The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson. Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson! Lesson scenario: When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do? Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included. *Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!* https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414 Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: sherdog.com, waltbox.com)

Amazing value, 5 lesson bundle for the popular novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar! Included: * 5 full lesson Power Points * 11 Word documents consisting of starters and task hand outs All lessons include lesson objectives and visual prompts. Lessons test a range of basic/essential learning skills such as PEE skills, comprehension, letter writing, descriptive writing and spelling. Great value at just £5.50! Be sure to check out my shop page here for more great lessons and resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copy right free images included, film image from gentleside.com)

A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided. Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and pleanary ideas and lesson objectives. Resources included are: * Planning Sheet * Prompt Sheet * Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.) For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free: to the best of my knowledge all images are copy right free.)

Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson. Power point includes: * Attractive title page. * Lesson starter – key Christmas market key words word search * Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and figurative language techniques. * A quick warm-up exercise where students finish off Christmas sentence in descriptive language (see image on the Power Point to support ideas.) * A recap of five language technique prompt. * Short writing activity prompt asking students to describe a vibrant Christmas market. * A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions. * Fantastic “The Christmas Market Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.) * All resources included at the end of the Power Point. If you enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy The Christmas Murder Mystery: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016 (Royalty-free images from Wiki, bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)

Premium Writing Bundle - 3 Lesson Pack consisting of: The Summer Holiday Murders, The Sandman and The Zombie Apocalypse! £9 of top quality lessons for just £.5.50. More information and the individual lessons can be found here for £3 each. The Summer Holiday Murders: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-summer-holiday-murders-creative-writing-11284487 The Sandman: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-sandman-creative-writing-lesson-11277758 The Zombie Apocalypse: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/zombie-apocalypse-creative-writing-lesson-11278633 Or all three highly engaging lessons can be downloaded here for just £5.50. Great for summer lessons! Or see my home page for more great lessons, bundles and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images are copyright free, accreditation can be found on each download page.)

A topical writing to argue and persuade lesson on the new sugar tax! Visually attractive lesson, guaranteed to promote debate. Lesson Power Point includes a shock starter, learning objectives, links to video clips for information on the sugar tax and planning prompts throughout. BBC article included. Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits, BBC and Youtube.)

Straight-forward lesson on analysing dystopia book blurbs. Book blurbs included are from the books “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14.” Just download, print and teach. Alternative background version. Lesson breakdown: 1. Boggle starter activity. 2. Discussion on the front cover of each book. 3. Annotating “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14” blurbs 4. Students create their own story blurb based on language techniques they have just seen. 5. Review - students share their work. Attractive Power Point with all resources included for just £2. This lesson can also be bought as part of the Horror and Dystopia Bundle pack for £6.50: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dystopian-and-horror-bundle-11219710 Please rate, thank you. (Royalty free images used throughout. Blurb taken from the books “Zombie Camp” and “Monument 14.”)

Premium Writing Bundle - 3 Lesson Pack consisting of: The Summer Holiday Murders, The Zombie Apocalypse and The Sugar Tax – writing to argue and persuade! More information and the individual lessons can be found here for £3 each. The Summer Holiday Murders: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-summer-holiday-murders-creative-writing-11284487 The Zombie Apocalypse: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/zombie-apocalypse-creative-writing-lesson-11278633 The Sugar Tax: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-sugar-tax-writing-to-argue-and-persuade-11277268 Or all three highly engaging lessons can be downloaded here for just £5.50. Or see my home page for more great lessons, bundles and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images are copyright free, accreditation can be found on each download page.)

An excellent form presentation on the on the famous sinking of the Titanic. The presentation covers details of the sister ships: the Britannic and the Olympic; details of the building of the Titanic; the White Star Line; Captain Smith; the crew; the Ice burg and details of the survivors. For more great resources or lessons see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (All images are copyright free from wikipedia.co)

A simple and effective way to make literacy and learning fun. Literacy bingo 2! Students have to spot the incorrect word as each sentence appears (common literacy errors) and replace them with the correct word. This is the word they cross off on their bingo cards. Further instructions on how to play inside. Power Point resource, playing time with line and house 15 minute approx. Resource suitable for key stages 2/3, but easily adaptable format/template to create further bingo games. Student satisfaction guaranteed! Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free images used throughout.)

An informative Power Point on Prince, the talented musician and singer, who tragically passed away recently. The 23 page Power Point contains relevant bio information, unusual facts and a quick quiz to finish and is useful for form time or other such activities. For more resources or lessons visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Photo Credits: Africanindy.com, NME.)

Visually attractive Of Mice and Men lesson on themes, with a particularly focus on nature but also mentioning friendship and fate. Full Power Point and all resources included (all that is required for a full engaging lesson is a copy of the book and a photocopy of page 1 of the novel and the first page from chapter 6.) Lesson Objective: to analyse Steinbeck’s language in order to learn more about the key themes within the novel. Lesson includes: · Lesson starter – Theme match up activity (photocopy of resource included.) · Learning outcomes (WALTs and WILFs) · Discussion point on friendship with a modern photo image. · Information on the theme of friendship with a PEE writing frame. · Discussion point on fate and a PEE writing frame. · Information on the theme of nature. · Prompts to highlight key words of each extract. · Quick question plenary. Now available in a mini bundle deal: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/of-mice-and-men-mini-bundle-11211091 Please rate, thank you. (All images are copyright free. Of Mice and Men from Youtube CC search.)

Kinaesthetic Activity Pack Great value kinaesthetic activity pack, now just £2.99!!! featuring: Celebrity Match-up £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/celebrity-match-up-11036440 Motorcycle Match-up £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/motor-cycle-match-up-activity-11035322 Letter card sort £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letter-card-sort-11034807 Inspiration cards £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/inspiration-cards-11035329 Please rate, thank you. Visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Crocodile Comparison Lesson - Non-Fiction Texts A very simple but engaging lesson based on two non-fiction texts involving crocodile attacks in Australia. The aim of the lesson is for students to identify explicit information from each text then do a comparison between them. Lesson includes, Power Point slide, articles and a croc writing sheet. There's nothing flashy or complicated about this lesson at all! It is however, simple and straight-forward and students will enjoy the texts. Sometimes that's all you need. Ready to download and teach immediately. Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish More easy lessons available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/muhammad-ali-pee-and-information-retrieval-lesson-11371750 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-pee-exam-technique-non-fiction-mike-tyson-11368758 Looking for something a bit more 'whizzbang, move around the room' try the Beast of Bodmin Moor? https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-beast-of-bodmin-moor-investigation-fact-or-fiction-11376736 (Credits: the Guardian online, link included in the articles)

Excellent and engaging bingo style literacy game. Students simply write True or False on their 5x5 true or false cards and mark them off if the displayed literacy clue is true or false. Subject areas include: capital letters, punctuation, their, there and they're; was and were; and spellings. Power Point game suitable for key stages 2 and 3, printable true or false cards included and further instructions on how to play inside. Great for spelling and SPAG. For more great resources and lessons see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free images. Frog image from pixabay, public domain: https://pixabay.com/en/frog-green-animal-amphibian-48234/P