Explore a wide variation of autumn-themed vocabulary through these word search sheets. Aimed at KS2 and KS3, these sheets make a great bellringer, starting task or brain break before moving on to an extended writing task linked to the season.
They also work well for fast finishers.
These tasks come with full answer keys and in both US letter and UK A4 size for easy printing, as well as US and UK spellings and references to Fall and autumn accordingly.
This differentiated set of A4 sheets asks students to create a character sketch of Link, from Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold.
Includes the option to provide quotations or not, and to provide silhouettes to sketch over or not.
8 different worksheets to choose from!
Coach your students through the close reading and annotation of the opening description from the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley, then instruct them in the use of the differentiated essay frames to challenge and stretch pupils at all levels.
The extract and annotation sheet includes focused instructions, and the essay frame shows a clear route of progress with a built-in example and extension column to model development of ideas. Full answer key and suggestions provided.
These printable tone cards can be used to discuss and analyse the language in both fiction and non-fiction texts. Available in colour and black and white!
Prompt your students to use more sophisticated vocabulary with these sets of positive, neutral, and negative tone word mini-cards which also have the option to print four synonyms on the reverse to clarify meaning and avoid repetition in written or spoken responses.
Low prep - print and cut. For repeated use: print, laminate, cut, and store in small popper wallets or boxes.
This 20-product Creative Writing bundle for KS2, KS3 and KS4 differentiated includes resources for teaching and practising structure, figurative language, creative devices, punctuation and grammar development… and more!
Resources are provided with spelling and document sizes appropriate for US and UK classrooms, and many include Google Apps versions.
If you want an overview of my product quality, or you love what you see and just want to download a collection of my freebies in one go, I’ve tried to make it a little easier for you! This collection is best suited to middle and high school classrooms.
Includes:
Half-page character autopsy trio sheet
Any book codebreaker sample
Persuasive writing introduction scaffold
Activity page for chapter 10 of Tears of a Tiger
Quick opinions chain reaction example
Mindful coloring notebook cover
Blackout poetry activity page
Text to World comprehension sample
Greek and Latin roots through Dinosaur Names
Sell a haunted house planning page
Half-page wellbeing daily check-in sheet
Examples of autumn haiku
Thanks for visiting my store!
This resource is a step by step guide to building sentences by rewriting a sentence and adding an example of figurative language or a creative device each time. Use as a full lesson, or spread it out over several lessons as a bellringer. A peer feedback task is built in to the end of the process.
The provided example models the process every step of the way whilst students work on their own sentence from a choice of three.
Students begin with a base, three word sentence and add an adverb, alliteration, simile, personification, onomatopoeia and oxymoron in guided stages. The slideshow provided steers this process, and can be used as a lesson slideshow, or as bellringer slides. An editable Google Slides version of the PowerPoint is also included.
Both US and UK document sizes are included!
A great bellringer, brain break, warm up or ‘getting to know you’ task that can also be used as an extended task. Differentiated in nine different ways, this resource encourages students to select and edit their thoughts to a strict limit… harder than they anticipate! It’s also worth using for fast finishers.
Includes:
9 levels of differentiation
Quick and extended versions of the task
US letter and UK A4 document sizes and terminology
Fully editable Google Docs version
This activity focuses on the idea of a time capsule - what would your students put in a time capsule to be opened in the past? The resource features three formats:
What eight items would you put in a time capsule, and why?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would people react if they discovered it 100 years ago?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would the people in the historical society in your novel or story react if they dug it up?
This makes this set of worksheets suitable for one-off lessons, or linked to historical study, or linked specifically to the study of a novel or story.
All worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size, and also as a Google Docs editable version.
This activity focuses on the idea of a time capsule - what would your students put in a time capsule to be opened more than 100 years from now? The resource features three formats:
What eight items would you put in a time capsule, and why?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would people react if they dug it up in 100 years?
What six items would you put in a time capsule, and how would the people in the society in your novel react if they dug it up?
