Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
A Christmas Carol for GCSE - Scrooge is Redeemed
This editable 12-slide PowerPoint-based GCSE lesson explores how Dickens presents Scrooge’s redemption in Stave Five. It begins with a differentiated Quick Fire Quiz in which learners answer as many questions as they can on Stave One in five minutes. Learners will then read from the beginning of Stave Five down to ‘Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious. Glorious!’
After reading the passage, learners will undertake a passage-based worksheet in which they explore Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in this passage. The lesson concludes with a brief review in which learners suggest the significance of four images in relation to the concept of Scrooge’s redemption.
Suggested answers are provided for all tasks.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 4 and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
A Christmas Carol - The Death of Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Caroline’s Family
A Christmas Carol - Old Joe’s
A Christmas Carol - The Royal Exchange
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Grave
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge’s Death
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Repents
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Makes Amends
A Christmas Carol - Context - Thomas Malthus
(24-slide PowerPoint and 10 worksheets)
Malthus’ theory of population growth is an important consideration in ‘A Christmas Carol’, but who was Malthus and why was Dickens disgusted by his ideas?
This resource for KS4/GCSE enables learners to think about their own attitude in relation to the management of poverty and understand how Malthus justified his opinion that the poor should not be given financial aid. It includes:
A differentiated Do Now/Starter activity, in which learners rate how far they agree with eight controversial statements relating to the management of poverty in society. At higher levels, learners will also go on to decide how Scrooge would respond to each statement and why.
The main activity is for learners to use a table of simplified data to draw their own graph demonstrating Malthus’ theory. Teachers should select the higher, middle, or lower version of this or use a mix of all three, depending on the range of abilities within their group.
After this, learners reflect on the implications of the adjective surplus. This tasks also includes higher-level questions to stretch more able learners.
The lesson concludes with learners writing down five things they have learnt during the lesson.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol:
Introducing A Christmas Carol at GCSE
A Christmas Carol - Introducing Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge in Stave 1
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Vs Fred
A Christmas Carol - The Workhouse
A Christmas Carol - Marley’s Ghost
A Christmas Carol - The Penitent Spirits
A Christmas Carol - The Rich and the Poor
Macbeth - The Extract Question (Edexcel / Pearson GCSE English Literature)
(45-slide PowerPoint presentation with 9 worksheets)
This PowerPoint-based teaching resource offers a detailed, step by step guide to the Edexcel / Pearson GCSE English Literature examination extract question on Macbeth. The resource works through a demonstration of how to analyse an extract, before asking students to apply their learning in a range of individual and paired activities. Visual images are used to extend the range of ways students can engage with an extract as well as a number of active learning methods to secure learning and aid easier recall on future tasks. The lessons and activities within this resource are engaging, well-paced and fully differentiated.
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Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - KS3 Unit of Work
(93-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, 14 lesson plans, unit of work overview and 3 worksheets)
Our ‘The Invisible Man’ teaching unit explores the popular Oxford Playscripts drama interpretation of the classic C19th H.G. Wells novel.
It includes the following activities:
Examining the cover and blurb and making predictions
Using P.E.A.R. to construct an extended response
Writing and redrafting responses to texts
Character analysis
Writing an empathetic response
Understanding the P.A.F. of a text
Individual, pair and group activities
Exploring and understanding the key themes of the story
Creating storyboards and quizzes to consolidate knowledge of the text
Uncovering the context of ‘The Invisible Man’ - H.G. Wells research task
Role play, Hotseating and other speaking and listening opportunities
Writing a review of ‘The Invisible Man’
Functional Skills English - Entry Level 1
(Unit includes 147-slide editable PowerPoint and 34 worksheets)
This unit of work covers all the requirements of 2019 Functional Skills English for Entry Level 1. It includes a range of differentiated, engaging and practical tasks that help students develop key functional skills. The unit covers Speaking, Listening, Communication, Reading and Writing.
Contents include:
What are Functional Skills? An explanation.
