Year 6

Use weather and colour to set the tone of your writing. This lesson teaches pupils how to harness these two powerful descriptive tools to create atmosphere and influence how the reader feels. With engaging examples and creative tasks, learners explore… Read More »Setting the Mood through Weather and Colour

Take expanded noun phrases to the next level. This lesson helps pupils enhance their descriptions by adding relative clauses, giving writing greater precision and depth. Through clear examples, structured guidance and creative tasks, learners practise crafting detailed noun phrases that… Read More »Expanded Noun Phrases with Relative Clauses

Bring characters and scenes to life through dialogue that does more than just talk.This resource guides pupils in using conversations between characters to move the story forward and reveal personality, mood and relationships. Through clear modelling, structured planning sheets and… Read More »Advancing Action and Description through Dialogue

This lesson teaches students how to use hyperbole to add exaggeration for emphasis and impact. Through engaging examples from literature, persuasive writing and everyday speech, pupils explore how hyperbole can create vivid mental images and influence the reader’s emotions. They… Read More »Hyperbole

Help students master the art of comparison to bring their writing to life. This resource explores how similes and metaphors work, why they are effective, and how to develop them beyond a simple statement. Step-by-step examples guide learners from basic… Read More »Similes and Metaphors

This lesson teaches students how to give human qualities to objects, animals and ideas, helping them paint clearer, more powerful pictures in the reader’s mind. Through examples, improvements and interactive activities, learners discover how personification can make their writing more… Read More »Personification

This lesson helps children choose verbs that bring writing to life, replacing vague or ordinary action words with ones that add precision, emotion and energy. Pupils explore how a single verb choice can change the mood, pace or intensity of… Read More »Powerful Verbs

This engaging lesson helps pupils move beyond simply stating feelings to showing them through rich, descriptive detail. Learners explore how to portray emotions like anger, excitement, and worry using sensory language, comparisons, and varied sentence openers. Step-by-step slides guide them… Read More »Show Don’t Tell