In this resource, children will use cohesive devices to develop their explanations before using an editing checklist to support their writing of an explanation of a topic. A digital and editable file is available with download.

Children will learn about Viking raids on monasteries in Northern England before writing a narrative text. The text can be written from the perspective of a monk or a Viking during the raid of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in North-East England in 793 CE. This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. **ABOUT THE NOVEL: **Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. **ABOUT THE RESOURCE: **This pack includes: Background information on the novel (about police shootings), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Tupac Shakur, Basketball, Jordans, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Huey Newton, Dr Martin Luther King, Emmett Till, Black Lives Matter, Nat Turner). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with the epic poem BEOWULF. The pack includes: Background on the context of the poem, activities for understanding the poem, activities for digging deeper, creative writing tasks, and research into non-fiction related to the text (Anglo-Saxons, oral storytelling, heroic codes of honour, monsters, dragons, and venom). A digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw is available with download.

**Updated with new graphics and Google extension ** This 35-page resource has been designed to use as a guide to studying significant people and events in the US space program. Children will learn the difference between primary and secondary sources before using them in a presentation to teach their peers. Digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

Updated with new graphics and Google extension This 26-page resource has been designed to use as a guide to studying the US space program’s chronology. This Outcome will allow children to research how different aspects of NASA’s space program have changed over time, including space shuttles, spacesuits, and space exploration. Children will then write an explanation text following the 2014 National Curriculum English Objectives for Year 6. Link provided to digital resources for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Years 5 and 6 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. Suffixes, adverbs, homophones, cohesive devices, passive voice, expanded noun phrases, formal speech, adverbials, modal verbs, relative clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England document and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. A link is also provided to a digital copy of the dice for editing.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stage 2 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. The grammar on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. For Years 3 & 4: adverbs, adverbials, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, conjunctions and prepositions For Years 5 & 6: suffixes, adverbs, homophones, cohesive devices, passive voice, expanded noun phrases, formal speech, adverbials, modal verbs, relative clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions. A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stages 1 and 2 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. The punctuation on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. Key Stage 1: singular possession, commas for lists, full stops, capital letters, exclamation and question marks Years 3 & 4: speech marks, apostrophes for plural nouns, and commas after fronted adverbials Years 5 & 6: colons, semi-colons, brackets, bulletpoints, dashes and commas for clarity A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stage 1 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. All suffixes, contractions, and cohesive devices are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England document. Link provided to editable document, should you want to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Years 3 and 4 to include more punctuation in their writing. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. Speech marks, apostrophes for plural nouns, and commas after fronted adverbials are all taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s document. Link provided to an editable file, should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stage 1 to include more punctuation in their writing. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. Singular possession, commas for lists, full stops, capital letters, exclamation and question marks are all taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s document. Link shared to an editable file, should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Years 5 and 6 to include more punctuation in their writing. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. Colons, semi-colons, brackets, bulletpoints, dashes and commas for clarity are all taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s document and the 2017 interim frameworks for teacher assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. A link is provided to find an editable file, should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stage 2 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. The punctuation on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. Years 3 & 4: speech marks, apostrophes for plural nouns, and commas after fronted adverbials Years 5 & 6: colons, semi-colons, brackets, bulletpoints, dashes and commas for clarity A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Years 5 and 6 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. The grammar and punctuation on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. PUNCTUATION: colons, semi-colons, brackets, bulletpoints, dashes and commas for clarity GRAMMAR: suffixes, adverbs, homophones, cohesive devices, passive voice, expanded noun phrases, formal speech, adverbials, modal verbs, relative clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is meant as a support or challenge for children in Key Stages 1 and 2 during writing exercises. Nets are printed, laminated, and made into cubes so children can use them when they are stuck with their writing. Colourless copies also included. The grammar and punctuation on the dice are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and the 2017 Interim Frameworks for Teacher Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. PUNCTUATION: singular possession, commas for lists, full stops, capital letters, exclamation and question marks; speech marks, apostrophes for plural nouns, and commas after fronted adverbials; colons, semi-colons, brackets, bulletpoints, dashes and commas for clarity. GRAMMAR: suffixes, contractions, cohesive devices; adverbs, adverbials, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, conjunctions and prepositions; suffixes, adverbs, homophones, cohesive devices, passive voice, expanded noun phrases, formal speech, adverbials, modal verbs, relative clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions. A link is provided in the zipped files to editable files should you like to change any of the sides of the dice.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with El Deafo  by Cece Bell. The pack has been designed in alignment with Common Core Reading Standards for Grade 7. I am trying out a new format and would appreciate feedback! The pack has been designed to cover five weeks, with assigned pages for reading, comprehension tasks and quotation and structure analysis. A digital copy of the file is available with download.

Included is a mini writing assignment that I have used for an extra credit opportunity in Middle School ELA. Students will have a background in Norse Mythology before being given the assignment. When I have assigned it, I have also reviewed features of narratives and storylines and compared them to different styles of writing. *A link to the digital file is provided for completion online using Google Slides.

Included is a mini writing assignment that I have used for an extra credit opportunity in Middle School ELA. Students will a novel being studied to re-write the climax of the story. In the past, I’ve used this extra credit assignment with: Flush by Carl Hiaasen, The Weirdo by Theodore Taylor, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell, and The Last Wild by Peter Torday – all in a unit about the environment and conservation. *A link to the digital file is provided for completion online using Google Slides.