High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
Have oodles of fun designing your own theme park. This step-by-step Word guide explains how to create a marketing campaign for your very own theme park. The steps include:
Create a name and a logo for your theme park.
Design four new rides for your park and write a sentence to sell each of them.
Create two areas to appeal small children.
Create a new on-site hotel with themed rooms.
Put it all together in a leaflet to publicise the theme park.
This sixteen-page booklet contains example texts which have been marked-up to highlight key features.
Twelve lessons with powerpoints and resources to help students to create their own magazine on a topic of their choice.
Scheme comprises of:
Analyse the title of magazines and decide on your own title.
Analyse mastheads and create your own masthead.
Design your own front cover.
Write a celebrity profile features article.
Write a travel article.
Write a how-to article.
Design a competition.
Write an article on a food of your choice.
Use emotive and sensationalising language.
Create a contents page.
There are extra folders with a GCSE media task comparing two front covers and a WAGOLL analysis of a front cover.
Students love this scheme of work as it allows them to be creative while exploring their own interests.
Travel writing is one of the best ways to teach students to use language in a sophisticated way. In this project students choose a city or region of the world that they are interested in and create a travel guide on it using the example provided as a style model. The style model is about the Spanish city of Girona and the sections of the travel guide include:
An introduction
3 Days in your chosen destination.
Four of the best things to do there.
Essential information with top tips for visiting.
Final section original to the student.
Students’ attention is drawn to the use of premodifying adjectives and imperatives, which are typical of this style of writing. Students are able to see how travel writers sell destination through interweaving information about history, modernity and cuisine to make their locations sound exciting and attractive. There is also the possibility to turn the travel guide into a speaking and listening activity as students imagine that they work for the tourist board of their destination and wish to promote it.
Introduce your students to the fascinating story of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre with this thirty-four slide powerpoint, complete with visually stimulating images to illustrate the information.
The follow-up activities include:
A twenty-three sentence cloze exercise to help students embed and remember the information.
Diagrams of the theatre to label.
An interview with an imaginary theatre-goer to stimulate further understanding of the context.
Support for a writing task where students imagine that they have been to see a Shakespeare play.
True or false on Shakespeare’s Globe.
Written information on Shakespeare’s Globe that could be used for homework.
Transport your students back in time to the seventeenth century with this comprehensive folder of resources!
Calling all budding journalists. This twenty-three slide Powerpoint helps your students to analyze the key features of headlines and the key language techniques used. They are then prompted to write their own headlines for fictional news stories, culminating in them creating their own intriguing headline to grab the reader’s attention. Worksheet with techniques included. A fun lesson that might inspire your students to become the hacks of the future.
Help your students to learn their homophones with fun activities. Two worksheets packed full of sentences and activities to help them learn the differences, followed by a powerpoint with varied activities, such as creating a homophones educational poster; a quiz; plus a list of pairs of homophones for students to create a worksheet themselves for their classmates. Over three lessons worth of material.
Twenty-seven lessons with powerpoint and worksheets on this popular novel by Suzanne Colllins.
Lessons include:
District 12
Theseus and the minotaur - the influence of the myth
The Reaping
Katiniss’ character
Peeta’s character
Going to the capitol
Role of reality TV
In the arena
Using a variety of sentences, emulate Collin’s style.
Describe your own muttation.
Describe places.
Create a Hunger Games board game.
Students enjoy this film and you can treat them with the DVD too!
Two lessons using the opening of 1984 to introduce students to the features of dystopian fiction with a particular emphasis on Orwell’s use of pathetic fallacy in the introduction. The lesson sequence is as follows:
Lesson 1
Starter on what students think makes a perfect world.
Explanation of origin of term dystopia.
Examples of dystopian fiction for children.
Overview of 1984 without spoilers.
Analysis of techniques used in opening to establish the dystopian atmosphere of the novel.
Zoom in on Orwell’s use of pathetic fallacy. Students identify examples. Answers on slide.
Discussion regarding living in this kind of world.
Lesson 2
Students return to their original thoughts on what makes a perfect world.
Narrative writing in preparation for AQA GCSE English Paper One Narrative Writing. Choice of writing a story about a perfect world or writing a story inspired by a picture of the Earth. Both with focus on using pathetic fallacy and sensory description.
Folder includes 24 slide powerpoint and copy of extract of opening.
