We supply engaging and practical educational resources across a variety of settings. On our experienced team we have Primary teachers, Secondary teachers, TEFL teachers, Senior Management and Specialist Leaders of Education. Together, we aim to spread our knowledge and enthusiasm to other professionals and pupils around the world.
We supply engaging and practical educational resources across a variety of settings. On our experienced team we have Primary teachers, Secondary teachers, TEFL teachers, Senior Management and Specialist Leaders of Education. Together, we aim to spread our knowledge and enthusiasm to other professionals and pupils around the world.
This writing course is designed to be used with any school subject. It includes a variety of writing frames and planning activities that pupils can easily use to produce different types of writing. There are three separate booklets which represent three different levels. These are Initial Level, Higher Level and Advanced Level and the tasks in each are differentiated accordingly. The names are chosen for motivational reasons so that all pupils feel they are working to a good standard. The types of writing included at each level are:
Informative Writing
Personal Writing
Writing Instructions
Persuasive Writing
Imaginative Writing
Discursive Writing
Most of these types of writing can be used along with topics studied in any subject. Staff may not feel that some types of writing fit their course, for example imaginative writing, so you may choose to only use some units in some subjects.
This is a great resource to promote literacy across the curriculum. With numerous subjects following the same structure for writing and with them all completing this course, your pupils are more likely to improve their writing skills.
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons for the Roald Dahl novel ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. It has a variety of tasks, leading towards the pupils writing about the farmers. There are visual writing help sheets for pupils who require more support and a challenging extension activity that is aimed at building the pupils vocabulary.
This bundle contains a series of writing units to be used in a variety of subjects. These units have easy to create and follow writing frames which pupils can use to produce quality writing across the curriculum. The units follow a similar format so pupils will learn to use these skills in a variety of settings. Some units also include other activities and example texts/plans to study and discuss. This bundle includes units for:
Religious Education
History
Design Technology
Art
Science
This resource consists of a selection of activities that can be used to help pupils to write an essay about an artist. There is an information gathering exercise which pupils can use to research and learn more about a chosen artist. This is followed by differentiated writing frames that the pupils can complete to create an easy to follow plan for their written text. This frame helps the pupils to structure their texts and includes some vocabulary suggestions (varied sentence openings). Pupils are then asked to use the plan to write their text about an artist. This resource can be used in English or art lessons and is an effective way of promoting literacy across the curriculum.
This bundle includes presentations of the four main Patron Saints of the United Kingdom. They can be used in assemblies or in R.E lessons. They pose discussion questions that can lead to group/class discussions or writing activities.
This presentation can be used for assemblies or in R.E lessons. It tells the story of Saint Patrick’s life. It also poses the questions of what Saint Patrick would have thought of how people celebrate his life today and how people should celebrate his life. This can lead to class discussions or writing activities.
This presentation tells the story of the life of Saint David. The presenter attempts to convince the audience that Saint David is the most worthy Saint of the United Kingdom. This can lead to a class discussion or a writing activity. It can be used as a whole school assembly or in R.E lessons.
This presentation can be used as an assembly or as a class activity. It can be used to introduce the teaching of any of his novels. It is about his works and his life. Both of these elements are presented in the form of a quiz which can be used as a speaking and listening activity or with the pupils writing the answers. It contains a nice mixture of facts, fun and nonsense.
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This resource contains all the challenges for the Stage 4: Women’s Division. There are 14 skill challenges and 2 title challenges.
Challenges include:
Metaphors
Similes
Spelling Challenge
Grammar Challenge
Connectives/Conjunctions
Varied Sentence Openings
Wow Words
Writing In Paragraphs
Punctuating Speech
Alliteration
Commas In A List
Making Your Writing Interesting
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This bargain bundle contains all the Stages of the Men’s Division.
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This resource contains all the challenges for the Stage 4: Men’s Division. There are 14 skill challenges and 2 title challenges.
Challenges include:
Commas in a list
Grammar Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Metaphors
Similes
Punctuating Speech
Varied Sentence Openings
Connectives/Conjunctions
Writing In Paragraphs
Interesting Writing
Alliteration
Wow Words
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This resource contains all the challenges for the Stage 2: Men’s Division. There are 9 skill challenges and 2 title challenges.
