A great bellringer, brain break, warm up or ‘getting to know you’ task that can also be used as an extended task. Differentiated in nine different ways, this resource encourages students to select and edit their thoughts to a strict limit… harder than they anticipate! It’s also worth using for fast finishers.
Includes:
9 levels of differentiation
Quick and extended versions of the task
US letter and UK A4 document sizes and terminology
Fully editable Google Docs version
Looking to engage students with an interest in gaming? This differentiated resource allows your gamer students to design or describe a live stream similar to those seen on Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok and Facebook. Bring their world and your world together with this alternative writing task!
One version of this task allows students to design or draw their ideas, and two versions offer prompts for written descriptions on a computer screen style graphic organiser.
All three versions of the sheet are provided in both US letter and UK A4 size document.
A fun bellringer based on the TikTok ‘put a finger down’ trend. This slideshow includes 15 editable statements about high school that students can ‘confess’ to. A great lead into goalsetting and expectations!
Engage your class with a problem-solving task for your unit on Homelessness or Global Issues. Use this differentiated activity to promote discussion and critical thinking - if you had $100 or £100, how would you help a homeless person?
US and UK currency versions included, plus appropriate document sizes. Either select items from a tabled list of resources, or use the image-based list. Quick bellringer task version provided, plus a vocab word search for fast finishers.
This task also includes editable Google Docs versions for online learning or homework tasks. Please note: The images on the second page are not editable or moveable due to the terms of use.
Four printable, editable Halloween bookmarks to give as gifts or use and purposeful gift tags in your class.
Simply edit the message and font in PowerPoint, print, laminate and go!
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow for secondary school students focused on Halloween. Great for October or autumn!
Encourage discussion around 20 prompt pairs, all focused on the winter season. Perfect for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks.
Round up independent reading or book tasting sessions by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their own book. Then instruct them in the creation of a whole-class hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between the books to make a fantastic wall display.
This resource includes quick-print sheets of large, medium and small hexagons, and two differentiated versions.
Version 1 has sides for protagonist, antagonist, genre, theme, favorite quote, and setting. Version 2 has sides for hero, conflict, setting, favorite moment, genre, and pages.
An exciting activity that will also help your students to recommend new novels to each other!
Support social-emotional learning or start a conversation about mental health by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their reflections and emotions.
Use in one-to-one counselling sessions, in smaller nurture groups or with classes to help students share their experiences.
Six different designs of hexagon allow students to draw, graph or write about their moods and feelings, and track their experiences over days or weeks.
Create personal diagrams for one student, or collaborate with larger groups!
This resource includes quick-print sheets of large and smaller hexagons, both US letter and UK A4 document sizes.
Printable book report templates in the style of a book cover or dust jacket!
Differentiated to three levels - with section headings, with limited guidance, and totally blank for student organisation or for you to instruct on specific content requirements.
All versions are provided on an A3 PDF sheet with instructions for students to fill in and cut out their cover or jacket.
Although not all book dimensions can be tailored for, if the A3 format fits the students’ books, they could wrap their finished reports around the books to create an interesting classroom display!
The headed version includes…
Title, illustration and author info
Genre, setting, characters and conflict
Favorite character and reasoning
review and star rating
Includes a completed example report.
Create an interactive decoration for your classroom by asking your students to fill out one of these strips as a record of their reading.
Each strip includes space for the title and author of the book, and the name of the student who finished the book as well as the date they finished it.
Simply add the book loop to the chain or garland and watch your class’s collective book log grow!
Five styles of ‘link’ are provided in this pack: library shelf, comic books, pages, white with color text, and white with black text for printing on colored paper.
14 grammar posters for your English classroom - simple black and white styles which are easy to print on colour paper, or keep it monochrome.
Gen Z slang used on all posters as examples of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and more!
One version features sketch images to accompany the slang, and the other is text-only. 28 posters in all!
Support social-emotional learning or start a conversation about mental health by prompting your students to explore their negative thoughts and emotions through the metaphor of trees.
Use in:
one-to-one counselling sessions
smaller nurture groups
with classes to help students share their experiences
This resource includes step by step instructions, interactive trees activity, and an optional reflection task in both US letter and UK A4 document sizes.
Create a DIY advent calendar with pictures behind each door! This fantastic keepsake craftivity can be used with a range of student ages and abilities, and makes a great gift or project. 10 templates included!
Elements included:
Detailed teacher instructions for preparation and delivery
Printable templates with a choice of fonts
24 literary quotes about Christmas, one behind each door
Totally blank printable templates for complete creative freedom
10 pre-made, easy print templates - just decide whether you want blank or pre-filled calendar fronts or reverses!
Learn about your students by asking them to design themselves as a video game character. As well as asking students to draw themselves as a character, they are also asked to outline the name, color scheme, skills, powers, travel method and mission for their character. For older or more able students, this can be followed up with a ‘why’ explanation to encourage discussion and reasoning.
This pack includes…
US and UK document sizes
US and UK spellings
PDF versions
PNG versions for you to use in your own lesson planning
20 weeks of literacy slides! 20 slides with 100 activities - five per slide. Use as bellringers, exit tickets, brain breaks or for whole school home room tasks. The slides feature a combination of turn and talk, close reading, proofreading, sentence development, mime, quick writing and vocabulary tasks.
You could use one slide once a week for a set of activities together, or complete one of the five tasks on the slide each day of the week. Could also be used to support ESL.
This product includes…
UK and US versions of the above
Fully editable Google Slides versions of the above
Answer key for all proofreading tasks
Crack some codes this Women’s History Month with a multiple-choice research project about one important figure, with added challenge!
First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are tasks and questions, which students then respond to as part of their research. For added difficulty, there are three levels of differentiation, all in booklet format.
Includes a total of 25 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers.
Crack some codes this St David’s Day on March 1st with a multiple-choice research project about Welsh traditions, landscape and language, with added challenge!
St David’s Day is celebrated in Wales in the same way that St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Ireland.
First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are tasks and questions, which students then respond to as part of their research. For added difficulty, there are three levels of differentiation, all in booklet format.
Includes a total of 25 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers.
Crack some codes and start a discussion about mental health and wellbeing with my set of four differentiated activity booklets, with added challenge! The 9 tasks are perfect for tutor time or PSHE activities.
First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are wellbeing-themed tasks and questions, which students then respond to - NO INTERNET REQUIRED! For added difficulty, there are four levels of differentiation, all in booklet format.
Includes a total of 84 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers or answer keys.
Prank your students by asking them to crack an obvious seeming code! The alphabet code looks easy, but all symbols need to be shifted along one letter… who will work it out first?
Includes:
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How to Use instruction sheet and answer key
Prank code
3x coded messages
‘Real’ code (with symbols in the correct position)
First, students use the key to attempt to decode the messages. How long will it take them to realise it doesn’t make sense? The messages revealed are April themed tasks and questions, which students then respond to - NO INTERNET REQUIRED!
Take a trip to an imaginary remote island! Students start by selecting one island from four descriptions and explaining their choice before going on to select seven items to take with them.
Students will have different choices and reasoning depending on their island choice…
Wrap the activity up with a piece of narrative, imaginative writing for their first night on the island.