Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Simple Sentences – KS3 English Essentials
(a 14-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with 3 worksheets)
Our ‘KS3 English Essentials’ resources are designed to help KS3 learners master key English skills which were not fully developed at KS2.
The resource explains how to correctly construct a simple sentence. It contains a range of activities such as:
Definition and examples of simple sentences
An explanation, with examples, of how simple sentences are formed with a subject and predicate
Three activities designed to help KS3 learners develop the skills needed to be able to write simple sentences accurately and confidently
All tasks contain answer keys if required
Writing Narratives About Personal Experiences - Year 2
(20-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with 6 differentiated worksheets)
This Year 2 resource explains what a narrative text is and uses small whole-class activities to get the children used to the concept.
After writing a narrative text as a group, the children work on one of three differentiated worksheets which provide an opportunity to practice punctuation as well as creative writing.
Full answer keys are provided.
Homophones and Near-Homophones - Year 2
(18-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with 3 differentiated worksheets)
This KS1 English resource explains the difference between homophones and near-homophones and provides clear examples of each. It also includes techniques for making visual reminders to help tell homophones apart. Included are differentiated worksheets with full answer keys.
How Words Make Sentences - Year 1/2
(21-slide PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets)
This KS1 resource explains the structure of a sentence and what it must contain to make sense. It provides some whole-class practice and opportunities for discussion.
The differentiated worksheets give every child a chance to construct and punctuate sentences, and full answer keys are included.
Cinquain Poetry - Year 7
Designed for low ability Year 7, this cinquain teaching resource is a fun and engaging way of studying and writing poetry.
The lesson begins with an example cinquain and an explanation of the ‘rules’ of cinquain poetry. Learners are then provided with scaffolding to help them construct a group poem.
The differentiated worksheets (higher, medium and lower) then provide learners with an opportunity to write individual cinquains with appropriate support.
Cinquain Poetry - Year 3 / 4
This lower KS2 resource explores cinquain poetry in a fun and engaging way. It begins with an example and explains how to identify a cinquain before providing scaffolding to help children construct a class poem. The differentiated worksheets (higher, medium and lower) provide learners with an opportunity to write their own cinquains with an appropriate level of assistance.
Tanka Poetry - Year 7
Designed for low ability Year 7, this tanka teaching resource is a fun and engaging way of studying and writing poetry.
The lesson begins with an example tanka and an explanation of the ‘rules’ of tanka poetry. Learners are then provided with scaffolding to help them construct a group tanka.
The differentiated worksheets (higher, medium and lower) then provide learners with an opportunity to write an individual tanka with appropriate support.
Full Stops - KS3 Essential English Skills
(19-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets)
This Essential English Skills lesson is aimed at KS3 students who need to learn or revise the rules regarding the use of full stops.
After an introduction to the concept of the main clause, students undertake a range of differentiated tasks which will help them to consolidate their understanding of where full stops should be used and why.
There are three differentiated activities (Bronze, silver and gold) and answers are provided for all tasks.
Ozymandias
This two-lesson mini-unit covers Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 47-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 3 accompanying worksheets.
The two lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context – A brief outline of Shelley and Romanticism.
First Reading – A reading of ‘Ozymandias’ and discussion of the poem’s inspiration by the poet Percy Shelley.
Language and imagery – Analysing 'Ozymandias' in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. An example answer is included.
Lesson Two
Themes – Analysing the themes of 'Ozymandias' – human power, art and nature.
Structure and Form – How Shelley uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme.
The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Ozymandias’ with ‘The Prelude’ and ‘London’.
To preview 'Ozymandias' click on the images.
