80 WRITING STARTERS ENGLISH ACTIVITIES Spelling Grammar Punctuation Vocabulary Spag VCOP literacy

Enough starters to last you 18 months!

I’m an English teacher of 20 years and I have created…

80 PowerPoint slides, one activity per slide. These are all writing activities:
word classes, punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, connectives, tenses, imagery, descriptive writing techniques, devices, language devices, similes, metaphors, personification, adverbs, adjectives, word classes, nouns, sentence structure, speech, paragraphs, verbs…

Perfect for KS3 year 7, year 8 and year 9. Or KS4 low to mid ability/SEN/Special needs. Dyslexic students will find the instructions clear and the design non-stressful. ADHD students will like the variety of activities and the change of task on each slide as will non SEN students. You could always print the slide for a child with writing difficulties and they can work on the slide.

I’ve used lots of pictures stimuli as per the GCSE exam and have included:
Minecraft, Barbie movie, Fortnight / fortnite, Pokemon and modern student interests. All the skills included build towards KS3 English Launguage writing and towards the GCSE English Language exam. All examboards are covered.

A nice idea would be to print off 4 or 5 activities; put one on a different table/stations and put the kids into groups of 5 and spend 10 minutes on each station; make a whole lesson out of it! Literacy groups could use them as a whole main activity, slides could be printed two to a page and given as hard copies to very low ability kids that struggle to write, this would help them keep up and understand the concept more, then you could stick them in their books. The rest of the class can copy from the board.

The slides could be printed off and turned into a writing homework booklet as everything in the powerpoint is relevant to the UK GCSEs AQA, Pearson, the other boards and the functional skills exams level 1 and 2.