"How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1" is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework.
Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the story soup.

Achieve. Fun and focused SATs revision. Achieve the Expected Standard in Reading, with the only fully updated revision series. This book teaches children exactly how to tackle SATs questions (even the tricky ones) with confidence to get their best result. This book covers everything that could be tested while ensuring children have some fun while they learn. Our unique approach has been helping children and schools perform above national average for over 15 years. Children are guided step-by-step through all question types and easy-to-digest content is presented in a simple to follow format. Clear explanations and lots of practice make it the perfect revision range for use in school and at home. This revision book: - Teaches children how to tackle SATs questions ...and get them right! - Focuses revision for the greatest impact on final marks - Draws on expert analysis to ensure our content is just right - Provides full guidance by topic, and includes important facts, keywords, SATs terminology, tips and example practice questions - Offers digestible content and lots of opportunities to practise,making it perfect for use in school or at home For best results use alongside Achieve Reading SATs Question WorkbookThe Expected Standard Year 6 and Achieve Reading Practice Papers

Descriptosaurus: Myths & Legends builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of myths and legends, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with heroes, gods and supernatural beings to create a legendary story. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.

A collection of interesting articles to help the child practise essential reading comprehension skills. Each passage contains a series of questions, which requires the child to retrieve facts and explain information from texts... or to offer ideas as to what the writer is implying. Every passage contains (vocabulary) word exercises, encouraging the child to search for words or phrases with the same meaning. This book has been trialled by children of 6-9 years and has proved to be a valuable resource, that helps a child prepare for comprehension papers later on e.g. for 11+ examinations.

Let's Imagine And Write A Story (Time To Read And Write Series) A collection of traditional tales for your child to read and then write their own version. Encourage them to use their imagination and to reinvent the story. For example, they could alter the plot and introduce a new ending. Trialled by children of 6-9 years in our tutorial classes, we believe that if we saturate young children with good ideas and vocabulary, they will learn to love writing. We recommend that you work through the book with younger children. Discuss the characters and where the story takes place; talk about how the story will begin; how it will continue; how it will build up to the most exciting part and how it will end. Older children will be able to work through the book themselves.

Time To Write A Diary (Time To Read And Write Series) This lively workbook encourages children, of 6-9 years, to write down their own ideas in the form of an informal diary. Writing a diary or 'news' about personal experiences, in your own words, is a wonderful way to get your child writing freely. Your child will also have a record of what he or she has done, which will be fun to read in the future. A real child's diary has been included, written by a 7 year old, to inspire young writers to record even the smallest details of their daily life. There are also helpful hints on building up sentences to improve writing techniques.

Time To Write Letters And Facts (Time To Read And Write Series) A lively collection of ideas to improve your child's writing. He or she will learn to set out a letter and to write using facts and opinions. This book is a starting point to get your child to enjoy writing. All the ideas have been trialled in tutorial classes, with children of 6-9 years. For younger children, we advise that the adult works through the book with the child. Older children, who are fluent readers, will have fun completing the book themselves. If we saturate our children with good ideas and vocabulary in the early years, we can assist them in their writing and build on the work they do at school.

Refresh your approach to teaching reading comprehension with these original guided and whole-class reading activities for the primary classroom. Running out of ways to get children engaged in reading comprehension? Or are you looking to help reluctant readers discover the magic of books? This book is for you! Reading Recharged includes a wide range of creative ideas, top tips and photocopiable activities for KS1 and KS2, and covers all seven reading skills from the National Curriculum (vocabulary, inference, summarising, predicting, commentating, author choice and retrieval). Designed to spark a love of reading for pleasure, the activities range from an intriguing lie detection task for teaching characterisation to synonym snakes and ladders for practising word choices. Whether you're teaching whole-class guided reading or using the carousel format, this book provides advice on structuring your session, as well as tried-and-tested ways to run it successfully. Experienced primary teacher and literacy resource creator Alex Barton shares his top teaching activities to engage and enthuse young readers so you can teach reading with creativity and confidence.

