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Sharing the love of learning and education into our little people. Variety of great resources for teachers and tutors, covering a range of ages. Look at my new 'Life Learning' PowerPoints to help with all those important extra-curricular topics we should be covering!

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Sharing the love of learning and education into our little people. Variety of great resources for teachers and tutors, covering a range of ages. Look at my new 'Life Learning' PowerPoints to help with all those important extra-curricular topics we should be covering!
One Word Learn! - For Teaching New English Vocabulary (2)
MissCharlotteAndrewsMissCharlotteAndrews

One Word Learn! - For Teaching New English Vocabulary (2)

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Miss Andrew’s One Word Learn! Is a brilliant and effective way of getting secondary students to learn new vocabulary regularly. The PowerPoint is colourful and funky! Workbook is included in this download. The idea is to introduce 1 new word at the start of each English lesson (could also be used as a house or extra-curricular activity). You would spend about 7-10 minutes, start to finish on this. For each word there are 4 slides: Title slide: Introduces the word. Definition slide: Gives definition of the word from Oxford Dictionary. Example slide: Two sentences showing the context in which you could use the word in. Activity slide: A wide range of English activities to complete using your new words; such as synonyms, antonyms, sentences, word search, similes, metaphors etc. There are 10 words included in this PowerPoint and 41 slides in total. Our whole school use it and the progress and feedback has been extremely positive! This is the second edition. Can buy both in a bundle! Hope you like it!:)
50 Amazing Reading Ideas
MissCharlotteAndrewsMissCharlotteAndrews

50 Amazing Reading Ideas

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This is a great resource for looking to do something different with a class in English. This has so many good ideas to help teaching to understand texts. The 50 ideas are split into different headings and these are: prior knowledge, prediction, visualising, summarising, questioning, structural analysis, character analysis, thematic analysis, relating to texts and language work. Hope you find it useful!:)
What is a Clause? Presentation for English Lesson
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What is a Clause? Presentation for English Lesson

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Good yet easy way to understand about what a clause is and how to use them; along with the rules of doing so. 16 slides with 4 tasks to complete as you go through it. It takes me a whole lesson but I get students to copy all slides down (not a lot of writing). Hope you like it:)
Poetry Powerpoint Presentation KS3
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Poetry Powerpoint Presentation KS3

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A great and fun way of recapping all poetry styles in KS3 and looking into the analysis of poems. Powerpoint is 20 slides long and includes activities along the way for students to complete in about 2 lessons. Glossary included of poetry related words for students to use also! Hope you like it:)
Explore Reading! Booklet
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Explore Reading! Booklet

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This is an amazing resource that I made to get children of any age (I use it for primary and secondary) to look at a wider range of texts and to develop understanding in all areas of writing (eg. structure, layout, purpose, format, text type). This resource is 34 pages but is set to print as an A5 booklet. It has a front cover, a page on how 20 minutes of reading a day can improve reading dramatically, a page on how to prepare yourself to get the best out of reading, a page on how to use the book and a page on all the types of texts the student needs to read. These include newspapers, play scripts, comics, football report, diary, letter, fiction and non-fiction etc. There are a total of 14 to be completed. I give these to my students to complete at home and at least 1 should be done per week; but they could be done in school time. I hope you like it:)
50 Amazing Starter & Plenary Ideas
MissCharlotteAndrewsMissCharlotteAndrews

50 Amazing Starter & Plenary Ideas

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Great resource to bring new starters and plenaries into your lessons. Full of fab ideas, suitable for all ages and subjects. Free 'Find the Author' word search too! All sold separately also! Hope you like it:)
Interactive Word Quiz Starter for English/Form Time
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Interactive Word Quiz Starter for English/Form Time

