Powerpoint presentation and 2 levels of differentiation of a formal report with missing words. Powerpoint goes through when we use formal language and examples. Activity is a formal report on a children with missing words (formal words). BAR sheet has the first letter included. Also included the full report so you have the answers as well as a good quality year 6 report text.

Grammar focused sessions for Balanced Argument. First looking at logical conjunctions to use within writing this text type with grid that children can stick in to toolkit books to support other writing. Second looking at impersonal language used within balanced arguments ('children' instead of 'you'). Missing word activity followed by text written fully person. Children to convert to impersonal (potential answer provided)

Powerpoint presentation and 2 levels of differentiation of a recount (biography) with missing punctuation. Activity is a biography on Steve Backshall on a children with all punctuation missing (underscore used to identify where the punctuation belongs) BAR sheet focuses on full stops and capital letters.

PowerPoint to guide children through the Writing Interim Assessment Framework targets with the use of a text (portal story - rewrite of the first chapter of a story) written using the book 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lesson used for observation by teacher, English leads and head teachers from other schools.

PowerPoint to guide children through the Writing Interim Assessment Framework targets with the use of a text (report on a child) writen using the book 'There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom'. Lesson used for observation by teacher, english leads and head teachers from other schools. Children can work in pairs of small groups for this activity depending on the time of the year. PowerPoint can be reused again and again, only the text used needs to be change depending on text using in the class at the time

PowerPoint and corresponding booklet to support children with practice question from past SATs papers since the change in 2016. I am using this as an activity in the first few day of year 6 to get the children straight into the feel of year but can be used for revision purposes. Questions focus on maths and SPaG. On PowerPoint, questions have answers that are animated. There are some answer that are incorrect to start with so that children have to explain why they are wrong but correct answer does follow.