As a mentor, I try to make activities quite personal which does tend to hold the concentration better. This worksheet works really well. Read the unicorn story twice, answer the questions and then answer the other set of questions which is personal choice. i.e. What are you going to name the unicorn? and How old is the unicorn? These are questions with no answers in the story so it allows the children to think on their own and write their answer. Story written by Aiesha Brown and edited by Charlotte Andrews.

This is a great resource for looking to do something different with a class in English. This has so many good ideas to help teaching to understand texts. The 50 ideas are split into different headings and these are: prior knowledge, prediction, visualising, summarising, questioning, structural analysis, character analysis, thematic analysis, relating to texts and language work. Hope you find it useful!:)

Nice and fun English lesson about when is the correct time to use capital letters and punctuation. 17 slides with activities and examples. Hope you like it:)

Brilliant and informative presentation on clauses. Includes information on all clauses and phrases. Very thorough and helpful. Great for an introductory or recap lesson. Hope you like it:)

Fun and informative PowerPoint on building sentences. Include lots of pictures and examples. Hope you like it:)

A great and fun way of recapping all poetry styles in KS3 and looking into the analysis of poems. Powerpoint is 20 slides long and includes activities along the way for students to complete in about 2 lessons. Glossary included of poetry related words for students to use also! Hope you like it:)

Miss Andrew’s One Word Learn! Is a brilliant and effective way of getting secondary students to learn new vocabulary regularly. The PowerPoint is colourful and funky! The idea is to introduce 1 new word at the start of each English lesson (could also be used as a house or extra-curricular activity). You would spend about 7-10 minutes, start to finish on this. Workbook included in this download. For each word there are 4 slides: Title slide: Introduces the word Definition slide: Gives definition of the word from Oxford Dictionary Example slide: Two sentences showing the context in which you could use the word in Activity slide: A wide range of English activities to complete using your new words; such as synonyms, antonyms, sentences, word search, similes, metaphors etc. There are 10 words included in this PowerPoint and 41 slides in total. Our whole school use it and the progress and feedback has been extremely positive! I aim to upload a new PowerPoint every 2 weeks. Please let me know if there are any words you’d like to see! Hope you like it!:) ON SALE FOR THE FIRST WEEK!

Great checklist to give your students for each book so they can see what they do know/need to improve on - great for checking their understanding and helpful for when planning revision sessions. Students are asked to write the book title, a summary of the plot, answer 7 questions using yes/no tick boxes and then they need to write 2 areas in which they need to prioritise and 3 areas where they feel comfortable and just need to recap. Hope you like it - so useful!:)

Miss Andrew’s One Word Learn! Is a brilliant and effective way of getting secondary students to learn new vocabulary regularly. The PowerPoint is colourful and funky! Workbook is included in this download. The idea is to introduce 1 new word at the start of each English lesson (could also be used as a house or extra-curricular activity). You would spend about 7-10 minutes, start to finish on this. For each word there are 4 slides: Title slide: Introduces the word. Definition slide: Gives definition of the word from Oxford Dictionary. Example slide: Two sentences showing the context in which you could use the word in. Activity slide: A wide range of English activities to complete using your new words; such as synonyms, antonyms, sentences, word search, similes, metaphors etc. There are 10 words included in this PowerPoint and 41 slides in total. Our whole school use it and the progress and feedback has been extremely positive! This is the second edition. Can buy both in a bundle! Hope you like it!:)

Brilliant and fun way of getting students to think about what word is missing from the line of the poetry and get thinking about better vocabulary. All 15 poems are included, 2-4 gaps missing from each one (whole poem isn't written, just the line the word is missing from). Answers on a slide at the end. Transitions and animations included to slide in one by one. Hope you like it:)

Great posters for the classroom to help children remember how to spell words. Because Believe Friend Island And a rainbow poster with a poem of how to remember the colour order. Hope you like it! Please write a review!

Perfect for parents/teachers/mentors who do teach speech or look at speech in children. List of sounds in the order they should be learnt in. Also good for picking up delays in children's speech.

Perfect to teaching your children/students alphabet recognition and lower and upper case letters. Cut out the flash cards (laminate is optional), ask the children/students to match up the uppercase with the lowercase letter. I find my students like to do it on the floor, nice change from sitting at the table! Great activity as a lesson starter or as part of the main lesson!

A great and fun way of starting off your English lesson! Focussing on grammar. You need to click on the correct version of the sentence and it automatically takes you to a well done or an incorrect page and then onto the next one! 9 questions included, can add more in! Fun in tutor time also! Hope you like it:)

Quick and easy starter to get your students thinking about reading and authors! Great for tutor time too! Hope you like it:)

In my suitcase I took... Perfect game to help increase your child's/students memory. All the objects are ready to cut out and laminate along with the suitcase poster. Put a few items on, take one away, can you guess which one? You can also try adding them too and see if they can remember which one has been added. Hope you like it! Please write a review too!

I love this resource so much! I write the word of the week on the main train and then break down the word in each carriage and every lesson before we start we break up the word and put it all together or sometimes I put the sounds used in each word for my more advanced students. Never fails to make the children laugh! Print as big as you like a laminate, I use this on our display board. Document contains one train and 3 carriages.