Styles/Genres Teaching Resources for Year 2
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Hansel and Gretel Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Hansel and Gretel Fairy Tale.
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Verb Past Tense Worksheet
A worksheet with simple past tense verbs added to complete the sentences.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
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Story Leads To Hook Your Readers
How to hook your reader: 11 techniques to open your story with a bang and grab your reader's attention!
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Persuasive Topic Cards - Lower Grades
A set of persuasive topic cards for lower grades.
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Narrative Writing Checklist
Now your students can make sure that they have everything they need in their narrative.
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March Writing Prompts - Key Stage 1
20 writing prompts for March with corresponding writing sheets.
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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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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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To My Teacher... Worksheet
Get to know your pupils a bit better using a ‘Letter to Teacher’ template.
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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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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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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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Halloween Shape Poem Templates
Inspire spook-tacular writing this Halloween with a variety of printable Halloween Shape Poem templates.
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King Charles III Biography Template - Mobile
Research and learn about King Charles III with this hanging biography template.
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'All About ...' - Informational Text Template
A template students can use for informative writing.
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Year 2 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 2 magazine.
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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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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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Writing An Informational Text Poster
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of an informational text.
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Alliteration Poster
A poster providing a definition and examples of alliteration.
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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.