Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly. Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key. I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.

A 60 page pack of communicative activities for ESL/EAL/EFL teachers. Print off the relevant lesson and go. Loads of activities with communication built in, scaffolded activities, word recognition activities as well as reading and writing activities. Also links to videos. Topics covered: Introductions Countries and Nationalities Numbers Classroom instructions Parts of the body Colours Classroom objects Clothes Shapes and sizes Actions – Present Continuous Daily routines – present simple Emotions Jobs Animals Family Prepositions of place Food and drink

Adjectives packet for English learners An enormous bundle of resources to help primary school children learn adjectives and build their vocabulary for reading and writing. 40 Adjectives (plus synonyms) with 4 resources; Picture dictionary: 6 pictures to a page Words across from their antonym Synonyms listed for each adjective Adjective used in an example sentence Jigsaw activity: Match synonyms to their antonym Add a picture for both Add a sentence Add a riddle Flashcards - Version 1: All the pictures on one side, and the word on the other side. Flashcards - Version 2: Pictures on one side, the word and the synonyms on the other.

Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding. 3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for. Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages. Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school. Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.). The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!

A simple, elegant step by step introduction to subtraction in columns. Starts off with two colums, builds up to two columns where we need to borrow some tens and then continues until three columns where we need to borrow twice. Very clear guide, no room for misunderstanding. 8 slides with many actions built in to each slide to show exactly what needs to be done.

A PPT which breaks down word problems to create simple algebraic equations before solving them. Funny stories make the questions, so I'd suggest you update the PPT with your students' names. After you've done this as a class, you can then use the last slides on the PPT to let students have a try, and give them a 2 question worksheet to try alone.

3 different versions of this popular classic with a twist. Communication, competition, maths and fun all rolled into one. Just print and go. Students get a board/grid. Draw the ships onto it and then do sums to fire on their target. If they are wrong, their turn is wasted (they have to debate this with their partner). If correct, they hit or miss. Three versions to allow speedy mathematicians to continue to play while the slower ones just continue with their game.

Instantly generate one of 10 different types of worksheets and print. An incredibly useful tool allowing you to generate an infinite number of your own worksheets from 10 different types. Just press F9 to randomise and print, along with answer sheets. 11 different styles to choose from 1. Operations - 100 questions in list form - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 2. Column addition 3. Column addition - 4 digits 4. Column subtraction 5. Column subtraction - positive answers only 6. Short multiplication 7. Long multiplication 8. Division 9. Short division 10. Long division 11. Times tables This is such an easy tool to use and will save you hours. You'll never need to buy or make a numerical maths worksheet again (probably). Instructions included. Answer sheets generated.

Newly Updated - further updates coming soon. This 18 slide presentation breaks down the language surrounding racism with definitions, examples and talking points. Students will learn what the various terms mean, see examples and give their own examples, before seeing examples from the real world, with photographs in the last few slides. This is an excellent resource for opening up conversations about race and racism and get students to really think about the different types of racism and how they potentially are contributors to racism themselves through their choice of language.

A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake. Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.

If you are a head of department, you assess a lot of teachers and you need to save some time providing your feedback. Use this tool to save you hours. Simply add in the most common comments that you make (eg ' This was a very teacher oriented class. I'd like to see some more student-student interaction'), add the names of the teachers and assign which comments you want to appear in the appraisal for which teachers. Then, print. Job done! This tool works up to a maximum of 30 teachers and 30 of your comments. If you need more teachers or more comments, simply save a second version of the tool.

Long division worksheet with 80 questions spread over 10 pages. Answer sheet included.

Aliens have landed on Earth and Agent Lucy from the British Alien Invasion Team (BAIT) needs your help. Your students need to defeat the Aliens by taking over the school, one room at a time using only their brains. This is a delightful PPT introducing a long running game for your students. It explains the idea behind the game and has one example challenge (Create a team logo, following the specifications) This is a great way to keep kids motivated. Spend the week teaching them and then finish off the week with a challenge based on what they've learned. Excellent for formative assessment. Easily update the powerpoint with your own challenges and photos of the winning team.

Times tables (multiplication worksheet - fill in the blanks! 21 questions with answer sheet.

This scaffold for Authors is a great tool for writers to plan out their scripts, screenplays, novels or any other stories with ease. Have you ever thought about writing a novel for your students, your own children, or just for fun? Or are you running a writer’s club for older students? This tool will help you or your students plan out every detail of any story so that writing becomes a breeze. By filling in the details as and when the ideas come to you, you’ll have all the notes you need to begin your writing. First, you’ll outline roughly what you want to happen in the story - beginning, middle and end. You’ll decide on a genre and you may decide on a working title. Then, you’ll plan out everything you need on each of the characters who affect the plot - what do they look like? What is their back story? What can they do? and all the other details which are important. After that, you’ll write in the steps of each character’s journey - Beginning with their normal life, following through 12 steps which will bring you to the conclusion. You’ll then jot down any additional steps or flashback scenes you want to include and finally decide on the order you want to tell the story to give the reader the best experience. This really is writing the easy way. Enjoy becoming an author, and helping your students do the same.

A short course designed to get primary students confident in their public speaking, specifically in reading stories they have written in another class. Pack includes a simple PPT identifying voice, body language, language, content and eye contact as the important features of public speaking. Students use this to fill in the blank rubric (included) in the first class. From then on, students come to the class with a piece to perform and Prepare, perform and do a group reflection based on their notes and rubrics.

Six posters breaking down how to use 6 tenses in English - Present simple, Present continuous, Past simple, Past continuous, Future with ‘will’ and Future with ‘Going to’. Colourful displays to print out and stick up on the wall or into student notebooks (A3 or A4 for the wall, A4 or A5 for the notebooks). The structures allow students to check their own sentence structures and to get their sentences right while they are learning.

A simple 15 question worksheet for double digit addition. This worksheet was made with the Tigerlearn Worksheet generator.

A nice STEM challenge for students. Students follow the instructions on the page. They research parachutes online before making their own.