This Halloween activity for KS3 and KS4 is a great bellringer, brain break or or exit ticket. Learn about the history of Halloween whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer key included.
The slideshow is also accompanied by printable US letter and UK A4 size worksheet versions.
These activities for KS3 and KS4 are great seasonal bellringers, brain breaks, starters or exit tickets. Learn about lots of different traditions whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answer keys included.
This proofreading activity for KS2 and KS3 is a great bellringer, brain break or or exit ticket.
6 errors on each slide are differentiated by outcome - an error to spot for all levels of ability!
Introduce your students to ten examples of classic literature whilst also correcting errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. The café theme and quick, close reading skills needed makes this perfect for your book tasting event! Answer key included.
Guide your students in the close reading of any quotation from any text with these Quote Marks - bookmarks with differentiated mix and match activities. Perfect for rounding off a bigger reading task!
Features three options for a front side and two options for the reverse, or print any of them as single-sided bookmark tasks.
Four repeated bookmarks per sheet in black and white allow for easy printing and ink-saving. Includes US letter and UK A4 document sizes, plus a quick guide for printing.
Tasks include:
Identifying a quote
Who said it and when
Meaning of quote
Tone of language
Key words or impact
In your own words…
Word group categorizing
Star ratings
Change a word to alter the meaning
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow for KS3 and KS4 school students focused on winter traditions and festivals around the world. Great for Christmas!
Encourage discussion around ten prompt pairs, all focused on the winter season. Perfect for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks.
A fun, thoughtful ‘would you rather’ slideshow for secondary school students focused on Halloween. Great for October or autumn!
Encourage discussion around 20 prompt pairs, all focused on the winter season. Perfect for warm-ups, bell-ringers or brain breaks.
This booklet of nine extracts from classic fiction is a great flexible resource for sports fiction or units to engage students with sporting interests.
Wide-spaced for easy annotation and including activity sheets for single extracts, paired extracts and multiple extracts, you can adapt the pack to your secondary school students’ needs.
Each extract is heavy in description and can be differentiated towards MAT students.
Four printable, editable Halloween bookmarks to give as gifts or use and purposeful gift tags in your class.
Simply edit the message and font in PowerPoint, print, laminate and go!
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the characters of the play An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley, or allow them to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces.
Then instruct them in the creation of a hex diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between characters and explaining their reasons.
This resource includes US letter and UK A4 size versions.
This differentiated informal letter task requires students to finish or redraft Stanley’s letter from chapter 9 of Louis Sachar’s novel Holes. If Stanley is twisting the truth so that his mom won’t worry, what else might he write?
There are three styles of worksheet for the writing activity included, plus a printable sheet of checklist slips (four per sheet) to give out as necessary. Introduction and planning activity also included…
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
Using simple countdown prompts to guide students, this resource allows your class to get on with research responsibly with clear starting and finishing points. Supplement your unit on homelessness or social issues as either a classroom or a homework task.
There are three differentiated versions of this worksheet - one with suggested search terms and foci for pupils needing support, one without prompts but including writing lines, and one without prompts for more independent students.
This resource includes:
3 differentiated versions of the task
PDF versions for quick, no-prep printing
US and UK document sizes
Engage your class with a problem-solving task for your unit on Homelessness or Global Issues. Use this differentiated activity to promote discussion and critical thinking - if you had $100 or £100, how would you help a homeless person?
US and UK currency versions included, plus appropriate document sizes. Either select items from a tabled list of resources, or use the image-based list. Quick bellringer task version provided, plus a vocab word search for fast finishers.
This task also includes editable Google Docs versions for online learning or homework tasks. Please note: The images on the second page are not editable or moveable due to the terms of use.
Great starter and exit tasks for lessons on Louis Sachar’s Holes. This slideshow features opening quotations from all 50 chapters; there are six spelling, punctuation or grammar errors in each, and answer keys built in. That’s 300 errors to correct in one slideshow.
Use as bellringers, brain breaks, exit tickets or as mini-lessons.
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!