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Just One
This is the classroom adaptation of the brilliant game “Just One” - great fun and good for getting children to think outside the box with their vocabulary
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Similes
Similes are a great way of improving your descriptions
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Subordinate Clauses - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
A quick and easy way to improve your writing: subordinate clauses and conjunctions - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Subordinate Clauses Episode 2 😂 - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
More subordinate clauses, as if yesterday’s excitement wasn’t enough! - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Statements, questions and exclamations - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
Use a variety of sentences to make any writing genre more interesting! - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Verb treasure hunt - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
Today we are learning about verbs. We did a treasure hunt using verbs and played a bit of verb charades! - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Imperative verbs - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
Today we learn about imperative verbs by creating our own recipe. You should have a go at making these cookies, they are really good! - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Nouns - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
We looked for nouns around the house and then tried to match them with their definitions - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Colour - Christina Rossetti
We used this classic poem to create our own colour poems using the same structure
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Our own version of Odd Bods by Steven Butler (Instagram live)
We had a go at writing our own version of this incredible alphabet poem - Odd Bods. A real celebration of the weird and wonderful!
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I Am Enough - poetry writing
I Am Enough - Grace Byers Here’s how to write your own version of this incredible poem. I couldn’t be prouder of my children today... absolutely amazing and thoughtful poetry. I will do a reading in my insta and fb stories later when they’ve all finished. I’d love to hear your versions if you have a go!
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The Fiddlers Song - The Pirate Cruncher
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Writing a simple rhyming poem - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
We used the structure of Julia Donaldson’s The Smed and The Smoos to write our own rhyming poetry. - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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How to write a Haiku - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning Ideas
How to calculate syllables and use description to create a Haiku poem
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How to write a cinquain - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning Ideas
Cinquains - another easy introduction to poetry! #english #englishteacher #poetry #poem #teachersfollowteachers #parentloop #parenting #lockdownlearning #homeschool #homeed #homelearning
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How to write a nonsense poem - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning Ideas
A really quick and effective poetry writing activity using the classic poem “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. Using the structure of an existing poem is an amazingly effective way to get kids writing brilliant poems in minutes! #poetry #poems #english #englishteacher #teachersofinstagram #mamaowlfollowloop #teachersfollowteachers #teacherofinstsgram #homelearning #homeschool #homeeducation #lockdownlearning
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Mr Morris - Descriptive Writing
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Vocabulary Magpie
We went through the book “Leon and the Place Between” with a fine tooth comb looking for amazing vocabulary. The sheet we used is a free pdf on my website: www.mrsholdstock.com/English - just click on “fiction”
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Leon and the Place Between - Persuasive Writing
We created an advertising campaign for Abdul Kazan using persuasive sentence starters.
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Our own version of Odd Bods by Steven Butler (Instagram live)
We had a go at writing our own version of this incredible alphabet poem - Odd Bods. A real celebration of the weird and wonderful!
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Stroyboarding The Smeds and Smoos - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
Using storyboards to chart the main events of a story - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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How to plan a story
I could talk about this for hours but here is my 1 minute guide to planning a story. Remember, talking through your ideas is soooo important and don’t be afraid to pull post its off and throw them away as your ideas develop. Let your imaginations run wild!
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How to write a story
We used a checklist to turn our story plan into a full story using everything we’ve learned to make our writing varied and interesting
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I have a dream - our own version
We listened to this iconic speech and then used key sentence starters to write our own version
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I am enough - a letter to myself
I am enough - a letter to myself. Such a lovely activity to do with children. Write a letter to yourself reminding yourself why you are special, why you are worthy and why you are, indeed, enough.
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Non-Chronological Reports - sea creatures
Choosing a topic your children are really into is a great way to get them writing. We used subheadings to organise our information and then researched our favourite sea creatures.
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Similes
Similes are a great way of improving your descriptions
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Features of non-fiction texts - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
We looked at the features of non-fiction text and the wrote our own non-chronological reports using the features we had learned about. - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Features of instructional text - recipes - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
Today we wrote up our recipe from yesterday including all the key features of the instructional text type. - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Instructional text - clarity - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
We played a game to help us improve the clarity and quality of our instructions - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
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Editing and improving instructions - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas
The girls took a very basic recipe for a birthday cake and improved the quality of the instructions. They also made a very “delicious” Happy Lemon birthday cake for their sister! - Mrs Holdstock Teaching and Learning ideas