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With half a million members across both the primary and secondary sectors, Teachit is a thriving community of teachers and home tutors sharing resources and inspiration. What makes us different? All our resources are written and shared by teachers and checked by our teacher-editors so you know they can be trusted to work.
From free PDFs to PowerPoints, worksheets, quizzes, games and CPD webinars and articles from experts, Teachit has something for you at www.teachit.co.uk
Our GCSE revision guide for students studying Romeo and Juliet covers all the key acts, characters and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions and answers for all exam boards.
Perfect for independent study and remote learning, it includes a helpful overview of the play, an act by act summary of events and guidance on key quotations.
Revising Romeo and Juliet also helps to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding through self-checks, quizzes and a detailed exploration of character, setting, Shakespeare’s language and the play’s tragic structure.
What’s included?
Covers key characters and themes (love, fate, family, death, conflict, roles of women) plus a summary of the play.
Includes practice exam questions for all exam boards and suggested answers.
Features active revision strategies to build students’ knowledge.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 3-4)
Plot summary (pages 5-7)
Overview: whole play revision activities (pages 8-17)
Terminology – language and structure
WYOO (What’s your opinion on …?)
Love revision activities (pages 18-28)
Revision activity 1: Types of love
Revision activity 2: A love timeline
Revision activity 3: Stickman summary
Revision activity 4: Structure (and language) analysis
Love practice exam questions
Fate revision activities (pages 29-39)
Revision activity 1: True or false
Revision activity 2: Close analysis
Revision activity 3: The Prince’s perspective
Revision activity 4: The wheel of fortune
Fate practice exam questions
Family revision activities (pages 40-50)
Revision activity 1: Rules were meant for breaking?
Revision activity 2: Surrogate parents
Revision activity 3: All the married ladies (all the married ladies …)
Revision activity 4: Exploding quotations
Family practice exam questions
Conflict revision activities (pages 51-62)
Revision activity 1: Types of conflict
Revision activity 2: Ordering the fight scene
Revision activity 3: Context and conflict
Revision activity 4: Analysing Juliet’s inner conflict
Conflict practice exam questions
Death revision activities (pages 63-75)
Revision activity 1: The ‘extra’ deaths
Revision activity 2: Understanding the key elements of tragedy
Revision activity 3: Romeo’s imagery
Revision activity 4: The families unite
Death practice exam questions
Roles of women revision activities (pages 76-90)
Revision activity 1: Juliet’s change
Revision activity 2: What did Shakespeare think?
Revision activity 3: Strong or weak?
Revision activity 4: Close analysis
Roles of women practice exam questions
Our flexible and engaging classroom templates are designed specifically for KS3-5 students, and cover a range of oracy skills.
With a renewed focus on oracy from Ofsted and the DfE in 2023, spoken language is one of the cornerstones of teaching and learning in the National Curriculum, and key to school improvement.
Using our oracy templates, you’ll be able to provide your KS3, GCSE and A-level students with a solid foundation in communication skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and professional lives:
teach students how to structure their ideas and arguments effectively and coherently
encourage students to listen actively and respond positively to different points of view
help students to develop their critical thinking skills
build confidence in public speaking.
Our templates come with clear teaching instructions and examples, making it easy for you to incorporate them into your lesson plans.
Suitable for small group or whole-class activities, these oracy activities help to develop students’ language skills and their overall confidence in speaking in class.
The oracy templates are customisable, so you can adapt them to suit the needs of your learners, the topics you are teaching, and your teaching context.
Our templates cover a range of skills, from active listening to persuasive speaking, and can be easily adapted to suit different subjects and learning levels. Whatever your subject area or year group, you’ll find ideas for modelling effective group discussion, using different types of questions, including Socratic questions, and helping students to recognise different tones of voice through role-play activities.
Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our downloadable whole-school oracy templates will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. These oracy skills are based on an established oracy framework and oracy-based pedagogy from Voice21 and Oracy Cambridge which focuses on four foundational oracy skills for young people: physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional.
