Learn how to join letters neatly using long ladder and curly caterpillar letters.

Find out some useful tips to help you plan your story.

Find out why most stories consist of a beginning, a middle and an end.

Find out what a setting is and how you can use them in your stories.

Find out about some of the different questions authors think about when they are inventing new characters.

Explore how your writing can have different purposes depending on the subject or what you want to communicate.

Find out how you should think about the language you use when writing for different audiences.

Find out how changing the context can affect your stories.

Discover how sound words (onomatopoeia) is used in a comic strip about Christopher Columbus.

Learn how to identify different genres used in writing and choose the most appropriate genre for texts.

Celebrate World Book Day in this fun and interactive KS2 guide from BBC Bitesize.