I am a Secondary English Teacher on a mission - to produce the highest quality lessons I possibly can with the intention of saving precious time for teachers!
I am a Secondary English Teacher on a mission - to produce the highest quality lessons I possibly can with the intention of saving precious time for teachers!
Poke Cards are super easy to use, tactile, engaging and self-checking!
There are 180 cards included in this set covering nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Students simply choose their answer and turn over to see if they were right! I use these for my classes higher up the school as a revision aid on word classes or for an introduction lesson for younger students.
These are simply designed with high school students in mind - no childish clip art for those kids who are too cool for that sort of thing!
Please be aware that there is some preparation needed beforehand including cutting and laminating, but once completed you have a resource that can be used over and over again!
TWITTER ISSUES - Correct the Spelling and Grammar of Celebrities BUNDLE! Save £2 versus buying individually!
Made up from Volumes 1-3 of my best-selling Twitter Issues.
This great starter activity includes 75 grammatically incorrect tweets from famous celebrities. Pop one on the board and get your students to correct them!
A mixture of spelling and grammar issues #Twissues on one fun PPT.
I made this into a TuesdayTwissue activity and the kids LOVE it!
This could also be used in any subject area for Literacy across the curriculum.
TWITTER ISSUES Vol. 3 - Correct the Spelling and Grammar of more Celebrities!
This great starter activity includes 25 grammatically incorrect tweets from famous celebrities. Pop one on the board and get your students to correct them!
A mixture of spelling and grammar issues #Twissues on one fun PPT.
I made this into a TuesdayTwissue activity and the kids LOVE it!
This could also be used in any subject area for Literacy across the curriculum.
Welcome to Word Birds, a weekly lesson and resources to build higher-level vocabulary in your Year 10 students.
These weekly lessons include the following:
• a single word plus definition as a PDF designed to be printed as a poster and displayed in your room
• a PowerPoint slide to accompany the poster, with an example of how to use the word in a sentence
• 6 entertaining task cards to get your students using the word in a variety of ways including my trademark comic strip!
• a Word Bird helpsheet explaining the differences between verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs.
• a record sheet to go in student exercise books to help them keep track of the words they have learnt.
Most school years run for 38 weeks, but I’ve included 40 words in case you don’t fancy using any of them or you want to use them on other occasions too.
Package includes:
40 slides PowerPoint
40-page PDF of words plus definitions for student handouts or posters
6 mini task cards
1 record sheet
1 help sheet to be used as a student handout.
ALL RESOURCES ARE INCLUDED WITH US AND UK SPELLINGS.
Nineteenth Century Worksheets Google Edition - Research Topics Digital Interactive Notebook
What is Google Drive?
★Google Drive is a fantastic way to go 1:1 digital in your classroom. It is a suite of apps, including Google Slides, which is an online version of PowerPoint.
Why use a Google Drive product?
★Paperless. No printing. No cutting. No glue.
★Students work directly in the file
★Preserve ideas and references
★Improve students writing
★Infuse technology
★1:1
★High engagement
★Access anywhere
★For use on Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and other devices!
★Can be used on the Google Drive or MS OneDrive
★Happy students
Includes:
★Teacher Tutorial – includes the access link and how to use this in your classroom.
★10 worksheets including:
Fashion
Food and Drink
London's Sewers
Medicine
Social Classes and Occupations
The Workhouse
Crime and Punishment
The Factory Acts
Scientific Discoveries
and
Education.
Students will be engaged and inspired by these thorough and rigorous research topics, ready to move on to a 19th century novel or History unit.
This is a homework menu for Lord of the Flies - containing a huge range of tasks and activities with a points value attached to each.
I usually assign a number of points that the students must achieve across the unit and collect in one piece per week.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'War Photographer' by Carole Satyamurti from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (9-1 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'Extract from The Prelude' by William Wordsworth from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'What Were They Like' by Denise Levertov from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'The Class Game' by Mary Casey from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions, as well as an exploration of dramatic monologue form.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' by Lord Byron from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
A whole lesson analysing the poem 'A Poison Tree' from the Edexcel Conflict Cluster (1-9 GCSE)
Includes language analysis, vocab, context and questions.
This pack is full of resources to help you streamline your marking and assessment, and to make your students work harder in response!
If you're a teacher from the UK you'll know the OFSTED legend around response to marking. Even though it's not now a requirement, I've seen massive improvements and progress on work that has been DIRTed!
DIRT stands for Directed Improvement and Reflection Time. This is a time specifically for students to improve the work that you have marked - then and there. No more comments like, "Sorry Miss, I'll do it next time!"
This includes a time-saving key that you can edit to suit your requirements. You simply write the number of the task you want them to complete on their work, and they can reference the key in their books to find out what to do.
It also includes full instructions, including helpful links, sample marking and assessment, help sheets for capital letters and 'there, their, they're' and a PowerPoint for you to display during DIRT time.
This process has saved me masses of time while making my marking more worthwhile and getting far more progress out of the kids.
I hope you find it as useful as I do!
This is a whole lesson analysing Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson. Includes analysis, background information on 'The Troubles' and an excellent video link of Carson explaining his thought processes.