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These resources are based on my experience teaching secondary English for thirteen years. During this time I gained experience teaching language and literature to all ability levels within the age range 11-18. I also have extensive experience of writing schemes of learning as I was a department lead for ten of those years.
Get SET to teach secondary English with Sian's English Toolkit.
These resources are based on my experience teaching secondary English for thirteen years. During this time I gained experience teaching language and literature to all ability levels within the age range 11-18. I also have extensive experience of writing schemes of learning as I was a department lead for ten of those years.
Christmas 2024 Literacy Activities Bundle | High School | Answers Included
Keep students engaged in the build-up to Christmas with these Christmas-themed literacy activities. Including five different products, this bundle has something for all learners, whatever their ability.
Included in this bundle:
Christmas 2024 Advent Calendar: a literacy activity for each school day in December, including some great discussion topics! This editable PowerPoint is a brilliant way to start the day and the hyperlinks to each day’s activity make navigation really easy
Christmas Literacy Activities: 20 short activities, ideal for lesson starters or reward tasks for early finishers. Whilst being fun, they also encourage students to apply their knowledge of the alphabet, vowels and consonants.
Christmas Mega-Wordsearch: this 45 word wordsearch will keep students engaged and there is a bonus colour-by-number activity once all words have been found.
Festive Anagrams: two pages of 20 Christmas-themed anagrams, with the answer key included on a separate page.
Colour-by-Number (Spellings): this activity puts a festive spin on eight common spelling errors.
All of these products are also available to purchase individually from my shop. Or how about checking out some of these ‘A Christmas Carol’ activities:
Extract analysis: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-annotated-extracts-12933695
‘I Have Who Has’ Quotes Revision Game: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-game-13120979
Revision Board Game: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-board-game-12989845
Capital Letters Worksheet - The Secret Garden
This worksheet comprises an extract from ‘The Secret Garden’ which contains 19 errors with capital letters. There is also an answer sheet. This is a good starter activity for learners who are developing confidence with capitals or a more substantial activity for those who are less confident.
The errors include:
starting new sentences
use of the pronoun ‘I’
proper nouns
punctuation of speech
A Valentine’s Day Colour by Number worksheet, including answer key. This worksheet is designed to help learners practise the key homophones there/their/they’re and to/too/two. This resource is suitable for pupils in primary, but could range beyond that depending on ability. It will take about 30 minutes to complete.
In this task, pupils will select the correct use of the homophone to complete each sentence. Correct answers will provide a key to use to colour in the image. The image is suited to a Valentine’s Day activity. An answer key for staff is included for both elements of the worksheet.
Common Spellings Colour by Number Christmas theme worksheet, including answer key. This worksheet is designed to help KS3 pupils learn/revise common misspellings. This resource is suitable for KS3 pupils. It will take about 30 minutes to complete.
In this task, pupils will select the correct spelling to fill in the blank. Correct answers will provide a key to use to colour in the image. The image is of Santa going down a chimney in the snow so is a perfect festive activity. An answer key for staff is included for both elements of the worksheet.
For other festive activities, you might want to try:
Christmas anagrams: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-anagrams-12942667
A Christmas Carol characters CBN: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-colour-by-number-12942738