Self assessment – ‘Strengths and weaknesses’
EL1 key words spellings tests (incorporated into each lesson)
A – Z challenges to strengthen alphabet skills
Radio ad and Tannoy announcement activities to help develop listening skills
Arranging a party and a family holiday – to develop practical organisation, planning and communication skills
How to make your voice heard in a group
How to build arguments and find information quickly by skimming and scanning
Taking an active part in a debate
Exploring non-verbal communication skills
Consolidating essential writing skills – capital letters, full stops, sentences, etc
How to take messages (on the phone or face to face) and make notes whilst message taking
And lots more!
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more English Functional Skills resources:
Functional Skills Entry Level 2
Functional Skills Entry Level 3
Functional Skills Level 1
Functional Skills Level 2
Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4
Lower KS2 English Teaching Resource
In this English punctuation teaching resource, pupils practise recognising, writing and punctuating direct speech as per the curriculum objectives of the Year 3 and 4 programme of study (Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation). This engaging and animated PowerPoint lesson includes:
An explanation of direct speech
Identify the reporting clause and speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
An explanation of indirect speech
A direct and indirect speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
How to punctuate direct speech explanation
A punctuating speech activity with an accompanying worksheet
Complete the sentences activity with an accompanying worksheet
3 further differentiated worksheets with answers
As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Direct and Reported Speech
Punctuating Speech
Neutral Tones - Edexcel
This mini-unit explores Hardy’s ‘Neutral Tones’ in detail. Designed to teach pupils studying the poem at GCSE, this resource analyses the poem in depth and explains how to write a comparison essay. The resource contains a 64-slide PowerPoint presentation and 8 worksheets.
Lesson 1
Making predictions – From the title alone, what do you think the poem is about?
Context – Learning the importance of context. How knowledge of context helps us understand the poem in detail. Here we explore Hardy, his world view and his literary influences. First Contact – An initial reading of the poem with a glossary included and comprehension questions with answers to assess understanding. Exploring Meaning – Analysing the poem in detail. Exploring key quotes and discussing them with comprehensive questions that delve deeper. Model answers are provided.
Essay Writing – An essay question task to assess initial understanding. Includes a model answer and peer assessment opportunities.
Lesson 2
Themes – Analysing the poem’s themes: love, loss, memory and emotional trauma.
Language – Exploring Hardy’s use of language, poetic techniques and the semantic field. Includes an exploration of imagery and a line-by-line annotation of the poem and questions with detailed answers. Structure and Form – How Hardy uses the lyric form, perspective, punctuation, rhyme, rhythm, and enjambment and how he organises the stanzas and uses a cyclical structure. The GCSE Exam – How to write an exam-like comparison essay.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE Poetry resources for Eduqas and Edexcel:
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
The Prefix ‘dis’ - Year 3 and 4
In ‘The Prefix ‘dis’ - Year 3 and 4’ pupils learn about prefixes and using the prefix ‘dis’ as per the objectives of the Year 3 and 4 programme of study. This engaging and animated PowerPoint lesson includes:
An explanation of prefixes and the prefix ‘dis-’
Activities with accompanying worksheet to use alongside the PowerPoint lesson
3 differentiated worksheets with answers
Word search activity worksheet with answers
As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘The Prefix ‘dis’ - Year 3 and 4’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
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The Prefix ‘re’
The Prefix ‘in’
The Prefix ‘mis’
The Prefix ‘inter’
The Prefix ‘sub’
The Prefix ‘auto’
The Prefix ‘super’
The Prefix ‘anti’
The Prefix ‘un’
The Prefixes ‘il’, ‘im’ and ‘ir’
Developing Reading Skills - Prefixes
Identifying Fact and Opinion
English Reading Teaching Resource
This handy English teaching resource focuses on identifying fact and opinion in a non-fiction text. Content includes:
1. An animated PowerPoint lesson
2. Activities to support the teaching of this objective with an accompanying
worksheet
3. One further worksheet with answers
'Identifying Fact and Opinion' is editable so that it can be tweaked, altered or differentiated to suit each class taught.
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
(30-slide editable PowerPoint teaching resource with 6 worksheets)
This double GCSE lesson enables learners to explore the background to - and Dickens’ presentation of - Ignorance and Want in Stave 3. It begins with a choice of differentiated retrieval tasks as a Do Now activity. These tasks prompt recall of key ideas and quotations from Staves 1-3. Learners will then read from, ‘Much they saw and far they went’ down to the end of Stave Three. During their reading, learners are asked to reflect on:
What we learn about Ignorance and Want and how Scrooge reacts to them
What Ignorance and Want may represent in Victorian society
What function these characters serve in the novella.
