An example diary text based on Chapter 1 of the fantasy novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan with differentiated planning sheets and word banks.
The model diary entry is written from Percy’s point of view on the day he visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL diary text to examine before pupils plan and write their own diary entry based on his chapter or the next few chapters.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry text
• Differentiated planning templates
• Contractions word bank
• Feelings word bank
• Teacher notes
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
More Lightning Thief themed resources:
✦ Lightning Thief Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
✦ Instructions Example Text Pack
✦ Literary Devices Worksheets
✦ Monsters Non-Chronological Report Text Pack
✦ Example Character Profile Text Pack
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✦ Oranges In No Man’s Land BUNDLE
✦ The Nowhere Emporium BUNDLE
✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class BUNDLE
✦ Semi-Colon BUNDLE
✦ Direct Speech Punctuation BUNDLE
✦ Daily SPAG BUNDLE
✦ Colon BUNDLE
✦ Singular & Plural Possessive Apostrophes BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
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An example character profile text based on chapters 1 to 3 of the fantasy novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan with feature find, differentiated planning and writing templates and word bank.
The character profile describes the story’s protagonist, Percy.
The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL character profile to examine before pupils plan and write their own about Percy or another character such as Grover Underwood, Mr Brunner or his mother, Sally.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile text
• Feature find worksheet with answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x3
• Character trait word bank
• Teacher notes
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
More Lightning Thief resources:
✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Lightning Thief Example Diary Text Pack
✦ The Lightning Thief Example Character Profile Text Pack
✦ The Lightning Thief Example Monsters Non-Chronological Report Text Pack
✦ The Lightning Thief Figurative Language & Other Literary Devices Differentiated Worksheets
✦ The Lightning Thief Instructions Example Text Pack
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✦ The Boy at the Back of the Class: Example Text BUNDLE
✦ The Highwayman WAGOLL Writing, Literary Device & Poetry Pack BUNDLE
✦ The Nowhere Emporium Example Text & Character BUNDLE
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Stig of the Dump Unit of Work | Six Weeks | Year 3/4
✦ Moon Landing Diary Complete Unit of Work | One Week | Year 3/4
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An example instructional text entitled How to Slay the Hydra, inspired by the fantasy novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (the first in the series of Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, plus feature find worksheets, and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Instructions WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Writing template differentiated x2
• Teacher notes
The model instructions describe how to slay the hydra, one of the monsters found in the Oracle’s attic in Chapter 9 of the book.
Pupils read the model instructions about how to slay the hydra, examine its features, and then write their own instructions using the templates provided. Pupils can create instructions on how to defeat any of the monsters mentioned in the book, such as the Minotaur, Medusa or Chimera, or any other ancient Greek monster.
The language, grammar, punctuation and layout features included in the model text include:
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Expanded noun phrases
• Rhetorical questions
• Commands beginning with imperative verbs
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Exclamation marks
• Question marks
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Hyphens
• Dashes
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Bullet points
• Numbered points
• Second person POV (direct address)
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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A bundle of example texts based on the novel Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (Book 1 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan.
The following model text packs are included in this bundle:
• Character profile
• Diary
• Instructional text
• Non-chronological reports
Plus
• Figurative language & other literary devices worksheets
Character profile pack
The following resources have been provided:
• Character profile text WAGOLL
• Feature find worksheet with answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x3
• Character trait word bank
• Teacher notes
Diary pack
The following resources have been provided:
• Diary entry text WAGOLL
• Differentiated planning templates
• Contractions word bank
• Feelings word bank
• Teacher notes
Non-chronological report pack
The following resources have been provided:
• Exemplar non-chronological texts x4
• Feature find worksheet with answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x3
• Teacher notes
Instructional text pack
The following resources have been provided:
• Instructions WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Writing template, differentiated x2
• Teacher notes
Figurative language & other literary devices pack
The following resources have been provided:
• Literary devices identification sheets, differentiated x3
• Literary devices match, differentiated x3
• Literary devices information sheet
• Teacher notes
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Book & Poetry Bundles
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✦ How to Train Your Dragon: BUNDLE
✦ Ice Palace WAGOLL Writing, Apostrophe & Literary Device BUNDLE
✦ Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Lila and the Secret of Rain Example Text and Grammar BUNDLE
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✦ Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief: Model Writing Pack BUNDLE
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✦ The Nowhere Emporium: Example Text & Character BUNDLE
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✦ Varjak Paw: WAGOLL Example Text Pack BUNDLE
Other English Bundles
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✦ Daily Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Activities with Answers - WholeTerm BUNDLE
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History & Science Bundles
✦ Ancient Egypt Example Text Bundle
✦ Mummification Bundle
✦ Ancient Greece Myths & Monsters WAGOLL Writing Bundle
✦ Animal Non-Chronological Report Bundle
Maths Bundles
✦ Valentine’s Day Maths BUNDLE
✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Worksheets
✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets
✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE
✦ 2D & 3D Shapes Games Maths BUNDLE
✦ 2D Shapes Polygons Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
✦ 3D Shapes Solids Games Pack BUNDLE Differentiated
English & Maths Games
✦ Fun English Writing Games
✦ 10 Fun Times Tables Games
✦ 15 Fun Maths Arithmetic Games
French Bundles
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✦ French Animals Role Plays & Games Packs BUNDLE
✦ French Animal Games Packs BUNDLE
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Three differentiated worksheets and activities about the figurative language used in the novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
The following resources have been provided:
• Literary devices identification sheets, differentiated x3
• Literary devices match, differentiated x3
• Literary devices information sheet
• Teacher notes
Literary devices identification sheets
Independent activity. Pupils identify a range of literary devices, including figurative language, from an extract from Chapter 1 of the novel. This resource has been differentiated with three levels of challenge.
