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A wide variety of resources based on my 30 years teaching in primary and secondary schools, as well as home education too. My passion is writing and encouraging youngsters to experiment with a wide variety of tools in order to develop their written work. If you like my work, please leave some feedback - I'm alway looking to improve what I have to offer and this is only possible if people tell me what they want!

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A wide variety of resources based on my 30 years teaching in primary and secondary schools, as well as home education too. My passion is writing and encouraging youngsters to experiment with a wide variety of tools in order to develop their written work. If you like my work, please leave some feedback - I'm alway looking to improve what I have to offer and this is only possible if people tell me what they want!
Writing Stimuli
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Writing Stimuli

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Assorted sheets to prompt reluctant writers with powerful imagery and hopefully inspire them to put pen to paper! Comes complete with lined paper - ideal for homework!
Deserts - A Creative Writing Resource - KS2
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Deserts - A Creative Writing Resource - KS2

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A series of high-quality images designed to stimulate children's imagination and develop quality talking and writing. The four resources are varied - discussion, prioritising, fantasy story, description of a scene and description of a personal approach to a difficult situation. All set around the common theme of the desert. Included is a set of student support sheets to help provide structure and reinforcement to the writing process.
Creative Christmas Writing for KS2
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Creative Christmas Writing for KS2

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Four fab resources that will have children enthused about writing as they are all connected with the festive period! 'Naughty and Nice' - Children have to choose who they would put on each list - friends not allowed! - giving three good reasons why they would do so. Aimed to encourage children to think about the wider world and some of the characters that inhabit it. This resource comes with a 'Naughty and Nice' synonym recorder to encourage language development and discourage repetition. 'Santa's Year' - fun images suggesting that Santa might have an 'ordinary' life outside of making toys! Children encouraged to think 'outside the box' and create some diary entries for Santa during the year! Complete with display-friendly pages for children's written work. 'SOS Santa' - Santa's in trouble and he needs YOUR help! What's happened to him and how can YOU help? This resource will develop children's discussion and writing skills while having fun at the same time! 'The Talking Snowman' - begins with the first part of a story about children building a snowman and then leaves them with a cliff-hanger that they have to continue.
Winter - Descriptive Writing for KS2
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Winter - Descriptive Writing for KS2

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A set of five resources, with quality images aimed at stimulating discussion and conversation with children, to lead on to vocabulary development and recording. Each piece is a different genre and the whole pack comes with a peer and self-assessment activity which can be adapted for each piece of writing.
Creative Writing for Halloween (KS2)
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Creative Writing for Halloween (KS2)

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Three fab visual resources to stimulate the creativeness in children - inspired by good old ghosts, ghouls and witches! Included are three atmospheric pictures with a lead-in to the writing. - The House on Haunted Hill (story) - Witches' Brew (recipe) - Spooky Graveyard Included in the pack are numerous sheets to support children's own planning and assessment. There are also ideas sheets to develop the use of appropriate adjectives, adverbs etc. An ancient scroll image is included for children to write their finished pieces on. Please leave me a review if you like this resource!
Haiku - Autumn Writing Resource for KS2 and 3
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Haiku - Autumn Writing Resource for KS2 and 3

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A comprehensive writing resource for children to engage in Haiku poetry using 'Autumn' as their starting point. Included in the pack - - Examples of Haiku poetry; - Glorious photographs of different woodland scenes in the autumn; - Children's planning sheet; - Differentiated methods for achieving success with less able children There are 8 sheets included in the Haiku pack, along with a PDF border which can be typed onto via word-processor for wall display.
KS2 Writing Toolkit
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KS2 Writing Toolkit

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A wonderfully useful set of sheets for children to use in all manner of writing styles and genres, this pack contains - - An A4 sheet of sentence starters, covering speech, using adverbs, rhetorical questions and short sentences; - An A4 sheet for children to jot down their thoughts around concepts such as useful synonyms, adjectives, similes and rhetorical questions they might use; - An A4 storyboard, split into eight sections for children to plan their work onto; - An A4 'Writing Checklist' - for children to use after their writing is done. Covering sentence choices, spelling, handwriting, grammar, punctuation and more, it is designed to be used in a self-assess or peer-assess format, this sheet makes a great support document for reminding children what they need to include in their writing. All of these sheets could be laminated as they will be used again and again and again... Please leave a review if you liked this work - and check out my other resources too!
Creative Writing Resources for KS2/KS3
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Creative Writing Resources for KS2/KS3

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Creative writing task with three levels of differentiation. Aimed at upper KS2, this could easily be used by more able Yr 4 children and also lower KS3 as well. Support sheets designed to engage children's thinking, utilising sentence structure, writing techniques - such as building tension - using synonyms and much, much more. Writing stimulation contains writing checklist for children to mark off as they complete.
The Arctic
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The Arctic