Inspire a new generation of science fiction and fantasy writers with this write-in book, filled with an exciting and eclectic range of writing activities, tips and advice. Activities teach how to structure a plot, craft realistic characters, create thrilling action scenes and end a story with a cunning twist.

Exam Board: Non-Specific Level: KS1 Subject: Reading First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016 A workbook containing revision and practice questions to help prepare Year 2 children for the Key Stage 1, 2016 National Tests (SATs) in Reading

Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary is a series of practical, write-in workbooks that are designed to expand students' vocabulary and address the word gap. The series includes carefully selected, aspirational words drawn from the Oxford Children's Corpus, focusing on vocabulary that will help students to access more challenging texts, as well as higher-level words that will empower them to use more sophisticated vocabulary in their own writing. Informed by findings from the Oxford Language Report, Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary Workbook 2 builds students' tier 2 vocabulary through a range of levelled comprehension and contextual activities, alongside a selection of engaging fiction and non-fiction extracts. Answers to all activities are provided on the Oxford University Press website.

Reinforce your child's third-grade language skills with Spectrum Vocabulary. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will learn words through strategies related to word classification, root and base words, and prefixes and suffixes. Spectrum(R) Vocabulary helps your child systematically build and strengthen vocabulary and comprehension skills. Students in grades 3-6 will find lessons and practice in word classification, context clues, root and base words, prefixes and suffixes, and imported words. Each workbook also includes test-taking practice sections and an answer key. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum is your child's path to a strong and expanding vocabulary. Spectrum, the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students' learning achievement and success.

Encourage Spanish-speaking fifth graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Each day students will examine interesting short passages to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses. Watch students read more confidently as they build comprehension and fluency skills with these quick independent learning activities. Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

Featuring a cute character, Horace, this series enables the reader to travel back in time using Horace's latest technology, the i-collar. In this series, Horace visits Ancient Rome; exploring a Roman Villa, a Roman Town and the Roman Army. The stories are brimming over with fascinating facts about life in Roman times and also include Horace's opinions as he sees life through a cat's eyes. A series guaranteed to stretch the imagination; they will also challenge fluent readers with new vocabulary and give him or her practice in exercises featuring grammar, punctuation, spelling and basic comprehension. The text is illustrated throughout with bold, dynamic, cartoon style illustrations that will capture the child's imagination.

Featuring a cute character, Horace, this series enables the reader to travel back in time using Horace's latest technology, the i-collar. In this series, Horace visits Ancient Rome; exploring a Roman Villa, a Roman Town and the Roman Army. The stories are brimming over with fascinating facts about life in Roman times and also include Horace's opinions as he sees life through a cat's eyes. A series guaranteed to stretch the imagination; they will also challenge fluent readers with new vocabulary and give him or her practice in exercises featuring grammar, punctuation, spelling and basic comprehension. The text is illustrated throughout with bold, dynamic, cartoon style illustrations that will capture the child's imagination.

The skills and requirements for the GCSE English language exam are very specific: retrieving information from texts, inference, analysis of language, presentational techniques and comparing texts are some of the skills needed. For writing, students are required to engage the reader and produce a response, which relates to the purpose and audience. It emphasises the P.E.E or P.E.T.E.R technique, so students have a blue print (format) to work from; make POINT, give EVIDENCE, comment on TECHNIQUE, EFFECT and RESPONSE. This helps students to develop analytical skills for non-fiction tasks and responses in English literature papers. The students are also taught to use rhetorical techniques - groups of three, speaking directly to the reader, rhetorical questions, inclusive pronouns as well as stylistic devices like similes, metaphors and high level vocabulary.

This superb Skills Exam Practice Workbook is packed with essential Fiction Reading practice for GCSE AQA English. It includes engaging extracts from the 20th and 21st Century with plenty of practice at approaching unfamiliar texts, analysing structure and language and extracting key information. There are also realistic exam-style questions and an entire practice paper for Paper 2, Section A - plus answers for every question at the back. For even more AQA GCSE English Language Reading practice, don't miss our fantastic Non-Fiction Exam Practice Workbook (9781789080063).