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Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Comparing Statements - Year 3
In this maths teaching resource, pupils use their knowledge of multiplication and division facts to compare statements using the <, > and = signs. This Year 3 maths teaching resource has been created following the White Rose Small Steps guidance for year 3 - Spring - Block 1 - Multiplication and Division. The resource consists of 1 lesson, including a PowerPoint presentation and differentiated worksheets for independent learning, to guide your class through the curriculum objectives of the Year 3 maths programme of study (number - multiplication and division). The worksheets contain varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving to reinforce and consolidate the children’s learning.
Content includes:
Varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving interactive class activities
3 differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving worksheets with answers
‘Comparing Statements - Year 3’ is completely editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching needs.
Click on the images from the PowerPoint presentation to view the resource in more detail.
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Division with Remainders - Year 3
Introducing Dividing 2-Digits by 1-Digit - Year 3
Correspondence Problems - Year 3
Scaling - Year 3
Related Calculations - Year 3
The Verb ‘to be’
English SPaG Teaching PowerPoint Resource with worksheets
‘The Verb ‘to be’’ is an English grammar resource introducing pupils to the irregular verb ‘to be’ in the present simple tense. Contents include:
An explanation of the different forms of the verb ‘to be’ with examples.
Contractions of the different forms.
Activities to support the teaching of this objective with 2 accompanying worksheets.
One further worksheet with answers.
‘The Verb ‘to be’’ is fully editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource, if needed, to suit their individual teaching requirements.
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Modal Verbs
Subject - Verb Agreement
Parts of Speech - Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs
Verbs
Action Words
Verb Tenses
3-D Shapes - Year 3
In this teaching resource pupils are taught to recognise and describe 3-D shapes and learn how to make 3-D models using nets as per the curriculum objectives of the year 3 maths programme of study (Geometry - properties of shapes). Content includes:
Definition of a 3-D shape
Describing 3-D shapes by listing their properties (faces, vertices, edges)
Describing cuboids, pyramids, spheres, cones, prisms
Activities to support the teaching of this objective and 5 accompanying worksheets
Make your own 3-D shapes using nets activity
‘3-D Shapes - Year 3’ is editable allowing teachers to adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
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2-D Shapes - Year 3
Angles - Year 3
Lines - Year 3
Plant Requirements - Year 3
In this KS2 science teaching resource pupils are taught the requirements of plants for life and growth as per the curriculum objective of the year 3 science programme of study (Plants).
Content includes:
A link to an introductory video
What plants need to stay healthy and grow (water, air, nutrients, sunlight and room to grow)
A link to a photosynthesis explanatory video
A look at how different plants have varying requirements
Desert plants and how they survive
Growing experiment and discussion of a fair experiment - accompanying worksheet
Design a poster activity about plant requirements and care with worksheet
‘Plant Requirements’ can be edited, giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to suit each class they teach.
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The Parts of a Plant - Year 3
Plants - Year 3
The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant
Plants and Water
In this KS2 (Year 3) teaching resource pupils are taught to measure, compare, add and subtract lengths (m/cm/mm) as per the 2014 new mathematics programme of study (Measurement - Year 3).
It contains an animated 57 slide PowerPoint presentation, interactive quizzes and 4 accompanying worksheets.
Recognising 3-D Shapes - Year 1
In this Year 1 geometry teaching resource, pupils are taught to recognise and name common 3-D shapes (as per the year 1 maths programme of study Geometry - properties of shapes) regardless of their orientation and overall size. They recognise and name shapes in everyday objects. Content includes:
1. PowerPoint presentation
2. Activities with 3 accompanying worksheets
3. A link to a short clip about recognising 3-D shapes
4. 1 further worksheet with answers
‘Recognising 3-D Shapes - Year 1’ can be edited allowing teachers to adapt the resource if needed to suit each class they teach.
Using the Apostrophe
English SPaG Teaching PowerPoint Resource with worksheets
‘Using the Apostrophe’ is a handy English punctuation PowerPoint presentation focusing on how to use the apostrophe for omission or to show possession. Content includes:
Apostrophe for possession - definitions and examples.
Apostrophe for possession activity with an accompanying worksheet
Apostrophe for omission - definitions and examples.
Apostrophe for omission activity with an accompanying worksheet.
1 further worksheet with answers
‘Using the Apostrophe’ is fully editable so teachers are able to adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
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Possessive Apostrophes - Year 2
Apostrophes to Mark Plural Possession - Year 3/4
A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange
(17-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 7 worksheets)
This GCSE lesson enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of the businessmen discussing Scrooge’s death in Stave Four. It begins with a differentiated retrieval task as a ‘Do Now’ activity. Learners will then read from ‘They scarcely seemed to enter the city’, down to, ‘It made him shudder, and feel very cold’. During their reading, learners are asked to reflect on:
What we learn about Scrooge’s death
How the men feel about Scrooge’s death
What their dialogue suggests about Scrooge.
