Round up independent reading or book tasting sessions by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their own book. Then instruct them in the creation of a whole-class hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between the books to make a fantastic wall display. This resource includes quick-print sheets of large, medium and small hexagons, and two differentiated versions. Version 1 has sides for protagonist, antagonist, genre, theme, favorite quote, and setting. Version 2 has sides for hero, conflict, setting, favorite moment, genre, and pages. An exciting activity that will also help your students to recommend new novels to each other!

Support social-emotional learning or start a conversation about mental health by asking your students to fill out the sides of a hexagon with information about their reflections and emotions. Use in one-to-one counselling sessions, in smaller nurture groups or with classes to help students share their experiences. Six different designs of hexagon allow students to draw, graph or write about their moods and feelings, and track their experiences over days or weeks. Create personal diagrams for one student, or collaborate with larger groups! This resource includes quick-print sheets of large and smaller hexagons, both US letter and UK A4 document sizes.

Printable book report templates in the style of a book cover or dust jacket! Differentiated to three levels - with section headings, with limited guidance, and totally blank for student organisation or for you to instruct on specific content requirements. All versions are provided on an A3 PDF sheet with instructions for students to fill in and cut out their cover or jacket. Although not all book dimensions can be tailored for, if the A3 format fits the students’ books, they could wrap their finished reports around the books to create an interesting classroom display! The headed version includes… Title, illustration and author info Genre, setting, characters and conflict Favorite character and reasoning review and star rating Includes a completed example report.

Create an interactive decoration for your classroom by asking your students to fill out one of these strips as a record of their reading. Each strip includes space for the title and author of the book, and the name of the student who finished the book as well as the date they finished it. Simply add the book loop to the chain or garland and watch your class’s collective book log grow! Five styles of ‘link’ are provided in this pack: library shelf, comic books, pages, white with color text, and white with black text for printing on colored paper.

14 grammar posters for your English classroom - simple black and white styles which are easy to print on colour paper, or keep it monochrome. Gen Z slang used on all posters as examples of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and more! One version features sketch images to accompany the slang, and the other is text-only. 28 posters in all!

Support social-emotional learning or start a conversation about mental health by prompting your students to explore their negative thoughts and emotions through the metaphor of trees. Use in: one-to-one counselling sessions smaller nurture groups with classes to help students share their experiences This resource includes step by step instructions, interactive trees activity, and an optional reflection task in both US letter and UK A4 document sizes.

Create a DIY advent calendar with pictures behind each door! This fantastic keepsake craftivity can be used with a range of student ages and abilities, and makes a great gift or project. 10 templates included! Elements included: Detailed teacher instructions for preparation and delivery Printable templates with a choice of fonts 24 literary quotes about Christmas, one behind each door Totally blank printable templates for complete creative freedom 10 pre-made, easy print templates - just decide whether you want blank or pre-filled calendar fronts or reverses!

A thoughtful ‘would you rather’ worksheet and PowerPoint for older students with a summer theme. For example, would your students rather spend every day at the beach, or every day in the woods, and why? Encourage discussion around eight prompt pairs, all focused on summer activities, then students use the ‘why’ section to explain their choice. Check out the video preview for a closer look! This resource comes in two styles (one color and one black and white), and in both US letter and UK A4 document formats for easy printing, plus accompanying PowerPoint to make it easy for you to use these tasks as individual bell-ringers or exit tickets. I have also ensured that US and UK spellings are included on the appropriate documents. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Exposition Bingo | School Breaks and Holidays | Persuasion | KS3 and KS4 Summer Writing | Developing Ideas | Sentence Building | KS2 and KS3 Family Activities | Would You Rather | Discussion and Reasoning Wonder | Ordinary | Literature Extract Question and Essay Response Plan Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT

These printable bookmarks for secondary school students add a touch of literary humour to your awards. This pack includes 59 different awards with space for you to add the year, student name and your signature, and one blank one for you to create your own award by adding text boxes. Use them year on year! These are provided as PNG files so that you can organise them as required and to your preferred size. Character Awards: Most likely to be the action hero Most likely to be a famous activist Most likely to be an anime or manga character Most likely to be the comedy relief Most likely to be the mayor of a dystopia Most likely to know too much Most likely to be the lead character in a romance Most likely to be the terrifying leader Most likely to be the mad scientist Most likely to be the terrifying matriarch Most likely to be the terrifying patriarch Most likely to be the President Most likely to be the Prime Minister Most likely to be a private detective Most likely to save lives Most likely to be a spy Most likely to survive a horror novel Most likely to be the sheriff in a Western Most likely to quietly take over the world Plot Point Awards: Most likely to be abducted by aliens Most likely to go on the road with their band Most likely to accidentally open a black hole Most likely to run away with the circus Most likely to reintroduce dinosaurs to the earth Most likely to undergo a dramatic transformation Most likely to lead a life straight out of a Film Noir Most likely to invent life-changing technology Most likely to discover that mythical creatures are real Most likely to have a Number 1 Hit Most likely to be in a paranormal mystery Most likely to have their diaries published Most likely to be bitten by a radioactive spider Most likely to reject civilisation Most likely to accidentally release a demon Most likely to fight against a robot uprising Most likely to feature in a romcom Most likely to go into space Most likely to time travel Most likely to travel the world Most likely to discover the truth Most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse Device Awards: Most likely to be an allegory Most likely to be an example of dramatic irony Most likely to foreshadow Most likely to become a hyperbole Most likely to become a juxtaposition of their school personality Most likely to be a literary symbol Most likely to be a metaphor Most likely to be a paradox Misc Awards: Most likely to work with animals Most likely to write an autobiography Most likely to work with kids Most likely to make national news Most likely to work with plants Most likely to be a pro streamer Most likely to create a new slang word Most likely to be a stand up comedian Most likely to write a novel Most likely to write a screenplay …plus a blank version!

