Poetic Terms Full Lesson + Christmas Quiz and Fun Pack Visually attractive full lesson on poetic terms using the short poem ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ideal for weaker KS3 classes or later KS2. Full Power Point and all resources included. Lesson features: • Visually engaging lesson starter and extension. • Graded lesson outcomes with the main objective being to learn poetic devices to further the understanding of a poem. • A poetic terms match-up activity featuring seven poetic devices – similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, vivid colour, the senses and imagery. This can be done on paper or made into a kinaesthetic task. (Resource included at the back of the Power Point.) • Poetic terms answer page. • Visual and simple explanation pages of similes, metaphors and alliteration with a short true or false task. • Link to video clip of a reading of ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. • Colour coded identification of poetic devices task – students are asked to stick the poem in their books (resource provided) and colour code the given devices. • Colour coded answer page. • Short plenary activity where students are prompted to write a brief comment about the poem or offer a more detailed response for more able students. ***Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a bumper Christmas Fun Pack*** For more great resources and lessons, see my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (To the best of my knowledge, all images are royalty free.)

Karl Pilkington’s PEE and SPAG Starters + Christmas Fun Engaging SPAG and PEE starter pack and Power Point slides taken from extracts of Karl Pilkington's hilarious travel diaries, The Idiot Abroad. Each starter features a short extract, with a short SPAG and an extended PEE or comprehension starter, together with an image of Karl Pilkington. Starters are ideal for KS4 students or later KS3 and suitable for a variety of different exam boards e.g. WJEC or AQA as they involve the same core skills. Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a Christmas fun pack, ideal for KS3! Click on the links for further details. A great value download. For more great resources and lessons, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Christmas Quiz Pack A MUST download, including: * The Ultimate Christmas Quiz * Fun Quiz Pack * Christmas Fun Pack * Word Games Well over 100 pages of quiz and Christmas fun. Click on the links for further details. A great value download. For more great resources and lessons, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Literacy Games and Christmas Fun Pack A fantastic collection of fun and educational literacy resources, including: * Literacy Bingo * Literacy True or False * Christmas Quiz * Christmas Fun Pack Click on the links for further details. A great value download. For more great resources and lessons, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Literacy Health Check and Christmas Fun A combination pack of a literacy test and Christmas fun. Literacy Health Check: A literacy ‘health check’ booklet containing 25 questions, ideal for Y6-Y9 low or average ability range. The short assessment is intended as a brief, low pressure test (hence the ‘health check’ not a ‘test’) and comprises of simple fill-in-the-blanks questions on: capital letters; there, their and they’re; to and too; apostrophes and common spelling errors. Included on the Power Point are all the answers to the test, as well as a starter and literacy plenary ideas. All resources are included at the back of the Power Point. Attractive 21 page Power Point includes: • Title page. • Fun facts - true or false starter. • Literacy objectives page. • Prompt pages for the test. • Full answers for each section. • Reflective area for students to respond to on the back of the test. • Discussion prompt. • Creative literacy word search activity (provided at the back of the Power Point.) • Links to a literacy ‘Block Buster’ online game and image. • All resources, with instructions on how to create the booklet. Christmas fun includes a 30 question quiz and also a collection of fun resources! You may also be interested in poetic terms full lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetic-terms-full-lesson-11184997 For more great resources and lessons, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Zombie Apocalypse + Christmas Fun Gothic zombie apocalypse creative writing lesson plus Christmas quiz and fun pack. Amazing value. For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Christmas Double Lesson Pack - Christmas Murder Mystery + Christmas in New York with quiz pack Fantastic value pack!! * Christmas Murder Mystery - Complete Lesson * Christmas in New York Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson * Christmas Quiz - 30 Question Quiz Click on the links for further details. For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Christmas in New York Descriptive Writing + Christmas Fun A sophisticated Christmas descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description. Great engaging lesson! Also included is a Christmas 30 question quiz and a bumper Christmas fun resource pack. Perfect for Christmas. For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images copyright free, available from Wikipedia and other royalty free sites.)

