6 lessons includes plans and resources The children will be encouraged to use reading journals to record their thoughts, predictions, questions and notes. To widen their experience they will be given opportunities to read extracts aloud and to watch excerpts from television or film adaptations. They will explore the relationships between characters and the language and techniques used to present these relationships and develop the plot. The children will work in pairs or groups, as well as a whole class and will discuss the techniques they use to help them understand the text, such as prediction, empathy and visualisation, using a story mountain. Finally, they will be supported in writing in the style of the author to rewrite a chapter or write a new one. These lessons use Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) as the focus text. It will be helpful to have begun reading it as a class before starting this unit and to have finished it before the third lesson. This will enable children to delve more deeply into the plot, characterisation, language and structure. 1 Treasure!• To use technical vocabulary to talk about pirates Notes on ‘the old sea dog’ • To draw picture notes of the main parts of the story 3.Long John Silver • To study dialogue between main characters to recognise how character can affect their behaviour. The book versus the film• To compare film and print versions of the same scene 5 Mapping the story • To outline key events in a story’s structure A missing chapter • To continue a story in the style of the author Leave a review

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 4 provide forty-eight challenging and engaging Literacy homework activities sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 4 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 4 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types. We’d love to hear how you’re getting on with these resources. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 4 pupils. The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also cover speaking and listening skills.

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 6 provide forty-six challenging and engaging Literacy homework activities sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 6 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 6 and are designed to be used flexibly. They are intended to be used with an adult: it would be pointless for the child to do them alone. Much of the learning is in the interaction. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 6 pupils. The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also cover speaking and listening skills. Leave a review

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 2 provide 50 challenging and engaging Literacy homework activity sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 2 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 2 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types. 30 support the development of other essential literacy skills and 20 to support the teaching and learning of phonics. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 2 pupils. The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format.

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 3 provide forty-six challenging and engaging Literacy homework activity sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 3 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 3 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 3 pupils. The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also covers speaking and listening skills.

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 5 provide forty-four challenging and engaging Literacy homework activity sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 5 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 5 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types. 40 sheets support the development of other essential literacy skills and four that can be used generically. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 5 pupils. The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also cover speaking and listening skills.

Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 1 provide fifty challenging and engaging Literacy homework activity sheets. The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 1 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching. The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 1 and are designed to be used flexibly. Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types: • Understanding and engaging with texts; • Shaping texts; • Sentence structure and punctuation; • Spelling. 30 sheets to support the development of other essential literacy skills and 20 sheets to support the teaching and learning of phonics. They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 1 pupils.

Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

This is the full book : Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 It includes 71 worksheets with answers. Blurb: Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide comprises three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. This guide is organised in an incremental way, earlier tasks acting as the foundation for later ones. Step by step, each exercise follows on from previous or earlier work. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review