A bank of sentence starters for the ISPACE acronym, colour-coded to match the twinkl resources that use ISPACE. Perfect to stick in books (I use them on the inside cover) or laminate and have as a supporting resource for writing.

A model character description for Upper KS2 and above, using a range of figurative language, grammatical structures and punctuation. It includes a task to identify each feature in the text, and a short extension question for more able writers to consider.

A resource to support learning figurative language or building descriptions - I have modelled some examples of describing the same literal phrase using a range of figurative techniques. Some are left blank - a good discussion point for what techniques work best when, and an opportunity for children to add their own. There are then some literal ones to do independently and blank rows for building a word bank. I have used in lessons, interventions, and for tutoring.

Powerpoint and attached tasks for a population density lesson. For the section asking for volunteers, we marked out a square using metre rulers and gradually filled it with children to demonstrate density (non covid times!).

A copy of the Sorting Hat Song from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and a set of reading comprehension questions to go with it, covering retrieval, inference, facts and opinions, summarising, checking definitions and more.

Two “bad” examples of newspaper reports based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, suitable for KS2. Both have some of the key features of a news report, but are missing many others. Ideal for pulling apart as a WABOLL, class discussion, identifying features or using as an editing or up-levelling task.

6 weeks of planning for teaching KS2 tag or touch rugby (all sessions can be easily adapted to either). Each lesson includes a warm up, skill, application of skill and suggestions for games, and differentiation suggestions. I have also included an assessment grid.

Based on the break in at Gringotts in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, this article includes all of the features of Newspaper writing at KS2, and has a key at the bottom for pupils to complete in order to identify the features. It can also be used simply as a WAGOLL for teaching the features.

A model diary entry from Harry’s perspective about the events in Chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, along with a task for identifying the features and an extension. This diary entry is stopped short (we pretended he was writing it on the floor of the hut at the end of the chapter) to represent the moment Hagrid knocks on the door. I used it to teach cohesion between diary entries, as the children then wrote the next entry, emulating the style but about the events of Chapter 4. However, if you wanted to use it just as a model, it would only need a few more words to complete it.

A planning template for newspapers, designed to aid children in including all of the features of a newspaper, as well as a range of SPaG features. There are also two pages of writing templates, based upon a Hogwarts student newspaper, for use in my Harry Potter unit, but this is easily editable!

Based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, this resource includes activities to identify direct and indirect speech, punctuate speech examples, and convert between the two types.

Activities to support the teaching of pathetic fallacy as part of writing setting description, with an exercise that gets the children to consider the author’s intent and choice of language, and then practice of writing their own pathetic fallacy examples.

An example of a “bad” diary entry written from Harry’s perspective about the events in his first potions lesson. The example is missing some of the key features of a diary entry and important details about the events, changes person, is too formal in places, and is poorly written. An opportunity for children to identify the issues and improve the entry.

Four newspaper introductions all on the same event, based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with vary degrees of formaility, reporting language, and key features. A task suited for analysing language choices in the introductions of newspapers, discussion of strengths and weaknesses, and identifying the 5Ws.

A place value grid ranging from thousandths to millions to aid in teaching the multiplying and dividing by powers of 10. It includes reminders using arrows and how many places the digits move. I used it printed out and laminated for the children to use like a whiteboard.

Four challenges, based around Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, that work on identifying examples of formal and informal language, understanding informal equivalents of formal language, and reading and writing both styles.

Activities design to help children make inferences about how characters are feeling, using Chapters 3 and 4 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. There is a scaffolded option for each chapter to support lower ability learners.

A model diary entry based on Chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, complete with three tasks. 1 - Identifying the features of a diary (plus punctuation and grammatical features) 2 - Considering the impact of language choices 3 - Writing a diary entry from a different perspective. This can be split up over several lessons, and works well with the informal language tasks I have put up in another resource.

3 activities designed to help children identify, use, and correct the use of singular and plural apostrophes. There is a higher and lower ability version of this task.