The Little Match Girl Comprehension Read our illustrated version of the classic fairy tale The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, and answer the comprehension questions. A thought-provoking activity that will encourage kids, age 7-10, to think about those less fortunate than them during the holiday season and the importance of being charitable and kind.

Read our illustrated version of the classic tale The Little Fir Tree, by Hans Christian Anderson, and answer the comprehension questions. A thought-provoking activity that will encourage kids, age 7-10, to consider the importance of appreciating the things they already have. 21 pages

Practise Writing Christmas Simple Sentences - Age 6-8 These fun, festive worksheets will help kids, age 6-8, to practise writing simple Christmas sentences. 10 pages

Practise Writing Sentences About Christmas- Age 7-10 Use the questions to write sentences about Christmas. Then, colour the outline shapes. A fun, festive writing activity that kids, age 7-10, will love completing. 8 pages

21 pages Information Writing work packs are essential for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. Information Writing work packs concentrate specifically on information writing, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. The child is taught to recognise the difference between facts and opinions. Each pack in this series concentrates on a different aspect of information writing including: writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. The child is taught how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. The work packs contain starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organise it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Each work pack includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by students and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. They are packed with vital hints and tips to enable the student to be successful and gain good grades. The packs are a very useful resource for teachers and save hours of time when preparing lessons or homework tasks. The specimen lesson plans and examples contained within each work pack will give the student ideas to build on and provide practice to develop their writing skills. Each work pack provides children with ideas for writing, especially reluctant writers who require starting points to write. Each work pack provides a safe topic that children will be comfortable with.

27 pages This pack contains two resources including: Plan And Write The Story Of Jack And The Beanstalk Plan And Write The Story Of Sleeping Beauty The series provides starting points to get young children, of 6-9 years, writing their own imaginative stories. Traditional tales like ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ are used as examples to look at the characters, the setting and the plot and to show how to structure a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Children will learn how to brainstorm their ideas, how to put them in a plan and then set out their story. Each pack provides writing challenges, asking the child to continue writing the story, developing their own ideas and to cut up stories to put in order. Charming silhouette pictures illustrate each work pack.

This pack includes three extracts from Ellie Mae’s diary about half term and then gives the child the opportunity to complete the pages, using the prompts and recording their own ideas about the half term holiday. The child is encouraged to give facts and opinions, saying how they felt and why. This series of lively work packs encourages children of 6-9 years to record their personal experiences in a diary. This will enable the child to practice their writing skills independently and to express their ideas freely. It will encourage them to write in more detail. A diary is usually written in present tense. It is an informal piece of writing and may contain some colloquial English. Diaries are fun to write and to re-read later. Older children will enjoy re-reading their old ‘news’ books, years and years later. Encourage the child to write a diary everyday, once a week or just at special times, such as, Christmas or in the summer holidays, in the form of a journal. 19 pages

Finish The Play Script: School Class Assembly (7-11 years) Read the play script. Mrs Barker chooses to do an assembly on recycling and the children read out some information. Plan another assembly. Choose another topic? Find some facts and opinions on your topic. Use the information to write a play script for a class assembly. This series provides prompts to get the child to write. It provides starting points to encourage children of all abilities to write - even the most reluctant writers. With this series they will be inspired to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets and more. More than this, the child will learn writing techniques; simple, compound and complex sentences, connectives and spelling, punctuation and grammar tips. There is an emphasis on improving vocabulary - looking at lots of better word choices: harder adjectives, more powerful verbs and adverbs. 9 pages

A fantasy tale about a little grey koala. Kai, the koala, has been selected for the final of the ‘Replant the Forest’ competition. He has to fly to London and take part in some curious challenges to win the ultimate prize. Is he brave enough to overcome his fears? His friends tell him he can do it. Can he believe in himself and win the money to replant his beloved forest after the fires? 49 pages

Read about the Christmas adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick as he visits Manor Farm and attends a festive wedding. Then, answer the questions to see how much you have remembered. This beautifully illustrated story is adapted from Charles Dickens’s popular book ‘The Pickwick Papers.’ You will find out about how Christmas was celebrated in early nineteenth century England. 25 questions with answers. 19 Pages.

When a charming white rat, with a long, spindly tail, comes to live at our house, our cat is furious to say the least. Our cat awaits an opportunity to pounce on that arrogant creature, who is treated like a prince. However, as time goes by, the two pets realise they have a lot in common. Our cat has to admit that his best friend has become a rat. This story is told by the cat, but based on a true story. This book is for confident readers. It has a longer more developed story, written in chapters, with pictures throughout.

This DIGITAL resource includes a link to access ’Information Writing’ and share it with your students in Google Drive. Therefore it is fully editable and can be used with Google Classroom. Consists of 131 editable slides and at least 6 months of work. Information Writing is the essential guide for all students of 9-14 years (grades 4-8) wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. This book concentrates specifically on information writing and provides everything needed to stimulate a child to write. Information Writing teaches the child to recognise the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including: writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. It teaches the child how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. This unit is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organise it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom. By working methodically through this book the students will grow in confidence and will learn to enjoy writing.

Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument is an essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. This book concentrates specifically and in depth on the art of persuasive writing and creating a good argument. These are key skills required by the National Curriculum up to GCSE level. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years) but will also be a valuable resource for those taking GCSE up to grades C and above. It contains material suitable for UK National Curriculum SATS, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations, for GCSE exams and for students learning English as a foreign language. Learning Persuasive Writing will enable the student to write convincingly in letters, leaflets, brochures and newspaper articles for example. The book also sets out how to write a well-balanced argument. It teaches the pupil how to structure their writing, putting forward a point of view, backing it up with convincing evidence, building up a relevant counter argument and knocking it down, as well as, putting forward their own comments and opinions. It focuses on discursive writing enabling the pupil to examine points for and against in a variety of subjects suitable for older children and teenage readers, healthy eating, fashion, social issues and many more. It includes a lively collection of writings, poems and a play to inspire the pupil. These are designed as starting points, ideal for the pupil who finds it difficult to think up ideas for writing, challenging them to recreate their own persuasive pieces. In addition to this the book teaches organisational and literary devices in persuasive writing, including, figurative language, emotive words, repetition, connectives and use of good vocabulary. The student will learn how to consider writing for the appropriate audience, how to vary sentence types in order to make writing more interesting, and the importance of using good spelling, punctuation and grammar. They will learn vital essay writing skills that will assist their studies in other areas of the curriculum. Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument, includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips to enable the pupil to be successful and gain good grades. Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument is ideal for home study and will reinforce the work done in school. It is a companion to the other books in our series, Creative Writing and Information Writing. By working methodically through this book the student will grow in confidence. 107 pages

Learning how to write to persuade and argue is an essential writing skill needed to write articles and letters - required throughout the school curriculum. Young writers will be taught to develop their points of view, in order to convince their target audience to believe in something - whether it is an exotic holiday destination or signing a petition. What s more, they will be taught how to make a point and provide evidence and comments to support their argument. They will learn to write a balanced argument, build up a counter argument and knock it down. They will be shown how to use literary techniques in their writing. More than this, the book contains a lively collection of writings for older children and teenagers: discursive topics on topical issues, poems and a play script, inspired by the work of children, their purpose, to provide starting points to help your child write. Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument is ideal for home study and will reinforce the work done in school. It is a companion to the other books in our series, Creative Story Writing and Information Writing. By working methodically through this book the student will grow in confidence and learn to enjoy writing. Please note, this is the US Edition. The U.K. Edition is also listed.

Persuasive Writing work packs are essential for all students, of 9-14 years, wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. Persuasive Writing work packs teach children how to write from different points of view and how opinions can be used to make articles biased. This series of work packs will enable the student to write convincingly in letters, leaflets, brochures and newspaper articles for example. The packs include a lively collection of writings, poems and a play to inspire the pupils. These are designed as starting points, ideal for the student who finds it difficult to think up ideas for writing, challenging them to recreate their own persuasive pieces. In addition to this, the packs teach organisational and literary devices in persuasive writing, including, figurative language, emotive words, repetition, connectives and use of good vocabulary. The student will learn how to consider writing for the appropriate audience, how to vary sentence types in order to make writing more interesting, and the importance of using good spelling, punctuation and grammar. Each work pack includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by students and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. They are packed with vital hints and tips to enable the pupil to be successful and gain good grades. The work packs are ideal for home study and will reinforce the work done in school. They may be purchased in any order. There are a number of titles to choose from. By working through the packs, the student will grow in confidence and will learn to enjoy writing. The packs are also a useful resource for teachers and save hours of time when preparing lessons or homework tasks. 17 pages

This DIGITAL resource includes a link to access ‘Creative Story Writing’ and share it with your students in Google Drive. Therefore it is fully editable and can be used with Google Classroom. It consists of 150 editable slides and at least 6 months of work. Creative Story Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. This resource will guide students through the story writing process. This resource is designed to help the students with thinking up ideas, providing starting points for writing, structuring and organising their writing into paragraphs. It features writing a good introduction with characters, setting and plot, building up suspense and winding up the plot with a suitable resolution. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. The students will investigate different narrative structures for writing stories, exploring various viewpoints so they can decide if they write in first or third person. They will learn to evoke mood and atmosphere by using good vocabulary. Creative Story Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides many practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Creative Story Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor and written with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically and in depth on Creative Writing, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write imaginatively. It is specifically targeted at children aged 9-14 years.

An essential series of mini themed booklets for all children who need additional practice in writing. The Creative Writing Tutor scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide a tutor for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. 27pages

An essential series of mini themed booklets for all children who need additional practice in writing. The Creative Writing Tutor scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide a tutor for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. 18 pages

An essential series of mini themed booklets for all children who need additional practice in writing. The Creative Writing Tutor scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide a tutor for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. 26 pages

An essential series of mini themed booklets for all children who need additional practice in writing. The Creative Writing Tutor scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide a tutor for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. 24 pages