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.
GCSE Broadsheet Newspaper Article Writing
(KS4 unit of work with PowerPoint and worksheets)
This differentiated unit of work, which is aimed at middle-to-upper ability GCSE students, explains how to write an effective article for a broadsheet newspaper as required by the GCSE English Language exam.
The unit is made up of five individual lessons, each with differentiated tasks that teach the components of a successful broadsheet article:
The structural features of a broadsheet article
Effective and imaginative article headings
How to write an engaging introduction
Coherent paragraphs with a topic sentence, evidence and discussion
Formative assessment task with WAGOLL and success criteria.
Suggested answers are included for all tasks.
This EYFS teaching resource contains all 22 of our letters PowerPoint presentations giving you a massive saving of £36.
Each letter of the alphabet is introduced in a colouful and animated PowerPoint presentation that includes:
- an interactive quiz
- a link to a song about each letter
- an accompanying worksheet for each letter (24 worksheets in total)
- an alphabet colouring page
The 'Letters of the Alphabet Bundle' is fully editable so teachers are able to adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach.
A Christmas Carol - AQA GCSE is made up of a 101-slide PowerPoint presentation, 14 worksheets, 7 lesson plans and a unit overview.
‘A Christmas Carol - AQA GCSE’ is perfect for teaching to lower sets as it approaches the text in an easy-to-understand and engaging way. Each lesson has been constructed around the four-part lesson format (starter, introduction, development and plenary) and all can be edited, modified and differentiated to fit your specific teaching needs.
Activities include:
Social and historical context - a Victorian Christmas and what it was like to be poor in Victorian society.
Use of structure – chronological order and flashbacks.
Developing key GCSE reading skills - inference and deduction activities.
Analysis of Scrooge’s character development and Dickens’ use of language.
Using P.E.T.E.R. when writing extended answers.
Exam preparation – example exam questions to help students prepare for GCSE
Language study – how Dickens uses language for effect.
Room on the Broom – KS1 English Teaching Resource
Room on the Broom is a colourful, engaging and fun teaching resource for KS1 based on the popular book by Julia Donaldson. The resource covers numerous elements of the National Curriculum for KS1 Reading and Writing skills and is colourful, engaging and interactive. Activities include:
• information retrieval
• recounting the narrative
• exploring the themes and message of the story
• talking and writing about characters and key events
• considering the use of heroes and villains in the book
• looking at language – words that rhyme
• making predictions
• creating a new book cover
Room on the Broom is a beautifully presented teaching resource containing interactive quizzes and activities. The resource also contains 27 worksheets and a 6 lesson overview of the unit.
‘Room on the Broom’ is fully editable allowing teachers to adapt the resource if needed to suit each class they teach.
Traditional Stories (Year 1/2) is a complete unit of work including a planning overview, assessment guidance, detailed lessons and activities, a 66 slide PowerPoint and 16 accompanying worksheets.
It includes a range of varied lessons and activities for children of all abilities:
Talk for writing and prior learning tasks
Exploring and discussing traditional stories and fairy tales
Discovering multi-modal texts - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks
Individual, pair and group work
How to understand characters
Hotseating and role play tasks to develop understanding of character
Sequencing and storyboarding
How to plan a story using the story mountain
How to begin a narrative - teacher modelling the writing process
Writing assessment task
Detailed teaching notes for lessons and assessment
This Year 5/6 Poetry Pack contains four fab resources that explore poetry in a fun and engaging way.
All resources are differentiated and contain PowerPoint presentations and accompanying worksheets.
Contents:
Acrostics
Free Verse
Limericks
Sonnets
Eduqas GCSE English Language Exam Prep - Paper 2 Section B
(94-slide editable PowerPoint presentation with 14 worksheets)
Eduqas GCSE English Paper 2 Section B has been created to support students as they prepare for Section B of the English Paper 2 exam.
The resource includes:
An introduction to the examination and the requirements of Paper 2, Section B
A step-by-step guide to achieving top marks on Paper 2, Section B
Exploring the exam questions in depth
Understanding the importance of audience, purpose and format
Writing to persuade and persuasive devices
Making writing engaging for the reader and examiner
Writing to argue – structure, language and devices
Writing letters and articles
How to build an argument
Creating a leaflet and writing a speech
Writing to advise
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Autobiography - KS3
This Year 7/8 autobiography unit of work is made up of a PowerPoint presentation and a 16-page booklet of worksheets. It contains a series of fully editable progressive lessons designed to teach the key features of autobiographical writing at lower KS3. Content includes:
What is an autobiography?
