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An Inspector Calls Huge Bundle!
THIS HUGE BUNDLE PACK CONTAINS ALL OF THE 'AN INSPECTOR CALLS LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of J.B Priestley’s classic play ‘An Inspector Calls.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Priestley.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Context of the Play;
- Arthur Birling;
- Priestley’s Dramatic Devices;
- Sheila and Gerald;
- Sybil and Eric Birling Double Lesson;
- Inspector Goole (Priestley’s message)
- The An Inspector Calls Pointless Game.
- The An Inspector Calls Comprehension Activity Booklet.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
Main Characters;
Themes;
Lee’s Language Devices;
Influences on the Writer.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Fantastic Fronted Adverbials!
This engaging and detailed resource pack has been designed to make the learning of fronted adverbials (particularly prominent in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout the lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise fronted adverbials within their own writing compositions. In addition to the comprehensive lesson, resources, and plan, it also includes a fronted adverbials writing mat to assist students in building their extended writing skills.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Define what fronted adverbials are;
- Identify fronted adverbials in sentences;
- Analyse and evaluate what it is that makes some fronted adverbials more effective than others;
- Write an extended piece with the employment of fronted adverbials;
-Peer/self-assess learning attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- A clear and interesting worksheet for the development task;
- An interesting short story for students to analyse;
- A hyperlink to an engaging and heart-warming video through a hyperlink in the presentation;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences!
This detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of simple, compound and complex sentences, and to use a variation of sentence types in their own writing for clarity and effect.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define and exemplify simple, compound, and complex sentences;
- Identify them in writing;
- Understand and analyse how different types of sentences can be used for clarity and effect;
- Create a written piece using a variety of sentence structures for clarity and effect;
- Evaluate their use of different sentence structures.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A model example and analysis worksheet;
-A success criteria;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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An Inspector Calls Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls.' It contains comprehensive sections on:
- Context;
- Scene by Scene Summary (with quotes);
- Main Characters;
- Themes;
- Priestley's Dramatic Devices;
- Features of Form.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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A Christmas Carol Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.' It contains comprehensive sections on:
- Context;
- Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
- Main Characters;
- Themes;
- Features of Structure;
- Dickens' Literary Devices.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Writing Autobiographies!
This stimulating and informative lesson aims to improve students’ ability to adapt the style of their writing to suit their audience and purpose. In particular, they attempt to meet the purpose of writing autobiographically.
Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they:
-Define autobiographies and their key features;
-Read extracts of autobiographies, and analyse the language techniques used;
-Use independent learning skills to analyse an autobiography of their choice;
-Create a success criteria for effective autobiography writing (although a ready-made success criteria is included)
-Write a section of their own autobiography, using the techniques that they have learnt;
-Peer/self-assess their autobiographical attempts.
There are enough resources here really for two lessons, including:
-Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint;
-Autobiography extract;
-Analysing Autobiographies template;
-Success Criteria;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Blood Brothers Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Willy Russell’s ‘Blood Brothers.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Scene by Scene Summary (with quotes);
Main Characters;
Themes;
Russell’s Dramatic Devices;
The Features of Tragedy.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Northern Lights Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Philip Pullman’s ‘Northern Lights.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding structural and language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Power and Conflict Poetry Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE POWER AND CONFLICT POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology:
Exposure - Wilfred Owen;
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes;
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Poppies - Jane Weir
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
Storm on the Island - Seamus Heaney
Checking Out Me History - John Agard
Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker
Remains - Simon Armitage
The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth
The Emigree - Carol Rumens
London - William Blake
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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The Hunger Games - Race to the Cornucopia! (Descriptive Writing Lesson)
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to compose sophisticated, imaginative creative writing, through producing a first person account about competing in the opening stages of The Hunger Games. In order to do so, students first analyse the descriptive writing devices and sentence structures used by Suzanne Collins in Chapter 11 of The Hunger Games - the section in which the Hunger Games commence – before applying what they have learnt to their own compositions.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Defining each of the different types of descriptive devices, through playing a fun, interactive bingo game;
Reading an extract from Chapter 11 of the text (provided) which describes the moments immediately before and after the Hunger Games commence;
Identifying the language techniques used in the extract to paint an image of place in the minds of the readers, and to create the desired atmosphere;
Analysing the effectiveness of each of Collins’ descriptive devices;
Analysing the sentence structures and lengths employed by Collins in the extract;
Creating their own first-person description of the horrific moments at the Cornucopia, before and after the Hunger Games begin;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Bingo Cards for the starter activity (and host instructions/ questions);’
Extract from Chapter 11 of The Hunger Games;
Structure strips to support the descriptive writing;
Writing to Describe Helpsheet to support the descriptive writing;
Comprehensive Lesson Plan.
