Secondary English], General Secondary Resources, Te Reo Maori Resources, 0-5 Preschool Resources for enjoyable and engaging learning.
I love teaching English and have been doing so for many years. I hope that my experience and resources can save you time and energy in setting up and running your classroom :)
Secondary English], General Secondary Resources, Te Reo Maori Resources, 0-5 Preschool Resources for enjoyable and engaging learning.
I love teaching English and have been doing so for many years. I hope that my experience and resources can save you time and energy in setting up and running your classroom :)
Notes on language terminology, complete with lists and definitions, for each year of Secondary Schooling, increasing in breath and difficulty for each year level. Use as a complete list to give to students each year, and refer to them throughout the year as you memorise terms, hone skills and complete tasks.
Buy one set for the English year level you teach, or pay less per set for a complete Secondary Language Terms Set.
1. Year 10 Language Terms – 10 pages in length - Suit students of approximately 14 years of age: New Zealand Year 10 students, Australian Year 9 students, and UK Key Stage 3 students
2. Year 11 Language Terms - 11 pages in length - Suit students of approximately 15 years of age: New Zealand Year 11 students, Australian Year 10 students, and UK Key Stage 4 students
3. Year 12 Language Terms - 12 pages in length - Suit students of approximately 16 years of age: New Zealand Year 12 students, Australian Year 11 students, and UK Key Stage 4 students
4. Year 13+ Language Terms - 11 pages in length - Suit students of approximately 17 years of age: New Zealand Year 13 students, Australian Year 12 students, and UK Key Stage 4 students, Post 16 Education, and English Higher Education or Tertiary Students
Each set covers a range of areas that students need to know:
This set = Y10
Grammar & Parts of Speech Terms – Adverb, Antonym, Article, Connotation, Conjunction… etc
Sentences, Parts of Sentences Terms – Contention, Run-on Sentence, Clause… etc
Language Terms for this level – Analogy, Colloquialism, Contrast, Cliché… etc
Textual Terms to go with units on Novel, Film, Oral Presentations, Poetry
Punctuation Terms – Apostrophe, Capital Letters, Colon,… etc
50 great English Classroom Posters for ENGLISH CLASSROOM DECOR showing NOVEL COVERS from a range of interesting and classic novels.
Perfect for Secondary or High School teachers wanting to inspire a bit more reading and text knowledge in their students - also good as discussion starters or writing prompts!
An easy and attractive display. Let me save you some time!
Includes:
50 Classic Covers Posters
This is a handy Get To Know You Quiz & Starting Out Diagnostic Test for Year 11 - so easy to start your year well and create a great first impression on your students.
1. A ‘Quick Quiz’ with a range of fun questions for your class to answer on the first day back. Questions include both silly items (colour of socks) and useful ones for the teacher (best school subject). (2 pages) Fully editable Word Document.
2. A Diagnostic test to help you with your initial familiarisation with your students. Covers editing, a few terminology questions, some homonym questions, and an extended writing section. (2 pages) Fully editable Word Document.
Class Expectations to go through on the first day. Covers a range of topics such as discipline, lateness, homework and more. (2 pages) Fully editable Word Document. (1 page) Non Editable. PDF.
Suits students of approximately 15 years of age: New Zealand Year 11 students, Australian Year 10 students, and UK Key Stage 4 students
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English Classroom ‘Keep Calm’ Posters x14
Get To Know You Quiz & Starting Out Diagnostic Test - Year 10 English
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Get To Know You Quiz & Starting Out Diagnostic Test - Year 10
1. A ‘Quick Quiz’ with a range of fun questions for your class to answer on the first day back. Questions include both silly items (colour of socks) and useful ones for the teacher (best school subject). (2 pages) Fully Editable Word Document.
2. A Diagnostic test to help you with your initial familiarisation with your students. Covers editing, a few terminology questions, some homonym questions, and an extended writing section. (2 pages) Fully Editable Word Document.
A Poster of Student Work Expectations. (1 page) Not Editable. PDF.
A handout of 2 pages with English Class expectations for setting up your class and classroom expectations - covers areas like homework, discipline system, being on time, etc. Fully Editable Word Document.
*Suits students of approximately 14 years of age: New Zealand Year 10 students, Australian Year 9 students, and UK Key Stage 3 students
*CHECK OUT my other Secondary English resources - I have some great Essay Structure posters, or an editable Novel Study booklet suitable for any book that you might like :)
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Use these bright Printable Key Words to brighten the walls and help out students in your High School English Classroom. So easy to use!
Large, colourful key words which can be printed, cut apart, and put up for English classroom displays.
Words include:
analyse, compare, contrast, define, Evaluate, explain, interpret, justify, summarise and more.
11 pages including a title page which says, ‘Key Words for English.’
Excellent for secondary English classrooms.
