Text Types Teaching Resources for Year 1
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Writing a Friendly Letter Template Pack
Download this writing a friendly letter template pack to help your students practise friendly letter writing with fun, themed designs for every occasion.
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Sports – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this digital writing scaffold to model the purpose and structural elements of informational writing.
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How to Make a Salad – Procedural Writing Craftivity
Use this engaging craft activity on making a salad to teach your students all they need to know about procedural writing!
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How To Build a Snow Globe – Procedural Writing Craftivity
Use this engaging, hands-on snow globe craftivity to teach your students all they need to know about procedural writing!
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How to Plant a Garden – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Plant a Garden” procedural writing project.
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How to Make Waffles – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Make Waffles” procedural writing project.
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How to Wash Your Hands Flipbook
Use this “How to Wash Your Hands” procedural writing activity to help familiarise your students with the structural elements of procedure texts.
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How to Brush Your Teeth Flipbook
Use this “How to Brush Your Teeth” procedural writing activity to help familiarise your students with the structural elements of procedure texts.
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Interactive Build A Snowman Sequencing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive How to Build a Snowman game.
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Write About It! Pumpkins - Differentiated Writing Prompts
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of levelled informational writing prompts about pumpkins.
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Spring Writing Prompts for Beginning Writers
Use the season of spring to inspire writing in your early years classroom.
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Fairy Tale Setting and Book Characters Classroom Display
Teach fairy tales and narrative structure with a printable fairy tale setting poster and book characters for a classroom display.
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Adorable Animal Finger Puppets Template
Download a set of 12 animal finger puppets to use when teaching poetry, creating narratives and more.
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Narrative Booklet Template – Pirate Theme
A pirate-themed booklet for students to use when publishing their narrative texts.
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Fairy Tales Writing Sheets
A set of 20 lined pages with fairy tale borders.
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Fairy Tales Settings Posters
A set of 6 fairytale story settings background posters.
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Year 1 Narrative Writing Assessment Pack
Help your students master narrative writing with this scaffolded Year 1 Narrative Writing Assessment Pack, built around an exciting “Unexpected Visitor” story theme.
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My Two Homes Activity
Use this ‘My Two Homes’ activity to explore diverse family structures and encourage students to explore all the places they can call ‘home.’
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Thinking of You Letter Templates
Encourage kindness with this ‘thinking of you’ letter and greeting card template set, designed to help students express support for others.
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Thank You Letter Template Pack
Encourage students to express gratitude with this thank you letter template pack featuring five ready-to-use letter and greeting card designs.
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Community Helper – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this community helpers interactive activity to model the purpose and structural elements of information reports.
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Magical Story Craft and Writing Template
Use this printable craft and writing template to get your students writing stories that are truly magical during Book Week 2024!
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Build a Magical Story Interactive Activity
Use this “Build a Magical Story” narrative writing interactive activity to model the purpose, structural elements and language features of narrative texts.
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Polar Bear Craft Template
Pair a polar bear craft and informational writing to create a fun winter animals classroom display.
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'If I Were a Bowerbird...' Writing Stimulus
Get students thinking and writing about what they would collect, or what they would do if they were a bowerbird.
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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree - Year 1 Procedural Writing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive ‘How to Decorate a Christmas Tree’ slide deck and differentiated writing prompts for Year 1 students.
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Dear Santa Letter Templates
Use a printable Dear Santa Letter template to write fun letters to Santa during your writing classes.
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Santa Letter Template
Write a letter to Santa with a printable letter to Santa Template.
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Remembrance Day Write the Room Activity
Help your young students understand the meaning of Remembrance Day with a Remembrance Day Vocabulary wall and Writing Center.
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Dia De Los Muertos Word Wall and Informative Writing Stimulus
Learn and use the language of Mexican tradition with a Dia de Los Muertos vocabulary word wall and informational writing prompt.
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Grandparents' Day Interview Template - Early Years
Inspire your early years’ students to interview a grandparent on Grandparents’ Day with Printable Grandparent Interview Questions.
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How to Be a Grandparent - Grandparents' Day Writing Prompts
Draw and write to create a fun “How to Be a Grandparent” handbook to share with loved ones on Grandparents’ Day.