Following on from this, learners will complete a worksheet that enables them to explore the passage in greater depth. The lesson concludes with a brief learning review in which learners answer five retrieval questions relating to the passage.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is Redeemed
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits
This bundle contains seven detailed GCSE lessons on the role of the Cratchit family in A Christmas Carol. Click the images to find out more about each one.
A Christmas Carol for GCSE - Stave Four: Scrooge Repents
Editable PowerPoint-based lesson with worksheets
This differentiated lesson enables GCSE students to explore Dickens’ presentation of the events at the end of Stave Four of A Christmas Carol. It begins with a differentiated quiz in which pupils must answer as many question about the Three Spirits as they can in five minutes. Students then read from, ‘The Spirit stood among the graves’ down to the end of Stave Four. After reading the passage, learners will undertake activities that encourage them to think about different aspects of the scene.
Suggested answers are provided for all activities.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s
A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is Redeemed
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave
(16-slide PowerPoint lesson with worksheets and answer keys)
This lesson enables GCSE learners to contrast Dickens’ presentation of the graves of Tiny Tim and Scrooge in Stave Four. It begins with a differentiated information retrieval task which asks learners to correct a number of inaccurate statements in relation to Staves One to Four. Learners will then read from, ‘“Spectre,” said Scrooge…’ down to ‘a worthy place!’ After reading the passage, learners will undertake a series of questions that encourage them to consider the differences between the places in which Scrooge and Tiny Tim are buried. The lesson concludes with a brief review in which learners consider the extent to which they agree with three statements relating to the churchyard in which Scrooge is buried.
Suggested answers are provided for all tasks.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s
A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is Redeemed
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends (Stave 5)
(17-slide editable PowerPoint with 4 worksheets)
This differentiated GCSE lesson enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in Stave Five. It assumes that learners have previously read the opening passage, from the beginning of Stave Five down to Scrooge’s delight in the ‘glorious’ bells and ‘heavenly sky’ of Christmas morning.
The lesson begins with a differentiated Quick-Fire Quiz in which learners answer as many questions as they can on Staves One-Four in eight minutes. Learners will then read from ‘‘‘What’s today?’’ cried Scrooge’, down to the end of Stave Five. After reading the passage, learners will then undertake a double-sided worksheet in which they respond to questions that encourage them to consider Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in this stave.
The lesson concludes with a review in which learners chart Scrooge’s journey as a character through the novella.
Suggested answers are provided for all tasks.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s
A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is Redeemed
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits (Part 3 )
This GCSE lesson enables learners to continue to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave 3. Please note that it focuses on the following passage:
From: ‘Such a bustle ensued…’
Down to: ‘…to hint at such a thing.’
The lesson begins with a differentiated ‘Do Now’ starter activity in which learners examine a range of quotations from Staves 1-3 with a view to deciding which is the odd one out. Suggested answers are included. This is followed by a revision task in which learners decide which four out of a possible eight statements about the Cratchits are true. Following on from this, learners will read the passage indicated above. Learners will then analyse Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchits by responding to prompts on a passage-based worksheet. Suggested ideas are included on the PowerPoint. The lesson concludes with a quick plenary that asks learners to summarise what they have learnt about the Cratchits during the lesson in no more than 20, 15 or 10 words.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
(17-slide editable PowerPoint and 2 worksheets)
This GCSE lesson enables learners to continue to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave 3 of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Please note that it focuses on the following passage:
From: ‘At last the dinner was all done…’
Down to: ‘…on hearing his own name.’
The lesson begins with a differentiated ‘Do Now’ starter activity which encourages revision and retrieval of quotations from the novella so far. In preparation for their reading, learners will then consider how an image of a caterpillar eating a leaf might represent Scrooge. The image is intended to illustrate the idea of the ‘insect on the leaf’ metaphor contained within the passage. Learners will then read the passage indicated above and following on from this, they will respond to five passage-focused tasks on a worksheet. Suggested answers are included on the PowerPoint. The lesson concludes with a quick plenary that asks learners to think of points that either support or challenge a statement regarding the Cratchits’ function in Stave Three.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits (Part 5)
(17-slide editable PowerPoint teaching resource with 6 worksheets)
This is the final lesson in the five part series that looks at Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave Three. Please note that it focuses on the following passage:
From: ‘”Mr Scrooge!” said Bob. “I’ll give you the founder of the feast!”’
Down to: ‘…especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.’
