English – National Curriculum

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Brilliant Publications creative writing English English resources Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 lesson plans Primary school sentence building Teaching Ideas

How do you create drama with a sentence?

What is the most effective way of helping your pupils create varied, grammatically correct, sentences that convey moods? Her heart pounded! To write a gripping story you need variety – variety of tone, vocabulary, and sentence structure. She gulped in fear as she continued her never ending trail. As a Read more…

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MATHS POETRY WITH JOSHUA SEIGAL My name is Joshua Seigal. I am a professional poet, and in this capacity I regularly visit schools. I firmly believe that poetry can and should be embedded across the curriculum, and not just confined to English lessons. With this in mind, I’d like to Read more…

By Richard, 6 months ago

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FREE Creative Homework Tasks for Year 5 and Year 6

Follow this link to get a FREE 84-page e-book, Creative Homework Tasks for 9-11 Year Olds. The activities are ideal for English or maths homework as they reinforce literacy and numeracy skills. The tasks link to other subject areas including science and technology, art and design and PSHE But more Read more…

By Richard, 7 months ago

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FREE Creative Homework Tasks

Follow this link to get a FREE 84-page e-book, Creative Homework Tasks for 7-9 Year Olds. The activities are ideal for English or maths homework as they reinforce literacy and numeracy skills. The tasks link to other subject areas including science and technology, art and design and PSHE But more Read more…

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How much support should you give your pupils for creative writing tasks? Supporting pupils with creative writing tasks is something of a balancing act. Too much support and it affects pupils’ creativity. Too little support and it affects pupils’ writing. To add to this, each pupil is likely to need Read more…

By Richard, 8 months ago

Brilliant Publications creative writing cross-curricular English How children learn Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 poems Primary school SEN Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) stories Teaching Ideas writing composition

Why do we have creative writing?

The imaginative use of words within a story goes back to the earliest days of humanity. And it still serves a purpose today. Humankind has always told stories. Everything from cave pictures to monuments like Stonehenge, from tales told around the flickering fire to the greatest cathedrals tell us about Read more…

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Proven ways of improving your children’s creative writing

The Boost Creative Writing series of books teaches the Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 National Curriculum for England. The activities provide additional reinforcement of key skills for slower learners. We all know that SEN pupils and slower learners need extra support to help them to become Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

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Free activity materials from the Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack

Take advantage of these free activity materials from the Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack Year 1: Nouns are names Year 2: Noisy verbs Year 3: Preposition opposites Year 4: The Problem of ‘me’ or ‘I’ Year 5: Hyphens Year 6 Words that help your writing Request your free worksheets The Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack contains six photocopiable Read more…

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The trouble with reading …

Reading incorporates two activities. But what is the most successful way of pulling these two elements together? Most of us working in primary schools will have witnessed children who have the ability to decode texts at an appropriate level for their age, but who find it hard to grasp and Read more…

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