Have your students write a sentence a day and watch their writing progress. Print the template, cut vertically, staple on left side. An excellent way to introduce sentence writing and sentence punctuation.
Two reading worksheets to use as revision, time fillers, or benchmark testing preparations. Students read simple phrases and identify the correct spelling.
Digital and/or print templates for writing biographies, book reports and for organising biography based research. Each template is available as a digital pdf or as a print worksheet. Encourage students to respond to biographical texts, complete their own research, or participate in an inquiry on a hero of their choice.
Be consistent when assessing handwriting. Use this simple, easy to use rubric to assess writing posture, pencil grip, letter size, letter slope, letter positioning, letter spacing and cursive style (optional).
Present, Teach and Practice.
A teaching resource for presenting, identifying and practicing cause and effect in sentences. Includes an editable Power Point presentation with definitions and scaffolded examples. A worksheet for writing cause / effect sentences, a worksheet for identifying signal words, and a worksheet for writing your own
cause and effect sentences.
Three sets of sentence building cards developed for the themes weather, transport and Isaac Watts. Useful for SEN and support. Help students move from word to phrase. Developed to support children with autism as they learn to order words to speak and write sentences.
Three worksheet to reinforce the silent e or magic e. Worksheets encourage students to read the word, apply phonetic knowledge, then respond by writing or drawing. Include a CLOZE worksheet.
Combine procedure writing with this simple and exciting science experiment - Making Elephant Mousse (also known as elephant’s toothpaste). Can be used to model chemical reactions. Presentation included, with each item and step clear and easy to follow. Three levels of procedure writing templates also included. The activity can also be used in early years as a cut and paste activity.
Prior to writing narratives, students can be scaffolded through the planning stages. These worksheets allow students to plan the characters of their narrative by identifying the characters physical features, behavioural characteristics, speech, and background.
Three Reading Cloze activities and three spelling revision integrating phonemes covered in grade 1 and grade 2. Use as assessment or to support decoding and phonetic spelling approaches.
Worksheet and activity to develop character in preparation for narrative writing. Worksheet guides students through physical feature, character, setting, facial expressions, and activities.