Learn about your students by asking them to design themselves as a video game character. As well as asking students to draw themselves as a character, they are also asked to outline the name, color scheme, skills, powers, travel method and mission for their character. For older or more able students, this can be followed up with a ‘why’ explanation to encourage discussion and reasoning. This pack includes… US and UK document sizes US and UK spellings PDF versions PNG versions for you to use in your own lesson planning

20 weeks of literacy slides! 20 slides with 100 activities - five per slide. Use as bellringers, exit tickets, brain breaks or for whole school home room tasks. The slides feature a combination of turn and talk, close reading, proofreading, sentence development, mime, quick writing and vocabulary tasks. You could use one slide once a week for a set of activities together, or complete one of the five tasks on the slide each day of the week. Could also be used to support ESL. This product includes… UK and US versions of the above Fully editable Google Slides versions of the above Answer key for all proofreading tasks

Crack some codes this Women’s History Month with a multiple-choice research project about one important figure, with added challenge! First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are tasks and questions, which students then respond to as part of their research. For added difficulty, there are three levels of differentiation, all in booklet format. Includes a total of 25 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers.

Crack some codes this St David’s Day on March 1st with a multiple-choice research project about Welsh traditions, landscape and language, with added challenge! St David’s Day is celebrated in Wales in the same way that St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Ireland. First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are tasks and questions, which students then respond to as part of their research. For added difficulty, there are three levels of differentiation, all in booklet format. Includes a total of 25 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers.

Crack some codes and start a discussion about mental health and wellbeing with my set of four differentiated activity booklets, with added challenge! The 9 tasks are perfect for tutor time or PSHE activities. First, students use the key to decode the messages. The messages revealed are wellbeing-themed tasks and questions, which students then respond to - NO INTERNET REQUIRED! For added difficulty, there are four levels of differentiation, all in booklet format. Includes a total of 84 pages of codes and activities, not including booklet covers or answer keys.

Prank your students by asking them to crack an obvious seeming code! The alphabet code looks easy, but all symbols need to be shifted along one letter… who will work it out first? Includes: * How to Use instruction sheet and answer key Prank code 3x coded messages ‘Real’ code (with symbols in the correct position) First, students use the key to attempt to decode the messages. How long will it take them to realise it doesn’t make sense? The messages revealed are April themed tasks and questions, which students then respond to - NO INTERNET REQUIRED!

Design or pitch an imaginary app! Engage your students’ creative side by researching, planning and designing an app that they wish existed through these four staged tasks, each differentiated to four levels. That’s 16 activities, suitable for individual or booklet printing. Mix and match them to create bespoke booklets for each student! Includes… One ‘How to Use’ page Research task to find out the most used apps among peers Research task to find out the most desired imaginary app among peers Planning task to explore the functions of a new imaginary app Design task to show what this new app would look like All of the aforementioned tasks are differentiated to 4 levels, indicated by the stars at the top of each sheet

Take a trip to an imaginary remote island! Students start by selecting one island from four descriptions and explaining their choice before going on to select seven items to take with them. Students will have different choices and reasoning depending on their island choice… Wrap the activity up with a piece of narrative, imaginative writing for their first night on the island.

Four sets of 6 printable double-sided cards to encourage pupils to take responsibility for their learning. Desperate to encourage your students to be more independent, and to avoid the tidal wave of unnecessary questioning in the first ten minutes of a task? The reverse side prompts the questioner to try five independent steps to problem-solve their learning issue before finally raising the front side of the card to ask for your help. Just print your selected design back to back, laminate and trim! If you found this helpful, you might also like: Marking and Feedback Stickers | Punctuation and Grammar | 23 Common Errors Extension Tasks | Early Finisher Choice Board | All Subjects Oracy Mats | Speaking and Listening | Prompts and Sentence Starters Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Literacy Mats | Support Writing More Able and Talented Bundle | Literacy | Challenge Resources

A reflective alternative to the ice-breakers and ‘getting to know you’ worksheets. This simple single-sheeter encourages students to think about the impression they want to make, whilst also helping to create a buddy system environment. This is suitable for a range of ages and all subject areas. The pack includes: US and UK terminology versions black and white and rainbow colour versions in PDF FREE simplified editable Word version to help you differentiate or personalise for your class If you found this helpful, you might also like: Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Secondary Grammar Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Secondary Punctuation Mat | Supporting Writing | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Secondary Persuasive Writing Bingo | Any Topic | Differentiated Layouts

Explore the more sophisticated vocabulary of Earth Day through these word search and definition matching tasks. Aimed at KS4 students, or MAT KS3 students, these sheets make a great starter task before moving on to an extended writing task linked to Earth Day. These tasks come with full answer keys and in both US letter and UK A4 size for easy printing. This Earth Day activity for Years 7-11 is a great seasonal starter or exit ticket. Learn about six different Earth Day celebrations whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included. If you found this helpful, you might also like: Earth Day | Would You Rather | Discussion and Reasoning Earth Day Bingo | Persuasive and Exposition Writing Earth Day | Figurative Language | Writing Devices | Differentiated Easter Traditions | Correct the Errors | Accuracy | SPaG Accuracy Passport | Improve Punctuation and Grammar | Literacy Ambitious Sentence Structures Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT Ambitious Punctuation Mat | Literacy Stretch | Challenge MAT