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Basic A4 story planning template with titles, short descriptions and space for writing. Sections: Introduction, build-up, conflict, solution and ending. Enlarge to A3 if students require more planning space.

This reading comprehension is based on the story of Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo. It is made up of a variety of different questions which involve different skills from fact recall to comparison. Please see the preview to get an idea of the types of questions. The worksheet is fully editable so you can change any part to suit your needs. It is also easily used for remote learning if you share it as a Google Doc. I hope you like this worksheet. If you do, please kindly leave a review if you have a moment. Thank you. Also, please note, this document does not include the original story text. However, it can be easily found on the internet or as a read-aloud on Youtube.

This fun activity lets children explore that classic deserted island scenario. It presents pictures of 16 items from which the children have to choose three to take with them to be stranded with. They must explain verbally or in writing why they have chosen these items. The children could even suggest why other items would not be worth having. It’s worth encouraging the children to think of alternate uses for the items they have chosen too. This works both as an individual activity and as a group activity to promote effective communication between members.

This worksheet involves questions that relate to the text of Pie Corbett’s Storm Unicorn. The questions cover basic recall and then move onto more advanced comprehension skills such as inference. The final section leaves a space for the children to attempt to draw the Storm Unicorn based on the details of the report. It encourages children to think flexibly and relates the plight of the unicorn with that of rhino’s. It also opens up a wealth of discussion surrounding that point too. I usually use this after the children have read, mapped and analysed the report in detail first. It acts a good gauge for their understanding. *The document is fully editable so you can change questions as you please. *

In this activity, children are expected to take an unknown board game called Minefield, figure out a way to play it and write the gaming instructions. The main board is provided with counters and peace signs. This works well as a team activity, as a lot of discussion needs to go into figuring out what the game play and any other equipment will be before the rules are written up. The children really loved this challenge, especially when they knew there were actually no right or wrong ways (or any way in existence) to play it. The main objective though is to try and design the game play in such a way that is both straight-forward, challenging and fun. Lots of critical thinking skills involved in the discussion stages of the activity. It’s amazing how many variants of how to play the game that the children come up with. Of course, in the end, they all get to play each others version and can decide themselves which one they enjoy the best. I hope your children love doing this activity as much as mine did!

This pack comprises of six short airport role-play conversations. We use it to add an element of drama and fun to our connected learning topic, Flying High. Most of the role-plays are quite funny in some way but include common language to each situation. The number of children involved in each varies from 2-4 people. Here are the titles for each of the role-plays to give you a better idea, but please see the preview for a glimpse of the content. a) The Pre-Flight Safety Demonstration b) The Crying Baby c) The Sick Passengers d) The Fast Take-Off e) The Rough Landing f) The Scared Passenger I hope your children enjoyed performing these as much as ours do! The document is fully editable so it’s possible for you or even the children to change them.

Poem about water to compliment our connected unit topic called, ‘Water World’ in which we cover poetry in literacy. It serves as a simple example for the children to understand the rhyming patterns before creating their own.

Five fully editable A4 comic book strip templates. Let children choose which one to use for their own short comic strip. I recommend that the students cut and stick coloured speech and/or thought bubbles for added effect.

Simple template for writing a diary. More for use in history as a stand alone diary entry but could be used in literacy as well. The idea is that students take on the role of a historical character and write a diary entry for a particular date in time. For example, a soldier in the trenches during World War 1.

We study the Storm Unicorn by Pie Corbett during literacy. Leading up to this we look at other examples before the children write their own (non-chronological) report with the aid of the text. This is a re-write of the Storm Unicorn called the Candy Unicorn. Sub-titles have been added in as we encourage the use of them for better organisation. There is also another report by Pie Corbett called the Frost Unicorn which we use in addition to this as another example report text. The document is fully editable so you can change parts as you please.

A set of four colourful bookmarks which contain questions for readers to ask themselves (or by their parent or friend). The questions are designed to help further the children’s understanding about what they are reading. They are split into questions for before, during and after reading. *The document is fully editable so you can change any aspect of the bookmarks. Print duplex on the short side, cut out and laminate for best result. *

This worksheet contains a short biography on the life of Amelia Earhart who we study about in our flight unit. The mistakes cover both spelling and punctuation problems as well as grammar issues. The final section involves a word search puzzle with key words from the text. The children take on the roles of a teacher in this exercise as they attempt to find as many mistakes in the biography as they can. They are also encouraged to make corrections. Try and big up the role reversal aspect with some acting for greater engagement in the activity. Children also enjoy using highlighters or red pens for this.

A3 sized profile form which helps children collate information about themselves. I use it to help the children have a central place of reference for their personal information that they can use when writing their autobiography. Includes basic information, family tree section, interesting facts, favourites, important moments, inspirations and more. Also has a final section where they can jot down ideas about what and where they would like to be when they are 25 years old. The profile form is fully editable as DOC and also comes ready in PDF format.

A set of three wheels that have a rotating arrow which starts spinning when you click and stops when you click again. It can be used for selecting random students as well as letters and numbers. Each spinning wheel is fully editable in Microsoft Powerpoint, so you can add in your own names or other criteria for selecting randomly. The children love it and I usually ask one of them to say when to stop the spin.

This is a short story about Jonny’s dinner. Words are missing throughout the text and it’s the children’s job to fill in the blanks making sure it’s the correct part of speech (as stated in brackets) and also that it makes sense. The first page of the document contains form fields so children can easily click and fill in the blanks. The second page is for printing off for children to fill in. Because of this, the worksheet is suitable for children to complete either online or offline. *Please note: The form functions don’t work in Google Docs, so it’s best to share the lined version instead. * Mad libs are a great way for children to personalise stories whilst learning about parts of speech and proper grammatical structure! I hope you enjoy the often crazy versions your children come up with!

We study the Storm Unicorn by Pie Corbett during literacy. Leading up to this we look at other examples before the children write their own (non-chronological) report with the aid of the text. This is a re-write of the Storm Unicorn called the Time Unicorn. Sub-titles have been added in as we encourage the use of them for better organisation. There is also another report by Pie Corbett called the Frost Unicorn which we use in addition to this as another example report text. I also have another re-write in my store called the Candy Unicorn. The document is fully editable so you can change parts as you please.

This worksheet involves putting the pictures from Flat Stanley - The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery in the correct order. It is meant to be used as an online activity using Google Slides or equivalent. Children can then easily move around the picture slides to put them in the correct order. Of course, it could be printed off and then children could manually move the pictures into order. On Google Slides, if you use Grid View, you can see most of the slides on one page which makes for ordering them easier than using the side bar.