A new and different writing frame for your children to use around Bonfire Night. They can use this to write or draw in, to make a poster or display their work.
This intriguing poetry-writing theme, and the accessible, attractive worksheets, will motivate writers of all ability to think up imaginative description and similes. The Ideas Sheet, titled ‘City Lights’, is fun to use, with a spider diagram and scattered lines for adjectives and images. The poem frame, titled ‘Night Lights’, has plentiful space for writing, with clear, supporting structure, though able writers may prefer to use it as a launch pad for an individual approach. Both sheets are excitingly illustrated, with details to spark ideas.
The Guide provides prompt suggestions for each and development ideas for the poem. The resource is home-produced and has been successfully used with Yr 3-6 classes.
Black and white, PDF.
This EYFS resource includes 5 Christmas-themed writing frames designed to support early reading and writing skills. Each frame encourages children to fill in missing words or complete short phrases and sentences with a festive focus:
What is in My Stocking? - Children list or draw items they imagine finding in their stocking.
Dear Santa Letter - A simple letter template for children to express their Christmas wishes.
If I Were a Reindeer/Elf, I Would… - Prompts children to imagine and describe their roles as part of Santa’s team.
My Christmas Wishes - A space for children to write or draw their Christmas hopes and wishes.
My Christmas Day - A simple sequence to describe their morning, afternoon, and night on Christmas Day.
An introduction to the KS1 2009 long writing task. A planning frame for the writing and a template to produce a booklet on nocturnal animals for the children to use.
Fully resourced poetry unit exploring senses, fireworks, and onomatopoeia | Ideal for October and November lessons
This fully planned writing unit is ideal for Year 1 pupils in the run-up to Bonfire Night. Across five engaging lessons, children will explore senses, onomatopoeia, and descriptive language to build up to a final senses poem. Starting with a cold write and culminating in a polished piece of poetry, this unit is packed with opportunities for performance, expression, and creative language development.
What’s included:
✔ 5 easy-to-follow PowerPoints
✔ 5 detailed lesson plans with clear learning objectives
✔ Senses worksheet for vocabulary development
✔ High-ability poetry writing frame to support differentiation
Lesson sequence:
Write a Poem (Cold Write) – Children write an initial Bonfire Night poem using sensory phrases and sentence-level skills
Perform a Poem – Learn lines, use expression, and explore onomatopoeia through poetry performance
Group Performance – Build fluency and confidence by performing poems with expression, intonation, and clear voices
Plan a Senses Poem – Use expanded noun phrases and sensory vocabulary to plan a descriptive Bonfire Night poem
Write a Final Poem – Children write their final piece, applying their learning from the week to create a ‘banger’ of a poem
Why this unit stands out:
✔ Ideal for exploring poetry, performance, and seasonal themes
✔ Created by an experienced English subject lead
✔ Tried and tested in real Year 1 classrooms
✔ Fully resourced for easy, low-prep teaching
Perfect for:
October or November literacy sessions
KS1 poetry and performance lessons
Creative writing and sensory language development
Whole-class, group, or guided writing sessions
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A collection of Seasons writing frames using symbols.
The resources are in colour and black and white.
Boardmaker licenced.
Each writing frame shows a section that the children can write on and a picture related to the season. The black and white pictures can be coloured in.
The frames are for Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.
There is also a frame for Night time and Day time.
Great for SEND pupils who will benefit from the use of symbols and also for EYFS and KS1.
A series of lesson resources designed for upper key stage 2 based on 1,001 Arabian Nights (Geraldine McCaughrean) in which the children write frame stories based on the story of Sinbad the Sailor. These lessons have been designed to be used in conjunction with the book itself, and you will need access to a copy of the book. This resource includes a powerpoint that takes you through creating descriptive language, writing a character description and then planning and drafting a frame story. Within the powerpoints are model texts for the character description and the frame story to support the children in their writing. Also included are two word banks to be used for the character description and the frame story.
Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot plus Bonfire Night activities and Power Point.
Ideal for learning about this significant event in British history and why bonfire night is celebrated in the UK.
