Telescopic Text. Double ly endings - Alan peat sentences. 10 Videos You Could Use to Inspire Writing. From the time teachers first viewed The Piano by Aidan Gibbons on a training course, it suddenly became legitimate to use short independent film to inspire writing.
Films like the Piano are perfect for lessons as they are often: Emotive and thought-provokingAesthetic - the animation is often captivating and of high qualityShort and therefore easy for children to take in and teachers to build questioning aroundOriginal – as the children have not seen the film before they do not come at the clip with expectations or baggage. I love finding clips which I use with my class as a weekly alternative to class story. Alternatively I use a well-chosen piece as part of our literacy work for a way into poetry or story writing. Vocabulary. Slim The Vegetarian Ogre - Nouns and Pronouns. Create a PicLit. Mysteries of Harris Burdick. KS2 Bitesize English - Vocabulary : Play. Talk4Writing, talking the text, raising standards. Creative Educational Press Ltd. The One-Minute Writer. Writing prompts.