This writing prompt, ‘A Balloon Ride’ helps students to write about what they would look for in their neighbourhood if they went for a hot-air balloon ride. It encourages students to think about the five top places in their neighbourhood and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Buckingham Palace Storm’ allows students to describe and state the importance of Buckingham Palace.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Circus Adventure’, features instructions for students to create a newspaper report about an imagined class trip to the circus. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing what the class saw, what was most interesting, and what was most surprising.
This writing task worksheet ‘A Creative Activity’ helps students to practise expository writing. It is aimed at encouraging students plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Day in My Life’ helps students to write about and describe a typical day in their life, from waking to sleep time. It encourages students to think about their daily routine and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘A Deserved Award’ helps students to write about which member of their family deserves an award. It encourages students to think about the good qualities of a family member and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘A Dream Meeting’ helps students to write about one person, alive or deceased, who they would like to meet and to explain why. It encourages students to think about someone they admire and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing task worksheet ‘A Famous Visitor’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Fishing Adventure’, features instructions for students to write a story about a real or imaginary holiday involving fish. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the student could describe a fishing trip, a deep-sea adventure, a fish rescue mission, or another …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Fly on the Wall’ helps students to write about where they would like to be if they could be a fly on the wall. It encourages students to think about a time and a place in which they would like to land and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Helping Hand’ helps students to write about a time when they have lent a helping hand. It encourages students to think about helping others and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Horse Story’, features instructions for students to create a narrative or informational story about a horse. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest including interesting words, different kinds of sentences, and details about the horse’s involvement in an activity.
This writing task worksheet ‘A Knock at the Door’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It encourages students to use a checklist to help …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to Save the Fish’, features instructions for students to write a persuasive letter about helping dying fish. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest covering the reasons for the letter, the location of the dying fish, three possible causes for their decline, …More
This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About Me’ supports students in planning autobiographical writing using prewriting strategies.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About My Firsts’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies, writing about their first time doing things.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Toys’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives about toys that could be used in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Words’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives that could be used in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Slice of the Pie’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies to structure ideas for a friendly letter.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Special Car’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about a favourite car. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the car’s appearance, what makes it special, and why you would like to own it.
This writing prompt, ‘A Special Gift’ helps students to write about the gift they would like to give someone if money were no object. It encourages students to think about an ideal gift and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Star Myth’, features instructions for students to invent a myth about a group of stars. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the story could describe the origin and the current influence of the star group, and could feature people or …More
This graphic organiser, ‘A Storm of Symbols’ allows students to describe symbols and state their importance.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Story of Brave Actions’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about courage in a crisis. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest thinking of a situation in which a person or an animal needs protection and considering how other …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Story of Survival’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about someone who has overcome the odds. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the person, the situation, the obstacles, and how the person overcame the odds.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Strange Land’, features instructions for students to write a story about living in a strange place. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the place could be another country or even another planet and advise students to describe three confusing, annoying, …More
This graphic organiser, ‘A Treasure Hunt with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Variety of Pen Pal Letters’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, looking at different sentence types to ensure variety in their writing.
This writing prompt, ‘A Visit to the Doctor’ helps students to write about a time when they visited a doctor. It encourages students to think about their health and the doctors who take care of them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Animal Information’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming animals that could be used in informational writing.
This written language activity, ‘Adverbial Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by adding adverbial phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how an adverbial phrase expands an idea by adding important or interesting details.
This writing prompt, ‘Afraid of the Dark’ helps students to write about whether they are afraid of the dark. It encourages students to think about how the dark affects them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘All Five Senses’ helps students to write about what they like to use each of their five senses for. It encourages students to think about the five main senses and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a narrative text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way to Family Memories’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a piece of writing based on family memories.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Great Depression’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 2’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Essay on Playing Competitive Sport’, features instructions for students to write an essay about how teams should be chosen. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest considering the advantages and disadvantages of choosing only the best players and of allowing all students …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interesting Career’, features instructions for students to create an informational text about an interesting career. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the kind of work performed, the education or training required, and what appeals to the student about the career.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interview with Success’, features instructions for students to write a newspaper article based on an imagined interview with a famous woman. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest choosing a woman from the distant or recent past, writing four interview questions, and …More
This writing task worksheet ‘An Open Mind’ helps students to practise expository writing. It is aimed at encouraging students plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Unfair Situation’, features instructions for students to write a letter about an unfair situation. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest explaining what was unfair, who or what was involved, and how they felt about it.
This writing prompt, ‘Animal Adages’ helps students to write a new animal adage. It encourages students to think about animal behaviour and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Animal Characteristics’ helps students to write about an animal that has characteristics they have or would like to have. It encourages students to think about animal behaviours and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Animals in Motion’ supports students in creating poems about animals by combining rhyming words and sentences.
This writing prompt, ‘Anywhere But Here’ helps students to write about a place that they would like to be right now. It encourages students to think about a favourite place and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Are Advertisements for Me?’ helps students to analyse an advertisement to determine the impact on their emotions.
This writing task worksheet ‘Are Manners Important?’ helps students to practise persuasive writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on a topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience to support their position. It …More
This writing prompt, ‘Around the World’ helps students to write about a trip they would take around the world and which four people they would take. It encourages students to think about different places and cultures and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ask Me Anything’ provides students with the opportunity to answer questions and evaluate their draft writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ask the Animals Anything’ provides students with the opportunity to answer questions and evaluate their animal draft poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the Animal Car Wash ‘supports students in editing and revising their writing by developing titles for their animal poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the Car Wash’ supports students in editing and revising their writing by developing titles for their poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the End of the Rope’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on sentence structure and correct use of punctuation.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the End of the Science Rope’ supports students in developing skills in science writing, focusing on sentence structure and correct use of punctuation.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attribute Chart’ supports students to evaluate characters in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attributes of Miss Rumphius’ supports students to evaluate characters in the story ‘Miss Rumphius’.
This writing prompt, ‘Bad Habits’ helps students to write about a bad habit they have or once had. It encourages students to think about how habits can affect their life and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Bad News Fans’ helps students to write about sports fans and their behaviour. It encourages students to think about what is unacceptable behaviour and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Balancing the Colours of the World’ supports students to categorise colours by gradation.