A blank biography writing template for students to record their research information. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to texts or the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic you’re studying!
Categories include: Background, key life events, achievements, interesting facts and key quote.
NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8!
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Studying famous figures or incredible people in the community? Get your students writing biographies full of facts and anecdotes! Want to get to know your students that much better? Get them to craft autobiographies all about them!
NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for biography and autobiography writing
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 26-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of biography and autobiography writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 2 students (age 6), the mid level is suitable for Year 3-4 (aged 7-8), and the high level is suitable for Year 5-6 (ages 8-10+).
Ready to start teaching biography writing? Here’s a helpful planning template for your students to record their information on: Biography Template
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
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What makes a great story? We all have our favourite stories that we could read over and over. Equip your students with the tools to create their own stellar narrative stories too! Whether your students are retelling a fairytale or writing an action-packed adventure story, these success criteria will support them with following a narrative structure and developing their plot and characters.
This resource includes:
Child-speak success criteria for narrative writing, including sets of success criteria for character development, beginning, middle, and endings of narrative stories
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Planning some narrative stories? Have a read of our blog article on using Story Mountains! Or find some writing inspiration here: 55 Fun Writing Prompts and 33 Creative Writing Prompts!
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Oh the warm fuzzies of receiving a thoughtful note! Oh the struggle of carefully wording a formal complaint! Letter writing is an important skill for our students to learn so let’s give them the tools to do it well!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for formal, informal and persuasive letter writing +BONUS: How to compose an email!
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 51-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 4-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of letter writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for letter writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
Need some ideas for supporting your lower-ability learners? Have a read of my blog article Scaffolding Writing for Struggling Students!
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Don’t you just hate it when you do all this work with materials and then don’t have a follow-up worksheet which matches what you did?
In this finding quarters worksheet, students can reinforce materials learning by sharing out counters and then show their understanding with a couple of word problems.
Worksheet includes WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words.
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Once upon a time they lived happily ever after. Okay, well hopefully your students’ creations come out a bit more developed than that! Use these storyboard templates for retelling known stories, sequencing events and creating original narratives!
Bonus: Includes three comic strip templates with various sizes of boxes for students to draw or write in!
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Let’s admit it, we probably need to use this as much as the kids. Get your students thinking about what they’re actually eating each week! Are they eating a balanced diet? Could they choose a new food or recipe to try next week? (ask mum or dad first!). Are vegetables mysteriously missing off their meals in the weekends?
This printable worksheet can be used to support learning about diet in Health lessons and also give students an awareness and ownership of their own eating habits. Makes for an easy homework task or quiet activity to settle students at the beginning of the school day.
Now, tuck in!
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Searching around for a free fractions multiplication worksheet? Here ya go!
This printable worksheet has 10 questions and comes in A5 size so you can print off 2 copies per page for your students - hooray for your printing budget!
There is also an answer sheet for you to conserve a little bit of brain power or set your students up for easy self-marking.
If you find it useful, leave a comment and let me know what fractions resources you want to see next!
Looking for more fractions resources? Check out my other fractions resources on at the minute teaching on Tes:
Worksheets on Adding & Subtracting Fractions
Worksheets on Multiplying & Dividing Fractions
Fractions of an Amount
Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
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Need a writing frame for an assessment or piece of published writing? This 12-page resource includes 3 blank writing frame templates; narrow lines and picture box, wide lines and picture box, and full page narrow lines.
Bonus: Also includes a diary writing template, summer-themed borders and heart borders, perfect for Valentine’s Day letters!
Now head here for some writing inspiration:
55 Fun Writing Prompts
33 Creative Writing Prompts
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Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? How about some cross-curricular work instead? Get your students to create their own game - complete with a comprehensive equipment list!
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Get equipped for your next Writing lesson with these sets of child-speak persuasive writing success criteria!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for persuasive text and persuasive letter writing
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALTs and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 31-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource is appropriate for students who are just learning to write about their opinions through to those who are working towards utilising rhetorical questions and emotive language for effect. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9).
After more persuasive writing resources? Here are some other products you might like:
Persuasive Writing Planner
Persuasive Writing For & Against Chart
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
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Simply overloading a sentence with adjectives doesn’t make it a quality piece of descriptive writing, right? Help your students to craft amazing descriptions in your next Writing lesson with these child-speak success criteria!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for setting, character and object descriptions
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALT and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 40-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of descriptive writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for descriptive writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
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Get set for the new school year with these ready-to-go printable activities! NOW ALSO INCLUDING: Back to School booklet!
Here’s a little bit about each of the worksheets included:
Goal setting template
Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals.
23 Takes for 2023 - Getting to Know You Worksheet - UPDATE 5/01/23: 2023 version now added!
Sick of the same old ‘All About Me’ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, here’s a fresh one! It’s the same but different. No more “Choose 3 adjectives to describe yourself” …hooray! Just “3 must-have items for surviving lockdown”. Oh. Such fun.
