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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Setting
Here is a planning handout and activity handout for creating a new room for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This activity is to encourage children's writing to become more descriptive especially with the setting. It can also be ta
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Scary Story Planning Frame
A scary story planning frame to help children work on characters and setting. Also to help structure a story with a beginning, middle, build up and change in atmosphere and conclusion.
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Message in a Bottle Writing Frame
Writing frame for a message in a bottle letter.
Sea and Seashore, pirates, letters
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Comic Strip Planning Sheet
This is a planning sheet I created to help children to consider their ideas for a comic strip. It looks at characters and events.
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Letter of Complaint Planning Frame
Writing frame for planning a letter of complaint. Features criteria for success.
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Haunted House Story Starter- (Writer's Craft)
Story starter for children to continue about a haunted house.
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Active Literacy Stations
Active Literacy stations for Middle/Upper stages practising speech marks, spelling, contractions and dictionary skills.
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Connectives Stations
Five carousel activity cards for practising connectives!
Connective chains
Connective butterflies
Connective board game (twinkl linked)
Connective construction
Connective wheel of fortune (twinkl linked)
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My Superhero!
A writing frame for children to invent their own superhero and write a descriptive piece about the character.There is also an accompanying planning sheet to get children thinking about ideas for their superhero.
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Journey to another Planet PowerPoint
Powerpoint using pictures to inspire creative writing.
setting, visual, space, planets, description, senses.
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Journey to another Planet Planning Frame
Planning frame to go with Journey to another Planet Powerpoint.
Creative writing, setting, space.
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Missing Person Writing Frame
This is a writing frame for a missing person poster. It can be used to encourage character description using adjectives and similes.
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Journalist Skills - Carousel Activities
Four activities which can be used and adapted for any stage to enhance newspaper writing skills. I used these in carousel format with my class but could be used as individual teaching activities for a lesson. The four activities are:
Questioning
Headlines
Note-taking
Fact versus Opinion (Cards to accompany from Twinkl or own can be made up)
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Why the Whales Came - setting task
This is a powerpoint to accompany the novel, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. It leads to a discussion on why setting is important to a story.