How to read and write explanatory texts. There is a PowerPoint presentation, scaffold frame and worksheets to fill in to write explanations.

This is a guided reading mat with great questions for discussion of any story text.

How to punctuate speech PowerPoint.

A brief sheet with fun examples of how punctuation changes meaning. I've used examples found on the internet of meaning changes caused by punctuation changes. This is available at 65% discount as part of a bundle.

This is a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue and a speech punctuation investigation task using The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson. The presentation also shows how to punctuate and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. This task gets children to discover the rules of punctuating direct speech for themselves without being told, and thus leads to deeper understanding. There are teaching notes showing the grammar essentials children need to understand to be able to use direct speech accurately. The work can be linked to class study of The Lightning Thief:Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or used as a stand alone grammar group, or individual activity. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

A PowerPoint presentation setting out the rules of punctuating dalogue and a punctuating speech investigation task using Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This task gets children to discover the rules of punctuating direct speech for themselves without being told, and thus leads to deeper understanding. There are teaching notes showing the grammar essentials children need to understand to be able to use direct speech accurately. The work can be linked to class study of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , or used grammar group, or individual activity. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

Change the symbols for punctuation. It is a word document, as well as PDF, so it is an activity that children could do on the computer, or as a written task.

A bookmark for independent reading finding little time beginnings for KS1 and time adverbials for KS2 . It is an extra large bookmark to fit more words on.

Children will be excited by designing their dream beach hotel advert, with features like scuba diving and pools. There is a model text of a beach holiday brochure advert for a hotel, written to demonstrate genre features and to highlight the use of persuasive techniques. The comprehensive teaching notes explain the genre features to inform and to persuade. The notes draw attention to features of the model text, like fact and opinion and the use of a variety of sentence starts. The notes make suggestions for guided and independent writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils get a clear understanding of the features of the text type.

Questions to improve the depth and structure of pupils response to poetry

These pictures help pupils to see the imagery used by Dahl to describe Miss Trunchbull. The worksheet requires pupils to find the connotations, for example, in what way is Miss Trunchbull like an 'enraged rhinocerous'?

KS2 convert simple sentences to complex (telling myth of Osiris) & PPTX on complex sentences. Ideal for topic on Ancient Egypt! Aimed at Upper Key Stage 2.

The Tutankhamun newspaper is written to demonstrate newspaper genre features such as, lead line telling the 5Ws, embedded clauses , synonyms, columns and quotations. There are detailed teaching notes and differentiated support planners to scaffold the writing to get good understanding of the newspaper genre and a good piece of writing.

Year 5 - compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

This is a worksheet teaching the 8x table using arrays. It shows how the 8x is made up of partial products that can provide useful mental strategies for recalling the 8 times table. More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

List of hairdresser titles to demonstrate word play.