What are the key features of autobiographical writing?
Understanding the first person perspective
Spelling keywords in autobiographical writing
Effective sentence construction
Analysis of how writers create suspense in an autobiographical text
Assessment task - create a piece of autobiographical writing
AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A
(97-slide editable PowerPoint teaching resource with 12 worksheets)
AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A is designed to help students prepare for Section A of Paper 1 of the AQA GCSE English Language Exam.
Contents include:
An introduction to the exam and the AO1, AO2 and AO4 assessment objectives
An example GCSE paper with an extract from ‘The Monkey’s Paw’
Exam questions with prompts and marks
Example / model answers for all questions
How to manage time effectively
A detailed exploration of the key skills required to answer exam questions 1, 2, 3 and 4 successfully
Revising how to retrieve information (Q1), how to analyse (Q2 and Q3) and how to evaluate (Q4)
Looking at mark schemes and finding out what examiners are looking for in Paper 1, Section A.
Autobiographical Writing - Year 5 and 6
This fully editable teaching unit is made up of a series of seven progressive lessons designed to teach the features of autobiographical writing. Content includes:
What are the key features of an autobiography?
First person perspective
Prefixes
Spelling keywords in autobiographical writing
Common and proper nouns
Sentence construction
Using P.E.E. when writing about an autobiography
How writers create suspense in an autobiographical text
Assessment task - produce a piece of autobiographical writing
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section B has been made to help pupils prepare for Section B of the Edexcel GCSE English Paper 2 exam.
The resource includes the following:
An introduction to the exam and the contents of Paper 2, Section B
A step-by-step guide to getting a good grade on Paper 2, Section B
Exploring the exam questions and examplar answers
Understanding the role of audience, purpose and format in a written response
Exploring writing to Persuade and persuasive devices
Writing to argue – structure, language and devices
Writing articles and letters
How to structure an argument
Writing a speech and creating a leaflet
Writing to Advise
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Edexcel GCSE English and English Literature resources:
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section A
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation Bundle - Paper 1
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation Bundle - Paper 2
Edexcel GCSE English Language Exam Preparation Bundle - Paper 1 and Paper 2
Edexcel GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - KS3 Unit of Work
(93-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, 14 lesson plans, unit of work overview and 3 worksheets)
Our ‘The Invisible Man’ teaching unit explores the popular Oxford Playscripts drama interpretation of the classic C19th H.G. Wells novel.
It includes the following activities:
Examining the cover and blurb and making predictions
Using P.E.A.R. to construct an extended response
Writing and redrafting responses to texts
Character analysis
Writing an empathetic response
Understanding the P.A.F. of a text
Individual, pair and group activities
Exploring and understanding the key themes of the story
Creating storyboards and quizzes to consolidate knowledge of the text
Uncovering the context of ‘The Invisible Man’ - H.G. Wells research task
Role play, Hotseating and other speaking and listening opportunities
Writing a review of ‘The Invisible Man’
This unit of work is designed to cover GCSE Descriptive Writing as required by the AQA and WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language (9-1) exam. GCSE English (9-1) Writing Fiction - Descriptive Writing is a complete lesson by lesson unit of work (includes lessons and activities, a 91 slide PowerPoint presentation and 8 accompanying worksheets).
Activities for pupils include:
An introduction to descriptive writing
Examples of GCSE English (9-1) examination tasks and questions
Planning and structuring writing
Using the senses to create effective imagery
How to use devices in writing
Using the MASSIVE mnemonic
How to write using metaphors, adjectives, similes, sentence variety, imagery, vocabulary, effective verbs and powerful adverbs
Creating setting using the 5Ws
Transforming notes into prose
Checking, drafting and redrafting descriptive writing
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is an 8 lesson teaching unit consisting of a 77 slide PowerPoint and a booklet of 15 worksheets.
It is designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel’s plot, characters, language and themes.