Challenges include:
Using adjectives
Using adverbs
Spelling
Using connectives/conjunctions
Using varied sentence openings
Using correct grammar
Making sense
This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage.
The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories.
This resource contains all the challenges for the Stage 1: Men’s Division. There are 9 skill challenges and 2 title challenges.
Challenges include:
Writing on the line
Finger spacing
Letter formation
Basic spelling (High Frequency Words and simple phonetic words)
Full stops
Capital letters
Making sense
This bargain bundle contains various kinaesthetic literacy games and activities that will reinforce the pupils’ literacy learning while also engaging their interest.
They can be used as starters, plenaries or as sensory breaks. Many of these resources can also be used across the whole curriculum.
This pack includes:
Literacy Penalties
Literacy Poker
Literacy Lines (Fast paced team game)
Literacy Elimination Challenge
A set of rules and instructions for all the games.
This kinaesthetic literacy team game is a great activity for reinforcing pupil’s literacy skills while they have fun. It is an excellent starter, plenary and sensory break activity. Pupils have to give examples of different types of speech and higher level skills like similes and metaphors in a fast paced and engaging activity.
This resource contains the full instructions to the game.
This is a kinaesthetic literacy activity that reinforces pupils literacy knowledge while they have fun. It teaches and reinforces their knowledge of the different parts of speech and their ability to use it.
In Literacy Poker pupils play a poker type card game with some hands being more valuable than others. However, they have to use their English skills for their points to count, making sentences to match the cards.
Card Types: Hearts, Diamonds, Spades and Clubs
*Noun
*Verb
Conjunction
Adjective
Varied Sentence Opening
Adverb
This is a great resource to help students to relax while reinforcing what they have learned at the same time.
This is a kinaesthetic literacy white board literacy activity that can be used as a lesson starter, plenary or as a sensory activity. It enforces the pupils’ skills in using different aspects of the English language, asking them to give examples of a range of literacy challenges like adjectives, similes and varied sentence openings. Pupils throw a sponge ball to select their literacy topic and they must then give an example of that topic, possibly linked to the lesson being taught. If the pupil gets it correct, the board then becomes a football goal. Another pupil goes in goals and the pupil throws a penatly shot. It can also be used as an alternative team game.
This can be a whole school activity, promoting literacy across the curriculum. Pupil love to learn with Literacy Penalties, it enagages their interest and it reinforces the skills taught in lessons.
This resource includes full instruction for the game and differentiated slides with different selections of literacy challenges.
This is a selection of resources that can be used in any English/Literacy lesson. Carry a selection of these resources with you and you have a better chance of surviving the most difficult of lessons that you are thrust into. There are differentiated reading and writing activities, some that will engage most pupils. There are also many full units of work so that if you are with the same class for a longer period of time, you have the resources ready to go.
This bargain bundle includes:
4 All About Me Units, including differentiated reading texts and comprehension exercises and writing plans and activities.
Both full sets of Stage 3 challenges of the Ultimate Writing Championship! All the writing challenges focus on particular literacy skills and the pupils can use them to write about any topic. A very valuable resource.
Reading questions that can fit any fiction or non-fiction book. You can therefore use any reading resources, in any classroom and you will have differentiated reading questions ready to give to the pupils.
A full imaginative writing unit of work including the short story ‘The New Pupil’ with numerous activities for the pupils to do about it.
A booklet containing many engaging short stories with comprehension exercises and other activities to go with each story. You can give these to pupils to work independently or in groups. Or you can read them to the class, engaging them this way before they complete the tasks.
Functional Skills reading tips and practice papers. A good resource for teaching basic reading skills.
GCSE editing and proof-reading activities.
A whole unit of work for the increasingly popular wrestling novel ‘Night Of Warriors’. This is used in a growing number of schools as a reading catch-up resource for use of with small groups. However if you carry a copy of this book with you, reading it to a class is sure to engage many more challenging pupils and you can then use their interest as springboard to their engagement in this unit’s resources.
