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Understand what you read. Low ks3/High ability ks2 poetry worksheets. FREE Rhyming Dictionary: Find Rhyming Words in Seconds. Examples of Performance Poetry. Folktales. Folk Tales for kids. Legends and FolkTales. The Literacy Shed - The Literacy Shed Home. Folktales for children - video. Are you still there?

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Advertisement transcribed automatic captions Visit advertiser's site Translate Captions Starting soon... Thanks for watching! Please stand by. Start rental period. 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer. When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. It is also a primary means for documenting, communicating, and refining our ideas. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices. Advertisements - Key Stage 2 Literacy. Examples of Performance Poetry. Magic Pen Story Starters. This page contains a number of story starters which can be used for the Magic Pen activity (or as a stimulus for creative writing). 1) Paul was bored.

Magic Pen Story Starters

It was halfway through the summer holidays and he was fed up, so he decided to go exploring. He climbed up to the top of the stairs, when he saw a door which had never been there before. He went in and in the middle of the room was a strange purple box. It had a picture of a magic wand on the front. 2) "Base to Captain SkyFighter, Base to Captain SkyFighter. "Captain SkyFighter. "Captain SkyFighter. In his spacecraft, Captain Skyfighter is fast asleep, unaware of what is fast approaching his ship. 3) There once was a witch called Wanda. 4) Bobby the Bunny was fast asleep. 5) Katie was playing on her computer. The screen flickered.... When she awoke, she found herself in the the wizard's chambers. The following story starter was contributed by Melanie Smith... 6) It was Christmas Eve and Lucy Brown was very excited. Communication4All. List Of Adjectives. This is the place to get the Ultimate Lists of Adjectives.

List Of Adjectives

The list of adjectives is something of wonder. Behold the modest adjective. An adjective can leap tall buildings in a single bound. It makes the average citizen smarter and kinder. An adjective keeps you in the cleanest car on the block. The right adjectives can help you win the war of words with wit, or capture a heart with elegant eloquence. Go straight to the Ultimate List of Adjectives OR read on for the grammatical rules of English regarding adjective usage including examples of the different types used, and the separated lists of adjectives by category (describing people, emotions, food, colors, amount, size and more). An adjective's job is to modify a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are often used to describe the degree of modification. The adjective forms are positive, comparative, and superlative.

Examples of adjective usage are : This tree is tall. My lunch was good, hers was better, and yours was the best. Sentence structure. Simple sentences: A simple sentence has only one clause: The children were laughing.

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John wanted a new bicycle. All the girls are learning English. Compound sentences: A compound sentence has two or more clauses: (We stayed behind) and (finished the job) (We stayed behind) and (finished the job), then (we went home) The clauses in a compound sentence are joined by co-ordinating conjunctions: John shouted and everybody waved. The common coordinating conjunctions are: and – but – or – nor – so – then – yet. English teaching resources for KS2, KS3, Common Entrance and Scholarship.

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