These activities are good ice breakers or beginner writer activities for students who are starting out doing creative writing.

Imade this for a religion project in my school but it can be adapted for any KS3 research project.

Presentation on the history of comics and superheroes which revisits the skill of skim reading:) Perfect if comics are available in your school library. makes a fun lesson.

Non-fiction library hunt, based around the life and works of Roald which focuses on teaching basic non-ficiton library searching skills. You can use a subject index or onlien catalogue to complete this activity:)

Designed for Sixth form to critically assess different news sources from across the media. Could easily be adapted for younger students as a citizenship lesson.

Looking at the vocabulary in an abridged version of the story, using this to introduce symonyms

-Book research -Newspaper sources -Contents page -Index -Citing sources

This is a presentation which shows KS3 students how to sign up safely to Duolingo and use it to improve their language skills. You need computers and headphones for this session. Iw rote to parents beforehand to ask permission to use a third party site.

Reliable websites for KS3 - Sixth Form to research culture, history and current affairs of China. great for projects and for stimulating discussion.

Resources which can be used in reading lessons to introduce the thrilling novel Split Second by YA author Sophie McKenzie

List of book related websites (reviews, blogs, supplements and publishing sites) to help students locate fiction books that they would like to read and to generate book related discussion.