What’s included?
There are 15 printable templates included in this 40-page downloadable pack, ranging from oracy starters and icebreakers to classroom activities and complete lesson ideas to develop students’ speaking skills.
Introduction for teachers
Oracy skills template
Now you’re talking template
Recognising tone templates
ABCD template
Taboo template
‘Speak like an expert’ template
Word dice template
Fortune teller templates
Socratic questioning template
Hexagon templates
Summarising templates
Think, pair, share template
Debating skills templates
Pick and mix oracy
Oracy tracker templates
About the writer
Sarah Davies is a former Head of English and lead examiner, now an assistant headteacher in a MAT and an ECT (Early Career Teacher) Mentor. She’s also the author of Talking about Oracy (John Catt, 2020).
Our Festivals and celebrations maths challenges year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate problem solving skills in preparation for KS2 SATs.
The pack is divided into nine lessons. Each lesson targets a specific strand of the Y6 maths Programme of Study and relates to a particular festival or celebration to give maths a real-life context.
Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, a worksheet for independent work and a plenary.
Questions are KS2 maths SATs-style. Answers are included.
Lessons included in the pack:
Lesson 1: Halloween – add, subtract, multiply, divide
Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – fractions
Lesson 3: Diwali – shape
Lesson 4: Hanukkah – statistics
Lesson 5: Christmas – position and direction
Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – percentages
Lesson 7: Easter – ratio
Lesson 8: Earth Day – area, perimeter and volume
Lesson 9: Eid al-Fitr – algebra
You may also like our Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice teaching pack.
A sample word problem:
Auntie Zainab sells silver bracelets as Eid gifts in her shop. She uses a formula to work out how much each customer pays according to the number of links of silver in the bracelet (which she calls s). She charges 50p for each silver link and then £1.50 for the presentation box. What is the formula she uses to work out the cost for a customer?
Our Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate comprehension and writing skills in preparation for KS2 SATs.
The pack is divided into nine lessons aligned with the Y5/6 English Programme of Study. Each lesson is based on a text extract or poem relating to a particular festival or celebration.
Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, paired/group or independent tasks, assessment opportunities and a plenary, with accompanying resources.
Comprehension questions are KS2 SATs-style. Answers are included.
Festivals and texts included in the pack:
Lesson 1: Halloween – Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – ‘The Fifth of November’ (English Folk verse)
Lesson 3: Diwali – Prince of Fire by Jatinder Verma
Lesson 4: Hanukkah – ‘Season of Skinny Candles’ by Marge Piercy
Lesson 5: Christmas – ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’ by Clement C. Moore
Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman
Lesson 7: Easter – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Lesson 8: Earth Day – My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Lesson 9: Eid al-fitr –’Yusuf and the Great Big Brownie Mistake’ by Aisha Saeed
You may also like our Festivals and celebrations maths challenges teaching pack.
An extract from the resource:
Read the extract from The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman on PPT slides 32-34). Then provide each child with a copy of the extract (Chinese New Year resource 1) and ask them to reread it, underlining all the different ingredients for fireworks. Take feedback and compile a list on the board.
Ask: What makes these ingredients sound exciting? Draw out that the author has paired ordinary words such as powder and grains with attention-grabbing words such as thunder, fly-away and scorpion.
In groups, ask children to plan their firework recipe poem using the scaffold in Chinese New Year resource 2: Firework recipe. First, they must create a list of exciting ingredients, then some powerful imperative verbs. Then children use these as an idea bank to write a recipe poem for an explosive new firework! What will be the name of their firework?
If you’re looking for a little more than the usual Christmas-themed word searches or colouring templates, our KS1 Christmas pack is a gift!
Comprising a variety of teaching ideas and resources, the pack will help you develop children’s understanding of the significance of the birth of Jesus; introduce different materials for seasonal art and design and to use the book ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg as a stimulus for writing.