The Magic Finger teaching resource includes something for children of all abilities. Contents include:
A scheme of work overview
A Roald Dahl mini biography, a video about Roald Dahl by Michael Rosen, a comprehension task and a class game
Reading, writing and speaking and listening activities
Developing making predictions skills
Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters
Writing-frame to help children write about characters
Examining Roald Dahl’s use of language (using effective verbs and adjectives)
Creating a comic strip version to assess understanding of the plot
Tips for tackling new words
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books:
Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Twits
Boy is a brilliant resource featuring a series of 10 lessons designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Boy by Roald Dahl. Boy includes an 98-slide PowerPoint, 14 worksheets and a unit of work overview and a range of activities and lessons for pupils of all abilities.
Contents
- A brief biography of Boy author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen
- Exploring the difference between biographical and autobiographical writing
- Create a Roald Dahl family tree - to develop knowledge of the early chapters of Boy
- Analysis of key characters including Mrs Pratchett and Captain Hardcastle
- How to use synonyms to improve vocabulary
- Speaking and Listening drama based lesson using 'The Great Mouse Plot' chapter from Boy
- Create a 'Welcome to Norway' holiday brochure
- Studying the main features of autobiography
- And much more!
Cirque Du Freak - Unit of Work
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan (Unit of work, 91 slide PowerPoint and 10 worksheets)
This engaging Year 6/7 teaching unit (it can be used with a high ability Year 6 or a Year 7 group) explores the novel Cirque Du Freak in detail and covers the following areas of study:
Developing inference and deduction skills and active reading skills and strategies
The novel’s context and background – Victorian freak shows (research task)
Character study and creating character profiles
How to use embed quotes in an answer
Writing a P.E.A.R.L. response
Summarising and reporting
Individual, pair and group activities
Identifying, understanding and using adverbs effectively
The author’s use of language in Cirque Du Freak
Using speech marks in writing
Structuring and writing an extra chapter for Cirque Du Freak for assessment
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels:
Boys Don’t Cry
Face
Holes
Noughts and Crosses
Skellig
Stone Cold
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
The Demon Headmaster
The Silver Sword
AQA GCSE English (9-1) Reading Non-fiction Texts (Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives) is a 95 slide PowerPoint with 9 worksheets specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction texts in preparation for the AQA GCSE English (9-1) Paper 2 exam - Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives. All lessons can be edited, adapted and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.
The lessons contain a range of activities:
An Introduction to the AQA GCSE English (9-1) Paper 2 exam - Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives
How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction texts?
How to follow an argument in a non-fiction text.
How are fact and opinion used in non-fiction texts?
Analysis of language devices
And lots, lots more!
Edexcel GCSE English Reading Nonfiction Texts is a 94 slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 accompanying worksheets and 9 step by step lessons specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction texts in preparation for the Edexcel GCSE English Paper 2 exam - Non-fiction and Transactional Writing.
The lessons contain a range of tasks, skills and activities, including:
An Introduction to the Edexcel GCSE English (9-1) Paper 2 exam - Non-fiction and Transactional Writing.
How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction texts?
How to follow an argument in a non-fiction text.
How are fact and opinion used in non-fiction texts?
Analysis of common language techniques used in non-fiction.
Developing awareness of how rhetorical techniques can affect
And more…
A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work is made up of an 83-slide PowerPoint and 14 worksheets. It contains 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure all of which can be edited and differentiated to fit your teaching needs.
‘A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work’ contains a range of tasks and activities including:
A Victorian Christmas
Time and structure in A Christmas Carol
Developing reading skills such as deduction
Speaking and Listening - Scrooge on a TV talk show
Exploring characters
How Dickens uses language
How to write about A Christmas Carol using evidence from the text
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2/3 novels:
The Silver Sword
War Horse
The Demon Headmaster
Skellig
Holes - KS3
Holes - KS2
Charlotte’s Web
Billionaire Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol – Stave 2 GCSE Bundle is made up of 6 varied and differentiated lessons to help you teach Stave Two of A Christmas Carol at GCSE.
Contents include:
Scrooge’s Childhood
Old Fezziwig
Comparing Fezziwig and Scrooge
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Scrooge and Belle
Belle’s Family
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