Sentence openers which children can listen to. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt. It starts off easy with simple sentences and then moves onto complex sentences.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Pictures of toys throughout history with a built in timeline to give children a greater understanding of the chronology of time. Includes last 50 years in addition to Victorian, Tudor and Ancient Egyptian. Great as a refresher for older children or ideal for teaching younger children of how things change over decades.

A revision unit on writing genres. Take a trip into space to visit another planet. All through different writing genres. (radio adverts, reports, newspapers, explanations, arguments, complaint letters, instructions etc) Sound included.

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.

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 teaching or revision unit on writing genres. Take a trip into space to visit another planet. All through different writing genres. (radio adverts, reports, newspapers, explanations, arguments, complaint letters, instructions etc) Sound included.

The Candy Kid takes on Sheriff Dobs in the Wild West. The 'Kid's been stealing all the candy and the Sheriff has to step in and save the day with help from his trusty horse Dobbin and Sweet Clara his girlfriend. It's a rather corny story but the kids loved it and we got some excellent drama and writing from it. Enjoy! :->

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.

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'.

A unit of work covering a whole range of literacy activities centred around 'Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens: Playscripts, Diaries, Viewpoints, Biography, Narrative. Goes really well with the movie. Enjoy! :->