All your festive activities in one place!
What’s included?
Teaching ideas and 15 accompanying resources for RE, English and DT
links to the curriculum.
What’s inside?
Design and technology (pages 1-23)
Recycled Christmas wreaths
Make your own crystal ‘snowflakes’
How to make a surprise hanging bauble box
How to make a Christmas sweet cone
How to make a hanging snowman
Design and make a Christmas cupcake!
Christmas dinners – true or false
Literacy (pages 24-39)
Matching gifts – The Jolly Christmas Postman
Choosing a gift for Grandma
Fairy tale characters – where do they live?
Fairy tale addresses
Design a Christmas stamp
Present mix and match – fairy tale characters
Writing letters to Santa
RE (pages 40-55)
Nativity hexbusters
How well do you know the Christmas story?
Board game template
All about Jesus
The Christmas story – sequencing
What would they say – Christmas story
Newspaper template
Christmas gifts – what would you bring?
A blockbuster Christmas snakes and ladders
What is important to you at Christmas?
Christmas activities for EYFS, KS1 and even KS2! 30 pages of Christmas colouring sheets and Christmas craft activities. Colour, cut out and build templates of Christmas elves, Father Christmas, Christmas trees, wreaths, tree ornaments and Christmas stockings. Find Christmas-themed colour-by-numbers or make gift tags and Christmas bookmarks. Or children may like to colour a Nativity scene or an Advent calendar.
Festive fun for EYFS and key stage 1 in the run-up to the holidays!
What’s inside?
Colour and build an elf
Colour and build Father Christman
Make a stand-up Christmas tree with decorative ornaments
Make a cone Christmas tree
Colour a festive wreath
Colour by numbers - festive wreath
Decorate a Christmas tree
Make a 3D Christmas stocking
Make Christmas baubles
Make an elf hat
Colour Christmas wrapping paper
DIY holiday gift tags
Build a Father Christmas gift box
Create Christmas finger puppets
Make a 3D Christmas tree topper
Colour the Nativity scene
Colour Christmas bookmarks
Customise Christmas cards
Colour and cut out an Advent calendar
Based on the big ideas principle of the AQA Science syllabus, AQA big ideas – KS3 science homework pack has been designed to ensure you have all your KS3 homework activities in one place.
The pack is divided into the 10 big ideas and features two tasks for each of the four subunits, comprising 80 activities in total. Each task includes ideas for self or peer assessment and answers are included, so marking and assessment is easy. And, while the activities are based on the AQA syllabus, they are easily incorporated into any KS3 scheme of work.
Just photocopy and go.
What’s included?
80 homework tasks covering the 10 big ideas
A mix of long and short tasks
Self and peer assessment ideas
Answers included
What’s inside?
Pack 1 - Forces
Pack 2 - Electromagnets
Pack 3 - Energy
Pack 4 - Waves
Pack 5 - Matter
Pack 6 - Reactions
Pack 7 - Earth
Pack 8 - Organisms
Pack 9 - Ecosystems
Pack 10 - Genes
Our Year 6 maths assessments pack is designed to prepare children for their end-of-year maths tests and to help year 6 teachers assess children’s understanding of national curriculum objectives.
All the questions are presented in the style of KS2 maths SATs papers and a mark scheme is included.
The pack includes 10 test papers in total, eight of which are based upon a specific mathematical strand and two of which are KS2 SATs practice tests.
Test papers included in the assessment pack:
Paper 1: Number and place value
Paper 2: Number and calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Paper 3: Fractions, decimals and percentages
Paper 4: Ratio and proportion
Paper 5: Algebra
Paper 6: Measurement
Paper 7: Geometry (properties of shapes and position and direction)
Paper 8: Statistics (charts and data)
Paper 9: KS2 SATs practice test (arithmetic)
Paper 10: KS2 SATS practice test (reasoning)
These printable diagnostic maths tests can be used in the classroom or for home learning. Tracking sheets are included to enable teachers to quickly identify gaps in children’s understanding of the maths curriculum.
