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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hi, I'm Sarah, and I've been teaching for over a decade. I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Primary Education, but have taught in both Primary, Secondary and FE settings. My resources are primarily aimed at students aged 9-16+, and are mainly resources to be used in English lessons. I try to make resources that can be easily adapted for all types of abilities and ages. I hope you find my resources useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback on my resources - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding
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Annotating Texts to Develop Understanding

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An activity to help students understand textual extracts by annotating them. It's really interesting to do this with groups that struggle to take the information within the text and develop it further. ***All extracts belong to the authors who wrote them***
Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry
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Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry

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A PowerPoint and resources to introduce the idea of annotating poetry to upper KS3 and all KS4. This allows whole-class annotation followed by peer work and answering questions to aid understanding. Both poems are freely available on the internet - just look for 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney.
Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry
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Reading Skills - Annotating Poetry

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A PowerPoint and resources to introduce the idea of annotating poetry to upper KS3 and all KS4. This allows whole-class annotation followed by peer work and answering questions to aid understanding.
Reading Skills - Using Visual Representations
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Reading Skills - Using Visual Representations

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A PowerPoint designed to help students become familiar with the idea of using visual methods to show and explain difficult, lengthy-worded instructions. Includes homework task of developing a visual timetable for themselves.
There, Their and They're - What's the Difference?
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There, Their and They're - What's the Difference?

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A PowerPoint and Activity to help stuggling students understand the difference between the tricky there, their and they're homophones. The accompanying homework sheet helps the students to demonstrate their understanding independently.
Reading Skills - Visualising Descriptions
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Reading Skills - Visualising Descriptions

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An activity designed to explore how we all read descriptive passages but see them differently. It requires students to read the extracts from the novels and then draw their interpretation of the description. Both extracts are copyright of their authors.
Reading Skills - Making Predictions
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Reading Skills - Making Predictions

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A PowerPoint on the skill of predicting what might happen in a book, leaflet, etc. Students are asked to predict the contents of writing using various sources, and are able to identify primary and secondary elements in texts. The Activity 'What does the Cover say?' asks students to say what they think a book may be about from the cover&'s primary and secondary elements. * Image links are included and can be easily found on the internet.
Practice Controlled Assessment Task
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Practice Controlled Assessment Task

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A practice task for a lower ability GCSE group. This task was inspired by the Olympics, and the students did the taask in parts, each of which was supported by group writing and discussion of the task requirements.
Top tips for Engaging Struggling Students
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Top tips for Engaging Struggling Students

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A sheet crammed with tips for engaging students who struggle, either due to SpLD or purely find listening and following difficult. This can be used as a checklist for your teaching, regardless of the subject.
Creating the Right Recipe
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Creating the Right Recipe

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An activity designed to help students with ordering and following instructions. The students are asked to put the different parts of a recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cake into the correct sections and order.
Giving Directions (Instructional Writing)
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Giving Directions (Instructional Writing)

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An activity designed as a homework task for students studying instructional writing. The task asks them to direct a visitor to their school from one room to another, in a different part of the building. The rooms can be changed/adapted to fit any school.
Wallace Hartley Comprehension Activity
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Wallace Hartley Comprehension Activity

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A comprehension practice activity using Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster of the RMS Titanic, as the topic. The information links to the questions and requires the students not only to read carefully, but to read between the lines and pick out alternative information. * The source of the information is indicated on the information sheet*
Writing a Magazine Article
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Writing a Magazine Article

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A PowerPoint exploring the requirements of a magazine article. I used this to introduce the latest piece of controlled assessment to my GCSE group. It reminds them of what's required when writing for a magazine audience and asked them to think about the different requirements of different articles.
Instruction Writing
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Instruction Writing

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A PowerPoint and activity around the idea of instruction writing. Students are asked to identify why instructions are important and what instructions they have followed - always interesting to see how many realise they are following instruction 95% of the time! The activities concern household chores, so hopefully all students can identify with them.
English Language Unit 3b Essay Plan
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English Language Unit 3b Essay Plan

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A planning document for the AQA 2013 Language Unit 3b Re-Creations controlled assement. This is a plan for using a poem from the Anthology cluster studied as a stimulus for a piece of creative writing. Can be adapted for different groups and clusters.
How to ace the GCSE English Language Exam
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How to ace the GCSE English Language Exam

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A powerpoint full of hints and tips for students taking the Higher Tier English Language exam. The slides run through the expectations and skills being explored, and then give some tips as to how students might want to approach answering the questions in order to get their best grade. Can be used as a last minute revision aid, or adapted and used earlier in the revision process. Most of the advice can be applied to all the exam boards.
Unit 2 Lit (Remember the Poems)
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Unit 2 Lit (Remember the Poems)

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An activity designed to test the understanding of the students before their GCSE English Literature Unit 2 exam. The table on the sheet contains different poems from the Relationships section of the anthology, and asks students to make notes on various elements on the poem that they might analyse in their exam.
Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)
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Unseen Poetry Revision (Island Man - Nichols)

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A practice exam question for any students undertaking an unseen poem. This particular activity focusses on the poem Island Man by Grace Nichols, and asks the students to complete a planning grid, helping them to focus and note down their ideas. ***The poem is the property of Grace Nichols***
Unit 1 Language Revision Activity (Facebook)
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Unit 1 Language Revision Activity (Facebook)

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A practice exam question, using a recent article from the Guardian newspaper about the stock market floatation of Facebook. This question is practice for students in finding and explaining information.