CHECK OUT my other great resources:
Secondary English:
English Classroom ‘Keep Calm’ Posters x14
Get To Know You Quiz & Starting Out Diagnostic Test - Year 10 English
Get To Know You Quiz & Starting Out Diagnostic Test - Year 11 English
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A full, self-explanatory booklet on completing Wide Reading logs and tasks throughout the school year. Booklet covers everything you need for your junior secondary wide reading. Suits students of approximately 13-14 years of age: New Zealand Year 9 or 10 students, Australian Year 8 or 9 students, and UK Key Stage 3 students.
(9 pages)
Booklet includes:
Title page with space for name
• Wide Reading Task Sheet with assessment tasks
• Text Response starters
• Reading Log Template
• Answer examples + How to Write a Good Paragraph
• Creative Text Response Activity grid
• Book Suggestions with authors in levelled grid for Year 9,10,11
• Marking schedule
You could print whichever pages of the booklet you prefer to mould the unit to your liking and student needs. Happy Reading!
CHECK OUT my other great Secondary English resources - I have an excellent printable Oral Presentations booklet that you might like.
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50 Great Quotes from Literature! Beautiful Watercolour Design!
A range of interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from novels, plays and texts – on colourful and visually interesting posters.
Perfect for any secondary English classroom.
Great instant décor suitable all year round.
Includes quotes such as:
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for – Lord of the Rings
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, as long as somebody loves you – The Witches
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
…and many more great nuggets of wisdom from the world’s best authors.
50 pages
This poster set is also available in Watercolours! Check out my TES store!
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19 attractive PUNCTUATION Posters English Classroom Posters ready to print and display to make your ELA classroom look great.
All posters included in two slightly different designs, PLUS black and white.
A great visual display to help your students master punctuation skills in their writing tasks.
Punctuation Posters on:
Full stops
capital letters
commas
dashes
hyphens
colons
semicolons
subject
predicate
ellipsis
question marks
exclamation marks
…and more
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Les Murray’s An Absolutely ordinary Rainbow. This great Australian poem is perfect for looking at cultural expectations and how we react when someone does not do what is considered ‘normal.’
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with War Poet John McCrae’s ‘In Flanders Fields’. This great war poem is well-known for its beautiful poignant imagery of a soldier becoming part of the earth, having given his life in service in another country.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poetry analysis lesson can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
A poet webquest page
An analysis grid
Questions on the text
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page war poetry close reading workshop
This Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity uses Banjo Paterson’s ‘THE MAN FROM IRONBARK’ to help students learn about poetry analysis. This great Australian poem is a funny tale of a rough bushman from a country town who is tricked by the city slickers into thinking his throat has been cut (it hasn’t).
TPT DIGITAL Resource Ready!
Workshop takes 2-4 lessons. This poetry analysis booklet can be instantly printed for students. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 10-12, Australia Years 9-11, USA Years 9-11, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page poetry close reading workshop
Essay Writing Structure Posters - Rainbow Burger Style Essay Structure for Easy Display
Easy to understand and colourful posters - ready to print and display.
Choose from the more detailed Upper Secondary poster or the simplified Lower Secondary poster for the TEECL burger structure format.
4 posters to use when teaching students essay writing and helping them improve their structuring and formatting skills to argue ideas more clearly.
Or include the pages in your classroom booklet for easy referral while writing.
Great for all Secondary or High School classrooms. Any subject can use these to help kids write better essays. Particularly useful for any Secondary English class.
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**A cute printable Bingo game for preschool or kindy kids who love animals. Lions, hippos, monkes, cats and dogs - all the fun stuff is included in this cute game set. **
Simply print enough game sheets and covers for each player, and one set of space pictures for the drawer to hold up, and the race is on to shout out, ‘Bingo!!’ The kids love this one :)
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Included in this resource are:**
25 different game sheets
‘Got it’ Bear covers to place over the matching images
A master set of images to draw from.
Instructions
Everything you need to encourage your little munchkins to learn animals names!
30 pages.
A cute printable Bingo game for preschool or kindy kids who love pirates. Ships, pirates, treasure and maps - all the fun stuff is included in this cute game set.
Simply print enough game sheets and covers for each player, and one set of master pictures for the drawer to hold up, and the race is on to shout out, ‘Bingo!!’ The kids love this one :)
Included in this resource are:
25 different game sheets
‘Got it’ covers to place over the matching images
A master set of images to draw from.
Instructions
Everything you need to encourage your little munchkins who love pirates :)
30 pages.
Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading activity with Australian Poet Henry Lawson’s ‘The Roaring Days’. This great Australian poem is an interesting snapshot of the gold-crazy immigrant’s outlook as they chased the possibilities promised in the Gold Rush.
Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a reliever or substitute teacher - everything needed is included.
Perfect for students in Upper High School - New Zealand Years 11-13, Australia Years 10-12, USA Years 10-12, and Britain Years 10-12 (Key Stage 4-5).
Included:
A list of language techniques to look for
An analysis grid
Questions on the text
A language features page to focus on two chosen language features
4 great extension tasks for students to choose from
A sample marking schedule
Teacher sample analysis notes
Included:
10 page Australian poetry close reading workshop
This brightly coloured Te Reo Māori Mihi Word Wall will make it super easy for you to create an attractive Māori Greetings and Goodbyes Vocabulary display in your classroom or staffroom!
