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.

Over 40 slides giving an explanation of similes, metaphors and personification followed by poems that use imagery. Includes poetry ideas and templates that can be used by children to create their own poems. Poems have added audio to allow them to be read out from the board.

Several persuasive argument and discussion texts all using Point, Explain, Evidence. Some are broken down into sections for easy teaching. The use of the deep voice helps children remember how to create their own. Watch as they all start repeating what the deep voice says! Makes teaching arguments and discussion texts very easy. I hope you find them useful.

A selection of newspaper stories on different themes. A few have have been broken down into sections to help with teaching them. Includes voice. Apologies for humour in the stories!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 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!

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.