Literary devices match
Group activity. Pupils match the names of literary devices with definitions and examples from chapters 1-5 of the book. This resource has been differentiated with three levels of challenge.
Literary devices information sheet
Can be displayed, stuck into books or used as a handout.
The following literary devices are covered in this resource:
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• idioms
• metaphors
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• repetition for effect
• rhetorical questions
• rule of three
• similes
Extracts and answer sheets are included for each skill level of differentiation.
This resource comes as an easily editable Word document and in PDF format.
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4 example non-chronological report texts about 4 monsters found in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan with feature find, and differentiated planning and writing templates.
The model information texts are about the following ancient Greek monsters: the Minotaur, Medusa, the Hound of Hades and the Chimera.
The exemplar texts can be used as WAGOLL non-chronological reports to examine before pupils plan and write their own about these or other monsters or gods, such as the Furies, Echidna, Procrustes or the Pit Scorpion.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar non-chronological texts x4
• Feature find worksheet with answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x3
• Teacher notes
All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.
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✦ Example Diary Text Pack
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Three differentiated worksheets for KS2 pupils about commas used to separate items in lists.
The five pages of worksheets cover a variety of difficulty levels, differentiated three ways, and are all accompanied by answer sheets.
All documents available as easily editable Word documents and as PDFs.
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A four week literacy unit of work based on the novel Holes by Louis Sachar for Years 5 & 6, with 20 complete lessons, including all plans, teaching presentations and resources.
This scheme of work for Upper Key Stage 2 contains the following:
• 20 daily lesson plans with differentiation
• 20 lesson presentations with over 200 slides in total
• 43 additional teaching resources with over 100 pages in total (model texts, worksheets, feature finds, answers, word banks, etc)
Some of the objectives covered in this unit of work:
★ Writing
• Setting description (with WAGOLL)
• Diary entry
• Summary
• Non-chronological report (with WAGOLL)
• Balanced argument
• Playscript (with WAGOLL)
• Formal letter (with WAGOLL)
• Dialogue (with WAGOLL)
• Character profile (with WAGOLL)
• Newspaper report (with WAGOLL)
★ Comprehension
• Asking questions
• Drawing inferences
• Making predictions
• Discussing words and phrases
• Summarising main ideas
• Discussing and evaluating language including figurative language
• Justifying views with evidence
★ Spoken Language
• Role play
• Discussions
• Debate
• Performance
★ Grammar & Punctuation
• Modal verbs
• Expanded noun phrases
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Relative clauses
• Adverbs of degree
• Perfect tense
• Conjunctive adverbials
• Subjunctive form
• Question tags
• Semi-colons
• Passive voice
• Embedded phrases and clauses
This unit is ready to teach - just a copy of the novel is required!
Although this unit is designed for UKS2, particularly Year 6, it could easily be adapted for KS3.
All resources and lesson plans come as editable Word documents and in PDF format. All lesson presentations come as editable PowerPoints and as PDF files.
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A fourteen-slide presentation explaining how to use colons, including lots of examples, do’s and don’ts, and quick quizzes to test knowledge.
This presentation comes as an easily editable Powerpoint presentation as well as in PDF format.
The following usages of colons are included:
• Using a colon to introduce a list;
• Using a colon to separate related main clauses where the second clause explains the first clause;
• Using a colon to emphasise a word or phrase.
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A set of comprehension questions about the classic poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, with full answers and glossary.
19 questions with a total of 26 marks. The questions and extract cover stanzas 7-11.
This resource comes with the following:
• Pied Piper of Hamelin poem extract with illustrations
• Comprehension questions
• Comprehension answers
• Glossary
This resource is suitable for Upper Key Stage 2 pupils. It is perfect for guided reading or Year 6 SATs practice.
The comprehension includes a variety of question types including a 3 mark ‘What impression’ question.
All resources come as editable Word documents and in PDF format.
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A set of comprehension questions about the classic poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, with full answers and glossary.
24 questions with a total of 30 marks. The questions and extract cover stanzas 1-6.
