This writing prompt, ‘Good News, Bad News’ helps students to write about the best news they have ever received. It encourages students to think about good news and bad news and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Got a Lemon?’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about how they can turn a bad experience into something good and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Happiest Day’ helps students to write about the happiest day they have ever had. It encourages students to think about what was so special about their happiest day ever and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Happy Times’ helps students to write about the best time they have ever had with a friend. It encourages students to think about friends and fun times and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Holiday at Home’ helps students to write about the fun places they can visit near their home. It encourages students to think about their surroundings and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Home Alone’ helps students to write about a time when they were left home alone. It encourages students to think about safety and advice and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘How Much Sleep?’ helps students to write about the pros and cons of changing their school’s starting and ending times. It encourages students to think about sleep patterns and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘I Love Ice Cream’ helps students to write about what they would do about finding a coin on the ground. It encourages students to think about being honest and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘In Your Free Time’ helps students to write about their after-school activities. It encourages students to think about after-school activities and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Left or Right?’ helps students to write about whether they are a left brain or right brain thinker and how that affects their school work. It encourages students to think about how the brain functions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Left Out’ helps students to write about a time when they felt left out. It encourages students to think about being left out and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This oral language photo activity ‘Angry, Surprised, Embarrassed’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Anxious, Frightened’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Happy, Sad’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This writing prompt, ‘Life Lessons’ helps students to write about a time when they learned an important lesson. It encourages students to think about important things that family, teachers and friends have taught them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This oral language activity, ‘Likes and Dislikes’ supports language development by encouraging students to develop language used to express needs, likes and dislikes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of their responses and reactions through a fun activity.
This writing prompt, ‘Liking Yourself’ helps students to write about the things that they like about themselves. It encourages students to think about their personal attributes and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This diagnostic assessment template ‘Look What I Can Do!’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This writing prompt, ‘Looking in the Mirror’ helps students to write about whether they would enjoy or not enjoy having an identical twin. It encourages students to think about having a look-a-like and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This art project, ‘Make a ‘What I Like’ Poster’ provides instructions for creating a positive self portrait using different coloured paper and marker pens.
This graphic organiser, ‘Me in the Early Years’ supports students in editing and revising their autobiographical writing, focusing on conveying feelings and attitudes in their text.
This graphic organiser, ‘ Me, Myself, and I’ supports students in editing and revising autobiographical writing, focusing on conveying feelings and attitudes in texts.
This graphic organiser, ‘My First Pronouns’ supports students in editing and revising their autobiographical writing, focusing on correct use of pronouns and antecedents.
This graphic organiser, ‘My First Time Tuning In’ supports students in include details in their autobiographical writing, focusing on sequencing and structuring topical information.
This grammar activity, ‘My Friends’ asks students to write the names of three friends. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of proper nouns and how a proper noun stands for the name of a particular person, place or thing.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Masterpiece’ supports students in editing and revising their written work.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Masterpiece of Firsts’ supports students in editing and revising their draft about their first time doing things.
This writing prompt, ‘Name in Print’ helps students to write about their future accomplishments and how they are going to make them a reality. It encourages students to think about their plans for the future and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Night Owl or Early Bird?’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about when they feel most alert and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Night Owl or Early Bird?’ helps students to write about being a night owl or an early bird. It encourages students to think about when they feel most alert and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ helps students to write about a time when they wanted to blend in and not be noticed. It encourages students to think about an embarrassing or uncomfortable situation and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Ocean Life’ helps students to write about keeping an ocean animal as a pet. It encourages students to think about the organisms that live in the world’s oceans and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Old Friends’ helps students to write about a friend who they think might still be their friend 20 years from now. It encourages students to think about special relationships and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Online School’ helps students to write about whether they would like to attend an online school. It encourages students to think about how an online education would affect their relationships with teachers and friends and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Peer Pressure’ helps students to write about a time when a peer pressured them. It encourages students to think about negative influences and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Phobias’ helps students to write about phobias. It encourages students to think about how intense fear might affect their life and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Places to Play’ helps students to write about their favourite place to play. It encourages students to think about their surroundings and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Proudest Moments’ helps students to write about the accomplishments of which they are most proud. It encourages students to think about achieving goals and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Seeing Red’ helps students to write about how different colours make them feel. It encourages students to think about how different colours affect their mood and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Self-Description’ helps students to write three words or phrases that describe them. It encourages students to think about their personality and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sending Snapshots to Another Class’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters to their peers.
This writing prompt, ‘Share Your Talents’ helps students to write about their special talents. It encourages students to think about their personal talents and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Sleepless Nights’ helps students to write about a time when they had trouble sleeping. It encourages students to think about how to overcome a sleep problem and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Snapshots of Me’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters.
This writing prompt, ‘So Many Books, So Little Time’ helps students to write about the plot of their favourite book, the characters in it and why they like the book so much. It encourages students to think about what they enjoy reading and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Something to Change’ helps students to write about something they do not like about themselves and if there is something they can do to change it. It encourages students to think about personal traits and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Stage Fright’ helps students to write about whether they get stage fright and what they can do about it if so. It encourages students to think about fear and nervousness and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Start the Day Right’ helps students to write about the ways they can ensure they eat breakfast every day. It encourages students to think about health and nutrition and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stories to Tell supports students in recalling and organising ideas and planning and writing personal narratives.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Success and Failure’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about the fear of failure and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Success and Failure’ helps students to write about a situation in which they refused to try something because they were afraid of failing. It encourages students to think about the fear of failure and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Sweet Tooth’ helps students to write about their favourite sweet. It encourages students to think about different kinds of sweets and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘The Envelope’ helps students to write about what they would do if they received a bad school report. It encourages students to think about how their parents would react as well and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘The Extra Mile’ helps students to write about a time when they went the extra mile. It encourages students to think about helping others and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘The Glass’ helps students to write about whether they are an optimist or a pessimist. It encourages students to think about their attitude to life and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘The Greatest Gift’ helps students to write about a gift they have received that they will keep forever. It encourages students to think about a precious gift and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘The Most Important Things’ helps students to write about the four most important things in their life. It encourages students to think about why they are so important and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Shining Early Years’ supports students in planning their own autobiographical writing.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Things at Home’ supports vocabulary development through word and picture association.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Things You Can Do’ supports vocabulary development through word and picture association with active verbs.
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