This is a model of a diary entry in character. I created this during a year 3/4 unit of work on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis- My favourite of the Narnia stories! The children really enjoyed comparing the different personalities of the children in the story. We made a poster for each child and added words to it as we read. The children who were less confident wrote as Lucy, while the others were able to try writing as Edmund, Peter or Susan if they wanted. This model features highlighted expanded noun phrases and subordinate clauses to extend HAPS. It also has suggested spellings and vocabulary. You could adjust this for different age groups by simplifying, or adding more complex vocabulary and editing the amount of text. I hope you enjoy your work on this fantastic book :)

A diary entry model I wrote during our Charlotte’s Web topic. It’s from the point of view of Fern once she realises she can hear the animals talking. There are lots of directions you could take this. For example, you could ask the children to expand the entry, write from another point in the story or write from the perspective of a different character. Let me know in the reviews if you enjoy these writing models, and I’ll add more.

I created this for the end of our year 3/4 unit of work on the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This was a chance for the children to show me what they had learned about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age by writing a report. They were allowed to draw pictures and diagrams with their reports. My Model features different conjunctions highlighted in red, as well as suggested spellings and vocabulary. You could make things easier for LAPs by letting them choose their favourite of the three time periods to write about. You could also challenge pupils by only giving them some of my model. It could even be used as a summative assessment. I always enjoyed teaching this topic and I hope you do too. Enjoy! :)

This is a playscript I wrote for my year 3/4 class while we were studying pirates. We used it to put on a class assembly for the parents. I split the class into 4 groups and had a different group perform each scene, but you could give it to one group to perform for fun, or as a nice extension task. The script includes a few interesting facts about pirates and lots of pirate lingo. My name is mentioned twice, so I would just change that to your name. I hope you enjoy it! :)

This is an extremely silly reading comprehension I wrote for my year 3 class. The goal was to teach them to read the text carefully, rather than answering from what they already knew. They absolutely loved this! I could see this working for other ages too, especially year 2s. I hope you enjoy it. :) Please, leave a review if you have time.

This is another in an extremely silly series of reading comprehensions I wrote for my year 3 class. The goal was to teach them to read the text carefully, rather than answering from what they already knew. They absolutely loved this! I could see this working for other ages too, especially year 2s or year 4s depending on their reading level. It comes with an answer key so children can mark their own and a bonus task. I hope you enjoy it. :) Please, leave a review if you have time.

This is a diary entry in character I wrote as a model for my year 3/4 class. During our topic on pirates we read The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt, and we decided to have a go at our own diary entries. We actually started by doing some drama; the children worked in groups and to explain to their parents they were leaving home to become a pirate. This really helped the children’s writing. I hope you enjoy your pirate topic! :) Please leave a review if you have time.

This is a lovely art activity and a chance to write a set of instructions. We tried this in my year 3/4 class during our Stone Age to Iron Age topic. I gave the children my model instructions and they had a go making their own brooches in our art lesson (you could also classify it as D.T.). The next day, they had a go writing their own instructions in our English lesson. I hope you enjoy this resource! :) Please, leave a review if you have time.