All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 5 and 10 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Pride and Prejudice Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen’s use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Holes Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HOLES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Louis Sachar's 'Holes.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Northern Lights - Setting Descriptions!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make precise interpretations of the descriptive language used by Philip Pullman in his descriptions of settings in ‘Northern Lights.’ They also learn how the depiction of settings can have a profound impact upon the tone and atmosphere of a novel, and apply this understanding (along with their knowledge of the key language devices) to form their own vivid and imaginative descriptions of places.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Understanding the power of places and settings, especially the impact that they have on atmosphere and tone;
Defining each of the different types of descriptive devices, through completing an interactive group activity;
Reading extracts from the text in which Pullman describes ‘The North’ and ‘The Bear Palace,’ and identifying the language techniques used to paint an image of place in the minds of the readers;
Analysing the effectiveness of each of Pullman’s descriptive devices;
Creating their own description of an awe-inspiring place, utilising appropriate and effective descriptive devices throughout;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Cards for the Card Sorting Activity;’
Extracts from Northern Lights;
‘Bear Palace’ analysis worksheet;
Writing to Describe Helpsheet
All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 7/8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 5 and 10 with some adaptations. The PowerPoint is in the zip file.
All images are liensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Cirque Du Freak Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE CIRQUE DU FREAK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Darren Shan’s ‘Cirque Du Freak.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Writing Reviews!
This interesting and engaging lesson enables students to know what reviews are and why people read them, understand the features that make effective reviews, and write their own interesting and appropriate reviews. In particular, students learn to use a range of appropriate features in writing their own reviews, including facts and opinions, jargon, connectives, and statistics. There are easily enough resources here for 2-3 lessons on this topic.
Over the course of their learning journey, students:
- Define and exemplify what reviews are;
- Understand why people read reviews;
- Understand and categorise the different techniques used by reviewers;
- Identify the features of reviews in model examples;
- Analyse the effect of techniques in reviews upon the reader;
- Use a wide-range of techniques in writing their own reviews;
- Peer and self assess each other's review attempts.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint;
-A colourful and helpful 'Writing Reviews' Help-Sheet;
-Pointless Jargon Game;
-Techniques cards for defining the key key features of reviews;
-Connectives worksheet;
-Blank book review template and film review template;
-A model example (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone);
-Helpful and comprehensive step-by-step lesson plan.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.' It contains comprehensive sections on:
- Context;
- Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
- Main Characters;
- Themes;
- Stevenson's Language Devices;
- Gothic Features.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Blood Brothers Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless,’ this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I’ve also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of characters, plot, and themes in ‘Blood Brothers.’
Round 1. The characters in Blood Brothers
Round 2. Quotations from the text
Round 3. Settings and Objects
Round 4. Themes in Blood Brothers
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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Year 5-6 SPAG Bundle!
These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the learning of SPAG concepts in the upper Key Stage 2 curriculum easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children. Throughout each lesson, students learn to improve their skill at using appropriate, concise, and precise spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and practice employing them within their own writing compositions. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all of the worksheets/ resources that you will need, and a lesson plan.
The pack also includes a literacy writing mat to help students build their extended writing skills.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.
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Edexcel Conflict Poetry Knowledge Organisers Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF EDEXCEL CONFLICT POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the Edexcel 'Conflict’ anthology:
Exposure - Wilfred Owen;
Catrin - Gillian Clarke;
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Poppies - Jane Weir
War Photographer - Carole Satyamurti
Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron
Cousin Kate -Christina Rossetti
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
A Poison Tree -William Blake
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah
The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth
Half-caste - John Agard
The Class Game - Mary Casey
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).