I often get asked by parents for writing activities as extra homework. These 5 tasks are suitable for home learning or homework and will encourage pupils to practice their writing by choosing topics which they are interests in to write about .

DESCRIPTION - Improving writing worksheet pack - Creative word, sentence and text activities. The majority of the worksheets in this 47 PAGE pack are differentiated. Task sheet a is aimed at more able pupils Task sheet b offers more support for pupils. Suitable for (upper) Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. SECTION A – WORD AND SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES Section A contains worksheets which start with identification of parts of speech and then require pupils to write their own sentences using these language features. This provides the teacher with an opportunity to Assess Pupils’ Progress on discrete elements. These worksheets focus on identifying and explaining writers’ word choice to inform pupils’ own writing. Creative and adventurous word choice is promoted through the activities to encourage pupils to experiment with language and produce compositions of a high quality. CONTENT: 1. Inferring meaning 2. Analysing word choice 3. Expressive Adjectives 4. Interesting Adverbs 5. Precise Nouns 6. Powerful Verbs 7. Similes and Metaphors 8. Conjunctions SECTION B - DRAWING IT ALL TOGETHER Section B contains activities to put the sentence level work into practice within written compositions. The worksheets focus on using a range of vocabulary and expressive parts of speech in sentences, paragraphs and short texts. This provides the teacher with an opportunity to Assess Pupils’ Progress using vocabulary expressively and creatively within a text. CONTENT: 9. Drawing it all together – sentences 10. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – character description 11. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – scene description 12. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – description of action 13. Drawing it all together - text composition 14. Drawing it all together – finish the story 15. Drawing it all together – whole story