The Hound of the Baskervilles + Christmas Fun Hound of the Baskerville extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature. Lesson includes: * Title page * Starter * Lesson objectives (with surprise face in background, linking to close reading) * Link to video clip * Extract prompt (extract included) * Highlight key words * PEE grid (resource included) * Review post-it-note plenary This lesson is available in a double pack with Dracula for £4.50 here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/extract-double-pack-dracula-and-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-11302068 All resources included at the back of the Power Point. Also included is a fantastic collection of Christmas resources and a 30 page Christmas quiz! For more great resources and full lessons visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits, images copyright free and scenes from Youtube, copyright free text exact from Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles.)

Spooky ghost story. Creative writing diary lesson. The scenario: You are travelling alone at night when a mysterious fog encircles your car and it suddenly cuts out. With no means to call for help, you take to the road. Through the woods you stumble across an old mansion house. You are about to walk towards the house, when to your horror, you see on the path the words “look behind you” you turn, shaken to you core, and… Full lesson includes all resources. Starter, lesson objective and a spooky bingo plenary finish with 30 individual bingo cards! Also included is a fun Christmas Pack with lots of activities for Christmas and a 30 question quiz pack, brilliant for Christmas! For more great resources and lessons visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Descriptive writing of the natural world. A nature descriptive writing lesson using beautiful images to engage students! Full lesson includes: * Clear image starter * Lesson objectives * Five things to help with descriptive writing slide (resource included) * Highlighter review * Main task description and lesson review Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, and a descriptive word mat resources included. Also included is a Christmas 30 page quiz and a Christmas fun pack with games and activities! Great value! Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (All images are copy right free from https://www.pexels.com/search/nature/.)

Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach! Attractive Power Point includes: * Literacy starter * Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit) * Map of Everest * Video clip * Discussion prompts * Main task and review prompts Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included. A simple but effective lesson. Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a Christmas fun pack, full of simple resources for Christmas! For more great lessons and resources, visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Royalty free images taken from You Tube.)

The Haunted House Dare Diaries– Complete Lesson + Christmas Fun Pack Fantastic complete creative writing lesson students will love. The scenario: You don’t believe in ghosts. You don’t think they exist. People who do are just plain silly in your opinion. So when a group of friends dare you to spend the night alone in a supposedly haunted house you take up the challenge, undaunted. However, alone in the dead of night, you start to hear strange noises and something doesn’t feel right. Will your night in the haunted house change your mind…forever? Power Point includes: * Attractive title page * Engaging starter * Lesson objectives * Scenario page * Descriptive prompt and planning page * Review and writing prompts with mini-word bank * Bingo plenary activity with 30 interactive bingo cards Great value and engaging lesson! Descriptive writing version of this lesson is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-haunted-house-dare-complete-creative-descriptive-writing-lesson-11415507 Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a 20 creative classroom ideas Power Point! For the New York Descriptive Monologue version of this lesson, see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329 For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free image from deviant art, FairyGoodMother.)

New York Descriptive Writing + Christmas Fun A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description. Great engaging lesson! Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a 20 creative classroom ideas Power Point! For the New York Descriptive Monologue version of this lesson, see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329 For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images copyright free, available from Wikipedia and other royalty free sites.)

The Haunted House Dare Diaries + Christmas Fun Fantastic horror lesson + Christmas fun. Click on the links for more details. For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

The Sugar Tax + Christmas Fun Fantastic sugar tax writing lesson + Christmas fun. Click on the links for more details. For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

The Ultimate Apocalypse + Christmas Fun Fantastic apocalypse writing lesson + Christmas fun. Click on the link for more details. For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

The Christmas Market Descriptive Writing Bundle Pack 2 An excellent collection for Christmas, featuring an exciting Christmas lesson, a Christmas fun pack and a quiz pack collection. Click on the links for further details! Also available is the ultimate Christmas bundle which you may prefer instead, featuring three whole Christmas lessons and the Christmas fun pack. Just £5.50. A must download. Download this below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-ultimate-christmas-bundle-11425592 For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

A Christmas Murder Bundle Pack An excellent collection for Christmas, featuring an exciting Christmas lesson, a Christmas fun pack and a quiz pack collection. Click on the links for further details! Also available is the ultimate Christmas bundle which you may prefer instead, featuring three whole Christmas lessons and the Christmas fun pack. Just £5.50. A must download. Download this below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-ultimate-christmas-bundle-11425592 For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish