I made these cards as focused independent writing activities for children to use as early morning work or as extension tasks in lessons. They are mostly based around narrative but can be changed and adapted for different text types. I printed them off and laminated them and the children use them freely. They can also be used when working one to one with children who have specific writing targets they need to work towards.

I was looking for something like this to use with my Year Fours (nearly Year Fives) to teach Identifying Reading Themes, an objective I have avoided for most of the year as I have not been sure how to introduce it. I have magpied ideas from other resources online and also added my own. Feel free to use to add to display boards or to introduce themes in books to children. Hope these are useful.

A prompt sheet with vocabulary and pictures about Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London. To give to your children to support them when writing their own version of Samuel Pepys' Diary. Included punctuation reminders, sentence starters, ideas to help them use their senses and WOW words linked to the topic. Can easily be edited to add in your own words or pictures. Hope you find it useful.

I needed a generic working wall banner as my school works cross-curricularly. Couldn't find one that I liked so decided to make my own. Based on road signs and the 'men at work' road sign idea. Hope you like it.

A using and applying activity for halving in the context of money. Suitable for year 3/4 and easily adaptable for KS1. Give children a shopping list and ask them to find out which shop is the cheapest place to buy that item. Price lists are provided as are vouchers that can be cut out and children can take them with them to each shop. I printed the price posters on A3 and put them up around the classroom. To extend the children you can use coins/notes and have some children stationed at the shops to work as shop keepers to check the prices and help the children work out how much money off they will get.