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A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.

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A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
Writing a fun advert - dream beach hotel model text, scaffold & teachers notes get great writing
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Writing a fun advert - dream beach hotel model text, scaffold & teachers notes get great writing

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Children will be excited by designing their dream beach hotel advert, with features like scuba diving and pools. There is a model text of a beach holiday brochure advert for a hotel, written to demonstrate genre features and to highlight the use of persuasive techniques. The comprehensive teaching notes explain the genre features to inform and to persuade. The notes draw attention to features of the model text, like fact and opinion and the use of a variety of sentence starts. The notes make suggestions for guided and independent writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils get a clear understanding of the features of the text type.
Great motivation to write with Harry Potter persuasive task - scaffold, model text, brochure & notes
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Great motivation to write with Harry Potter persuasive task - scaffold, model text, brochure & notes

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This is a persuasive brochure for Hogwarts Castle Theme Park, written to demonstrate persuasive techniques. There are detailed teaching notes and a scaffold frame for children to write their own theme park brochure: a blank brochure with theme park pictures is also provided, if required. There is also an extension task to develop further ideas for the theme park website, which could be done as an individual, or group, speaking and listening or writing task. There are support planning worksheets, if required, to help pupils requiring more support.
National Poetry Day 'The Sea is a hungry dog...'  poem by Reeves comprehension,word mat & extension
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National Poetry Day 'The Sea is a hungry dog...' poem by Reeves comprehension,word mat & extension

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A structured comprehension on 'The Sea' by James Reeve and a word mat to prompt discussion of any poem. Suitable for upper KS2 and KS3. For differentiation, you can select which questions children complete, or for group discussion you can use the poetry word mat. The session started by discussing the poem and finding examples of poetic techniques, such as rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance and sibilant sounds. We discussed the change in the three verses. For extension, pupils could either write a river metaphor (see river metaphor poem ), or alternatively find points of comparison between the river and a different things (see worksheet).
SPaG - Speech Punctuation Powerpoint on  speech tags
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SPaG - Speech Punctuation Powerpoint on speech tags

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This is part of a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on speech tags. The full PowerPoint and speech punctuation investigation tasks are available as a premium resource at AWalkerEducation shop. The full premium presentation shows how to punctuate direct speech, how to move and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. The investigations use well known texts for children to investigate and discover the rules for themselves.
Use 'Show Don't Tell' to describe a setting
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Use 'Show Don't Tell' to describe a setting

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The worksheet shows how to describe setting by describing weather and emotions. The task requires children to write descriptive sentences to show how different weather affects people, places or things. For example, the task requires children to change statements that tell the weather, e.g. 'it is foggy,' to statements that show the affect of the weather, e.g. 'As the fog wrapped itself around her like a scarf, Amy shivered.' It also requires children to show rather than tell emotions in a similar way. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
Explanations - fun explanatory text learning unit that children will enjoy
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Explanations - fun explanatory text learning unit that children will enjoy

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Meet Petobot - a voice activated robot toy. Pupils read an explanatory text of the toy, written to demonstrate the features of an explanatory text. Children are then asked to draw a design for a robot toy with any features they want. There are detailed teaching notes and both a scaffold frame and a SEN sheet to offer support so that children can write an explanation for how their robot toy works. There is a model text and also an annotated text showing text features.
Harry Potter punctuating speech investigation task & SPaG PowerPoint on punctuating dialogue
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Harry Potter punctuating speech investigation task & SPaG PowerPoint on punctuating dialogue

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A PowerPoint presentation setting out the rules of punctuating dalogue punctuating speech investigation task using Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This task gets children to discover the rules of punctuating direct speech for themselves without being told, and thus leads to deeper understanding. There are teaching notes showing the grammar essentials children need to understand to be able to use direct speech accurately. The work can be linked to class study of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, or used as a grammar group, or individual activity. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
Fun examples of how punctuation can alter meaning
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Fun examples of how punctuation can alter meaning

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Funny examples of how punctuation changes meaning. I've used examples found on the internet of meaning changes caused by missing commas and full stops to create a worksheet. The worksheet helps pupils understand why punctuation is crucial to meaning in written texts. Also available at 65% reduction as a bundle.
Guide to descriptive  writing  - show don't tell
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Guide to descriptive writing - show don't tell

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The worksheet shows common ways that the body responds to fear. Children are then asked to write descriptive sentences, using the ideas to show rather than tell that a character is scared. For example, 'His colour was ashen.' There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
SPaG - Speech Punctuation Powerpoint  & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory speech investigation task
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SPaG - Speech Punctuation Powerpoint & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory speech investigation task

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This is a PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue and a speech punctuation investigation task using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The presentation also shows how to punctuate and use speech tags and includes alternative words for the speech verb, ‘said’. This task gets children to discover the rules of punctuating direct speech for themselves without being told, and thus leads to deeper understanding. There are teaching notes showing the grammar essentials children need to understand to be able to use direct speech accurately. The work can be linked to class study of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or used as a stand alone grammar group, or individual activity. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk
Fun advert for zoo - pupils' brochure to deliver great writing, model text, scaffold,wksht,TN
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Fun advert for zoo - pupils' brochure to deliver great writing, model text, scaffold,wksht,TN

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This task delivers great writing results with KS1 and KS2 pupils, because there is a model text of a zoo brochure advert, written specifically to demonstrate simple genre features, worksheets to aid writing and simple teaching notes to make a zoo brochure. There's a brochure for pupils to fill in their own zoo advert with pictures of animals. There is also worksheets offering additional support.The notes make suggestions for how to do zoo brochure writing and the scaffold frame offers additional support. The scaffold results in great writing and the pupils enjoy the reason to write.
Homework robot - fun way to teach explanatory texts
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Homework robot - fun way to teach explanatory texts

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The Homeworkabot should appeal! A simple explanatory text and support worksheets, frames, teaching notes and templates to ensure children produce good explanatory texts themselves. The task is a fun one and should motivate whilst making pupils aware of the features of the text type.