A set of 24 printable flash-cards for revision, display or for activities. The cards cover basic, intermediate and advanced poetry techniques and feature a name followed by a simple(ish!) definition.
The simple, colourful designs can be printed at A3 size with little loss of quality, and make for a beautiful resource if printed and cut-out of thick card.
KS2 English Up To Speed Lesson 1 - Compound Words
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed Lesson 2 - Similes and Metaphors 2
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed Lesson 1 - Similes and Metaphors 1
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed - Grammar Essentials
20 quick, fun and easy lessons plus worksheets to to engage KS2 students. Covers a broad range of fundamental grammar techniques.
Similes and metaphors
Homophones
Positives/negatives
Compound words
Synonyms
Prefixes and suffixes
Commas
Contractions
Cooridinating/subordinating conjunctions
Adverbs
Adjectives
Articles
Nouns
Sentence fragments
Predicates
Subjects
Declaratives
The lessons each follow 3 steps and all come provided with fun worksheets to fill in:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed Lesson 1 - Declaratives
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed Lesson 1 - Commas
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
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KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Sentence Fragments
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Nouns
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
Part of a grammar essentials scheme of work. For three FREE example lessons in this scheme of work, be sure to check out
KS2 Synonym catchup
KS2 Adjective catchup
Adverb catchup
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Choosing Articles
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
KS2 English Up To Speed 2 - Contractions
A quick, fun and easy lesson that aims to engage KS2 students, learning and then practicing the difference between different setence types.
The lesson follows 3 steps:
Starter - Pre-contextualise the material with a fun warmup activity
Read and Copy- Read through the material as a group with the help of images, then copy the definition
Practice/produce- Practice skills using a worksheet, then produce an original piece, displaying learning
This lesson includes a quick, printable worksheet, definitions and plenaries to ensure learning.
Works well in 1:1 settings, for differentiated English catchup with older yeargroups, or with groups.
A high resolution poster outlining Macbeth’s core themes, with reference to specific acts for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
A high resolution poster outlining Jane Eyre’s core themes, with reference to specific chapters for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
A high resolution poster outlining Lord of the Flies’ core themes, with reference to specific chapters for revision purposes.
Prints at A3 (landscape) and is ideal for classroom display.
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO6 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO6 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO6.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these three fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over three to six periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO5 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO5 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect trio of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO5.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
Teach your English Language students precisely what the AQA assessment objectives expect of them with these two fully planned and prepared lessons.
The lessons can be taught over two to four periods depending on group ability, and they cover the AO3 criteria in a great depth, providing students all the tools necessary to contextualise AQA’s mark scheme and apply it to their own work.
The lessons includes multiple GCSE style AO3 questions for students to tackle, with appropriate frameworks to build them gradually up to the task.
The lessons include a silent starter for settling, a starter to contextualise the learning objective, and then multiple activities, reflections, exemplars and plenaries to get your students learning.
A perfect pair of lessons to quickly instill the necessary skills needed to reach top marks for AO3.
Includes differentiated slides packed with images and key vocabulary so that all students can access the work.
Two sets of essay planning phrase mats, which can be printed for display or for reference.
The mats feature various essay writing sentence stems, organised by use. It includes sentence stems for…
Introducing Ideas
Introducing Examples
Analysing Examples
Comparing and Contrasting
Adding Ideas
Summarising an essay
Ideal for GCSE students of any ability. Fantastic as a reminder sheet for low ability learners or those with SEN needs.
A simple worksheet designed to help students who have difficulty breaking down or “chunking” their work into manageable pieces.
This sheet asks students to outline the task that has been set for them (in their own words) and then provides a three step planning box to allow them to break the activity or work down into smaller chunks, to work through without becoming overwhelmed. Each step has a handy check-box that students can tick-off for a sense of accomplishment and to keep them moving forward.
The activity sheet is designed to get students thinking meta-cognitively about the way they approach work.
Suitable for students of all abilities, but particularly useful for those with memory or comprehension difficulties.
Social Media Star is an online-themed board game and quiz suitable for students of all ages and abilities. The aim of the game is to be the first player to reach 50k followers.
Followers are earned by completing tasks on the board.
This free, starter edition resource includes all the high resolution files required to print and get you started playing the board game, including .jpg, .png, .ppt and .pdf versions of all the boards and rules.
1-6 players place a token on the board and take turns moving around the social-media themed zones, answering questions from their fans and performing tasks to gain followers.
Players are in charge of tracking their own follower count, making the game suitable for numeracy lessons.
Suitable for any curriculum, the free edition comes with a printable board and ruleset. Students must navigate the board and answer questions correctly to increase their follower count. Create yourself a set of cards (by hand or by filling in the template) to tax your learners in any curriculum area.
The game ends when one player reaches 50k followers. Games can be lengthened or shortened by changing this goal.
This free, starter edition resource includes
A printable game board (A3)
A printable set of blank, editable question templates, A5)
A printable set of blank “drama” editable templates, A5)
A printable set of “influencer” cards (used to multiply scores on the board)
A printable rule-set sheet
A printable quick-glance rule-set sheet
Best printed on high quality card, this game is quick to set up and play (just requires a set of dice), the game board favours question cards, so students will be taxing their subject knowledge the entire time. This game is tried and tested and loved by students of all ages.