Children watch the PPT or Smart notebook presentation showing a hamster and they describe the hamster, what he likes to eat, his activities and his cage orally, or on whiteboards, using the picture prompts, thinking carefully where the commas should go. They then write a paragraph describing the hamster, using the given sentence starters. There is a check list to help them to remember to use commas correctly. Finally, they go on to write a descriptive paragraph about another pet in the same way. Fully editable. For further resources see - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

Children revise these letters by writing a story. They look at the pictures together on the PPT or Smart notebook and talk about them. What are the children doing? Why? Whose birthday is it? etc. What is this? A red van etc. Children then write their own stories using the given writing frame, choosing what is in the box delivered etc. They cut out pictures and stick them in the appropriate places and write in the missing words. Each of their stories will be different, or you can just do it on the whiteboard or individual boards as a revision lesson. Originally made for a small group children who needed more help. Choice of PPT or Smart notebook. Feedback would be appreciated. See more resources in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

This includes a presentation - either PPT or Smart notebook, plans for 2 lessons and checklists for the children. It is for children who are beginning to put sentences together. A picture of animals they might find in the garden are displayed first. Children can spell them (robin, rabbit ant, bee etc.). Then they describe them using given sentence openers. In a second lesson, they imagine one of these animals went for a walk in the woods. What might they see? Different animals are revealed one by one and the children describe them. They use given time words to link the sentences together. Everything is fully editable. Feedback and suggestions welcomed. Aim: to help young children to write with more confidence Objectives: Combining words to make sentences; separation of words with spaces; intro to caps, full stops, qn marks, exclam marks; using expanded noun phrases for description; sequencing sentences to form short narratives. For more resources like this see my shop: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

A presentation in either ppt or smart notebook explaining expanded noun phrases and prepositional phrases. Children are encouraged to make their own expanded noun phrases, using picture prompts, and prepositional phrases using 'with'. They then move on to using a variety of different prepositions. Three differentiated worksheets are included. Fully editable. This is the second of 2 similar resources to give children more practice. For further resources including the other similar lesson see - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel Feedback greatly appreciated!

Four week unit using this lovely mystery book for lower juniors. The children learn how an author builds up a spooky atmosphere and they write a long mystery story of their own over the weeks. They 'discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar'. Grammar exercises on adjectives, plurals, speech punctuation, apostrophes and similes. Other activities include writing a witchy recipe, a book review and designing a book jacket. Everything is differentiated with support for lower ability children and it is all fully editable for you to adapt for your class. If you download this and find it useful, please write a review - or if it needs improving. More of my resources can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

Lots of practice at using fronted adverbials. Two PPTs and 6 worksheets - for 2 separate lessons. The children watch the PPT and complete tasks orally. They then complete the worksheets. There are 3 for each lesson, so the more able may be able to complete all 3, and the less able, just one. All editable. For further resources see my shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

Children study article 'Weird Egg Rock found on Mars' to find features of a journalistic text. They work in pairs using given check list and then work through these together as a class on whiteboard. You can then explain to them that alien life has been found on Planet Zog. What do they think it would be like? Display picture. They then draw their own alien found on their own planet and plan an article about it on their planning sheets. Finally they write it up on a newspaper template. Everything is fully editable. Meets these objectives - Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own. Feedback would be much appreciated. For further resources see my shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

This is for children learning to write sentences and to sequence them. It meets these criteria: Combining words to make sentences; separation of words with spaces; intro to caps, full stops, qn marks, exclam marks; caps for names & I; sequencing sentences & time words. In the first lesson the children describe the water park orally, then match the adjectives to the different slides. They then use the adjectives to write full sentences. In the next lesson they describe what they did when they went to the water park, using time words. Titles and checklists are also included. Everything is fully editable. Check out my shop for more sentence resources - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel Feedback would be lovely!

Two presentations (either PPT or Smartboard) to help children to sequence sentences to form a short narrative. The first one helps children to use adjectives. Children first choose a fish to describe to their partner. Can they guess which one it is? They then write a description of the fish, using given sentence openers. LA children have an outline help them. HA can go on to write about what the fish is doing today. The second presentation shows a fish going for a swim. The children have to guess what sea creature he sees first as the picture is partly obscured. Then what does he see next? They can also guess the time word used. They then write sentences to describe what he sees on his journey. Again, there is an outline to help LA writers and higher ability writers can continue the story. Everything is fully editable so you can change it to suit your class. For further resources see my shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

Worksheets presented on a ppt with 5 pages, each showing a different rule for the past tense. Children use the given sport themed verbs to make up their own sentences in the past tense, using the picture prompts to help them. Although designed to be used as worksheets it could be shown to the whole class to explain what to do and as an oral exercise. It can be photocopied as individual worksheets or printed and laminated for use with small groups or for working independently. It is all completely editable. The aim is to help children to get familiar with different past tense verb endings by making up their own sentences, therefore using them more in their own work. For further resources see - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel

Children watch the PPT or Smart board presentation showing pictures of a birthday party. They discuss their best party ever - where it would be, who they would invite, what they would eat and what their favourite presents would be. They do this orally, or on whiteboards, using the picture prompts, thinking carefully about where the commas should go. They then write a paragraph describing the party, using the given sentence openers. There is a check list to help them to remember to use commas correctly. Finally, they could go on to write a descriptive paragraph about another celebration using commas in a similar way, such as Christmas Day or another festival or another person's birthday. Fully editable. For further resources see - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Jazel