The Connective Flashcards resource is a fun, effective way to boost your students’ writing skills. By experimenting with a range of connectives, students will craft more complex, varied, and fluent sentences that will improve the clarity and maturity of their writing.
Connective Clothing is a creative resource designed to help students improve their sentence structure and add detail to their writing. Suitable for all levels, it encourages students to experiment with connectives, making their writing more varied and engaging.
This resource makes it easy to celebrate and honor the unique friendships formed in buddy programs while developing students’ writing skills, emotional expression, and kindness. Perfect for your end-of-year or transitional activities!
This Letter Exchange Lesson Bundle offers a unique and personal way to build your students’ writing skills while fostering connections beyond the classroom. Ideal for introducing letter writing in a fun, thoughtful, and meaningful way!
Engage your students with this Letter Writing Lesson Bundle designed to foster meaningful connections and improve writing skills across all year levels.
Student Goal: I can identify and use subordinating conjunctions to create complex sentences.
Pack 4 in the Oral Language Warm-Up cards is here!
Help your students switch on their brains to learning and start your lessons with oral language.
Pack 3 in the Oral Language Warm-Up cards is here!
Help your students switch on their brains to learning and start your lessons with oral language.
Effective learning is not possible without reflection, (Boud, Keogh & Walker, 1985).
An extended support mat of connectives to help students select the right connective for the right purpose.
An introduction to coordinating conjunctions.
A Big Write reflective journal template for self-analysis, peer analysis and teacher feedback. A filled-in example is also included.
In order for students to be able to use VCOP to enhance their writing, they first need to be able to identify the different elements in a variety of texts.
This checklist is designed to assist with analysis of narrative texts.
Over 50 lesson ideas to help you to integrate VCOP into your English planners through reading and oral language.
A support resource to help teach your students how to create appropriate responses to exam questions.
Can you use different bricks from the connective wall to extend your sentences, paragraphs and ideas?
A mix of simple and complex sentences can create a lot of voice in your text, but many students struggle to expand their sentences. Use this poster to explicitly teach LDD and watch how quickly their writing takes off.
The Kids News Selfie Station is the perfect way for students to highlight work they are proud of and to share it with those at home through electronic communications.
There are two types of Big Talk, one is called Breaking News (daily Big Talk) and this can happen multiple times a day as a reflection of learning or an end of the day summary. These question prompts are designed to help promote reflection talk.
Pack 2 in the Oral Language Warm-Up cards has a Verb and Adverb Focus- Help your students switch on their brains to learning and start your lessons with oral language.
A short video by the VCOP Kids to help your students to use the because word to add more detail.
These example sentences can be used as an introduction to explaining connectives for a purpose, as well as introducing up-levelling.
A support mat of connectives to help students select the right connective for the right purpose.
An editable letter to add to your parent packs or school newsletter to explain Big Write, Big Talk, Home Talk, VCOP and what can be done at home.
Did you know you can help at home, and it doesn’t even involve writing? Here are some easy tips to help build your family’s knowledge of VCOP through.
Introduce this checklist to your students by explicitly teaching how to analysis each set of skills related to procedural writing.
The VCOP Pyramid mat is designed to be a table support, and game resource to help students enhance their writing or oral language.
