A useful worksheet that can be used to review any book. It has been uploaded as a PDF and also a Word Doc so you can edit if you wish.

This planning sheet will help your student plan a letter to a Greek God or Goddess of their choice. Use this link to a free TES resource if you would like to give your class some information about Greek Gods and Goddesses: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/greek-gods-6109724

A useful book review template to use when exploring non fiction. Sections include: Title Author Rate it Subject Matter Favourite Part Organisation, Layout & Indexing To Conclude (What attracted them, did they like it)

A useful worksheet that can be used to review any book. It has been uploaded as a Word Doc so you can edit if you wish. Ask students to rate their books by colouring the pencils. The worksheet covers: Plot Favourite Character Place Conclusion

A minibeast venn diagram to form a structure for writing, making a comparison between the two insects.

A thorough 2 page book review template that could be used with any book. It includes the following sections: Title Author Rate It Favourite Character Plot Your Opinion Recommend? (Tick boxes) Favourite Extract Favourite Quote Other books by this Author Facts about the Author A box for an illustration.

Three page starter activity to laminate and use again and again. Laminate the whole sheet. Neatly cut off the words at the bottom leaving the top like a place-mat. Cut out the individual words from the bottom. Ask Learners to place the two words which make up the contraction in the two boxes next to that word. Use this starter to see what they already know or assess their recall from a previous lesson. This is a great activity to consolidate using the apostrophe.

A minibeast venn diagram to form a structure for writing, making a comparison between the two insects.

A minibeast venn diagram to form a structure for writing, making a comparison between the two insects.

Excellent resource to use in lessons to encourage metacognition and real reading. This is a one page resource. The picture shows you exactly what you are getting!

Laminate the whole page. Cut off the sentences at the top to make a place-mat. Cut out the individual words below. Ask your classes to place the contractions over the correct two words. Great for assessing what they know or useful as a starter to get your students to recall what they have learnt. There are three pages to this resource.

A minibeast venn diagram to form a structure for writing, making a comparison between the two insects.

Egyptian Key Words This is an eye catching, one page resource which is editable as it's a word document.

A table of expectations to share with your students before they start a piece a writing. You can then use the table for teacher assessment or self assessment. It is a word document so you can tweek it for your needs!

An exciting 'Exciting Words' starter. Get your students into small groups. Lay out the 'boring words' on each table. (e.g. said, little, sad) Give the groups 5 minutes to write as many exciting words as they can, which they could use instead of the boring word, around each boring word. e.g. around 'said' they could write 'exclaimed' 'whispered' 'gasped'. Next ask the groups to move to a new boring word and see if they can add any more words. I usually ask them to move once more. Next ask a student from each group to read out the exciting words. This could be an activity where they use a thesaurus. This resource includes a 'teachers notes' sheet which has lots of good examples for each word. Display this work to inform the next piece of writing.

Read your class the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and then ask them to sort the facts into true and false. Next ask students to sequence the true facts which gives a summary of the story! They can copy the story into their books. Wonderful listening skills activity! Great group work! Fab sequencing! Included in this resource are: The Story to Read True Facts False Facts True Place-mat False Place-mat

Read the information and legend about St. Nicholas to your class and and then ask them to sort the facts into true and false. Wonderful Christmas listening skills activity! Great group work! Then ask your class to sequence the true facts into a logical order (the order they appear here) and write them up in their books. I have included an image of St. Nicholas and Father Christmas to add to the page so students can see where Father Christmas came from. The Father Christmas can be coloured in as an extension activity. Included in this resource are: The Story to Read True Facts False Facts True Place-mat False Place-mat Images to decorate page. This is all ready to laminate and use year after year.

This festive activity asks your students to each draw around a verse from the very famous 'A Visit From St Nicholas' more commonly known as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'. There are 14 verses so I got every student to do one and created a display in my room and a display on the corridor. Alternatively you could make it competitive. An inspiration sheet of festive images is provided to help your class with their drawing. This makes a wonderful display and could even be used to create a performance of the poem or assembly.

Develop descriptive and creative writing by asking your students to look at the detailed work of Henri Rousseau. This resource includes a lesson plan, and within a presentation an introduction to Rousseau's work. The presentation then gives an example of how to fill in the worksheet. The worksheet is a metacognition task which asks students to look at the artwork, write what they can see and then what they are 'thinking', 'wondering' or 'feeling'. A selection of three Rousseau artworks are also within the PowerPoint ready to print off. A great resource to get your students creatively writing. To make it clear, this is not a presentation on Rousseau, I'm just using a PowerPoint to hold the activities. The PowerPoint is 6 slides long. Slide 1: Front Page Slide 2: Introduction to Rousseau with facts. Slide 3: A Rousseau artwork to use with the example worksheet to demonstrate what you would like students to do. Slides 4 - 7 Artworks to print off.

Bring the magic of the world of Harry Potter to life in your class room with these Harry Potter sign posts. A fantastic display and stimulus for discussion. Signs include: Hogsmead Diagon Alley Hogwarts Ministry of Magic Azkaban St Mungo's The Burrow Grimmauld Place Little Whinging The Leaky Cauldron Gringotts Ollivanders Hagrids Hut Griffindor Tower Ravenclaw Tower Slytherin Dungeon The 3 Broomsticks Shrieking Shack