This makes this set of worksheets suitably flexible for one-off lessons, or linked to a range of tasks and subjects, or linked specifically to the study of a dystopian or futuristic novel or story.
All worksheets are provided in US letter size and UK A4 size, and also as a Google Docs editable version.
Here are all of my resources that are specifically created for using alongside any fiction text. Adapt the tasks to your needs, or mix and match for your classes.
Great for KS3 and KS4!
This bundle of activities for use alongside study of the novel Holes currently includes 10 tasks.
I am teaching this novel to my students at the time of writing, and will add resources to the bundle as I create, use, and improve them with my classes. Buy this novel companion bundle now, and benefit when I add new resources!
If you love succulents and cacti, this set of 15 posters is perfect for your themed learning environment! The posters have five background designs and explain 15 different punctuation and grammar rules - perfect for your middle or high school ELA classroom.
The posters are US letter size document and are provided as a high quality PDF file.
Need a creative task that you can use over and over again, with any book? This set of twelve creative worksheets asks students to select evidence from their reading to build an image of a specific character. Set the character for the class, give a selection to choose from, or let your students choose their own! This also works for classes where students are all reading their own novels.
There are three styles to choose from, and the drawing guides are differentiated; simple outlines, realistic outlines, and no outline at all for the really confident ones!
The resource comes in both US and UK document sizes, making this resource 24 pages long.
This resource is a great alternative to ‘First Chapter Friday’ or ‘Taster Tuesday’. Blurbsday tasks focus on the blurb on the back of the book, and encourage students to look at vocabulary, genres and editing skills.
There are three tasks included, increasing in difficulty and length (half page, full page, and double sided), and all worksheets are provided in US letter and UK A4 size document. Editable Google Apps version also included!
This graphic novel reflection task can be used with any part of any graphic novel! No prep required - just print and go. After reading, give your students either an A3 one-pager or a back-to-back smaller version of the sheet. This resource acts as a graphic organizer to explore and reflect on the pages that have just been read, whether that’s one page or one hundred!
There are four A3 version and four letter-size double-sided version, making this resource 12-pages for you to select from as necessary. All sheets prompt your students to think closely about…
The characters
The way the images and frames are used
Personal reactions to the content
Questions raised
Predictions for the upcoming pages (or post-novel if you finish the text)
Evaluation of the final three frames of the day’s reading
Drawing of a frame in a different style of the student’s choice
Encourage developed sentences in creative writing with this fall/autumn themed worksheet. Using the prompts (what, who, where, when, how, and why) your students start with a single detail and build it into a fully developed, image-filled sentence.
One sentence-building process is modelled for your students, then two prompts are provided, and finally there are three empty spaces for students to create their own idea from scratch.
This worksheet is in graphic organizer format, comes in 2 black and white styles and 2 color styles, and all of these come in both US letter and UK A4 document sizes with appropriate spellings and terminology on each.
This differentiated art, sketching or drawing task requires students to create a reptile species of their own after reading about the Yellow Spotted Lizard from Louis Sachar’s novel Holes.
There are three styles of worksheet included, and a prompt or ideas handout to help you to differentiate the task for your students.
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
This differentiated art, sketching or drawing task requires students to create an image of the Yellow Spotted Lizard from Louis Sachar’s novel Holes. There are three styles of lizard outline included, and five levels of differentiation:
Outline only
Outline with empty quote boxes
Outline with empty quote boxes and prompt arrows
Outline with pre-populated quote boxes
Quotation boxes only (no outline)
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
Coach your students through the close reading and annotation of extracts from the opening chapters of Holes, then instruct them in the use of the differentiated essay frame to challenge and stretch pupils at all levels.
The extract and annotation sheet includes focused extracts and chapter references, and the essay frame shows a clear route of progress with a built-in example and extension column to model development of ideas. Easel version included!
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions, and editable Google Docs version of the essay frame.