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
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This resource supports pupils in giving constructive feedback on non-fiction writing. Using clear prompts, pupils check for accurate punctuation, organisation features and purpose-specific language such as facts, persuasive vocabulary or instructions. They highlight effective sentence openers, share what they enjoyed… Read More »Non-Fiction Peer Assessment
This resource helps pupils develop their editing and peer assessment skills in fiction writing. Through guided prompts, pupils evaluate a partner’s work by identifying effective sentence openers, literary techniques and punctuation use. They also reflect on how the writing makes… Read More »Fiction Peer Assessment
This resource teaches pupils how to use vocabulary and description to make the reader feel a particular emotion. Through clear examples, guided activities and creative tasks, pupils learn how word choice can change the mood of a sentence. They also… Read More »Reader Emotion
This activity helps children practise when to use ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly before nouns. Pupils work through short word lists, fill-in-the-blank sentences and an error-spotting passage, giving them the chance to apply the rule in different contexts. The tasks are… Read More »A or An Objective Starters
This activity helps children explore how prefixes change the meaning of root words. Pupils are asked to circle words that can take the prefixes ‘sub’, ‘inter’ and ‘re’, encouraging them to think carefully about word structure and vocabulary. It’s a… Read More »Prefixes ‘inter’, ‘re’ and ‘sub’ Objective Starters
This activity helps children explore and practise using the prefixes ‘super’, ‘anti’ and ‘auto‘. Pupils are asked to circle words that can take these prefixes to form new words. It’s a quick and effective way for children to build their… Read More »Prefixes ‘anti’, ‘auto’ and ‘super’ Objective Starters
This activity helps children explore how words are connected through word families. Pupils are asked to highlight words that belong to the same family and write their own examples to show understanding. The tasks include spotting related words in short… Read More »Word Families Objective Starters
