All our resources packs are made by qualified teachers and are designed to provide multiple opportunities for reading and writing. We don’t produce lesson plans for you. Instead we provide you with a starting point, a stimulus. This stimulus comes with an abundance of our own ideas of different directions in which you could take the learning. However, you are free to use it however you wish!

What’s included in a resource pack?

Everything included here is provided as a download via email.

1 A3 colour illustration:

This will usually take the form of a detailed panorama such as a city or landscape. This is your first stimulus or hook for the child / children. It is also available in line drawing form for children who want to colour it in and explore it this way.

3 or 4 stimulus texts:

These are differentiated and designed to be used with KS2 children. They will all link to the illustrated panorama. We pioneer visually engaging texts and want to re-frame how children react text on a page.

A3 Exploring the story sheets:

Each of the texts and the panorama itself will be accompanied by a series of questions to support children in their understanding of each story. If desired, the texts can be used in guided reading sessions. The questions for the stories do not solely focus on retrieval, inference and deduction skills. They also feature open-ended questions which involve children to think as individuals and use their own experiences and imaginations.

Inspiration for further work:

A collection of ideas all based on the context of this work. For example, if the panorama is of a city under the sea and the texts are all narratives set in this location, the accompanying ideas will all be opportunities inspired by this context. This might be opportunities for writing (developing stories in the same setting, writing letters, newspaper articles, diary entries, planning emails, writing scripts, typing reports, making brochures, creating cartoon strips etc. Or cross-curricular ideas for art activities, geography or science investigations.

Tasks to support those with SEN or who have EAL:

Specific tasks for those who are unable to access the written texts. This might be sound work in response to the illustration, or a series of scaffolded tasks to support sentence building, phonic awareness or comprehension of the illustration. Crucially though, it enables all children to access work within the same context.