Styles/Genres Teaching Resources for Year 1
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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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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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Story Map Template
A template to use when exploring or planning a narrative story.
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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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Onomatopoeia Word Wall Vocabulary Cards - Blank
Blank word wall vocabulary cards for brainstorming activities.
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Creative Writing Book Cover - Version 1
A Creative Writing book cover to use on your students' workbooks.
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Blank Comic Strip Template
A blank comic strip to use when developing and sequencing ideas for narrative and imaginative writing.
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Write the Room - Paralympic Games Writing Centre
Teach your pupils the vocabulary associated with the Paralympic Games with this interactive Write the Room activity.
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Paralympic Athlete Profile Template
Get your students excited about their favourite para-athletes with our Paralympic Athlete Profile Template.
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Creative Writing Prompts Calendar - Early Years
Encourage your pupils to write with fun writing prompt calendars for beginning writers.
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Comic Strip Templates
Download a comic strip template pack to inspire creative writing in your classroom!
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Gingerbread Man Disguise – Christmas Classroom Display
Disguise the gingerbread man to keep Santa from eating him and create a fun Christmas classroom display.
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Easter Diary Writing Activity
A cute diary entry writing activity.
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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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Informative Text Writing Graphic Organiser Pack
Make writing an informative text easy with graphic organisers for your pupils!
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Holiday Recount Worksheet
A worksheet for younger students to use when writing a holiday recount.
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Weekend Recount Worksheet
A worksheet for younger students to use when writing a weekend recount.
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'All About ...' - Informational Text Template
A template students can use for informative writing.
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Fairy Tale Setting and Book Characters Classroom Display
A large Fairy Tale setting poster and book characters for a classroom display.
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Narrative Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 1
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their narrative writing.
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The 7-in-1 Craft Contraption – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a fake advertisement from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 1
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Story Building Dice Activity
A set of 3 dice to use when to generating ideas for creative writing.
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Facts and Opinions - Caterpillars
A fun activity for students to use when identifying facts and opinions about caterpillars.
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Informative Writing - Animal Research Task
An 8 page booklet for students to record facts about animals when learning to write informative texts.
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Creating an Imaginary Animal - Descriptive Language Activity
A creative activity to introduce students to descriptive and comparative language.
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'Facts About...' - Informative Texts Worksheet
A fact finding scaffold to use when introducing informative writing in the classroom.
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Exploring Informative Texts PowerPoint
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of informative texts.
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Simple Informative Texts - Writing Scaffold
A simple scaffolding worksheet to use when writing informative texts.