4 page handout for students instructing them on designing a persuasive leaflet using specific language / techniques. The handout presumes the students are familiar with the persuasive and rhetorical devices used in advertising. This resource has been designed as an activity for students to show their understanding of these techniques. An example of a commentary is included that shows the students how to explain one layout feature and one persuasive or rhetorical feature and it’s intended effect on the audience.

24 cards with colour names. 24 “write your answer” cards. Flashcard activity and / or Classroom display.

10 dinosaur themed creative writing prompts. Can be used as a verbal cue card for group activities or as an individual written activity.

10 pages of individual stories with 4-6 questions. This small booklet is perfect for students who can read basic sentences. The worksheets begin with true or false questions and progressively work towards more complex, inference type questions.

10 pages, (2 x each sense) of sentence tracing for the five senses. Students can see how sentences are constructed as well as being able to practise letter formation.

20 sheets / 40 cards of cvc words. Can be made into a flip book for students or cut up into individual cards. Bright, vibrant cards help your students practise letter and word formation of CVC words.

7 posters covering a brief outline of the different stages of reading: Preview Question Predict Connect Infer Summarise Evaluate These brightly coloured posters are ideal for classroom use but can be reduced and copied for student books.

11 quotes from Animal Farm analysed. Ideal revision tool for students.

6 slide Power Point on creating an Ode poem. This is designed to be part of a larger unit on exploring poetic forms. It is meant to be a tongue in cheek, fun activity, having previously introduced students to Ode poems. Works well as a creative writing activity.

This is an ideal resource if you are looking for a quick revision activity for King Lear Students have to match the quote to the character. Quotes can be pre-cut and matched to the characters as an independent activity or the quotes can be read at random and students have to write the quote next to the character they think it belongs to.

Quick revision activity on Pan’s Labyrinth. Answer sheet included.

3 page Word document. Copy of the poem, The Harvest Moon, and a model answer for the question: Explore how the poet creates a sense of reverence towards the Harvest Moon. Aimed as KS 4 / GCSE level but the Word document can be adapted.

7 worksheets that focus on word class knowledge. Ideal starter activity to revise prepositions, different types of nouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, adjectives and pronouns. Halloween theme.

24 card domino pack. A fun, interactive way to help your students discover / revise animal themed collective nouns.

12 activities for students to work through independently once they have completed general study on Nolan’s film.

20 flashcard discussion questions that can be used for revision of the text. Excellent way to promote extended, developed answers. Independent or group discussion activity.

26 worksheets, in colour, helping students practise their handwriting / letter formation. Animal themed.

24 flashcard set that can be used as an individual or group activity. Created for reading comprehension or unfamiliar text prose / poetry extracts but these cards can also be used as study cards for extended texts too. These cards are designed to be prompt cards to help students annotate the extract / text and perhaps use to structure their answer.

4 bright, vibrant posters for your classroom. Posters can be reduced in size to be used as word mats for individual students. Tense types Sentence types 10 rhetorical device / persuasive language definitions

23 flashcards designed to help students revise the literary techniques used in satirical writing. I used this resource when teaching Juvenal’s Satires but the cards could also be used for teaching satire as part of a creative writing unit. Flashcards include (examples): Parody Invectives Sarcasm Imperatives Epigrams Apostrophe (not the punctuation mark) Circumlocution Ridicule Antithesis