Unlock your students’ creativity with this comprehensive writing unit! Perfect for KS2, this resource guides students through planning and writing a disaster narrative based on the book “The Boy in the Tower”. With structured planning sheets, grammar exercises, collaborative editing sessions, and engaging activities like identifying narrative features, this unit is a must-have for developing narrative skills and fiction writing proficiency. It aligns with curriculum goals and includes success criteria, editing checklists, and prompts to enhance both independent and collaborative learning. Download the skills that lead up to this Big write… https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13143767 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13145553 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13145557

Boost your students’ dialogue-writing skills with this structured 5-lesson plan on direct speech, guiding them from understanding basic dialogue to crafting a conversation with correct punctuation and formatting. Each lesson builds progressively, beginning with identifying speech in text and practicing conversations in speech bubbles, then introducing the rules of inverted commas and punctuation for direct speech. Students engage in activities like acting out scripts, writing their own dialogues between characters, and refining their use of dialogue markers, creating a clear and expressive conversation. The final lessons focus on editing and peer-reviewing to enhance grammar, punctuation, and clarity, ensuring students finish with confidence in writing realistic, well-punctuated conversations. Five fully resourced lessons building mastery of inverted commas in writing, Detailed lesson plans, End Product: a dialogue writing piece using inverted commas.

Engage your students in crafting vivid imagery with this dynamic 4-lesson plan on similes, designed to transform descriptive writing through the art of comparison. Through interactive discussions, paired and group activities, and independent practice, students progress from identifying similes to creating their own, drawing inspiration from “The Boy in the Tower” to bring scenes to life. Each lesson builds sequentially, encouraging students to apply similes in their writing with creativity and clarity, culminating in peer-editing sessions that refine and reinforce their skills. By the end, students will confidently use similes to enhance their descriptive language, creating memorable, image-rich paragraphs that captivate their readers. includes… Four fully resourced lessons building mastery of similes in writing, Detailed lesson plans, End Product: a descriptive writing piece using similes.

Unlock the magic of descriptive writing with this engaging, four-lesson plan inspired by The Boy in the Tower! Perfect for young writers, these lessons will guide students through creating a vivid view from a tower using adverbials, sensory details, and creative structure. Each lesson builds toward a captivating final piece, complete with interactive activities, partner work, and editing sessions. Download now to give your students a fun, skill-building journey into the art of description, ideal for both classroom and remote learning! Includes Four fully resourced lessons building mastery of adverbial phrases in writing, Detailed lesson plans, End Product: a descriptive writing piece using adverbials.

Using the book 'The Arrival" as inspiration for our writing, this sequence of lessons builds children’s knowledge of using relative clauses, parenthesis and adverbials to write a Non-Chronological Report about an imaginary creature. Find the features of a dragon WAGOLL, Design an imaginary creature, Planning sheet, Writing using the principles of gradual release of responsibility, Edit and feedback lesson to re-write and perform writing, Suitable for UKS2.

Using the book 'The Arrival" as inspiration for our writing, this sequence of three lessons builds children’s knowledge of using adverbial phrases to write an observation of an imaginary creature in the style of a David Attenborough Documentary. Link to grammar introduction to adverbials, Writing lesson with WAGOLL that builds to independent writing, Edit and feedback lesson to re-write and perform writing, Suitable for UKS2.

Using the book 'The Arrival" as inspiration for our writing, this sequence of three lessons builds children’s knowledge of using parenthesis to write a factfile about an imaginary creature. Link to grammar introduction to parenthesis, Writing lesson with WAGOLL that builds to independent writing, Edit and feedback lesson to re-write and perform writing, Suitable for UKS2.

Using the book 'The Arrival" as inspiration for our writing, this sequence of three lessons builds children’s knowledge of using relative clauses to write a description of an imaginary creature. Link to grammar introduction to Relative Clauses, Writing lesson with WAGOLL that builds to independent writing, Edit and feedback lesson to re-write and perform writing, Suitable for UKS2.

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. Did you find this lesson useful? Find our Romeo and Juliet writing collection here. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13048592

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. This lesson has been used to prepare for Year 6 writing moderation. Try a free lesson here: Romeo and Juliet Writing Lesson - Diary https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13049093

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. This lesson has been used to prepare for Year 6 writing moderation. Try a free lesson here: Romeo and Juliet Writing Lesson - Diary https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13049093

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. This lesson has been used to prepare for Year 6 writing moderation. Try a free lesson here: Romeo and Juliet Writing Lesson - Diary https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13049093

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. This lesson has been used to prepare for Year 6 writing moderation. Try a free lesson here: Romeo and Juliet Writing Lesson - Diary https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13049093

This is an English lesson designed for year six extended piece of writing. It can be used in conjunction with any Romeo and Juliet adaption. It is designed on the principles of gradual release of responsibility where the teacher takes responsibility at the beginning of the lesson and gradually releases responsibility to pupils through group work and independent writing. Each page of the presentation include notes on how the lesson could be delivered. This includes a WAGOLL for the lessons writing. Each lesson also includes a success criteria to be stuck in at the top of the page for assessment purposes. This lesson has been used to prepare for Year 6 writing moderation. Try a free lesson here: Romeo and Juliet Writing Lesson - Diary https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13049093

I created this support sheet to help children with their independent writing in Year 6 leading up moderation. It includes “writing recipes” to help children structure their sentences. Leave a review if you find it useful.

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Have you ever been sick or on a course and need lessons to cover the day? It can be difficult to set the day up for a supply teacher. Simply add your timetable and leave these activities for your supply teacher to cover. Leave your class in the confidence that they will have structured learning that builds on your own teaching without impacting your sequence of lessons. Lessons include… English, Maths, Reading, Topic, SMSC/ PHSE, BBC Live lessons,