Material Visual Prompt helps your students to take notes about different sorts of materials they find around them. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different body parts and their uses being shown in each of the photos. Lots of fun, English based activities about my body, including anagrams and idioms. I have also included my 31 teaching activity guide for more ideas about how to use the images from the story prompts in different activities. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

This is a fun creative writing worksheet. The students are simply shown a paper bag with a funny expression on its face. They then need to imagine they are the paper bag and write a story about why it feels like it does. They have to imagine why it is feeling happy, sad, scared etc... using their senses as a cue. What might the bag be seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting to give it the expression it has on its face. This will help the students to become more creative, write more detailed descriptions and organise their work better. This is a perfect way of preparing for the KS1 SATs tests and the KS2 SATs tests. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different feelings Mr Paper Bag being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different plants and animals being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about gardens. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different gardens, plants and animals. The students can then discuss what they think each one was placed in the garden. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different locations being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about the Indian Ocean. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different Inidian ocean locations and activities. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different places being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Ireland. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different Irish locations. The students can then discuss what they think each location. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

My students love to doodle. They love incomplete pictures and a challenge. It lets them be creative. The fun part being, a the tasks are simple, this means I can give this work to a wide range of ages, and they all leave my classroom having achieved something they can be proud of. This is a daily weekly long pack. I use it at the end of the day to let the children relax, chat and share their ideas and sense of fun with those around them.

At the end of the day, my students like to unwind with a little bit of fun drawing. I have created a range of different fun drawing challenges for my students. You look at the picture, read the simple challenge and add the missing part to each picture. The students can then compare and contrast their different ideas. It is a great way of getting students to talk and describe their work.

Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons 3 Match the famous Briton with their principal occupation.

Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons – Why are they Famous Today? Part 1 Write a sentence to show why these Great Britons are still famous today. Use the library or the Internet to find the answers.

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Noisy Words 1 – Animal Noises Examples Write the name of the animal that makes each of these noises: 1. baa ________________________ 2. chirp ________________________ 3. squeak ________________________

Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 3 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: Example question 1. In Australian slang, ‘laughing gear’ means m __ __ __ __ … 2. …while if you were ‘up a gum tree’ you would be in t __ __ __ __ __ __... 3. …and if you were feeling ‘bushwhacked’ you would be extremely t _ _ _ _.

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 2 Example questions: How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? 1. True or false - the banana plant is not really a tree, but the largest herb in the world... a) true b) false 2. Which one of these sentences is true...? a) bananas are high in potassium and low in fibre b) bananas are high in potassium and low in vitamins c) bananas are high in calories and low in fibre d) bananas are high in fibre and high in potassium The worksheet comes complete with a teachers answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Fifteen Great Kevin Costner Films Example questions... Complete the titles of these great Kevin Costner films: 1. Open ______________ 2. ______________ Durham 3. Dances with ______________ 4. ______________ of Dreams The worksheet includes a teacher answer sheet.

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 2 Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: Examples 1. _ o _ e _ _ 2. _ i _ e a _ a _ e 3. e _ e _ _ e _ i _ 4. _ u _ _ Complete with an answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 1 Examples Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: 1. a _ _ _ _ 2. _ o _ _ i e _ 3. a _ _ a i _ 4. _ a _ Complete with answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct No. 6 – Food and Drink To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line: Example words rice _________________ _________________ eggs _________________ _________________ fruit _________________ _________________ chocolate _________________ _________________