A template with tips on how to create your own eye-catching journey
Size is preset to fit A3 paper
With location pin bank, red roadwork boxes (for even more detail, such as curriculum links) and there are even some vehicles parked ready in the car park - just get creative!
Includes help notes that can be over typed
This is a powerpoint document
A visual mind-map analysing the writers use of language and structure for the Edexcel IGCSE Anthology extract Beyond the Sky and Earth: A journey into Bhutan.
A model descriptive writing text based on the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The model text describes the girl approaching and entering the city in her boat.
The description comes with a feature find task, which asks pupils to search for the following writing features including figurative language and other literary devices:
• similes
• metaphors
• hyperbole
• personification
• repetition for effect
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• show not tell feelings
An answer sheet has been included.
The description can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own description based on Journey.
The resources come in easily editable Word format and as PDFs.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
Other Journey themed resources:
✦ Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Example Diary Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Dialogue Text Examples Pack
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✦ Journey by Aaron Becker: Example Writing Bundle
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✦ Character Profile Example: Journey by Aaron Becker
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30 reading comprehension sheets based on Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill.
Based on Literacy Shed’s reading VIPERS.
Targeted skill focus sheets on: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval, and summary
These sheets cover one chapter or double page spread each.
Full half term planning scheme suitable for KS2 (Year 3-6)
A bundle of example texts based on the picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The following model texts are included in this bundle:
• Character profile
• Description
• Diary
• Dialogue
All example texts include feature find worksheets with answers. Some also have planning and writing templates.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
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This resource contains everything you need to teach ‘Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan’. Based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language curriculum, but easily adaptable to any curriculum that you teach, this product contains:
54 Editable Google Slides with notes on each slide containing tips for how to use the information for different classes
Interactive quizzes and activities with answer keys included
Printable PDF versions of all activities
Engaging starter activity
Definitions and examples for 8 literary techniques used in the extract
Detailed annotations of language and structure for the whole extract
Comprehension quiz on the text with answer key
Practice exam questions based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language exam (questions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) but easily adaptable to any other curriculum
Structure, plan, mark schemes for each question + example answer for Q5
Question 5 (22 mark essay) comparison with ‘Explorers or boys messing about?’ - rubric, planning table, paragraph structure & example
Optional creative activities based on text, designed to develop skills in preparation for the transactional writing component of the exam - can be used as extension or homework
You can find a detailed guide on how to use this resource on my blog - expatedventures.com
I would love to see your students engaging with this activity in the classroom. Feel free to post pictures and tag me on Instagram.
I hope you find the resource useful for you and helpful to your students. If you have any questions or comments about the resource, contact me on expatedventures@gmail.com.
If you enjoy this resource, you might also enjoy my comprehensive resources for other English Language texts, such as The Danger of a Single Story and Chinese Cinderella.
Thank you and enjoy!
Let’s connect! You can find me on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram and my blog - expatedventures.com.
Complete half term English planning for ‘Journey to the River Sea’ by Eva Ibbotson for Year 5 or 6 - a book full of wonderful description and adventure. A great book for developing higher level writing. Planning includes differentiated work and on-going opportunities for assessment. Lesson resources included. This unit of work has been taught many times and has always been enjoyed by the pupils and the teachers who have taught it. I am the English Lead for my school and have always been praised for my clear and detailed planning.
I have uploaded flipcharts, using Activinspire. I have also uploaded these flipcharts as a Powerpoint for those who do not have the Activinspire software.
Please let me know if any resources are missing.
A sequence of lessons for children to write their own extended piece in the format of a newspaper report, based on Shackleton’s trip aboard endurance.
L1 - annotate example text
L2 - Information retrieval
L3 -Script writing, news reporting and performance
L4 -Headlines, 5Ws and 3Cs
L5 - Direct and reported speech
L6 - Planning format
L7&8 - Independent write, edit
Map your school’s learning journey with an easy-to-view map of every Scheme of Work over the 5 years.
This resource clearly demonstrates the thread of learning between KS3 and KS4, perfect for Ofsted’s new Inspection criteria - particularly useful if your subject is chosen for a ‘deep-dive’.
Fully editable resource - just add your schemes and enjoy!
