A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

A word mat to write instructions on how to make a straw rocket launcher. Set out into V, C, O & P sections. Also contains butterbeer & Ilovemarmite's VCOP superheroes.

A word mat designed to support writing about The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and clock times for the different animals the bad tempered ladybird encountered in the story.

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

All resources based on Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy 1. 6 pictures in sequential order. 4 differentiated versions for writing a word/caption/sentence. To extend by including a causal connective. 2. To write a list of adjectives to describe a night sky/space setting. 3. Plenary success criteria checklist. 4&5. Differentiated writing frames. 6. VCOP wordmat split up into vocab. connectives, openers and punctuation. Includes picture cues and VCOP superheroes images courtesy of ButterBeer and ilovemarmite.

Upper Key Stage 2 (KS2) creative writing resource to improve your students’ sentence structure. Whether used as a regular SPaG warm up or VCOP starter for writing, early finisher task, or main lesson task, these creative writing worksheets will get your students uplevelling their writing and extending sentences. There are 40 A4 dyslexia-friendly complex sentence construction trails, which includes differentiation and worked examples, to help add detail and interest to descriptive / creative writing. While stretching sentences, students will uplevel their vocabulary and use a variety of ambitious sentence structures. They’ll try more powerful verbs, interesting nouns, similes, start with adverbs or -ing and -ed words, add adjectives, drop further information into sentences using subclauses, use connectives to add information etc.   Ideal for KS2, especially Year 5 and Year 6 (Y5 / Y6), or KS3. In Scotland, ideal for Primary 6 and 7. All files in PDF within Zip file Scaffolds the imaginative writing of reluctant or struggling writers, while also challenging more able writers Each page starts with a simple, boring sentence and, step-by-step, learners extend and improve it, adding elements of VCOP and other sentence improvement techniques to construct a fuller description The worked examples provided could be shared on the board and perhaps printed and laminated to support less confident creative writers Works well as a regular SPaG warm up / starter for writing, an early finisher task, homework or main lesson task All resources included with and without cream background Printing with this background could support dyslexic learners and those with other barriers to learning or print no background versions on pastel paper to reduce glare Fonts used are dyslexia-friendly Use as worksheets or laminate for regular use (using dry-wipe pens) Enlarge to A3 for paired or group use   INCLUDES: 30 sheets for middle and higher ability / older students 10 worked examples for these 10 sheets for lower ability / younger students, featuring built in examples and fewer instructions   SAVE AS PART OF… Improving Sentences BUNDLE Literacy Activities KS2 BUNDLE Writing and Sentences Activities BUNDLE Literacy Activities Year 5 / 6 BUNDLE   YOU MIGHT LIKE… Complex Sentences Activity Cards Creative Writing Prompt Cards

Looking for a big set of display material for the new academic year? I have collected together all my collection from decades in teaching Primary school level. Aimed a little at the top end as that is where I spent most years. Lots of stuff. Vcop stuff Maths stuff. RE stuff Art. Over 400 files. Word, pdf, excel etc