I have been teaching since 2010.
I am currently head of English and PE in a SEN school.
My specialist subject is English,
I enjoy making resources for a range of subjects and abilities.
Hope you find these useful and inspiring, and they help you to save some time.
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I have been teaching since 2010.
I am currently head of English and PE in a SEN school.
My specialist subject is English,
I enjoy making resources for a range of subjects and abilities.
Hope you find these useful and inspiring, and they help you to save some time.
Happy shopping
A brief look at the story of Hercules and his 12 labours - Comprehension activity
Task two is looking at verbs, adverbs and adjectives using the mystical beasts from Hercules. Students are asked to write their own descriptive sentences
Task 3 is writing a diary entry for Hercules and one of his labours
Task 4 and Task 5 look at two different myths and legends, students asked to identify verbs, adverbs and adjectives from the texts. I could not inlcude the texts due to copyright but the texts are hyperlinked in the slides
This can be used as part of a KS3/4 curriculum in English but has been made for AQA Step up to English lessons.
Slides can be adapted
All images from Pixabay
A PowerPoint presentation which includes lesson activities and tasks
Slides can be amended or adapted to suit your lesson
Starter activity- following instructions for Origami dogs
Main- Set of activities which involve ordering a set of instructions and making your own instructions
Images used from Pixabay
Exploring famous mythical creatures.
Reading Activity- comprehension task
Writing Activity- Creative writing.
Key facts and questions to help develop understanding of text.
Creative writing activity - create your own mythical creatures with word mat to help.
This can be used and adapted for KS2-KS4
Can be used in conjunction with AQA Step up to English, Component 2
All clipart is royality free and sourced from Pixabay
All information is sourced from various books and internet sites
A mindfulness journal for students to complete during form time, PSHE lessons or during the recovery curriculum after lockdown.
This journal has weekly activities for 7 weeks of school.
Concentrates on being positive, learning how to be mindful, mindfulness colouring, breating activities and learning how to be present in the moment. Some writing activities to link in with the English curriculum.
Students will reflect on their week and fill in their graditude jars to create a more positive mindset
This resource can be adapted for different abilities and the activities can be. Could be used for KS3 to Sixth form.
45 slides in total
All images and illustrations are from Pixabay
A set of lessons on a PowerPoint presentation that can be used for EL English, AQA Step up to English or lower GCSE.
The legend of sleepy Hollow
Dracula
Creative writing activities
Language analysis activities
43 slides
Set of literacy activities/lessons along with diffentiated writing frames to work alongside Around the World in 80 Days.
This would link in well with AO1 and A05 of GCSE or Step up to English
Resource is also suitable/adaptable for KS3/SEN students
All on 1 PowerPoint for ease.
Includes reading and writing activities
Hope you enjoy :)
Small activity that can be done as a starter activity for an English lesson or PSHE lesson. Or it can be used in form time.
This activity is to get students thinking about their summer and what they would like to do/ recounting their summer.
Students can then use this as a prompt to write a recount, a diary entry or a short story.
This is a before summer and after summer sheet.
Power-Point slides.
A selection of resources that can go alongside reading/watching Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
These resources can be used for writing and speaking and listening activities.
The Chocolate Palace
Chocolate Senses
Diary Entry
Suitable for KS2/3/SEN
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A simple writing frame to get students to plan a piece of creative writing using their senses.
This writing frame can be used to aid them to write about their summer/holidays.
Suitable for KS2/3/SEN
Can be adapted
Hope you find useful
A series of writing and English activities for students reading/studying Treasure Island.
Suitable and adaptable for KS2/3/4 or SEN.
All resources are creative and visual. Activities are differentiated.
Individually resources would cost £15
PowerPoint presentation which helps students understand different punctuation marks and when to use them.
This is a visual presentation that can be printed and used as classroom display/posters.
There are two short activities for students to complete at the end of the presentation.
Punctuation marks addressed:
Full stops
Capital letters
Commas
Apostrophes
Colon
Semi-colon
Question Marks
Exclamation Marks
Hope you enjoy :)
A presentation that can be used to discuss non-fiction writing in front of the class or individual slides can be printed and laminated for revision mats/posters for the classroom.
This topic focuses on non-fiction writing; speeches, letters. articles.
Suitable for KS2/3/4/SEN/GCSE
Can be adapted
Hope you enjoy :)
My students are currently studying AQA Step Up to English, in preparation for their exam I created this resource to give them a practice for the real exam. This can be adapted for GCSE and KS3 purposes.
We have been studying component 2- Family
For this we have done a series of lessons based on The Secret Garden and The Railway Children.
I have used the AQA exam paper for this module and adapted it to fit in with the two books.
This is a good revision exercise for your students before they sit the paper or students that want to practice some English skills pre-GCSE.
Students practice:
-Inferring
-Creative Writing
-Comparing two texts
My students found it very useful
Hope you enjoy :)
This resource can be adapted for GCSE and KS2/3
PowerPoint presentation that highlights what key features you need when writing newspaper articles. Some slides can be printed and used as props/posters/classroom display.
It includes 3 activities:
- Creating a newspaper board
- Annotating an article
- Creating your own article (with planning writing frame)
PowerPoint activity
I used this resource for my AQA Step up to English lesson whilst studying The Railway Children but it can be adapted to fit any book or text.
For the purpose of this activity students read chapter 6 of the book and were then asked to create a comic strip detailing what happened during the chapter using onomatopoeia words and sequencing events.
Includes writing frame for comic and cut out comic art.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation that includes two activities for students to complete
- Identifying features of non fiction texts
- Identifying the PURPOSE of text; why we write.
Both activities come with writing frames
Also included with this resource is two revision aids for PAF that students can use in their revision notes, they can be laminated and used as desk mats or they can be used for classroom displays
Hope you enjoy these visual resources :)
Suitable for GCSE students
Ideal for L2-6 students or SEN students
Resource can be adapted
I have created this resource for my GCSE students (LA)
It tells the story of Frankenstein in a short story board to help them remember the plot. I have included Mary Shelley’s description of Frankenstein’s monster in chapter 5
Students then have an activity of creating their own monster and monster story using linguistic devices
This resource can be adapted
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson English differentiated activity
This resource can be adapted for students from KS3-KS4.
There are two activities for students to complete.
They can either create a storyboard using the time-line given to them or they can create their own time-line from the pictures.
HA students write their own time-line.
Resource can be adapted to suit different needs and abilities
A resource made for students studying pirates or Treasure Island and looking at non-fiction literacy techniques.
Students are asked to create a letter using the template provided.