This Smartboard notebook resource includes an explanation of expanded noun phrases. Suitable for KS2 e.g Year 4 or Year 6 or possibly more able year 2. Colour full pictures to encourage pupils to write expanded noun phrases with adjectives and expansion after the noun. Games involving an interactive dustbin and timers,

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 .

Story writing from extracts. The pupils can finish these stories as a creative writing activity or exam practice. This document contain short story extracts which will prompt pupils to write exciting, imaginative stories. The story extract is a few sentences / paragraph long and can go at the beginning or in the middle of the pupils' own story. The extracts are from the following genres: • mystery stories, (Tasks 1- 4) • adventure stories (Tasks 5-9) • dramatic stories (Tasks 10 - 12) For each extract a grid is given to prompt children to plan their stories and think about what grammar, punctuation and vocabulary they will use to make it interesting. This resource can be used for story writing practice. It can also be used for exam preparation for example for end of Key Stage 2 writing, entrance exams to Grammar or Independent schools etc.. They can be used in lessons or for homework.

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

Paragraph planner to help pupils write character descriptions of Albert and Joey from War Horse by Micheal Morpurgo. Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. (Links well to Year 6 curriculum and WW1 History) Three word documents included. Character profile - Albert - More Able version - Paragraph planner to help pupils write their own character descriptions of Albert. This more able version gives pupils tick lists of ideas to include in each paragraph. Character profile - Joey - Less able version - Paragraph plannner with tick lists and sentence starters to aid less able pupils. PARTICUALARLY USEFUL TO SUPPORT PUPILS. Character profile- Joey - More able version gives the pupils tick lists of ideas to include in each paragraph.