Three sets of five eye-catching double-sided bookmarks for Romeo, Juliet, and an overview of the play. A great introduction, discussion starter and ice-breaker for the play, or even to give as rewards! Romeo and Juliet’s bookmarks feature the symbols, themes and a selection of quotations associated with each character. The overview features the themes, characters, symbols and location of the play as well as a selection of quotations. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame Romeo & Juliet Essay | Guided Practice | Commitment Romeo and Juliet | The Prologue Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors

Aimed at Secondary level, this resource includes six grammar mats for general writing support. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work! Each mat covers… Homophones Connectives Conjunctions Capital letters Improving vocabulary

An easy cheat-sheet for 69 symbols in literature, and possibly film and TV… Ready to print in A4 or A3, you can stick these in folders and exercise books, or laminate them as reusable class handouts. Me? I laminate them and stick them to the desks, so they’re always on hand! The 69 symbols and their meaning have been split into the following categories for easy indexing… Illumination Seasons Daily Cycles Celestial Bodies Weather Landscape Animals Human Environment and Tools If you found this helpful, you might also like: Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Poetry Analysis Mat | Content and Structure Cheat Sheet | GCSE Support Literature Analysis | Sentence Starters | PEEL Structure Guided Practice | Literature Essay Frame

No-Prep Group Work! Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups to discuss and share information about quotations, themes and context, specifically linked to individual characters from the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper, or use with the included Character Thoughtpad to record the discussion. Includes eight characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with 4-8 groups of students. Laminate for multiple use! You might like… Theme Revision Placemats | Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | Context Workshops | Group Work Of Mice and Men | Character Sketch Bundle | GCSE Study Of Mice and Men | Light Symbolism | Post-Reading | GCSE Close Study

No-Prep Group Work! Just print, pass and problem-solve! A set of desk placemats to encourage groups of students to discuss and share information about quotations, characters and context linked to specific m the novel. This can either be an oracy task alone, or discussion alongside the creation of a revision map on A4 or A3 paper. Includes a double-sided ‘Thoughtpad’ sheet for students to log ideas along the way. Includes five characters, six tasks per sheet, and works well with groups of 4-8 students. Laminate for multiple use!

A close-reading, creative character task for grades 9-12. Students use quotations about Slim from the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references. This product includes… ‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided ‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided That’s three formats for the same task!

A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about Lennie Small from the chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references. This product includes… ‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided ‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided That’s three formats for the same task!

A close-reading, creative character task for GCSE study. Students use quotations about George Milton from the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men, building a picture of the character with these references. This product includes… ‘Blank canvas’ sheet with 16 quotations provided ‘Gingerbread man’ sheet with 16 quotations provided Realistic man outline sheet with 16 quotations provided That’s three formats for the same task!

Support your Secondary level students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both colour and black and white, and in A4 size format. The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation. Looking for a similar mat aimed at younger or less able students? Check out the version for Primary level. Primary | The Perfect Story | Narrative Frame | Guided Writing Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable version. The Perfect Narrative | Editable Story Frame | KS2, 3 and 4 If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Alliteration Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

This two-page worksheet explains and gives examples of alliteration for a KS3 and KS4 audience. It also provides a sheet of practice tasks. Print in black and white, colour, and single sided or back-to-back. If you liked the look of this, check out… Writing with Onomatopoeia Writing with Personification Writing with Similes

Aimed at KS4 More Able and Talented students, this is a full lesson guide for comparing several areas of poetry for two or more poems chosen by the teacher. Use this PowerPoint and set of modelling sentence sheets with any poems! Includes challenging concepts such as semantic fields and forms of poetry. The slideshow includes built-in discussion prompts and a quick ‘language of comparison’ starter task to draw students in. The sheets can be used as a cloze activity with students’ own ideas, or to be completed as the class discusses and shares suggestions. Includes both UK and US spellings and document sizes.

18 posters featuring six different figurative language and writing devices. Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples. The posters demonstrate: Alliteration Imagery Metaphors Oxymoron Personification Similes Use as classroom posters or print as smaller handouts. Includes both UK and US document sizes, and colour, low ink, and black and white styles.

Four workshop tasks in worksheet format to explore the context of Of Mice and Men from a slightly more unusual angle. Set the worksheets up at stations around the room, or print them as packs and move students on at their own tables. The tasks are: Inference and Deep thinking Themes and connections Experience and Empathy Food and Diet All sheets come in both UK and US document sizes and with respective spelling and terminology. You might like… Character Revision Placemats | Of Mice & Men Theme Revision Placemats | Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | Character Sketch Bundle | GCSE Study Of Mice and Men | Light Symbolism | Post-Reading | GCSE Close Study

This activity for KS3 and KS4 can complement any topic with links to the ocean. Learn about six different superstitions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions. If you found this helpful, you might also like: St Patrick’s Day Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Mother’s Day Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Easter Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Earth Day Celebrations | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG July 4th Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Of Mice and Men | Correct the Errors | Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Or to see a similar free sample, try… FREE | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG

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

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.

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.

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!

Perfect for classes reading Robert Cormier’s WWII novel Heroes. This pack of questions provides 20 comprehension questions and 20 analysis questions for chapter 4 of the novel. Differentiated to four levels, set work to support learners at every access stage! Level 1 is Easy, Level 2 is Moderate, Level 3 is challenging and Level 4 is Expert. Includes: Level 1 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 2 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 3 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 4 Comprehension - 5 questions and answer guide Level 1 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 2 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 3 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide Level 4 Analysis - 5 questions and answer guide

A bunting set aimed at high school classrooms featuring eight different writing devices. Decorate your classroom with purposeful and attractive flags! Each poster includes the Greek or Latin word roots for the device, and five quotations from literary works as examples. The posters demonstrate: Alliteration Assonance Imagery Metaphors Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Personification Similes Use as classroom bunting, posters or print as smaller handouts or flashcards.