I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
A mini hand-out brochure for new starters to the GCSE English course; includes course details and student friendly set by set guide to the course. As well as useful embedded internet links for independent learning. The handout was intended for a 1 year resit course, but can be adapted for the full 2 year GCSE.
Use this fun, fully differentiated, interactive resource to introduce your pupils to the Real Meaning of Easter. Pupils play the Easter Egg Hunt Game, collecting eggs which can be traded for picture cards of Easter. They then discover the real meaning of these picture with reference to symbolic relevance to the Easter Story.
This is an ideal Easter Topic to cover lessons approaching Easter holidays.
Aspects of the curriculum covered:
Literacy: read and follow instructions, match pictures to words. Extension: understand the meaning of symbols and recognise their importance with reference to Easter.
To write the right word to the picture. Extension: to write an explanation for the symbol.
Numeracy: To count numbers on a spinner and count on numbers to reach target.
R.E: to understand the story of Easter and understand the relevance of the Symbols we see at Easter time, with reference to Jesus.
Art: to create own Easter pictures and or Symbols of Easter with an attached meaning.
Fully Differentiated Resource includes:
Lesson PPT
Game Board
Counter and Spinner
Matching cards and Pictures game (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Chart to describe picture, word, meaning and Symbol (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Art Gallery pictures and symbols (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Full Lesson Plan
Last updated Mar 3, 2016, created Mar 3, 2016
Fun resource to test your pupils SPAG knowledge. Pupils have to decide whether the sentences are accurate and then bid for the sentence.
Resource includes:
PPT
Sentence auction worksheet
Fake money.
A fun Christmas SPAG resource, follows an entertaining Christmas story. Pupils have to decide whether the SPAG is accurate on each sentence and bid for the sentence with Christmas money.
Resource includes:
PPT activity.
Sentence worksheets.
Christmas money.
A fun, full resource consisting of various fiction and non-fiction activities, aimed at all Key Stages.
Including:
Writing Monologues
5 Senses
Writing Newspaper Articles
Various writing tasks.
Various writing task, Christmas
Sentence Auction
Sentence Auction, Christmas.
A fun, interactive resource to fully engage and allow pupils to fully understand specific grammar points; present progressive, past progressive and past simple, present perfect tenses, the use of comparative and superlatives, adverbials.
Particularly aimed at Year 6 (SAT's) and EAL students, but can be used for all classes studying grammar points.
This festive version contains 5 class, grouped, paired or individual Christmas related tasks which, when completed decorates a Christmas Tree in time for Christmas. The tasks should last for 5 lessons.
Resource includes:
Fun PPT, which when followed to the end decorates a Christmas Tree ( with embedded video)
5 Task Sheets
Full lesson plan.
A fun, child centred resource to practise phoneme and rhyming sounds. This resource can also be used for EFL.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• To recognise and practise rhyming and phonemes sounds.
• To match similar sounds together.
Fully differentiated resource; play snap, matching sounds with pictures (the words can be stuck to the back of the card if necessary). Match words cards or match picture and word cards together.
A PPT, to practise sounding out the phoneme sounds, highlighted in red.
Resource includes:
Fully differentiated picture/word snap cards
Lesson plan
PPT.
An exciting and interactive resource for beginner EAL or ESOL learners. A set of 4 challenges introduces the students to the Present Simple and Progressive tenses, the Future tense and Comparative. The students have to complete the 4 challenges to sent the racing car around the track to the finish line.
A fun, interactive resource to fully engage and allow pupils to fully understand specific grammar points; present progressive, past progressive and past simple, present perfect tenses, the use of comparative and superlatives, adverbials.
Particularly aimed at Year 6 (SAT's) and EAL students, but can be used for all classes studying grammar points.
This package contains 5 class, grouped, paired or individual tasks which, when completed the racing car wins the race. The tasks should last for 5 lessons.
Resource includes:
Fun PPT, which when followed to the end finishes a racing car race ( with embedded video)
5 Task Sheets
Full lesson plan.