Perfect for ensuring children are well-prepared for their final maths assessments at primary school.
If you’re teaching year 3, Spellings for year 3 could be just what you need.
The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The pack also includes ideas for spelling games and useful templates.
What’s included?
Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule
Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets
Spelling templates and suggestions for games
What’s inside?
Introduction (page 4)
Term 1, week 1 – words ending with -el/-il/-al (pages 5-8)
T1, week 2 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 1) (pages 9-13)
T1, wk 3 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 2) (pages 14-17)
T1, wk 4 – words that contain y as a vowel (pages 18-20)
T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 21-24)
T1, wk 6 – common exception words from year 2 (pages 25-27)
T2, wk 1 — words containing -dg/-dge (revision from year 2) (pages 28-31)
T2, wk 2 — words containing -ou (pages 32-35)
T2, wk 3 — words beginning with dis- (pages 36-39)
T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ation (pages 40-43)
T2, wk 5 — word families (pages 44-46)
T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (pages 47-49)
T3, wk 1 — words beginning with gn-/kn- (revision from year 2) (pages 50-52)
T3, wk 2 — words beginning with in- (pages 53-56)
T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ly (part 1) (pages 57-60)
T3, wk 4 — words ending in -sion (pages 61-63)
T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 64-66)
T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 67-70)
T4, wk 1 — words ending in -ness/-ment (revision from year 2) (pages 71-74)
T4, wk 2 — words beginning with il- and ir- (pages 75-79)
T4, wk 3 — words ending with -sure/-ture (pages 80-82)
T4, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 83-87)
T4, wk 5 — word families (pages 88-91)
T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 92-96)
T5, wk 1 — compound words (revision from year 2)(pages 97-101)
T5, wk 2 — words ending in -ly (part 2) (pages 102-106)
T5, wk 3 — words beginning with im- (pages 107-109)
T5, wk 4 — words containing ch that sound like hard c (pages 110-112)
T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 113-116)
T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 117-120)
T6, wk 1 — words ending in -less/-ful (revision from year 2) (pages 121-124)
T6, wk 2 — words beginning with re- (pages 125-127)
T6, wk 3 — words containing sc that sound like s (pages 128-132)
T6, wk 4 — words containing eigh that rhyme with ay (pages 133-135)
T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 138-140)
T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 141-143)
Spelling games (pages 144-146)
Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 147)
Word of the week template (page 148)
You might also like Spellings for year 4 and Spellings for year 5.
Spellings for year 5 offers year 5 teachers all they need for weekly spelling tasks.
The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates.
The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go!
What’s included?
Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule
Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets
Spelling templates and suggestions for games
What’s inside?
Introduction (page 4)
Term 1, week 1 – words beginning with -in/-il/-im/-ir (pages 5-7)
T1, wk 2 – words ending in -cious/-tious (pages 8-10)
T1, wk 3 – words ending in -cial/-tial (pages 11-13)
T1, wk 4 – words ending in -ant/-ent (pages 14-18)
T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 19-22)
T1, wk 6 – year 5/6 word list 1 (paages 23-26)
T2, wk 1 — words ending in -ation (pages 27-31)
T2, wk 2 — words ending in -able (pages 32-34)
T2, wk 3 — words ending in -ible (pages 35-37)
T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ance/-ancy/-ence/-ency (pages 38-42)
T2, wk 5 — homophones ending in -ce/-se (pages 43-45)
T2, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 2 (pages 46-49)
T3, wk 1 — words ending in -ly (pages 50-52)
T3, wk 2 — adding suffixes to words ending in -fer (pages 53-56)
T3, wk 3 — hyphenated words: prefixes and root words (pages 57-59)
T3, wk 4 — hyphenated words: compound words (pages 60-62)
T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 63-65)
T3, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 3 (pages 66-69)
T4, wk 1 — words ending in -sion/-tion/-ssion/-cian (pages 70-72)
T4, wk 2 — words containing ough (pages 73-75)
T4, wk 3 — words containing ei (pages 76-80)
T4, wk 4 — words with silent letters: t, u, w (pages 81-83)
T4, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 84-87)
T4, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 4 (pages 88-91)
T5, wk 1 — words ending in -ous (pages 92-97)
T5, wk 2 — words with silent letters: b, c, g, h (pages 98-100)
T5, wk 3 — adding prefixes (1) (pages 101-105)
T5, wk 4 — adding prefixes (2) (pages 106-109)
T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 110-114)
T5, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 5 (pages 114-117)
T6, wk 1 — words ending in -ture/-sure (pages 118-120)
T6, wk 2 — words with silent letters: k, l, n, p, s (pages 121-123)
T6, wk 3 — mix and match reminders (1) (pages 124-127)
T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (2) (pages 128-130)
T6, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 131-133)
T6, wk 6 — year 5/6 word list 6 (pages 134-138)
Spelling games (pages 139-141)
Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 14)
Word of the week template (page 143)
You might also like Spellings for year 3 and Spellings for year 4.