A unit of work based on the book The Journey Home by Fran Preston-Gannon. The unit of work is planned with a mixed year 1 and 2 class in mind.
A journey narrative
Fact file writing
A persuasive letter to the head teacher.
Please note, there are references to the Twinkl spelling scheme and resources from their website. There is no Twinkl uploads.
A completely adaptabe learning journey that encompasses all aspects of the Edexecl (9-1) GCSE Business Studies qualification. Created using new Ofsted framework in mind, showing 3 year journey from year 9 through to 11 including Year 9 Business Studies taster and options advice and a two-year GCSE delivery model. It highlights the content and sequence for the Edexcel Business Studies course.
This can be used as:
A student as it can be printed large scale and be used as posters in classrooms, as well as given to students as part of their assessment matrix.
A teacher or HOD is used to support curriculum map, detailing lessons and project objectives in more detail, alongside scheme of work overviews and lesson powerpoints for each project.
A parent who can understand the key knowledge that underpins the GCSE and can support Year 9 parents/carers thinking of taking GCSE Business Studies.
A lesson observation looking at the contrast between Stanhope and Hibbert in Sherriff's Journey's End. Lesson includes varied activities and assessment - creative writing monologue as either Stanhope or Hibbert.
In line with the English Curriculum Year 5 Spec ‘Stories from other cultures’, my pack includes:
5 lesson plans
Lesson 1: What is culture? PowerPoint and research sheet. Children required to used website specified to research stories from other cultures.
Lesson 2: Predicting the story based on the front cover. PowerPoint and worksheet.
Lesson 3: Based on the next chapters. 2 worksheets thinking about the characters thoughts and feelings.
Lesson 4: Based on next chapter.
Please download Lesson 5 resources separately. Would not let me upload.
Please refer to lesson planning to see where resources are needed.
This scheme of work was free but somebody downloaded it and started charging for it. +1K downloads before it was priced.
A model diary writing text based on the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.
The model recount text is a diary entry written from the point of view of the female protagonist.
The description comes with a feature find task, which asks pupils to search for the following writing features including figurative language and other literary devices, grammar and punctuation:
Language features
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical questions
Grammar features
• Mainly past tense
• Present tense (at the end of the diary)
• Future tense (at the end of the diary)
• Present perfect tense
• Past progressive tense
• Passive voice
• First person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Relative pronouns
Punctuation features
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Hyphens
• Brackets
An answer sheet has been included.
The diary example can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own diary entries based on Journey. Ideas include:
• A diary entry from the next day, describing the later events in the story
• A diary entry from the point of view of the boy
• A diary entry from the point of view of one of the guards or soldiers
• A diary entry from the point of view of one of the girl’s family members
• A diary entry from the point of view of either of the child characters, written after the book takes place
The resources come in easily editable Word format and as PDFs.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free.
Other Journey themed resources:
✦ Example Writing BUNDLE
✦ Example Description Text Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Text Pack
✦ Dialogue Text Examples Pack
You may also be interested in:
✦ Christophe’s Story Example Letter, Feature Identification & Answers
✦ Stig of the Dump Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
✦ The Iron Man Character Profile Example, Feature Sheet, Answers & Template
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Resource showing and explaining the journey of a river from source to mouth and the physical features of rivers along the way.
I created this to use with my year 5 class but it would be suitable for year 6 as well.
There are hyperlinks to videos on BBC learning zone and to a BBC bitesize activity - some of the questions in the activity are more complex as it is aimed at KS3 but I do not think this would be an issue as it is reinforcing what is learnt through the PowerPoint and extending the children further.
A simple presentation about you going into Space to find a new planet and meet some aliens.Some questions to ask to create a discussion.What 10 objects would you take with you? A simple song I created is included. Further verses could be made up by the class.
A set of pictures to sequence, illustrating the journey of a plastic bottle from rubbish to a fleecy jacket. One sheet has the pictures to sort.
The other sheet has the pictures with a caption, all muddled for the children to sequence. The pictures in this case or in the correct sequence.
I have created this worksheet to accompany the PowerPoint I created of the same name.
Created to be used with my year 5 class, though suitable for other KS2 classes.
Children have to label the physical features of a river from source to mouth.