This resource comes with the following:
• Pied Piper of Hamelin poem extract with illustrations
• Comprehension questions
• Comprehension answers
• Glossary
This resource is suitable for Upper Key Stage 2 pupils. It is perfect for guided reading or Year 6 SATs practice.
The comprehension includes a variety of question types including a 3 mark ‘What impression’ question.
All resources come as editable Word documents and in PDF format.
Save with a bundle:
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A set of comprehension questions about the classic poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, with full answers and glossary.
19 questions with a total of 24 marks. The questions and extract cover stanzas 12-15.
This resource comes with the following:
• Pied Piper of Hamelin poem extract with illustrations
• Comprehension questions
• Comprehension answers
• Glossary
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A differentiated activity where pupils learn more about the characters in Betsy Byars’s novel The Midnight Fox by comparing them.
Pupils must sort quotes from the text as well as summarise the differences between two characters from the story: protagonist Tom and Bubba.
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A presentation explaining how to use singular and plural possessive apostrophes, including lots of examples. This resource is ideal for teaching the use of different types of possessive apostrophes.
The following usages of possessive apostrophes are illustrated:
• To show possession by a singular noun
• To show possession by a regular plural noun
• To show possession by an irregular plural noun
• To show possession by a proper noun
• To show possession by a proper noun ending in ‘s’
This 10-slide presentation comes as an easily editable Powerpoint presentation as well as in PDF format.
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A bundle of worksheets designed to teach the perfect form to pupils.
The three sets of differentiated worksheets cover a variety of aspects of the perfect tense, including:
• Present perfect tense
• Past perfect tense
• Future perfect tense
This bundle is ideal for revision of the prefect tense and then moving on to more complex use of the verb form.
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Three worksheets aimed at using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause. The worksheets cover a variety of difficulty levels and are accompanied by answer sheets.
The worksheets cover the following:
✽ Using the perfect tense to connect an action to a specific point in time
✽ Using the perfect tense to indicate a causal relationship
✽ Past perfect tense
✽ Present perfect tense
✽ Future perfect tense
✽ Use of adverbs with the perfect tense
The English National Curriculum years 5 and 6 programme of study objective covered by the resource pack is as follows:
Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.
All documents available as easily editable Word documents and as PDFs.
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Three differentiated worksheets for key stage 2 pupils about comma splices, a grammatical error when two main clauses are separated with just a comma.
The four pages of worksheets cover a variety of difficulty levels, differentiated three ways, and are all accompanied by answer sheets.
The following comma splice activities are covered by these worksheets:
• Define comma splices
• Identify comma splices
• Correct comma splices
Pupils are asked to correct comma splices with the following:
◦ Full stops and capital letters
◦ Co-ordinating conjunctions
◦ Semi-colons
◦ Subordinating conjunctions
◦ Conjunctive adverbs with semi-colons
These differentiated resources are most suitable for pupils in years 4, 5 and 6, but could also be used as revision activities for students in KS3.
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A bundle of differentiated worksheets dealing with six types of comma usage.
Each of the six resource packs contains differentiated worksheets with answers sheets.
The following comma usage is covered by these worksheets:
• Commas in lists
• Commas in direct speech
• Commas after co-ordinating conjunctions in compound sentences
• Commas around relative clauses
• Commas after fronted adverbials and other fronted elements
• Comma splices
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These worksheets are great to teach your pupils about the use of the present perfect form of verbs compared to the simple past. The pack includes three differentiated worksheets and a challenge sheet, all with answers.
The worksheets cover the following:
• Matching present perfect with simple past sentences
• Identifying simple past tense and present perfect forms
• Changing sentences from the simple past tense to the present perfect form
• Changing paragraphs from the simple past tense to the preset perfect form
• Includes regular and irregular verbs
The three worksheets get progressively difficult. They can be completed one after the other or individually depending on ability level. There are two versions of the challenge sheets.
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These activities are particularly suitable for years 3 and 4 when first teaching the perfect tense, and as a revision for years 5 and above.
Link to the English national curriculum objectives:
Years 3 and 4: Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense.
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Three differentiated worksheets for upper key stage 2 pupils about comma usage before the co-ordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) in a compound sentence (a type of multi-clause sentence).
The three pages of worksheets cover a variety of difficulty levels, differentiated three ways, and are all accompanied by answer sheets.
The following comma usage is covered by these worksheets:
• Using a comma before one of the FANBOYS in a compound sentence
• Identifying correct and incorrect comma usage
• Adding commas to compound sentences
• Writing compound sentences, with correct comma usage
• Identifying when a comma is not necessary before one of the FANBOYS
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Three differentiated worksheets for key stage 2 pupils about commas used in direct speech to separate the reporting clause from the words spoken.
The three pages of worksheets cover a variety of difficulty levels, differentiated three ways, and are all accompanied by answer sheets.
The following comma usage is covered by these worksheets:
• Commas in non-split speech, starting with the spoken words
• Commas in non-split speech, starting with the reporting clause
• Commas in single-sentence split speech
• Commas in double-sentence split speech
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