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!

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.

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 focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for Grade 2 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time. Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 2 students. Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts. With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills. Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today. Texts|Genres Animals and Ecosystems | Information Space Adventure | Script Dinosaurs | Information The future is fun | Poetry Acrostic poem about the future| Poetry How to make a Caesar Cypher| instructions Mansa Musa | Biography How to play dodgeball| Instructions A magical Map| Fiction Why you should study ancient civilizations | Persuasive

A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for grade 3 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time. Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 3 students. Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts. With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills. Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today. Texts|Genres The Clumsy Witch | Narrative Planets | Information Text Cleopatra | Biography Plant Lifecycle | Poetry The Roman Empire | Information Text Protecting the Earth| Poetry Water | Letter The Fox and the Robin | Fable Mastermind | Detective Fiction The Forest | Narrative

A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for Grade 4 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time. Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 4 students. Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts. With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills. Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today. Texts|Genres Forest School adventure |Recount How to make a Terrarium | Instructional Vikings | Information Marco Polo| Biography Kublai Khan| Diary Chocolate| Poetry Advertisements | Instructional Mobile Phones| Persuasive Space| Information Text Young Detectices | News Report

An 18-page pack for creative writing. Graphic organisers and planners - templates to help students start their writing, scaffolded templates and a variety of writing paper for different levels.

You may also like The 60 page ESL pack for English teachers . A simple pack of 7 wordsearches - one a day for a week! Vocab covered (UK spelling): -Numbers -Days and Months -Family -Body and face -Classroom objects -Jobs -Colours

A very simple PPT introducing simile. It starts with a link to a video (song) on Youtube/Youku, then defines simile before giving examples, highlighting the structure and asking students to try to make their own similes with varying support.

A simple introductory PPT for the silent E. Students practise the short vowel sounds of CVC words and then the long vowel sounds of silent E words, with a short explanation. They then practise reading the words with different vowel sounds and identify which words have which vowel sounds.

A short PPT introducing the Be verb in the present tense. Students practise using the be verb for different subjects and then shortening the sentences using an apostrophe.