Includes: a collection of fun writing ideas for the beginning of the year
Focus: holiday memories and getting to know students
Special person poetry – Lesson plan
Purpose: to write a metephor/smilie poem about a special person.
Special person poetry – Student exemplars
Use the exemplars to motivate students (refer to the lesson plan).
Check out The Poetry Book for more great poetry ideas.
Includes: a collection of fun writing ideas for the beginning of the year
Focus: holiday memories and getting to know students
Includes: a lesson plan, YouTube video link, student planning sheet and exemplar
Focus: structuring and ordering events in a narrative (story)
Includes: useful spelling rules and links to YouTube clips that explain the rules in more detail
Focus: learning spelling conventions to support students’ writing
