This writing lesson teaches and models how to use figurative and descriptive writing to create a spooky setting. It models an example for learners and contains a planning page for learners to plan their own writing in a setting of their choice.

A resource for helping pupils recognise and become more familiar with common homophones.

This is fun resource to help learners frame an imaginative spooky story. Learners roll a dice to help them choose -who? -where? -when? -what happens?

A twist on the standard fairytale story. Learners can roll a dice to help them build their story.

Word of the week starter PPT. This can be used weekly or daily as a starter to help learners develop their vocabularly.

This scheme of work provides lesson for the full novel of Mr Nobody’s Eyes by Michael Morpurgo. It covers a range of reading skills throughout e.g. prediction comprehension main ideas summarising metalinguistics Character visualisation key themes evaluations

Spelling Strategies Poster

This resource contains a variety of 15 min writing ideas for learners across a variety of genres.

This literacy starter resource contains 20 different starter activities. It provides a range of starters across a variety of literacy genres. It has tasks related to spelling, grammar, writing and listening & talking. The starter aims to revise and consolidate common issues which revise in literacy for learner in KS2. It looks at issues such as homophones, proof reading, direct speech and many other areas. All activities are short and can be completed on whiteboards. Many starters also contain a challenge task for more able learners. It contains 20 different starter activities.

Short grammar lesson singular and plural nouns. Includes a QR to a game that learners could play and includes some written tasks.

Short lesson on using adverbs. Lesson encourages learners to use adverbs at different parts of the sentence e.g. beginning, middle and end.

Short grammar input on adverbial phrases and the different types of adverbial phrases. Short written activity to be completed at the end.

This resource teaches learners how to use persuasive strategies and use these to create a persuasive letter to Santa. It discusses the effect of different persuasive devices then provides a modeled letter that can be the basis of class discussion for learners to identify the strategies used and the effect they have. It also models the correct layout of a letter.

This resource revises what instructional writing is and the different kind of instructions we can get. It then goes on to model the layout and key features of an instructional text. The resource models a text on how to make fairy cakes, however this could be used as an example and changed. At the end of the resource there a few slides showing learners how to improve their instructions by adding in sentence openers, powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives.

This is useful resource to encourage learners to use better synonyms of words. Learners can use these independently to improve their writing.

Sentence opener and connective flashcards which can be displayed on literacy wall. Useful resource to remind learners to include these in their writing.

This resource includes a range of maths and literacy starters that can be used around the Halloween season.

This writing resource shows learners how to create a persuasive leaflet for their own theme park. They must use persuasive strategies to engage their reader and promote their park.