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and the Charity Collectors
This GCSE resource enables learners to explore Scrooge’s response to the charity collectors in Stave One of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
It includes a differentiated ‘Do Now’ activity, in which pupils work in pairs to answer ten short-answer questions under timed conditions. In order to answer these questions, learners will need to have read from the beginning of the novella up until to Fred’s departure. Learners feedback their answers to ‘earn’ the right to participate in a ‘Catchphrase’-style activity in which they must work out what the picture behind the squares is showing. (The image is Hogarth’s ‘In the Madhouse’, a representation of the inside of Bedlam.) After this, learners will read from ‘There’s another fellow…’ down to ‘…a more facetious temper than was usual with him’. The main activity is for learners to analyse how Dickens presents Scrooge’s wilful ignorance of the harsh reality of life for the poor. They will use the information and ideas in a context sheet to consider the significance of five important quotations from the passage. This task contains three levels of challenge. At higher levels, learners will reflect on the methods that Dickens is using to convey Scrooge’s ignorance of the hardship that others face. The lesson concludes with learners writing down five things they have learnt during the lesson.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol:
Introducing A Christmas Carol at GCSE
A Christmas Carol - Introducing Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Vs Fred
A Christmas Carol - The Workhouse
A Christmas Carol - Thomas Malthus
A Christmas Carol - Marley’s Ghost
A Christmas Carol - The Penitent Spirits
A Christmas Carol - The Rich and the Poor
Question Marks - Year 1
'Question Marks - Year 1’ introduces pupils to question marks as per the curriculum objectives of the Year 1 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. It is a colouful and engaging English teaching resource that uses the example words from the Year 1 English - Appendix 1- Spelling. Content includes:
What are questions explanation
What is a question mark explanation
Identify the question activity
What could the question be activity
What are question words explanation
Add the correct question word activity
Has the correct question word been used activity
Choose the correct punctuation mark activity
Write the question from the given words activity
Identify the question activity
Ask the Gingerbread Man activity
All the above activities are included on 2 worksheets for children to use during the lesson
3 differentiated worksheets with answers
‘Question Marks - Year 1’ can be edited giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource if needed to suit each class they teach.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for similar resources:
Questions and Question Marks - KS1
Question Marks - KS3
Using ‘and’ - Year 1
In this English grammar teaching resource, pupils practise using the conjunction ‘and’ to join words and clauses together as per the curriculum objective of the Year 1 programme of study (Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation). This engaging and animated PowerPoint lesson includes:
A using ‘and’ explanation
Various activities with an accompanying worksheet
3 further differentiated worksheets with answers
As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Using ‘and’ - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 1 Grammar resources:
Suffixes - Year 1
Singular to Plural - Year 1
Nouns - Year 1
Compound Words
Common Exception Words - Year 1
Synonyms - Year 3 and 4
‘Synonyms - Year 3 and 4’ is an engaging PowerPoint presentation focusing on how to use synonyms to create better sentences and improve writing. Content includes:
Link to short synonyms video clip.
Definition of synonyms with examples.
Matching synonyms task with accompanying worksheet.
How to use synonyms to create better sentences activity with accompanying worksheet.
Consolidation of understanding.
Synonyms interactive game link.
‘Synonyms - Year 3 and 4’ is a fully editable resource so you could use it as a quick starter activity to a literacy lesson, incorporate it into an existing resource, lesson or scheme of work or develop it into a wider language study unit.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Synonyms - KS3
To Autumn by John Keats (editable PowerPoint with worksheets)
‘To Autumn’ is a ready-to-teach GCSE teaching resource for the poem ‘To Autumn’ by John Keats as featured in the WJEC Eduqas Poetry Anthology. The resource includes a variety of activities which explore the poem’s context, language, tone, form, style, theme and structure. The resource is aimed at GCSE students learning about the poem as part of the WJEC Eduqas examination.
CONTENTS
An introduction to Keats (notes and a short film)
An outline of Romanticism (notes and a short film)
A copy of ‘To Autumn’
Consolidation tasks
Exploring Keats’ use of language and imagery
Examining form, structure and the use of poetic devices
Using P.E.T.E.R. to write analytically about poetry
The poem’s key themes
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE Poetry resources for Eduqas and Edexcel:
The Manhunt
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He
Love’s Dog
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones
EDUQAS 9-1 GCSE English - Excerpt from ‘The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth (40-slide PowerPoint and 4 accompanying worksheets)
Excerpt from ‘The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth is a GCSE English teaching resource for the poem ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth - as featured in the WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology. The resource includes a range of activities which explore the poem and cover the its language, tone, structure, form, style, poetic devices and themes in depth.
