Two double-sided worksheets with a variety of activities for your child to complete as they read or when they have finished their book. Best printed off on A3 if possible but not essential.
Useful to keep younger readers occupied once they have completed some independent or one to one reading.
A ready to use Power Point with 8 rounds of questions, 5 questions in each + an answer slide at the end of each round. Topics: Literature, History, Sport, Geography, Science, Film, Words and Nature.
Useful if teaching collapsed classes or a mixture of age groups. Could be completed in teams. Extension task: to set some new questions for each category.
A ready to use Power Point with a variety of activities to help students navigate the poem. A full lesson’s worth. Includes: a word cloud; contextual information with test questions; stanza by stanza questions; finding quotes; use of language techniques in the poem; prompts to explore themes and links to other Power and Conflict poems.
A set of 3 ready to use worksheets about the use of language in the Power and Conflict poems.
A title match task: pairs of quotes from each poem - can you name the poem?
Illustrate the quotes task.
Analysis of language task: questions posed about each quotation.
Two pages with an example of a 3 idea plan. Then 3 blank planning tables for poetry comparison questions involving: ‘My Last Duchess’, ‘London’ and ‘Kamikaze’ as the named poems. Question themes: Power and status; powerful feelings about place and power of Nature. Students will have to choose their 2nd poem and plan 3 pairs of ideas to ensure they compare.
A ready to use Power Point that introduces the poem ‘Tissue’ and starts students thinking about what the text is about…19 slides in total including the title page.