A handy way to evidence and monitor the books children read during silent reading time in class. To print select 2 pages to a sheet and double sided flipped on the short side.

Short biography of Romero Britto and pictures of some of his work on both PowerPoints. The first asks for the pupil to create a word or their name in Britto's style, the second asks them to create a Britto style Cheshire Cat.

A few examples of limericks collected together then a challenge to write your own.

PowerPoint presentation setting Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for a lesson working on describing settings. Designed to be interactive with hyperlinks from slide 4, touch an adjective and get a selection of photos which fit that description. Invite to use words related to the senses in their writing. Sets a task to write a descrption using a set of pictures of different settings (I used 2 sets from different teacher resource sites, one pictorial and the other photos to give children a choice).

A selection of sentences for adding capital letters at the start of the sentences, proper nouns and for abbreviations. Editable version included to allow personalisation for your class. Great as a main lesson activity, for practice or as a morning starter reminder.

2 threefold writing frames for children to write information about caring for pets. Aimed at about 5-6 year olds.

Basic book report for lower school to rate and review a book. Great way to link some writing to ERIC Silent Reading Time. Makes an effective display in a library area or reading corner.

A sheet to allow proof reading and correction practice. Read and correct the mistakes by writing out below. Sentences are missing words, capital letters and full stops.

Can you describe Granny using similes? Worksheet to label her.

A collection of bloopers of apostrophe mistakes to prompt discussion. Could be used as a lesson starter or plenary.

Sheet to practice forming letters for the whole alphabet.

A sheet to create your own Mr Man and write about him. Great for developing characters.

Complete the sentence activity to use adverbs that make sense then underline the verbs.

A sheet to plan an account of an event. I have used this to plan writing a factual account of Sports Day, a sponsored walk and school trips. Prompts to structure the writing and encourage chronology.

A PowerPoint introducing the 5 elements of a good story: Beginning, Middle, End, Setting and Characters.

Writing frame to support the development of research skills guiding the child to find out a set list of information. We then created our own trading card game.