If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you.
The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates.
The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go!
What’s included?
Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule
Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets
Spelling templates and suggestions for games
What’s inside?
Introduction (page 4)
Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7)
T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12)
T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15)
T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18)
T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22)
T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25)
T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28)
T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33)
T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36)
T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41)
T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45)
T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48)
T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53)
T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57)
T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61)
T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65)
T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69)
T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74)
T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78)
T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81)
T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85)
T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88)
T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92)
T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96)
T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100)
T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104)
T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107)
T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112)
T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115)
T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119)
T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123)
T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126)
T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131)
T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135)
T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139)
T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144)
Spelling games (pages 145-147)
Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148)
Word of the week template (page 149)
You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.
Practice makes perfect!
Including eight GPS practice papers and accompanying spelling assessments, PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples and a set of engaging quick-fire challenge cards, GPS SATs practice for KS2 has all you need to prepare your children for their KS2 GPS tests.
What’s included?
eight SATs-style practice papers, spelling assessments and answers
PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples
challenge cards
marking guidance.
What’s inside?
Introduction (page 3)
GPS question papers (pages 4-214)
GPS spelling tasks and answers (pages 214-246)
Challenge cards (pages 247-273)
G1 Grammatical terms and word classes
G2 Function of sentences
G3 Combining words, phrases and clauses
G4 Verb forms, tense and consistency
G5 Punctuation
G6 Vocabulary
G7 Standard English and formality
PowerPoint screenshots (page 274)
Enchant, amuse and inspire your children with our first whole-school teaching pack – Poetry for all.
The pack features 14 poems and a range of engaging teaching ideas and resources for Reception through to year 6, saving you precious time searching for age-appropriate poems and activities.
Including activities for comprehension, drama, creative writing and art and design, this pack is perfect for encouraging your children to respond imaginatively to both modern and classic poems.
What’s included?
53 quality teaching resources, alongside 14 carefully selected poems
seven PowerPoints complete with illustrated versions of each poem
SAT-style comprehensions, when appropriate, including answers
links to the curriculum.
What’s inside?
Introduction (page 3)
Statutory requirements (pages 4-10)
Reception (pages 11-23)
Ye Spotted Snakes by William Shakespeare
Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth
Year 1 (pages 24-41)
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
Please Do Not Feed the Animals by Robert Hull
Year 2 (pages 42-67)
The Months by Sara Coleridge
Granny Is by Valerie Bloom
Year 3 (pages 68-87)
Silver by Walter de la Mare
Vegan Delight by Benjamin Zephaniah
Year 4 (pages 88-112)
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
Extinct by Mandy Coe
Year 5 (pages 113-139)
From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Door by Miroslav Holub
Year 6 (pages 140-164)
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
His Nine Sympathies by Carol Ann Duffy
All you need to develop children’s reading comprehension skills and prepare them for their KS2 reading assessments.