Students are quite rightly fascinated by this amazing novel.
Help your students to recognize and identify bias in newspaper reports. Students are presented with two newspaper reports which they have to make more biased using the techniques that they have identified throughout the lesson. Help your students to become more savvy readers of the media.
Five lessons on Alfred Noyes’ romantic and ghostly poem “The Highwayman”. The lesson sequence is as follows;
Lesson 1: Background information on highwaymen. Class questions on plot to clarify understanding and worksheet cloze exercise to consolidate understanding.
Lesson 2: Similes in poem with worksheet and then opportunity for students to create their own similes.
Lesson 3: Metaphors in poem with worksheet and then opportunity for students to create their own metaphors.
Lesson 4: Sound effects: Worksheet on alliteration, onomatopoeia,rhythm and rhyme. Activities for students to create alliteration poem and brainstorm more onomatopoeic words.
Lesson 5: Discussion of key themes - loyalty, betrayal, death and love. Students plan a story on one of these themes as final assessment. Links to AQA GCSE English Paper One Section B: Write a story.
56 slide powerpoint and six worksheets in folder with copy of poem.
Using two sources, students imagine that they were a soldier at the Dunkirk evacuation and write an eye-witness account of it.
The first source is a powerpoint with two with background information and historical contest.
The second source is a an extract from Churchill’s famous "We shall fight them on the beaches speech.
This could be used as stimulus for creative writing for English or empathetic writing for history.
Do you ever feel frustrated that your students have simply stopped using capital letters? This twenty-seven slide powerpoint reviews the rules in a fun and interactive way, then explains the difference between use of capital letters for common nouns and proper nouns. There are copious amounts of exercises to correct, which can be done on the board as a class or can be printed off for homework. If you want to embed the use of capital letters, this is the lesson for you. To complete all activities would take over one hour.
Designed to last thirty minutes, this editable Powerpoint explains the rule of subject verb singular and plural agreement and contains three sets of exercises to clarify this rule. Firstly students are asked to choose the correct form of the verb “to be” in the present tense; next they have to choose the correct form of the verb “to have” in the present tense and finally the correct form between “was/were”. Students are also reminded about irregular foreign plurals. Help your students to become masters of standard English with this fun activity.
Using the poem “Nettles” by Vernon Scannell, students analyse the effect of the extended metaphor of military imagery to describe the nettles before engaging with the theme of the poem. In the second lesson, students learn how to create extended metaphors themselves with an example comparing school to a prison. Students are given several choices and lots of support to then choose a vehicle for their own extended metaphor. Folder includes:
A worksheet to identify meanings of military imagery words before reading.
Copy of poem.
25 slide powerpoint.
Learning Roman numerals gives the brain a good workout and makes us think about the world in a different way.
After the explanation of the addition and subtraction principles, this 90 slide powerpoint contains three rounds.
Firstly, students work out the Roman numeral equivalent of every day numbers.
Next students write the every day number from Roman numerals.
Finally students add two Roman numerals together.
All answers provided for this forty-six question quiz, so students can mark their own work.
Aimed at middle ability students.
In May 2021 the Minderoo Foundation published a ground-breaking report into the problem of single-use plastics. They discovered that a mere twenty global companies were responsible for over fifty percent of the non-recyclable plastic in our world. The report created the first ‘Plastic Waste Makers Index’. This lesson is based on this report, simplifying complex terminology so that students can understand the shocking detail and the contribution of single-use plastic to the climate crisis, which is predicted to grow even further in the coming years. Activities to engage students are interspersed throughout the 39 slide Powerpoint and the final activity is a letter to government to persuade policy-makers to legislate to curb the prolific production of this noxious product. There is a suggested letter structure and a reminder about persuasive language techniques.
Working on the assumption that people remember things better if like is grouped with like, this booklet contains twenty-one lists of commonly mis-spelled words, all under different categories. Ranging from adjectives to adverbs to animals to birds to body parts to food and sports, the concept is that students will remember the spellings more easily if they can remember patterns and connections between words. This free resources complements the booklet “The Definitive Guide to Spelling” found at Mrs Shaw’s Shop, which is a seventy-four page booklet covering all the major spelling rules with exercises and answers, on sale at just £10. This photocopiable resource is a bargain for anyone wanting to help their students improve their spelling.
