This PowerPoint teaches children how to set the mood in their writing by using powerful words and phrases to create atmosphere. Clear explanations and examples show how vocabulary choices, colours and literary techniques such as alliteration, personification and similes can… Read More »Setting the Mood through the Opening Sentence
This PowerPoint teaches children how to show a character’s traits through what they say and how they say it. Clear explanations and examples demonstrate how speech can reveal feelings, personality and relationships without simply telling the reader. The accompanying task… Read More »Revealing Information about a Character through Dialogue
This PowerPoint explains the difference between facts and opinions in a clear and engaging way. Pupils learn that facts can be proved while opinions are personal thoughts or feelings. Through examples and guided practice, children sort statements, explain their choices… Read More »Facts and Opinions
This PowerPoint introduces young learners to the idea of an audience in writing in a clear and accessible way. Children learn that the audience is the person who reads their writing and that we might change the words we use… Read More »Who is my Audience?
This lesson pack teaches children how to use time order words such as ‘first,’ ‘next,’ ‘then,’ ‘after’ and ‘finally’ to organise instructions and recounts. Clear explanations and examples show how these words signal the order of events and make writing… Read More »Time Order Words
This PowerPoint teaches children how to write in the third person using words such as ‘he,’ ‘she,’ ‘they’ and ‘it.’ Clear explanations and examples show how the third person is used to describe other people, animals or things. The accompanying… Read More »Writing in the 3rd Person
This PowerPoint teaches children how to sort information into groups so their writing is clearer and easier to follow. Through clear examples, pupils see how jumbled information can be reorganised into categories such as appearance, diet or habitat. The accompanying… Read More »Sorting Information
This PowerPoint teaches children how to write in the second person using words like ‘you’ and ‘your’ to address the reader directly. Clear explanations and examples show how the second person is used in instructions, directions and persuasive writing. The… Read More »Writing in the 2nd Person
This PowerPoint teaches children how to use prepositions to add detail and extend their sentences. Clear explanations and examples show how prepositions tell us where something is in relation to something else, helping pupils make their writing more descriptive. The… Read More »Prepositions
This PowerPoint teaches children how to begin sentences with where openers to add variety and detail to their writing. Clear explanations and examples show how where openers describe position and place, while model sentences demonstrate how to turn them into… Read More »Where Openers
