This activity booklet supports writing a winter poem in just SIX steps. Images are included as well as a word bank to support children who may need it. All steps are modelled and students follow the format to produce their own poem. Could be used in class, as homework, or for home schooling. Suitable for KS2+.

Reading activities linked to Superheroes. Students engage with images to infer, predict, explain, describe and recall.

This booklet includes short extracts from Austen’s six major novels (Pride and Prejudice;Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; and Persuasion). Each extract is followed by discussion questions linked to the extract. The last page requires students to compare and contrast the extracts. Discussion focuses on narrative voice, settings, protagonists, writing style, and vocabulary. Intended to be used as an introduction to Austen and writers of the long nineteenth century.

Six activities to aid drama and/or speaking and listening. These can all be utilised quickly and with minimal resources. Easily adapted to a range of themes. Used with KS2 but relevant to wide range of ages.

15x Reading/English activities linked to mountains for cross-curricula lessons. Includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, posters, data and more to inspire and encourage exploration. Questions involve inference, prediction, explanation as well as speaking and listening. Ideal for starters, guided reading, group work.

10 x Short Writing Activities to encourage creative horror writing. Activities involve writing blurbs, using figurative language, creating characters and experimenting with tense for a spooky effect. This could be used as a standalone literacy lesson for Halloween, as a homework booklet, for Greater Depth extension work or used individually as lesson starters. Also suitable for tutoring and home learning.

10 x extracts from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens with quick questions relating to vocab, voice and plot. Ideal for starting conversations about particular scenes in the novel and is suitable for a variety of abilities from Greater Depth UKS2 and across KS3. Students are encouraged to think about narrative voice, authorial intention, context and reader affect.

Reading Comprehension based on an extract from the original The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. Aimed at UKS2. Answers included. Questions based on Vocabulary, Recall, Inference, etc.

Based on the 2021 Christmas John Lewis Advert, this includes a range of questions to be used before, during and after watching. Questions are linked to recall, inference, prediction, summary, explanation. Also includes ideas for further activities. Could be used in whole class Guided Reading or as a stand alone Christmas English lesson. Opportunities for speaking and listening.

Listed in a table that can be easily edited, are a range of unusual and amusing words that are no longer common in todays discourse. Each word is currently matched with a definition but through a quick guillotine could be easily mixed up to provide a challenge. Once matched, they could be used to stimulate a speaking and listening activity.

Five Halloween themed activities based around images, suitable for guided reading. Encourages children to use reading skills: infer, predict, summarise, vocab. Uses images from film and books. Powerpoint can be edited for use with whole class or printed out as independent activity sheets.

A fictional last confession from Guy Fawkes, the night before his execution. (This could be used as a model). Students have a skim and scan activity, encouraging a quick response to locating words within the text. This is followed by a series of vocabulary and language questions, similar to SATs style reading questions.

Skim and Scan activity to aid speedy retrieval skills using an extract from The Secret Garden Children have to locate a series of words within the text, similar to a wordsearch. My class enjoy using an IWB timer to see how quickly then can locate all the words. Additional vocabulary extensions activity included.

A KS2 Greater Depth reading comprehension based on an extract from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Questions are SAT style and an answer guide is included.

Using ‘Inside the Artist’s Studio’, this worksheet encourages deep thinking around poetic function. Ideal for revision.

This resource includes a copy of Browning’s poem and a series of questions aimed at understanding context, form and theme. Ideal for revision.

A free resource to share on National Poetry day that includes a variety of activities at different levels for KS2 primary, using famous poems. Activities become gradually harder as you work through the booklet. Ideal for a one off lesson or as a homework booklet/home-learning/tutoring resource.

5 x Reading Activities using classic American children’'s stories such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer and Little Women. Each extract includes a skim and scan challenge and other text related questions. Great resource to encourage quick recall and to build text scanning skills.