Following on from this, learners will complete a worksheet that enables them to explore the background to Dickens’ creation of Ignorance and Want. This worksheet focuses primarily on Dickens’ experiences in the year 1843 and how they influenced his decision to write ‘A Christmas Carol’. After feedback, learning is reviewed and this constitutes the end of the first part of the lesson.
In Part 2, the Do Now task asks learners to retrieve information from the previous lesson. After giving feedback, learners will then use a second worksheet to focus on the passage in question, responding to questions that prompt analysis of Dickens’ presentation of Ignorance and Want. Suggested answers for this and the Do Now task are included. Part 2 concludes with learners identifying what they knew, have learnt and would like to know about the characters of Ignorance and Want.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 1
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: Macbeth – The Witches
(24-slide PowerPoint and 8 worksheets)
This KS4/GCSE teaching resource explores the significance of the witches and the theme of the supernatural in Macbeth via a range of differentiated activities. This lesson situates both the role of the witches in Shakespearean times and in the text and makes links between these ideas in order that discussion of contextual factors is not ‘bolted on’ in the exam.
Differentiated worksheets (Bronze, Silver and Gold) are included for students working towards a band 3, pushing beyond a band 3 and heading towards a band 4, and for students aiming for the very top grades. These activities culminate in a concluding task that evidences and secures learning from across the entire lesson.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Structure
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work
GCSE English - Reading Fiction
This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help GCSE students develop their reading assessment skills. It is made up of a 44-slide PowerPoint presentation, 8 worksheets and a reading assessment task using an extract from the novel Frankenstein.
Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction to the ‘Reading Fiction’ section of the GCSE English exam
How to approach the exam task
Analysing an extract - first and second reading
Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, consolidation and using deduction skills
How to write an extended answer about language
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively
How to write about structure
A 45-minute assessment task
Lesson Three
Feedback and discussion of student responses
All five GCSE-type assessment questions and answers explored in detail
Exemplar answers for all five questions
GCSE Reading Fiction Skills has everything you need to help you develop essential exam skills.
The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a 5 lesson scheme of work with a 50 slide editable PowerPoint presentation and an 11 page booklet of worksheets.
The Landlady by Roald Dahl teaching resource includes a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities:
A scheme of work overview with 5 four part lessons covering literary context, plot, character, themes and language
Analysis of the characters of Billy Weaver and The Landlady
Extension activities
Cloze and sequencing exercises
Literary context understanding influences - fairy tales - activity and notes
A copy of the text link
Tales of the Unexpected TV version of The Landlady introduced by Roald Dahl link
A modern day version of The Landlady link
Analysing Roald Dahl’s use of language to build mood and tension in The Landlady
Essay question with planning guidance
Prepositions - Years 3 and 4
‘Prepositions - Years 3 and 4’ is an English KS2 teaching resource that covers the prepositions objectives in the English programme of study for years 3 and 4. This animated PowerPoint lesson includes:
What are prepositions explanation
How to identify a preposition explanation
Why we use prepositions explanation
Activities to support the teaching of these objectives with two accompanying worksheets
Two further worksheets with answers
‘Prepositions - Years 3 and 4’ is fully editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource, if needed, to suit each class they teach.