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Fun and engaging interactive word quiz. Great for English as a starter or Form Time. PowerPoint is made up of 53 slides. Grid with different categories ie. antonyms, parts of speech, analogy, synonyms and root words in the titles and then points down the column ie. 5pts, 10 pts, 15 pts, 20 pts, 25pts, each person/group choose their category and the points they want to try and earn (higher the points, harder the question), you then click on the points and it takes yo to the question, if they get it right they score those amounts of points, you then hover over the house picture and it takes you back to the title for the next person/group. Amazing resource to have - includes everything from antonyms, verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives. Hope you like it:)
One Word Learn! Vocabulary Starter PowerPoints
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One Word Learn! Vocabulary Starter PowerPoints

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INCLUDES BOTH POWERPOINTS AND A STARTER IDEA DOCUMENT (3 pages)! One Word Learn! Is a brilliant and effective way of getting secondary students to learn new vocabulary regularly. The PowerPoint is colourful and funky; personalise it with your name! The idea is to introduce 1 new word at the start of each English lesson (could also be used as a house or extra-curricular activity). You would spend about 7-10 minutes, start to finish on this. For each word there are 4 slides: Title slide: Introduces the word. Definition slide: Gives definition of the word from Oxford Dictionary. Example slide: Two sentences showing the context in which you could use the word in. Activity slide: A wide range of English activities to complete using your new words; such as synonyms, antonyms, sentences, word search, similes, metaphors etc. There are 10 words included in this PowerPoint and 41 slides in total. Our whole school use it and the progress and feedback has been extremely positive! Hope you like them!:)
Variety of Classroom Wall Displays Bundle
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Variety of Classroom Wall Displays Bundle

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Bundle includes a variety of wall and feature displays. Take off to Exams is a large display for exam and revision techniques. Speech Tree display is a A3 tree which you use the leaves to add on words of the day/week. Summer Reads is a medium size wall display about books to read over summer, good for library or English rooms. Variety of borders for children to write/print in as a good way of displaying their work. Word of the Week Train is a great resource for writing the word on the train and then breaking the word down in the rest of the carriages. I know the bundle is suited for all ages but is good to share with the whole school! Hope you like it!:)
Jekyll & Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls & Power and Conflict Poetry Quotation Banks
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Jekyll & Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls & Power and Conflict Poetry Quotation Banks

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Amazing quotation banks for the teaching of Jekyll & Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls and Power and Conflict Poetry (anthology poems). Perfect for revision and text analysis. Each page has a heading, picture, small information box and hundreds of quotes with a blank ‘meaning’ column for students to write in. Two additional pages for extra quotes and information. I am selling them individually but this bundle is discounted! Hope you like it:)
Presentations for Secondary Schools Bundle
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Presentations for Secondary Schools Bundle

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A fab collection of presentations for secondary schools. A Promise - A poignant and true story about how keeping a promise is important. What is Success - A captivating and thought-provoking Powerpoint on success and striving to do well. Anti-Bullying - A presentation on bullying, how to stop it and what to do if you see it occur. Form/Tutor Time - A great presentation to use every form time with different ideas, games and activities. Poetry - An amazing presentation to recap all the different styles of poetry, how they are different and how to annotate correctly. Includes activities as you go along. Revision - A brilliant revision presentation with great techniques, helpful tips, advice and guidance to revise efficiently. Writing a CV - An amazing way of getting students to think about writing a CV and with everything you need to include. Includes funny and helpful information.
Massive Bundle of all my English Starters
MissCharlotteAndrewsMissCharlotteAndrews

Massive Bundle of all my English Starters

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Massive bundle containing all my starters for all my English lessons! Many can be used for form time too! Includes activities, challenges, interactive games and quizzes etc. Bundle items can all be bought separately but massive savings by buying the bundle! Hope you like it:)
Children's Mentoring Bundle
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Children's Mentoring Bundle

18 Resources
A bundle filled with multiple activities/worksheets/booklets/plans etc. for young children to mentor with. Items bought separately would be £31!! Grab a bargain! Hope you like it:)