Fantastic collection of resources, featuring:
* The Time Machine Complete Creative Writing lesson.
* Literacy True or False Interactive Game
* 15 General KS3 starters.
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An emotional writing to persuade lesson with some literacy tasks, a card sort activity and fun tasks to finish.
Lesson features 'Jordan's story' a story of an abandoned dog who is rescued by the charity Hope for Paws. Students then have to re-construct the story with a card sort activity then produce a persuasive leaflet!
Also included is a 5 pack of find the word starters, ideal for KS3!
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An excellent bundle pack of resources, ideal for lower ability KS4 students, particularly lower ability boys, but also useful for other ages.
Four lessons in total including starters. Highly engaging, tried and tested resources, featuring Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali and Karl Pilkington! Easy to teach and highly engaging.
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The Spooky Resource Collection
A collection of inspirational 'spooky' complete lessons and resources.
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The Christmas Market Descriptive Writing Bundle Pack
An excellent collection for Christmas, featuring an exciting Christmas lesson, a Christmas fun pack and a quiz pack collection.
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Also available is the ultimate Christmas bundle which you may prefer instead, featuring three whole Christmas lessons and the Christmas fun pack. Just £5.50. A must download. Download this below:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-ultimate-christmas-bundle-11425592
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Romeo and Juliet Prologue and Act 1 Revision Lesson
An introduction, revision or recap lesson on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Prologue and Act 1. Lesson includes:
* Starter cloze activity
* Lesson objectives
* DIRT/purple pen slide
* Who’s who, character activity
* One page brief summary
* Guess the quotation quiz
* Extract analysis and discussion prompt review
Particularly suitable to lower ability students or those new to Shakespeare.
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The Island – Survival Diary Lesson
Action-packed desert island survival lesson.
Full lesson Power Point is recommended for two lessons and includes:
* Attractive title pages throughout
* Word list starter activity
* Scenario page
* Lesson Objectives
* Discussion prompts
* Writing prompts
* Map drawing activity
Excellent value, engaging lesson that students of all ages will enjoy!
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The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
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Giggle Poetry Complete Lesson
This lesson is a very straightforward, easy-to-teach lesson that students will enjoy. The lesson is based around three funny school poems taken from the excellent website gigglepoetry.com.
The lesson consists of:
• Funny caption starter
• Lesson objectives
• Images from the poems (students must try and work out what the poem will be about)
• Poems
• Evaluation of the poems (did any student guess close to the poem from the image?)
• Prompt to write their own funny poem and share at the end
• Poetry words bingo – caller’s card and 30 unique cards – excellent fun finish to the lesson
A very simple but effective lesson.
All resources included at the back of the power point.
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Two simple, but highly engaging lessons based on Mike Tyson's rollercoaster life.
Lesson one:
* Literacy starter
* Mike Tyson article
* PEE style questions
* Game to finish
Lesson two:
* Starter
* Mike Tyson interview clip
* PEE style question
* Game to finish
Particularly engaging for disengaged boys.
You may also be intersted in the Muhammad Ali lesson here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/muhammad-ali-pee-and-information-retrieval-lesson-11371750
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Christmas Double Lesson Pack - Christmas Murder Mystery + Christmas in New York with quiz pack
Fantastic value pack!!
* Christmas Murder Mystery - Complete Lesson
* Christmas in New York Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson
* Christmas Quiz - 30 Question Quiz
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New York Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description.
Great engaging lesson!
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https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329
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The Clown Horror Story
A fantastically engaging lesson with arresting imagery. Students write a Halloween horror story with the following scenario:
On a stormy Halloween night, you and your friends set off to attend the school Halloween ball.
You make your way through the storm in good spirits and arrive at school looking forward to the night.
However, it is clear there is something wrong. You hear what appears to be evil laughing outside the school window behind you. You and you friends turn around and…
An evil clown jumps up at you!
What happens next? You decide!
Highly attractive Power Point includes:
* Full lesson scenario
* Starter task
* Lesson objectives
* Planning page
* Writing and discussion prompts
* Interactive murder mystery bingo with callers card and 30 individual bingo cards (from myfreebingo.com)
Also included: things to include in descriptive writing, writing checklist and word banks!
All the material for an excellent, one-off lesson or lessons.
*Please note, this is a different version lesson to the Halloween murder mystery lesson, which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-special-the-halloween-murder-mystery-creative-writing-story-11394084
(I changed the lesson scenario because some students in one class wanted a scarier story. The above version, may be more suitable to younger audiences.)
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The Haunted House Triple Pack 2
The haunted house triple pack of complete lessons!
A fun and engaging triple pack of haunted house lessons!
Bundle includes:
* The Deserted House Poetry Lesson
* The Spooky Ghost Story
* Bakerfield Lodge
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A fantastic Wimbledon form time or assembly presentation on the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The 31 page Power Point presentation includes, general back ground, historic facts, Wimbledon schedule, British winners, interesting facts, prize money break down and 2016 favourite and a ten question quiz to finish!
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The Beast of Bodmin Moor Investigation - Fact or Fiction
An amazing investigation lesson into the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor.'
Students get to explore and research the legend of the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor' in groups, moving from investigation area to investigation area before writing their final reports.
All resources included.
The investigation areas are:
* Newspaper reports
* Photos
* Video footage
* Fact files
* Eyewitness Accounts
Students fill in their investigation sheets as they go to each area.
An outstanding lesson.
Teacher note included.
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A group of friends find themselves trapped in an old hotel, only to suffer strange lucid dreams and terrifying nightly visitations. Will they escape or go insane? And what is the significance of the black rose?
Visually attractive, creative horror story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson or series of lessons. (At least two lessons will be required to complete the story.)
Power point includes:
* Attractive title page.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above).
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Character cards page (with example, included) where students complete their own characters on special cards (resources included at the back of the Power Point.)
* Planning sheet giving students a structured method in which to write an effective story (included at the back of the Power Point.)
* A review prompt to discuss writing so far.
* A review peer-assessment prompt which should set students up to continue the story next lesson.
***Now available in a dystopian and horror bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dystopian-and-horror-bundle-11219710
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
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A Christmas Murder Mystery with Chirstmas Quiz and Bingo
Exciting murder mystery creative writing lesson with a Christmas Quiz and bingo activity.
Christmas sorted!
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Literacy Games Pack
An excellent value collection of literacy games and general resources, including literacy bingo, Literacy true and false, word games and many more.
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Also included is a ‘literacy health check’ complete lesson!
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