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Writing task: Your first day back at school

Writing task: Your first day back at school

Can you remember your first day back to school this year? How did you feel? Did you have a new teacher? Can you describe your teacher? What did you do on your first day? Did you make any new friends? Write a few sentences to describe what your first day was like.
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Planning a story with a spider diagram

Planning a story with a spider diagram

A Year 1 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child plan a story by creating a spider diagram.
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Writing a short story about football

Writing a short story

Write about a time when you played or watched a football game. Use the word bank below to help you with spellings.
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Writing a letter to a story character worksheet

Writing a letter to a story character

Use this letter template to write a letter to one of your favourite characters. Don’t forget to sign your name at the end!
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Descriptive writing practice worksheet

Descriptive writing practice

If you could be any animal, what would you be? Fill in the blanks on this worksheet to describe your favourite animal.
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Writing a character diary worksheet

Writing a character diary

Choose a couple of pages from one of your favourite stories. Can you write a diary entry for the character in the story? What happened to them, where and when? Don’t forget to include how they felt.
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Understanding fiction and non-fiction texts worksheet

Understanding fiction and non-fiction texts

Read these titles and words. Cut them out and put them in two piles, one for things you think belong in a fiction book and one for non-fiction. Ask your mum or dad for help with reading the sentences if you need to.
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Story writing planning cards worksheet

Story writing planning cards

Cut out the cards below and use them to help you plan a story. What happens if you change the order of the cards? Does your story still make sense?
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Plot and setting in texts worksheet

Plot and setting in texts

Choose a book that you know really well. Re-read the story. Can you draw and write about the book in the boxes? The setting is the collection of places where your story happens. The plot is what happens in the story. Draw one of the settings from your story and something that happens in your story.
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Favourite words collection worksheet

Favourite words collection

Can you think of great words or expressions to use in your writing? We’ve made some suggestions for you. What are your favourite words about your feelings? What are your favourite words to describe places? What about describing characters or actions?
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Exploring story characters worksheet

Exploring story characters

Think of a character from a story that you know well (you’ll find a few suggestions here, do you recognise them?). What is your character’s name? Draw their picture! What happens to them at the start of the story? What happens to them at the end of the story?
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Diary writing practice worksheet

Diary writing practice

Can you write a diary entry for a very special day? When was it? What did you do? What did you enjoy the most? Who was there? What did you eat? How did the day end?
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Creating a story character worksheet

Creating a story character

Think up your own character that you might like to write a story about. Draw a picture of your character in the frame, answering questions like: How old is your character?; What is your character's name?; What's something they might say? If it helps, think about some of the characters you like from stories and why you like them.
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Character detective: emotions and actions worksheet

Character detective: emotions and actions

Get your magnifying glass out and put on your thinking cap: it’s time to be a detective! Why do these characters behave the way they do? Think about their feelings and suggest an explanation. Write it down in the right box.
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Improving writing with adjectives worksheet

Improving writing with adjectives

Lottie and James have both written about the same day out. Who has written a better piece? Why do you think this is? How do the sentences start in Lottie’s and James’s writing? Can you underline the nouns in James’s paragraph? What describing words has he used with them?
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Writing: improving sentences worksheet

Writing: improving sentences

Here are some sentences. Using some of the words below, and some of your own, too, can you try to improve them?
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Character thought bubbles worksheet

Character thought bubbles

Using a story book you know well decide what the characters might be thinking at certain points in the story. Write their thoughts in the bubbles, then Blu Tack them onto the page.
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Character speech bubbles woksheet

Character speech bubbles

Using a story book decide what the characters might say at certain points in the story. Write their words in the speech bubbles.
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Writing titles and blurbs worksheet

Writing titles and blurbs

Choose one of your favourite stories and write down its title. Write a blurb for this story, too – two or three sentences would be perfect. Then, just for fun, think up a new title for the story!
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Writing non-fiction: labelling a picture

What’s your dream meal? Fill this plate with all your favourite foods and then label them so that everyone can see what they are.
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Writing lists practice worksheet

Writing lists practice

Help Wendy Witch write a list of all the ingredients she’ll need to include in her new potion.
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Labelling and describing words

Draw a picture of a family member then label it and add some words to describe them around the picture.
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Favourite words for stories worksheet

Favourite words for stories

For children to succeed in literacy, it’s crucial they have a love of words. Here they need to think about how their favourite words are used.
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Describing story characters

Choose a character that we all know from a traditional tale, or one from a story book that you love. Think about what happens to the character in your story, then draw it in pictures.
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Understanding story settings worksheet

Understanding story settings

Stories take place in different settings. Can your child use their knowledge of traditional tales to identify the story settings for these well-known stories?
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