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.
Tanka Poetry – Year 3 / 4
This Year 3/4 resource introduces tanka poetry. First, it presents an example poem and explains how to identify a tanka before providing scaffolding to enable the whole class to write a collaborative poem. The three differentiated worksheets (Gold, Silver and Bronze) give all learners an opportunity to write their own tanka independently with the appropriate level of support for their needs.
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Sonnets - KS2
Sonnets - KS3
Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Narrative Poetry - KS2
Fronted Adverbials - Year 7 (KS3 Essential English Skills)
(15-slide editable PowerPoint-based lesson with 4 worksheets)
Our ‘KS3 Essential English Skills’ resources are designed to help Year 7 learners master key English skills that were not fully developed at KS2.
This resource explains what fronted adverbials are and how to use them accurately in writing. The lesson provides a definition of fronted adverbials with examples before pupils explore them as a whole class. Learners then complete a range of activities to assess their understanding. The activities are differentiated - Bronze, Silver and Gold - to provide challenge for students of all abilities.
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Using Commas After Fronted Adverbials - Year 3/4
Fronted Adverbials - Year 3/4
Fronted Adverbials - KS2
Adverbs
Adding Adverbs - KS2
Adding Adverbs - KS3
Causal Conjunctions - Year 7 Essential English Skills
(13-slide editable PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets)
Our ‘Year 7 Essential English Skills’ resources are designed to help Year 7 learners master key English skills that were not fully developed at KS2.
In this differentiated resource, teachers recap the concept of causal conjunctions, then allow pupils to practice using them in sentences. The resource begins with whole-group activities before letting learners attempt differentiated individual worksheets where they match sentences, choose appropriate causal conjunctions and write conjunction sentences of their own.
The resource is differentiated (lower, middle and higher ability tasks) and fully editable. So you can use it as it is or adapt it for your needs.
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Time Conjunctions - Year 7
Subordinating Conjunctions - Year 2
Co-ordinating Conjunctions - Year 2
Conjunctions Bundle - Year 2
Conjunctions - Year 3/4
Causal Conjunctions - Year 3/4
Time Conjunctions - Year 3/4
Using Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3: Essential English Skills
Our ‘Year 7 Essential English Skills’ resources are designed to help Year 7 learners master key English skills which were not fully developed at KS2.
‘Using Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3’ explains how to use pronouns effectively in written work. It recaps nouns and pronouns and contains whole group and individual activities designed to help children understand when and how to use pronouns to avoid repetition.
The resource is differentiated (lower, middle and higher ability tasks) and fully editable giving you the freedom to use it as it is or adapt it for your needs.
Time Conjunctions - Year 7 Essential English Skills
Our ‘KS3 English Essential Skills’ resources are designed to help Year 7 learners master key English skills that were not fully developed at KS2.
In this differentiated lesson (lower, middle and higher ability activities), pupils recap time conjunctions then practice using them in a range of sentences. There are a mix of whole-group tasks that students can complete before attempting the differentiated individual worksheets where they match sentences, choose suitable time conjunctions and write sentences of their own.
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Causal Conjunctions - Year 7
Subordinating Conjunctions - Year 2
Co-ordinating Conjunctions - Year 2
Conjunctions Bundle - Year 2
Conjunctions - Year 3/4
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Time Conjunctions - Year 3/4
Sonnets - Year 7 & Year 8
This differentiated Year 7/8 KS3 English teaching resource explores sonnets in a fun and engaging way. First, it provides an example Shakespearian sonnet and explains the ‘rules’ of sonnet poetry. Pupils are then tasked with exploring an example sonnet and discussing its structure and language.
The second part of the lesson helps students construct their own sonnet. Learners are given a scaffolded approach and an example sonnet to help them construct a class and an individual poem.
The PowerPoint is fully editable, and it’s differentiated using ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ activities to assure that all children are challenged and can achieve.
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Sonnets - KS2
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Sonnets - Year 5 / 6 Poetry
This differentiated Year 5/6 teaching resource teaches children about sonnets in a fun and engaging way. First of all, it provides an example Shakespearian sonnet and explains the ‘rules’ of sonnet poetry. Children are then tasked with exploring an example sonnet and discussing its structure and language.
The second part of the lesson helps learners construct their own sonnet. Children are given a scaffolded approach and an example sonnet to help them construct a class and an individual poem.
The resource is editable and differentiated using ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ activities to assure that all children are challenged and can achieve.
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Sonnets - KS3
Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Acrostic Poetry - KS3
Cinquain Poetry - KS2
Cinquain Poetry - KS3
Tanka Poetry - KS2
Tanka Poetry - KS3
Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Narrative Poetry - KS2
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman – KS3 Unit of Work
Noughts and Crosses is a unit of work containing a 161-slide PowerPoint, 28 PDF worksheets and 15 lessons. This engaging scheme of work explores Malorie Blackman’s novel chapter by chapter, analysing its plot, characters, themes and language through a range of stimulating activities. Resources can be used at KS3 with either Year 8 or Year 9 depending on the ability of the students.