Excerpt from The Prelude (William Wordsworth) contents include:
An introduction to Wordsworth
Consolidation activities
Analysing language and imagery
Examining the poem’s form, structure and poetic devices
Using P.E.T.E.R. to write about ‘Excerpt from ‘The Prelude’’
Wordsworth’s ‘message’ and the poem’s key themes and ideas
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE Poetry resources for Eduqas and Edexcel:
The Manhunt
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He
Love’s Dog
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones
Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4
Lower KS2 English Teaching Resource
In this English punctuation teaching resource, pupils practise recognising, writing and punctuating direct speech as per the curriculum objectives of the Year 3 and 4 programme of study (Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation). This engaging and animated PowerPoint lesson includes:
An explanation of direct speech
Identify the reporting clause and speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
An explanation of indirect speech
A direct and indirect speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
How to punctuate direct speech explanation
A punctuating speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
Complete the sentences activity with an accompanying worksheet
3 further differentiated worksheets with answers
As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Direct and Reported Speech
Punctuating Speech
Afternoons by Philip Larkin (42-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets)
‘Afternoons’ is a GCSE English teaching resource for the poem ‘Afternoons’ by Philip Larkin - as featured in the WJEC Eduqas GCSE 9-1 Poetry Anthology.
The resource includes a range of activities which explore the poem’s context, language, tone, form, style, theme and structure in detail. The resource is aimed at teachers of GCSE students preparing for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE 9-1 English examinations.
Afternoons by Philip Larkin contents include:
A short introduction to Larkin and the poem’s context (1950s/60s gender roles, social housing)
Comprehension tasks
Analysing the use of language and imagery in Afternoons
Examining the poem’s form, structure and Larkin’s use of poetic techniques
Modelling how to use P.E.T.E.R. to write analytically about ‘Afternoons’
Philip Larkin’s ‘message’ and the poem’s key themes
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE Poetry resources for Eduqas and Edexcel:
The Manhunt
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He
Love’s Dog
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones
‘A Complaint’ is a 39-slide PowerPoint presentation with 2 worksheets. It’s been produced for the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology and includes a range of teaching activities.
Contents cover:
An introduction to the poem and Wordsworth
Analysis of ‘A Complaint’
A copy of the poem and consolidation activities
Exploring how Wordsworth uses form and structure
Studying the use of imagery in A Complaint
Wordsworth’s use of certain poetic techniques
Language - word and vocabulary choices
The themes explored in ‘A Complaint’
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE Poetry resources for Eduqas and Edexcel:
The Manhunt
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He
Love’s Dog
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones
Poppies - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology
This two-lesson unit teaches students about Jane Weir's 'Poppies' in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. It is made up of a 50-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets.
The lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context - An introduction to the poet Jane Weir and the poem’s inspiration and context.
First Reading - A reading of ‘Poppies’ with comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included.
Language and imagery - Analysing 'Poppies' in detail. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing - An essay question to assess students' initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included.
Lesson Two
Imagery - Analysing Weir's use of imagery.
Themes - Discussing the poem's themes.
Structure and Form - Considering how Weir uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme.
The GCSE exam - Comparing ‘Poppies’ with ‘War Photographer’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam.
This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.
To preview a selection of slides from the presentation, click on the images.
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Childhood
(20-slide PowerPoint and 3 worksheets)
In Stave 2 the Ghost of Christmas Past encourages Scrooge to reflect on the time that he was abandoned at boarding school by his emotionally-distant father. This GCSE resource enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of this unhappy time in Scrooge’s life.
It includes:
A differentiated Do Now task in which learners must make three different, valid sentences relevant to Stave One using the words contained in three separate grids.
Learners will then read from, ‘Scrooge reverently disclaimed any knowledge…’ down to ‘…and the streets were lighted up’, thinking about why Scrooge was unhappy at boarding school, how Dickens presents Scrooge’s unhappiness and the effects of this experience on Scrooge’s emotional development.
Following on from this, learners will undertake a differentiated task that encourages them to consider the significance of three different characters from the stories that Scrooge read as a child. This could be done in pairs.
The lesson concludes with a 3-2-1 learning review.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Past
A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig
A Christmas Carol - Fezziwig and Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and Belle
A Christmas Carol - Belle’s Family