Information about historical pirate flags and a worksheet to design your own and then write about it.

A set of activities linked to the poem Amulet by Ted Hughes.

A selection of resources for a lesson or lessons about the poem Jabberwocky. I ask students to find 10 nonsense words in the poem. Use the planning sheet to help them design monster. Write a description of their monster. Write a story of poem about their monster using some words they have made up, or made up words from the poem. Here you may need to spend some time deciding what these words mean. Finally an activity on non-fiction writing to support pupils to include titles, sub-titles, captions and to write in paragraphs. Use the example about Komodo dragons to spot these features. Use the information about Swordfish (easier) and Ichthyosaurus (harder as headings are not included and the information is not in order) or your own research to write your own non-fiction article about a real life monster.

Reading comprehension and writing tasks based around Ninja Equipment.

Story board and writing frame to support story writing on a pirate theme.

A bundle of work loosely themed around superheroes. You can easily adapt the wording an images to suit the interests of your students. covers creative writing, persuasive writing and using speech.

A selection of activities to go with the comic poem The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned.

3 lessons based on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes including analysis and creative writing.

Worksheets allowing pupils to make predictions or suggestions about the book based on the cover differentiated to 3 different levels.

Example and resources to create an onomatopoeia poem based on the events in the first chapter of the Iron Man.

Persuasive writing and discriptive writing activities linked to Chapter 2 of The Iron Man

Worksheet of questions to help support students to access the poem and pick out key features as well as comment on the effect of these features.

A resource to help SEN students access an extract from The Prelude exploring images from the poem and how tension changes during the poem.

A series of lessons based on the book Skellig.

Introduction to adjectives with pirate related pictures to describe.

A bundle of resources I used with as student with Autism who was finding creative wring challenging. Concrete experiences (receiving letters, doing a mock interview, photographs) and a clear structure helped him to construct a successful narrative with descriptions, and a clear structure.

Analysing the description of The Captain from the opening of Treasure Island.

Reward tokens or tokens to conduct a pirate treasure hunt.