Phrases that show how the body behaves when displaying emotion. It will get the children showing the emotion in their writing rather than saying it. e.g. He breathed deeply, leaned forward and began banging his fists on the table.

How to write adverts in different formats using persuasive techniques . Includes a number examples of poster, radio and place adverts. Watch out for the sarcastic school advert - the children don't always spot it!

A series of slides and printouts to accompany the replay animation. (available on various sites). Included in the pack are printouts that the children can write the narrative on to accompany the story. These can be recorded at the end for dramatic effect.

A very simple sentence builder based around 'Jake and the Neverland Pirates&'. Suitable for younger children.

Lots of sentence openers which children can listen to. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt. Slightly easier than Toys and Boats. (see TES) Animals is just the theme it was based on and is not important apart from being relevant to the children. Apologies for the voice!

Starts of with simple sentences and builds up to more complex sentences. All based around the children's morning routines so they don&'t have to think too hard ...includes voice.

Lots of sentence openers which children can listen to. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt; all on the theme of boats. Each sentence has sound adde to get sentence fluency. Each page is hot linked to a menu page for fast use in the classroom. Adjectives, 3 For Description, 3 For Action, Preposition, Double adverb, Relative clause, Having starter, With, its, Although 1, Although 2, As 1, As 2, The more, the more, Rather than, Whenever, Verb Simile, Personification, Whereas, Adjective, adjective, noun, Noun, verb, adverb, Newspaper Starters, Point Explain.

This came about because I used to tell children that they had crashed 'the writing car'. This was when they had started well but finished badly. I remind them of it every now and again. It begins with them strapping on their punctuation seat belt'.

Lots of sentence openers which can be used to practise sentence building. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt; all on the theme of space. Sound is added to each page to help the children get the rhythm of the sentence. Adjectives, Verb Starter, Adverb verb starter, Time – slow time, Time – fast time, 3 for Description, 3 for Action, Preposition Starter, Noun starters, Adjective Starters, Double Adverb, Subordinate Clause, Having done something, With its, soon, easily, Although, As, Unless, The more, the more, Rather than, Despite, Whenever, Verb, Simile, Personification, On, …, Whereas, Point, Evidence, Explain

A poem to teach the word meanings of grammar. Get them on their feet reciting and chanting :-> Voice included to help with teaching the rhythm. Common nouns are all around, just go and take a look, a table, chair, a coat, a bag, or empty writing book.

A sentence builder on the theme of mountains. Great for extending complex sentences. Speech included as well as contents page and graphics. Speak it, Say, Write it!

Test the children's punctuation and grammar with 'The Cat Sat on the Mat'; or use it as a teaching tool. 50 slides all incorporating grammar and punctuation and of course 'a cat and a mat'. Click on the green rectangle to reveal. Includes the deep voice for added explanations :-); Great for teaching Grammar.

Words taken from the Y5 and Y6 New National Curriculum. Sound added to help with learning letter patterns. Should help with spelling part of SPaG test.

Contains several different explanation texts all with speech. What it is? What it consists of? How it works? Other types. ...

A presentation that takes the children through how to expand nouns with adjectives through to writing a quality description of a Wild West setting. Includes work on 'phrases', 'similes' and how to drive around the scene using prepositions and noun starters.

The Y5 and Y6 spellings taken from the ‘strange word list’ of the 2014 new national curriculum literacy. I’ve added definitions and sound to help with understanding. No doubt they’ll test them on these in the SPaG test.

Follows a simple formula of how to build up suspense in a story by gradually moving from safe to unsafe situations. Includes a simple story that slowly builds up the tension, leading to absolute terror. Great model for teaching the building up of fear in ghost stories.

A unit of work that helps write a quality description of a setting. It takes the writer through creating short phrases to driving around the setting writing quality sentences. noun phrases, expanded noun phrase with a preposition, expanded noun phrase using ‘with’, expanded noun phrase using a simile. preposition starters, adjective starters , noun starters, verb personification starters, planning a journey through the setting It includes lots of word banks and examples of quality descriptions. (VOICE is for added for extra interest)

50 slides that teach 'Grammar and Punctuation skills'. It includes a range of examples of each type with the use of two quirky voices to hold attention and help with memorizing the more abstract words.

Write a Victorian Detective Story with the help of Shamus and Wotsits; step by step from start to finish. It begins with background on Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Britain and then tackles the detective mystery story. Parts 3 contains a sentence builder on Shamus and part 4 has non-fiction texts that can be used to enhance the story. The children love it! All with added speech and text examples for them to listen to.