This fun descriptive writing task includes everything you need to support your less able students and stretch your gifted ones.
First, students explore ideas for describing a pumpkin, bat or skeleton as individuals, or in pairs or as a class, using the visual prompts on the first sheet.
Some students might wish to express some of their ideas through colour as well as words.
Next, share the differentiated word bank of sensory words to support and stretch your students as needed.
Included are banks for sight, sound, smell and touch - taste is not included, but you could always do this as a separate bank or as another collaboration project. There is also a vocabulary bank for verbs.
US letter and UK A4 size documents included.
The outcome will be interesting and vivid descriptions of the humble pumpkin, misunderstood bat and spooky, scary skeleton. Enjoy!
This editable pack of three activities about Romeo’s use of language in Acts 1.4 and 1.5 of Romeo and Juliet promotes close study of the play.
Assess Romeo’s emotions
Analyze his positive and negative language
Read closely into his use of themes and semantics
Categorize his speech
US and UK document sizes and terminology provided, plus fully editable Google Docs version.
Encourage your older Primary level students or younger Secondary students in need of support to develop their persuasive writing skills using these bingo grids, which feature 25 devices, techniques and features to spice up their argument.
This pack includes the grid in five different formats for differentiation. Choose from:
Simple grid with 25 prompts
Support grids with 25 prompts and 51 sentence starters
Planning grid with 25 empty spaces for drafting features
Create some rewards or merits for ‘House’ and ‘Full House’, and away you go! Great for competitive students!
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Encourage your KS3 students (or KS4 in needs of support) to develop their persuasive writing skills using these bingo grids, which feature 25 devices, techniques and features to spice up their argument.
This pack includes the grid in five different formats for differentiation. Choose from:
Simple grid with 25 prompts
Support grid with 25 prompts and sentence starters
Support grid with 25 prompts and sentence starters in dyslexia-friendly font
Planning grid with 25 prompts and note space
Planning grid with 25 empty spaces for drafting features, plus simple list of the 25 prompts, designed to be printed back to back
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No-Prep Group Work!
Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context, specifically linked to individual characters from the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper, or use with the included Character Thoughtpad to record the discussion.
Includes eight characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use!
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Ambitious Punctuation Mat
Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat
Accuracy Passport
All three resources enourage young writers to look at the next step in improving their fiction and non-fiction writing.
18 posters featuring six different figurative language and writing devices. Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples.
The posters demonstrate:
Alliteration
Imagery
Metaphors
Oxymoron
Personification
Similes
Use as classroom posters or print as smaller handouts. Includes both UK and US document sizes, and colour, low ink, and black and white styles.
An all-year debate task for KS3 and KS4! Students represent or personify seasonal holidays and argue their place in top spot in the holiday rankings.
This versatile, flexible activity can be assigned in a variety of ways (several suggestions included). Use the 21 pre-made seasonal celebration graphic organisers, or the generic version to assign totally different holidays.
This 100-page resource includes both American and British celebrations, suggestions for additional celebrations, and both US and UK document sizes.
Thirty posters showing key quotations from all three acts of An Inspector Calls. Each poster is in an attractive black and white design, as many of us do not have access to colour printing!
Each poster features a key quotation (along with who said it and when), the associated themes as hashtags, and indicates the tone used by the character.
All 30 posters are A4 size.
A peer assessment carousel not only lightens your workload, but it also allows each student to gain feedback from six different classmates whilst also seeing and evaluating examples of work from their peers.
How it works…
Just print a six-box feedback sheet for every student and staple it to their work. The work and these feedback sheets will be passed around the carousel to collect feedback. Next, group your students equally, according to their strengths. Each student reads a piece of work and fill out the feedback box for their focus, using the student guide sheets for prompts.
When the time is up for reading and giving feedback, each group piles up the work, and the piles are passed on to the next group.
You can use the premade sheets, which works around the concept of six focus groups, or you could make your own with the included blank editable version.
Easily adapted for different tasks, this product will serve you year in, year out! Includes a handy ‘How to Use’ guide.
16 character autopsy worksheets and printable interactive bookmarks require students to create a study of a specific character using body parts as prompts. A perfect addition to your novel study unit!
The differentiated sheets and bookmarks range from full creative control to clearly labelled and with prompt questions included.
Distribute this resource in traditional worksheet format, or print and trim the bookmark versions for a more engaging version. The bookmarks are formatted so two styles can be printed back to back - mix and match the differentiated versions for double sided bookmarks!
This resource is a step by step guide to building sentences by rewriting a sentence and adding an example of figurative language or a creative device each time. Use as a full lesson, or spread it out over several lessons as a bellringer. A peer feedback task is built in to the end of the process.
The provided example models the process every step of the way whilst students work on their own sentence from a choice of three.
Students begin with a base, three word sentence and add an adverb, alliteration, simile, personification, onomatopoeia and oxymoron in guided stages. The slideshow provided steers this process, and can be used as a lesson slideshow, or as bellringer slides. An editable Google Slides version of the PowerPoint is also included.
Both US and UK document sizes are included!
Great starter and exit tasks for lessons on Louis Sachar’s Holes. This slideshow features opening quotations from all 50 chapters; there are six spelling, punctuation or grammar errors in each, and answer keys built in. That’s 300 errors to correct in one slideshow.
Use as bellringers, brain breaks, exit tickets or as mini-lessons.
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the themes of any novel, short story or play, and then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between the themes and explaining their reasons.
Allow more able students to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces.
Includes two differentiated versions - one with headings for three quotations, characters, context and symbolism for the theme, and one with subheadings in each of these areas.
VERSION 1 SIDES:
Characters
Context
Symbolism
Quotations x3
VERSION 2 SIDES:
Characters
Main characters
Secondary characters
Tertiary characters
Context
Historical context
Social context
Symbolism
Symbol
Meaning
Quotations x3
Who said it?
When?
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.
This pack of five activities about Romeo’s use of language in Act 1.1 of Romeo and Juliet can be used individually or as a set to build understanding.
Assess Romeo’s character and motives, analyse his language, read closely into his use of oxymoron, translate his speech into current slang, and write a letter of advice from Benvolio or an Agony Advisor.
US and UK document sizes and terminology provided.
This Bloom’s Ball template for close character study features two sides for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy - remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create.
Each side has a prompt for character study:
Remember the character’s first appearance
Remember the character’s key details
Understand the character’s choices
Understand the character’s conflict
Apply one of the character’s beliefs to the real world
Apply one of the character’s quotes to an impression you get of them
Analyze the meaning of the character’s name
Analyze the impact of the character on the story
Evaluate how good or bad the character is
Evaluate the character’s future
Create a picture of the character
Create a meal for this character
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the themes of the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley with these theme revision placemats or graphic organisers.
Includes sheets for the themes of responsibility, social class, age and generation gaps, gender expectations, and time.
Also includes a diagram sheet for the Well Made Play structure. Great for exam prep!
This resource includes A3 size versions.
No-Prep Group Work - a set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context linked to individual characters from JB Priestley’s 1940s play.
This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper.
Includes a double-sided ‘ThoughtPad’ sheet for students to log ideas along the way, plus a Seven Deadly Sins bonus task for those who finish early.
Includes 8 characters, multiple tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use!