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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.
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).
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.
Bundle all you need to teach advert persuasive texts in a fun & thorough way KS2/1
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Bundle all you need to teach advert persuasive texts in a fun & thorough way KS2/1

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This fun resource pack will deliver great writing and make children able to read adverts. There is a car advert purposely written to show persuasive techniques with a writing scaffold & upper for KS1/ KS2 to get great writing results. There is also a fun adverts PowerPoint that uses animation, so pupils remember persuasive techniques. In addition, there are guided reading learning mats for persuasive texts to structure discussion to de-construct adverts and brochures. Pupils learn adverts are constructed and they build the skills and strategies to de-construct adverts and to write persuasively themselves.
Matilda imagery - Dahl's Trunchbull &Miss Honey comprehension + images, ext task, wksht & bookmark
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Matilda imagery - Dahl's Trunchbull &Miss Honey comprehension + images, ext task, wksht & bookmark

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A structured comprehension task grid, for Upper KS2, showing pupils how to find evidence of the character of Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey from Dahl's Matilda. Pupils find quotations from the text to make the character points and then fill in an explanation of how the quote proves the point. There is also an extension task with a different character text, a worksheet recapping how to find evidence of character and a bookmark reminding pupils how to write about characters. There are also images for discussing the similes.
Poetry mat - question prompts for KS3/KS4
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Poetry mat - question prompts for KS3/KS4

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This mat provides question prompts to use with any poem. It helps to develop deeper understanding with highly able readers. It uses higher order reading skills and develops the pupils ability to support answers with evidence from the text. It could be used with individuals, or small groups.
SPaG - other words for said  PowerPoint
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SPaG - other words for said PowerPoint

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This is a free extract from a Premium PowerPoint presentation discovering through questions and examples the rules for punctuating dialogue. This extract focuses on alternative words for said. 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.
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.
Newspaper - funny headlines task -builds understanding of newspapers with shark attack story
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Newspaper - funny headlines task -builds understanding of newspapers with shark attack story

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These newspaper tasks teach pupils to notice all the features of a newspapers article . The worksheet includes funny headlines where the meaning can be misinterpreted, but also shows pupils advice on how to write headlines and includes a headlines activity for them to do. The newspaper article has been written to demonstrate the text features of a newspaper. There are comprehensive teaching notes, suggesting extension activities and advice to support pupils to write effective lead lines. There are tasks suggested to teach the use of parenthetic commas as part of the work on the newspaper genre. news article written to demonstrate text features &teaching notes
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.
Task to get great writing - Egypt holiday tour - examples, planners, images and scaffolds
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Task to get great writing - Egypt holiday tour - examples, planners, images and scaffolds

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There is an example of a holiday brochure tour of Egypt to demonstrate persuasive techniques, including the use of Imperative verbs and adjectives. Children then use the text and the planning worksheet to write their own holiday tour of Egypt. Pupils can use their own knowledge of places from their work on Ancient Egypt, but they don't need to, because places are mentioned in the example holiday brochure for them to use. Extension task - there is an example of an Egyptian holiday brochure, again written to demonstrate genre features and persuasive techniques. There is a scaffold frame, so pupils can produce their own realistic hotel brochures. There are also images included for pupils to add images to make their persuasive holiday work look authentic.
Get great school trip recount writing - PowerPoint , scaffold frame planners & recount learning mat
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Get great school trip recount writing - PowerPoint , scaffold frame planners & recount learning mat

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The PowerPoint uses simple animations to ensure pupils are clear about how to write a school trip recount. There is also a Minion learning mat to display for additional support and to ensure children understand the success criteria. There are planning scaffolds to help pupils that need additional support to plan and write a recount. This PowerPoint uses the fishbone method to teach pupils how to write a recount on a school trip.
Fun Ads Bundle - beach holiday ad, scaffold worksheets, persuasive PowerPoint and learning mat
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Fun Ads Bundle - beach holiday ad, scaffold worksheets, persuasive PowerPoint and learning mat

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This is a fun resource pack that will deliver great writing and make children able to read and write adverts. There is a beach holiday advert model text, purposely written to show persuasive techniques with a writing scaffold & teaching notes explaining the genre features to get great writing results. There is also a fun adverts PowerPoint that uses animation, so pupils remember persuasive techniques. In addition, there are guided reading learning mats for persuasive texts to structure discussion to de-construct adverts and brochures. Pupils learn adverts are constructed and they build the skills and strategies to de-construct adverts and to write persuasively themselves.
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.