Our unit for Noughts and Crosses includes a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 28 accompanying PDF worksheets. The resource can be used to teach a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme.
Activities contained in the lessons include:
Exploring the social context of Noughts and Crosses, apartheid, civil rights, the novel’s introduction, and Malorie Blackman’s motives for writing it
Engaging chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding as learners read through the book
Reading comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, and themes - with example answers.
Analysis of the characters of Sephy, Callum, Kamal, Jasmine, Meggie, Ryan, Jude, Lynette, Minnie
Exploration of the key themes of friendship, racism, growing up, prejudice, privilege, love, power and social segregation
Developing the key reading skills of inference and deduction
Analysis of language and techniques such as effective description, creating conflict and building tension
Role play - hot-seating to aid understating of characters, plot and themes
Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing tasks
Plus many more fun starter, plenary and reading and writing activities
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels:
Boys Don’t Cry
Cirque Du Freak
Face
Holes
Skellig
Stone Cold
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
The Demon Headmaster
The Silver Sword
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.
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Writing a Review
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Writing to Persuade
Writing Effective Story Openings
Writing to Entertain
Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3
GCSE Speech Writing
GCSE English Narrative Writing
GCSE English Writing Fiction - Descriptive Writing
Boy by Roald Dahl - Free Resource
This free teaching resource for Boy by Roald Dahl contains one fully editable PowerPoint lesson with two accompanying worksheets.
Common Exception Words Bundle - Year 1
This year 1 English spelling teaching bundle contains the following 9 PowerPoint lessons:
Common Exception Words - Set 1 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 2 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 3 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 4 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 5 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 6 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 7 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 8 - Year 1
Common Exception Words - Set 9 - Year 1
Each of these English teaching resources has been designed to help deliver lessons covering the 45 tricky words identified in the Year 1 English programme of study.
For a full description and preview of each resource please click on the images above.
This bundle gives you a saving of 50% when compared to buying each resource individually.
Common Exception Words - Set 9 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 9 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘‘you’, ‘your’, ‘school’, ‘love’ and ‘said’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘you’, ‘your’, ‘school’, ‘love’ and ‘said’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘you’, ‘your’, ‘school’, ‘love’ and ‘said’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 9 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Limericks - Year 5 / Year 6
This KS2 lesson teaches children about limericks in a fun and engaging way. First, it provides examples of limericks and explains what the ‘rules’ of limericks are. It then provides a task that requires children to explore the examples and discuss the poems regarding layout, structure and language. The second half of the lesson explains how to write a limerick. Pupils are given a scaffolded approach and an example to help them construct a class and then individual limerick.
The resource contains a 23-slide PowerPoint and 3 worksheets. It is differentiated using ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ activities to help all children achieve.
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Limericks - KS3
Acrostic Poetry - KS2
Cinquain Poetry - KS2
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Free Verse Poetry - KS2
Haiku Poetry - KS2
Narrative Poetry - KS2
Common Exception Words - Set 8 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 8 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘the’, ‘they’, ‘are’, ‘friend’ and ‘house’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘the’, ‘they’, ‘are’, ‘friend’ and ‘house’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘the’, ‘they’, ‘are’, ‘friend’ and ‘house’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 8 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 7 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 7 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘one’, ‘once’, ‘here’, ‘where’ and ‘there’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘one’, ‘once’, ‘here’, ‘where’ and ‘there’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘one’, ‘once’, ‘here’, ‘where’ and ‘there’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 7 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 6 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 6 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘no’, ‘go’, ‘so’, ‘some’ and ‘come’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘no’, ‘go’, ‘so’, ‘some’ and ‘come’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘no’, ‘go’, ‘so’, ‘some’ and ‘come’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 6 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 5 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 5 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘do’, ‘to’, ‘today’, ‘my’ and ‘by’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘do’, ‘to’, ‘today’, ‘my’ and ‘by’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘do’, ‘to’, ‘today’, ‘my’ and ‘by’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 5 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 4 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 4 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘has’, ‘is’, ‘his’, ‘was’ and ‘were’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘has’, ‘is’, ‘his’, ‘was’ and ‘were’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘has’, ‘is’, ‘his’, ‘was’ and ‘were’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 4 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 3 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 3 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘be’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘be’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘be’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 3 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Common Exception Words - Set 2 - Year 1
‘Common Exception Words - Set 2 - Year 1’ has been designed to help pupils practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘full’, ‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘says’ and ‘our’.
This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
activities to practise reading and spelling the common exception words ‘full’, ‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘says’ and ‘our’
1 worksheet
printable flashcards for the common exception words ‘full’, ‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘says’ and ‘our’
‘Common Exception Words - Set 2 - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.