10 sheets, each containing two adjectives. Answer sheets included (synonyms listed not a full list) Designed as a quick ‘do now’ literacy activity to help boost student vocabulary.

10 pages of do now activities relating to homophones. Designed as a quick starter activity. Answer sheets included. Each page contains a definition of the words and three boxes with activities for students. The final box (the one with the scooter) is designed for ‘fast finishers’.

4 activities on Poe’s famous short story The Tell Tale Heart. These activities are designed to be starter activities to promote literacy and analysis skills. 1 x Match the literary technique to the quote (Answers included) 1 x Match the symbol to the definition (Answers included) 3 x Analyse the quote. Example given on the first page showing students how to identify and explain the literary technique used. 1 x Identify the punctuation and find an example of its use in the text.

13 worksheets focusing on identifying and explaining literary techniques in Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart. Focus on sound devices, such as assonance and alliteration, before moving onto general techniques. Example paragraph included. This has been differentiated for lower ability and higher ability students. Cut and paste paragraph structure activity with answer sheet. ‘What not to write in your paragraphs’ worksheet. Ideal for students who need to stop using vague statements. 4 pages of Do Nows that focus on identifying word classes and explaining techniques.

2 activities on persuasive or rhetorical techniques. Cut and paste activity (answers included) Worksheet match up (answers included)

28 cards displaying words relating to dinosaurs. Perfect for those dinosaur-mad students as the cards act as a word bank encouraging students to use more sophisticated vocabulary in their writing.

10 worksheets focusing on Edmund and Edgar in King Lear. A copy of their first soliloquies, literary techniques treasure hunt, connecting the characters to themes and concepts in the play. Comparison chart of the brothers’ qualities. Ideal for ‘Do Now’ starter activities.

42 flashcards relating to the weather. Ideal for helping young learners expand their vocabulary when learning to describe the weather.

10 picture cards, featuring symbols from the short story ‘Examination Day’. 10 explanations of the symbols. Ideal revision activity for students on Slesar’s short story. Students have to match up the explanations to the pictures.

DC’s Black Adam (20 pages) Worksheet Pack. Worksheets / Discussion questions on aspects such as: Themes Characters Symbolism Challenges Cinematography Setting Character - quote mix and match Film technique scene template x 3 Close analysis questions relating to the end scene (2 pages) No answers included. PDF file.

Teacher notes on 'How does Shakespeare present Lear in the opening scene of the play?". This could also be used as an exemplar answer demonstrating how students should integrate literary techniques into their answers. (Not a full essay response.) Key terms match up exercise (answers included) Worksheets on Lear and Edmund comparison Worksheet on how characters handle rejection Match the image to the character / circumstance Focus on Lear’s speech in the storm; labeling of literary techniques. Match the character to the quote domino type game. Short classroom activities / do nows.

15 worksheets on Henry Slesar’s short story ‘Examination Day’. Ideal for ‘Do Now’ starter activities. PDF file Includes: Discussion questions Close language analysis Character presentations

Note: These worksheets can apply to both the novel and the film regarding themes, character questions. Cinematography worksheets obviously apply to the film adaptation. 19 worksheets covering aspects such as: Prompts for the opening paragraphs of an essay Themes Discussion questions Symbolism Cinematography Vocabulary definitions Quotes - who said what General research on Malawi Please note, there are no answers. These are worksheet templates for different aspects of the text.

Confusing words match up activity where students have to match the word with the correct ‘picture’ interpretation of the word. It presents an additional activity to matching homophones. Students have to decide which picture matches each word, focusing on the meaning of the homophones in order to connect the word to the picture. An easy extension activity asks students to make a sentence out of each word / picture match up they find. 68 cards. 34 words and 34 picture cards.

36 word banks featuring parts of speech including adjectives, adverbs, proper nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns, verbs, interjections, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and contractions. Handy lists to remind students examples of the different parts of speech.

3 posters displaying Beginning Blends The first poster is a display page only (advert is only on a duplicate of the first poster you will download as a PDF. The posters are free of this display. General objects = Poster 1 Food = Poster 2 Animals = Poster 3

32 picture card game. 20 cards contain pictures of items beginning with ‘st’. 12 cards are random items. An individual or group game for students to develop their phonic sound awareness. A list of the items is included for your convenience.

20 sets (3 word banks in a set) covering themes such as: Beach, Cafe, Hospital, Airport, Farm, Fairground, School, Bedroom, Garage, Outer Space, Dinosaurs, Soccer, Park, Garden, Kitchen, Supermarket, Music. These sets are designed to help students with vocabulary and spelling. All words are in lower case. As an additional challenge students can identify the proper nouns in each word bank, use them in a sentence etc.

8 worksheets (PDF file) focusing on the classic confusing words / homophones. Answers included. Students have to match the words contained in the word bank at the top of the page into the boxes below.

Space themed Bingo Game Set 1 - basic sight words. 72 spaceships cards that can be used to announce the word the students have to find on their bingo cards. 6 bingo cards. Ideal group activity for early literacy learners.