Help your pupils understand what ‘fluency’ means and guide them to reflect, practise and improve with these fluency self assessments. Fluency can be broken down in to ‘Accuracy’, ‘Rate’, ‘Punctuation’ and ‘Expression’ and by practising repeat-reading of an extract, children can very quickly see improvements in their fluency. These assessment grids allocate points for the different strands of fluency to help children measure their progress: how many points do the children earn on their first reading and how many do they earn after multiple repeat readings? They can be used by teachers for formative assessment or by pupils for self and peer assessment. 4 engaging designs are included: butterflies, sunflowers, sporting medals and football leagues.

Make yourself an Inspiration Station! A display, envelopes, or lucky dip boxes filled with these examples. They include extracts from children’s texts where authors have used literary language, such as personification and similes (see the list below for the full range and quantities). Children can magpie the ideas, vocabulary, or the structure and adapt it to suit their own writing. This idea drastically improved the quality of writing in my classroom, and it is something they can access independently. It also helps to provide evidence of children working at greater depth in year 6: “drawing independently on what they have read as models for their own writing”. This pack includes: 10 x Repetition 5 x Similes 3 x Metaphors 2 x Personification 6 x Onomatopoeia 13 x Alliteration 8 x Rhyme 4 x Pathetic Fallacy See also Inspiration Station Display Pack to help you create your Inspiration Station! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12869852

Make yourself an Inspiration Station! A display, envelopes, or lucky dip boxes filled with these examples. They include extracts from children’s texts where authors have used the senses in their description, such as taste, smell or sounds (see the list below for the full range and quantities). Children can magpie the ideas, vocabulary, or the structure and adapt to suit their own writing. This idea drastically improved the quality of writing in my classroom, and it is something they can access independently. It also helps to provide evidence of children working at greater depth in year 6: “drawing independently on what they have read as models for their own writing”. This pack includes: 12 x Sight 9 x Physical Feeling 9 x Emotion 4 x Smell 4 x Taste 12 x Sound See also Inspiration Station Display Pack to help you create your Inspiration Station! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12869852

This display pack accompanies the ‘Literary Language Examples by Authors’ and ‘Description of the Senses Examples by Authors’ resources. It includes an ‘Inspiration Station’ bunting banner and individual title pages for all the literary language and senses. They are in PDF format and you can choose the size of the printed copy by changing how many sheets are printed per page - from A4, to mini cards which you can stick on the front of your little envelopes or baskets… however you have chosen to display the examples! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12869856 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12869849