Transform Your Writing: Master Punctuation with Alma as Your Guide! Ready to elevate your writing with precision and flair? Our Punctuation Mastery lesson is designed to show you how the strategic use of punctuation can add clarity, rhythm, and emotion to your prose. Inspired by the atmospheric short animation Alma, this lesson will teach you how punctuation can transform your storytelling and enhance the impact of your words. Here’s why this lesson is a game-changer for writers looking to refine their craft: Precision & Clarity: Discover how Alma uses visual cues to create tension and mood, and learn how punctuation can achieve similar effects in your writing by clarifying meaning and emphasizing important points. Building Suspense: Learn how to use punctuation marks like ellipses, dashes, and exclamation points to build suspense, create dramatic pauses, and control the pace of your narrative. Emotional Impact: Explore how different punctuation can affect the tone of your writing, from the subtlety of commas to the intensity of exclamation marks, mirroring the emotional depth seen in Alma. Interactive Worksheets: Engage with a range of detailed worksheets designed to help you practice and perfect punctuation techniques. Analyze examples from Alma, and apply what you’ve learned to your own writing. Enhanced Flow: See how punctuation can improve the rhythm and flow of your sentences, making your writing more engaging and dynamic. With comprehensive worksheets and practical exercises, this lesson will give you the skills to wield punctuation like a pro. If you’re ready to enhance your writing with precision and creativity, let Alma inspire you to perfect your punctuation and elevate your storytelling to new heights!

This resource contains seven weeks worth of homework tasks! These activities are aimed at KS3 and KS4 learners and center around the theme of Romeo and Juliet. Each week contains three fun activities to stretch learners and get them thinking outside the box. Activities include dual coding, essay style questions and language technique recaps as an example. This will save you so much time with your planning and will hopefully encourage your learners to get their homework in on time!

An extensive list of book recommendations for year eight students to read. Would be great to add to your library or use alongside a book club.

A advent calendar that provides a new book recommendation everyday on the run up to Christmas! All books are based around the festive season and are aimed at KS3 to KS4 students within secondary school. A fun way to engage students in reading and promote pleasure for reading in school over December. This can be used as a whole school reading strategy and adapted to fit the reading needs of your students.

A worksheet designed to help students track music in A Christmas Carol. This worksheet was designed to go alongside my PowerPoint on music in A Christmas Carol which can also be found on this platform.

Racing against the clock students have to fill in the definitions and give examples to all of the language devices listed. Can your students beat the clock?

Can you define and give an example of the language devices in the table. This worksheet is great to use as a started activity, AFL or homework.

This is a full lesson walking students through how to write a monologue. This is based around the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It allows students to embody the character and retell events from their view.

A collection of short stories collated into a booklet for students to enjoy. Great for reading for pleasure, reading for meaning and general whole school reading.

Exploring how Ness creates suspense in Chapter two.

A lesson for chapter five of A Monster Calls that focuses on the symbolism of the yew tree. Comes with worksheet provided, students will need access to the internet for this lesson.

How does Ness build up tension in chapter seven in A Monster Calls.

This lesson focuses on chapter twelve of a monster calls exploring Conor and Grandmas relationship.

Students explore creative writing an writing from a characters perspective after reading chapter sixteen of A Monster Calls.

A lesson based on the duality of characters in A Monster Calls with specific focus on Lily. There is a great creative writing task and character exploration activity.

An activity centered around revising key characters and themes from Macbeth. Students can race against the clock to see what they can remember or take extra time in adding as much detail as they can to each section.

An exam walk through and revision tips for students sitting the OCR Exam Paper for English Language. This is a walk through of both paper one and two.

A booklet full with first chapters of beautiful books that promote LGBTQ. Great for tutor time reading, English lessons or home learning. Whole school literacy for Pride Month.

A fun and dynamic worksheet which helps students create a utopia of their own.

This worksheet is based on students finding synonyms to some basic vocabulary that is used everyday. This is a fun way of introducing synonyms or allowing students to expand their vocabulary.