Four days planning for the SPAG part of the Stories with historical settings unit. It covers time and cause conjunctions, inverted commas, past tense and Topic vocabulary linked to the book Cuda of the Celts

A PowerPoint based lesson guiding the children through a shared writing for the place paragraph in their story with a historical setting

Planning for a week of writing looking at stories with a historical settings. Included are planned lessons on planning a story, check and editing our writing and then the first three paragraphs of Place, Person and Problem

A whole lesson looking at planning a story with a historical setting. It includes a PowerPoint, success criteria and differentiated planning sheets

A unit front cover for Historical settings - writing objectives

A set of example recounts written about events occurring during WW2

An activity writing descriptive words and sentences about fruit that can bee linked to the book Handa's Surprise

A set of differentiated comprehension sheets based on a game board layout - HA Venice, MA Aliens, LA Wolves

An informative PowerPoint with basic facts and diary extracts based on Anne Frank's life

A selection of resources for Winter acrostic poems differentiated for different age groups or abilities. Included are: Simple lesson plan with a success criteria sheet Ideas plan for poem at two levels An example written to show what is expected Sheets for writing up the acrostics for Winter, Snowflake and Christmas

Day 2 flipchart for Balanced argument information and activity for writing a balanced argument/writing assessment

A collection of WAGOLL recounts about WW2

A full piece of writing using the 5Ps of place, people, problem, panic and peace. This is a shared piece of writing and can be used to demonstrate how each section has been written or ahred as a whole story

A simple setting sheet where words have been removed and the children words from the word box to help them fill in the gaps so that the setting makes sense

The PowerPoint is a guide to how to write a People paragraph or character description for a story with the outcome being that the children can introduce characters to my writing through description of looks, personality and actions.

Questions and activities for each chapter of The Iron Man collected and put together as one bundle. I have used them with Year 3 up to Year 6. The questions can be used in guided reading or as a unit of work based on the book. Each sheet can be cut up so the questions and activity can be stuck in their book and their work can then go below

A complete lesson including PowerPoint, video clip and thought bubbles to create a freeze frame of the moment Veruca Salt gets her Golden ticket. It asks children to think about whether she really deserved the ticket and what the worker who found it would have thought, felt and said.

This PowerPoint is a guide to how children can describe the place where the action will take place adding details to show mood