This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide!
The powerpoint covers:
Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun)
Prepositions
Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Main & subordinate clauses
Relative clauses
Modal verbs
Determiners
Prefixes and suffixes
Root words
Subject-verb agreement
Pronouns
Active & passive voice
Synonyms & antonyms
Progressive tense
Perfect tense
Word classes
Hyphens
Colons, semi-colons and dashes
Apostrophe for contraction and possession
This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment.
The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing.
Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt.
Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report
Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based)
Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured
Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports
Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling
Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports
This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to effectively describe characters including their appearance, personality/ behaviour and special traits. They will look at a range of book extract describing characters looking at this in practice.
They will then look at the character description of Miss Trunchbull and be tasked to identify the different descriptions before writing their own character description using the plan and word banks provided.
All plans and word banks are included.
This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part.
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt.
The lessons progress as follows:
Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text
Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports
Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph
Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report
Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph
Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports
Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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In this bumper pack you will find a whole sequence of lessons on writing free verse poetry. The lessons follow this sequence but can be taught in any order:
-Introduction to free verse poetry
-Using similes in poetry
-Using metaphors in poetry
-Using personification in poetry
-Identifying other poetic devices
-Planning, writing and performing own poems
All of the power point presentations, resources and lesson plans are included. This unit of work will help children develop their vocabulary, use of poetic devices and will challenge their imagination in order to produce their own Free Verse poetry to create imagery.
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In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below:
-Introduction to science fiction
-Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text
-Character development
-Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type
-Boxing up the model text
-Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending
-Children independently write their own stories
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more!
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for persuasive advertising:
F- facts and font
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- pictures
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- slogans
They will look at a range of persuasive leaflets and will be challenged to decide how they are made persuasive to the reader. They will then produce their own leaftlets using the planning frame provided.
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In this lesson, students will learn what the stages of a story mountain are from beginning- build up- problem- resolution and ending. They will look at an example story and pick out each part before writing a story mountain plan as a class for the film Frozen. Following this, they will work in groups to write their own story mountain plan for a film they know well before moving on to doing the same for their own imaginative stories.
This lesson is intended for KS2 students but can be easily modified to suit KS3.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.
This lesson looks at describing the character of Bilbo Baggins. It teaches how to describe characters according to their appearance, personality, behaviour and any special traits or interests.
Students look at a number of example extracts and are asked to highlight these examples before planning and writing their own character description using the planning frame provided.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.
This lesson looks at describing settings. It teaches how to write an effective description using the senses, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language. Students are shown these in context of an extract and then have to identify them themselves within chapter 2 of The Hobbit.
Students then read more of the chapter before planning and writing their own setting description on the woods the characters have entered.
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Bias is an inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.
In this lesson, students will identify bias in news. They will compare reports to determine whether they show a biased or balanced point of view and will also try to alter a newspaper article to show bias with a different viewpoint. Presentation, lesson plan and resources included.
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“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will firstly watch two different versions of the poem and decide which was most effective and what similarities/ differences they show.
They will then complete a sequencing activity- arranging parts of the narrative poem. After this, they will then learn how to rewrite the poem as prose by looking at WAGOLL’s and being given success criteria to consider.
This lesson will help them to apply their writing skills in narrative writing as well as enhancing their comprehension of the poem.
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In this lesson, students will look at what makes a setting description effective. They will learn how to use expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language when describing a setting and will be tasked to identify these in setting descriptions.
They will then develop their ideas for their own settings using group discussion, drama and the plan provided.
All of the task resources for this lesson are included.
This lesson is appropriate for KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3 students.
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Journalistic writing is the style of writing used to report news stories in newspapers, television broadcasts, on radio and on the Internet.
This bundle includes lessons on:
Forms of news
Features of newspaper articles
Direct and reported speech in newspaper reports
Identifying bias
Writing a newspaper report
All lessons have included presentations, lesson plans and resources!
A great bundle deal!
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Persuasive Advertising is a type of product promotion that aims to persuade a consumer for buying a particular product.
In this lesson, students will learn the FREDEPTORS acronym for:
F- facts and font
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- pictures
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- slogans
Students will look at a range of adverts and identify what features make them persuasive. They will then be given a planning frame and will plan and produce their own persuasive adverts.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.
This lesson looks at how authors can build tension and suspense in their writing with a focus on The Hobbit. It looks specifically at the part when Bilbo meet Gollum in the cave. Presentation, lesson plan and resources included.
Students look at a poster slide detailing different ways authors build tension and suspense and then come up with their own examples. They then identify these techniques in an extract from chapter 4. They read the rest of the chapter, illustrating the levels of tension from main events on the graph. Finally, they write the part when Bilbo meets Gollum after watching a clip and reading the start of chapter 5 and write their own narrative of the scene.
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In this lesson, students will look at examples of persuasive writing and identify the persuasive devices used using the acronym FREDEPTORS easily remembered by the fictional character- Mr Fredeptor:
F- facts and statistics
R- repetition
E- exaggeration
D- description
E- emotive language
P- personal pronouns
T- the rule of three
O- opinions
R- rhetorical questions
S- summary
They will look at analyse example texts discussing their target audience also.
This lesson is suitable to KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS3.
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A help sheet to support children identify and use prepositions in their writing.
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In this lesson, students will understand what different narrative genres there are and will be tasked to guess the genre from the extract given. They will then learn what the different parts to a story are and what are the seven basic plots they can choose from. Finally, they will develop their own ideas for a story from the questions posed.
This is the first in a 5 lesson sequence on story writing. The following lessons are:
Setting description
Planning story structure
Character description
Writing and reviewing stories
All of the lessons include an engaging presentation and the relevant resources.
This lesson is appropriate for KS2 children but can easily be modified to suit KS1- KS3 students.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.
This lesson is based on The Hobbit, Chapter 2. It looks at the rules for speech punctuation and how to alter speech according to different characters. Students will add in the correct speech punctuation to an extract as well as write the dialogue for a clip of the trolls.
A great lesson for studying speech and/ or the novel.
This lesson is one of a sequence of lessons on the Hobbit. These lessons can be found here: /teaching-resource/classic-fiction-the-hobbit-complete-teaching-sequence-12170346