This is a hand drawn text map, to support a persuasive writing unit following Pie Corbett’s Talk 4 Writing style of teaching English. The text map goes with the Hawk Ridge Farm Park persuasive advert, written by Pie Corbett in his Talk 4 Writing Across the Curriculum book.

A hand drawn story map for The Little Green Dinosaur talk 4 writing story. Suitable for KS1. Follows the Pie Corbett talk 4 writing approach to literacy.

A somewhat tweaked version of the talk 4 writing story, ‘The Little Green Dinosaur’. Has been changed to include strong adjectives. Pictures within the powerpoint are of life like dinosaurs and the adjectives used to describe each dinosaur are accurate. Suitable for all of KS1. It was very hard to find this text anywhere online so I created this to use as the main story to read to the class. We then overlearnt the story by reading it every day and then using a story map (sold separately) to learn all of the words.

Smart notebook file containing all of the planning for week 2 of 2 of The Little Green Dinosaur planning. Lessons are as follows: Practice retelling using story map (sold separately) Picture hunt retell Drawing own story map Guided reading VIPERS retrieval lesson Sequencing lesson Retell writing lesson

This smart notebook contains week 1 out of 2 of The Little Green Dinosaur talk 4 writing planning and follows Pie Corbett’s talk 4 writing approach. The lessons are as follows: Cold write Guided reading lesson (using VIPERS) Creating own class actions Learning story (story map sold separately) Suitable for ks1.

This supports the the explanation text ‘How a dishwasher works’ from the book ‘Until I Met Dudley’. This is suitable for children in year 3, 4 or 5 following the Talk 4 Writing style of teaching. The story map has been hand drawn and can be used to teach the children this text off by heart, as part of the Imitation phase.

This is a blank boxed up model, with guidance, for the persuasive writing unit of work which follows the Talk 4 Writing style of teaching English. Children can use this template to box up the ‘Hawk Ridge Farm Park’ persuasive advert written by Pie Corbett.

In this lesson, children will learn to retell the story of Isis and the Cobra, using a story map based on the story of Isis and the cobra from the book ‘Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs’ by Marcia Williams. This is part of a unit of work on egyptian myths, following the talk 4 writing method by Pie Corbett. Suitable for year 4.

This is a boxed-up model template, suitable for teaching explanation texts as part of the Talk 4 Writing style of teaching English.

Hot air balloon sequencing activity and answer sheet for explanation texts in year 4. Has causal conjunctions and prepositions highlighted to signpost children to the correct order.

Vipers reading questions (vocab, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, summary) for our Egyptian myths topic, based on the book Ancient Egypt: tales of gods and pharaohs, by Marcia Williams.

A table children can fill in, based on their most common spelling errors, to help them identify where they went wrong. Letter added or missing? Forgotten a spelling rule? etc.

This is a short lesson covering the skill of retrieval, using the book ‘The Iron Man’. It recaps what retrieval is and then gives the class the opportunity to practice and develop their retrieval skills, asking questions based on chapter 5 of The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes.

This notebook file supports children in creating their own Egyptian myth toolkit or success criteria. It is an entire lesson of work and uses the book Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs by Marcia Williams. It follows the Talking 4 Writing structure and is part of the imitation stage. The lesson is aimed at Year 4. This will help children, as part of a larger scheme of work, to create their own Egyptian myth.

This is a unit of work (4 art lessons) researching and recreating art in the style of Leonid Afremov. Pupils will research his previous works as an artist and will then learn techniques in order to recreate one of his famous pieces of work for themselves. Aimed at LKS2 but might also be suitable for Year 2. All of the lessons are in notebook format and can be followed without separate planning notes.

This is a lesson on a notebook file, on how to correctly punctuate speech, using examples from the book ‘The Iron Man’. It will be suitable for LKS2 or as a recap for UKS2.

Suitable for UKS2 transition day, particularly if you longer than a day with your new class. Children watch clips of The Lion King - Mufasa’s death, leaving home, making new friends, facing his problems etc and construct their own emotions graph (included) to chart the highs and lows of his life. Children then discuss his various coping strategies - healthy and unhealthy alike and which ones worked best. Uses the reading skill of inference as children must infer the feelings of the character each time.

This notebook file goes through the spelling rules for the ‘ly’ suffix, as part of the national curriculum for spelling in year 3 and 4. Children will have the opportunity to explore the rule and each exception, while practicing a ‘spelling calculation’ which requires them to construct a word using the ly suffix and apply each rule correctly.

Story map or text map of Isis and the Cobra from the book ‘Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs’ by Marcia Williams. Used for Talk4Writing English lessons in year 3 or 4.

This lesson introduces the myth of Isis and the Cobra from the book ‘Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs’ by Marcia Williams. Forms part of a Talk 4 Writing unit of work for Year 4. The class hear (but do not read for themselves) the story of Isis and the Cobra and have the chance to discuss it. The main objective of the lesson is to talk about the book itself and then summarise the main events briefly. This is just a smart notebook file of the lesson - no planning should be required for this as everything the teacher needs to say or do is prompted within the notebook. WALTs and WILFs are shown and can be copied to be used separately. No other resources should be needed for this lesson, though having a copy of the text would be beneficial. Meets the NC objective: Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.