Crack some codes this Easter with my set of three differentiated activity booklets, with added challenge! First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are Easter-themed tasks and questions, which students then respond to. For added difficulty, there are three levels of differentiation, all in booklet format. Task list: If Easter eggs could be made of something else, what would you suggest and why? When you think of the Easter season, which colors do you think of, and why? Everyone loves animals! Which animals are Easter animals, and what do they symbolise? Create mind maps. Ask around your class… what do your peers do around Easter time, even if they don’t celebrate it in a traditional way? Create a tally chart and a graph. What if the Easter bunny asked for an update? Design an Easter bunny for the modern world. Includes a total of 38 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers.

Start 2022 with some student-led goals for the New Year, with added challenge and two difficulty levels! First, students use the key to decode the four messages (the two versions each have different questions, allowing students to complete both if you have fast finishers). The messages revealed are goal-setting tasks and questions, which students then respond to in the spaces given. Additional tasks ask students to: write more questions and tasks using the given code, then decode and respond to each others messages create a new code of their own and use it to share messages of positivity and encouragement differentiated extension slips require students to name the code systems, with reasoning Includes nine activity pages, nine extension pages, and an answer key.

28 printable activity bookmarks for frontloading and exploring new unit or topic vocabulary. A perfect addition to any study unit! The differentiated bookmark faces range from simple responses to critical and evaluative responses. The formats are inspired by models and theories such as Bloom, Frayer and Stahl/Nagy. The bookmarks are formatted so two styles can be printed back to back - mix and match the differentiated versions for double sided bookmarks!

Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Goodbye by Alun Lewis… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations. Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction. Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you! Includes… Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides Printable pre-populated hexagons Digital hexagon map with moveable elements The full poem can be found online.

Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of ten mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations. Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction! Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you! Includes… Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides Printable pre-populated hexagons Digital hexagon map with moveable elements The full poem can be found online.

Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of My Mother’s Perfume by Pascale Petit… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations. Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction! Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you! Includes… Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Smell and Taste worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides Printable pre-populated hexagons Digital hexagon map with moveable elements The full poem can be found online.

Learn, analyze and use persuasive devices in speech with this packet of resources with cheat sheets, models, transcripts, writing frames and speech topic suggestions. Includes: Teacher notes for use of resources Two differentiated cheat sheets of persuasive devices in mnemonic format Directions to Will Stephens’ TedX Talk: How to Sound Smart in your TedX Talk Graphic organizers for use during or immediately after viewing the talk Transcript model of the talk for annotation Instructive slideshow for Silent Discussion annotation activity Talk scaffold based on the model Talk planning frame based on the model List of talk topic suggestions for student choice

Learn about the Icelandic Jólabókaflóð (Yule Book Flood) tradition with this printable puzzle and activity booklet! This is the perfect bookish gift for your students this winter or Christmas. PLUS: Scavenger Hunt Codebreaker activity! Includes… Choice of covers (Jólabókaflóð or Bookflood) Introduction page explaining the tradition Wordsearch of Jólabókaflóð vocabulary Crossword about the history of the tradition Word Match to learn some Icelandic words and phrases Labyrinth (just for fun) Codebreaker - crack the coded message and answer the question Fireplace mindful coloring page Book cover mindful coloring page PLUS Codebreaker task as separate activity - hide the letter code cards around school for extra scavenger hunt challenge instead of providing students with the sheet of letter codes!

Gamify proofreading and editing work with these 60 pages of printable Bingo grids! Task students with finding these errors in their own work, or during peer assessment. Give prizes for the most errors found and corrected - make mistake discovery a positive activity! Aimed at secondary school students, this pack includes… 40 different printable grids of common spelling, punctuation and grammar errors 20 sheets of the above as half-page printables Blank PPT versions to create your own with editable text boxes Log sheet for students to write quotes as proof of errors found and corrected That’s 64 pages and slides - enough for every student in the class, and for every student to get a different card each time you play proofreading bingo!

