<p>13 reading/book task suggestions on a ‘pick n mix’ style sheet.</p> <p>There are a range of task suggestions which link to books/reading, including writing, design/drawing and alternative tasks such as research and creating quizzes about books.</p> <p>Great to laminate and have ready as extension activities in lessons, for library/reading lessons or homework tasks for students to choose from.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>Two shield templates for students to design their own shield/coat of arms.</p> <p>Ready to print and use.</p> <p>I have used this for several different topics in the classroom, for example ‘all about me’ create your own coat of arms to represent yourself, and for designing coat of arms for the Capulet and Montague families in Romeo and Juliet.</p>

<p>Resources to support the teaching of the poem ‘Long Distance 2’ by Tony Harrison.</p> <p>The bundle includes:</p> <ul> <li>A copy of the poem on Microsoft Word</li> <li>A word fill activity for students to guess the missing words before reading the poem.</li> <li>Comprehension questions about the poem</li> <li>A PowerPoint with additional activities such as, write a phone call conversation, write a description.</li> </ul>

<p>A simple template for students to use to review films. Includes the questions:</p> <ul> <li>What was the film about?</li> <li>Who was your favourite character and why?</li> <li>Explain your favourite part of the film.</li> <li>Recommendations</li> </ul> <p>Ready to print on to A3 (you could shrink down to A4) and fully editable.</p>

<p>4 worksheets with story openers and a space for students to continue writing the story.</p> <p>Great for easy to set homework tasks and independent writing in lessons.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>A template for students to create their own storyboards, with 8 boxes and spaces for captions.</p> <p>Two versions: on A4 and A3 - ready to print and use.</p> <p>I have use this time and time again; students have created storyboards to retell stories they have read in class (e.g. Macbeth), some groups have used it to plan and create their own stories.</p>

<p>A great activity to help students explore the opening stage directions of ‘An Inspector Calls’.</p> <p>The worksheet includes a grid with 14 short quotes from the stage directions for students to explore. There is a space for students to write their explanation/analysis of each quote on the worksheet.</p> <p>Ready to print over 2 sides or 1 page double sided.</p>

<p>5 worksheets with 5 short/simple stories, each accompanied with 10 comprehension questions and space for students to write their answers.</p> <p>Great for easy to set homework tasks or lessons.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>A helpful worksheet to support students with writing PEE paragraphs, using the P.E.E burger, with space for students to write and form their own PEE paragraphs.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>Resources to teach ‘The Rule of Three’</p> <ul> <li>A PowerPoint with 8 statements for students to consider if they agree or disagree. The final slide has examples of sentences using ‘The Rule of Three’ - students can discuss whether they agree or disagree with the sentences, and then discuss how ‘The Rule of Three’ makes each sentence effective and persuasive.</li> <li>A worksheet for students to write their own sentences using ‘The Rule of Three’.</li> </ul> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>A range of resources to support the teaching of descriptive writing.</p> <p>This bundle includes:</p> <ul> <li>Descriptive writing techniques grid - with definitions and examples of 8 descriptive writing techniques and space for students to write their own examples of each.</li> <li>2 x worksheets for students to explore using the 5 senses in descriptive writing. Each worksheet has a different image to prompt students and a grid for them to make notes in for each of the 5 senses + sentence openers available for each task to support students, on PowerPoint.</li> <li>2 x ‘improve the description’ worksheets for students to demonstrate their improved skills.</li> <li>A PowerPoint with more example descriptive sentences using different techniques and images for students to write about.</li> </ul>

<p>3 worksheets with creative writing tasks. Each worksheet includes an image, questions to prompt students’ thoughts and discussion, and space for students to write.</p> <p>Great for easy to set homework tasks and independent creative writing lessons.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>5 task sheets to prepare students for the writing sections of their GCSE English Language exam.</p> <p>Each worksheet has an image and/or writing prompt and quick reflection questions to help students self-assess their work.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable. Great to use in lessons or as homework tasks.</p> <p>This resource includes:</p> <ul> <li>2 x writing inspired by image tasks</li> <li>1 x story writing task</li> <li>1 x article writing task</li> <li>1 x letter writing task</li> </ul>

<p>A bundle of resources to teach the two poems ‘Little Boy Lost’ and ‘Little Boy Found’ both written by William Blake. There are enough resources here to fill a few lessons.</p> <p>This bundle includes:</p> <ul> <li>A copy of each poem, with questions for students to answer about each poem.</li> <li>A word fill activity for students to guess the missing words in ‘Little Boy Found’.</li> <li>Line sort activity for ‘Little Boy Lost’ for students to reorder the lines.</li> <li>A PowerPoint with additional tasks such as a diary entry and missing person appeal speech.</li> </ul> <p>All ready to print/use - fully editable.</p>

<p>Resources to support the teaching of the brilliant poem ‘Half-caste’ written by John Agard.</p> <p>This bundle includes:</p> <ul> <li>A copy of the poem on Microsoft Word</li> <li>A PowerPoint to explore Standard English, slang and dialect, some background information about John Agard, notes to analyse the poem, a diary writing activity, exploring Agard’s feelings task.</li> <li>A worksheet to help students write 3 PEE paragraphs about how Agard’s feelings are presented in the poem.</li> </ul>

<p>A prompt sheet to support students with writing essays.</p> <p>The prompt sheet includes 6 openers to introduce points, 6 openers to introduce evidence and 6 points to introduce explanations.</p> <p>Ready to print and use - fully editable.</p>

<p>‘Thank you’ card templates for students to colour in and write a message.</p> <p>Simply print out on A4, fold in half and then students can colour in the design on the front of the card and write a message to their teacher/staff.</p> <p>8 different card designs, ready to print.</p>

<p>A template for students to write a newspaper article on. There are spaces for newspaper name, headline, a picture and caption, reported by and the article itself. Fully editable.</p>

<p>A fully editable certificate template to acknowledge student achievement.</p>

<p>A simple template for students to design their own bookmark.</p>

<p>A bundle of resources to support the teaching of persuasive writing techniques/devices.</p> <p>This bundle includes the following resources:</p> <ul> <li>Persuasive devices grid with space for students to write their own examples</li> <li>An example of a persuasive letter</li> <li>A lesson (on PowerPoint) with a persuasive writing activity - write a persuasive to the head teacher with prompts and sentence openers</li> <li>Persuasive writing techniques checklist</li> <li>4 persuasive writing BINGO cards</li> </ul> <p>All resources are ready to use/print and are fully editable.</p>