Support your children’s work on report writing with our handy guide. It’s a wonderful teaching resource and can also be used as part of your classroom display boards. The guide includes information about: * What are non-chronological reports? * Types of reports, * Organisation of reports, * Thinking about your audience, * Researching the topic, * Planning your report, * Writing your report, * Facts and opinions, * Present and past tense, * Formal writing, * Vocabulary, * Top tips for writing a report. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

This popular resource includes 20 high quality images for your children to explore. Each picture has a set of related questions to help your students review their inference and deduction skills. Use them as an independent / group classroom activity, during your guided reading sessions or as part of your English display boards. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A handy reference mat that your children can use when they are learning about similes and metaphors. This mat helps children to remember the meaning of each term and includes lots of examples that can be used in their writing. Use it as a whole class teaching tool and challenge students to use one of the examples in a sentence / paragraph… or let children use these as reference mats on their tables during independent writing. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Ask your children to write a ‘review’ of a place they have visited during school holidays / weekends with our ‘TripReviewers’ templates. You could also use it to review the destination of a recent school visit / trip. Six different templates are included so that you can use them with children of different ages and abilities. A fantastic way of encouraging children to demonstrate their recount writing skills. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A set of ten posters that give information about (and examples of) different types of poems that your children may encounter. These include: * Acrostic * Cinquain * Haiku * Limerick * List Poem * Narrative Poem * Nursery Rhyme * Shape Poem * Sonnet * Tanka Use the resources on a classroom display board or use them as the starting point for discussions about types of poetry. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Challenge your children to put these images from the story of Little Red Riding Hood into the correct order. When the images have been ordered, your children could also use the images as the starting point for a storytelling or a writing activity. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Teach your children about all aspects of writing a recount with our eye catching posters. They’re perfect for showing on an interactive whiteboard as part of whole class teaching or on your classroom display boards. Includes information on: * What is recount writing? * Who do we write recounts for? * Types of recount writing, * Organisation, * Chronological Order, * First or Third Person? * Using the Past Tense, * Connectives and Conjunctions, * Personal or Impersonal? * How to improve your recounts. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Use this collection of story endings as prompts for your children’s story planning and writing activities! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A collection of printable labels that give the meaning of a range of vocabulary linked to newspaper reports (with an accompanying image). Use them on a classroom display board or as part of a group discussion activity. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Help your children to review their grammar skills with our challenge cards! This resource includes 100 cards that cover the following topics: * Types of nouns, * Adjectives, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners and conjunctions, * Singular and plural, * Comparative and superlative adjectives, * Adjective phrases, * Past and present tense, * Complements and link verbs, * Active and passive voice, * Auxiliary and main verbs, * Adverbial phrases, * Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, * Questions, statements, exclamations and commands, * Subject and verb agreement, * Simple and complex sentences, * Narrative voice, * Negative and positive sentences, * Direct and reported speech, Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Help your children to review their knowledge of different types of punctuation with our colourful Punctuation Mats! Add them to a classroom display board or use them as reference mats on students’ tables. Three versions are included with different terminology for those who use the terms speech marks / inverted commas / quotation marks and full stops / periods. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A collection of twelve high quality images with related text that can be used as a writing prompt in your classroom. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Teach your children about the features of persuasive writing with our printable guide. Includes information about: * Different types of persuasive writing, * Organisation and layout, * Points and Elaboration, * Present Tense, * Conjunctions, * Emotive Language, * Fact and Opinion, * Challenging the Reader, * Rhetorical Questions, * Advertising. Share this PDF with your children on an interactive whiteboard or print it for use as part of shared reading activities… or add it to your classroom display boards! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

This resource includes four different examples of instruction writing: * How to make a lizard card, * How to play ‘Shut the box’, * How to make chocolate cupcakes, * How to plant a sunflower seed. Help your children to learn about instruction writing by getting them to analyse these examples. Can they identify the features? How could they be improved? A fantastic resource for your English / Literacy lessons or for guided reading sessions. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A free reference resource that your children can use to help them remember when we use capital letters. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

These resource sheets can be used to help your children describe different aspects of the characters in their story. Suggested words are given to describe people, aliens and monsters, robots and animals. Two versions of each word list are included for use with younger / older students. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

A set of six high quality images that can be used as story starters / writing prompts. Each image also includes a sentence to inspire your children’s writing. A fantastic resource for your English lessons / volcanoes topic. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

This child-friendly 48 page eBook covers all aspects of Roman life. Use it as a whole class teaching tool by showing the PDF on a large display (e.g. an interactive whiteboard), print it for children to read independently, let your pupils access it on a mobile device for research purposes, or use it to learn about the Romans during your guided reading sessions. Chapters in the ebook include: * Who were the Ancient Romans? * Romans families, * Roman children, * Roman fashion, * Roman food and drink, * Roman jobs, * Roman houses and towns, * Roman entertainment, * Roman religion * The Roman army. A comprehensive glossary is also included at the end of the book. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Discover the wonderful world of plants with this child-friendly guide to plant growth, pollination, photosynthesis, classification, adaptation and much more! Chapters inside the book include: * What are plants? * Types of plants, * Parts of a plant, * Making food, * Plant reproduction, * Seed dispersal, * Non-flowering plants, * Life in extreme conditions, * Plant protection, * Humans and plants, * Animals and plants, * Common British plants. A comprehensive glossary is also included on the final page of the PDF. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!

Challenge your students to match these Shakespearean phrases with their meanings. Sixteen different phrases are included with their meanings. Cut them out, jumble them up and ask your students to match them back together again! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!