Prove to your students that you’re bang up-to-date with this handy grammar resource based on Fortnite. The 1st page has a reminder of common times commas should be used then 10 sentences for students to add in commas. There’s a mini extension to write 2 of their own sentences. Page 2 has the answers for page 1. Page 3 is an extension or differentiation task where students have to take 2 separate simple sentences and transform them into compound sentences using conjunections and the FANBOY acronym FOR AND NOR BUT OR YET with answers on page 4. Please feel free to add, amend and change should you need to but please do not re-sell for your own profit. Any mistakes are my own.

A single-slide PowerPoint file with a grid for students to fill in root adjectives, then comparatives, then superlatives. Good for Key Stage 2 or low-level Key Stage 3, or basic grammar revision. Visit: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/comparative-and-superlative-adjectives to find the answer to unusual!

This is designed for learners at Key Stage 3 or early-on in Key Stage 4 to build familiarity with decoding and understanding 19th century texts. The two texts are c.300 words each so that they’re not intimidating for first-time readers. Questions 02, 03, 04 and 05 are included alongside both 19th century and 21st style texts. I say “in the style of” because I’ve written both texts myself: the 21st century one is about the convenience of Uber and the 19th century one is about a gentleman having his taxi pinched by a drunken rogue after a night at the theatre. There are pre-reading activities as well as activities post-reading: a “choose your own best guess” at single word meaning from the 19th century text - learners have to select the word they think best fits the tougher vocab, great for pre-reading and building confidence; a glossary for the 19th century text (with answers!); a blank grid for the 21st century text: language device, “quotation” and effect on the reader; a blank writing planning grid with short prompts; a blank compare/contrast table to fill in across 19th and 21st century texts; Please feel free to adapt, change or amend these resources in any way you feel. It’s very much a “have a go” type of lesson or something that could be used as cover at short notice. Thanks for looking!

An essay planning/differentiated sheet to help students form an answer to the essay question: Explain how Caliban reacts to those around him in Act 1 Scene 2. You must refer to at least two other characters other than Caliban. There are sentence stems to help formulate thoughts and some suggestions of which quotations to use. This was taught to a Year 7 group with KS2 levels of 3B-5B in 2015. The text used was the SparkNotes ‘No Fear Shakespeare’ edition. This was designed as a Key Stage 3 assessment to lead into the (then new/incoming 9-1 GCSEs from WJEC/EDUQAS).

This is a booklet I created for SEND/SEMH learners covering Questions 1-5 on Component 1 for the English Language GCSE from EDUQAS (sat in England). It’s picture-heavy and should build up the same skills required for those working between Grades 1-3.

This is an SEN / SEND printable resource designed to build reading and comprehension skills using short questions with colour-background text boxes for short story extracts. It’s an original, simple story and there’s a 40 mark AO5 and AO6 writing task tagged on at the end. I’ve tried it out with my Year 11s and found they can follow the story well due to the short chunks of reading required. Vaguely designed in the style of EDEXCL GCSE English Language 2.0 Lift qualification.

This is a custom-made past paper in the style of EDUQAS GCSE English Language using an extract from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Perhaps not much use now after all but I used it as a mock in November 2020. The text with line numbers is inside a table but I’ve made the edges invisible.

Just a quick 5-10 minute starter with word classes and sub-clauses: could be used for Key Stage 2 or low-level Key Stage 3.