Recipe for Me - Getting to Know You Activity
Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too.
Summer Highlights Template - Surfboard
Surf’s up! Time may be up for the holidays but don’t let that stop you riding the wave of summer into your start of term activities! Students can write about or draw the highlight of their holiday. PDF comes with a blank version for colouring in.
Summer Recount Writing Frame - Ice Creams
Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! What screams summer more than ice cream? PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions.
Summer Recount Writing Frame - Jandals
Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! That footwear you see lining the borders is 100% “jandals”. “Sandals”, “flip-flops” and “thongs”? Ahhh yeah nah mate. PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions.
Summer-Themed Senses Recording Chart
Get students generating vocab beyond ‘yellow sun’ for their summer recounts. Give students this recording chart to brainstorm what they saw, heard, smelt, felt and tasted. Challenge them to add a range of interesting adjectives and verbs.
What Fills My Bucket
Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities. Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to ‘fill their bucket’.
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Are your students ready to share all of the interesting facts they’ve learnt? Step right up and roll out the non-chronological reports! Take a fascinating topic, a handful of categorised information and a diagram or two, then you’re on the road to success!
This pack includes:
Child-speak success criteria for non-chronological report writing
Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge
Display posters with WALT and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 16-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 1-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)**
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of report writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for descriptive writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 4/5/6 (ages 8-10).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Recount Writing
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
Happy writing!
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After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words.
Includes lesson aim (WALT select and record facts), Success Criteria and Key Words as well as a Fast Finisher task.
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Take a drab sentence and add some sparkle! Challenge students to rewrite the given sentences to make them more interesting! Add an adjective, switch up the sentence starter or extend the sentence!
Appropriate for Year 2/ 6 year olds.
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A must-have for teaching Recount Writing! Make learning easy with child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recount writing. Save time on your planning with these ready-to-go success criteria. Watch your students take ownership of their learning as they use success criteria checklists to self-monitor and assess their own writing.
This resource contains:
Child-speak success criteria for personal experience, factual and imaginative recounts
Differentiated sets of success criteria with 3 levels of challenge
Display posters with WALT and success criteria
Mini success criteria for students to stick into books
Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
Google Doc with full editable success criteria
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with:
A 41-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version)
A 3-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of recount writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans for recount writing. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the challenge level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9+).
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets:
Success Criteria for Narrative Writing
Success Criteria for Letter Writing
Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing
Success Criteria for Instruction Writing
Success Criteria for Explanation Writing
Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
Success Criteria for Biography Writing
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Scaffold your students with this recipe writing frame! Already followed a recipe to make something in class - super! If not, let your students pick something to write a recipe for and hope it sounds at least somewhat appetizing…
This worksheet contains the following sections: Description, Ingredients, Method, and Picture.
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Ready to dive into Biography Writing with your students? My students LOVE making little books (often for comics) so I figured turning this into a booklet wouldn’t go down too badly!
I’ve created several versions to help you differentiate for students of varying writing abilities. When you download this, have a scroll through to pick out what’ll work best for your students!
This resource contains 97 pages with multiple versions:
Year 1-2 booklet (8 pages, 4 versions with sentence starter prompts)
Year 3-4 booklet (8 pages, 2 versions)
Year 5-6 booklet (10 pages, 1 version)
Year 7-8 booklet (12 pages, 2 versions)
Biography writing is great fun in that students get the opportunity to research a significant person of interest or influence. The trouble is that biography writing tends to get quite research-heavy. That’s why it’s important to make the recording of facts and writing up of information fun and achieveable!
Using booklets gives students ownership of their writing and chunks the task into manageable bite-sized sections. And of course, the chance to colour in and add illustrations! You can even turn it into a group project by divvying up the pages amongst group members before securing them together into a full booklet!
I recommend printing out two pages per A4 sheet to make A5-sized booklets. Trim off any excess paper around the border before stapling or hole-punching and securing the pages together.
Let me know how your students get on with it! Happy writing!
If you’re after a biography planning template, check this out or if you’re looking for success criteria for biography writing have a look at this!
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Are you ready to smash out your planning? Grab these free lesson planning templates so you can get back to what’s really important: Creating your next inspiring lesson for your students!
This resource comes as 24-page PDF document with a link to Google Docs for the editable version.
Inside you’ll find the following editable lesson plan templates:
Stand-alone lesson plan
Weekly plan (one subject)
Tumble
Weekly timetable (all subjects)
Unit plan
Term overview
BONUS: Drag ‘n’ drop timetable builder!
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About to jump into your planning? Have a skim of my article to find some quick tips to speed up your planning!
Enjoy!
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