Perfect for any New Zealand teacher - just print and create a fun and informative wall of Te Reo kupu to support Māori language learning in your kiwi classroom.
Designed so that you can also give all the pieces to a student as an activity, who can organise them into a logical order and create sentences with the word options - much like fridge magnet poetry! (Have them create their conversation and then take a picture on the ipad to record before giving to the next student!)
OR
You can create a cool display with the extra options grouped around each matching phrase so viewers can see which words they could add to the phrase!
Includes:
Title -‘Mihi’
4 larger phrases
Mihi phrases including greetings, basic introduction questions and goodbyes
Additional vocabulary to personalise your mihi
Large KIA ORA! posters.
A ready-to-print The Great Gatsby Novel Study Guide and text study on THE GREAT GATSBY by F Scott Fitzgerald complete with printable student booklet and teacher’s plan.
This easy to follow resource provides a ready The Great Gatsby unit plan for teachers and a The Great Gatsby student booklet which is printable and ready to teach, saving you time and effort searching for suitable text study resources.
Suits students of approximately 12-15 years of age: New Zealand Year 10-12 students, Australian Year 8-10 students.
Student booklet includes:
The Great Gatsby Webquest task on the author
The Great Gatsby Character file templates
The Great Gatsby Setting page
Context
The Great Gatsby Chapter Questions and Comprehension questions on the novel looking at important character changes, ideas, themes and events
Dairy entry writing task
The Great Gatsby Themes page
Symbols in The Outsiders page
Language Techniques page
Observing the text
Big Ideas discussion pages
Interview and Presentation
Essay structure and planning
+Sample Teacher Unit Plan
This is perfect as a text analysis unit to prepare for essay writing on The Outsiders. It goes perfectly with the Text Response Essay Writing Unit in my store.
Everything you need to pick up and run with this novel. So easy!
Included:
29-page student booklet for analysis of Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.
Presenting our collection of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WORKSHEETS designed specifically for high school English students.
These worksheets are aimed at fostering student confidence in identifying and explaining the use of various figurative language techniques.
With a total of 10 different activities, these worksheets are a time-saving resource that will greatly benefit both educators and students. They can be utilized as bellringers or as writing skills activities, helping students improve their overall writing abilities.
Designed for Secondary English students in Years 7-12, these worksheets provide ample opportunities for students to enhance their understanding and application of figurative language techniques.
To provide a range of options and keep students engaged, the instructions also include ideas for differentiation and variety.
Included with this resource are:
10 figurative language worksheets, accompanied by answer keys.
Get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey with BLACK SNAKE: The Daring of Ned Kelly by Carole Wilkinson!
Our ready-to-print novel study and text study resource is a game changer for teachers like you. With a printable student booklet and a suggested teacher’s plan included, your prep time will be drastically reduced!
Perfect for students studying this gripping tale both in Australia and beyond, this novel strikes the perfect balance between fact and personal letters, making it highly readable and accessible for teenagers. It’s an engrossing story that will captivate your students and leave them hungry for more.
Designed for students aged approximately 10-16, the student booklet is packed with engaging activities. Explore the author with a fun webquest, create character files with templates, delve into the setting and context, answer comprehension questions that explore character development, ideas, themes, and events, unleash creativity with a writing task, symbols, and language techniques, develop close reading skills with text observation exercises, engage in big ideas discussions, conduct interviews and presentations, and even get valuable essay structure and planning pages.
This resource perfectly complements the Text Response Essay Writing Unit in our store, making it an ideal choice for text analysis and essay preparation.
With everything you need in one place, this novel study is an absolute breeze to implement in your classroom.
So, grab our resource, save time, and ignite your students’ love for literature and analysis!
Introducing “Exploring Visual and Verbal Language Techniques: A Complete Static Images Unit for Secondary English Students.”
This Static Images unit is perfect for Year 9 or Year 10 English students learning about the power of visual and verbal language techniques in the media. We have developed this unit specifically to guide kids step-by-step through the world of static images, such as posters and advertising.
This complete unit is focused on developing student understanding of a wide range of visual and verbal language techniques which are used in static images. They will have the opportunity to create your very own static image and complete an independent analysis of static images.
Provided is a convenient print-and-go student booklet. This 27-page booklet covers various aspects, including an introduction to static images, visual and verbal language terms, analyzing static images using an analysis grid, exploring stereotypes, symbols, and codes in visual language, guidance on how to write about static images, task sheets, planning and writing pages, a sample static image marking schedule, and much more. As you navigate through the booklet, use the accompanying PowerPoint with static image examples and task exemplars to further enhance your understanding.
This complete media unit and language study unit is suitable for lower secondary classes in Australia and New Zealand. It has been successfully implemented in both countries, and while you may need to make adjustments to the assessment schedule to align with your system, it has proven to be highly effective. This unit is particularly suitable for students aged approximately 13-15 years, including New Zealand Year 9, 10, or 11 students, Australian Year 8, 9, or 10 students, and UK Key Stage 3 students.
Please note that this product contains British English spelling.