An irregular verbs PowerPoint activity for Key Stage 1 (or may be useful for Key Stage 2 SEN). More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

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

I made a PowerPoint practice screening test following the guidance in the 'Assessment framework for the development of the Year 1 phonics screening check.' It is the twenty section 2 words. It contains a total of 20 words, 12 real and eight pseudo-words with the following structures: • 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the orthographical representation of the CVC phonological representations (4 words); • 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the four orthographical representations of the CVCC and CCVC phonological representations and the three orthographical representations of the CV phonological representation (4 words); • 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the three orthographical representations of the CCVCC phonological representations (4 words); • 2 x real words and 2 x pseudo-words for the four orthographical representations of the CCCV, CCCVC and CCCVCC phonological representations (4 words); and • 4 x two-syllable real words with different orthographical representations, one with five letters, one with six letters, one with seven letters and one with eight letters (4 words). If you like it, please review it. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

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.

This is a descriptive vocabulary building worksheet task. It matches 'very' words, e.g. 'very exciting' to more precise synonyms, 'exhilarating' . This is a written task and includes some words to offer challenge, so is aimed at able children in Year 3 & 4, Upper Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. Download my other 'very' words cut up and do task, if you wish to select words to suit a wider ability range. Examples of words include - 'very clean' - 'spotless', 'very smelly' - 'pungent.' More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

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

This is a cut up and do task for children to complete in groups. It matches 'very' words, e.g. 'very exciting' to more precise synonyms, 'exhilarating' . Words can be selected to suit the ability of the children. It includes some words to offer challenge. Examples of words include - 'very clean' - 'spotless', 'very smelly' - 'pungent.' More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

The tasks require pupils to exercise critical judgment and creative thinking to evaluate, and use information for effective decision making in the tasks. This is a series of thinking skills tasks, using the De Bono Thinking Hats methodology to respond to Michael Morpurgo's, 'Kensuke's Kingdom' with creativity. If students are to become better thinkers - to learn meaningfully, to think flexibly and to make reasoned judgements - then they benefit from being taught explicitly how to do it. The thinking hats are used to help make the steps in the thinking process more explicit. The thinking skills approach provides oral and written ‘prewriting’ activities which act as mental organisers. If you wish, pupils could use the activities and lists as ‘prewriting’ tasks, building up to a final writing task. If you like this, please add a review! There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

A PowerPoint explaining and testing knowledge of modal verbs. It is adapted from a US resource about a different part of speech. There are more free resources available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

I've put together QCA materials used for the past phonics screening checks in 2015 & 2016 with the sample materials for 2011 (the first year QCA released example materials). The copyright for all PDF documents belongs to QCA/QCDA/DfE and can be reproduced, stored or translated for private study only. They are not for sale. QCA states materials are published to help teachers and pupils become familiar with the phonics screening check. These and further materials are available on the Gov.uk website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-2016-materials

4-3-2-1 strategy reading comprehension sheet for use with any non-fiction text.

Character - positive character traits vocab building list. I cut up the words and pupils sorted the list into words they knew, thought they might know and definitely didn't know. Words could also be used to sort, for example, words with linked meanings and made into Mind Maps. Suited to some pupils in Upper Key Stage 2, but also some pupils in Key Stage 3 and 4.

These are adverb synonym matching, cut up and do, activities for Key Stage 2, with different degrees of challenge. They are good for building vocabulary. The harder activity may also be suitable for some groups in KS3 and the easier for some children during Key Stage 1. More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

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.

Quiz - template for children to write questions about a topic

Finding the main idea - 1- 2- 3- 1 reading comprehension organiser

A simple PowerPoint introducing the idea of nouns and proper nouns for Key Stage1. There is an activity to test whether children can recognise nouns from verbs (not in sentences). It is simple, because it doesn't introduce the idea that the same word can act as either a noun, or verb depending on the sentence. It just talks about nouns in very basic terms with simple examples. The resource is adapted from a US resource on a different part of speech. More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

This is a book list for Year 3 into Year 4. More free resources are available at www.angelawalker.co.uk

Character - negative character traits vocab building list. I cut up the words and pupils sorted the list into words they knew, thought they might know and definitely didn't know. Words could also be used to sort, for example, words with linked meanings and made into Mind Maps. Suited to some pupils in Upper Key Stage 2, but also some pupils in Key Stage 3 and 4.

An easy simile poem idea that can deliver some surprisingly creative ideas There's an example, ideas sheet and scaffold. I found an example of a 'If my Thoughts Took Shape' poem years ago and recently made the scaffold and ideas sheet to structure and support pupils.