UFO and Aliens Themed Writing Pack

Do you dream of exploring a galaxy far, far away? What would happen if Aliens invaded your school? And what is on the dark side of the moon?

These are just some of the writing topics you may choose to explore with our Aliens and UFO themed writing packs.

They contain plenty of lined writing paper with great visuals of life in outer space. Enjoy.

Click here to download our Aliens and UFO themed Writing Packs.

The Pack looks great, and has 8 different themed pages that include.

• A Visual map for planning the characters, setting, problem & plot.
• A planning tool for constructing a narrative.
• Half Page Dotted thirds with a space for a picture
• Full page themed dotted thirds with images.
• Bordered Themed lined writing paper.

We have a number of themed writing packs and otherprintable paper for teachers and students that can be downloaded for free.

Arrrgh!! Great Pirate themed writing pack to download for young students

AARRRGH!! You'd be mad not to download these Pirate themed writing packs before you start your next writing session.

They contain a range of great looking pirate paper and planning tools that will really appeal to young students who suffer from writers block.

Click here to download the Pirate themed writing pack.

The Pack looks great, and has 8 different themed pages that include.

• A Visual map for planning the characters, setting, problem & plot.
• A planning tool for constructing a narrative.
• Half Page Dotted thirds with a space for a picture
• Full page themed dotted thirds with images.
• Bordered Themed lined writing paper.

We have a number of themed writing packs and otherprintable paper for teachers and students that can be downloaded for free.

Monstrous writing fun for younger students

Frankenstein and Dracula are two of the greatest literary tales of all time. Even though they were both written over 200 years they have universal appeal to readers of all ages.

Your students might be able to spark their spooky genes by using this great Monster themed writing packs.

The Pack looks great, and has 8 different themed pages that include.

• A Visual map for planning the characters, setting, problem & plot.
• A planning tool for constructing a narrative.
• Half Page Dotted thirds with a space for a picture
• Full page themed dotted thirds with images.
• Bordered Themed lined writing paper.

We have a number of themed writing packs and otherprintable paper for teachers and students that can be downloaded for free.

Downloadable Themed Writing Pack: A day at the beach

Whether it's making a sand castle or catching the ultimate wave, a day at the beach is plenty of fun for kids of all ages.

Hopefully, this writing pack will help your students plan and create some great narratives and other text types about a day at the beach.

Click here to download the pack.

The Pack looks great, and has 8 different themed pages that include.

• A Visual map for planning the characters, setting, problem & plot.
• A planning tool for constructing a narrative.
• Half Page Dotted thirds with a space for a picture
• Full page themed dotted thirds with images.
• Bordered Themed lined writing paper.

We have a number of themed writing packs and otherprintable paper for teachers and students that can be downloaded for free.

Lesson Idea: Go Fly a Kite - Includes Kite Template

Kids love making kites.  And the kite I have included in this lesson is incredibly easy to make, requires very few resources and flies brilliantly.  Secondly this is a great opportunity for you to learn about writing procedural texts.

Requirements: 

• Kite Template - Download here
• Skewers or Straws
• String
• Streamers

The lesson is simple:  Inform your students that they are going to make a kite, decorate it, and fly it, but the learning intention for them to be aware of is the procedures that are required to complete the task, as they will be writing a procedural text on it.

The instructions to make the kite are all included on the template and it would require around 20 - 40 minutes to make your kites, plus some decorating time.

Take your kids out to fly them if weather and time permits.

The next phase of the lesson is to model writing a procedural text about the process of making and lying your kite.  There is a great resource on teaching procedural texts here.

Put all of these things together and you have just mixed, some art, science and literacy together with great fun.

I hope you enjoy it.

The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate factory is one of the most popular children's books of all time.  It is a brilliantly written story by Author Roald Dahl and there has been two starkly different, but very popular films based on it.

Therefore "Charlie" offers a multitude of teaching and learning opportunities based around the themes of bad parenting, mischievous children, greed, gluttony and much more.  Roald Dahl uses little Charlie Bucket as a role model to oppose all of the horrible aspects of the other children selected to enter Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

This Grid I have constructed uses Blooms Taxonomy as a framework to study the book and films and has 42 excellent teaching and learning ideas.

It would be recommended that the book and both films are watched to get the most out of this grid, and there is more than enough here to keep your students busy and enthused for a fortnight depending upon how you structure your learning sessions.

I hope you like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Learning Grid and if you have any fresh ideas to add to it we would love to hear them.

Download the grid here.

TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO WRITE FABLES WITH THIS GREAT TOOL.

Fables are a great way for young readers to about some of learn life's important lessons.  They are also an excellent opportunity for writers to share important messages that are relevant to them now. 

Last week we used TheFable Planning Toolto construct fables with my grade 6 students, learning about messages, symbolism and even reading some of Aesop's work to learn how to construct a fable that will stand the the test of time. 

The at the end of the week we published our fables as picture story books and read them to our junior school.  The kids loved the process and it was a nice change in their narrative writing schedule at their age.

This planning tool includes a storyboard, examines characters and, setting and includes a large range of morals to get children in the right frame of mind. 

You can download theFable Planning Toolhere.  Enjoy.

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The Snapshot Writing Tool for Teaching English

The Snapshot Writing Toolis designed to put students in a specific moment in time using a visual prompt such as a photo or video and then write about what you see?  What you hear?  What you smell?  What you taste?  and what you feel?  Drawing upon all 5 senses.

The snapshot writing tool will really encourage your students create visual imagery within their writing, and they have a great deal of fun putting themselves in the perspective of the picture.

Students can either use a photo of their own anlongside the tool or alternately you can access my collection of150 Amazing writing prompts here.

Download the Snapshot Writing Tool here. 

* Please note all of our posters are originally designed using high resolution images and fonts at A3 paper size.  Be aware it will be automatically resized to your default paper size when using Adobe Acrobat Reader without any loss of quality.  If you would like to print these documents at larger sizes you can read theAdobe Resize & Scaling FAQhere.

Finally if you would like to purchase a completely editable version of this document to alter without any restrictions you can purchase it for $10.00 simply byemailing us.