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A fabulous resource with lots of stunning images of the arctic, aimed at upper KS2 and KS3. Aim: Writing development. How: Using powerful imagery, combined with lots of scaffolding support - for able and less able learners, these activities will develop both verbal and written vocabulary. Included: - 'Iceberg': A descriptive writing activity with strong scaffold support to give students a clear idea of what to do when planning a piece of writing; - 'The Boat': Another descriptive writing piece with a more open-ended support sheet, designed to encourage discussion; - 'Storyboard': A set of six pictures to be cut out and rearranged to make a story, based on discussion with a partner. Blank storyboard included to stick pictures onto; - 'Lost': 'SATs' style question with a scene depicted and basic information given and students need to complete the story; - 'ICE' (Support Sheets): Two support sheets that complement all the above activities encouraging students to look and think more deeply - 'What rhetorical questions might you ask?'
Exploring Spirituality
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Exploring Spirituality

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A large resource containing many different worksheets and activities that all lend themselves to exploring the concept of spirituality. Some of the areas covered - - Images with prompts - 'What does this mean to you?' - What would God's website look like? - What would you say if you could talk to God? - Is there a path of spirituality? Designed to get students talking, many of the activities are open ended.
Autumn Writing for KS2 & KS3
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Autumn Writing for KS2 & KS3

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A whole week's worth of writing activities based around the theme of 'Autumn'. Vivid images to stimulate children's' thinking and develop their vocabularies. Specifically created for shorter writing tasks, each sheet is aimed at a 20-minute writing session, giving time to discuss the task, time for teacher modelling on board/visualiser and time to create a word bank to refer to AND time for children to write. Included in the pack is a planning sheet for the children to use, along with a choice of three different sheets for the children to write up their completed, redrafted work. These may also be used on the computer to type on.
Children's Guide to Writing Spooky Stories - KS2/3
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Children's Guide to Writing Spooky Stories - KS2/3

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A superb resource aimed at developing children's planning and execution skills in writing - in this case, a spooky story for Halloween. Two A4 sheets with guidance through points 1-5 guide children away from common pitfalls and encourage wider thinking, developing character traits, effective description and more. Also included is a spider's web word-ladder for children to collate their adjectives and adverbs. Finished off with a 'Writer's Checklist' which is aimed at being used by children's partner to peer-assess each other's work.
Creative Writing: Water
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Creative Writing: Water

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Using various images of water - (waterfall, droplets, condensation, lakes, ripples), encouraging children to talk about what they see. Aimed at improving vocabulary and consequently their sentence structure, these five sheets are created as a shorter writing task (20 mins). Included are writing support sheets for your students to use to record and develop their grammar within the writing task.
Writing Genres for KS2 & KS3
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Writing Genres for KS2 & KS3

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An essential wall display/resource for any classroom, showing ten different genres - Action & Adventure, Myths, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Real-Life, Historical, Sci-Fi, Thriller and Folk Tales. Each A4 poster describes the necessary requirements for each of the headings, but more importantly, each has top tips for developing writing in each of the genres. A superbly colourful resource that children will refer to each time they write. Suitable for upper KS2 and KS3.
Non-Chronological Reports - KS2
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Non-Chronological Reports - KS2

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A series of three activities designed to encourage children to think about how to organise and create reports/leaflets/brochures. - Rocket Car: As the designer of a flying car, you have to write the user manual; - Comfy Camping: Discuss and create a leaflet for successful camping; - Horned Devil: Creating a booklet about how to look after a strange creature.
KS3 Writing Toolkit
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KS3 Writing Toolkit

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A fantastic resource to support and develop writing at KS3. Activity sheets that support student's planning and execution of their writing, ranging from sentence structure, choosing appropriate adjectives, synonyms, similes etc, to referring to senses as a method of creating breadth and depth to their writing. Also included are sheets covering character development through empathy, rhetorical questions and more. A storyboard is included for more kinaesthetic students to plan their work. The pack is completed with a comprehensive self/peer writing assessment checklist so students can identify what they have included and omitted. Please leave a short review if you've enjoyed using this work and please check out my other resources! Thanks!
World War One Writing Resources
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World War One Writing Resources

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Three writing resources based around World War 1. First, a comprehension exercise for 'In Flanders Fields'; Second, a creative writing activity based around 'Going Over the Top'; Thirdly, a more reflective piece of creative writing centring on writing a letter/postcard to loved ones at home. Designed to encourage students to consider life for the average soldier in the trenches during WW1, this pack will create much in the way of discussion, debate and reflection.
Inspirational and Motivational PSHE Resources
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Inspirational and Motivational PSHE Resources

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A series of 18 hi-res images with a mixture of inspirational and motivational quotes from leading figures in society, past and present - Abraham Lincoln, Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela etc. Superb 'instant' wall display, with pictures based around the natural environment, these images can be used as a discussion starter, or as the basis for a lesson. Aimed mainly at KS3/KS4, there is no reason why more able KS2 children could not gain valuable insight from these photographs and their wordings.
Creating a Newspaper Report - Upper KS2 & 3
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Creating a Newspaper Report - Upper KS2 & 3

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A comprehensive activity that focusses on creating a newspaper front page, with a walk-through guide for students to follow and discuss. Also included is a sheet that explores the use of puns and alliteration in newspapers. A worksheet aimed at elementary advertising is also included, as is an A4 newspaper template.