These six worksheets are designed to be used with Michael Morpurgo’s wonderful book ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’. Each sheet relates to a section of the book and includes some straightforward comprehension questions. In addition, there are some sentence and word level tasks, some deeper comprehension work and some creative writing prompts spread amongst the sheets. The worksheets are saved in both MSWord and PDF formats, allowing them to be edited if necessary or printed off as they are. They were designed to be used by a Year 5 class who read this book over the course of six weeks as a class novel. I hope you find them useful! NOTE: These worksheets were written for the 1998 Mammoth edition of the book, ISBN 0 7497 2620 2, and the page references all relate to that version. If you have a different edition of the book, please get in touch and I will endeavour to adjust the worksheet page references to suit the edition you have and return the modified versions directly to you. If you like this resource, **please ** give it a positive review so that others know that it’s worth downloading. Thanks!

These resources all relate to sentence ‘openers’, such as fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses and so on. There are PowerPoints that allow for whole class work from the board. They give simple sentences as a starting point and then add examples of how openers might be added to improve them. (Note that two of these are in the context of particular genres of story while the third is based on ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’.) There are worksheets relating to specific openers (-ing, -ed and -ly words), more general openers and openers that could be used for characters. These are saved in both MSWord and PDF formats, so that they could be edited if necessary or simply printed as they are. They were all designed for use with Year 5 classes. I hope they are of use to you! If you like this resource, please give it a positive review so that others know that it’s worth downloading. Thanks!

This is a unit of work related to the wonderful book ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman. The tasks include Comprehensions, Sentence and Word (S and W) level tasks and writing tasks. There is an overview of the work for the five weeks included. The book is broken down into five roughly equal sections, each providing the focus for each week’s work. There are single sheets that have all the tasks for that section of the book on them. Then there are three separate worksheets, each covering just one section of the tasks. The sheets are all saved as MS Word documents, so they are both printable and, if necessary, editable. In addition, I have converted the ‘write-on’ sheets to PDFs so that they appear as intended. These worksheets were designed for a Year 5 class but could also be used with Year 6. I hope you find them useful! NOTE: These worksheets were designed for the Puffin 2018 edition of the book, ISBN 978-0-241-32631-2. The page references will not necessarily match up with other editions, such as the Corgi Yearling edition. Should your books be a different edition, please contact me and I will endeavour to adjust the page references on the worksheets to suit. If you like this resource, please give it a positive review so that others know that it’s worth downloading. Thanks!

These five worksheets relate to Michelle Margorian’s timeless classic ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’. Each sheet includes a set of comprehension questions, some ‘sentence and word level’ work and a creative writing task (with the last one being a drama task). They were designed for a quite able Year 6 class so might also be suitable for Year 7 or a very able Year 5 class. Each is saved as an editable Word document and a PDF for printing directly. Note: The worksheets were constructed using the 2014 Puffin edition of the book, ISBN 978-0-141-35480-4. The page references all relate to that edition and may be different in others. If you have a different version, please get in touch and I shall endeavour to adjust the page references to suit and return the modified worksheets directly to you. If you find this resource useful, please leave a review so that others know that it is worth downloading. Thank you!

This resource includes three teaching PowerPoints and three associated worksheets. They cover the use of the possessive apostrophe with singular nouns, plural nouns and irregular plural nouns. The PowerPoints have a small number of animated examples, a ‘rule’ statement and an invitation to do follow-up work. The worksheets are in both MSWord and PDF versions so that they could be editable or directly printable. These resources were originally designed for use with a Year 5 class. I hope they prove useful to you. If you like this resource, please give it a positive review so that others know that it’s worth downloading. Thanks!