This product includes an updated version
Updated Version Includes:
PPT teaching students about Bonfire Night in the UK
PPT teaching students about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Make a foldable Gunpowder Plot book
Bonfire night and Gunpowder plot differentiated writing frames
Bonfire night and Gunpowder plot word mats
Bonfire night differentiated worksheets
Gunpowder plot differentiated timeline activities
Colouring sheets and bookmarks for early finishers
Original Product Includes:
This story power point and print and go activities will make life easy for you! It includes fun, engaging printable activities and a power point retelling the story for you to use as a teaching tool. All you need in one place! Suitable for children aged 5-7 years.
Includes:
Guy Fawkes themed writing Frames,
Blank fact sheets,
Storyboards,
Sequencing Pictures,
Differentiated reading comprehensions,
Pictures for retelling events,
Word cards for display
Make a bookmark
10 Real pictures
Coloring for early finishers
Word mat,
Fireworks safety poster,
Poem and colouring,
Word search
Make a foldable book
Power point retelling events of the plot.
In the Scottish curriculum students will do a personal/reflective piece of writing. This scheme has been created for this unit. But can be adapted between year groups (S2-S4/Year 9-11). Resources are attached. It focuses on creative writing, narrative hooks, using sensory language, reflecting on past events. Can be followed up with desert island discs (search for on TES) or a speaking and listening task such as This is Your Life. Can also adapt and use for non fiction writing with a focus on biographies and autobiographies.
Space recipe poem example, on space photo backdrop, plus blank writing frame on same background (2 sheets total).
This fun, fascinating poem was written by the author - a published children’s poet. It demonstrates key poetic techniques, e.g. simile, metaphor and alliteration, and stretches minds and language.
The blank writing frame is open to other styles of space poetry too, encouraging poetry exploration AND space exploration!
Supports poetry, literacy and space studies.
SEE ALSO, here on TES: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/recipe-for-a-night-sky-poem-to-read-12420912.
2 FIREWORKS frames - simpler and more complex versions.
These popular sheets call for action words - whizzing, booming, sparkling, crackling? - and more, for fireworks.
Both sheets also invite describing words for the night sky - dark, misty, moonlit, mysterious, pitch black, spooky, foggy, windy, chilly, cave-dark??
The harder version also requires 3 similes, but the structure is clear, with a repeated pattern running through, and structured phrases with gaps to fill.
Supports: seasons, celebrations, literacy, poetry, creativity, vocabulary, colour, night skies and firework features.
This Wild Woods bundle contains 4 poetry frames suitable for varied levels, particularly around Yr 3, and a supporting picture of a wood at night, alive with creatures - hand-drawn.
This is a writing frame designed for the OCR GCSE Philosophy and Applied Ethics module on Religion and Medical Ethics: B603. It is for a 6-mark question on euthanasia. I have included the presentation mentioned as sources of additional support and the assessment criteria.
Two days worth of lessons based on The Gunpowder Plot. Planning included in the notes section of the powerpoint.
First lesson based on inference and deduction, second lesson based on the children making a comic strip.
Differentiated resources included for the comic strip: 1 and 2 chillis has key words to include and 3 chillis is the comic strip frame.
A question and scaffolding for KS3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream assessment designed to help Year 8+ students based around insults. Includes:
Question and prompts
writing frame
Model answers
Ignite your pupils’ creativity this November with these Bonfire Night & Fireworks Writing and Thinking Templates!
Perfect for Curriculum for Excellence or any primary literacy setting, this engaging pack includes six printable templates designed to develop writing, planning, and reflection skills.
Includes:
• Bonfire Night & Fireworks KWL Chart
• Character Map
• Fact File / Report Page
• Story Planning Sheet
• Vocabulary Builder
• Creative Writing Frame
Ideal for writing about fireworks displays, safety, senses, or descriptive poetry
Clear, structured layouts to support independent learning
Curriculum Atlas branding for a polished classroom finish
Perfect for:
Bonfire Night (5th November) | Fireworks Night | Seasonal Writing | Literacy Displays
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A woodland poem example, featuring description, presented over a colourful autumn wood photo.
Writing frame also included.
Repetition of the opening line also features in this simple format.
**Offers a framework and idea spurs **for KS2 writers, and for KS1 verbal contributions.
Warm-up: go outside to experience trees (and woods?) with all the senses. Then discuss - what did the children notice? What creatures might live there, and what are they like? How would the trees be in different seasons? What might they be like on Halloween night? Enact trees together, then pretend you’re walking through a wood, finding “treasures”.
You’ll find more poem guides and poetry themes here at my TES shop.