Inspire a positive attitude to reading and consolidate those all-important comprehension skills ready for KS2 English SATs.
Featuring six fiction and non-fiction texts alongside engaging lesson plans, reading comprehension activities and worksheets, this pack will encourage your children to build the comprehension strategies of information retrieval, drawing inferences, making predictions, identifying and summarising ideas and analysing language and structure.
What’s more, this pack is editable, meaning you can tweak questions to suit your UKS2 learners.
What’s included?
six original texts and 21 supporting teaching resources, including comprehension questions and answer sheets
includes lesson plans, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
links to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for English.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages3-6)
Unit 1 – Five Children and It (pages 7-20)
Resource - picturing the Psammead
Resource - that’s Greek to me
Unit 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pages 21-33)
Resource - pass the parcel words
Resource - he said, she said
Resource - Seen the movie? Now read the book!
Unit 3 – Alice in Wonderland (pages 34-47)
Resource - illustration by Sir John Tenniel
Resource - Alice grows
Resource - comprehension chatterbox
Unit 4 – Odin’s Reward (pages 48-59)
Resource - pairs game
Resource - comic strip format
Unit 5 – Samuel Johnson biography (pages 60-70)
Resource - Dr Johnson’s wonderful words!
Resource - my biography notes
Unit 6 – Newspaper report (pages 71-78)
Resource - fact or opinion?
Resource - complete the headline
Help children to develop their understanding and enjoyment of stories and non-fiction with our Comprehension pack for lower KS2.
Featuring six texts alongside engaging comprehension tasks, questions and answers, this pack will encourage your children to retrieve information, draw inferences, make predictions, identify and summarise ideas and analyse language and structure.
All you need to address these key skills!
What’s included?
six original texts and 17 supporting resources, including comprehensions and answer sheets
includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
links to the curriculum.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 3-6)
Unit 1 – The Little Prince (pages 7-16)
Resource - unlocking words
Unit 2 – The Velveteen Rabbit (pages 17=25)
Resource - old-fashioned to modern day
Resource - what’s in the bag?
Unit 3 – The Little Mermaid (pages 26-36)
Resource - underwater similes
Resource - through the eyes of a mermaid
Unit 4 – Robin Hood (pages 37-48)
Resource - retelling Robin Hood
Resource - Robin Hood’s arrows
Unit 5 – Four square (pages 49-56)
Resource - instruction text detectives
Unit 6 – A letter (pages 57-64)
Resource - a letter in reply
Resource - letter-writing ideas
Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners.
This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play.
What’s included?
12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant
supporting PowerPoint presentations
opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
links to the curriculum.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 4-7)
Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21)
Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel
Session 2 - Using precise language
Resource printouts
Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36)
Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel
Session 2 - Story map
Resource printouts
Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51)
Session 1 - Birds of Prey
Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie
Resource printouts
Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66)
Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit
Session 2 - Character traits
Resource printouts
Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84)
Session 1 - Reading detectives
Session 2 - Character traits
Resource printouts
Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101)
Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions
Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions
Resource printouts
Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120)
Session 1 - What happens next?
Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer
Resource printouts
Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138)
Session 1 - A trip to the zoo
Session 2 - Zoo complaint
Resource printouts
Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160)
Session 1 - Cause and effect
Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories
Resource printouts
Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171)
Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie
Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess
Resource printouts
Prepare your Higher tier GCSE students for their maths exam with our GCSE Higher maths - key skills revision pack.
This student revision pack comprises 15 worksheets, each featuring 15 GCSE exam-style questions and answers to revise and practise essential skills. Questions include space for workings.
Modelled on questions from past papers, this practice paper pack is great for assessment, for identifying learning gaps, as an independent revision resource or for weekly homework tasks leading up to the exam.
