Styles/Genres Teaching Resources
With such a large number of different text types, it can be difficult for students to learn and remember the corresponding purposes, structures and language features for each one. Use this extensive text types collection to assist your students when working with the different text types. Some of the educational resources available include posters and display banners to visually represent text types in your classroom, as well as learning activities including worksheets, activities, games, unit and lessons plans and PowerPoint presentations.
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Writing An Information Report Poster
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of an information report.
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Little Red Riding Hood Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale.
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Year 6 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) - Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Year 6 magazine.
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Onomatopeia Writing Prompt – Template
A writing template for students to use when learning about onomatopoeia.
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Year 1 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Scaffold
A one page scaffolding sheet which can be used to write a persuasive text.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Zoos Are No Place for Animals
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Persuasive Speech Writing Task
A persuasive speech writing task, based around real-world issues affecting children.
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Improving Persuasive Texts Worksheets
3 pieces of text for students to rewrite in order to make them more persuasive.
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Narrative Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about the narrative text type, including an annotated example.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills PowerPoint - Year 3 and Year 4
A 24 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of persuasive texts.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does the Water Cycle Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Animal Poetry Prompts Task Cards
A set of 12 poetry prompts for younger students.
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Story Spine Porcupine – Narrative Writing Template
A template designed to help students plan their narrative writing structure.
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Biography Sentence Starters
Biographies can be interesting and fun to write... with a little bit of inspiration and help to get them started!
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Assessment Rubric - Poetry
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess student's poetry.
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Assessment Rubric - Narrative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' narrative writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Procedural Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' procedural writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Informative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' informative writing.
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Exploring Procedural Texts PowerPoint
A 17 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of procedural texts.
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Imaginative, Persuasive and Informative Paragraphs PowerPoint
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint Template to use when teaching your students about the structure of imaginative, persuasive and informative paragraphs.
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Figurative Language Posters – Onomatopoeia
Help young readers and writers recognise onomatopoeias with a set of onomatopoeia classroom posters.
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Christmas Writing Prompt Dice Game – Roll-a-Story
Roll a Christmas Writing Prompt and write a fun Christmas story with our printable writing worksheets.
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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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Christmas Writing Prompts for Year 1 Writers
Celebrate Christmas time and practise those writing skills with your Year 1 writers.
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Christmas Character Writing and Craft Templates
Choose between four adorable Christmas writing templates for your Key Stage 1 pupils.
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Reindeer Research Guide - Mini Workbook
Research all about reindeer with this guided research template.
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How to Build a Snowman - Procedural Writing Worksheets
Explain how to build a snowman with a pack of printable Year 1 writing activities.
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Santa Letter Template
Write a letter to Santa with a printable letter template.
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Christmas Writing - Story Starter Writing Prompts
Inspire your pupils to write creatively with a set of 30 Christmas writing prompts.
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Halloween Shape Poem Templates
Inspire spook-tacular writing this Halloween with a variety of printable Halloween Shape Poem templates.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Halloween
Practise organising information for essay writing with this informative text fact-sorting activity.
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