Spooky ghost story. Creative writing diary lesson.
The scenario:
You are travelling alone at night when a mysterious fog encircles your car and it suddenly cuts out. With no means to call for help, you take to the road. Through the woods you stumble across an old mansion house. You are about to walk towards the house, when to your horror, you see on the path the words “look behind you” you turn, shaken to you core, and…
Full lesson includes all resources. Starter, lesson objective and a spooky bingo plenary finish with 30 individual bingo cards!
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Paris – Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Paris, a video clip of Paris and quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, A Moveable Feast.
Great engaging lesson!
For the New York version of this lesson type see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329
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Emotive and visually appealing simple poster lesson based on the excellent charity, Hope for Paws.
Very popular with KS3 classes in particular.
Attractive Power Point includes:
* Video clip link starter
* Diamond 9 activity (included)
* Mini-writing task
* Poster task
* Quiz and word puzzle plenary
For the writing version of this lesson see here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hope-for-paws-dog-rescue-11278226
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Sugar Tax - Writing to Argue and Persuade - Letter
A topical writing to argue and persuade lesson on the new sugar tax! Visually attractive lesson, guaranteed to promote debate. This is the writing to argue letter lesson. If you prefer this lesson as a main task to write a lively article you can find that at the link below:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sugar-tax-writing-to-argue-and-persuade-11255722
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.
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You may also be interested in this letter activity resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letter-card-sort-11034807
(Credits, BBC and Youtube.)
The Ultimate Christmas Quiz + Bingo!!
Fantastic 30 question, 54 page Christmas quiz, Power Point. Four rounds, featuring:
* Round 1 - Christmas Questions
* Round 2 – Name it Round – Santa’s Reindeers
* Round 3 – TV/Film
* Round 4 – Christmas Songs
Ideal Christmas fun!
Also included is the ‘Perfect Christmas Bingo’
Fantastic “The Perfect Christmas Bingo” plenary or starter activity with teacher’s caller’s card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.)
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A descriptive writing lesson using peaceful images to engage students! Lots of resources included.
Full lesson includes:
* Clear image starter
* Lesson objectives
* Five things to help with descriptive writing slide
* Image + example task (resource included as a hand out)
* Image prompt and review slide
Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, a WAGOLL and descriptive word mat resources included.
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Quiz of 2016 – Perfect New Year Reflection
A fantastic quiz looking back at the highs and lows of 2016.
Attractive, 53 Power Point featuring the following rounds:
* Round 1 – Name the Month
* Round 2 – In Memoriam
* Round 3 – Famous Quotes of 2016
* Round 4 – Facts and Stats
Also features, bonus, double bonus and trap rounds where you can lose as well as gain more points! The answer slides feature a fly-in answer to help build up more suspense and tension.
Ideal for form time fun or fun plenary activities for any lesson.
Quiz length approximately 25-30 minutes lesson time.
For a great intro lesson on New Year 2017 see here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-year-2017-complete-first-lesson-11467472
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The Literacy Collection 1
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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The Literacy Collection 2
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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The Literacy Collection 3
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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The Literacy Collection 4
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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A collection of exciting murder mystery lessons and resources!
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The Murder Resource Pack 1
A collection of exciting murder mystery lessons and resources!
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Keen Literacy Pack 1
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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Keen Literacy Pack 1
A collection of exciting great value literacy resources and fun material!
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Black Friday Free Resource: A Christmas Murder Mystery
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On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murdered…
Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Title page.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story.
* Lesson starter – winter weather anagrams.
* Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above)
* Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.)
* Mini word bank.
* Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write.
* Fantastic “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s callers 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 liked this resource, you will also enjoy – A Spooky Christmas Story:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327
Literacy Health Check and Christmas Fun
A combination pack of a literacy test and Christmas fun.
Literacy Health Check:
A literacy ‘health check’ booklet containing 25 questions, ideal for Y6-Y9 low or average ability range. The short assessment is intended as a brief, low pressure test (hence the ‘health check’ not a ‘test’) and comprises of simple fill-in-the-blanks questions on: capital letters; there, their and they’re; to and too; apostrophes and common spelling errors.
Included on the Power Point are all the answers to the test, as well as a starter and literacy plenary ideas. All resources are included at the back of the Power Point.
Attractive 21 page Power Point includes:
• Title page.
• Fun facts - true or false starter.
• Literacy objectives page.
• Prompt pages for the test.
• Full answers for each section.
• Reflective area for students to respond to on the back of the test.
• Discussion prompt.
• Creative literacy word search activity (provided at the back of the Power Point.)
• Links to a literacy ‘Block Buster’ online game and image.
• All resources, with instructions on how to create the booklet.
Christmas fun includes a 30 question quiz and also a collection of fun resources!
You may also be interested in poetic terms full lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetic-terms-full-lesson-11184997
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Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson
Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach!
Attractive Power Point includes:
* Literacy starter
* Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit)
* Map of Everest
* Video clip
* Discussion prompts
* Main task and review prompts
Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included.
A simple but effective lesson.
Also included is a 30 question Christmas quiz and a Christmas fun pack, full of simple resources for Christmas!
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Christmas in New York Descriptive Writing
A sophisticated Christmas descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description.
Great engaging lesson!
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