class reader with these 1, 2 &3 mark questions which require pupils to use skills from a full range of reading 'strands' or assessment focuses.

SATs style comprehension questions for each chapter of Louis Sachar's 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom'. Accompany the use of the novel as an independent or class reader with these 1, 2 & 3 mark questions which require pupils to use skills from a full range of reading 'strands' or assessment focuses.

SATs style questions covering the full range of assessment focuses / reading strands for use with individual, groups or whole classes of children when studying 'Midnight Fox' by Betsy Byars - particularly useful in preparation for end of KS2 Reading assessments.

This fantastic collection of tried and tested resources provides a great many engaging, interesting and fun activities to help your students master a wide range of aspects of SPaG. Includes work on adverbial clauses, adjective phrases, finding synonyms for 'and, but and so', examples of a wide variety of connective/conjunction types and their uses, varied sentence openers, figurative language, varied punctuation, missing punctuation and correct tense use. Using themes including football, 'Rocky', Harry Potter and many more this resource will enthuse even the hardest to reach students!

Reading comprehension questions following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation, whole class KS2 reading sessions as well as KS3 English lessons. Every hit song from ‘The Greatest Showman’ covered with 81 questions and accompanying answers in all.

SATs style comprehension questions for each chapter of Louis Sachar's 'Holes'. Accompany the use of the novel as an independent or class reader with these 1, 2 and 3 mark questions which require pupils to use skills from a full range of reading 'strands' or assessment focuses.

This bumper pack of resources includes prompts, success criteria, WAGOLLs, story starters and scaffolds to inspire pupil writing across a range of genres including sci-fi, super-hero, horror, history and mystery.

This bumper pack of resources includes prompts, success criteria, WAGOLLs and scaffolds to inspire pupil writing across a range of non-fiction genres including arguments, biographies, journalistic writing, diaries, descriptions, explanations, instructions, non-chronological reports and more!

For anyone developing mystery stories with their class, this set of resources provides stimulus and resources to guide pupils through using Anthony Horowitz's 'The Falcon's Malteser' to write their own detective story. Including planning frames, WAGOLL and subject specific vocabulary lists to provide scaffolding for pupils which will result in enjoyable lessons and fantastic outcomes.