Mini-lessons

Resources: Persuasive planning and writing paragraph templates
Purpose: Support students to plan and write persuasive paragraphs

Resources: Four grids with CVC words
Purpose: To read and write CVC words

Includes: Two posters with whiteboard expectations

Focus: Establishing routines for effectively using whiteboards during whole-class teaching

Includes: Subordinating conjunction card

Focus: To support students to write complex sentences

Includes: Coordinating conjunction card

Focus: To support students to write compound sentences

Includes: Two templates

Focus: Self-checking punctuation and developing accuracy

Includes: Subordinating conjunctions poster

Focus: To support students to learn about subordinating conjunctions and write complex sentences

Includes: Useful spelling rules and links to YouTube clips that explain the rules in more detail  

Focus: Learning spelling conventions to support students’ writing

for inspiration and ideas

Includes: Template and exemplar

Focus: Vocabulary building

Includes: Three-page resource containing activities for using the Question dice and Detail dice

Focus: Questioning and identifying evidence in texts, and adding detail to writing

Includes: Word-building template and exemplar

Focus: Adding affixes to base words

Focus: Creating a vocabulary display that could support students to use more descriptive words in their writing

Includes: Note-taking poster

Focus: Explicitly teaching students note-taking skills

Includes: Super sentence book cover, page and student exemplar

Focus: Reviewing and improving a sentence

Includes: Lesson plan and two prompts (for juniors and seniors)

Focus: Creating hook sentences

Includes: Lesson plan (slide presentation), prompt cards and wall display pack

Focus: Building complex sentences by adding conjunctions