This set of 66 worksheet activities explores Jaques’ speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, also known as the monologue All the World’s a Stage or the Seven Ages of Man. Includes… How to Use guide Printable sheet of the full speech from As You Like It 27 Line by line sheets for individual students to translate and illustrate in both a fun font and plain font Full page of selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in small bubbles Double-sided page of the same selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in slightly larger bubbles 4 differentiated versions of modernized Seven Ages of Man worksheet in both a fun font and plain font You can also use classroom discussion, group discussion, Turn and Talk and other collaborative methods to build and bank ideas before completing the activities.

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 2 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: Level 1 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 2 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 3 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 4 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 1 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 2 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 3 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 4 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide

Coach your students through the close reading and annotation of an extract about Chapter 13 from Wonder, then instruct them in the use of the differentiated essay frame to challenge and stretch pupils at all levels. What are August’s thoughts and feelings in this extract? The extract and annotation sheet includes instructions and suggested quotations underlined, and the essay frame shows a clear route of progress and has a built-in example and extension column. This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size documents, and in colour and black/white versions.

Enjoy using these differentiated figurative language worksheets as a starter, main, fast finisher or homework task. Use the Earth Day theme to build your students’ understanding of alliteration, similes, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole and sensory language. Some sheets provide prompts at every level, whilst others are more open for inspiration or challenge. The three sheets at each level can be used together or separately. I have also provided simple colour-free versions of every sheet: that’s 8 activities altogether!

This July 4th activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great seasonal starter, brain break or exit ticket. Learn about eight different traditions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions, and US and UK spellings.

Analyse the figurative language and literary devices from eight Tiktok sound trends and viral songs seen during April 2021! Use either as a full lesson in preparation for a bigger analysis task, as individual recap tasks for skills, or as a series of engaging starters for figurative language and device lessons. Best suited to upper KS3 and KS4. This resource comes in both US and UK document sizes (letter and A4), features eight sets of lyrics (recognisable to many students who use Tiktok), colour-coded answer keys, and an additional PowerPoint version for class collaboration. If you love this resource, follow me for an update when I release the sound trend tasks for May 2021 and beyond!

Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of six mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, sensory elements, emotions and movement in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations. Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction! Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you! Includes… Deconstruction of Setting worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Sound worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides Printable pre-populated hexagons Digital hexagon map with moveable elements Please note that a copy of the full poem itself is not included with this pack.

Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions. Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.

Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions. Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.

Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions. Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.

Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions. Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.

Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions. Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.

Everything you need in a single lesson for your students to compare an extract from TS Eliot’s Preludes and Rupert Brooke’s Seaside, resulting in a final essay assignment. Student read two seemingly different poems, and consider the setting or place of the two texts before comparing details, imagery, and use of figurative language.

Push your students to be accountable for their progress with these print and go accountable feedback sheets! Stick or staple them to the student work, or hand them out before submission. Students select an improvement area from the checklist, decide a course of action and provide a demonstration sample. Are they on the right track? You let them know in your response, and they have done most of the work! Includes… Worksheets for comprehension, creative writing, essays, and the basic mechanics of writing Full size, half size and quarter size sheets of all of the above Full red, full black and mixed color versions of all of the above …that’s 36 PDF worksheets!

Everything you need for your students to design a persuasive leaflet for a school club of their choice using differentiated, printable worksheets that can also be combined into a booklet! Students earn their budget in dollars, pounds, or currency of your choice in the starter task, which they then cash in for features to include in their leaflet design and content. Check out the preview for the version featuring dollars! Includes… PDF worksheets with budgeting in dollars PDF worksheets with budgeting in pounds PDF worksheets with budgeting amounts, but no currency reference Editable PowerPoint worksheets for you to add your own amounts and currency …that’s 24 pages total! These worksheets come in simple black and white format for easy printing.

40 printable book report templates in the style of a bento box! Student can either write, draw, or glue information or images into the sections to represent their book. Fantastic for creating visual summaries with appealing results! Four designs each differentiated to multiple levels - with prompts, with four or five sections, with flaps to lift, and totally blank for student organization or for you to instruct on specific content requirements… that’s 48 pages!

11 tasks on four worksheets. Each task focuses on an image within the novel Of Mice and Men. Use individually as bell-ringers, starters, plenaries, brain breaks, or give groups of students different pictures for a more developed discussion lesson. These worksheets are best printed as a booklet. I have also provided US letter and UK A4 size documents, and Google Apps versions of the resources for you to edit as needed, including a Google Slides set of the images for those of us that don’t have colour printing!

Blackout Poetry is a great creative pre-reading activity, and this activity focuses on the three different versions of the lullaby in Louis Sachar’s Holes. Different worksheets allow you to explore single stanzas, pairs of stanzas, or all three versions. You also have the option to use worksheets with fully redacted words, or redacted words with grammatical prompts (noun, adjective, verb, etc). Editable Google Apps version included, and all worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size.

Coach your students through the close reading and annotation of extracts from the opening chapters of Holes, then instruct them in the use of the differentiated essay frame to challenge and stretch pupils at all levels. The extract and annotation sheet includes focused extracts and chapter references, and the essay frame shows a clear route of progress with a built-in example and extension column to model development of ideas. Easel version included! This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions, and editable Google Docs version of the essay frame.