A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
A Walker has worked as an LEA Literacy Consultant, an Expert Leading Literacy Teacher, a primary school teacher, an author and was responsible for teaching and learning at one of the UK’s leading Independent Prep schools. She is an author of educational materials used in schools for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Rising Stars and Cambridge Hitachi and is an experienced KS2 & KS3 English teacher.
This delivers great short story writing results for upper KS2, because this photo story includes a scaffold frame to support weaker writers to get good story writing results. It also includes a popular visual stimulus and a story start. It also includes a vocabulary building sheet to develop the vocabulary of the most able.
I started the task by watching Steve Backshall's Shark Bites - very short CBBC programmes on sharks, including the Great White.
Next, I read the extract from Anthony Horowitz's Skeleton Key where Alex Rider came in contact with a shark and discussed how the writer uses description of the character's feelings as well as description of the shark to build suspense.
The worksheet of vocabulary can be used to model an effective noun phrase and sentence to describe the shark as a speaking and listening, or guided writing task.
The story starts with a diver swimming next to a tiger shark and everything is calm. Next, he notices the shadow of a great white approaching. The pupils need to finish this story start. I suggested that the story ends with the diver getting away from the shark.
The children that need more support could work with the scaffold frame for guided story writing to structure their work and show how feelings and description are required to build suspense.
We also listened to 'Jaws' music from John Williams.
Minions task, PowerPoint, scaffold frame, learning mat and support sheets. All you need to teach explanations thoroughly and to get good writing results.
These are tasks where the focus is on highly motivating pupils. There are funny punctuation worksheets, a minion vehicle literacy task and a fun persuasive task that delivers great writing. Please review
This activity is inspired by Dru’s spy vehicle in Despicable Me 3. There is an example of an explanation text written about Dru’s vehicle to show to class and to discuss features of an explanatory text. Children draw and write an explanation of how their minion vehicle works supported by an ideas bank, scaffold frame and teaching notes. There is a list of ultimate spy vehicle features for discussion and teaching notes and scaffold frame to ensure you get good explanation text writing results. There are examples of a Year 4s work to give an idea of the end product. There is also an optional extension task included.
There is a list of ultimate spy vehicle features for discussion. There are teaching notes and a scaffold frame to ensure you get good explanation text writing results. There is also an Alex Rider jet pack task, if required.
Pupils write explanatory texts that they enjoy and which allow for their creativity. There is a list of ultimate spy vehicle features for discussion and ideas. There are teaching notes and scaffold frame to ensure you get good explanation text writing results. There are examples of a spy vehicle explanation text written by a Year 6 to give an idea of the end product. There is also an optional extension task included.
Funny grammar worksheets and advert for beach holiday and instructions and advert for ice cream that deliver good writing results.
There are lots of resources - worksheet, model text, word bank, PowerPoint, teaching notes, scaffold frame.
Please review.
Three enjoyable and highly motivating units of work - fun advert for zoo, ice cream instruction and advert and robot explanatory text. There’s lots of resources, including useful model texts, word bank, PowerPoint, worksheets and scaffold frames to offer additional fun. Please review.
There are some funny grammar worksheets, a fun summer holiday advert task and a reading challenge with certificate . Fun activities that should suit the end of term.
Great fun tasks for the end of term, including a reading challenge homework with certificate to ensure no marking for the last busy weeks of term. There is a fun punctuation worksheet, instructions and persuasive tasks that pupils will really enjoy based on ice creams and a summer holiday task that delivers great writing results!
Bundle of fun explanatory text resources. They are
fun tasks children will enjoy doing. There is a Powerpoint, scaffold frame, support worksheets, model text and learning mat - everything required to teach the text type thoroughly and enjoyably!
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A simple explanatory text and support worksheets, frames, teaching notes and templates to ensure children produce good explanatory texts themselves. The task is a fun one and should motivate whilst making pupils aware of the features of the text type.
Meet Petobot - a voice activated robot toy. Pupils read an explanatory text of the toy, written to demonstrate the features of an explanatory text.
Children are then asked to draw a design for a robot toy with any features they want. There are detailed teaching notes and both a scaffold frame and a SEN sheet to offer support so that children can write an explanation for how their robot toy works. There is a model text and also an annotated text showing text features.
There are text extracts of BFG & Worst Witch that can be used for children to convert to plays. The BFG sheet is slightly easier than the Worst Witch, if you want to use the two tasks for differentiation. If you prefer, you can use either the BFG or Worst Witch answers sheet as an example starter activity to show how the texts have been changed, before getting pupils to complete the activity on the other text. There is also a sheet outlining the rules for play scripts.
