What A Good One Looks Like

A collection of free and premium resources for teachers and home educators by Helen-Teach

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We are pleased to let you know that your resource Negative Numbers Maths Mystery With Answers, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/primary-maths-negative-numbers in October 2024. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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Sarah_Paxman

This resource is brilliant. My Year 3 class found it really helpful when writing their character descriptions. Would definitely recommend if your class is studying the Iron Man.

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sarahleigh

A very comprehensive bundle of resources, carefully thought out. Many thanks for your time.

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Starfishstar08

Brilliant resources! I really like how these are in the style of the SATS paper.

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enigma107

A fabulous resource…Modelled texts are of a very high quality and saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much x

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TES Resource Team

We are pleased to let you know that your resource Icebreakers: 10 Games and Activities for KS2, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured on https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/primary-transition in June 2024. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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DrSayed

thank you so much, it was helpful

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TES Resource Team

We are pleased to let you know that your resource French Game Battleships: Food, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/end-year-fun-mfl-classes in July 2024. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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eesana

Great resource! Just what I needed.

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enigma107

A fantastic resource which does exactly as described. Planning is extremely detailed and fits the year 34 National Curriculum. Model texts are carefully written to model the required skills for this phase. The SATs style questions are particularly useful for providing reading activities in a similar format to that they will see at the end of the year. Saved hours of work. Highly recommend.

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TES Resource Team

We are pleased to let you know that your resource Fun English Writing Games, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/engaging-ideas-end-term in June 2024. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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lwg21

Excellent resource. Just what I needed!

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dawne579

Fabulous resource with clear, good quality examples.

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sarahleigh

An excellent resource, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

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Daniel-Forbes93

This is excellent example text. Really good for a KS2 English lesson. Thanks 🙂

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Starfishstar08

Absolutely fantastic planning and resources! This has saved me a lot of time. When you do download this you will see how much time and effort Helen has spent on each and every resource. Thank you 🙂

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Darquise

I bought the bundle and am extremely happy with the printouts. My absolute favourite is the chart where they need to identify Figure of Speech.

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TES Resource Team

We are pleased to let you know that your resource Stone Age Boy 3 Example Instruction and Recipe Texts , has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/stone-age-resources-primary in May 2024 on https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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MeganSaville

Really great resource, in depth and appropriate for year 6. Explanation text is one page and isn’t too much for children to read. I like that the resource is editable, I was able to add some more parenthesis or even make this sheet into a gap fill for understanding conjunctions and adverbials. Great thank you!

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matthew_h1

Great Resource, easily adapted for a range of learners!

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WAGOLLs

Example texts used to model effective writing to pupils in a range of fiction and non-fiction genres.


Holiday Maths

Fun holiday-themed maths resources to teach co-ordinates, fractions and algebra.


Units of Work

Schemes of work with everything needed to teach, including lesson plans, presentations and handouts.

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What is a WAGOLL?

WAGOLL, an acronym standing for ‘What A Good One Looks Like’, is an example text that can be used to demonstrate effective writing.

WAGOLLs can be used in the classroom to help pupils to create their own piece of writing based on the model text.

Often WAGOLLs are used by the teacher modelling the writing process, thinking aloud their choices as they write, with the WAGOLL as a guide.

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Resource: Christophe’s Story Character Profile Pack

This pack contains everything that is needed to write a character profile about one of the characters from refugee novel Christophe’s Story.

The children’s book by Nicki Cornwell tells the story of Christophe, a young refugee from war-torn Rwanda, who is faced with the challenges of a new school, language and life.

The Christophe’s Story character profile pack contains a model character profile text about Christophe to use as a WAGOLL, a feature find worksheet to identify the language, grammar and punctuation features of this kind of text, along with an answer sheet for easy marking. There are also differentiated character profile templates for writing a character description of Christophe, Greg, Jeremy, Miss Finch, Babi, or another character from the book.

The following language, grammar and punctuation features are included in the model text:
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Expanded noun phrases
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Commas in a list
• Commas to add extra information
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
• Hyphens

All resources are provided as PDFs and as easily editable Word documents.

This resource is ideal for teachers, tutors and homeschoolers alike.

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The Iron Man

The Iron Man

Writing, comprehension and grammar resources to support the teaching of this popular children’s novel by Ted Hughes.

Stig of the Dump

Stig of the Dump

Writing resources to support the teaching of Clive King’s Stig of the Dump, a children’s classic.

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon

Writing and grammar resources based on the story by Cressida Cowell.

Journey

Journey

Writing resources based on Aaron Becker’s beautiful picture book Journey.

Holes

Writing resources to support the teaching of the novel by Louis Sachar.

Harry Potter

Writing resources to support the teaching of J. K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Stormbreaker

Writing resources based on the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider spy series.

Oranges in No Man’s Land

Writing resources based on Elizabeth Laird’s refugee novel.

Stone Age Boy

Writing resources to support the teaching of the picture book by Satoshi Kitamura.

Street Child

Writing resources to support the teaching of the historical novel by Berlie Doherty.

The Boy Who Grew Dragons

Writing resources based on Andy Shepherd’s fantasy book.

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Writing resources based on Onjali Q. Raúf’s refugee novel.

The Butterfly Lion

Writing resources to support the teaching of the book by Michael Morpurgo.

The Twits

Writing resources to support the teaching of Roald Dahl’s popular story.

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter

Writing resources based on the novel by Philip Pullman.

The Hodgeheg

Writing resources based on Dick King-Smith’s novel.

Charlotte’s Web

Writing resources to support the teaching of the fantasy novel by E. B. White.

Varjak Paw

Writing resources to support the teaching of S.F. Said’s book.

Beowulf

Writing resources based on Michael Morpurgo’s retelling of the epic poem.

The Nowhere Emporium

Writing resources based on Ross Mackenzie’s novel.