Two examples of a balanced argument: Should cars be banned from town centres and should mobile phones be banned in schools

To go with the Powerpoint for the lesson on Writing a character description of Willy Wonka

A lesson writing a Non-chronological Report on the Oompa Loompas. Using the information we are given in the book Charlie and the Chocolate factory to create a report being as creative as we they can in a non-fiction format

A PowerPoint for teaching two poetry lessons writing and performing their own Chocolate poem based on Kit Wright's Poem The Magic Box. Included are the poems The Magic Box by Kit Wright and Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen

A lesson on performing a poem called If I could be a Superhero by Steve Lazarowitz

A simple self/teacher assessment of success criteria for a Newspaper report. Can be edited to suit different abilities within different year groups

A success criteria grid for self/teacher assessment at the end of a unit on balanced arguments

Simple tasks to use when practising dictionary skills ranging from spell check to definition and location of words to alphabetical order

A selection of resources for Winter acrostic poems differentiated for different age groups or abilities. Included are: Simple lesson plan with a success criteria sheet Ideas plan for poem at two levels An example written to show what is expected Sheets for writing up the acrostics for Winter, Snowflake and Christmas

An A4 sheet full of facts about Martin Luther King Junior that can be used for a unit of work or a report/biography writing activity based on figures in history

A fun activity for year 6 that involves maths and SPAG tasks for them to solve in pairs or small groups. The resource involves clue sheets A-H and an answer sheet for them to fill in.

A full piece of writing using the 5Ps of place, people, problem, panic and peace. This is a shared piece of writing and can be used to demonstrate how each section has been written or ahred as a whole story

An assessment sheet for self or peer assessment after writing a setting. Includes the success criteria for writing a setting

An extension to previous resources where both are combined but with different activities to consolidate their understanding including planning, PowerPoints and activity resources

A complete lesson including PowerPoint, video clip and thought bubbles to create a freeze frame of the moment Veruca Salt gets her Golden ticket. It asks children to think about whether she really deserved the ticket and what the worker who found it would have thought, felt and said.

Questions and activities for each chapter of The Iron Man collected and put together as one bundle. I have used them with Year 3 up to Year 6. The questions can be used in guided reading or as a unit of work based on the book. Each sheet can be cut up so the questions and activity can be stuck in their book and their work can then go below

This is a complete lesson with PowerPoint and resources needed to teach reading from non-fiction books under the theme of stories with historical settings

Four days planning for the SPAG part of the Stories with historical settings unit. It covers time and cause conjunctions, inverted commas, past tense and Topic vocabulary linked to the book Cuda of the Celts