The lesson begins with a differentiated Do Now activity which encourages revision and retrieval of ideas from the novella so far. Learners will then read the passage indicated above and transform the events of the passage into three images. Following on from this, learners will then analyse Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchits by responding to prompts on a passage-based worksheet. Suggested ideas are included on the PowerPoint. The lesson concludes with a quick review that asks learners to map their learning journey in relation to the Cratchits.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Present (Part 3)
(22-slide PowerPoint based lesson with 4 worksheets)
This is the third in a trilogy of GCSE lessons on the Ghost of Christmas Present. Please note that it assumes that learners have read the following passage:
From: ‘”Come in!” exclaimed the Ghost…’ down to: ‘“A tremendous family to provide for,” replied Scrooge’. The lesson starts with a differentiated (Bronze/silver/Gold) ‘Do Now’ starter activity/task which asks learners to read and understand a short passage which briefly explains Dickens’ inspiration for the character of the Ghost of Christmas Present. Following on from this, learners will recap some of the main ideas from the passage indicated above.
Students will then analyse Dickens’ presentation of the Ghost using a worksheet and pre-set questions. Suggested answers are included within the PowerPoint.
The lesson concludes with a brief learning review.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - Belle’s Family
(PowerPoint and worksheets)
This GCSE lesson explores how Belle’s family is presented in Stave 2. It also allows pupils to reflect on how Scrooge has changed throughout the course of Stave 2. There is a differentiated starter activity which encourages revision of some of the key ideas in Stave 2. Following this, students will read from, ‘”No more!” cried Scrooge’, down to ‘…he sank into a heavy sleep’, thinking about:
How the lives of Scrooge and Belle contrast
How Dickens presents Belle’s family
And how Dickens presents Scrooge’s reaction to this ‘shadow’.
Students will then reflect on the lessons that Scrooge has learnt in Stave Two as a result of the ‘shadows’ presented to him. This activity involves linking characters, ‘lessons’ and quotations and there are two different ways of approaching it, depending on the ability and needs of your class. The lesson concludes with a learning review which asks learners to think of words to describe Scrooge at the beginning, the middle and the end of Stave 2.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Past
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Childhood
A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig
A Christmas Carol - Fezziwig and Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and Belle
This is the second of three GCSE lessons on the Ghost of Christmas Present from Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. It focuses on the following passage: From: ‘”Come in!” exclaimed the Ghost…’ down to: ‘“A tremendous family to provide for,” replied Scrooge’. The lesson begins with a starter activity which asks learners to read and reflect on a short passage explaining the origins of the term Plenty’s horn. Following on from this, learners will read the above passage, focusing on:
How Dickens presents Scrooge as he enters the room
Why the Ghost has ‘more than eighteen hundred brothers’
The significance of Scrooge’s response to the Ghost at the end of the passage.
Learners will then examine two images. One of these is the John Leech illustration of the Ghost of Christmas Present from 1843. The other is a drawing of Old Christmas from December 1842. Learners will consider the similarities and differences between the two images and suggest inferences that can be made about the Ghost based on the image of Old Christmas. The lesson concludes with a brief learning review.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Past
(15-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets)
This GCSE resource enables learners to explore Dickens’ presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Contents include:
A differentiated starter activity that encourages learners to revise characters, quotations and ideas from Stave One.
Activities exploring how Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Past and why Scrooge yearns to see the Ghost put on its extinguisher cap.
Learners use a sheet of visual clues to help them interpret key details from Dickens’ description of the Ghost.
The lesson concludes with a differentiated review which asks learners to examine three images and suggest how they relate to Scrooge.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Childhood
A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig
A Christmas Carol - Fezziwig and Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and Belle
A Christmas Carol - Belle’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge and Belle
(19-slide editable PowerPoint teaching resource with 2 worksheets)
This GCSE lesson allows students to explore the end of Scrooge’s relationship with Belle in Stave 2. It begins with a differentiated ‘Do Now’ task which encourages revision of some of the key ideas in Stave One. Following on from this, learners will read from, ‘His former self turned down the lamps…’ down to ‘”One shadow more!”, thinking about: Why Belle chose to end her relationship with Scrooge; how Dickens presents Scrooge in this passage and how our understanding of Scrooge’s character is developed as a result of what Dickens reveals in this part of the book. There is also a detailed analysis of two of the passage’s more complex ideas, including Scrooge’s worship of the ‘golden idol’. Learners will then complete a ‘how far do you agree?’ activity involving a differentiated range of statements on the subject of Scrooge and Belle’s breakup. The lesson concludes with a learning review which asks learners to summarise why Scrooge and Belle broke up in no more than 15, 10 or 5 words.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Past
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Childhood
A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig
A Christmas Carol - Fezziwig and Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Belle’s Family