Similes - Year 5 and 6
‘Similes - Year 5 and 6’ teaches pupils how to use similes in their written work. This fully editable PowerPoint lesson can be used as a starter activity, a standalone lesson or developed into lessons for improving vocabulary and language skill. Content includes:
What is a simile? Definition and examples of similes
Using super similes and avoiding cliché
Using similes to create better sentences
Two accompanying worksheets
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Metaphors
Similes
Writing for Different Audiences
‘Writing for Different Audiences’ English teaching resource explains how the audience of a text affects its composition. The resource has been made with KS3 students in mind but it can be easily tweaked for use with upper KS2 or lower ability KS4 students. Content includes:
An editable PowerPoint lesson
Activities to support the teaching of this objective
1 accompanying worksheet
.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Writing for Different Purposes
Writing for Different Audiences and Purposes
Complex Sentences - KS2 and KS3
'Complex Sentences - KS2 and KS3' is a handy PowerPoint resource designed to help pupils learn how to create complex sentences to improve writing as per the curriculum objectives of the KS2 and KS3 English programmes of study. The resource can be tweaked, edited and differentiated to suit your teaching needs and is easy to update over time. Content includes:
1. Definition and examples of a complex sentence
2. How to recognise the main clause in a complex sentence
3. Identifying the main clause activity with accompanying worksheet
4. How to recognise the subordinate clause in a complex sentence
5. Identifying the subordinate clause activity with accompanying worksheet
6. Adding a subordinate clause activity with accompanying worksheet
7. 1 further worksheet
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits
(15-slide PowerPoint and 5 worksheets)
This lesson encourages learners to begin to examine Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchit family in Stave Three of A Christmas Carol. It focuses on the following short passage from ‘And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power…’ to ‘…to be let out and peeled.’ The lesson begins with a differentiated starter activity in which learners unscramble quotations from Staves 1 and 2 and the early part of Stave 3. Following on from this, learners analyse Dickens’ presentation of the Cratchits by responding to questions on a passage-based worksheet. Suggested answers are included on the PowerPoint.
The lesson concludes with a brief learning review that asks learners to identify five things they have learnt about the Cratchits during the lesson.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol:
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Present Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 2
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 3
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 4
A Christmas Carol - The Cratchits Part 5
A Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim
A Christmas Carol - Fred’s Christmas
A Christmas Carol - The Market Scene
A Christmas Carol - The Miners and the Lighthouse
A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge Vs Fred
(15-slide PowerPoint presentation with 4 worksheets)
Fred’s nephew is often described as a foil character for Scrooge. This GCSE resource enables students to use the Venn diagram method to compare and contrast the two characters in Stave One of A Christmas Carol.
Contents include:
A differentiated starter activity, in which pupils work through a series of tasks and questions in pairs to revise what they have discovered about Scrooge so far.
After this, learners will read from ‘Once upon a time…’ in Stave One down to ‘…for he returned them cordially’, thinking about what they learn about Fred, Scrooge’s attitude towards his nephew and why Dickens chooses not to reveal Fred’s first name at this stage in the novella. The main activity is for learners to use a Venn diagram and a bank of quotations to compare and contrast Fred and Scrooge. At higher levels, learners will also group the quotations into specific categories and write a comparative paragraph using a pair or set of related quotes as a basis. To conclude, learners will read a definition of a foil character and suggest three ways in which Fred could be considered a foil character for Scrooge. If there is time left over, learners can also attempt an additional challenge task in which they suggests points for and against a statement about Scrooge and Fred.
NB. This resources assumes prior knowledge of the first few pages of ‘A Christmas Carol’ in which the protagonist Scrooge is introduced.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE resources for Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol:
Introducing A Christmas Carol at GCSE
A Christmas Carol - Introducing Scrooge
A Christmas Carol - Scrooge in Stave 1
A Christmas Carol - The Workhouse
A Christmas Carol - Thomas Malthus
A Christmas Carol - Marley’s Ghost
A Christmas Carol - The Penitent Spirits
A Christmas Carol - The Rich and the Poor
GCSE English Teachnig Resources: Macbeth - Structure
(21-slide PowerPoint presentation and 5 worksheets)
This resource contains a range of activities which help learners develop a sound understanding of how Shakespeare uses structure in Macbeth. The lesson begins with a collaborative group task in which pupils explore and discuss the structure of the play as a whole.
Differentiated activities allow all students to access the topic, as do visual and active group tasks. The resource has a particular focus on Shakespeare’s use of cyclical narrative struture and dramatic irony.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Macbeth - GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth - Characterisation
Macbeth - Loyalty
Macbeth - Courage
Macbeth - Context and Tension
Macbeth – The Witches
Macbeth - Answering the AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - Answering the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Exam Question
Macbeth - House of Games Activities
Macbeth - Year 5/6 Unit of Work