Challenge your students to study with a wider range of revision and test prep methods with these 40 printable bingo grids, complete with definitions of over 20 revision activities and styles! This revision bingo set is designed to encourage students to step out of their comfort zones. Many rely on simply reading notes, or one repetitive method of revising which does not always help the content to stand out in their minds. This pack includes the following printables: 40 different bingo grid pages to be crossed off when the revision method or activity has been completed two pages of definitions of each revision method These sheets can be printed as: class sets so that all students receive a different grid for revision or test prep in the run up to a quiz, test or exam. individual packs for students to use for different topics within a subject individual packs for students to use for different subjects before exam season

This booklet of 12 Christmas-themed extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units. Wide-spaced for easy annotation and an editable Google Apps version of the extracts included, you can adapt the pack to your high school students’ needs. Each extract is heavy in sense of place, figurative language, and genre. Suitable for Gifted and Talented students or Honors classes. The pack also includes activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts. Check out the preview! Excerpts have been selected from: The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky (1917) The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry (1905) A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Washington Irving (1819) Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement C Moore (1912) At the North of Bearcamp Water, Frank Bolles (1893) All Things Considered, G. K. Chesterton (1915) Where the Christmas Tree Grew, Mary E. Wilkins (1892) Bertie’s Christmas Eve, Saki (1919) 10.A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum (1904) 11.The Lay of the Land, Dallas Lore Sharp (1908) 12.A Traveler at Forty, Theodore Dreiser (1913)

This set of 66 worksheet activities explores Jaques’ speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, also known as the monologue All the World’s a Stage or the Seven Ages of Man. Includes… How to Use guide Printable sheet of the full speech from As You Like It 27 Line by line sheets for individual students to translate and illustrate in both a fun font and plain font Full page of selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in small bubbles Double-sided page of the same selected lines for students to translate and illustrate in slightly larger bubbles 4 differentiated versions of modernized Seven Ages of Man worksheet in both a fun font and plain font You can also use classroom discussion, group discussion, Turn and Talk and other collaborative methods to build and bank ideas before completing the activities.

40 printable book report templates in the style of a bento box! Student can either write, draw, or glue information or images into the sections to represent their book. Fantastic for creating visual summaries with appealing results! Four designs each differentiated to multiple levels - with prompts, with four or five sections, with flaps to lift, and totally blank for student organization or for you to instruct on specific content requirements… that’s 48 pages!

This booklet of 18 activities for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a great flexible resource for festive or winter units, and includes an editable Google Docs version. Select differentiated activities as necessary for your students! Includes: Character Sketches Scrooge Marley’s Ghost Scroogify Christmas Carols We Wish You a Merry Christmas Christmas Tree The Twelve Days of Christmas Diaries of the Ghosts Marley’s Ghost The Ghost of Christmas Past The Ghost of Christmas Present The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Close reading - Sense of Place Annotation of three extracts Comparison of three extracts Differentiated Comprehension Question Worksheets Character Setting Mood Theme Language Comprehension Question List (simplified version of above) Differentiated Close Analysis Essay – Impressions of Scrooge Extract for annotation Differentiated planning sheet with model row Differentiated planning sheet with model row and supplied quotations Additional reverse side of sheet

18 graphic organisers for exploring the life and impact of the six Tudor monarchs. Three versions of each allow for differentiation or levelled instruction. Includes sheets for: Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI Lady Jane Grey Mary I Elizabeth I Perfect for use alongside text-based research, webquests or group discussion, or simply as note organisers for classroom use.

Explore Ambrose Bierce’s classic short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge with this printable booklet of 38 pages of activities and printable texts. Simply print and go! Includes a wide range of tasks, from literary analysis to personal responses. Includes pre-reading hooks and post-reading activities suitable as assignments. This is also a growing booklet - more activities to come!

Challenge your high school students to use more devices and techniques in their creative writing or NaNoWriMo projects with these 80 printable Bingo grids… not just for November!! Aimed at gifted and talented students, this pack includes… 40 different printable grids with heading Creative Writing Bingo 40 different printable grids with heading NaNoWriMo Bingo 22 sheets of quarter-page printables Blank PPT versions to create your own with editable text boxes (full and quarter page) Log sheet for students to write quotes as proof of devices That’s 106 pages and slides - enough for every student in the class, whether you use these year-round or for just for narrative writing events!