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Persuasive Writing - Design a Theme-park
This writing resource shows learners how to create a persuasive leaflet for their own theme park.
They must use persuasive strategies to engage their reader and promote their park.
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Olympics 2024
This resource aims to provide learners with a range of learning experiences relating to the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The activities include:
History of the Olympics - Timeline activity
Host City of the Olympics - Factfile of Paris
Offering their own city as a host - Persuasive Letter to the Olympic Committee.
Sporting Events - Researching & creating an information text on different sporting events
Olympic Logo - Designing a new olympic logo
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Features of a Newspaper Article
This resource teaches learners how to write a newspaper article by looking at the main features.
It covers
Names of newspapers
Headlines
Bylines/leadlines
Formal tone
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Literacy Starters
This literacy starter resource contains 20 different starter activities. It provides a range of starters across a variety of literacy genres. It has tasks related to spelling, grammar, writing and listening & talking. The starter aims to revise and consolidate common issues which revise in literacy for learner in KS2. It looks at issues such as homophones, proof reading, direct speech and many other areas. All activities are short and can be completed on whiteboards. Many starters also contain a challenge task for more able learners.
It contains 20 different starter activities.
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Creative Writing: Describing a Winter Setting
This resource focuses on describing setting during creative writing.
It begins with a starter which focused on personification and teaches learners how to use personification and create it.
The resource then shows a number of winter settings and encourages learners to describe the setting using the five senses. This can be printed as a page for learners to complete independently or in small groups. Alternatively, it can be completed as a whole class on the interactive whiteboard.
The resource then talks the learners through the process of planning. This resource uses the story mountain format which has been attached as a pdf.
Finally, the resource gives a modelled story opener to discuss with learners.
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Persuasive Letter Writing - Can I Get a New Pet
This lesson explains the purpose and audience of a persuasive text. It then teaches different persuasive strategies. It includes a writing task which is to persuade a family member to get you a new pet. It also contains a modeled letter which can be used as an example for learners.
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Direct Speech
Short grammar input which revises the rules for direct speech and includes some written activities.
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Discursive Writing - Should Animals be Kept in Zoos
Discursive Writing - Should Animals be Kept in Zoos. This resource explains discursive writing, models a table for learners to complete, provides a short planning format example, includes a modelled paragraph and contains a word bank for learners.
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Twisted Fairytales Roll a Story
A twist on the standard fairytale story. Learners can roll a dice to help them build their story.
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Sentence Openers and Connectives Display
Sentence opener and connective flashcards which can be displayed on literacy wall. Useful resource to remind learners to include these in their writing.
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Pastel Classroom Display Bundle
This bundle includes a range of different classroom displays from general class management to literacy and numeracy. All resources follow the same pastel colour palette
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Chinese New Year - The Great Race Reading Comprehension
This reading comprehension retells the story of the Great Race which created the Zodiac calendar. It contains two tasks:
Task 1: Analyses new or tricky vocab
Task 2: Comprehension questions
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Writing - Information Text on Birds
This writing resource works well along the RSPB Bird Watch which takes place this time of year. Whether children are actively bird watching outside or simply learning about birds around them, it is a great way to engage with nature.
This lesson models for learners how to research four different birds and take notes in their jotter. It then demonstrates how to turn these short notes into engaging sentences for their reader.
Finally it models for learners how they can lay this out neatly in their jotter and include some of the key features of an information text like headings, subheadings, pictures and captions.
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Imaginative Writing: The Chinese Dragon
This Chinese New Year is the year of the dragon so the writing focus is going to be on a character description of a Chinese Dragon.
This resource explains the five different aspects of a character that pupils should describe in order to successfully convey their character to their reader.
It also provides a modelled text, and a table worksheet for them to record examples of each aspect from the text. This will help give them inspiration for their own story.
This resource includes the main lesson, the recording table and the planning page. I have also included a printed copy of the texts which could be printed out for pupils.
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Persuasive Letter to Stop Homework
This lesson teaches children about persuasive writing and different persuasive strategies they can use. It then gives different targets (success criteria) that learners need to achieve in order to successfully produce a good persuasive letter.
It also includes two different example texts (one good and one that requires improvement)
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Singular and Plural Nouns Grammar Lesson
Short grammar lesson singular and plural nouns. Includes a QR to a game that learners could play and includes some written tasks.
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Adverbs Grammar Lesson
Short lesson on using adverbs. Lesson encourages learners to use adverbs at different parts of the sentence e.g. beginning, middle and end.
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Homophone Snap
A resource for helping pupils recognise and become more familiar with common homophones.
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Word of the Week
Word of the week starter PPT.
This can be used weekly or daily as a starter to help learners develop their vocabularly.