A resource ideal for a revision task or homework to check students can match the quotation to the correct character. Perfect for Start or End of Term.

A 37-page activity booklet which can be used for class tasks, independent study or homework. There are some pre-reading questions to discuss, then activities done chapter by chapter following the book including a creative writing task for each chapter. There are After Reading activities and While You’re Waiting Tasks. Tasks are designed to check comprehension and understanding, encourage PEEZL and develop writing skills, figurative writing techniques, build and develop vocabulary range and knowledge, as well as games to be fun and engaging. There are links to literacy skills. Answers are not included but are all taken from the Coraline novel. Students can use this to help them find the answers.

A PPT lesson guiding students through what a relative clause is, creating relative clauses, and how to use them to good effect in creative writing. This took my international students 2 x 1 hour lessons, but for native speaking students it may be a bit lesson, but could easily be two lessons with peer reviewing of creative writing and feedback etc.

A PPT guide for about 2/3 hours worth of classes on showing not telling in writing, making inferences when reading and how to write a PEEZL (could be adapted to just PEEL or PEE paragraphs) paragraph. The PPT gives information as well as different tasks to help students build their skills as well as teaching some key vocabulary.

A PPT which gives students 30 adjectives for describing personality, and 27 adjectives for describing appearance. Working in groups students need to identify the meaning of the adjective and add it to their table, working out if it is appearance/character and positive/negative/other. Students are then encouraged to add their own words, and then using this word bank they can choose words to describe photographs of characters. Designed for a class to help build creative writing skills, as well as making inferences about characters. Suitable for EAL, or literacy/English.

A PPT which guides students to think about synonyms and building and developing their WOW word bank. Designed for EAL students, but would also suit a low attainment or low age literacy/English class.

A PPT designed to help students review 7 main types of figurative language: Similes, Metaphors, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idioms and Personification. Students fill in the vowels to remember and spell them correctly, then write a short definition of each one with an example sentence, then there are 10 short extracts from pop song lyrics where students need to correctly identify the types of figurative language used in each one. I also found the exact parts of the song for the students to listen to as they were thinking and this went down really well. Great for an end of term review after introducing figurative language. From my experience - students found this really engaging.

A multiple page Word Doc which guides students through understanding the difference between prediction, skimming, scanning, gist, summarising and reading for detail. It then guides students through different tasks encouraging them to use the different skills. There is an article about VAR for them to use apply all the skills to at the end. This was a full hour’s work for my class.

A short simple cloze activity of adding 6 linking words: because, as, so, therefore, as a result, when to basic PEE paragraphs. Ideal for students just learning to make inferences this way and practicing linking their sentences together to be more cohesive.

A PPT I made to introduce my students to what inferences are. There are tasks to make inferences based on a photograph, and then from song lyrics - one for each era. Debut and Fearless I have designed with question prompts for whole class examples, and then each other era to be printed individually for small group work. The final task is a writing task based on a photograph encouraging students to show not tell. Could also be the basis for a nice annotated class display.