The mat has descriptive phrases using similes, metaphors and personification to describe an Island. It also has sentence openers and uses the senses to develop creative writing.

A mat for creative writing using similes, metaphors and personification to describe a rainforest. It also includes sentence openers and the use of senses.

A mat with descriptive phrases for creative writing to describe a cave using similes, metaphors and personification. It also has sentence openers and uses the senses to develop a story.

A grammar mat in brief with examples of grammar cohesive with KS2.

This is a descriptive mat with sentence openers and descriptive phrases for a rock pool . It also includes a story starter and a task to identify literary techniques. This is particularly useful in preparation for the creative writing task in the 11+ and entrance exams.

This is a grammar mat with examples of grammar for Year 3 and is cohesive with the curriculum.

Descriptive phrases and sentence openers using a range of metaphors, similes, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia for creative writing.

A mat with creative writing phrases for a Christmas story. It includes sentence openers and phrases, using a range of metaphors, personification, alliteration, similes and ‘show but don’t tell’ phrases.

A writing mat with phrases to describe a storm and a task for using the senses.

Five tenses explained for beginners with examples.

A mat using the irregular past tense and key words relating to the sentences together with a worksheet that can be laminated and reused.

A mat using the Present Progressive tense and phrases using language relating to the topic with a worksheet that can be laminated back to back and reused.