Are you looking for a template to support your pupils to write postcards?
This resource pack contains a postcard planning sheet, to support pupils when organising their ideas before writing, and a postcard template to write their final drafts. The postcard template can be printed and trimmed to allow pupils to create a suitable image on the reverse to create their finished postcards.
The flexible templates can be used when writing postcards for a range of audiences to recount events.
What is included in this postcard writing resource?
- Planning sheet
A template where pupils can organise their ideas before writing.
- Postcard writing template
A structured template to support pupils to set out their postcard correctly.
National Curriculum English Programme of Study
Writing - composition
Year 2
Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:
- writing for different purposes
Pupils should be taught to consider what they are going to write before beginning by:
- planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
- writing down ideas and /or key words, including new vocabulary
Year 3 /4
Pupils should be taught to plan their writing by:
- discussing and recording ideas
Year 5 /6
Pupils should be taught to plan their writing by:
- noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary