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.

Halloween Imaginative Instruction Writing - How to Make a Magic Potion This is a great creative instructional writing lesson to engage learners during Halloween. It teaches learners how to write instructions and revises the different purposes of instructional writing. For more able learners, the resource demonstrates how learners can improve instructions by adding openers, powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives. This resource also includes: Teaching slides Planning page. Printable word bank 2 differentiated modelled texts which could be adapted to suit different ages or abilities. 2 x writing templates which could be used for display. 1 x cauldron template and 1 x recipe book template. It also includes 5 different potion bottle templates for learners to design. These come in small or larger sizes. Display bunting saying - Our Magic Potions.

Boho literacy/english wall/bulletin board classroom display. Display includes Display bunting with the words literacy or english A writing editing pencil checklist -Sentence opener word wall -Connective/conjunctions word wall Writing technical targets + plus 6 targets Spelling activities poster -Spelling strategies Reading skills posters. This resource matches my Maths Boho Classroom display bundle

This scheme of work provides lesson for the full novel of Mr Nobody’s Eyes by Michael Morpurgo. It covers a range of reading skills throughout e.g. prediction comprehension main ideas summarising metalinguistics Character visualisation key themes evaluations

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.

Daily morning Starters to engage learning first thing in the morning. The starters rotate on a weekly basis. They cover a range of topics from: Numeracy Spelling Grammar Writing Problem solving Geography General Knowledge Inferencing Skills

This resource includes a range of maths and literacy starters that can be used around the Halloween season.

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.

Short grammar lesson singular and plural nouns. Includes a QR to a game that learners could play and includes some written tasks.

Short grammar input on adverbial phrases and the different types of adverbial phrases. Short written activity to be completed at the end.

A resource for helping pupils recognise and become more familiar with common homophones.

This resource contains a variety of quizzes or activities that can be used to encourage learners to read more, share about what they read and introduce them to more authors or books. It contains. Become an illustrator Lesson and Worksheet. In this activity, pupils will see the blurb of a book but not the front cover. Based on what they read, they have to decide what front cover they should design to illustrate. It contains four different blurbs and a worksheet with four blank book covers. Who Am I? Book character quiz. Book Speed Dating Worksheet. Learners would each have a book on their table and when told they must move to another table. They then have a short time to skim and scan the book then review on their speed dating worksheet. Who is my author quiz. Pupils must match the front cover to the author of the book. Book activities. This resource contains five different activities that can be completed in class or independently as a home learning activity.

This resource teaches learners how to use persuasive strategies and use these to create a persuasive letter to Santa. It discusses the effect of different persuasive devices then provides a modeled letter that can be the basis of class discussion for learners to identify the strategies used and the effect they have. It also models the correct layout of a letter.

This resource begins with encouraging learners to create questions about Victorian schools which can become their subheadings. It then demonstrates how to take notes and then transfer these into paragraphs. It also then models the text on lined paper so it mirrors their jotter. It demonstrates the structures and features of an information text that they can include in theirs.

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

Two level reading comprehension based on the story of the three wise men. It is told through the eyes of one of the wise men Melchior. This is a great modelled text to inspire children to write their own version of the story through a wise men. It includes a range of questions from literal, to inferential to vocab focused. There are also three follow up tasks for learners to complete.

This resource teaches learners about instructions and how to design an Easter themed scavenger hunt that another pupil or teacher could set up. It also includes a modelled text to demonstrate what is expected of learners.

This is fun resource to help learners frame an imaginative spooky story. Learners roll a dice to help them choose -who? -where? -when? -what happens?

Word of the week starter PPT. This can be used weekly or daily as a starter to help learners develop their vocabularly.