The pack features calculator and non-calculator questions and covers key topics covered in past papers including fractions, decimals, percentages, quadratics, trigonometry, simultaneous equations, inequalities, indices, angles, averages and spread, graphs and probability, helping students hone their problem-solving skills and improve their GCSE exam practice and performance.
GCSE Higher Maths - key skills revision is relevant for all exam board specifications including AQA and Edexcel, making for perfect exam preparation for your GCSE Higher tier students.
Key features:
15 papers of 15 exam-style questions
Answers and explanations included
Space for workings
Aimed at addressing gaps in prior learning – particularly after the COVID-19 school closures – Basic maths skills – support to improve students’ numeracy is perfect for both the transition to year 7 and for intervention sessions throughout KS3 and KS4.
The pack is divided into five units: number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry and measures and statistics. Each unit features ready-to-photocopy worksheets, teaching notes and answers. A tracking tick list is also included.
Improve students’ numeracy skills and ensure they have all the knowledge they need to access the full secondary curriculum.
What’s included?
39 worksheets to fill gaps in prior learning and form a solid base for progress
Answers included
Perfect for intervention at KS3-KS4 or to support Y7 transition
What’s inside?
Student’s section
N1 number: number and place value (pages 5-9)
Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000
Use negative numbers in context
Solve number problems
N2 number: calculation (pages 10-21)
Long multiplication
Long division
Short division
Mental calculations
Common factors, multiples and prime numbers
BODMAS
Addition and subtraction multi-step problems
Four rules problems
Use estimation to check answers
N3 number: fractions, decimals and percentages (pages 22-30)
Simplifying fractions
Add and subtract fractions
Multiply proper fractions
Divide fractions by whole numbers
Multiply numbers up to 2 decimal places
Written division methods up to 2 decimal places
Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence
RP ratio and proportion (pages 31-36)
Relative sizes
Percentage calculations
Scale factors
Unequal sharing
A algebra (pages 37-43)
Use simple formulae
Linear sequences
Express missing number problems algebraically
Working with two variables
GM1 geometry and measures: measurement (pages 44-53)
Units of measure
Convert between miles and kilometres
Area and perimeter of squares and rectangles
Area and volume formulae
Area of triangles and parallelograms
GM2 geometry and measures: properties of shape (pages 54-61)
2D shapes
3D shapes
Parts of the circle
Angles
GM3 geometry and measures: position and direction (pages 62-63)
Translation and reflection in four quadrants
S statistics (pages 64-68)
Pie charts and line graphs
The mean
Teacher’s section and answers
Teaching notes and curriculum mapping (page 69)
Tracking sheet (pages 71-73)
Homework answers (pages 72-91)
Help your students develop the maths skills they need for science GCSEs with 10 full-colour landscape and portrait posters.
Each poster from this set of 10 features a different mathematical concept and asks a question to kick-start students’ thinking. The posters provide an engaging and thought-provoking visual reference for your students and will support you and your colleagues in your delivery of GCSEs.
Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (French) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board.
The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’.
What’s included?
The pack consists of eight units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms:
present tense
negatives and questions
perfect tense
imperfect tense
future tenses
conditional tense
reflexive verbs
modal verbs and the passive voice
plus a review unit at the end.
The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these.
Each unit includes:
an explanatory PowerPoint
3–5 awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’)
3–5 practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice)
3–5 assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge)
answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers).
The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the French one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities.
Browse all our GCSE French verbs and tenses resources. See our other GCSE teaching packs, on vocabulary, translation, speaking and writing.
What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 4-9)
Habits and routines: present tense (pages 10-23)
Negatives and questions: present tense (pages 24-36)
Past actions and events: perfect tense (pages 37-51)
Past habits and situations: imperfect tense (pages 52-63)
Future actions, events and situations: future tenses (pages 64-79)
Imagined situations: conditional tense (pages 80-92)
Reflexive verbs: present and perfect tenses (pages 93-102)
Rules, possibilities and processes: modal verbs and the passive voice (pages 103-112)
Verb and tense review (pages 113-122)