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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Punctuation Practice (2)
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Punctuation Practice (2)

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A set of five novel extracts (all copyrights to the authors) from classic fiction to exam board favourites, each with their key punctuation marks missing. The tasks are easily adaptable, and answers are included.
Exploring and Producing Poetry
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Exploring and Producing Poetry

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A resource based on the Benjamin Zephaniah poem 'The British'*. This resource encourages students to explore his poem before using it as a stimulus for their own poetry. *You will need to find a copy of the poem online.
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Comprehension Practice
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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Comprehension Practice

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An extract from the novel with comprehension questions attached. The questions range in skills from literal to more explorative, and can be easily adapted for any ability range. ***The copyright belongs to John Boyne.***
Varying Sentences and Types
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Varying Sentences and Types

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This PowerPoint is designed to explain the different sentence types and explore how students can adapt the way they start their sentences. Perfect to use at the start of a new school year, as part of your 'back-to-basics' reminder lessons. Also, great for Lower Ability students to help them easily improve their sentences.
Roald Dahl Day - September
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Roald Dahl Day - September

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A PowerPoint and Activities for students to complete during Roald Dahl day, or as part of a unit on Roald Dahl and his work. The PowperPoint introduces Roald Dahl and the various activities the students can complete, and then the activities are aimed at challenging the students in terms of their language understanding as well as their under standing of the writer himself.
Introducing Tenses
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Introducing Tenses

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A PowerPoint designed to be a basic introduction to the idea of past, present and future tenses. Can be added to with own examples, and followed up with worksheets or examples dependent upon the ability of the group.
Analysing Magazine & Newspaper Adverts
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Analysing Magazine & Newspaper Adverts

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A sheet of questions designed to prompt students to examine articles in more detail. This activity could be easily adapted for lower ability groups, purely by adding examples and more structure. ***Articles/Adverts not included***
The Tempest - Quotation Matching
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The Tempest - Quotation Matching

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An activity designed to enable students to explore the language of Shakespeare and identify the modern-day equivalents of certain phrases from Act 1 Scene 2 of the play. Students are then required to answer a question exploring the relationship between the different characters. Easily adaptable for students of different abilities and ages. *** All quotes from the play are the intellectual property of William Shakespeare***
Homophones - What Are They?
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Homophones - What Are They?

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A PowerPoint designed to explain Homophones to students. It requires them to be able to identify them and work out whether the words they've chosen are actually homophones or not - through discussions with peers. Can be easily adapted for different groups and abilities.
How Would you Advertise...
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How Would you Advertise...

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A PowerPoint designed to develop students understanding and ability to sell and promote products using both written and S&L methods. Designed around everyday items to make it more realistic. Image link have been included to aid ease of use, but can be easily changed or adapted for any group.
Speech Train
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Speech Train

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This is one way of helping students understand how to plan and draft their work and ideas on presenting a speech. The speech train provides a visual representation of their speech - showing how each section should be linked and how important it is to have a direction and destination for your speech. I enlarged this to A3 before getting the students using it, then it's spacious enough for lots of ideas!
Features of Adverts
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Features of Adverts

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A PowerPoint and Activity to help students understand and identify the features of adverts. The features are named and explained, and then students are required to identify them in printed ads and label and explain their reasoning.
Spellings Crossword (Common Words)
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Spellings Crossword (Common Words)

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A crossword task to help students demonstrate their understanding of how common English words are used in sentences. Could be used with any KS3 group, or even KS2.
Basic Punctuation - The Rules
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Basic Punctuation - The Rules

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A quick guide to the basic punctuation marks and what they mean/are used for. Could be diasplayed on Classroom Walls or used as a prompt for students who are struglling individually.
Christmas Cryptograms
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Christmas Cryptograms

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These activities have been created for groups of KS3 (and LA KS4) to give the students a challenge at the end of term. I like that they take time to do, when doing them properly. These activities are not like the usual Christmas activities, so the students really engage with them also!
Punctuation/Paragraph Practice
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Punctuation/Paragraph Practice

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This resource can be used with either Higher Level KS3 students, or students in KS4. All the capital letters, full stops and paragraphs have been removed from a review of Homeland Season 1. The students just have to figure out where they should be put! Could be made easier for Lower Ability students. Article is the intellectual property of the writer (name and newspaper on the sheet)
Using Poetry* to assess Reading Skills
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Using Poetry* to assess Reading Skills

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Two assessment pieces designed to assess the reading skills of higher ability Yr9 students. However, the poems used can be given to KS4 students as a pre-exam revision task also. The task is designed to assess all elements of reading skills. *The poems being assessed by these questions can be downloaded via the internet for free.
Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening
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Debate Topics for Speaking & Listening

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An activity sheet to help students prepare for their debate/discussion Speaking and Listening Task. The topics are phrased as questions and can be given one-by-one or all together, depending on the ability of the group.
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Annotating Text
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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Annotating Text

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An activity designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of how the author of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' uses his writing to delve further into the lives of Bruno and his family, and the background of life in Germany at that time. ***The extracts are the property of John Boyne.***
Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding
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Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding

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An activity to help students understand textual extracts by annotating them. It's really interesting to do this with groups that struggle to take the information within the text and develop it further. ***All extracts belong to the authors who wrote them***